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.
GULSHAN CAFÉ ATTACK Police to press charges soon: DMP
Dhaka Metropolitan police commissioner Asaduzzaman Mia said on Wednesday that they would a charge sheet soon in the case of July 1, 2016 Gulshan café attack. Responding to reporters’ query at the metropolitan police headquarters after a programme, he said that they recently received forensic reports on the suspected attackers and the investigation was at the final stage.
BSMMU wall collapse kills woman
A woman was killed and five others were injured in Dhaka after a boundary wall of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University collapsed Wednesday evening. The deceased was identified as Parvin Akter. More details of the victim could not be known immediately.
Don’t ruin fish market for small gains, PM to exporters
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday asked those involved in fish production, processing and export not to take any unwise step just for their small gains that may ruin one's own business and the country's image.
Maritime ports asked to hoist signal no three
Maritime ports of Chittagong, Cox's Bazar, Mongla and Payra have been advised to keep hoisted local cautionary signal no three.
Woman gets life term for torturing housemaid
A tribunal in Dhaka on Tuesday sentenced a Woman to life term imprisonment in a much-talked-about case filed over the brutal torture on house maid Aduri at a house in the capital’s Mirpur area.
