Laments wife of peacekeeper killed in Sudan; grief sweeps families as news reaches home

Chiefs and members of several reform commissions expressed frustration yesterday over the government’s failure to implement the proposals they had submitted.

Sharif Osman Hadi, an independent MP aspirant for Dhaka-8 who was shot in broad daylight in the capital’s Paltan area on Friday, will be flown to Singapore today by air ambulance for advanced treatment.

The nation yesterday observed Martyred Intellectuals Day, paying tribute to the eminent citizens who were brutally killed during the 1971 Liberation War.

Amid worries over deteriorating law and order ahead of the national polls, the Election Commission yesterday ordered law enforcers to set up more checkpoints, crack down on organised crime, and recover illegal or missing firearms and ammunition.

Residents of Alokdia village in Sitakunda upazila of Chattogram yesterday formed a human chain demanding an immediate stop to illegal sand extraction from the Sandwip Channel of the Bay of Bengal.

At least two persons were killed and another was injured as their goods-laden pick-up van lost control and hit the road divider on the Dhaka-Chattogram Highway in Chattogram’s Sitakunda upazila early yesterday.

A rare Himalayan griffon vulture was rescued in the Amlapara area of Sirajganj municipality yesterday.

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab-7) personnel yesterday busted an illegal factory that had been manufacturing adulterated soap inside a rickshaw garage in Shikalbaha area of Karnaphuli upazila in Chattogram.

Journalist Anis Alamgir was taken into custody by the Dhaka Metropolitan Police’s Detective Branch yesterday evening.

A coalition of civil society organisations has urged political parties to place women’s and children’s rights at the centre of their election manifestos.

A defence lawyer yesterday challenged the chief prosecutor’s earlier claim that bombs were planted inside a secret Rab-run detention centre to kill investigators.

The migrants said they had been working at a construction site close to the Thai-Cambodian border but fled the area on December 9 following bombings.

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir yesterday said defeated fascist forces are trying to derail the upcoming national election, while another force is attempting to create divisions among people by using religion.

BNP Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman yesterday said his party will prioritise ensuring law and order and tackling corruption if voted to power.

Chief Justice Syed Refaat Ahmed yesterday said many judges in the past were directly and indirectly involved in injustice and unfairness and helped sustain a system of misrule.

Three persons were arrested yesterday in connection with the killing of a tea vendor in Chattogram city on November 28.

A sand-laden bulkhead sank in the Buriganga river near Narayanganj’s Fatullah launch terminal following a head-on collision with a launch yesterday.

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No casualties were reported, say police