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BRAC Bank introduces real-time cash deposit machine

Admin — Mon, 09 May 2022 10:16:03 +0000

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 release said.
“RCDM will bring immense convenience to the customers as they can deposit money anytime and any day without visiting a branch. The machines will be deployed across the country in phases as part of the pursuit of strengthening our alternate banking channel,” said Nazmur Rahim, head of alternate banking channels at Brac Bank.
The customers can deposit minimum Tk 10 and maximum Tk 50,000 in a single transaction. The deposited amount will instantly be reflected on the beneficiary account balance with transaction notification through short message service (SMS).

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Quader sorry for slapping railway staff

Admin — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 16:24:21 +0000

Communications Minister Obaidul Quader yesterday said “sorry” for slapping a train attendant while visiting Ishwardi Railway Station on Saturday.
Also in charge of the railways ministry, Quader slapped Boloram Das across the face for charging extra money for a ticket from a passenger.
“Although public support is in my favour for the slap, as a responsible person I feel that I should not have done this. I felt very sad [later],” said the minister at a meeting with Roads and Highways Department engineers at Sarak Bhaban in the capital.
Later, talking to The Daily Star, Quader apologised for what he had done.
He, however, referred to the public reaction in prothomalo.com on the news and said 92 percent readers supported his action.
“I also thank those newspapers which published the news on the event. Through the public reaction, I have come to know that some people have different opinions about my action,” he added.
Elaborating on the incident, the minister said, “I saw a poor elderly woman standing on the train with her paralysed husband even after having tickets. They were weeping at not having seats.
“When I asked them about the reason behind their predicament, the woman complained that the attendant had asked for extra money from her before she could be given a seat. Then I could not control myself and slapped the attendant, who is very young, as he failed to explain his undue demand for money,” Quader said.
Moreover, the minister explained that the attendant replied in English to show his competence which also irked him.
Sources said the attendant was later handed over to police for demanding the extra money.
At the meeting, the minister asked the engineers to work sincerely to deliver services to the people properly. He also directed them to ensure quality in road construction and maintenance works so that the government did not have to go for repairing again and again.
Talking to The Daily Star, some engineers quoted the minister as saying that he was working relentlessly and would not tolerate any negligence of duty by any officials concerned.
Quader also thanked the engineers for cooperating with him in repairing roads and highways ahead of Eid-ul-Fitr.
Claiming that he did not take any percentage from engineers and contractors for any road construction work, the minister warned that he would go tough against any kind of corruption or irregularities in the RHD.

Courtesy of The Daily Star

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Quader slaps railway staff

Admin — Sun, 02 Sep 2012 10:48:37 +0000

Communications Minster Obaidul Quader yesterday slapped a train attendant in the face at Ishwardi Railway Station for his poor service and irregularities.
The minister also cancelled the lease of Mahananda Express, which operates between Khulna and Chapainawabganj via Rajshahi, finding its compartments in an unhygienic state.
Quader slapped Boloram Das after a passenger had complained that the attendant demanded extra fare from him although he got on the train with a ticket.
The minister visited the railway station around 10:15am on receiving complaints of poor service, Sujit Kumar, divisional traffic officer of the railway west zone, told The Daily Star.
Quader also transferred two railway staffs and suspended one on complaints from passengers of anomalies and poor service, said Md Ferdous Alam, general manager of Bangladesh Railway western zone.
The staffs transferred are Gazi Ferdous Hassan, station master of Chatmohar train station, and Nasima Khanam, ticket master of Ishwardi station, for selling tickets to scalpers. Md Amirul Islam, an estate official of Pakshey Divisional office, received the suspension order for not checking illegal occupation of the railway lands.
The minister said, “A few corrupt officials are destroying the railway sector. Ticket scalping, misappropriation of fuel, stealing of rail sleepers and such other misdeeds are ruining the sector.”
“I will take actions against the corrupt and the Anti-Corruption Commission will investigate them,” he added.
Later, the minister visited Pakshey divisional rail zone and asked its officials to recover illegally occupied lands within a month, said Kiron Chandra Roy, divisional estate officer (DEO) of the zone.
“Around 140 acre of 1,800 acres of land in Pakshey and Ishwardi zones have been illegally occupied,” said the DEO.
Obaidul Quader then visited the Lalon Shah Bridge in Pakshey and asked its officials to submit an enquiry report to his ministry within 15 days on irregularities of the toll plaza.
Yeafesh Osman, state minister for science, information and communication technology, Shamsur Rahman Sharif Dilu, lawmaker from Pabna-4 constituency, and high officials of railway and the communications ministry accompanied the minister during the visit.
Quader’s trip ended with a public meeting on the Pabna circuit house premises around noon. In the meeting, the minister said, “Three and a half years of this government has gone. It is time we acted rather than talking.”

