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Several hundred vehicles remained stranded on both sides of Paturia-Daulatdia Ferry Terminal on Sunday as dense fog disrupts the ferry operations for about four hours.

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Urbanization and urban poverty in Bangladesh: Issues in disparities, deprivations and rights

Prof. Nazrul Islam :(From previous issue)Increasing Primacy: Increasing Disparity in Concentration of Opportunities: Dhaka, however, enjoys a very distinctive national primacy status, comprising 44.26 per cent of the total urban population, and 12.56 per cent of the national population, in 2011. Dhaka’s population with respect to the second largest city, Chittagong, has risen from 2.47 times in 1981 to 3.58 times in 2011. Also, Dhaka’s population with respect to the sum of the second, third and fourth largest cities in...

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