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HC orders judicial inquiry into JNU teacher's death
DHAKA :The High Court on Sunday ordered
judicial inquiry into the death of Sayeda
Nasrin Babli, an assistant professor of the
History department of Jagannath
University, to find out whether there was any
negligence by the Square Hospital
authorities in her treatment, reports UNB.
A bench of Justice Md Mojibur Rahman
Mia and Justice Kamrul Islam Mollah
passed the order and issued a rule
questioning why the hospital authority's
negligence in her death should not be
declared illegal, why an order should not be
given to form a legal framework over the
negligence in treatment and why the family
of the deceased will not be paid a
compensation of Tk 15 crore.
The court ordered formation of a threemember
probe committee headed by a
district judge to investigate the incident and
submit a report within the next 60 days.
The two other members of the committee
will a physician not below the rank of an
associate professor at the Department of
Medicine of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib
Medical University (BSMMU), and a law
practitioner of the rank of Deputy Attorney
General at the Attorney General's Office.
Writ petitioner's lawyer Barrister Manzoor
Nahid confirmed the matter.
Child drowns
in Rajshahi
RAJSHAHI : A one-and-ahalf
year old baby girl
drowned in a pond at
Gochha village in Mohonpur
upazila on Sunday morning,
reports UNB.
The deceased was
identified as Orin Afroz,
daughter of Mosharraf Ali of
the village.
Locals said Orin came out
of home at one stage of
playing and slipped into the
pond.
Later, her floating body
was recovered from the
pond.
Tauhidul Islam, Officerin-Charge
of Mohonpur
Police Station, said an
unnatural death case was
filed in this regard.
Building construction work
inaugurated at Sreepur
M R Jinnah, Sreepur Correspondent
Magura-1 constituency MP Adv. Saifuzzman Shikhor as the chief
guest inaugurated the construction work of development
projects through the inauguration ceremony of laying the
foundation stone of four-storied new academic building of Alhaj
Altaf Hossain Women's College at Sreepur upazila on Saturday.
Later a discussion meeting presided over by the institution's
GB president Md. Abul Kalam Azad was held. Among others
officer In-charge of Sreepur Thana Sukdeb Roy, Magura district
Chharta League President Mir Mehedi Hassan Rubel, Sreepur
Sadar Union Parishad Chairman Md Moshiar Rahman, Sreepur
Upazila Chharta League President B.M. Arifuzzaman Sazzat
also spoke on the occasion. The program moved by Geography
subject assistant professor of Alhaj Altaf Hossain Women's
College Md Amirul Islam and Principal of Alhaj Altaf Hossain
Women's college Shaikh Maidul Islam delivered welcome
speech. People of all walks of life attended in the programme.
Prize distribution of online quiz competitions titled "Bangabandhu and Bangladesh" and "Life and
work of Bangamata" organized by Barisal University has been held on Sunday. The award giving ceremony
was at the Jibanananda Das Conference Hall of the University. Barisal University Vice-
Chancellor Professor Dr Md Sadequl Arefin chaired the occasion.
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Magura-1 constituency MP Adv. Saifuzzman
Shikhor was present as the chief guest at the
inauguration of construction work of development
projects of Alhaj Altaf Hossain Women's
College at Sreepur under Magura district on
Saturday.
Photo: M R Jinnah
Man beaten
dead by 'son'
in Cox's Bazar
COX'S BAZAR : A man was
killed allegedly by his son
over a trifling matter at
Purbadhar Bheula Charpara
in Chakaria upazila of Cox's
Bazar on Saturday, reports
UNB.
The deceased was
identified as Ruhul Quader,
55 of the area.
Quoting family members,
Osman Goni, Officer-in-
Charge of Chakaria Police
Station, said Ruhul Quader
asked his son Shahidul
Islam to go to their crop field
for harvesting paddy after
fazr prayers when he was
sleeping .,
As he tried to wake him
up, Shahidul got furious and
locked into an altercation
with his father.
At one stage, Shahidul hit
his father with a stick,
leaving him critically
injured.
Covid-19 in Bangladesh:
4 more lose lives, 223 get
infected
DHAKA : Bangladesh
recorded four more Covidlinked
deaths and reported 223
fresh infections in 24 hours till
Sunday morning, reports
UNB.
The daily-case positivity rate
slightly increased to 1.14 per
cent from Saturday's 1.11 per
cent.
The fresh numbers took the
total fatalities to 27,922 while
the country's caseload
mounted to 15,72,501, said the
Directorate General of Health
Services (DGHS).
Of the deceased, one was a
man and three were women.
Dhaka division logged three
Covid-linked deaths yesterday
while Chattogram division
reported one on Sunday, said
the DGHS.
However, the mortality rate
remained static at 1.78 per cent.
The fresh cases were
detected after testing 19,517
samples, the DGHS added.
Besides, the recovery rate
remained unchanged at 97.71
per cent with the recovery of
212 more patients during the
24-hour period.
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