City Desk : Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives Adviser AF Hassan Ariff has visited people injured in Friday’s attack near a Durga Puja mandap at Tanti Bazar in the capital’s old town.An unidentified attacker threw a cocktail type thing into the mandap. Though it didn’t explode, the attacker stabbed four people as they tried to nab him and managed to escape the scene, reports BSS.“The LGRD adviser visited the injured people at Sir Salimullah Medical College, Mitford, Dhaka, on...
Day: October 13, 2024
City Desk : In Bangladesh, where traditional gender roles are deeply entrenched, transgender people face extraordinary challenges in achieving educational and economic success.A study conducted by researchers from the Dhaka University highlights the critical barriers transgender people face as they strive for academic attainment, reports UNB.The study, led by Sadikul Islam, Brihonnola, Muhammed Mahbubur Rahaman and Md Arifur Rahman from the Institute of Education and Research, focuses on the untold experiences of transgender students, bringing to light a story of...
City Desk : Police has arrested three women, who used to work as maids in a house in capital’s Eskaton area, and recovered 31.04 bhoris of gold ornaments that were stolen from the house, from their possessions.The three arrestees are – Tanjina Akter Faria, Kohinur Begum and Nazma Akter Laiju, reports BSS.“One Rokhsana Mazumder on October 8, 2024, filed a case with Ramna Model Police Station against her three maids over the theft of 44 bhoris of gold ornaments and...
City Desk : Dhaka’s air quality continued to be in the ‘moderate’ zone on Saturday morning.With an air quality index (AQI) score of 83 at 8:58 am, Dhaka ranked 23rd on the list of cities worldwide with the worst air quality, reports UNB.Iraq’s Baghdad, Vietnam’s Hanoi and Pakistan’s Lahore occupied the first three spots on the list, with AQI scores of 219, 201 and 198, respectively.An AQI between 50 and 100 is considered ‘moderate’ with acceptable air quality. However, there...
City Desk : Justice Makers Bangladesh in France (JMBF) has strongly condemned the ‘deliberate’ disruption of religious harmony at the JM Sen Hall Puja Mandap on Thursday (October 10).In a statement, the rights body says that six members of the Chattogram Cultural Academy, ‘linked to the Islamic fundamentalist party Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami’, infiltrated the Durga Puja celebration under false pretenses, reports UNB.After deceptively obtaining permission to perform patriotic songs, they ‘audaciously’ staged an Islamic musical performance in the middle of the...
City Desk : A court here on Saturday placed on a four-day remand another accused arrested in the case lodged over the killing of Tanjil Jahan Islam Tamim, broadcast officer of Deepto TV.Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Saiful Islam passed the order as police produced accuse Md Russel before the court and pleaded to place him on a seven-day remand, reports BSS. Earlier on October 11, Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Md Mahbub Ahmed placed five accused Md Abdul Latif, Md Kurban Ali, Mahin,...