Mymensingh Correspondent
At least 15 people were injured in a clash between two groups over formation of a committee of Intern Doctors’ Council at Mymensingh Medical College Hospital (MMCH) on Monday night, The Kotwali police said the two groups locked into an altercation over formation a committee of Intern Doctors’ Council at Doctor’s Club of MMCH at about 10:30pm.At one stage, the two groups attacked each other and vandalized furniture of the club, leaving 15 people, including three intern doctors injured. Of them, 12 injured were admitted to MMCH. Additional policemen have been deployed at the hospital to fend off further trouble.
SMP bans open space programmes today
Sylhet Correspondent
Sylhet Metropolitan Police (SMP) slapped on Monday a restriction on all kinds of open space programmes as well as carrying firearms in the city from 6:00 pm to 5:00 am on December 31 to avert any untoward incident during the 31st night celebration. SMP commissioner Kamrul Ahsan came up with the announcement at a press briefing at SMP media centre in the city on Monday. He also noted that special anti-narcotics drives conducted in the city from Monday to avoid troublesome incidents. Drives will also be conducted at shops of fire crackers as fire crackers are prohibited to avoid any panic among the citizen, he added. The ban will remain in force until January 5, 2016. The district administration took the decision at a meeting on Sunday to ensure tight security for local and foreign tourists.
Australian charity setting up new pre-schools in coastal villages
Bhola Correspondent
Australian charitable organisation Co-operation in Development, Australia (Co-Id), is increasing its network of pre-schools for the very poor children living in coastal Char Fasson Upazilla of Bhola district. The construction of such a new school began on Tuesday( December 29) in South Jahanpur village of the Upazilla and represents the eighth pre-school built. Chairman of the charity, Dr Olav Muurlink announced that the preschool would be the first of several preschools to come in the next twenty four months. The pre-schools are designed to impart basic education to children below the age of five. The new pre-schools are being built adjacent to the charity’s existing network of 41 primary schools built and run by the Co-Id. The Co-Id pre-schools and primary schools are doing a great job by spreading elementary education in rural coastal communities. It may be recalled here that Mr. Fred Hyde, a World War -II veteran Australian, established the existing Co-Id primary and pre-school system after the devastating cyclone of 1970, which cost tens of thousands of lives in this Upazilla alone.
