Cyberbullying now adds to her trauma
Shipra Debnath, a student of Stamford University and a crew member of slain Maj (retd) Sinha Md Rashed Khan, has fallen victim to cyberbullying, her family alleged.
15 August 2020, 18:00 PM
Killing of ex-Army Major Sinha: Three youths caught up in accusations
Just before heading to Cox’s Bazar a month ago, Shipra Debnath, a student of Stamford University in Dhaka, told her brother Suvojit Debnath: “I will direct a documentary.”
5 August 2020, 18:00 PM
‘Suspects’ held 2 days before blast
Contradicting the police account, family members of two of the suspects arrested in connection with the explosion at Pallabi Police Station said they were detained two days before the incident.
30 July 2020, 18:00 PM
No end to their trauma in sight
Like any other teenage student, Tarek Aziz would attend classes or hang out with friends on the campus. He would also go to a movie or play cricket or football in his spare time.
28 July 2020, 18:00 PM
Medical College Admission Test: Same gang, over and over again
Just three days before the medical college entrance test in 2015, Rab said it arrested the ringleader and three members of the gang that leaked the questions.
25 July 2020, 18:00 PM
Shahed’s gang delivered ‘accident’ victims
A middle-aged man from Sylhet’s Companiganj came to the capital’s Uttara at his relative’s house in May last year. He was waiting for a rickshaw in front of Regent Hospital when a car hit him from behind.
18 July 2020, 18:00 PM
Ministry high officials played it for JKG
Two additional secretaries of the health ministry and two directors of the health directorate allegedly helped JKG Healthcare CEO Ariful Chaudhury to get the contract for collecting Covid-19 test samples.
18 July 2020, 18:00 PM
DGHS aware of JKG Health Care scams
Surgeon Sabrina Arif Chaudhury told interrogators that she had warned the health directorate multiple times about corruptions in JKG as soon as she found out what was going on.
16 July 2020, 18:00 PM
JKG Licence: DGHS didn’t bother to check
When JKG Health Care got the job of collecting Covid-19 test samples from booths back in April, the Directorate General of Health Services didn’t even check its licence.
14 July 2020, 18:00 PM
Sabrina washes her hands of JKG
Since JKG Health Care’s alleged involvement in the fake Covid-19 test report scam surfaced late last month, Dr Sabrina Arif Chaudhury has been claiming that she was never the organisation’s chairman.
13 July 2020, 18:00 PM
The caravan of broken dreams
Amanullah Ershad used to make enough to keep his two sons in primary school and pay the rent for his small flat in the capital’s Banasree.
11 July 2020, 18:00 PM
Oxygen for Breathing Difficulties: Patients handed ghostly bills
Jannatul Ferdous was admitted to Max Hospital in Chattogram with breathing problems early last month.
3 July 2020, 18:00 PM
DMCH struggles to meet rising ICU demand
Dhaka Medical College Hospital is struggling with inadequate ICU facility as a large number of critical Covid-19 patients are thronging the country’s largest public hospital.
19 June 2020, 18:00 PM
Crisis of Oxygen Cylinders: Demand sky high, prices too
Faruk Mia came to Dhaka on Saturday, all the way from Narsingdi, to buy an oxygen cylinder for his 65-year-old ailing father as it could not be managed in his district.
8 June 2020, 18:00 PM
Poverty taking toll on slum children
With no work for two months now, domestic help Bibi Rupban has been struggling to feed her five children three meals a day. Her husband, a rickshaw-puller, can hardly scrounge up enough for the family to live on.
7 June 2020, 18:00 PM
Stronger together
Sacked from their jobs or facing loss in their small businesses, the families now collect, cook, and share meals together.
6 June 2020, 18:00 PM
Lax Surveillance Amid Covid-19 Crisis: Narcos active again
With law enforcement agencies now busy tackling the coronavirus situation, drug dealers have seemingly taken advantage of the consequent reduction in monitoring and become active again in different spots of the capital.
15 May 2020, 18:00 PM
2,329 inmates to be released
The prisons authorities are releasing another 2,329 convicted prisoners from jails in third phase to ease the accommodation crisis and minimise the risk of novel coronavirus transmission in overcrowded prisons.
9 May 2020, 18:00 PM
Case Against 11 Under dsa: Charges appear to be puzzling
The charges under Digital Security Act brought against 11 people, including two journalists, on May 6 are broadly described as “knowingly posting rumours against the Father of the Nation, the Liberation
8 May 2020, 18:00 PM
Digital Security Act: 11 sued, two sent to jail
Eleven people, including a cartoonist, a journalist and a writer, were charged with “spreading rumours and carrying out anti-government activities” under the Digital Security Act yesterday.
6 May 2020, 18:00 PM