Courtesy of The Daily Star

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Man beaten to death in Pabna

Admin — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 15:30:29 +0000

A day labourer was beaten to death Tuesday night allegedly by his neighbours over a land dispute in Faridpur upazia in Pabna. The body of Ebad Ali, 60 was sent to Pabna Medical College Hospital morgue for an autopsy Wednesday morning.
Kazi Zahidul Hafiz, officer-in-charge (investigation) of Faridpur Police Station, told The Daily Star that Ebad had a land dispute with his neighbour Chand Ali Member.
An altercation took place between them over the boundary of their houses at Nesarpara village Thursday evening, reports our Pabna correspondent.
At one stage, Chand Ali along with his relatives and friends attacked Ebad Ali with iron and bamboo sticks at around 7:30pm, leaving him critically injured.
He succumbed to his injuries on his way to hospital at about 10:00pm.

Courtesy of The Daily Star

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Hand over Suchitra Sen’s house in two months: HC

Admin — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 11:22:34 +0000

The High Court on Sunday asked the Imam Gazzali Institute to vacate the ancestral house of Suchitra Sen, Bangla movies’ legendary actress, and hand it over to the government within two months.
The bench of Justice Hasan Foez Siddique and Md Jahangir Hossain also asked the government to implement the plan to set up a centre there to preserve her memory.
The court issued the directive in its judgment delivered in response to two public interest litigation writ petitions filed to free the house from the possession of illegal occupants.
One of the writ petitions was filed by the Imam Gazzali Institute in 2009, challenging a government order that had asked the institution to vacate Suchitra Sen’s paternal house.
The other petition was filed by the Human Rights and Peace for Bangladesh on July 26 this year to ensure the protection and maintenance of the house.
After the hearing, the High Court bench of Justice AHM Shamsuddin Chowdhury and Justice Gobinda Chandra Tagore on July 26 directed the authorities to recover Suchitra’s house within seven days. The court also directed the authorities to take legal action against the grabbers and submit a report within 10 days.
After hearing an appeal filed the Imam Gazzali Institute against the High Court’s order, the Appellate Division on August 4 ordered maintenance of status quo in connection with the house, and asked both the parties in the case for expeditious disposal of the rules that the High Court Division had issued with regard to the house.
Screen legend Suchitra Sen turned 80 on April 6. She was born in her maternal grandfather’s house in Bhangabari village in Pabna, and grew up at Gopalpur in Pabna town.
Unfortunately her ancestral home is still occupied by the Imam Gazzali Institute, despite deep resentment in the locals. The people of the district want the historic house to be freed from illegal occupation and restored to its former condition.
Suchitra, whose original name was Rama Dasgupta, started her academic career at Mahakali Pathshala in Pabna town, and later studied at Pabna Girls School (now Pabna Government Girls High School).
According to the elderly people of the district, Suchitra’s father, Karunamoy Dasgupta, left Pabna with his whole family just before the Partition in 1947.

-With New Age input

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5 killed as bus skids off road into ditch

Admin — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 11:06:49 +0000

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 as it tried to void dashing a rickshaw-van. The water height of the ditch was about 12 to 15 feet. Some passengers came out of the bus through the window.
The police, fire fighters and the district administrations started rescue operation immediately after the accident. Rescuers dragged out bodies of five who died and rescued four others. All the injured were sent to Pabna Medical College Hospital.
The deceased were Luthfar Rahman, 35, and Sharmin Khatun, 22, of Shalgaria, Golam Mostafa, 45, of Laskarpur in the Pabna municipal area, Abdul Aziz, 55, of Kismatpur in the Pabna district headquarters, and Mohammad Sohel, 25, Dhanuaghat at Fardipur in Pabna.
The state minister for home, Shamsul Haque Tuku, who was in Pabna on an official tour, visited to the spot.
The deputy commissioner, Mostafizur Rahman, the superintendent of the police, Jahangir Hossain Matubbar, and the Santhia upazila nirbahi officer, Abdur Razzak Sarkar, visited the spot.
Local people blocked the road after the accident and vehicles remained stranded on both ends of the road stretch. The police later cleared the road.
Rescue work was going on till the evening.

