Prime Minister’s Information Adviser Zahed Ur Rahman has reminded that the police have the right to use lethal force according to the law if the situation arises. However, he said the present government does not want the police to use excessive force like the previous government in suppressing protests.
The High Court has directed the guardian of a seven-year-old child to surrender before the Gazipur Metropolitan Sessions Judge Court within four weeks in a case filed over allegations of attack and vandalism at a madrasa centred on the allegation of sexual harassment of the child in Tongi of Gazipur.
The Directorate General of Health Services has reported that six people died of dengue in the last 24 hours across the country. During this period 2,010 new patients were admitted to hospitals.
Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) has described Jamaat-e-Islami’s claim of fulfilling the condition of women’s leadership in its organisational structure as ‘deception’. The organisation said claiming that women have participation at all levels of the party by forming separate committees for them is not consistent with reality.
A special tribunal established to ensure speedy trials in cases of violence against children has sentenced six defendants in nine months, including two to death and four to life imprisonment.
The Cabinet has approved the list of government holidays for 2027. There will be 22 days of government holidays next year excluding weekly holidays. Of these, 15 days are general holidays and 14 days are government holidays by executive order. Altogether seven days of the proposed 29 days of holidays fall on weekly holidays. As a result, effective holidays will be 22 days.