Khaleda’s office power supply cut
Power supply of the BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia’s office at Gulshan of the capital has been cut . Police and the officials of the Dhaka Electric Supply company limited have conducted the disconnection on Saturday morning.
Khaleda Zia’s press wing officer Shamsuddin Didar has informed that around 2:42 am the power supply was disconnected.
Rizvi arrested
BNP Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi has been arrested from a house in Baridhara area of the capital.
He was picked up around 2:45am on Saturday, press wing of the Rapid action Batallion (RAB) confirmed the news.
Now SSC takers face catastrophe
The BNP-led 20-party alliance’s announcement of countrywide 72-hour shutdown from tomorrow along with the ongoing blockade has put the Secondary School Certificate examinations in a great peril.
BNP leaders have said they would not backtrack from the movement as they are not responsible for the ongoing crisis. The government should step down from office to put an end to the prevailing political stalemate, they say.
Rangamati adivasis firm to resist medical college, tech university
Indigenous leaders and activists have expressed resolve to resist at any cost the government move to establish a medical college and a science and technology university in Rangamati.
They allege that the Awami League government did not consult the indigenous community leaders about its plan to establish the medical college, which violates the 1997 agreement known as the Chittagong Hill Tracts Peace Accord.
Khilgaon bus burning sends 4 to hospital last night
Four people were burnt as a bus was set on fire at Khilgaon in the capital yesterday while another four were injured in two crude bomb blasts at Mirpur and Palashi. Stray acts of subversion and violence were reported in Comilla, Barisal, Khulna, Noakhali. Three people sustained injuries in the incidents.
The four burn victims, including a retired policeman named Jamaluddin, were admitted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital where doctors said they suffered 6-15% burn.
Arsonists: We did it at the behest of ‘boro bhai’
Fazal Miah, a Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal activist, received a phone call on January 20 that instructed him to set a bus on fire in his area.
“You have to set a bus on fire,” the order came from the other end of the mobile phone to Fazal Miah alias Sajal, 22, when he was working in his garage.
Amnesty: Excessive force not the answer
The Bangladesh government risks making the country’s situation worse by giving police “carte blanche to use excessive force” in response to bomb attacks, Amnesty International (AI) has said.
In a press statement issued on Thursday, the rights group quoted media reports of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina saying: “as the head of the government I am giving [the police] the liberty to take any action wherever and whenever it will be deemed necessary” to stop arson.
19 bank officials summoned in Ananda Shipyard scam probe
The Anti-Corruption Commission has summoned 11 former Janata Bank officials and eight incumbent senior officials of Bangladesh Development Bank Limited (BDBL) in connection with a loan scam of Ananda Shipyard.
On Wednesday, separate notices signed by ACC Senior Deputy Director Mir Jainul Abedin Shibly and addressed to eight BDBL officials were sent to the bank’s managing director, while separate notices were also sent to eleven former officials of Janata Bank on Thursday, said a top official at the commission.
