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Keeping @currentdigest consideration of social responsibility, Current current-digest Digest started its journey with the moto ‘keeping pace with every month' to provide information free, reliable and accessible. currentdigest.xyz March 2021 Edition 5 9 13 The National at a glance, an The world at a glance, an Business Summary, the top ten essential update from every essential update from all latest in business in last month. corner of country. around the globe. 14 15 16 VS Essential update of most Most important events fixture Nationally and internationally highlighted events in last of current month. recognized important month. observances current month. currentdigest.xyz March 2021 Edition A probe body of Jatiya Muktijoddha Council will meet soon to look into the legal aspects of revoking gallantry awards given to late president Ziaur Rahman and killers of Bangabandhu and their patrons. The council at a meeting on Feb 10 decided in principle to revoke the gallantry awards of Zia and four self-declared killers of Bangabandhu. After dicision, a clash occurred between BNP activists and police in front of the city’s Jatiya Press Club during BNP’s protest and BNP continuing its protest against the decision to revoke the gallantry award given to late president Ziaur Rahman. Opponents of Myanmar’s military coup sustained mass protests for last month as continuing arrests of junta critics added to anger over the detention of elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi. The United Nations human rights office said on Friday more than 350 people, including officials, activists and monks, have been arrested in Myanmar since the Feb. 1 coup, including some who face criminal charges on “dubious grounds”. Anger in Myanmar has been fuelled by videos showing more arrests of government critics - including a doctor who was part of the civil disobedience movement. Some arrests have taken place during the hours of darkness. Internet memes captioned “Our nights aren’t safe anymore” and “Myanmar military is kidnapping people at night” have circulated widely on social media. currentdigest.xyz March 2021 At a glance of the month of February 01.02.2021 (Monday) 05.02.21 (Friday) At least 12 people have died from allegedly consuming One of the accused in the case over rape of a private counterfeit alcohol in Dhaka and Bogura district over university student confessed to a Dhaka court that he the last 48 hours. had raped the victim at her friend’s house in the city’s A lawmaker from Mymensingh-3 lodged a general diary Mohammadpur area. against the new elected Gouripur Municipality mayor The home ministry sacked a senior jail superintendent Syed Rafiqul Islam for allegedly threatening him. and a jailer of Kashimpur Central Jail-1 for letting an inmate spend time with a woman inside a prison officer’s room. 12 people die drinking counterfeit alcohol Top of the At least 12 people, including two students of a private university Week and three staffers of a media organisation, have died from allegedly consuming counterfeit alcohol in Dhaka and Bogura district over the last 48 hours. Police said they are investigating the incidents. In Dhaka, around 41 employees of the media organisation went to a resort in Gazipur last Friday for an office tour, according to sources. After returning to Dhaka, many were hospitalised for poisoning. While undergoing treatment, two employees died on Sunday and another died, said the team member, who also received treatment after having the drinks. 02.02.2021 (Tuesday) 06.02.21 (Saturday) Bangladesh authorities have termed an Al Jazeera Bangladesh is expecting visits by British Prime investigative report “false, defamatory and a politically Minister Boris Johnson and several other VVIPs to motivated smear campaign”. Bangladesh this year. Around 41,000 people have got registered online in The health directorate reported 305 new Covid-19 seven days till Feb 01 afternoon for taking Covid cases today, the lowest daily number in 10 months. vaccines. 07.02.21 (Sunday) 03.02.21 (Wednesday) A probe has found that Hallmark General Manager Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday expressed Tushar Ahmed spent around two hours with a woman displeasure over frequent revisions of projects and at a prison officer’s room in Kashimpur Central directed the authorities to take legal action. Jail-1. Criticising Al Jazeera for a recent report on Prime The High Court observed that the Anti-Corruption Minister Sheikh Hasina, top ministers of the Commission should not act like a toothless tiger in government said they were mulling legal action combatting corruption and irregularities. against Al Jazeera for “spreading misinformation”. 08.02.20 (Monday) 04.02.2021 (Thursday) Police have pressed charges against photojournalist Fifty people, including a former BNP lawmaker, were Shafiqul Islam Kajol, and others in two cases filed last jailed for different terms in a case filed over the attack year under the Digital Security Act. on Awami League chief Sheikh Hasina’s motorcade in Chattogram district police on Sunday arrested six Kolaroa in 2002. police constables of the Chattogram Metropolitan BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman was sentenced to Police (CMP) on charge of extortion. two years’ imprisonment by a Narail court in a defama- The High Court warned that it will not spare any tion case over making derogatory comments about corrupt people no matter how powerful they are -- be Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. it ministers or lawmakers. currentdigest.xyz 5 March 2021 At a glance of the month of February Protest against decision to revoke Zia’s Bir Uttam Top of the A clash occurred between BNP activists and police in front of the city’s Week Jatiya Press Club during BNP’s protest against the decision to revoke the gallantry award given to late president Ziaur Rahman. Police claimed at least 10 of their members were injured during the clash while BNP said 119 of its members were injured “in police attack.” Witnesses said several hundred protestors started gathering in front of the Jatiya Press Club around 10:00am and started a rally with huge police presence nearby. Several senior leaders of BNP, including Gayeshwar Chandra Roy, Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain, and Amanullah Aman, joined the rally organised by Dhaka south and north city units jointly as part of the party’s countrywide programme in all cities. 09.02.21 (Tuesday) 13.02.21 (Saturday) The High Court said it would not allow any “pick and PK Halder used forged national identity cards to borrow choose policy” of the Anti-Corruption Commission. Tk 450 crore from three financial institutions (NBFIs) More than 8.7 million people died in 2018 from fossil and laundered the money, according to Anti-Corruption fuel pollution, One in 5 deaths globally: study Commission findings. The Maldives will recruit workers from Bangladesh by A clash occurred between BNP activists and police in creating a solid framework under an agreement, said front of the city’s Jatiya Press Club during BNP’s visiting Foreign Minister of the Maldives Abdulla protest against the decision to revoke the gallantry Shahid. award given to late president Ziaur Rahman. 10.02.21 (Wednesday) 14.02.21 (Sunday) A Dhaka court set February 16 for delivering the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said many countries judgment for the murder of blogger and writer Avijit have expressed their interest in providing novel corona- Roy in February 2015. virus vaccines to Bangladesh. Zainul Haque Sikder, chairman of the renowned Sikder Municipal polls: Many places were marked by wide- Group of Companies, passed away in a hospital in spread allegations of voter fraud, ballot-box stuffing, Dubai. flouting of laws and violence that left one man dead 11.02.21 (Thursday) and at least 26 injured. Detectives pressed charges against lawmaker Haji 15.02.21 (Monday) Salim’s son Mohammad Erfan Salim and four others in Election Commissioner Mahbub Talukdar said that a case filed over the assault and attempted murder of a elections in the country are becoming “one-centric” Navy officer in October last year. which cannot be an element of multi-party democracy. Investigators have charged photojournalist Shafiqul The government has reverted to its original plan of Islam Kajol with circulating indecent, defamatory, administering the second dose of Covid-19 vaccine objectionable and fake information about some minis- eight weeks after the first phase instead of the gap of ters, MPs and leaders on Facebook. four weeks between the two doses. 12.02.21 (Friday) 16.02.21 (Tuesday) PK Halder’s close associate Sukumar Mridha told a A Dhaka court handing down death sentences to five Dhaka court that over 100 people, mostly bankers, had militants and life imprisonment to another for killing helped Halder execute financial scams.