Staff Reporter : Seven former leaders and workers of Islami Chhatra Shibir (ICS), who became disabled for lifelong due to torture of RAB and police, have filed complaints with the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) in the capital. They submitted the complaints separately appearing at the ICT early Sunday (November 17) afternoon. One of the complainants is still missing, and his brother submitted complaint on his behalf. Advocate Dr Amanullah Al Jihadi Adib, who represents the complainants, confirmed it. He said...
Day: November 18, 2024
Staff Reporter : The Interim government created 86,277 jobs in various ministries in its first 100 days, Secretary to the Ministry of Youth and Sports Rezaul Maksud Zahedi said on Sunday. The Secretary said the jobs were created under the Public Administration Ministry, Labour and Employment Ministry, Information and Communication Technology Division, Bangladesh Public Service Commission, Youths and Sports and Women and Children Affairs Ministries, he said while speaking at a press briefing at the secretariat. Youth and Sports Adviser...
Staff Reporter : A court has placed a woman on a three-day remand in connection with the kidnapping of an...
Staff Reporter : A group of health officials and workers, recruited on a contractual basis during the COVID-19 pandemic, staged a protest in front of the Health Directorate on Sunday, demanding the extension of their contracts beyond December. The protesters, numbering over 1,000, expressed frustration over the uncertainty surrounding their employment after four years of service, urging the authorities to provide assurances regarding their future. They said they worked keeping their lives in risk during the pandemic but now, their...
Staff Reporter : Eight more deaths were reported from dengue in 24 hours till Sunday morning, raising the number of...
Staff Reporter : Hundreds of Students of Dhaka Residential School and College blocked the Mirpur Road in front of their...
City Desk : Putting emphasis on making the people aware about the ongoing land digitization programme, land adviser A F...
City Desk : Dhaka University (DU) students have demanded cancellation of the affiliation of seven colleges with the university. They held a press conference today at the university’s Madhur Canteen regarding this issue.At the conference, Mohammad Abbasuddin, a student of the Arabic department of DU from the 2018-19 session, said, “The movement to cancel the affiliation of the seven colleges started in 2019, where advisers Asif Mahmud and Nahid Islam played a significant role. They were even victims of an...
Staff Reporter : Arif Hasan, managing director of private television channel Desh TV, had been arrested from Dhaka’s Hazrat Shahjalal...
City Dsk : Dhaka, the overcrowded capital city of Bangladesh, has ranked the fourth in the list of cities with the worst air quality with an AQI score of 234 at 9:00am on Sunday morning. Sunday’s air was classified as ‘very unhealthy’ and such air quality continued for the past few days, according to the AQI index.When the AQI value for particle pollution is between 50 and 100, air quality is considered ‘moderate’, usually sensitive individuals should consider limiting prolonged...
Staff Reporter : Four people including a woman, were burnt in a gas cylinder explosion in Gazipur on Saturday night.The...