A group of miscreants held a gold trader and his brother hostage at gunpoint in Keraniganj, Dhaka, shot them and looted around 20 to 25 bhori of gold. Later, the two injured, Antar Sarkar (25) and his cousin Rajib Sarkar (20), were rescued in a bullet-hit condition and admitted to Dhaka Medical College (DMCH) Hospital.
Recently transferred Mohammad Ruhul Kabir Khan of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has been appointed as the Deputy Commissioner (DC) of Gulshan division.
Major General Md Alimul Amin has been appointed as the new Director General of the Department of Immigration and Passports. At the same time, the current Director General of the Department of Immigration and Passports, Major General Md Nurul Anwar, has been returned to the army.
Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Khilgaon Police Station under Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP), Mohammad Shafiqul Islam, has been transferred. Unarmed Police Inspector Mohammad Saiful Islam of the Detective Police's Tejgaon division has been given the responsibility as the new OC in his place.
State Minister for Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives Mir Shahe Alam has held a meeting with a delegation of the Chinese company Zhejiang Weiming Environmental Protection Company Limited (Weiming) over generating and managing 45 megawatts of electricity from waste of Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC).
The government has extended the contractual appointment of Mohammad Abdur Rauf as Secretary of the Bridge Division for another year.