-With New Age input

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Free Suchitra Sen’s Pabna house: HC

Admin — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 05:03:30 +0000

The High Court Tuesday ordered the authorities concerned to free the paternal homestead of the subcontinent’s renowned actress Suchitra Sen in Pabna town from illegal occupation, and hand it over to the government, reports UNB.
A division bench of the High Court comprising Justice AHM Shamsuddin Chowdhury and Justice Gobinda Chandra Thakur passed the order responding to a public interest litigation.
In its order the Court also ordered taking legal action against those involved in grabbing the property, and submitting a progress report about the matter.
The Court ordered to preserve the house after freeing from illegal occupation and submit a report of progress within next 10 days. The order was served upon the Pabna DC, SP and sadar thana OC.
The High Court also asked the government as to why it would not be illegal and unlawful the inactions in taking necessary steps against the grabbers of the land of Suchitra Sen’s house and why directives would not be issued to preserve the house.
The Secretaries to the Ministries of the Home Affairs and the Land, the DIG of Rajshahi Police range, Pabna DC, SP and sadar thana OC were made respondents and asked to reply within the next two weeks.
Earlier, the Human Rights and Peace for Bangladesh, a rights group, filed a writ petition seeking the High Court directives to free the illegal occupancy of Suchitra Sen’s paternal homestead

-With UNB/The News Today input

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Pry school teacher removed for sexual harassment

Admin — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 09:36:12 +0000

A teacher of a primary school was stand-released on Thursday after some girl students brought charges of sexual harassment against him.
The upazila primary education officer said that a primary inquiry had found true the charges against Abul Kalam Azad, 42, an assistant teacher of Government Model Primary School at Sujanagar of Pabna, and that the upazila education office recommended departmental action against him.
There were allegations that Abul Kalam Azad had often sexually harassed three students of class V of the school. On Wednesday one of the victims complained to the headmaster about the matter.
Sujanagar upazila primary education officer Sirajum Munira along with three members of the inquiry team visited the school and talked with the students, parents and teachers of the school and found Abul Kalam Azad guilty.
‘The teacher sexually harassed a few students of the school. The primary inquiry has found him guilty,’ she said.
The accused was transferred to Sagarkandi primary school of the upazila on Thursday afternoon after being stand-released from Government Model Primary School, the officer said. We have submitted an inquiry report to the district primary education office and recommended departmental action against him, she told New Age.
Parents and the students of different educational institutions in Sujanagar upazila demanded exemplary punishment of the accused.

-With New Age input

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Pabna headmaster freed on bail

Admin — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 23:11:49 +0000

5 ‘plotters’ temporarily barred from coming to school
The headmaster of Basherbanda High School, who was convicted in a ‘false charge’ of sexual harassment on July 10, got released upon bail on Sunday as the court granted his petition for appeal.
“I am innocent but was implicated in the false charge due to a conspiracy,” said Md Shamsul Islam, headmaster of Basherbanda High School in Ishwarganj upazila of Pabna district, after coming to the school office on Sunday afternoon.
Classes will resume on Tuesday and the middle term examinations will start on July 21, he told this correspondent yesterday.
On July 10, a mobile court led by Ishwardi Upazila Nirbahi Officer Md Zakir Hossain awarded four months’ imprisonment to Headmaster Shamsul Islam on charge of sexually harassing to a class VII student of his school.
Claiming that Shamsul Islam was implicated in a false charge due to some teachers’ conspiracy, aggrieved teachers and students started demonstration and class boycott protesting punishment to the ‘innocent’ headmaster.
“On Sunday noon, we filed two applications on behalf of the harassed headmaster to the district mobile appeal court — one appeal petition and the other for bail. The court granted our applications and granted bail to the headmaster. The court also fixed July 25 for appeal hearing,” said advocate Golam Hasnayen, lawyer of the headmaster.
Additional District Magistrate Md Rezaul Karim, also the judge of the court, said, “The headmaster was granted bail on a Tk 10 thousand bond. As per the mobile court law, the convict can get bail if his prayer for appeal is granted.”
Following a decision in a meeting at the institution on Sunday, Basherbanda school managing committee yesterday issued a notice asking five teachers of the school — Assistant headmaster Md Rafikul Islam, assistant teachers Md Obaidur Rahman, Md Alam Miah, Md Abdul Matin and Abdullah Shamim — not to come to the school until the situation normalises.
“Terming the five teachers as plotters behind the July 10 incident, other teachers, students and their parents are demonstrating and boycotting classes. For the sake of smooth academic activities of the school, we have asked them not to come to school until the problem is solved,” said Md Abdul Matin, a member of the managing committee.
The teachers, students and the guardians who have continued agitation for acquittal of the innocent headmaster are also demanding punishment to the five ‘conspirator’ teachers, locals said.
Ishardi upazila unit of Bangladesh Shikkhak Parishad will form a human chain and hold a rally in Ishwardi upazila headquarters today demanding acquittal of the headmaster from the ‘false charge’.

-With The Daily Star input

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