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
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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
15 trapped in lift for one hour
Fifteen people were trapped for one hour in a lift of a multi-storied shopping mall in Agrabad area of the port city yesterday afternoon. Fire service officials said the lift with 15 people got stuck at fourth floor of Akhteruzzaman Centre around 1:55pm. On information, three fire units rushed in and rescued the victims breaking ... Read more
2 classmates arrested
‘Chemical’ Throwing on Girl 2 classmates arrested Police yesterday arrested two students of Rajshahi Education Board Model School and College in connection with the Saturday’s “chemical” throwing on its female student. Arrestees–Sabbir Ahmed and Abdullah Nobel–are the classmates of victim Sanjida Islam Tanni, said police. They are the students of class
Sheershanews editor on remand
The editor of Sheershanews.com, an online newspaper, was placed on a two-day remand yesterday, hours after police arrested him on charges of demanding extortion money from a trader. Mohammad Ekramul Haq, also editor of weekly Sheersha Kagoj, was arrested from his Baro Moghbazar residence in the capital at about 4:15am, said Enamul Haque, officer-in-charge of
Female reporter assaulted
A female reporter of ABC Radio, an FM radio channel, was assaulted by a group of young people on Panthapath in the capital on Sunday. Witnesses said that furniture businessman Sakku, who was recklessly driving his motorbike, splashed dirty water on her as she was walking down the
Slum women need menstrual hygiene support: speakers
Experts and NGO activists at a workshop on Sunday underlined the need for a national campaign to promote menstrual hygiene to enhance the quality of life of girls and women. The speakers said loss of schooldays and workdays for girls and women could be avoided if they were provided with adequate sanitation
Student alleges sexual harassment by teacher in Ctg
A student of class ten in a written complaint to the UNO alleged that her school’s acting headmaster has harassed her sexually in his house at Keonchia village in Satkania upazila of the district. Police said the girl made complaint on July 27 for taking action against the teacher of Chadaha Keonchia High School
‘Mukh O Mukhosh’ hero Aminul no more…
Country’s first movie Mukh O Mukhosh’s hero Aminul Haque passed away yesterday morning at a city hospital at the age of 92. He wassuffering from heart disease for long. He was laid in rest forever at the citycorporation graveyard in Uttara. He left behind his wife Piyari Begum and son Rabiul Alam who is a ... Read more
GO-civil society nexus to implement RTI act urged
Building mass awareness on the right to information (RTI) act is imperative to ensure transparency and accountability at all levels, said speakers at a discussion yesterday. It requires cooperative engagement between the government and civil society bodies, competent officials and political will, they
RU students vandalise railway station
The Rajshahi Railway Police on Friday night took in, and later released, some Rajshahi University students on charges of vandalising the railway station and damaging government property. The GRP sources said that they took in only three students for questioning. The police said some university students asked the loco-master and other staff of intercity
New makeshift shops on city footpath
Intense traffic congestion feared Before the capital’s shimmering shopping malls to turn buzzing with shoppers, its footpaths wore a busy look with small traders and hawkers occupying footpaths even two-days ahead of Ramadan. It is a common scene in the capital that footpaths turn too much crowded occupied by small traders and hawkers during Ramadan, ... Read more
‘One crore suffering from Hepatitis B, C in country’
Around one crore people have been suffering from Hepatitis B and C virus in the country, experts said at a seminar yesterday. On the occasion of the World Hepatitis Day different organisations arranged programmes to make people aware of Hepatitis B and C virus, the leading cause of liver cirrhosis and liver cancer, which are ... Read more