HC bench officer forges order for bail in yaba case
A bench officer of the High Court Division has forged the bail order in favour of an accused of possessing 50,000 Yaba tablets.On Tuesday, the sensational forgery by bench officer Rafiqul Islam came to the notice of Justice Md Shawkat Hossain and Justice Md Nazrul Islam Talukder after another accused in the same Yaba case submitted the forged bail order in their court with their bail petition.
Nat’l committee proposes alternative master plan for power sector
The National Committee to Protect Oil, Gas, Mineral Resources, Power and Ports on Saturday proposed a draft 25-year master plan for the power sector focusing on natural gas and renewables as an alternative to the government’s Power Sector Master Plan 2016.
Siddiqur unlikely to get back eyesight: doctor
Physicians on Saturday expressed their fear that Titumir College student Siddiqur Rahman, who suffered grievous injuries in the eyes in police action on a demonstration at Shahbagh in Dhaka on Thursday, might not get back his eyesight.
Six Barisal cops closed over case against UNO
Six police personnel who were on duty on the court premises when upazila nirbahi officer Gazi Tariq Salman was sent to jail in a defamation case, were closed to the district police lines on Saturday.
Two children among five killed in Chittagong landslide
At least five people, including two children, were killed and two others injured in a landslide triggered by incessant rain at Jangal Salimpur of Sitakunda upazila in Chittagong early Friday. Identities of the deceased could not be known immediately.
10 injured, 12 detained as police use tear gas, batons
At least 10 students were injured as police charged batons and fired tear gas shells to disperse students of seven colleges newly affiliated with Dhaka University as they staged protests at Shahbagh in Dhaka on Thursday demanding schedule for examinations
Rain hampers city life
Incessant rains triggered by active monsoon disrupted the normal life of the city dwellers on Thursday. It started raining since Wednesday and continued till the filling of this report.
Falling school contact hours take toll on pry edn
Teaching time at staggered or double-shift primary schools has decreased further when the annual school contact hour is already lower than the global average, affecting quality of basic education of millions.
No rehabilitation support to people displaced by floods
Thousands of villagers displaced by floods began to return to their homes after spending days together on embankments finding none to provide any rehabilitation support. Defying rains they met local government leaders to get themselves enlisted for rehabilitation support from the government.
WALKING ON BRIDGE FORMED BY CHILDREN UZ chairman’s bail cancelled
The High Court Division on Wednesday cancelled interim bail granted by a lower court to Haimchar upazila parishad Chairman Nur Hossain Patwari for cruelty to children. Justice M Enayetur Rahim and Justice Shahidul Karim set aside the lower court’s bail order and directed Nur Hossain to surrender in the judicial magistrate’s court in Chandpur in four weeks.
