Gono Odhikar Parishad general secretary Rashed Khan will join the BNP and contest the election using the party’s electoral symbol, the sheaf of paddy. The matter was confirmed on Friday, December 26, by Abu Hanif, a member of the party’s higher council and its media coordinator.
The bodies of two workers trapped inside a sand-laden bulkhead that partially sank after being hit by a passenger launch have been recovered by River Police in the Buriganga River at Fatulla in Narayanganj Sadar upazila.
Police recovered the hanging bodies of a mother and her daughter from the same room in Sonatola upazila of Bogura.
The river police have seized the launch Adventure-9 in connection with a collision on the Meghna river in Chandpur that left four people dead. The launch was detained on Friday, December 26, at around 10am after it arrived at Jhalakathi launch terminal.
A fog-shrouded stretch of the Meghna River turned deadly late Thursday night (December 25) when two passenger launches collided, killing four people and injuring several others.
Two separate fires broke out at Rohingya camps in Ukhia, Cox’s Bazar, within a span of five hours, destroying a health facility and several shelters, officials said on Friday (December 26).