The BNP general secretary and standing committee member was taken into custody in the early hours of Friday. Harun-or-Rashid, head of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police’s Detective Branch, said, “The allegation against him is that he instigated and planned the brutal attack on the police, including throwing crude bombs. We got this information after questioning him.” […]
The BNP has announced district-level demonstrations on Thursday against police assaults, firing, raids on its party office and arrests of activists following deadly clashes in Dhaka’s Naya Paltan. In a statement, general secretary Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said they decided to hold the protest at the National Standing Committee meeting on Wednesday night. He urged […]
“We call on the government of Bangladesh to ensure that no party or candidate uses threats, incitement or violence against any other party or candidate,” he said. The spokesman of the US State Department also talked about holding fair elections in Bangladesh. “Genuine elections require the ability of all candidates to vote free of violence, […]
For nearly three years, China has managed COVID as a disease similar to bubonic plague and cholera, and earlier this year as cases spread, entire communities were locked down, sometimes for months. For. Dozens also flocked to the Weibo account of Li Wenliang, a Wuhan doctor who died in 2020 after raising the early alarm […]