Blockade, hartal underway without major incidents
The non-stop rail-road-waterway blockade’s 21st day coupled with a 36-hour general strike across the country enforced by Bangladesh Nationalist Party-led alliance was passing without any major incidents on Monday.
7 suspected robbers lynched in Narsingdi
Villagers lynched seven suspected robbers while injured another one at Takshal in Sadar upazila of Narsingdi early Monday.
Shamim Eskandar flies to Malaysia to bring back Arafat Rahman’s body
Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia’s brother Shamim Eskandar and two of her other relatives flew to Malaysia to bring back the body of Arafat Rahman, her youngest son, who died of massive heart attack on Saturday.
36-hr strike underway amid stray incidents
A 36-hour general strike enforced by Bangladesh Nationalist Party and its allies protesting power price hike proposal and the government’s ‘conspiracy of sabotage acts and arrest of 10,000 leaders and activists of BNP-led coalition’ began on Sunday amid stray incidents across the country.
Arafat Rahman dies
Arafat Rahman, the youngest son of Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia and former president Ziaur Rahman, died of a heart attack in Malaysia on Saturday.
Saudi King Abdullah dies, Salman new ruler
Saudi Arabia’s elderly King Abdullah died on Friday and was replaced by his half-brother Salman as the absolute ruler of the world’s top oil exporter and the spiritual home of Islam.
Bangladesh sign off WC camp, eye quarter-finals
Bangladesh said they hope to qualify for the quarter-finals in the upcoming World Cup as the team signed off their preparation for the tournament, scheduled in Australia and New Zealand from February 14 to March 29, on Thursday.
Primary school headmaster shot dead in Kushtia
Miscreants gunned down a primary school headmaster at Mahendrapur village in Kumarkhali of Kushtia early Saturday.
Violence claims 3 more lives
Spate of transport arsons leave scores injured, spread panic in cityAt least two more arson victims died in hospital and an auto-rickshaw driver was killed after a truck rammed the three-wheeler while trying to escape a petrol-bomb attack on Friday, the 18th day of the blockade enforced by the BNP-led alliance.
Happy again Rubel looks forward
Pace bowler Rubel Hossain on Wednesday insisted that he has managed to overcome his recent mental trauma to put all his attention on next month’s World Cup. Rubel hogged the headlines for all the wrong reasons during the last few weeks as film actress Naznin Akter Happy accused him of ‘rape’ and ‘false marriage promise’ and filed a case against him under the women and children repression act on December 13.
