Mishuk’s burial today Surgeons have fixed the fractured jaw and realigned the displaced teeth of Dhali Al Mamun, one of the survivors of Saturday’s car crash that killed five including Tareque Masud and Ashfaque Munier Mishuk. The complicated surgery was performed Sunday night at the city’s Square Hospital, Mamun’s family members said
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Nation mourns August 15 carnage today
The nation observes the National Mourning Day on Monday recalling the August 15, 1975 carnage when the Father of the Nation, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, was killed along with most of his family members. On the night of August 15, not only Bangabandhu, the greatest Bangalee of all time, but also his wife Fazilatunnessa Mujib, ... Read more
Of anger, agony
Stunned at the tragic deaths of Tareque Masud and Ashfaque Munier Mishuk, eminent citizens remind everyone that Saturday’s car crash is one of thousands of accidents that turn the country’s road network into virtual death traps. They blame the government for stomaching this “road terrorism” that “murders” thousands every year
Mourners bid bye in tears
The Central Shaheed Minar premises turned into a grieving ground yesterday with hundreds of mourners pouring in to pay their last respects to Tareque Masud and Ashfaque Munier Mishuk. Internationally acclaimed filmmaker Tareque and ATN News chief executive officer Mishuk were killed along with three others in a road crash on Dhaka-Aricha highway on Saturday. ... Read more
Punishment to culprits demanded
Tareque, Mishuk’s Death Punishment to culprits demanded Condolences continued to pour in yesterday on the sudden demise of eminent filmmaker Tareque Masud and Chief Executive Officer of ATN News Ashfaque Munier, popularly known as Mishuk Munier, and three others in a road accident on Saturday. Different organisations and noted personalities in separate statements said one ... Read more
Catherine, Jolly leave hospital
Mamun’s condition not improved Film director Catherine Masud and artist Dilara Zaman Jolly, two injured survivors of the Saturday’s road crash in Manikganj, were discharged from the city’s Square Hospital yesterday morning. However, the condition of another injured, painter Dhali Al Mamun, has not improved, said Prof Sanwar Hossain, medical director of the hospital yesterday. ... Read more
‘Break rules’ now rules highways
About 4,000 people die in around 20,000 accidents a year for reckless driving Lawlessness and anarchy have gripped the country’s road communication with drivers wilfully violating traffic rules and exposing people to hazardous accidents every day. The scenario on roads is strikingly similar throughout the country. Drivers of buses, trucks, vans, private cars and microbus ... Read more
Patriotism personified
To refer to them as patriots would be an oversimplification of their identities. Yet patriots they have been, of the most passionate kind, expressing love for the country through their artistic endeavours. The partnership of Tareque and Catherine Masud as filmmakers and life partners has always been the subject of admiration and perhaps a little ... Read more
Lax monitoring makes highways death traps
Road crashes kill 34 every day, says WB survey Lax monitoring and non-implementation of the laws on reckless driving have made both highways and streets death traps where at least 34 people fall prey to deadly crashes every day. Road-safety experts blame successive governments for not paying heed to fatal accidents, which have claimed mostly ... Read more
5 killed as bus skids off road into ditch
Five were killed on the spot as a bus skidded of a road into a ditch at Ganghati on the Pabna-Nagarbari Road about 2.15pm on Saturday. Four were rescued injured from inside the bus. The police and witnesses said that a bus of the Tamanna Paribahan, headed from Sirajganj and Pabna, skidded off the road ... Read more
Fate puts a full stop
On the very first day Tareque and Catherine Masud brought their only son Nishad to Bangladesh six months after his birth in the US, they put him on a patch of muddy ground beside their house. They wanted the baby to start his life in this country with a feel of the soil. The couple, ... Read more
Usual bye was final goodbye
It was just another day, another goodbye. But Mishuk Munier did not know it was one of his final few moments with his son in a quiet hospital room. “He did not tell me anything special before leaving. He just kissed me goodbye, waved and left,” Shuhrid Sebastian Munier said, after his father Mishuk Munier ... Read more
5 Killed in Shootout
Rab claim shrouded in questions Witnesses of Friday night’s shooting in Uttara that left five dead are saying they did not see the “criminals” shoot but Rab is sticking to its story that its team only returned fire when they were shot at. Rab officials said they were forced to retaliate with gunshots when the ... Read more
DCC spends Tk 1bn a yr on road maintenance!
Although Dhaka City Corporation spends more than Tk 1.0 billion annually for maintenance of roads, lanes and by-lanes, it is yet to carry out essential repair work of the major thoroughfares lying decrepit for long. It may sound strange, but the staggering amount is spent for repairing the roads in the fastest growing capital. DCC ... Read more
Gunmen kill 3 in Kaptai
PCJSS blames UPDF Gunmen killed two villagers and an activist of Parbatya Chattagram Jana Sanghati Samiti, a regional political party in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, in Kaptai of Rangamati on Friday. The PCJSS claimed that all three deceased were its supporters and blamed its rival United People’s Democratic Front for the killings but the UPDF ... Read more
Huge rush for trains as transport strike on
Dhaka-Mymensingh Huge rush for trains as transport strike on With no buses running between Dhaka and Mymensingh, people in their hundreds gathered on the Mymensingh Railway Station platform for trains to Dhaka. The indefinite suspension of bus services, called on Thursday protesting the appalling condition of the Dhaka-Mymensingh highway at Gazipur, left people with almost ... Read more
3 Noakhali cops sued
Milon Killing 3 Noakhali cops sued A departmental case was filed against three police members yesterday on charges of aiding and abetting a mob in beating a youth dead in Companyganj upazila of the district on July 27. The accused police members are– sub-inspector Akram Uddin Sheikh and constables Abdur Rahim and Hemaranjan Chakma– of ... Read more
Indians shoot 2 Bangladeshis dead in Sylhet
Two Bangladeshis were shot dead and another was injured when Indian Khasia tribesmen from the other side of the border fired into a group of Bangladeshi labours lifting stones from the River Bagaiya at Gowainghat about 4:30am on Friday, the police and local people said. The deceased were Kamal Uddin alias Zahur, 32, of Bisnakandi, ... Read more
Prices rein in Eid shoppers on city footpaths
Eid shopping at roadside makeshift shops, where mostly the lower and middle-income group people go, in the capital did not gain momentum till Friday as most of the blue-collar and pink-collar workers were yet to get their festival allowances, with about 18 days left for Eid-ul Fitr. Footpath vendors and other people concerned have also ... Read more
Vegetable prices high despite rise in supply
The prices of some essentials and vegetables remained high yesterday despite an increase in supply with a slight improvement in weather conditions in the last 24 hours. Prices of vegetables maintained an upward trend in city markets over the last couple of days after a fall in supply for heavy downpour across the country. The ... Read more