Day: October 19, 2024
BSS : Bullet-hit van cart puller Omar Faruk, 35, who even three months ago was working hard as the sole earner of his family, is now under the grip of extreme financial hardship. “All my dreams were shattered when a bullet shot by police pierced my body during the anti-discrimination student movement on July 18,” said injured Omar, who had to undergo a complicated surgery and somehow returned from the brink of death. Omar, the second among four brothers and...
City Desk : Omar Bin Nurul Abshar, a brilliant student of Bangladesh Airlines Training Centre (BATC), who completed 12 of the 13 modules of the three-year course, got an opportunity to work in US-Bangla Airlines. But the dream of the 24-year-old youth to become an aeronautical engineer was shattered as he sustained bullet injury while he was on his way back home from a victory procession of the anti-discrimination student movement on August 5, reports BSS. Omar, son of Md...
City Desk : The Bangladesh Federation of Private College Honours-Masters’Teachers Central Committee has called for exemplary punishment of the police officers involved in the attacks on teachers of private colleges in front of the Shikkha Bhaban on Thursday. The organization also announced plans to hold human chains in every district on October 23 and 24.This demand was made at a press conference held at the Dhaka Reporters Unity Auditorium, reports media.The statement was read by Nekbar Hossain, the president of...
City Desk : Secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture Dr Mohammad Emdad Ullah Mian has said the use of jute will be increased by improving the quality of jute fiber and producing multipurpose jute products. “For this purpose, the related research activities need to be increased,” he said while addressing an annual agricultural research review workshop in the conference room of Bangladesh Jute Research Institute (BJRI)’s head office at Manik Mia Avenue in the capital on Thursday as the chief...
City Desk : Adviser of the interim government on the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change Syeda Rizwana Hasan on Friday stressed the need for good practice of the people as far as health issues are concern to build sound health of future generation. She urged everybody to avoid carrying food in polythene bags and shunning use of plastic cups for hot drinks.Rezwana was speaking as the chief guest at the closing ceremony of the Health Olympiad and Online...
Staff Reporter : The government has appointed Islamic law expert and Hadith scholar Mufti Muhammad Abdul Malek as khatib of...
City Desk : Terming Lalon Shah as an anti-discriminatory person, Fisheries and Livestock Ministry Adviser Farida Akhter has said Lalon...
Staff Reporter : As Bangladesh embarks on its journey of progress and innovation in the Bangladesh 2.0, the need for...