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KUET student commits suicide at home
Police recovered the hanging body of a student of Khulna University of Engineering and Technology (KUET) from Dumuria upazila of Khulna on Monday morning.
The deceased was identified as Antu Roy, 21, a third-year student of Textile Engineering Department of KUET.
His body was recovered from his home in Gutudia union in Dumuria upazila.
It is known that Antu was a talented student. His family was going through financial crisis.
He had a lot of money in arrears at Dr. MA Rashid dorm in KUET where he stayed for his studies, but had returned home.
According to his family members, he committed suicide when no one was in the house. His younger sister came home from tuition at around 11 am and found Antu's body hanging in the room.
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Dumuria police officer-in-charge (OC) Obaidur Rahman said that in the morning his younger sister found Antur's hanging body. It is initially suspected that he committed suicide due to financial crisis.
His body was recovered and sent to Khulna Medical College Hospital morgue for autopsy, the OC said.
On November 17 last year, another KUET student, Subrata Kumar, a first-year student of Architecture Department committed suicide by throwing himself under a train in Khanjahan Ali area of the district.
CMCH student Akib’s skullbone replaced successfully
A team of surgeons successfully replaced Chattogram Medical College Hospital student Mahadi J Akib’s skullbone, that was damaged during a clash between two factions of BCL last October 30, on Monday.
The operation started at 10am and took around six and a half hours to complete successfully, said Dr Noman Khaled Chowdhury, head of the Neurosurgery department of CMCH.
“Akib’s health condition is good and the surgery was successful,” said Dr Noman Khaled Chowdhury to journalists after the operation, urging all to pray for Akib.
On November 18, Akib returned home after taking treatment for 19 days at the hospital and undergoing a five-hour long critical surgery.
On October 29, two BCL factions -- one led by a former mayor and another by a junior minister -- locked into a clash. They reengaged in clashes the next morning, leaving Akib and two others injured.
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A photo of the injured medical student in the ICU with an instruction on the bandage that said, “There is no bone, don’t put pressure,” went viral on social media at the time.
The medical board formed for his treatment decided to release him from the hospital keeping a part of his broken skullbone preserved inside his stomach. Akib , a student of the 62nd batch of CMCH, was admitted to the hospital for the surgery on Sunday.
Video shows cop kneeling on Wisconsin student’s neck
School officials in Kenosha, Wisconsin, released surveillance footage that shows an off-duty police officer putting his knee on a 12-year-old girl’s neck to restrain her amid a lunchtime fight.
The Kenosha Unified School District released redacted footage of the March 4 fight on Friday. It shows Kenosha officer Shawn Guetschow intervening in the fight and then scuffling with the girl, before falling to the ground and hitting his head on a table.
Guetschow, who was working as a security guard at the school, then pushes the girl’s head into the ground and uses his knee on her neck for about half a minute before handcuffing her and walking her out of the cafeteria.
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Jerrel Perez, the girl’s father, has called for criminal charges against Guetschow for using a type of restraint that was banned for Wisconsin law enforcement officers last year. He said his daughter is in therapy and seeing a neurologist for her injuries.
The school district initially placed Guetschow on paid leave. He resigned from his part-time security job with the school on Tuesday, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported.
In his resignation letter, Guetschow complained that the school district has not supported him and that the incident has placed a heavy burden on his family.
The district told the newspaper that it would not provide any additional details and did not respond to messages left by The Associated Press on Saturday. Kenosah police, in a statement, said Guetschow is still employed by the department.
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“We continue our investigation, paying careful attention to the entire scope of the incident,” the statement said. “We have no further update at this time.”
Chandpur: School picnic turns tragic as student drowns
An 18-year-old boy drowned in a river while on a school picnic to Mohanpur Tourism Centre in Matlab Uttar upazila of Chandpur Thursday.
The deceased was identified as Tutul Hossain Nayan, a 10th grade student of Dhaka’s Nabarun School and College, and son of Anwar Hossain, a police officer.
Md Azizul Haque, the school headmaster, told UNB that 140 students had gone for the picnic to Chandpur.
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AKM Kawsar, in-charge of Mohanpur Naval Police Outpost in Matlab Uttar upazila, said that the boy drowned while taking a bath in the river with his three classmates at 3pm.
“After searching for hours, naval divers found his body around 6pm. The body was later handed over to his father. A general daily was lodged in this regard," he added.
10-yr-old student found dead in Ctg madrasa
The body of a 10-year-old student was found stuffed in a sack at a madrasa in the Panchlaish area of Chattogram city on Tuesday morning.
