There is still no decision on withdrawing the road blockade in Sajek, in Rangamati’s Baghaichhari upazila. The indefinite programme, called by the Sajek Gonoadhikar Raksha Committee and the Sajek Karbari Association on three demands, entered its fifth day on Monday (October 26). Vehicular movement on the Sajek road remains suspended because of the blockade, though law enforcement personnel are patrolling key points.
Manoranjan Roy, 55, assistant headteacher of Sukhdebpur Government Primary School in Parbatipur, has allegedly been beaten to death during a reconciliation meeting over a road dispute in Parbatipur upazila of Dinajpur. Police have detained one person on suspicion of involvement in the incident.
The government has now appointed BNP leader Dr Sahadat Hossain, who became the mayor of Chittagong City Corporation (CCC) following a court verdict, as the full-time administrator of the same city corporation.
Saint Martin’s Island will reopen to tourists on 1 November, with the government allowing up to 3,500 visitors a day during the upcoming tourism season.
Police recovered the hanging body of a Comilla University student from a rented flat at Fatullah in Narayanganj early Sunday.
Manik Pashari, the complainant and one of the prosecution’s key witnesses in the crimes against humanity case against Jamaat-e-Islami leader Delawar Hossain Sayedee, was buried in Pirojpur nearly 17 hours after his death, following a day of uncertainty and complications over his burial and the provision of a state guard of honour.