On Thursday, a teacher couple was discovered dead inside their own vehicle in the Borobari neighborhood of the Gazipur district.The deceased were named as Tongi Shaheed Smriti High School headmaster AKM Ziaur Rahman Mamun and his wife Mahmuda Akter Joly, an assistant teacher at Tongi Amzad Ali Sarkar Pilot High School and College.The couple’s son ... Read more
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BRAC Bank introduces real-time cash deposit machine
Brac Bank has launched 39 real-time cash deposit machines (RCDMs) in Dhaka, Gazipur, Chattogram, Sylhet, Rajshahi, Khulna, Rangpur, Bogura, Jashore and Pabna in the first phase. The machine allows customers to deposit cash any time and any day of a week to their Brac Bank accounts and pay credit card bills within minutes, a press
1,000 workers fall ill after drinking water
More than 1,000 workers of Starlight sweater factory at Chowdhuribari, near Joydebpur Chowrasta in Gazipur, fell ill after drinking water from the factory’s supply line, on Wednesday. More than 300 workers were admitted in Gazipur Sadar hospital, while 200 workers were admitted in Tongi government hospital, 400 in Tairunnesa Medical College Hospital
RMG workers stage demo in Gazipur, Savar
Workers of two readymade garment (RMG) factories in Gazipur industrial belt observed work abstention and staged demonstration on Monday protesting dismissal of their co-workers and demanding hike in wages. Police and locals said, workers of ‘Ananta Casual Wear Limited’ garment factory in Borobari area began work abstention in the morning protesting dismissal
Garment workers agitate, clash with police
Hundreds of irate garment workers on Monday went berserk in different areas of Gazipur district, including the capital, demanding capital punishment for Sohel Rana, the owner of Rana Plaza, as well as for the owners of the five factories housed inside the ill-fated building. Fire service sources said the agitated workers vandalised the windowpanes of ... Read more
Contract signed to implement 20km Bus Rapid Transit
The Communications Ministry on Sunday signed a contract with consultancy services to implement 20-kilomtre Bus Rapid Transit from the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport to Gazipur. Under the Greater Dhaka Sustainable Urban Transport Project, besides the BRT corridor, an eight-lane Tongi bridge, seven flyovers and two bus depots would be
Rimi wins
Gazipur-4 By-polls Rimi wins Afsar rejects results, saying polls ‘stage-managed’ Ruling Awami League candidate Simeen Hussain Rimi yesterday won the Gazipur-4 by-polls by a huge margin amid a very low voter turnout and peaceful polls atmosphere. Rimi tallied 63,401 votes, overshadowing her two rivals — Afsaruddin, her uncle and independent candidate, and Communist Party of ... Read more
Woman killed as bike hijackers shoot couple
Gunmen shot dead a woman and injured her husband before hijacking the couple’s motorbike in Gazipur yesterday. The dead is Zulekha Begum, 22, and the wounded Shamim Hossain, 32. A gang of four in a car chased the couple and blocked their way at Salna of Gazipur around 6:00am. The couple were on their way to ... Read more
Rajuk to raze forests for housing
Trees, farmland in 1,600 acres area to vanish for Purbachal project Around 1,300 acres of forest will be wiped out to make way for the Rajuk’s Purbachal housing project in Gazipur. The district administration has already acquired around 1,600 acres of land in five villages under Kaliganj upazila for the scheme that has no environment ... Read more
Cops let mob beat Mamun to death
Home Ministry Probe Report Cops let mob beat Mamun to death A home ministry probe body has found that detainee Mamun Bhuiyan had not been snatched by his rivals who killed him in front of police. On the contrary, police intentionally handed him over to them on May 29 in Kaliganj of Gazipur. It has ... Read more
Death of worker sparks vandalism
Road Crash in Gazipur Death of worker sparks vandalism Death of a garment worker in a road accident at Shalna in Gazipur yesterday sparked a violent protest from fellow workers, disrupting vehicular movement on the Dhaka-Mymensingh highway for over two hours. Meanwhile, traffic halted on the Dhaka-Mawa highway as well for around an hour after ... Read more
Tragic deaths on vacation
TV producer, couple drown in pond at a Gazipur resort An executive producer of a private television channel and a couple drowned yesterday while on vacation at a resort in Rajendrapur, Gazipur. The deceased were identified as Tanveer Jahid Nayan, 32, of Ekattor Television, Jamil Akhter Lipu, 33, managing director of Srot Interior and Consulting ... Read more
An unrecognisable Zahid Hasan
Any Bangladeshi who watches TV knows actor Zahid Hasan, but on September 9 the actor was seemingly unrecognisable. Hasan, in bright orange panjabi and white lungi, was shooting for a play “Benefit of Doubt”. Though he was surrounded by an enthusiastic crowd or onlookers, apart from the director and the crew no one seemed to ... Read more
Female madrassah student killed
A female madrassah student was allegedly strangled by miscreants in Sripur upazila of Gazipur. The deceased was Munia Akhter, 12, Class V student of a local Dakhil Madrassah and daughter of Kuwait expatriate Miar Uddin of Shiriguri village in the upazila. The police and local sources said Munia’s mother along with another daughter went to ... Read more