The deceased was identified as Md Arman, son of Ali Abbas of the area. He was a student at Ali Bin Abi Talib Madrasa.
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Police recovered Arman's body from the premises of the madrasa around 11am. One of his hands was broken and the body bore many injury marks, said inspector Sadekur Rahman of Panchlaish Model Police Station.
Mokhlesur Rahman, deputy commissioner of Chattogram Metropolitan Police, said that Arman might have died after falling from the roof. “We will investigate the matter.”
The body was sent to the Chattogram Medical College and Hospital (CMCH) morgue for an autopsy, said the inspector.
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Earlier on Saturday, police recovered the body of another madrasa student, Iftekhar Malekul Mashfi, from Allama Shah Ashiar Rahman Hefzkhana and Orphanage in Charandwip of Boalkhali upazila of the city.
A madrasa teacher, Abu Jafar, was held in connection with the recovery of the body.
SAT presents annual report on "student torturing in DU dorm"
Members of Students Against Torture (SAT), a student-friendly organisation which stands for the rights of students, held a press conference at the Dhaka University Journalists Association (DUJA) office presenting an annual report on the matter of students facing torture in the dormitories of Dhaka University.
The press conference was held around 3.30 pm which was headed by the founder of SAT Saleh Uddin Sifat.
"At least 11 incidents of torturing students in six DU halls have come to light where 18 students were tortured physically and mentally in the last five months. However, all the cases remained unsolved except for three incidents," press release reads.
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Besides five journalists including three campus correspondents were attacked and tortured on the DU campus but the DU authority didn’t take any initiative to punish the attacker.
Saleh Uddin Sifat said that the ruling party's student organization Bangladesh Chhatra League was directly involved in these incidents.
"From now on, SAT will publish semi-annual and annual reports on other human rights violations, such as torture and abuse. We are presenting this report to the university administration so that the university authority investigates every incident of torture and takes proper action against the perpetrators," he added.
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Asking the university administration to form ‘Administrative Rules’ and laws against guestroom abuse, they said that "If this torture does not stop at the earliest, we will be obliged to go to the honorable Chancellor and the High Court."
DU student accuses a BCL activist of slapping him
Authorities at Dhaka University’s Sir A F Rahman Hall has ordered an investigation after a resident student alleged that he had badly slapped by another student of the hall.
Molla Taimur Rahman, student of Peace and Conflict department of 2020-21 session lodged an allegation to the hall provost against Rokonuzzam Rokon, a second year student of Political Science department also resident in AF Rahman hall. He is an activist of Bangladesh Chhatra League,
In the written complaint Molla Taimur alleged that the slap was so severe that he lost his hearing ability for a few hours.
Rokan allegedly confronted him as he was seen talking to a senior at Haji Muhammad Mohsin playground on February 15.
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"He later threatened to kick me out of the hall and kill me if I informed the hall administration,” Rokan told me.
Molla said he got scared and left the hall and took shelter at his brother’s house.
Asked about the allegation, AF Rahman hall provost Prof. Saiful Khan said, "we have got a written allegation today and a two-members investigation team has been formed to find out the fact.”
The committee comprising DU teacers Farooq Shah and Dr Mumit Al Rashid has been asked to the report in two days.
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Two house tutors of Sir AF Rahman hall have been given the responsibility of the investigation. They are: Farooq Shah and Dr. Mumit Al Rashid.
The AF Rahman hall committee of BCL said it will cooperate with the probe.
Another DU student chooses the dark path of suicide
Another student of Dhaka University allegedly killed himself early Monday at his own home at Madhupur upazila in Tangail.
The deceased was Pritom Kumar Singho Akash, a student of department of ceramics of DU's Fine Arts faculty of 2016-17 session.
One of his friends, quoting family members, told UNB that around 1am on Monday, hearing what sounded like moaning from his room, they went to check on Pritom but he ousted them and locked the room from inside.
As his condition worsened he eventually told his family that he had gulped down some rat poison, according to the friend who didn't want to disclose his name.
Later, he was taken to the Upazila general hospital. After receiving primary treatment there, he was referred to Mymensingh Medical college at around 3am, according to his family.
It was on the way to Mymensingh that all the life in him gave away, and he breathed his last.
Pritom's death adds to the alarming trend of suicides spiking alarmigly among tertiary students during the Covid-19 pandemic, as revealed in a recent report by the non-profit Aachol Foundation.
