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3 of family die in Dhaka road crash
Three members of a family died and two others sustained injuries in a head-on collision between a truck and a CNG-run autorickshaw in the capital’s Jatrabari area on Friday morning.
The deceased were identified as Abdur Rahman, 65, his daughter Sharmin, 38, and her husband Riazul, 48, residents of Ujirpur in Barishal. The couple’s daughter, Misti, and the autorickshaw driver, were injured.
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Md Bachchu Mia, in-charge of Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) police outpost, said the bodies were kept in the hospital morgue.
The injured are undergoing treatment at the hospital, he said.
Tanvir Ahmed, son of deceased Abdur Rahman, said that his mother was admitted to Mohakhali’s Cancer Hospital.
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The family were coming to my house in Matuail from Sadarghat launch terminal when they met with the accident, he said.
They were supposed to visit my sick mother at the hospital later in the day, he added.
2 police officers die as microbus overturns in Narayanganj
Two Sub-Inspectors of police died on Monday as a microbus carrying the police personnel overturned and fell into a roadside pit at Sonargaon municipality in Narayanganj.
The deceased were identified as Kazi Saleh Ahmmed, son of Kazi Nurul Islam of Munsurabad village in faridpur and SM Shariful Islam, son of Charvatpara village in Gopalganj. Both were appointed at Sonargaon police station.
Injured in the accident Assistant Sub-Inspector Rafiqul Islam is currently being treated at Dhaka Medical College Hospital.
On information two units of firefighters from Fire Service and Civil Defence headquarters rushed to the spot and later a diving team joined in the rescue mission.
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The accident occurred around 7pm near Duttapara area when the three cops were returning to Sonargaon police station after attending a press brefieing at the Narayanganj Superintednent of Police’s office, said SM Shafiqul Islam, Inspector (investigation) of Sonargaon police station.
As the speeding microbus overturned losing control, the locals rescued the three cops and rushed them to Sonargaon Upazila health Complex where the duty doctor announced Nurul Islam and Shariful Islam dead.
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The injured ASI was sent to DMCH as his condition was critical, said Md hafizur rahman, Officer-in-Charge of Sonargaon police station.
9 dead in India train accident
The death toll in the India rail tragedy rose to nine Friday morning, as rescuers called off the search for survivors in the wreckage of the train that derailed in the eastern state of West Bengal Thursday evening.
As many as 12 coaches of the Guwahati-Bikaner Express came off the rails at 5pm (local time) on Thursday near Maynaguri town of Bengal's Jalpaiguri district. Some of the coaches even overturned in the impact.
Apart from the nine deaths, some 50 people sustained injuries in the accident, an Indian Railways official told UNB in Delhi. "All the injured, including the serious ones, are being treated at different hospitals."
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Jalpaiguri district magistrate Moumita Basu told the local media that rescuers searched all coaches of the ill-fated train for survivors and bodies through darkness and thick fog."We sent generators to light up the site."
Local TV channels beamed footage of the rescue operations and people searching for their missing family members at hospitals and the crash site.
In a statement, the Indian Railways said the train was carrying 1,053 passengers from the western state of Rajasthan to Assam in the northeast when it derailed in Bengal. It was running three hours behind schedule.
Indian Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said that he was "personally monitoring" the situation. "We will fulfill all of our duties."
Indian President Ram Nath Kovind, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee tweeted to say that they were deeply saddened by the loss of lives in the accident.
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"The derailment of coaches of the Bikaner-Guhawati Express near New Maynaguri, West Bengal is distressing. My thoughts and prayers are with the affected passengers and their families. I wish speedy recovery to the injured," Kovind said.
Prime Minister Modi tweeted, “Spoke to Railways Minister Shri @AshwiniVaishnaw and took stock of the situation in the wake of the train accident in West Bengal. My thoughts are with the bereaved families. May the injured recover quickly.”
"Senior Officers of the State Government, DM/SP/IG North Bengal are supervising rescue and relief operations. Those injured will receive medical attention, as early as possible," Mamata tweeted.
The Indian Railways said that a senior official would lead the probe into the fatal train crash and fix accountability.
The Indian Railways run over 12,000 trains across the country, ferrying nearly 23 million passengers daily. But train accidents are not uncommon in India and are attributed to the ailing rail infrastructure.
