REF: A six-hour hartal in Dhaka and Chittagong while dawn-to-dusk elsewhere in the country, called by Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami to press home their demands, is underway on Thursday amid stray violence.
Countrywide hartal underway amid violence
Hartal supporters vandalized hundreds of vehicles in different areas of city and several district towns.
Pickets also set fire on several numbers of vehicles in city. Read more →
Ref: JESSORE: A police official was killed and 10 people were injured in a clash between Chhatra Shibir men and law enforcers in Gohata intersection of Monirampur upazila in the district early hours of hartal.
The deceased was identified as Jahrul, a constable of police. Read more →
REF: The High Court on Tuesday directed police not to wait for anybody to come and file a rape case and file it themselves on getting information instead.
REF: The government on Tuesday gave a major shake-up to the high level of police to rev the force.he Ministry of Home Affairs in two circulars said changes were brought to 72 senior positions.
REF: French-backed Malian troops searched house-to-house in Gao and Timbuktu on Tuesday, uncovering arms and explosives abandoned by Islamist fighters, and France said it aimed to hand over longer-term security operations in Mali to an African force.
Ref: A bomb planted under a car exploded in a southern suburb of Beirut late on Monday, a Lebanese security source said, rocking a Shi’ite Muslim area that is a stronghold of the militant group Hezbollah.
The bomb destroyed the car and damaged buildings in the residential area of Hay al-Sellom but there were no casualties, the source said. Read more →
Ref: Reflecting the growing influence of Hispanics in American politics, a group of Republican and Democratic US senators on Monday said they will move quickly with legislation giving 11 million illegal immigrants a chance to become citizens.
That new political reality, and a change in public opinion on immigration, makes this effort at comprehensive reform more likely to succeed than those of the past, they said, acknowledging that it still won’t be easy. Read more →
Ref: In a major breakthrough, Bangladesh and India yesterday inked Extradition Treaty to hand over the convicted and criminals hiding in each other’s countries.
The deal, however, excluded the political asylum seekers, accused of political crimes and the offenders awarded with less than one year’s jail term. Read more →
REF: Fire Services Director (Operations) Mahbubur Rahmand told bdnews24.com the fire broke out in one ‘Smart’ factory at around 2pm and was controlled after about two hours.
The deaths were reportedly caused when they tried to rush to safety following the outbreak of fire.
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