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Government hospitals in the capital city were forced to release many less critical patients ahead of Eid as a large number of doctors and nurses have gone on leave. Meanwhile, the government issued an order on Sunday to keep outdoor patient departments in all the government hospitals open except for on the

Rupa Aktar, 16, succumbed to wounds incurred while being gang-raped in Faridpur Sadar Hospital on Monday morning. When the news of Rupa’s death spread, one Mamun and his henchmen went to the hospital and warned her family members

Eid Cattle Market Sale, price lower than last year’s The sale of sacrificial animal in the capital was yet to gain momentum till yesterday evening even though tomorrow is Eid-ul-Azha. As customer turn up was low in comparison to that of last year, many traders did not sell their cows till afternoon with a hope ... Read more

Police suspect enmity between father, abductors Cousin comes to the rescue of the five-year old Sami who went missing on Sunday when his mother was racing to save her husband from an abduction attempt at Shyamoli in the city. Sami’s cousin Nasima Begum found him alone crying in front of a shop at Kallayanpur and ... Read more

After e-ticket and health service through cellular network, citizens are now offered filing complaints with police by texting on mobile phone and general diaries online. Under a joint initiative by the government’s Access to Information (A2I) programme, mobile phone operators and police department, the arrangement comes

A stalker yesterday was awarded one year’s imprisonment and fined Tk 500, in default he has to suffer another seven days’ imprisonment by a mobile court in Patuakhali town. Md Saiful Islam, executive magistrate, delivered the judgment after hearing both sides. It is the first judgment on a stalking case in the

The government has decided to amend the Women and Children Repression Prevention Act, 2003 to make sure it is enforced vigorously in fighting stalking. The decision came yesterday at an inter-ministerial meeting on framing a law against stalking, said meeting sources

A young housewife in the capital’s Shyamoli yesterday foiled an attempt to kidnap her husband, but by then her five-year-old son was gone. Locals said the child, Sami, went missing when her mother Sumi Begum, 23, had to leave him at the roadside to chase the car in which four youths were taking away her ... Read more

A housemaid and her boyfriend will be lashed 100 times each, jailed and deported for committing adultery, according to a court ruling. By Bassma Al Jandaly, Senior Reporter Published: 00:00 November 15, 2010 Sharjah:  A housemaid and her boyfriend will be lashed 100 times each,

Dhaka Medical College Hospital is the only public hospital in the whole of Bangladesh to treat serious burn injuries while hospitals and clinics outside the capital have no burn units. Hundreds of burn injury patients are admitted to hospitals across the country every month, but all the serious cases, constituting 5 per cent of the ... Read more

THE government has fixed a target to generate 10 per cent of total electricity from renewable energy by 2020. It is exploring all possible options for increasing power generation. Use of renewable energy will have to be increased to meet huge shortage of power and for the sake of sustainable development. The sustainable development is ... Read more

A dialogue on health and education some months ago, while conceding that the crisis in human health is a worldwide problem and that there is no easy solution to it, concluded that the most effective way to tackle ill health and impoverishment in South Asia would be, first, to raise awareness through compulsory general education, ... Read more

Some 91,823 pilgrims, almost double the last year’s number, have safely reached Saudi Arabia to perform hajj, said Shafique Alam Mehdi, secretary of civil aviation and tourism ministry yesterday. Of them, 85,090 went to Saudi Arabia on private arrangement while the remaining ones through the government management

Sexual Harassment Kindergarten teacher jailed A mobile court yesterday sentenced a teacher six-months of imprisonment on charge of sexually harassing two 11-year old female students at a school in city’s Jurain. It was the first time a person was convicted for committing such offence by a mobile court in Dhaka. Nazrul Islam, a teacher at ... Read more

Seminar told Fifty-one percent girls, aged between 11 and 20, are harassed by stalkers on their way to schools and colleges, said women leaders at a seminar in the capital yesterday. Salma Khan, president of Women for Women, revealed the information at the seminar titled “Sexual harassment on women at workplace: Bangladesh perspective”

The Junior School Certificate’s mathematics examination and Junior Dakhil Certificate’s social science examination, scheduled to be held today, have been postponed, said a press release of the education ministry. Both the examinations will be held on November 22 from 10am to 1pm, according to the

Leaders of the Bhumi O Sampad Rokhkha Committee, an organisation of the locals adversely affected by the Barapukuria coalmine, at a rally at Phulbari in Dinajpur on Saturday rejected the rehabilitation package offered by the government. They said they were not against the coalmine but the government should provide them with proper

The chief justice, ABM Khairul Haque, on Friday questioned the integrity of subordinate judges accusing some district judges of taking bribes through court personnel. ‘The people are not satisfied with the activities and integrity of judges who are now in the dock of people’s court. There is a tremendous backlog of cases and

Tasks confined to signing certificates, attesting documents All of the 120 councillors, including 30 women elected in reserved seats, of the 90 wards of the Dhaka City Corporation do not have much to do but for attesting documents and issuing character certificates, for the people who elect them. Most of the functions and development works ... Read more

Thousands of people who left the capital city on Friday to celebrate Eid-ul-Azha in the countryside suffered long delays on the way due to traffic congestions, witnesses said. There was an unusual rush of home-bound people keen to celebrate the festival with their near ones in the countryside on November 17, they