Schoolgirl among four killed in city road accidents
Four people, including a school girl, were killed in three road accidents in the capital on Tuesday. At Uttara, a ten-year-old girl Faija Tahsia Suchi, daughter of Daily Ittefaq’s assistant editor Faijul Islam, was killed while a microbus hit her on her way to school with her father around 7:00am.
BCL, PCJSS activists shot dead in Rangamati
An activist of Parbatya Chattagram Jana Samhati Samity and another of Bangladesh Chhatra League were shot dead at Raikhali Karigarpara of Kaptai Upazila on Monday.
Three killed in city road accident
Three people, including an unidentified woman, were killed in separate road accidents in Bhatara and Mouchak areas in the city early Tuesday.
Army to send 1,600 minesweepers to KSA
Bangladesh Army decided to send 1,600 minesweepers to Najran and Jizan to sweep landmines in the southern provinces of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Awarding projects without tender bears no fruit
Dozens of deals awarded to local and foreign bidders without tenders or through limited tenders in the last ten years did nothing in addressing slow implementation rate and cost overrun of development projects.
HC disqualifies river grabbers from polls, bank loans
The High Court Division in a verdict on Monday disqualified grabbers of rivers, canals and wetlands from contesting local and parliamentary elections.
Jahalam freed at last
Jahalam who had been in jail custody since February 6, 2016 after being mistakenly identified as the accused in 26 corruption cases was released from Kashimpur Central Jail in Gazipur early Monday.
Answer scripts evaluation with special arrangement: Dipu Moni
Following the wrong question papers distribution to students at several centres on the first day of SSC and equivalent examinations, education minister Dipu Moni suggested that their answer scripts would be evaluated with special arrangement.
Janata bad loans up by Tk 2,868cr in 3 months
The scam-hit Janata Bank has Tk 2,868.77 crore more added to its piles of defaulted loans in the past three months mainly due to the failure of two of its clients to repay loans.
Nine doctors take care of 90,000 jail inmates
Lack of physicians and medical facilities inside overcrowded jails across the country is severely hampering healthcare services with only nine doctors, against approved 141 posts, for about 90,000 inmates.
