Barisal Medical College resumed classes after one month closure
Barisal Correspondent
Barisal Sher E Bangla Medical College resumed classes on Saturday after one month closure. Dr. Bhaskar Saha, principal of SBMC, said the college was declared closed on February 10, 2015 after piling works of under construction new hostel building for girl-students endangered the 350-seated 5-storied old girl-hostel building. The SBMC principal said more than sixty percent students of the college were present on the opening day. College authority arranged temporary alternative accommodations for the female students of old hostel at the rooms female intern doctors, another girl-hostel, doctors and officers quarters of the college, the SBMC principal added. Public works department declared the old girls hostel of SBMC as risky for accommodation. Then health directorate asked Barisal Nursing College to give vacant two out of four floors of newly constructed BNC academic building at the same campus for residential accommodation of the SBMC girl students on temporary basis till completing under construction of new hostel. However BNC students protesting that order started agitation programmes since March 16 holding procession and rally in the campus and locking BNC principal in her office. BNC students said 550 female students of BNC living in only 160-seated hostel under inhuman conditions.
Ten shops five houses gutted in Sylhet
Sylhet Correspondent
Ten shops and five houses were gutted in Jointapur and Kanaighat upazila under Sylhet district Wednesday night. Fire service sources said the fire originated from an electric short circuit at thana road area in Kanaighat around 9am and engulfed the adjoining ten shops and five houses were gutted in Sarighat purbopara under Jointapur upazila on Wednesday evenning. On information, two fire fighting units from Sylhet rushed to the spot and doused the blaze. The affected shop owners claimed that the loss caused by the fire could go up to Tk 20 lakh. One people including a boy suffered burn injures following the fire incident., in-charge of Sylhet fire service, confirmed the incident.
Sundari timber worth Tk 2 lakh recovered from Mongla
Bagearhat Correspondent
Sundarban Forest Department recovered huge quantity of both swan (timber) and un-sawn (log) wood of Sundarban forest from Mongla Port town on Wednesday with the help of the Coastguards of the Western Zone deployed at Mongla.
Belayet Hossain, Ranger of Chandpai Forest Range under Eastern Division of Sundarban said that acting on a secret information forest guards and the members of the coastguards raided Mamarghat area of the port town on the day in the after noon and recovered about 8/9 hundred maunds of both swan and un-sawn wood of different spices of Sundarban forest worth about Tk.4 lakh from a number of whole sale depots of wood.
Contrabands worth Tk 11 lakh seized in Khulna
Khulna: Members of the Coast Guard seized different Indian smuggled goods worth about Tk 11 lakh from Rupsha Bridge area in the city on Saturday night. However, none was arrested in this connection. Operation officer of the Coast Guard (west zone) Lieutenant Commander Alauddin said on secret information, a team of the Coast Guard launched the drive in the area and intercepted a truck at about 8:00 pm. The truck driver and his helper, however, managed to flee the scene sensing the presence of the team.
Barisal Correspondent
Barisal Sher E Bangla Medical College resumed classes on Saturday after one month closure. Dr. Bhaskar Saha, principal of SBMC, said the college was declared closed on February 10, 2015 after piling works of under construction new hostel building for girl-students endangered the 350-seated 5-storied old girl-hostel building. The SBMC principal said more than sixty percent students of the college were present on the opening day. College authority arranged temporary alternative accommodations for the female students of old hostel at the rooms female intern doctors, another girl-hostel, doctors and officers quarters of the college, the SBMC principal added. Public works department declared the old girls hostel of SBMC as risky for accommodation. Then health directorate asked Barisal Nursing College to give vacant two out of four floors of newly constructed BNC academic building at the same campus for residential accommodation of the SBMC girl students on temporary basis till completing under construction of new hostel. However BNC students protesting that order started agitation programmes since March 16 holding procession and rally in the campus and locking BNC principal in her office. BNC students said 550 female students of BNC living in only 160-seated hostel under inhuman conditions.
Ten shops five houses gutted in Sylhet
Sylhet Correspondent
Ten shops and five houses were gutted in Jointapur and Kanaighat upazila under Sylhet district Wednesday night. Fire service sources said the fire originated from an electric short circuit at thana road area in Kanaighat around 9am and engulfed the adjoining ten shops and five houses were gutted in Sarighat purbopara under Jointapur upazila on Wednesday evenning. On information, two fire fighting units from Sylhet rushed to the spot and doused the blaze. The affected shop owners claimed that the loss caused by the fire could go up to Tk 20 lakh. One people including a boy suffered burn injures following the fire incident., in-charge of Sylhet fire service, confirmed the incident.
Sundari timber worth Tk 2 lakh recovered from Mongla
Bagearhat Correspondent
Sundarban Forest Department recovered huge quantity of both swan (timber) and un-sawn (log) wood of Sundarban forest from Mongla Port town on Wednesday with the help of the Coastguards of the Western Zone deployed at Mongla.
Belayet Hossain, Ranger of Chandpai Forest Range under Eastern Division of Sundarban said that acting on a secret information forest guards and the members of the coastguards raided Mamarghat area of the port town on the day in the after noon and recovered about 8/9 hundred maunds of both swan and un-sawn wood of different spices of Sundarban forest worth about Tk.4 lakh from a number of whole sale depots of wood.
Contrabands worth Tk 11 lakh seized in Khulna
Khulna: Members of the Coast Guard seized different Indian smuggled goods worth about Tk 11 lakh from Rupsha Bridge area in the city on Saturday night. However, none was arrested in this connection. Operation officer of the Coast Guard (west zone) Lieutenant Commander Alauddin said on secret information, a team of the Coast Guard launched the drive in the area and intercepted a truck at about 8:00 pm. The truck driver and his helper, however, managed to flee the scene sensing the presence of the team.
