In this December 5 Focus Bangla photo, BNP leader Sadeque Hossain Khoka waves to party activists while being taken to a Dhaka court.
Police today filed an arson case against 26 leaders and activists of BNP including its city convenor Sadeque Hossain Khoka and lawmaker Shahid Uddin Chowdhury Anee.
Rafiqul Islam, officer-in-charge of Sutrapur Police Station, told The Daily Star that the BNP men were accused of their involvement with the torching of a human hauler on November 10.
A fire broke out at a garment factory in BISIC industrial area of Gazipur Sadar upazila today.
The blaze originated around 8:00am at the printing section of Riad Knitting and Dying housed on the top floor of a four-storey building in the industrial area at Konabari.
None was reported injured in the fire, reports our Gazipur correspondent quoting Abu Zafar Ahmed, senior stationmaster of Joydevpur Fire Service and Civil Defence.
Four firefighting units doused the blaze after one hour of frantic efforts, the official said.
The reason behind the fire could not be known immediately.
Drivers of two CNG-run auto-rickshaws suffered burn injuries as pickets set their vehicles on fire in Azimpur and Keraniganj, on the outskirts of the capital, on the second day of the 84-hour hartal enforced by BNP-led 18-party alliance today.
...Miscreants threw a cracker targeting the office of Assistant High Commission of India in Chittagong this evening as an 84-hour hartal beginning today is underway.
Mainul Islam Bhuiya, officer-in-charge of Khulshi Police Station, told The Daily Star that a cracker hit the boundary wall of the office at Khulshi around 6:30pm.
Nobody was injured in the incident, reports our Chittagong correspondent.
Police were trying to identify the attackers, the police official said.
Immediately after the incident, the OC described it as a cocktail blast but later quoting a sub-inspector who visited the spot said it was just a cracker.
BNP's joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi. Star file photo
Fire fighters try to douse the fire that almost destroyed a double-decker bus at capital's Jatrabari today. Pro-hartal activists set fire to the bus to create panic among the city dwellers just before the day of BNP-led opposition's 84 hours hartal in the country. Photo: Amran Hossain
A college girl died after being crushed under the wheels of a double-decker bus at Motijheel in the capital this afternoon.
Kamiz Fatema, 17, was a student of MotijheelIdealSchool and College and lived in South Jatrabari, her aunt Rubina Akter told The Daily Star.
She was returning home after an exam with Rubina when the bus crushed their rickshaw near Shapla Chattar around 4:45pm, the grieving aunt added.
She died on the spot, while three others including Rubina were injured in the incident.
Police seized the bus and detained the driver, Shahabuddin Fakir, 35, who witnessed the accident told The Daily Star.
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Showing a photo of a person identified as an alleged perpetrator of communal violence on yesterday's The Daily Star issue, National Human Rights Commission chief Mizanur Rahman asks Pabna additional superintendent of police why they had not arrested the person. Mizanur was visiting the affected Hindus of Bonogram in Pabna yesterday. Photo: Star
Nobel Laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus today urged people to vote for the political parties that will return Grameen Bank to its original shape.
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