Release of students, activists demanded
Politicians, eminent citizens, quota reform activists and families on Friday demanded immediate release of the arrested students and campaigners rallying for quota reform and road safety while fear gripped cross section of people as police continued arresting and hunting for people on allegation of spreading rumours.
Lawyer-less Faria remanded for three days
Small entrepreneur Faria Mahjabin, who was arrested in Dhaka on Thursday for allegedly spreading rumours on Facebook during recent student protest, had been placed on three-day remand.
Protesters on the run fearing arrest
Most of the leaders of Bangladesh General Students’ Rights Protection Council are now on the run fearing arrest and disappearance for supporting the latest student protests for road safety besides their movement for reform of quota system in public service recruitment.
Aziz Khan among 50 richest people in Singapore
Bangladesh-born businessman Summit Group chairman Muhammed Aziz Khan and his family have been named the 34th richest person in Singapore on the list of 50 richest people and organisations of 2018.
100 students arrested, 5,000 unnamed prosecuted in 52 cases in Dhaka
At least 100 people, most of them students, were arrested in at least 52 cases filed between July 29 and August 15 with different police stations accusing over 5,000 unnamed people over the violence during the latest student movement for road safety.
‘We have responsibility to materialize Sonar Bangla’: CJ
Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain said Wednesday, ‘The Father of the Nation would get eternal peace if his dream is materialized.’
Family denied permission to meet Khaleda on birthday, says BNP
Family members of Bangladesh Nationalist Party’s imprisoned chairperson Khaleda Zia were denied permission to meet her at the jail to wish her on birthday on Wednesday.
National Mourning Day today
The nation observes National Mourning Day today marking the 43rd anniversary of the death of the country’s founding president, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
Govt expects to bring back Rashed from US
The government is expecting a ‘good outcome’ in its diplomatic and legal efforts for bringing back MA Rashed Chowdhury, one of the six condemned fugitive convicts of the killing of the country’s founding president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, from the United States, officials have said.
DU female student briefly detained by DB
A Dhaka University female student, also a quota reform movement activist, was briefly detained by Detective Branch of police on Tuesday for her alleged involvement in spreading rumour during the recent student protest.
