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.
Houses under the third phase of the Ashrayan-2 project are being made to be “stronger” and “long lasting”.
Twenty years ago, Mominul Islam lost his house in Chilmari, Kurigram to river erosion. In search of fortune, he migrated from there to Savar’s Shimulia union. Although it was no easy task, he managed to eke out a living working on other people’s land.
The situation in and around the Ramna Kali Mandir and Ma Anandamoyee Ashram near the Dhaka University campus was frightfully unnerving.
It was a bittersweet scene at the Amar Ekushey Boi Mela yesterday.
Literature can leave a lifetime impact in our mind. It helps us understand ourselves and the world around us.
The Amar Ekushey Boi Mela saw the most jubilant crowd on the last weekend of the fair yesterday, with readers trying to make the best use out of the remaining few days of the fair.
With the Covid-19 pandemic engrossing almost every aspect of human lives in the last two years, literature was not excluded from these extraordinary effects as well. Writers were engulfed with new connotations and realisations, and that’s what influenced their works immensely, be it fiction or non-fiction.
Born in Khulna’s Khalishpur in 1988, Shobha, earlier known as Shubho, began feeling out of place during her adolescence.
After the entrance of the fair was opened at 11:00am for “Shishu Prohor” (Children’s Hour) on the second last Friday of this year’s Amar Ekushey Boi Mela, the fair saw an increasing number of sales -- continuing till the closure at 9:00pm. The fair ground was flooded with a sea of book-lovers, none of whom seemed to return empty handed.
Twelve-year-old Namira has never seen light in her entire life. Nor has she seen colours, alphabets or the faces of her loved ones. However, her
