Reports Indian medical board after checking Rumana; torturer husband remanded The retina of one eye of Rumana Manzur, who was brutally assaulted by her husband, is not responding to her brain, and she has gone permanently blind in the other eye, said her family sources quoting a medical report. A medical board formed for Rumana ... Read more
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Female jail guard among 3 arrested
Drug Peddling Female jail guard among 3 arrested Rapid Action Battalion arrested a female guard of Dhaka Central Jail and her two accomplices on charges of peddling illegal drugs in and outside the jail on Wednesday. The detainees are jail guard Nadira Begum Alo, 36, Shahnaz Begum, 28, of Sabujbagh, and Rumana Akhter, 30. Detainee ... Read more
Police, apparel workers clash over pay at Savar
Four factories announce holiday, one closed At least 5,000 workers of two factories at Savar and Ashulia, agitating for long for an increase in stitching charges, on Wednesday vandalised an apparel factory, forcing four factories in the area to announce a holiday for the day and another to announce closure for an indefinite period, the ... Read more
Moon eclipsed last night
The longest total lunar eclipse of the decade took place last night. It was the first of two total lunar eclipses of the year. The next one will occur on December 10, 2011. This was a relatively rare central lunar eclipse where the centre point of the earth’s shadow passed across the moon. The last ... Read more
Torturer Sumon caught
Claims wife Rumana cheated on him; her friend says doctors in India found grievous injuries to cornea, retinae of both eyes Police yesterday arrested Hasan Sayeed Sumon, who tortured and damaged the eyes of his wife Rumana Manzur, an assistant professor of Dhaka University, 10 days ago. Sumon was arrested at his relative’s house in the ... Read more
Teachers, students want justice to Rumana
Dhaka University teachers, students, rights activists and people from all walks of life on Tuesday called upon the government to bring to book Hasan Syeed, who reportedly tortured his wife, a Dhaka University teacher leaving her grievously injured. They formed a human chain and marched down the streets on the campus and accused the
Rumana flies to India with hope to get eyesight back
After nine days of anguish and trauma, the barbarously assaulted Dhaka University teacher Rumana Manjur was flown to India yesterday for better treatment. An assistant professor of international relations (IR) department, Rumana left for India with the hope of regaining her eyesight, said Prof Dr Delwar Hossain, chairman of the
Citizens decry govt move
Law experts and rights activists have said that punishing people by mobile courts run by executive magistrates denying the accused their right to self-defence is unconstitutional and a flagrant violation of human rights. According to them, the Mobile Court Act 2009, enacted by the present government empowering mobile courts to sentence any person to two years ... Read more
At home yet not at home
Citizens of Bangladesh, India live a life of refugee at enclaves, exclaves “You will never know the pain of being stateless,” said Abdur Rashid of Dashiarchhara, one of the 111 Indian exclaves in Kurigram, as he drew out a piece of paper from his pocket. “I had to beg the Bangladeshi chairman for this certificate ... Read more
It’s all because of scholarship
DU teacher describes husband’s assault on her “He pushed his fingers into my eyes,” a battered wife told newsmen yesterday how her sadistic husband made her suffer beyond belief, “And dragged me by my hair on the floor.” Rumana Manjur was talking to the reporters at the city’s LabAid Hospital for the first time since ... Read more
Inquiry absolves military, VDP of Kalpana abduction
Abdullah Juberee for New Age The inquiry commission set up to investigate the abduction of Kalpana Chakma, then organising secretary of the Hill Women’s Federation, 15 years ago, found no involvement of the military or the Village Defence Party in the abduction. The probe also failed to identify any abductor but resolved that ‘she had ... Read more
Six-storey Gulshan building tilts
A six-storey building at Gulshan tilt on Saturday morning following a land collapse during pile-driving work in an adjacent plot, raising the fear that yet another building might collapse in the capital, following several such incidents taking place in the past few weeks. Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha however said the tilt building having 15 apartments was ... Read more
Medicare at stake
Medical representatives go for aggressive promotion during busy hours at hospitals In aggressive promotion of pharmaceutical drugs the country’s medical representatives invade hospitals during busy working hours in violation of marketing code and medical ethics, according to doctors and witnesses. Visiting the outpatient sections of several public hospitals in the capital The Daily Star
Govt’s one-man probe body submits report
The one-man fact-finding committee on June 6 submitted its report to the home affairs ministry on RAB’s shooting of Limon, a college student whose left leg had to be amputated afterwards. Additional home affairs secretary Mohammad Iqbal Khan Chowdhury received the report at noon. Barisal’s additional divisional commissioner, Shawkat Akbar, who comprised the one-member
Cheaper laptops hit market this month
Low-price laptops manufactured by government-owned Telephone Shilpa Sangstha will hit the market this month, telecommunications minister Raziuddin Ahmed Raju said in parliament yesterday. The laptop will cost Tk 10,000 to Tk 12,000. In a scripted answer, the minister said replying to lawmakers’ queries that the present
Jilted, she takes it out on his daughter
A three-year-old girl in the city was stabbed with a knife yesterday by her father’s supposed girlfriend, jilted by the man and hell-bent on revenge. The woman, a nurse of a private clinic at the capital’s Dhanmondi, turned up at the residence of her boyfriend on Crescent Road of Kalabagan yesterday around 10:00am and stabbed ... Read more
Nation pays tribute to pop guru
Hundreds of people thronged Central Shaheed Minar yesterday defying the terrible traffic congestion of the city to pay their last tribute to legendary Pop Guru Azam Khan. As soon as the pop guru was brought there on an ambulance around 9:30am, hundreds of people lined up to pay tribute with
2 to walk gallows
Gulshan Couple Murder 2 to walk gallows A Dhaka court yesterday sentenced two youths to death in absentia and another to life imprisonment for killing a couple in Gulshan in March 2010. The condemned convicts are Mohammad Rubel and Mithun Chanda and the lifer is Altaf Hossain Altu. Altu was present when Judge (in charge) ... Read more
Azam Khan passes away
Body to be taken to Shaheed Minar Monday morning, burial in the afternoon The country’s Pop Guru Azam Khan passed away Sunday morning at Combined Military Hospital (CMH) after a prolonged fight with cancer. He was 62. Khan suffered a massive cardiac arrest around 9:30am and his life support system was taken off at around ... Read more
Forests dip to 10pc
Environment day today The country’s forest cover has shrunk to less than 10 percent of land mass with only 0.02 hectares of per capita forest land, one of the lowest in the world. According to Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics and Department of Forest, a total of 2.52 million hectares area — nearly 17.4 percent of ... Read more