CU student hurt as stones thrown at campus shuttle train
A Chittagong University (CU) student was injured after a stone was thrown at a shuttle train used by students, authorities said on Tuesday (January 27).
A Chittagong University (CU) student was injured after a stone was thrown at a shuttle train used by students, authorities said on Tuesday (January 27).
A clash broke out between BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami activists in Araihazar of Narayanganj, over allegations of obstructing election campaigning, leaving several people from both sides injured.
Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Dr. Shafiqul Rahman has pledged to restart all closed and dormant factories, including the once-major Keru & Co. sugar mill, if the party comes to power.
BNP Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman has questioned allegations of corruption and wrongdoing against his party, asking why two ministers from a rival political party remained in office during the BNP-led government from 2001 to 2006 if the party was indeed “so bad.”
Krishna Nandi, Jamaat-e-Islami's nominated parliamentary candidate for Khulna-1 constituency, said as per the prevalent concepts, people think that if Jamaat comes to power, Hindus will be barred from staying in the country. But the reality is otherwise, they will be pampered like kith and kin. He claimed that the fear in the Hindu community is baseless.
Jamaat-e-Islami has removed Mohammad Shamim Ahsan, assistant secretary of its Barguna district unit, from all party positions following his controversial remarks describing the Dhaka University Central Students’ Union (DUCSU) in derogatory terms.