Category: National

22-year-old housewife gang-raped in Chattogram; 8 held

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Post date October 9, 2020
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A 22-year-old housewife was gang-raped by around eight to ten people, most of them CNG-run auto-rickshaw drivers in Chandgaon area of Chattogram city early today.

The victim later filed a case with Chandgaon Police Station over the incident and is now undergoing treatment at a One-Stop Crisis Centre (OCC) of Chattogram Medical College Hospital (CMCH), said Bijoy Basak, deputy commissioner (DC-North Zone) of Chattogram Metropolitan Police.

Police conducted drives in different areas of the port city and arrested eight people in connection with this case, DC Basak said at a press briefing this afternoon.

The arrestees are: Jahangir Alam (38), Md Yousuf (32), Md Ripon (27), Md Sujan (24), Debu Barua alias Jobayer Hossain (31), Md Shahed (24), Rintu Datta (30),……

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National

Noakhali Gang-Rape Victim: Indifference drowned cries for justice

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Post date October 6, 2020
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On the day following the Noakhali gang-rape on September 2, the Noakhali woman had gone to a member of Eklashpur Union Parishad seeking his help in taking the matter to the police, but to no avail.

This is what the survivor told our correspondent, yesterday morning, in an interview held inside the Begumganj Police Station.

“I went to the member and told him that I am poor and I do not have the power to go to the police myself and asked him to investigate the matter and seek justice on my behalf. I told him what the men did to me,” she said.

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When he did not do anything about it, she left the area and went into hiding, she said.

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National

Giving away greenery

The heartland of a reserve forest in Moulvibazar is in the process of being leased out to a private company for tea plantation.

Several companies were vying for a lease of the 2,174.35 acres of land, disputed between the local Forest Department and administration following a controversial survey decision and subsequent filing of a case with the Land Survey Tribunal.

But one leading tea producer managed to get a green signal from the PMO with the condition of case disposal.

Forest officials and green activists squarely put the blame on local offices concerned for misleading the highest office,

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National

49 women including Ayesha in condemned cells

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Post date October 2, 2020
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There are 888 convicts, including Ayesha Siddika alias Minni, in the condemned cells of 68 prisons around the country. Ayesha Siddika was recently sentenced to death in the Rifat murder case.

Among the prisoners in the condemned cells, 49 are women. So far no woman sentenced to death has been hanged in the country.

According to the prison directorate, once the court sentences a prisoner to be hanged, the convict is placed in a condemned cell and has to remain there till the sentence is carried out.

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Education National

A-Level Exams: Students negotiate a new reality

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Post date October 2, 2020
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Advanced Level examinations of the October and November session began yesterday amid parents’ concern about the grades their children would get as many could not prepare for the tests properly due to the closure of schools.

Many were worried not only about the health safety at exam halls but also on their way to and from the exam centre.

“We are worried about what grade my child will get She could not concentrate on her studies. I had advised her to adjust to the situation,” said a guardian waiting outside Oxford International School exam center in the capital.

Anjum Ara said as school remained closed since mid-March, candidates could not take their desired preparations for the exams.

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National

Thrown into abyss of abuse

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Post date September 20, 2020
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The recruiting agency that sent 14-year-old Umme Kulsum to a Saudi employer, who tortured her to death, threw many others into similar pits of abuse.

Details of such incidents came to light on Thursday when Rab-3 raided the office of the recruiting agency, M/H Trade International, and arrested its owner Mokbul Hossain and his associate Parvez for activities which are offenses under the Prevention and Suppression of Human Trafficking Act.

While dozens upon of dozens of women have returned to narrate horror stories of the ordeals they faced in the hands of their foreign employers, most of their recruiting agencies stay out of the purview of law. And nested under that umbrella of impunity, a recruiting agency can send countless women to work abroad under circumstances that can only be described as trafficking.

In 2018, M/H Trade International sent a 28-year-old woman from Dhalpur (T. Akhter) to the city of Ha’il in Saudi Arabia, to work as a household help……….

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National

Onion makes consumers cry

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Post date September 16, 2020
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Onion prices have shot up dramatically in the country due to panic buying by consumers and price gouging by wholesalers in the immediate aftermath of India’s decision on Monday to suspend onion exports.

News had broken of India’s decision on Monday evening and many consumers in the capital, with the skyrocketing price of onions last year fresh in their minds, rushed to buy onions and stockpile on Monday night.

Since news of India’s decision spread, onions have dominated discussions in social media, tea stalls, kitchen markets, and households over the past 24 hours.

India’s decision had come on the day that Bangladesh exported hilsa to West Bengal for the first time.

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National

After 30 years of autocracy’s demise, democracy still remains a distant dream

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Post date September 15, 2020
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To the question, “how democracy is faring in Bangladesh”, a ruling party’s answer has always been “we are a global example” and that of the opposition “we are the pits”. Since we have had the same ruling party in power for the last 12 years at a stretch, the narrative of democracy’s success has been unrelenting, and whatever little voice the real opposition has been allowed, “we are the pits” story continues.

But what say “WE, the PEOPLE”? Well, to the extent we are allowed to or safely can.

One method of gauging democracy’s health would be to look at the institutions that embody it in a country like Bangladesh: the judiciary, the legislative and the executive branches of the state.

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National

Apex court upholds HC bail order for CU teacher in sedition case

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Post date September 13, 2020
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The Supreme Court today upheld a High Court order that granted bail to Anwar Hossain Choudhury, an assistant professor of Chattogram University’s sociology department, in a sedition case.

A four-member bench of the Appellate Division of the SC headed by Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain passed a “no order” on a government petition, seeking stay on the HC’s bail order.

So, the HC’s August 20 order that granted a six-week bail to Anwar in the sedition case will remain effective, Anwar’s Lawyer Motaher Hossain Sazu told The Daily Star today.

He said former Bangladesh Chhatra League convener of Fatikchari upazila unit….

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Gas leak behind mosque blast

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Post date September 6, 2020
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Death toll from Friday’s explosion in the Narayanganj mosque reached 20 last night with fire officials suspecting that the incident took place due to leak in a gas pipeline that runs beneath the mosque.

The leaking pipeline might have caused gas to accumulate inside the Pashchim Talla Baitus Salam Mosque, and a spark then probably led to the explosion, leaving at least 40 people severely burnt, the officials said.

It happened around 8:45pm at the end of Esha prayers on Friday night. The ground floor of the three-story mosque in Narayanganj Sadar was badly damaged. All the victims had got trapped on that floor. Besides, six air conditioners there were found melted, ……..

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