Deal with Regent Hospital: DGHS, ministry take refuge in blame game

The health ministry and health directorate are at loggerheads over signing of a deal with Regent Hospital after the disturbing discovery of the hospital’s involvement in issuing fake Covid-19 test results.
12 July 2020, 18:00 PM

1,000 listed as human traffickers

Investigators are working to track down local human traffickers who along with different transnational syndicates send people abroad alluring them with promises of a better future.
11 July 2020, 18:00 PM

Online Education at Varsities: Ensure digital devices for all

A holistic plan, proper infrastructural capacities, all students’ access to digital devices and low cost internet connections are must to ensure fully-fledged online education at universities in the country.
11 July 2020, 18:00 PM

Returnees can overwhelm rural economy

Bangladesh’s rural economy is going to be under pressure as a significant number of people from urban areas are returning to their respective villages losing their sources of income due to Covid-19 fallout, says an expert.
11 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

Adopt aggressive virus measures

The World Health Organization has urged countries grappling with coronavirus to step up control measures, saying it is still possible to rein it in, as some nations clamp fresh restrictions on citizens.
11 July 2020, 18:00 PM

Testing on the decline

The number of Covid-19 tests has been declining in the country for the last few days.
11 July 2020, 18:00 PM

10 Minute School: Hounded by threats, trolls

During a time period that has seen an unprecedented rise in cases filed under the infamous Digital Security Act, the digital sphere is more unsafe than ever before.
11 July 2020, 18:00 PM

No scope to become complacent

Though the number of new Covid-19 cases dropped last week compared to the week before, experts say there is no room for complacency as the rate of infection remained almost static.
10 July 2020, 18:00 PM

BD Workers in Italy: 15,000 stranded at home, face uncertain future

After several months of wait in Bangladesh, expatriate worker Enamur Rahim was scheduled to fly back to Italy next week.
10 July 2020, 18:00 PM

A severe blow to foreign students

Bangladeshi students pursuing higher education in the United States face uncertainty over their future due to a new policy of the US administration on not allowing foreign students in the aftermath of Covid-19.
10 July 2020, 18:00 PM

Cops yet to track down Shahed

Regent Hospital owner Mohammad Shahed was at large till last light, four days after a mobile court sealed off the hospital in the capital’s Uttara on charges of issuing several thousand fake Covid-19 test reports.
10 July 2020, 18:00 PM

Uploading Relief, Aid Info on Website: Half of dist admins ignore govt order

The deputy commissioners of nearly half of the country’s 64 districts continue disregarding the government’s directive to upload information on allocation and disbursement of relief and financial aid on their respective websites.
10 July 2020, 18:00 PM

Sahara to be laid to rest today

Sahara Khatun was a key figure among those who led the Awami League during difficult times and who remained by the side of party chief Sheikh Hasina through thick and thin for decades.
10 July 2020, 18:00 PM

Private Clinics, Diagnostic Centres: Two-thirds run without licence

Two thirds of the country’s over 15,000 private clinics and diagnostic centres have been running without any valid licence since 2018 facing almost no consequences.
10 July 2020, 18:00 PM

Bangladesh has to pay dearly for it

Deputy leader of the opposition and Jatiya Party Chairman GM Quader yesterday told parliament that the nation would have to bear the brunt of Regent Hospital’s Covid-19 test scam as various countries have already banned Bangladeshis from entering their territories.
9 July 2020, 18:00 PM

Medical Supplies: Over Tk 100cr embezzled by 14 contractors

More than Tk 100 crore was misappropriated by 14 contractors from the coffers of various government medical colleges and hospitals, as per a list sent out by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) yesterday.
9 July 2020, 18:00 PM

Drives on to arrest Shahed

Immigration police have been asked to remain alert so that Regent Group Chairman Md Shahed, who is accused in a case over false Covid-19 certificates, cannot leave the country.
9 July 2020, 18:00 PM

Govt is blamed despite catching the corrupt: PM

Saying that her government won’t tolerate any corruption and irregularities, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday told parliament that action would continue against the corrupt people irrespective of their identities.
9 July 2020, 18:00 PM

A fraudster in myriad guises

“He is a man of dangerous fraudulent nature.” This is how a home ministry letter back in 2016 described Mohammad Shahed, a person with many “identities”.
9 July 2020, 18:00 PM