Ex-DU teacher sued as car drags woman to death

News Desk :
A case was filed with Shahbagh Police Station early Saturday after a speedy private car hit and dragged a woman to death on Dhaka University campus on Friday.
The victim’s brother Zakir Hossain filed the case under Road Transport Act accusing Azhar Zafar Shah, a former associate professor of the Department of International Relations at Dhaka University.
Shahbagh Police Station Sub-Inspector Shah Alam corroborated the matter.
He said Azhar Zafar is at present undergoing treatment at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital.
On Friday, Rubina Akter, a 45-year old woman, fell down from a motorcycle being hit and dragged around by the private car in front of the Faculty of Fine Arts of
 support from the International Monetary Fund in July.
Remittance and export earnings are prime tools for the bankers to meet the demand for dollars, but both are falling, the BB officials said.
State-run banks in particular were taking dollar support for settling import payments of Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation, Bangladesh Agricultural Development Corporation and Bangladesh Chemical Industries Corporation among other government agencies.
The reserve was $39.06 billion on August 31 earlier this year, and $46.2 billion in September 2021.
Settling high import payments was the main reason for the depletion of the forex reserve, BB officials said.
Meanwhile, they said that imports were surging amid rising commodity prices, global supply chain disruptions and the Russia-Ukraine war.
The country’s import payments increased to $19.34 billion in July-September from $17.32 billion in the same months of the past year. The central bank had to inject dollars due to the severe shortage of the greenbacks on the financial market.
The exchange rate rose sharply to Tk108 from Tk84.8 against the US dollar within a year.
The BB approved the floating rate of dollars on September 14.