Imams could play the most vital role in creating social awareness to detect tuberculosis infected patients for bringing them under free treatment facilities to eliminate the completely curable disease, speakers said on Tuesday.
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Youth beaten to death in city
Alleged friends have beaten to death a youth in Dhaka’s Mohammadpur area on Monday, police said. The deceased was identified as Mehedi Hasan Apu, 20, a resident of the Atibazar area in Keganiganj. His mother Selina Begum told reporters at the…
BIRDEM doctors observe work stoppage to protest assault
Doctors of BIRDEM have stopped working in protest of an alleged assault by relatives of a patient who died in the hospital. In a press release on Tuesday, the doctors said they will not treat patients until the ‘attackers’ were…
Ganjagaran Manch activist ‘stabbed’
A Ganajagaran Manch activist has been stabbed in the capital’s Banglamotor. Hasibi Shahidi Shishir, who took treatment at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) on Tuesday afternoon, accused Mancha spokesperson Imran H Sarker of masterminding the attack. Right after the incident,…
CEC returns home Monday after 42-day vacation
Chief Election Commissioner Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmad returns home on Monday after his 42 days of vacationing in the USA. The CEC is scheduled to arrive on Monday morning by a Turkish flight, said CEC’s Personal Secretary Mazharul Islam said.
City to see special road dividers soon
Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) will introduce special road dividers at the end of this month to deter the prevalent tendency of driving in wrong directions on the city roads. Whenever a vehicle will be driven in the wrong direction on…
DU students, Nilkhet traders clash
A group of Dhaka University (DU) students fought pitched battles with shop owners at the nearby Nilkhet market on Saturday evening. Several shops in Nilkhet, which is the biggest book market in Dhaka, have been torched. The 30-minute-long clash also…
2 more Dhaka fire victims die
Two more victims of Thursday’s hardware store fire in Dhaka have died, taking the death toll to three. Khalilur Rahman, 36, and Shafiul Azam, 45, passed away at the Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) on Friday afternoon, doctors say.…
ACC detects illegal gas connections to 500 companies by Titas
Titas Gas Transmission and Distribution Company Limited has provided gas connections to about 500 companies over the last four years violating rules, according to an inquiry conducted by the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC).
Teenage boy found dead in city
Police recovered the body of a teenage boy from Turag Eidghah field in the city on Thursday. The deceased was identified as Sabbir Hossain, 15, son of late Baset Talukder of Ghatail in Tangail. Sabbir was residing with his family…
Muggers loot Tk 10 lakh of bkash shop in Mirpur
In broad daylight, muggers shot two people including an employee of a ‘bKash’ company and made off with Tk 10 lakh at Rokeya Sarani in Mirpur on Tuesday. The injured were identified as Abul Kalam, 35, a marketing executive of…
Police arrest four with illegal pistol, bullets
Police arrested four people, including one woman, on charge of holding an illegal firearm and eight rounds of bullets from a house at Shantibagh early Tuesday. Police said they also seized 30 bottles of contraband Phensidyl from their possession of…
New Rajuk chairman appointed
GM Jainul Abedin Bhuiyan, an additional secretary on post-retirement leave, has been appointed the new chairman of Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk) on a year’s contract. He replaces Engineer Nurul Huda with effect from April 21, a public administration ministry order…
One gets ten years in prison for killing brother-in-law
A Dhaka court on Monday sentenced a man to 10 years’ imprisonment with fine of Tk 50,000 for killing his brother-in-law in 2012. Judge ABM Sajedur Rahman of Dhaka’s Speedy Trial Tribunal-3 also says in his verdict that if the…
ACC quizzes three high Petobangla officials
The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) on Monday interrogated four top officials of two Petrobangla subsidiaries in connection with a graft allegation. ACC deputy director Ahsan Ali quizzed them from 10 am tol 3 pm at the ACC head office. Ahsan…
Another fake rice saline-making factory busted in city
A Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) mobile court on Monday unearthed another factory producing fake rice saline of icddr,b at North Badda in the city. The mobile court also sentenced the fake factory owner, his younger brother and three employees to…
Creativity must, President Tells DU convocation
President Abdul Hamid has told graduates that they need to be creative. Hamid was speaking at the 48th convocation of Dhaka University while he gave students this advice on Monday. He said getting a degree was not enough. “Your education…
EC Mobarak gets death threat
Election Commissioner Abdul Mobarak, who has been in charge of the Election Commission in absence of the chief election commissioner, has received a death threat.
642 jailed in city anti-narcotics drive
A mobile court sentenced 642 people to various terms of imprisonment conducting anti-narcotics drives in the capital in the last two months.
Journalists Welfare Trust Bill placed in parliament
A bill, tilted ‘Bangladesh Journalists Welfare Trust Bill, 2014’, was placed in Parliament on Wednesday, aiming to provide support to ailing, insolvent and injured journalists.
Auto-rickshaw strike called off
Auto-rickshaw owners have called off their 72-hour strike that was to begin on Tuesday. The announcement came after Communications Minister Obaidul Quader assured them that their five-point charter of demands would be met.
Three get ACC media awards for graft reporting
Three journalists, including Independent TV Staff Correspondent Muhammad Rishad Huda, have been awarded the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) Media Award-2014 for their investigative reports on corruption. The two other journalists are—New Age Staff Reporter Sadiqur Rahman and ABC Radio Senior Reporter…
Nilkhet book shops in capital gutted in fire
A fire has burned down several shops at the Nilkhet book market in capital Dhaka. The flames which ignited around 10pm Wednesday was doused within an hour, said a Fire Service control room official. There are several book markets at…
City’s Multiplan Centre catches fire
A fire broke out at the multi-storey shopping mall ‘Multiplan Centre’ at Elephant Road in the city on Saturday night.
3 illegal water factories sealed, 15 punished
A mobile court here on Friday sealed off three illegal water factories and punished 15 people for producing and marketing substandard drinking water which is harmful to public health.
Jagannath Varsity student ‘commits suicide’ in city
A female student of Jagannath University allegedly committed suicide by hanging herself from the ceiling fan in the city’s Sabujbagh area on Saturday. The deceased was identified as Indra Rani, 20, a 2nd year student of History Department of Jagannath…
Trader killed at Keraniganj
Miscreants have killed a sand trader in broad daylight at Keraniganj Upazila in Dhaka. Police identified the victim as Md Selim Ahmed, 42. He lived with his family at Amirbagh in the Upazila. Keraniganj Model Police Station Sub-Inspector (SI) Md…
Abed Khan fined for contempt of court
The Appellate Division has rejected appeals of former editor of ‘Bhorer Kagaj’ Abed Khan and correspondent Samaresh Baidya in a contempt of court charge. This pertained to a report regarding the LLB certificate of a former High Court justice. The…
ACC to interrogare ex-Works secretary, ex-Rajuk chairman
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) will interrogate former chairman of Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha Sahid Alam and five former board members relating to inquiry against the irregularities made by former housing and public works secretary Khandakar Shawkat Hossain tomorrow . The former…
Proshika chairman, 3 others issued warrants of arrest
The Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court of Dhaka on Tuesday issued warrant of arrest against three people of Proshika including its chairman Quazi Faruque in a case filed for embezzlement of money and threat of murder. The other two accused…