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The United Nations, Bangladesh, has urgently called upon all parties to keep everyone, including children and young people, safe on the roads and safe from any kind of violence. “UN agencies are increasingly concerned for the safety of children and young people caught up in recent protests over road safety in Dhaka and other parts of the country,” UN, Bangladesh, said in a statement shared on its official Facebook page yesterday. “We are deeply concerned…

Comilla: A suspected drug dealer was killed in a “gunfight” with police at Nagolkot upazila early yesterday. The deceased was identified as Mehedi Hasan,28, son of Ekramul Haque of Alipur of Raikot union in Nagolkot. With this, at least 208 suspected drug traders were killed since the anti-narcotics drive began on May 4. Most of them were killed in so-called shootouts involving police and Rab. Nazrul Islam, officer-in-charge of Nagolkot police, said the shootout took…

by Diplomatic Correspondent in the Daily Star, Aug 4, 2018 State Minister for Foreign Affairs Shahriar Alam said he does not see any reason for Bangladesh to be worried about Assam’s National Register of Citizens (NRC) and that there is no scope for doing politics over the matter. Talking to reporters after attending a programme organised by the Human Rights Forum of Bangladesh yesterday morning, he said the Assamese government has given a clear explanation…

Student agitation on road safety spread all over the capital yesterday, with more schools, colleges and universities joining in. This was the third such day of protests that followed the death of two students on Sunday when a bus ploughed into a group of college students waiting for transport on the Airport Road. With students staging roadblocks and sit-ins at several major points, it was a difficult day for commuters in Dhaka. The protests appeared…

by Md Serajul Islam in Prothom Alo, July 31, 2018 A journalist of Bangla daily the Prothom Alo was assaulted by police during the Sylhet City Corporation election on Monday. The incident occurred at the Ambarkhan Chandantula Government Primary School voting centre in Sylhet’s Sadar upazila around 3pm. According to Prothom Alo’s Sylhet Bureau Chief Uzzal Mehedi, the newspaper’s Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) correspondent Mesbah Uddin was taking pictures of some youths…

Report in The daily star, July 27, 2018 Detectives of Chittagong Metropolitan Police yesterday arrested a man while he was allegedly carrying about 2,000 yaba pills hidden inside two brinjals. The arrestee, Ali Ahmed, 46, is from Teknaf of Cox’s Bazar, said police. Acting on a tip-off, a DB team frisked Ahmed on the ground floor of Jalsha Shopping Complex in Chittagong city’s Kotwali area in the early hours of yesterday and found four brinjals,…

report in The Daily Star, July 25, 2018 Dhaka: Giving a 23-point directive to the deputy commissioners, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday asked them to take tough actions against extortion, tender grabbing, muscle flexing, terrorism and drugs for eliminating these menaces from society. “You don’t need to look at who belongs to which party and who does what … just go for action,” she said while opening a three-day DC conference at her office. The…

report in Prothom ALo, July 23, 2018 at 19.01hrs Dhaka: Denouncing the attack on Amar Desh acting editor Mahmudur Rahman in Kushtia, former president AQM Badruddoza Chowdhury-led Jukta front on Monday urged prime minister Sheikh Hasina to rein in the evil forces. In a statement on behalf of Jukta (united) Front, B Chowdhury, Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal (JSD) president ASM Abdur Rab and Nagorik Oikya convener Mahmudur Rahman Manna voiced surprise and anger over the attack…

report in Prothom ALo, July 23, 2018 at 22:36 Dhaka : Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday said Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has started playing “blame game” after being rejected by the people in the city corporation elections. “The BNP has started playing blame game after not getting response from the people in the city corporation polls and their tricks have been caught red-handed,” she said. Sheikh Hasina, also the Awami League president, made the…

by Nawaz Farhin Antara & Fazlur Rahman Raju in Dhaka Tribune, July 23rd, 2018 The ruling Awami League is planning to focus on various social issues and highlight the government’s successes and development work to woo voters ahead of the national election. Senior leaders of the party say the issues they will focus on include militancy, crime, corruption, drug abuse, and water, air, and river pollution. The government has already launched an anti-militancy operation and…