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.
A tour of the ongoing Amar Ekushey Boi Mela held across Bangla Academy and Suhrawardy Udyan premises is a sight to behold. Along the ornately designed stalls and pavilions of the fair, the fair has more than 50 biographies on offer, according to the academy.
With so many books and stalls to peruse over, attracting visitors is imperative for publications. For that reason, big publications have come up with distinct ways to entice readers.
The duration of this year’s Amar Ekushey Boi Mela has been extended by another 17 days, as per the directives of the state minister for culture. Instead of today, the fair will now end on March 17, bringing the total duration of its run-time to 31 days -- the longest in the history.
The first 12 days of the fair have seen the publication of 1,361 new books till yesterday. As always, poetry books are at the forefront. As of yesterday, 394 poetry books have been published in the fair.
As per tradition, “Shishu Prahor” was set to be held on the first Friday of Amar Ekushey Boi Mela. But due to the pandemic, it was held yesterday instead, on the 10th day of the fair. The fair ground was packed with children of all ages, who visited with their parents.
For the last three years, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman has been given special prominence at Amar Ekushey Boi Mela. With his birth centenary and the golden jubilee of Bangladesh’s independence being celebrated across the country, a fraction of those sentiments have reached this year’s book fair too.
The last time Humayun Ahmed visited Amar Ekushey Boi Mela was in 2011. In 2012, as that year’s fair was going on, he was in New York for cancer treatment, before dying later in July.
Buildings on either side of Satmasjid Road between Jigatala and Shankar in the capital’s Dhanmondi are teeming with signs and hoardings of different sizes and colours, mostly in English.
The bloodstains on the streets were still fresh. All of East Pakistan was boiling over the massacre of February 21. In a spontaneous move, students of Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) built the city’s first Shaheed Minar to immortalise the martyrs.
As scores of people placed floral wreaths on the pedestal of Central Shaheed Minar yesterday, they also thronged the nearby Ekushey book fair, which commemorates the sacrifice made in 1952 through literature.
