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The Metropolitan Detective Police has filed a chargesheet against photojournalist Shafiqul Islam Kajal in a case filed under the Digital Security Act at the capital's Hazaribagh Police Station. The case's investigation officer, Sub-Inspector Mohammad Russell Molla, submitted the chargesheet. The concerned court official confirmed the matter on Saturday. Osman Ara Beli, a member of the Jubo Mohila League's central committee, filed the case at the Hazaribagh Police Station on March 10, 2020. Shafiqul Islam Kajal went missing after leaving his home in the capital's Chawkbazar on March 11 last year. 53 days after his disappearance, photojournalist and editor of the daily Pakshakal Shafiqul Islam Kajal was arrested on the night of May 2 for trespassing from Sadipur, a field on the Indian border in Benapole, Jessore.

As a gift from Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in Mujib Barsho, one lakh more landless and homeless families are getting pucca houses in the second phase. Of these, the government will provide houses to 50,000 families in April and 50,000 families in June. Earlier, the Prime Minister gifted houses to about 70,000 families in the first phase in January. This information was given at a coordination meeting organized at the Prime Minister's Office on Thursday to advance the house construction process. The meeting, chaired by Prime Minister's Office Secretary Tofazzal Hossain Mia, was attended by Land Secretary Mostafizur Rahman, Disaster Management and Relief Secretary Md. Mohsin, and Project Director of the Prime Minister's Office's Ashrayan-2 Project Mahbub Hossain, along with senior officials of the Prime Minister's Office. Joined via video conference…