Ganjagaran Mancha shutdown underway peacefully
A half-day nationwide hartal sponsored by Ganajagaran Mancha protesting at the killing of secular publisher Faisal Arefin Dipan and attacks on another publisher and bloggers is underway peacefully on Tuesday. Ganajagaran Mancha spokesperson Imran H Sarkar announced the shutdown from a rally at Shahbagh intersection on Sunday afternoon demanding arrest and exemplary punishment of the killers and attackers.
Jail Killing Day: PM pays homage to Bangabandhu, 4 national leaders
The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, paid rich tributes to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and four national leaders marking the Jail Killing Day.
Khaleda blames Hasina, AL, police, RAB for killings
Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia, now in London, on Sunday held prime minister Sheikh Hasina, her party Awami League and law enforcers responsible for all recent killings in Bangladesh.
ATTACKS ON BLOGGERS, PUBLISHERS : Protests spread beyond capital
Ganajagaran Mancha called a half-day countrywide general strike for today, while people of all sections of society continued protests across the country on Monday against the killing of secular blogger and publisher Faisal Arefin Dipan and attacks on another publisher and two other secular bloggers.
ATTACKS ON PUBLISHERS, BLOGGERS : Dipan buried, no headway in investigations
Secular blogger and publisher Faisal Arefin Dipan was laid to rest at Azimpur graveyard on Sunday afternoon with the police making no headway in the investigations into Saturday’s serial attacks on him and three others in the capital.
INCOME TAX DEDUCTION AT SOURCE : NBR to set up 5 spl zones to intensify monitoring
The National Board of Revenue is planning to set up five specialised income tax zones with a view to intensifying monitoring of tax deduction at source or TDS across the country and expediting the revenue collection from the sector.
Law and order situation good: home minister
Home affairs minister Asaduzzaman Khan on Sunday claimed that the overall law and order situation of the country was ‘obviously good’ and Saturday’s attacks on publishers and bloggers were isolated incidents.
LOCAL BODY POLLS : EC seeks power to fix time
The Election Commission on Sunday sent a letter to the local government ministry seeking authority to fix the time for elections to local government institutions, including city corporation, upazila parishad, municipal council and union parishad.
JL, BCL clash, vandalise 100 shops in Ctg
Awami Juba League and Bangladesh Chhatra League, the ruling Awami League-backed youth and student organisations, clashed, traded gunshots and vandalised business establishments in Chittagong city on Saturday night and Sunday.
Spectre of blogger killing continues, Publisher dead, three badly wounded in 2 daring attacks
One secular blogger and publisher was hacked to death and three other bloggers injured at their workplaces in separate incidents in the capital’s Shahbagh and Lalmatia Saturday afternoon. With the latest attacks on Saturday,
