BNP calls countrywide shutdown for Monday
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party-led alliance has called a dawn-to-dusk shutdown across the country for Monday in protest against the government’s not allowing the party chairperson Khaleda Zia to hold a rally in Gazipur on Saturday. BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir announced the programme at a news conference at Khaleda Zia’s office in Gulshan on Saturday afternoon.
Zihad brought dead from black hole
The rescuers said that when all sophisticated and modern equipment failed to spot the boy, a simple handmade tool made by a few volunteers, eventually found him, though, it was too late.The locals, with the help of iron-made ‘catcher’, made a last-ditch attempt to pull out the boy five minutes after the fire service closed their rescue operation, and it was all over with the discovery of his body.The volunteers, some of whom also took part in the 2013 Rana Plaza rescue operation in Savar, made the ‘catcher’ with iron rods, a torch, a tripod and a cleat tied to a 600-feet rope.
Jihad rescued dead after fire service abandons operation.
Minor boy Jihad, who slipped into 600-foot deep abandoned tube-well of Bangladesh Railway at Shahjahanpur railway colony, was pronounced dead by doctors at Dhaka Medical College and Hospital, after he was rushed to the hospital on Saturday noon.
Gazipur strike underway peacefully
The dawn to dusk strike enforced by Bangladesh Nationalist Party-led alliance, protesting the authorities’s ban on political gatherings in Gazipur, was underway peacefully, witnesses said.BNP’s Gazipur district unit president and central organising secretary Fazlul Haque Milon announced the fresh programmes at a press conference at Khaleda Zia’s Gulshan office after she held a meeting with senior leaders on Friday.
No sign of human in borehole, claims Asaduzzaman; Police pick up trapped boy’s father
After several abortive attempts and sending a borehole camera inside 254 feet into a 600 feet abandoned water-pump well, the state minister for home, Asaduzzaman Khan, at about 2:45am on Saturday declared that there was no boy trapped into the borehole and it might be a rumour. The rescue operation, however, was not officially suspended and the fire service and civil defence director general said that they would pull out the debris found in the borehole through the camera footage and finally reach a conclusion. The three-and-a-half year old boy, Zihad,
Suspected ‘robber’ killed in ‘gunfight’ in Pabna
A suspected ‘robber’ was killed by police in an alleged ‘gunfight’ on Lalpur-Ishwardi road near Raju Cinema Hall in Ishwardi of Pabna early Thursday.
Graft cases against Khaleda: January 7 set for next hearing
10 injured in clash as BNP chairperson reaches special court
More hardware under procurement to make army all-round: PM
The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, on Wednesday said besides establishing new structures for Bangladesh Army, a process is under way to procure significant amount of military equipment from various countries including China and Serbia to make Army more modern, time befitting and all-round, reports United News of Banglaesh.
Qaisar to die for war crimes
The International Crimes Tribunal-2 on Tuesday awarded detained former Jatiya Party state minister Syed Md Qaisar death penalty for committing war crimes, including genocide, killings and rape, during the liberation war in 1971.
Govt yet to form expert panel for Sundarban damage study
Politicians, environmentalists and rights activists on Monday decried the government for not forming an expert panel comprising national and international experts to study the ecological damages being caused to the Sundarbans due to the oil spill in the river Shela.