According to Aachol, at least 101 students at tertiary level died by suicide last year, while the number was 79 in 2020.
In order to put those numbers in their proper context, compare them with the corresponding numbers from the years prior to the pandemic: just 11 tertiary-level students died by suicide in 2018, and 19 in 2017 (no reliable figure exists for 2019, Aachol said). The steepness of the climb during the Covid years makes it difficult to escape the conclusion that the pandemic did have some effect on these students.
The highest number of suicides were recorded among Dhaka University students, who accounted for nine students while Jagannath University and Shahjalal University of Science and Technology had recorded six suicide cases each, the report added.
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Pritom was buried at the graveyard of his village and the reason for his death could not be confirmed by any official sources.
"Being depressed after the marriage of his lover, he committed suicide," one Abdullah Ratul wrote on Pritom's Facebook timeline.
On the other hand, Tanmoy Mondol, another friend, wrote that: we talked with his family and neighbors, he he did not commit suicide for the marriage of his loved one. He had been in depression since few days."
DU proctor prof. AKM Golam Rabbani said, "We contacted Pritom's family members. There might have been love affair related reasons behind this."
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Officer-in-charge of Madhupur police station said, "His family didn't inform us about the death. We got to know about it after the burial."
Action will be taken If the family members file any complaint, he added.
JU student accused of abuse, assault against fellow students
A female student of Jahangirnagar University (JU) has been accused of physically assaulting a male student. The accused student is Sumaiya Binte Ekram, a 46th batch student of Anthropology Department, a residential student of Pritilata Hall .
The incident took place in Battala area of the university around 8.30 pm on Monday. The victim student said, "I was walking on Battala road with some of my friends. Later Sumaiya bint Ekram came from behind and charged me why I did not leave the road .Later Sumaiya bint Ekram attacked me for telling her that 70% of the road was empty and she started scolding me in inaudible language and I left the place."
Ayesha Siddique Nipa, a student of government and politics department, who witnessed the incident, said, "Six of us were walking on the left side of Battala Road. Then two unfamiliar girls were arrogantly passing us on the right side. Again they said in a loud voice that you can't walk on the side of the road. Then one of us said the road is empty. At this time, a girl started shouting incoherently and swearing in vulgar language. Then we endured all this and left the place. '
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Another eyewitness, Kazi Vijay, said, "Half an hour after the incident, a friend of the accused called us at a food shop in Battala. At that time we were describing the details of the incident. But suddenly the accused student came from behind and slapped my classmate on the cheek and physically assaulted him. The accused's friend Diganta then went to another shop with her."
The proctorial body of the university later arrived at the scene at ten o'clock. At that time they brought the accused and the plaintiffs to the proctor's office.
The victim said, "I did not utter a word of disrespect to her. But the girl was repeatedly behaving arrogantly in front of everyone. At one point, she suddenly hit me. '
Shihab Khan Diganta, a 43rd batch of the drama and drama theory department, a friend of the accused, said, "I was present there and tried to reconcile."
But he failed.
Assistant Proctor Associate Professor Tajuddin Sikder said, "The university administration has asked for 24 hours. One has to start a process to judge an event. Disciplinary committee meeting has to be held. This requires time. The whole incident is uncomfortable for us. It is hoped that this will be a fair solution. The administration is sincere in this regard."
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Prof. Abdullah Hale Kafi, Prof. Sohail Ahmed, Prof. Motahar Hossain, Prof. Akbar Hossain, Prof. Ayesha Siddique, President of JU Branch Chhatra League Akhtaruzzaman Sohel, General Secretary Habibur Rahman Liton and others were present at the Proctor's office.
The accused student said, "They were doing different gestures which seemed unbearable to me. He wanted to hit me. At one point they were calling me a drug addict. They have slandered me. At one point, when I went out of tolerance, I slapped him and it happened very quickly."
Mohibul says student vaccination makes progress; 64 % done
Nearly 64 percent students of the 12-18 age group got the first dose of Coronavirus vaccine, said Deputy Minister of Education Mohibul Hasan Chowdhury.
He said this while speaking in parliament taking part in the thanksgiving motion on the President's speech on Monday.
The Deputy Minister mentioned that the number of the students in the country is about 1,16,23,322. “And of them, 77.18 lakh received the first dose of the vaccine as of Sunday.”
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Mohibul said they have been able to vaccinate all the teachers at the university level and almost 100 percent have been completed.
It has been possible to vaccinate 90 percent of the students in public universities who are living in dormitories, he added.
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