Land office staff caught while taking bribe

A team of Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) yesterday caught a staff of land office in Barisal while taking bribe.

Acting on secret information a team of ACC  caught red-handed bench assistant at Barisal settlement office Abu Bakkar Siddique while taking Tk 10,000 as bribe from a man namely Abdul Mannan of Rupatoli area of the city in the morning  in connection with a case.

Later, he was handed over to Kotwali police yesterday afternoon.

Road mishap kills three

Three persons were killed and 20 others injured as two passengers buses collided head-on in Matikata area on the Rajshahi-Chapainawabganj Highway on Wednesday morning.

Two of the deceased were identified as Ashiya Khatun, 62, and Harun-Or- Rashid, 50.

The injured persons were admitted to upazila hospital and Rajshahi Medical College Hospital.

Hipjur Alam Munshi, officer-in-charge of Godagari police station, said the accident took place when two buses collided head-on around 7:30 M due to dense fog.

Inauguration ceremony

The inception meeting of phase IV of SDC Local Governance Programme SHARIQUE was held at a hotel in the capital on Tuesday says a press release.

The meeting was organised to inaugurate the activities of Sharique Phase IV.

Sharique, which started in 2006, is a mandated project of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), and is being implemented by HELVETAS Swiss Interco-operation.    

Abdul Malek, secretary of the Local Government Division, Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development & Cooperatives, attended the meeting as chief guest.

The Ambassador of Switzerland to Bangladesh, René Holenstein was the special guest of this meeting.