Dhaka | Dhaka City | Bangladeshi News
Dhaka | Dhaka City | Bangladeshi News
Barbed barricades have been installed at Nightingale and Fakirapool intersections to maintain law and order following the clashes. Reacting to being barred from entering the BNP office, Mirza Fakhrul said, “I am the general secretary of the BNP, but I was not allowed to enter my party office. [police] are giving which are completely wrong. […]
A war of words between Bangladesh’s two main political camps over a BNP rally in Dhaka on December 10 turned violent, in which a supporter of the opposition party was killed in a clash with the police. The BNP has called for district-level protests on Thursday after several central leaders and hundreds of workers were […]
Md Mokbul’s wife and daughter await uncertain days after the 32-year-old shoe and garment artisan was killed during clashes between police and BNP workers in Dhaka’s Naya Paltan. Mokbul, who bears the same name, and his wife Halima lived with their mother and siblings in the Baunia Dam area of Mirpur. The couple worked on […]
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 […]
Rizvi had said before his arrest that around 2,000 BNP leaders and workers were trapped in the office and many of them fell ill after the struggle, but the police were not allowing them to leave the building. Tension prevails in Dhaka over the upcoming rally of the party. On Wednesday, party workers started gathering […]
Mohd Hayatul Islam Khan, deputy commissioner of police of Motijheel division, said that no venue has been decided yet for the December 10 rally. Despite this, party workers blocked both sides of the road near the Naya Paltan headquarters on Thursday, he said. Khan said that he made several requests to the workers to leave […]
The BNP wanted to hold its rally at Naya Paltan on 10 December, but the government has asked the party to arrange it at Suhrawardy Udyan instead. Amidst the tussle over the issue, the BNP said on Sunday that if an ‘acceptable alternative’ is found, it will be discussed. Dhaka Police Commissioner Khandekar Ghulam Farooq […]
Ariful Islam of Noakhali had planned to go to Dhaka for work-related matters around December 10. They first thought of bringing their teenage children with them as their school year has already ended. But later, Ariful shelved his plan to bring them together fearing for the children’s safety. Instead, he himself came ahead of schedule […]
