The country has recorded its highest single-day death toll from dengue in the past 24 hours. Eleven more people died from the disease between 8 am on Saturday and 8 am on Sunday (in one day), the highest number of deaths in a single day this year. During this period, 1,079 more people have been admitted to hospitals after contracting the virus.

This information was given in a press release sent by the Health Emergency Operation Center and Control Room of the Directorate General of Health Services on Sunday (November 24).

The release said that out of the 11 people who died in the last 24 hours, nine were residents of the two city corporations of Dhaka. Of these, five were from North City, four from South City. The remaining two were from Khulna division.

It also said that among the newly admitted patients, 97 are in Barishal division, 133 in Chattogram division, 272 in Dhaka division (outside the City Corporation), 194 in Dhaka North City, 121 in Dhaka South City, and 143 in Khulna division. In addition, 58 new patients have been admitted in Rajshahi division, 35 in Mymensingh division, 17 in Rangpur division, and 9 in Sylhet division.

Meanwhile, 1,230 dengue patients have been discharged from hospitals across the country in the past day. With this, 82,612 people have been discharged this year.

It was his parents' dream that his son would one day return home as an engineer. However, Mubatashin Rahman Mahin returned home dead before that dream could be fulfilled.

He was buried after a funeral prayer at his native Jummapara area and Jamiatul Karimiya Nurul Uloom Madrasa in Rangpur city on Sunday (November 24) afternoon.

Earlier, Mubatashin Rahman Mahin died after being electrocuted in a bus carrying students of the Islamic University of Technology (IUT) in Gazipur on Saturday (November 23).

According to family and local sources, Mubatashin Rahman Mahin, a resident of Rangpur, was a student of the Islamic University of Technology (IUT) in Gazipur. On Saturday (November 23), Mahin was electrocuted in a double-decker bus in Sreepur during a picnic organized by his institution. Seeing him running away, his friend Jobair Alam (Sakib) rushed to help. Both friends died while going ahead. Another friend of theirs, Mir Mozammel Naeem (23), also died in the accident. The three friends were third-year students of the Mechanical and Production Engineering Department of the Islamic University of Gazipur. The three friends had to return home as corpses before fulfilling their dream of looking after their families after passing.

It is learned that Mubtashin's father is Imtiazur Rahman, a local resident of Jummapara in Rangpur city. He is the manager of AB Bank, Nilphamari Syedpur branch. Mahin's mother Nazmunnahar is a housewife. The eldest son in the family was Mubtashin Rahman Mahin. The younger brother Mostain is a third-grade student at Police Lines School and College in Rangpur. They were studying in an international-standard university to fulfill their parents' dreams.

Mubtashin's uncle Hasanur Rahman said, "My nephew Mahim passed away today due to the negligence of such a renowned institution. The state system has placed electric wires on the road in such a way that the electric wires took away the life of a flower. May no one else's life be lost prematurely like Mahin's. A healthy child who was to become an engineer after 4 months returned as a dead body, who will take responsibility for this? We want a fair trial.

Since morning, before Mahin's body reached the house, relatives and neighbors were seen crying in grief. They say, Mahin is the eldest son of the family. His parents raised him with so much difficulty. Today, innocent Mahin lost his life due to the negligence of the educational institution. This was never an accident, but a death due to negligence."

On the one decade anniversary of the Tazreen Fashion tragedy in Ashulia, Savar, injured workers and leaders and activists of various organizations paid tribute by placing flowers in memory of the deceased.

On Sunday (November 24) morning, injured workers and leaders and activists of labor organizations broke the lock of the main gate of the closed factory of Tazreen Fashion located in Narsinghpur area of Ashulia and entered inside. Later, they started a program to pay tribute to them.

Every year, various labor organizations and local workers come to Tazreen's burnt building today to remember the deceased, demanding adequate compensation and rehabilitation. On the one hand, many of the injured workers are suffering from paralysis due to lack of proper treatment. On the other hand, many are losing their ability and leading a subhuman life.

Pregnant garment worker Fatema jumped from the 4th floor with her husband Robin to escape the fire. The unemployed and distraught couple started cultivating vegetables on others land, and later started a small tea shop. But after almost ten years, Robin died in May this year. Fatima is now a lone soldier in the fight to survive with her husband's death, children Jannat and Faiza. The small tea shop built by her husband is her last resource for survival.

