A sales outlet of publishing house The University Press Limited (UPL) in Banglabazar, Dhaka, was locked after objections were raised over the sale of The Unfinished Memoirs, a book written by Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. Two employees of the outlet were also taken away and detained for some time. They were later released following police intervention.
A new initiative has been launched to transport commercial goods from India’s Assam to Bangladesh through the Brahmaputra River’s inland waterway. As part of the initiative, methanol produced by Assam Petro-Chemicals Limited (APL) in Namrup will be transported directly by water from Bogibeel in Dibrugarh to Dhaka.
Shaon Ahmed has called for a programme of boarding the metro rail wearing shorts and T-shirt in protest against the allegation of harassment of an athlete and running coach while moving on the metro rail wearing half-pant. He has given the call for this programme by opening an event named ‘We board metro wearing shorts’ on Facebook. Farmgate metro rail station of the capital has been fixed as the venue of the programme.
Investigation officer of the case has informed the court that second wife of Member of Parliament Gazi Nazrul Islam, Mariam Khatun, had to sleep even on the balcony beside his bedroom in the flat of NAM building. This has been informed on the basis of information obtained in the interrogation of Gazi Nazrul.
Special Response Battalion (SRB-2) has surrounded the scene after reports of some suspicious objects being found inside Rayerbazar intellectual graveyard in Mohammadpur of the capital.
The Ministry of Expatriates’ Welfare and Overseas Employment has taken a special initiative for the quick solution of various problems and complaints of the Bangladeshis living abroad. A special ‘Complaint Disposal and Resolution Cell’ has been formed with the experienced officers of the ministry for this purpose.