35-yr-old found dead in Kushtia
A 35-year-old man was found dead in Kushtia town on Tuesday morning.
The deceased was identified as Anich, son of Ahed of the area.
Locals spotted his body in the Housing 'A' block area of the town and informed cops, Sabbirul Alam, officer-in-charge of Kushtia Model Police Station, said.
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"Anich had been separated from his family for the past 10 years because of his drug addiction. We are probing his death," the OC said.
The body has been sent to the Kushtia General Hospital morgue for an autopsy, he added.
Student among 3 killed in Pabna road accidents
Three people including a student were killed in separate road accidents in Pabna on Sunday.
The deceased were identified as Rabiul Islam, 40, son of Tarun Biswas of Putigara village of Santhia upazila, Abdul Momin, 38, son of Kahay Hossain of the same village, Sajjad Hossain, 18, son of Asadul Islam of Srikrishnapur area of Dapunia.
A man was killed and two others were injured as a truck hit a paddy-laden van from behind at Madhpur Tailkupi on Pabna-Kashinathpur road around 8 am on Sunday.
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Two injured people were taken to a hospital in critical condition and one of them died, Ataikula Police Station officer-in-charge (OC) Jalal Uddin said.
Besides, a motorcycle collided with a three-wheeler coming from the opposite direction at Jot Adam intersection around 8 am, leaving Sajjad Hossian, who passed SSC exam this year, dead on the spot, said police.
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Two die as passenger bus overturns in Dhaka
Two persons were killed and another three injured when a bus overturned in the city’s Gulistan Murgipotti area on Saturday morning.
The identities of the deceased could not be ascertained yet, said fire service sources.
The accident occurred as the driver of the speeding passenger bus lost control of the vehicle, leaving two passengers dead and three others injured.
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Deputy Assistant Director (media cell) at Fire Service and Civil Defence headquarters, Md Shahjahan Sikder said around 9.45 am members of fire service rushed to the spot.
"The bodies have been handed over to the police. The injured were taken to a nearby hospital," he added.READ: Mother, son killed in Pabna road accident
Civil rights lawyer, professor Lani Guinier dead at 71
Lani Guinier, a civil rights lawyer and scholar whose nomination by President Bill Clinton to head the Justice Department's civil rights division was pulled after conservatives criticized her views on correcting racial discrimination, has died. She was 71.
Guinier died Friday, Harvard Law School Dean John F. Manning said in a message to students and faculty. Her cousin, Sherrie Russell-Brown, said in an email that the cause was complications due to Alzheimer’s disease.
Guinier became the first woman of color appointed to a tenured professorship at Harvard law school when she joined the faculty in 1998. Before that she was a professor at the University of Pennsylvania's law school. She had previously headed the voting rights project at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund in the 1980s and served during President Jimmy Carter's administration in the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, which she was later nominated to head.
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“I have always wanted to be a civil rights lawyer. This lifelong ambition is based on a deep-seated commitment to democratic fair play — to playing by the rules as long as the rules are fair. When the rules seem unfair, I have worked to change them, not subvert them,” she wrote in her 1994 book, “Tyranny of the Majority: Fundamental Fairness in Representative Democracy.”
Clinton, who knew Guinier going back to when they both attended Yale's law school, nominated her to the Justice Department post in 1993. But Guinier, who wrote as a law professor about ways to remedy racial discrimination, came under fire from conservative critics who called her views extreme and labeled her “quota queen.” Guinier said that label was untrue, that she didn’t favor quotas or even write about them, and that her views had been mischaracterized.
Clinton, in withdrawing her nomination, said he hadn’t read her academic writing before nominating her and would not have done so if he had.
In a press conference held at the Justice Department after her nomination was withdrawn, Guinier said, “Had I been allowed to testify in a public forum before the United States Senate, I believe that the Senate also would have agreed that I am the right person for this job, a job some people have said I have trained for all my life.”
Guinier said she was “greatly disappointed that I have been denied the opportunity to go forward, to be confirmed, and to work closely to move this country away from the polarization of the last 12 years, to lower the decibel level of the rhetoric that surrounds race and to build bridges among people of good will to enforce the civil rights laws on behalf of all Americans."
She was more pointed in an address to an NAACP conference a month later.
