Patients, their attendants and people in general have welcomed the ban on the entry of the pharmaceutical company representatives to Rajshahi Medical College Hospital, taking effect from Thursday morning. The decision, taken on August 4 in a meeting of RMCH staff led by its director Brigadier General Abdus Sabur Mia, restricted the movement of the ... Read more
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Govt won’t allow even an inch of land for terrorism
Says prime minister Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the present government will not allow anyone to use even an inch of land of the country for terrorism. “My government is always against terrorism. We won’t allow any space to the terrorists; we won’t allow an inch of land of the country to be used ... Read more
Air force raises objection to metro rail route
Bangladesh Air Force (BAF) has raised objection to the proposed metro rail route through Bijoy Sarani reasoning that its height would hinder air traffic. It has proposed to move the route alignment to Khamar Bari at Farmgate. On the other hand, Japan International Cooperation Agency (Jica), the lone financer of the metro rail
Application time for Jhilmil plots extended
Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk) has extended the time to apply for allotment of around 1250 plots at Jhilmil Residential Area project by one month following demands from applicants. The revised deadline is now September 25, which was August 25, said Rajuk Chairman Nurul Huda. “We have allowed the time extension honouring the request of applicants ... Read more
Judicial probe instituted
A one-member judicial committee was appointed on Wednesday to probe into the lynching of six students at Amin Bazaar in Savar on July 18. Metropolitan magistrate Utpal Chowdhury has been asked to probe intothe incident and submit a report in 30 days. Dhaka chief metropolitan magistrate AKM Enamul Haque instituted the probe into the incident ... Read more
Woman killed by husband
A man allegedly strangled her wife to death and left the body in his slum house in the city’s Pallabi Tuesday night. The slum dwellers said they found Sathi Akhter, 25, lying dead in the bed as they went to the house hearing her one-year-old son crying. They informed police of the incident around 1:00am
Rajshahi hospitals, clinics lack proper waste management
Rajshahi Medical College Hospital, the biggest healthcare facility in the north-region, and others public and private hospitals in the city bad lack in waste disposal facilities, exposing people to serious health hazards. The 530-bed Rajshahi Medical College Hospital dumps its garbage in two open brick-built dustbins, built on its premises, said patients and staff at ... Read more
German woman mugged at Gulshan
A 51-year-old German woman sustained cuts and bruises after snatchers on a car dragged her around 150 metres along with her bag in the city’s Gulshan on Sunday. She was returning home from her workplace with her husband on a rickshaw on road number 117 around 7:45pm when the white sedan with tinted windows blocked ... Read more
114 DU students get Duke of Edinburgh’s Award
A total of 118 students of different departments of Dhaka University (DU) were recognised with Duke of Edinburgh’s Award yesterday for their achievements in self-development skills and community services. The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Foundation, Bangladesh conferred 94 students with Bronze Award and 24 students with Silver Award at Teacher Student Centre
BRTC starts Eid ticket sale on August 16
The Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation is going to start selling tickets on August 16 in the city for its special services for those intending to observe Eid-ul-Fitr outside Dhaka, said the corporation officials. The tickets for Bogra, Rangpur, Mymensingh, Pabna, Comilla, Mawa and Shibalay will be available at Kalyanpur bus depot (telephone no 9002531), double-decker ... Read more
B Chy meets Khaleda after nine years
Bikalapadhara Bangladesh leader AQM Badruddoza Chowdhury on Thursday attended an iftar party hosted by BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia. Badruddoza Chowdhury and Khaleda sate side by side on the dais, nine years after he was unseated as president of the country by
40 industries get gas link, no hope for 57 CNG filling stations
Amid the ongoing gas crisis, the government has given new connections to some 40 industries, but there is no hope for 57 CNG filling stations waiting for their turns for the last two years. The domestic and commercial consumers and captive power producers will also have to wait till 2013 to see an improvement in ... Read more
Rajshahi patients in grip of agents of clinics, physicians
Patients at public health centres, including Rajshahi Medical College Hospital, in the city are facing trouble because of the agents of physicians and clinics. The agents take position at the entrance of public hospitals, bus stands, railway stations and other places to grab the patients and persuade them to go to their respective clinics or ... Read more
Four more bodies recovered
Trawler Capsize Four more bodies recovered Four more bodies of the victims of Saturday night’s boat capsize were recovered from the Buriganga yesterday. Three of the dead are Jahangir, 26, Hossain, 21 and Zakir Hossain, 40. The other, also a male victim, could not be immediately identified. The recovery raised the death toll to six. ... Read more
Dhaka elected Asia Pacific Group member
Bangladesh has been re-elected the member of Asia Pacific Group on Money Laundering (APG) steering committee from South Asian region for 2011-12. A Bangladesh Bank (BB) press release yesterday said Bangladesh was the APG steering committee member representing South Asia also in 2010-11. BB Deputy Governor Ziaul Hasan Siddiqui represented
11 injured as hizras clash with locals
Around 11 people were hurt in a clash between a group of hermaphrodites (commonly known as hizra) and residents of Malopara in the city yesterday. Sources said some hizras went to the residence of Sekandor Ali, general secretary of Rajshahi Beneti Babosayi Samity, in the area on Friday to bless his newborn child and demanded
Sexual Harassment
Police arrested Shihab Uddin, acting headmaster of Chadaha Keonchia High School in Satkania upazila of Chittagong, on Sunday night on allegations of sexually harassing a female student of class ten. The student gave a written complaint to the upazila nirbahi officer (UNO) on July 27 to take action against the teacher for harassing her sexually ... Read more
Fearful locals barricade Dhaka-Ctg Highway
Move to Expand Military Academy Fearful locals barricade Dhaka-Ctg Highway Around several thousand people barricaded Dhaka-Chittagong Highway near Bhatiari under Shitakunda Police Station in Chittagong yesterday morning in fear of land acquisition by the government for the expansion of Bangladesh Military Academy. Hundreds of vehicles remained stuck on the highway till around 11:15am, when police ... Read more
City buses flout fixed bus stops plan
Most city buses are not following the Dhaka Metropolitan Regional Transport Committee’s official list of fixed bus stops, stopping haphazardly to pick up passengers, say the Dhaka Metropolitan Police officers. The regional transport committee, comprising members of the DMP, the Bangladesh Road Transport Authority and different bus owners’ associations, formulated the list of approved bus ... Read more
President admitted to CMH
President Zillur Rahman has been admitted to Combined Military Hospital (CMH) in the capital after he felt “unwell”. Family sources said the president was taken to the hospital from his Bangabhaban office at around 11:30am after he was feeling