The organisers have dropped film actress Pori Moni from an award programme in Chattogram amid protests by journalists. They announced this decision on Saturday afternoon (November 7).
Chattogram City BNP had taken a programme of broadcasting party songs and speeches on microphones in different areas of Chattogram city on the occasion of ‘National Revolution and Solidarity Day’. During this programme in Agrabad area on Saturday morning (November 7) the song ‘Bangabandhur Kanya Tumi Bangladesher Neta’ written about former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, who was ousted from power in the student-people’s mass uprising, started playing on the microphone.
Four people including three of a family were killed in a road accident in Melandah upazila of the district this morning.
A dispute has resurfaced over the ownership and preservation of the historic home of language movement veteran and martyred Liberation War figure Dhirendranath Datta in Dharmasagarpar area of Cumilla city, after leaders and activists of the National Citizen Party (NCP) demolished a signboard installed in front of the property.
Abul Kalam, 35, a member of the Armed Police Battalion (APBn), has allegedly been called out, beaten, had his arms and legs broken and his leg tendons cut with a sharp weapon in Rupganj of Narayanganj. His family claims drug dealers attacked him for protesting against the drug trade in the area. Abul Kalam is now undergoing treatment at the National Institute of Traumatology and Orthopaedic Rehabilitation (NITOR).
Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Brahmanpara Police Station Md Faruq Hossain has said Bir Muktijoddha Abdus Sattar was buried without the state honour of guard of honour in Brahmanpara upazila of Cumilla. Police could not finally give the guard of honour as no one from the upazila administration was present. Local freedom fighters and the relatives of the deceased have expressed anger over this incident.