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“I endured the personal humiliation of being vilified as a madwoman with strange hair — you know what that means — a strange name and strange ideas, ideas like democracy, freedom and fairness that mean all people must be equally represented in our political process,” Guinier said. “But lest any of you feel sorry for me, according to press reports the president still loves me. He just won’t give me a job.”
On Twitter Friday, NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund head Sherrilyn Ifill called Guinier “my mentor” and a “scholar of uncompromising brilliance."
Manning, the Harvard law dean, said: “Her scholarship changed our understanding of democracy — of why and how the voices of the historically underrepresented must be heard and what it takes to have a meaningful right to vote. It also transformed our understanding of the educational system and what we must do to create opportunities for all members of our diverse society to learn, grow, and thrive in school and beyond.”
Penn Law Dean Emeritus Colin Diver, whose time as dean overlapped with Guinier's time on the faculty, said she “pushed the envelope in many important and constructive ways: advocating for alternative voting methods, such as cumulative voting, questioning the implicit expectations of law school faculty that female students behave like ‘gentlemen,’ or proposing alternative methods for evaluating and selecting applicants to the Law School.”
Carol Lani Guinier was born April 19, 1950, in New York City. Her father, Ewart Guinier, became the first chairman of Harvard University’s Department of Afro-American Studies. Her mother, Eugenia “Genii” Paprin Guinier, became a civil rights activist. The couple — he was Black and she was white and Jewish — was married at a time when it was still illegal for interracial couples to marry in many states.
Lani Guinier, who graduated from Harvard's Radcliffe College, is survived by her husband, Nolan Bowie, and son, Nikolas Bowie, also a Harvard law school professor.
“My mom deeply believed in democracy, yet she thought it can work only if power is shared, not monopolized. That insight informed everything she did, from treating generations of students as peers to challenging hierarchies wherever she found them. I miss her terribly,” her son wrote in an email.
Other survivors include a stepdaughter, daughter-in-law and granddaughter.
Dengue: One more patient hospitalised in Dhaka in 24 hrs
One more dengue patient has been hospitalised in the past 24 hours in Dhaka, health authorities said Friday.
Fortunately, no new death was reported during this period, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS). Similarly, no new dengue cases have been reported from outside the Dhaka division.
The new patient is undergoing treatment at a hospital in Dhaka.
A total of 105 dengue patients -- 95 in Dhaka division alone, four in Mymensingh, two each in Chattogram and Khulna, and one each in Rajshahi and Barishal divisions -- have died so far since January 2021.
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Some 52 dengue patients are receiving treatment in the country, as of Friday.
Of them, 31 are receiving treatment at different hospitals in the capital while the remaining 21 in hospitals outside Dhaka.
This year, some 62 patients have been admitted to different hospitals with dengue so far and 10 dengue patients have left hospital after recovery, said the DGHS.
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Two die in hit-and-run accident in Jashore
Two men in their 50s died after being hit by a speeding bus while crossing the Jashore-Khulna Highway in the district's Abhaynagar upazila on Thursday night.
The deceased were identified as Subed Ali, 55, and Kubed Ali, 54, both residents of Paba upazila of Rajshahi.
The accident occurred around 8.45 pm on the Jashore-Khulna Highway near Prembag School in the upazila when the two men returning from picnic in the Sunderbans alighted from their vehicle and attempted to cross the busy highway.
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The bus of Rupsha Paribahan hit the duo and sped away, leaving the duo severely injured, eye-witnesses said. Both died of their injuries on the way to hospital.
Siddikur Rahman, officer-in-charge of Noapara Highway police station, said the bus was seized. "Efforts are on to arrest its driver and his assistant."
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Mother, daughter found dead in Jamalpur
Police have recovered the throat-slit bodies of a 50-year-old woman and her daughter from a house at Gobindapur in Melandah upazila of Jamalpur district.
The deceased were identified as Joyful Bewa, wife of Akmal Hossain and her daughter Swapna Begum, 30 of the village.
MM Moynul Islam, officer-in-charge of Melandah Police Station, said Joyful used to live with her daughter, who got divorced from her husband, at the house.
On Saturday evening, local people found their bodies lying in a pool of blood and informed police.
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On information, police recovered the bodies around 7:30 pm on and sent those to Jamalpur General Hospital morgue for autopsy.
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The reason behind the killing could not be known immediately.
Miscreants might have killed them over previous enmity, said the OC.