Professor Sheikh Shariful Alam, newly appointed vice-chancellor of Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology (CUET), has faced a ‘red card’ programme staged by agitating students in protest against his online joining.
Although the Bagatipara Upazila Health Complex in Natore has a 50-bed infrastructure, service activities are running with staffing and management for 31 beds. The hospital's healthcare services are being severely hampered by long-standing staff shortages, a lack of medical equipment and administrative mismanagement. As a result, around one and a half lakh people of the upazila, who depend on this government hospital for treatment, are in extreme distress.
Kajal Pare, the son of a landless agricultural worker from a remote village in Chapainawabganj, has been recommended as a civil judge in the 18th Bangladesh Judicial Service examination, becoming the first person from the Turi community to reach the judiciary, according to community representatives.
The bodies of three siblings were recovered from the Meghna River in Narayanganj on Saturday (September 26), two days after a trawler carrying them to a wedding capsized during a storm.
Jamaat-e-Islami candidate Md Delawar Hossain, backed by the 11-party alliance, submitted his nomination papers on Saturday (September 26) for the Thakurgaon-1 by-election.
A liquor shop employee in Narsingdi was allegedly burned to death after several people demanded 10 litres of alcohol free of charge. Police said, upon being refused, the youths poured petrol over the shop staff member and set him on fire.