In this December 5 Focus Bangla photo, BNP leader Sadeque Hossain Khoka waves to party activists while being taken to a Dhaka court.
BNP has called a 24-hour hartal in the Dhaka city from Sunday morning to protest the arrest and remand of the party's Vice-President Sadeque Hossain Khoka.
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Two more lives were lost yesterday, the last day of the opposition's 131-hour blockade of roads, rail and waterways, that led to clashes, arson, vandalism and blasting of crude bombs across the country.
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Indian Foreign Secretary Sujatha Singh meets with opposition leader Khaleda Zia at the latter's Gulshan residence in the capital today. Quoting the visiting official, a BNP spokesman said India wants to see stability and continuation of democracy in Bangladesh. Photo: STAR
The Daily Star in its first edition yesterday published a report on the front page saying that six-month pregnant Shirin Akhter was seriously injured when pickets set a bus alight at Tarabo in Rupganj, Narayanganj.
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BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir today alleged that the government is spreading propaganda to derail the opposition's ongoing movement.
In a statement this afternoon, he said: "Some ministers said talks are going on behind the scene. But I am saying clearly that the illegal government do not want any consensus and they have no interest in it."
Saying the government is losing its strength day by day, Fakhrul alleged the government agents are spreading rumours in the media and social media.
He said the BNP activists are committed to continue the movement until the victory comes.
Fakhrul demanded immediate release of the BNP leaders and withdrawal of "false cases" against them.
Three policemen were injured, one critically, as the activists of BNP and its key ally, Jamaat-e-Islami, attacked the law enforcers in Dinajpur today, on the fourth day of the opposition's 131-hour countrywide blockade.
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Placing logs on the line and pelting the locomotive with brick chunks, opposition activists try to stop a train from leaving Dinajpur town yesterday morning. Photo: Star
The Election Commission (EC) today requested the authorities to transfer the divisional commissioner of Dhaka and deputy commissioner of Khulna.
An election commissioner seeking anonymity confirmed it to The Daily Star.
He however did not disclose the reason for transferring the two high government officials.
In this November 30 Focus Bangla photo, two people undergoing treatment at Dhaka Medical College and Hospital after they suffered burn injuries during an arson attack on a bus in the capital's Malibagh area Saturday night.
