Acute manpower shortages, underutilised facilities, and the plights of patients -- these are the things this correspondent observed while visiting all three hospitals under Dhaka South City Corporation.
Housewife Jissan Mirza reportedly owns immovable and movable assets worth approximately Tk 11.5 crore.
Commission remained hostage to partisan political and bureaucratic influence, which made it dysfunctional, says chief of ACC Reform Commission
Chairman and two commissioners of the Anti-Corruption Commission resigned yesterday.
Not only did the ministers, state ministers and lawmakers amass huge amount of wealth during the Awami League’s four terms in power, their personal secretaries and assistant personal secretaries managed to stumble into fortune as well.
Corruption, grabbing minority lands to build resorts and using excessive force to crush dissent -- the name of Benazir Ahmed, once one of the most powerful figures in the country’s law enforcement, has long been synonymous with deceit or fraud.
As dawn breaks and the first rays of sunlight streams through your window, you hear the rhythmic beat of drums and the joyful clanging of cymbals coming from a nearby temple.
Mohiuddin Ahmed Mohi, a former chairman of Bangladesh Samabaya Bank Ltd, embezzled over 11,000 bhori (each bhori is 11.66 grammes) of mortgaged gold from 2,316 customers prior to 2021.
So they thought when they took a group photo commemorating the end of their school life.
Members of minority communities are coming under attacks frequently. About 20,000 criminal cases have been filed in connection with these attacks in the last two decades.
In just six years, waste bins placed on the roadsides under two city corporations of Dhaka have either gone missing or been damaged, effectively wasting some Tk 10 crore invested on them.
On November 24, 2021, Naeem Hasnat, a student of Notre Dame College, was run over by a Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) garbage truck in Gulistan. It was later known that the truck was being driven by a cleaner in the driver’s absence.
On the day of Eid-ul-Azha, there were small gatherings on the corners of Dhaka’s empty streets. People from lower-income backgrounds were seen sitting on the roads, selling meat collected from households that performed the sacrifice.
As the fear Covid-19 is not as much when compared to the situation last year, online sales of sacrificial animals this Eid has declined. People have been showing more interest in on-the-spot purchases so far this year.
To keep the capital clean during the sacrificial rituals of Eid-ul-Azha, the two city corporations fixed 535 designated spots to sacrifice animals during Eid in 2015.
Conventionally, a library is supposed to be a place where people come and read neatly stacked books in peace. However, “Krishaker Batighar” (lighthouse of farmers in translation) breaks this convention and brings the library to the people.
At least 600 buses leaving from Gabtoli terminal to the southwestern districts have not been able to use the Padma Bridge since its inception as their route permits have not been issued yet.
After Padma Bridge’s opening for regular commute, launch owners saw a decline in passengers for the waterways.
