Nine alleged rapists of Serafina Mardi, an ethnic minority girl who committed suicide failing to stand humiliation, were sued yesterday with the first court of Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal here. Tribunal Judge Afzal Hossain took cognisance of the case filed by the victim’s mother
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Minor girl found dead in water tank
The police found a five-year-old girl dead inside an underground water tank in the staff quarters of Dhaka Medical College Hospital at Nilkhet on Thursday afternoon. The police suspected that Sanjida Akhter, daughter of a green grocer on Elephant Road, a resident of Matuali of Jatrabari, she might have been strangled
Power cuts begin as summer closes in
Power outage started taking place, straining people’s life at just before the advent of summer. According to Power Development Board statistics, the gap estimated between power generation and the supply is now 1,250MW but direct contacts by New Age with power distribution agencies suggest that it already exceeded 2,000MW
Full SC bench to decide Yunus’ fate
Hearing on Mar 15; move on to find new MD for Grameen Bank Nobel laureate Dr Muhammad Yunus yesterday filed an appeal with the Supreme Court in a final attempt to stay as the managing director of Grameen Bank he founded nearly three decades ago. In the appeal filed with Supreme Court chamber judge Justice ... Read more
Five Rid Pharma bosses indicted
Five top Rid Pharmaceuticals Ltd bosses were on Wednesday charged with manufacturing and marketing toxic Paracetamol syrup, which caused the deaths of at least 28 children in 2009. The Dhaka drug court’s judge Mohammad Abdul Majid framed the charged rejecting the petitions filed by filed by Rid Pharma’s managing director Mizanur Rahman and his wife ... Read more
Biman to fly in evacuees
Libya returnees demand compensation Biman Bangladesh is going to fly home the Bangladeshis stranded at Egypt borders with Libya. “From March 13, Biman will operate five flights a week till the repatriation finishes,” Civil Aviation and Tourism Minister GM Quader yesterday told The Daily Star over the phone. The flights will pick the Bangladeshis from ... Read more
Drive against CNG auto-rickshaw drivers within a week
The government on Wednesday ordered the authorities concerned to launch a drive against unruly CNG-run auto-rickshaw drivers and owners responsible for passengers’ sufferings in the capital. The order came in the wake of widespread complaints against the drivers of the three-wheelers that they were always reluctant to run on meter, rather charged extra-fare from the ... Read more
Hillary backs Grameen independence
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton backed Grameen Bank’s independence in a telephone call to Prof Muhammad Yunus, her spokesman said. “Secretary Clinton spoke yesterday with Dr Muhammad Yunus and expressed support for the independence of the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh,” Clinton spokesman Philip Crowley said on
Boy survives 7-storey fall
The domestic help claims to be pushed over by employers A minor domestic help cheated death yesterday after falling from a seven-storey building while trying to escape from the house he was confined to on charge of theft in Wari in the capital. Nine-year-old Shahidul Islam was seriously injured and is struggling for life at ... Read more
Policeman crushed under bus
A police constable was crushed under the wheels of a bus on Dhaka-Maowa highway in the city’s Jatrabari yesterday. Delwar Hossain, 28, a driver constable of Mohammadpur Police Station, was returning to his Shyampur residence
Yunus removal upheld
HC rejects Nobel hero’s petition against his ouster by govt from Grameen Bank; Yunus may appeal with SC today The High Court yesterday upheld Bangladesh Bank’s “removal” of Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus from the post of Grameen Bank’s managing director. He will appeal against the verdict with the Supreme Court, his lawyers said. An HC ... Read more
No happy feelings
Civil society feels the issue treated unduly, worries about Grameen Bank; US still hopeful The High Court treated the issue of Prof Muhammad Yunus’ removal from Grameen Bank with a narrow mindset, economists and civil society members yesterday said. They said the court did not consider his contribution to development, poverty alleviation and improving the ... Read more
Over 7,000 to come home in 5 days
Bangladeshis Fled From Libya Over 7,000 to come home in 5 days More than 7,000 Bangladeshis, who fled to Egypt and Tunisia to escape the deadly conflict in Libya, will come home in the next five days. The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) is facilitating the repatriation in 24 charter flights. Briefing the reporters, Foreign ... Read more
Public colleges lack teachers
Tardy recruitment system keeps 3,677 posts vacant in 253 colleges A Bangla teacher takes English classes at a public college in Madaripur while a college in Satkhira has no one to teach physics, chemistry, geography and accounting, thanks to the government’s recruitment procedure. Official records show around 3,677 posts of teachers are vacant in the ... Read more
New law in making to protect arable land
Draft proposes area-wise zoning The government has drafted a bill seeking enactment of a law proposing provisions for land zoning to protect agricultural land in the wake of ‘rapid changes in nature and use of land for unplanned development activities such as building constructions and industrialisation.’ The land ministry has prepared the draft of the ... Read more
Maternity leave denial troubles women
Absence of day care centres at workplace and the denial of maternity leave are creating an acute problem for millions of working women in Bangladesh. Working women with small children said that both the public as well the private sector employers flout the labour law which requires setting up of day care facilities at any ... Read more
Reckless driving kills two more in city
Two more people, including a student, were killed as vehicles hit them in separate accident in the Dhaka city’s Jatrabari and Farmgate. At Farmgate, Mujibul Arefin Basunia, a Dhaka International University student, was killed as bus hit him in front of the Ananda Cinema Hall at the
Public hearing on proposed CNG price hike ends in chaos
The public hearing held on Tuesday by Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission on Petrobangla’s proposal for increasing the price of compressed natural gas for end users ended in chaos after lengthy altercations. Throughout the hearing, the main topic of debates between the BERC, Petrobangla, consumers,
1 killed in ‘shootout’
An alleged criminal was killed in a ‘shootout’ with Rapid Action Battalion at Khejurbag in South Keraniganj on the outskirts of the capital yesterday. The dead, Minu Parvez alias Tonu alias Dadabhai, 27, was accused in a number of cases, including murder, said police
DU students on rampage after transport workers kill fellow
Dhaka University students on Sunday rampaged through the campus after a group of transport workers had beaten to death one of their fellows at Motijheel in Dhaka. The students vandalised at least 70 vehicles, set a bus on fire and clashed with lawmen in the Shahbagh and the Nilkhet crossing during violent protests that continued ... Read more