BNP behind stock scam, price hike: PM


Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday blamed the BNP for the recent stock market scam and price hike of essentials.
“The BNP has created issues for calling hartal by tricking in the share market and hoarding essential commodities resulting in price spiral which adversely affected the lower-income groups,” she said.
Talking to reporters, the PM’s Press Secretary, Abul Kalam Azad, quoted Hasina to be making the statement during the regular cabinet meeting at the cabinet division of Bangladesh Secretariat.
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Nipah kills another in Rangpur


Nipah encephalitis claimed one more life in Rangpur of Bangladesh early on Monday, taking the death toll to 25 from the disease over the last few days.
Moyez Uddin, 45, of Annodanagar in Pirgacha upazila, died around 5:00am at Rangpur Medical College Hospital, Taufiqur Rahman, director of the hospital, told The Daily Star.
He was admitted to the hospital on Saturday after he had contracted the Nipah virus, reports our Rangpur correspondent.
In Kurigram, two people are suspected to have died from the virus on Sunday.
The deceased are: Anwarul Islam, 16, of Hemerkuthi village of Sadar upazila and a Moon, a one-year-old child of Gharial Danga union in Rajarhat upazila.
Anwarul was admitted to Kurigram Sadar Hospital with suspected Nipah virus on Sunday evening, our correspondent reports from Kurigram.
Later he was sent to Rangpur Medical College Hospital.
Dr Nazrul Islam, residential medical officer (RMO) of Sadar Hospital said, “Anwarul Islam, son of Shahadat Ali was admitted with fever in the hospital at about 6:00pm on Sunday.”
“A medical team led by Civil Surgeon, referred him to Rangpur Medical College Hospital suspecting him a patient of Nipah virus,” he added.
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4 killed in Bogra road crash



At least four people were killed on Monday in a head-on collision between a truck and a three-wheeled vehicle on Bogra-Rangpur highway in Bangladesh.
The four died on the spot after the truck hit the Bogra-bound CNG-run auto-rickshaw around 5:00pm at Majhipara area in Shibganj upazila of Bogra. Two others including the auto driver were injured.
Hailed from the upazila, all the deceased – Rana, 22, Khaza, 55, Harun, 55 and Rashed, 18, -- were travelling in the three-wheeler, reports our staff correspond in Bogra.
Mir Ashraf Ali, superintendent of the highway police, confirmed the deaths.
The injured were sent to Shaheed Ziaur Rahman Medical College Hospital in Bogra.
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