Robin worked as a quality controller at Tazreen Fashion. He died on May 9, 2022. Fatima Khatun said, "My husband died two months after opening the tea shop. Now it is becoming difficult for me to run the family alone with two daughters. The daily sales are 5 to 7 hundred taka. With this money, I also have to buy goods for the shop. I also have to live. A local person buys 1 sack of rice every month. Now the only demand is compensation.

Since Sunday morning, relatives of the slain workers have come to pay their respects in front of the factory in Ashulia, holding flowers. Leaders and activists of several organizations including Garments Workers' Solidarity, Textile Garments Workers' Federation, Textile Garments Workers' Federation, Garments Workers' Trade Union Center, Bangladesh Garments and Industrial Workers' Federation, Bangladesh Garments and Sweater Workers' Trade Union Center, Bangladesh Labor Institute paid tribute to the deceased by placing flowers. Industrial Police-1 Superintendent of Police Mohammad Sarwar Alam said, "These worker brothers and sisters are the main stakeholders of our Industrial Police. Our work, our everything. This Industrial Police has been created for them. I hope that the prosecution department and everyone together complete the trial quickly and give exemplary punishment. So that everyone is careful in such matters in the future and such incidents do not happen." At this time, labor leaders said, "Today is Tazreen's 12th anniversary, but no trial has been held in this incident yet. The families of the deceased workers are passing their days in hardship. And the injured workers are living their lives paralyzed." Our demand is that this building in Tazreen be demolished and the workers be rehabilitated or a hospital be built here and the murderer Delwar be hanged.

Khairul Mamun Mintu, Legal Affairs Secretary of the Bangladesh Garments and Sweater Workers Trade Union Center, said, after the fire broke out on November 24, 2012, the factory authorities locked the gate and burned more than a hundred workers to death. Even after a decade of this incident, the punishment of the guilty has not been ensured. The Awami League government did not want it, so there was no trial. The workers have not yet received appropriate compensation and justice. The demands of the workers have not yet been met. The interim government should make arrangements for the trial of the guilty and appropriate compensation.

Tuhin Chowdhury, President of the Bangladesh Garments Workers Trade Union Federation, said, "We are demanding from the new government that the victims be rehabilitated; reasonable compensation is ensured after an investigation."

A total of 117 garment workers were killed and more than 200 people were injured in this terrible fire in the country's history on November 24, 2012. The day after the fire, Ashulia Police Station Sub-Inspector (SI) Khairul Islam filed a case as the plaintiff. The trial has not been completed even after a year of filing the case.

The Tazreen Fashion building located in the Nischintapur area of Ashulia, Savar is now just a witness to time. After so many years, the building looks like a ghost. Various labor organizations, families of the deceased workers and injured workers attended various programs in front of the factory on this day.

A total of 18,149 people will be appointed through five BCS, said Senior Secretary of the Ministry of Public Administration Md. Mokhles Ur Rahman.

He gave this information at a press conference at the Secretariat on Sunday (November 24).

The Senior Secretary of the Ministry of Public Administration said that out of these, 12,710 people will be appointed in cadre posts. In cadre posts, 2,064 people will be appointed in the 43rd BCS, 1,710 people in the 44th BCS, 2,309 people in the 45th BCS, 3,140 people in the 46th BCS and 3,487 people in the 47th BCS.

And 5,439 people will be appointed in non-cadre posts. 642 people will be appointed from the 43rd BCS in non-cadre posts, 1791 from the 44th BCS, 1570 from the 45th BCS, 1111 from the 46th BCS, and 325 from the 47th BCS, including 18,149 people in cadre and non-cadre posts.

Mokhles Ur Rahman said that a maximum of more than 4,000 people will be appointed from the 46th BCS. The PSC is scrutinizing the results of the 43rd BCS due to criticism after the publication of the gazette. Moreover, the viva voce examination of the 44th BCS will be retaken. In addition, the answer sheets of the 45th BCS written examination will be re-evaluated by a third examiner.

He also said that the circular of the 47th BCS will be published soon.

He also said that quotas will be implemented in new jobs as per the court verdict. Arrangements are being made for promotion from the deputy secretary to the joint secretary post. The fit list of the district administrators will be prepared anew. In addition, additional secretaries will be given grade one so that they can retire with peace of mind. He also said that other cadres will be promoted as per the rules at this time.