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Health Sector Syndicate: Strange laxity let it off hook

Post author By Shoriful Islam
Post date August 16, 2020
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Motazzaroul Islam Mithu might not have come this far had the Anti-Corruption Commission exercised due diligence years back.

Mithu, who has several medical equipment supplying companies including Lexicon Merchandize and Meditech Imaging Ltd, controls the tenders in the health sector, according to a letter of former CMSD director Brig Gen Md Shahidullah.

The syndicate of Mithu looted about Tk 450 crore without supplying any medical equipment to the Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College and Hospital, reads the letter issued to the public administration ministry on May 30.

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A beggar who helped others is set to receive bigger help from PM

Post author By Shoriful Islam
Post date August 15, 2020
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Dhaka, Aug 15 (UNB) – The Sherpur beggar, who has earned praise for providing his savings for helping Covid-19-hit people, has drawn the attention of the Prime Minister and is going to receive a modern house as a gift from her on Sunday.

Keeping the sense of serving humanity above everything, the poor man, Nazimuddin, 80, donated Tk 10,000, saved for over two years seeking alms to build a new house in Jhenaigati upazila, to the UNO’s relief fund on April 21 last.

This exemplary and heartening instance touched the heart of the Prime Minister and prompted her to direct the authorities concerned to build a modern house with her personal fund for the poor man.

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Forty-five years on: Bangabandhu’s five killers still at large

Post author By Shoriful Islam
Post date August 15, 2020
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The government is exploring “all the avenues” to bring back five fugitive convicted killers of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman to execute the court verdict as the nation is set to observe National Mourning Day on Saturday.

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen reiterated that the government is working to bring back the convicted killers of Bangabandhu, at least one more in this Mujib Barsho, to implement the court verdict.

“It’s our hope,” he said adding that one of the killers — former captain Abdul Majed –was executed recently.

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Families claim children were ‘murdered’ at Jashore correctional facility

Post author By Shoriful Islam
Post date August 14, 2020
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Family members of seventeen-year-old Abu Naeem and twenty-one-year-old Rasel alias Sujon, who died at Jashore Child Development Centre yesterday, claimed that it was not a clash. The families have alleged that their children were murdered by the authorities of the correction centre.

Subeda Bibi (60), Rasel’s mother said her son was serving his time for what his crimes in the past. “But why did the people in the correction centre kill my son?” she asked. She also said her son was taken to hospital at 8:30pm even though the incident took place at 2:00pm.

Rasel’s sister-in-law Fahima Akter Tania said Rasel had secured bail from the court last Thursday and was set to be released from the correction centre coming Sunday.

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Hungry for a walk, Dhaka residents defy Covid restrictions

Post author By Shoriful Islam
Post date August 13, 2020
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Although economic activities have resumed to a large extent, the entertainment centres in the capital city remain closed as part of measures to limit transmission of coronavirus which has officially infected nearly 270,000 people and killed several thousand of them.

On a warm Thursday afternoon, many residents of Dhaka came out of their homes and thronged the footpath in front of the Jatiya Sangshad Bhaban to get fresh air.

Bangladesh reported its first Covid-19 cases on March 8 and the first death on March 18. The government announced tough restrictions on movement, halting economic activities, to prevent the spread of the virus.

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Two alleged wildlife smugglers held with lizard in Khulna

Post author By Shoriful Islam
Post date August 13, 2020
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KHULNA, Aug 13, 2020 (BSS) – Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) on Wednesday arrested two alleged wildlife smugglers from Batiaghata upazila in Khulna along with a valuable wild lizard (gecko).

The arrested are Ariful Islam alias Sagar, 42, son of Rostom Ali, hailed from Rupsha Strand Road in the city and Milon Sheikh, 34, son of Abdur Rob Sheikh, of Aruadanga village under Fakirhat Police Station of Bagerhat, said a RAB-6 press release.

On secret information, a team of RAB conducted a drive at Katianagla village under Gangarampur union in the upazila and arrested the two wildlife smugglers when they were selling a valuable gecko to a customer around 4.30pm.

The RAB members also recovered a gecko from the smugglers while the customer managed to flee, the press release also said.

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Bangladesh to register positive growth despite global recession: StanChart

Post author By Shoriful Islam
Post date August 13, 2020
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DHAKA, Aug 13, 2020 (BSS) – Despite a global recession which is shaping up to be historic in scale, Bangladesh might be one of only two ASEAN and South Asian economies to register positive growth in 2020, observed Standard Chartered’s leading economists recently.

“While uncertainties remain, the worst is most likely over,” they said while speaking at a media session held following the 2020 Bangladesh session of the Bank’s Global Research Briefing series, said a press release here today.

Over 300 of the bank’s clients joined via video conferencing during the event, to participate in a unique digital experience.

Speaking on the occasion, Standard Chartered’s economist for the South Asia Saurav Anand said they remain cautiously positive on the Bangladesh’s growth prospects given economic resilience as well as fiscal and monetary room available to support growth.

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Police foil terror plot at Sylhet shrine, arrest 5 suspects

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Post date August 12, 2020
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A counterterrorism team arrested five members of Neo-Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (Neo JMB) on Tuesday even as the banned outfit was planning to carry out major terror attacks in the country, a senior police officer said.

Dhaka Metropolitan Police’s Counterterrorism and Transnational Crime (CCTC) Deputy Commissioner Saiful Islam confirmed the arrests by a team of CTTC from Sylhet and said that they are being brought to national capital Dhaka for further questioning.

The arrested men included two students of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology in Sylhet and one student of Madan Mohan College in Sylhet, Sylhet police officials said.

The militant outfit is led by Naimuzzaman in the Sylhet region.

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42 more deaths, 2,995 positive cases reported in Bangladesh

Post author By Infohub BD
Post date August 12, 2020
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Forty-two more coronavirus patients died in Bangladesh in last 24 hours, raising the total fatality number to 3,513.
Besides, infection cases reached 2,68,498 with 2,995 more virus patients.

Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) confirmed the figure through a press release on Wednesday afternoon.
Of the dead patients, 33 were male and nine were female.

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Flood situation turns grim in Jashore, N’ganj; 7 die in 24 hrs

Post author By Shoriful Islam
Post date August 11, 2020
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The overall flood situation has worsened in Jashore and Narayanganj districts with the rise of water level in the adjacent rivers, leaving thousands of people marooned.

The Health Directorate (DGHS), meanwhile, said the floods claimed the lives of seven people in five districts in 24 hours till Tuesday noon.

With the latest ones, the death toll from the flood reached 198.

In Jashore, the Ichhamati River swelled due to excessive water coming from the upper stream that inundated low-lying areas in Sharsha upazila.

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