Khaleda's Gulshan office unlocked
Police have unlocked the main gate of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia's Gulshan office in Dhaka, where she had been confined for five days.
Police opened the lock around 11:50am on Thursday.
Rubel sent to jail in rape case
A Dhaka court has sent National Cricket Team paceman Rubel Hossain to jail in a rape case filed by actress and model Naznin Akter Happy.
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Muhammad Anwar Sadat passed the order after he surrendered before the court and pleaded for bail on Thursday morning.
Justice Rezaul’s village house torched
Miscreants have torched the village house of Justice Kazi Reza-Ul Hoque who passed order banning publishing speeches of BNP's senior vice-chairman Tarique Rahman in media.
The incident took place at Mohammadpur village under Dalia Union of Feni Sadar upazila about 4am on Thursday.
20 hurt as train derails in Moulvibazar
Twenty people have been injured as five bogies, along with the engine of a Chittagong-bound train, derailed at Shamshernagar in Moulvibazar early Thursday.
The incident took place amid a countrywide indefinite blockade enforced by BNP, which was thrown out of the parliament as it boycotted the last elections.
ETV chairman to be quizzed at jail gate
A Dhaka court has ordered the investigating officer to interrogate Ekushey Television (ETV) Chairman Abdus Salam at jail gate within five working days.
The court also rejected his bail and remand petitions in a case filed under “Pornography Control Act” with the Cantonment police.
One Paris gunman surrenders
The youngest of three French nationals being sought by police for a suspected Islamist militant attack that killed 12 people at a satirical magazine on Wednesday turned himself in to the police, an official at the Paris prosecutor's office said.
The hooded attackers stormed the Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo, a weekly known for lampooning Islam and other religions, in the most deadly militant attack on French soil in decades.
9 BNP-Jamaat men held in Satkhira
Police have arrested nine activists of BNP, Jamaat-e-Islami and its students’ wing Islami Chhatra Shibir in a special drive in the district.
The drive was conducted in the district town from Wednesday evening till Thursday morning, said Satkhira Additional Police Super Mir Modasser Hossain.
15 vehicles vandalised in Jhenaidah
Pickets have vandalised at least 15 vehicles in Sailkupa upazila of Jhenaidah district on Wednesday night, the second day of countrywide blockade enforced by the BNP-led 20-party alliance.
Locals said the pickets of BNP and Jamaat-e Islami damaged at least 15 trucks and buses parked near Chariarbeal area on Jhenaidah-Kushtia highway in the upazila about 10pm.
Joypurhat rail service resumes
Rail communications on the Khulna-Rajshahi and Rajshahi-Dhaka routes have been resumed after four hours follwing a halt on Thursday.
Joypurhat Station Master Nurul Islam has confirmed about the restoration of the railway service to the Dhaka Tribune.
3 killed in Barisal road accident
Three people have been killed and five others injured in a head-on collision between a bus and three-wheeler at Guthiya on Barisal-Banaripara road of the district.
The accident took place at 11:20am Thursday, Wazirpur police station Officer-in-Charge Nurul Islam told the Dhaka Tribune.
