Blockade, hartal marked with stray violence.
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party-led alliance-sponsored indefinite blockade rolled into the seventh straight week and 72-hour general strike continued for the second day on Monday being marked with stray incidents of vandalism,
PM doubts if Khaleda would accept dialogue.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday said in parliament that the initiative to start a dialogue would encourage the terrorists and militant activities sponsored by the BNP-led alliance across the country in the name of movement.
Violence marks blockade, hartal BNP activist shot dead in Magura, miscreants set fire to train in Narayanganj.
Another opposition activist was killed in police firing in Magura as blockade and general strike intensified with vandalism, crude bomb blasts and presence of pickets in the streets in the capital as elsewhere across the country on Sunday, the first day of 72-hour general strike and 41st day of transport blockade.
Get united against BNP-Jamaat barbarism: PM
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday called upon each of the country’s patriotic citizens to get united against the barbarism and cruelties being unleashed by the BNP-Jamaat clique in their bid to push the country backwards.
Khaleda starving, says Selima
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson, Khaleda Zia, is abstaining from taking food protesting at the authorities’ obstruction to food supply for her office staff and party leaders staying with her, said the party vice-chairman Selima Rahman on Sunday.
20-party’s fresh 72-hr hartal gets underway
Another spell of 72-hour nationwide hartal, enforced by the BNP-led 20-party alliance alongside its ongoing countrywide indefinite transport blockade, began Sunday without any major incidents, as of writing of this report at 9:30am, reports United News of Bangladesh.
Businessmen warn of tougher course against hartal-blockade
Business leaders on Saturday urged the main political parties to end the current political crisis by working out a consensus immediately, otherwise, they cautioned, overall economic activities would be paralysed and the situation would become unbearable to the nation.
PM calls upon all Muslims to resist BNP-Jamaat’s evil politics.
The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, on Saturday urged all the Muslims, including Islamic scholars, to resist the evil politics of Bangladesh Nationalist Party-Jamaat-e-Islami as they were undermining Islam through their heinous acts of burning people to death, reports United News of Bangladesh. She also called upon the Muslims,
Schools, colleges, univs stay open on Friday SSC examinees complete third exam.
Candidates of SSC and equivalent exams sat for their third test on Friday, while many educational institutions remained open on the weekend to cover for the loss of classes due to the ongoing political turmoil.
ACCOMMODATION FOR GOVT OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES, No bribes, no allotment
Corruption, nepotism and lobbying rule the allocation of housing and flats for public servants without following the set rules and priority for providing such accommodation in Dhaka city.
