The national standing committee of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has taken interviews of the nomination seekers for the Thakurgaon-1 by-election. However, the party has not yet officially announced who will be the final party candidate. Acting secretary general of BNP Ruhul Kabir Rizvi said on Friday night that the decision on this matter will be announced after the final nomination.
Special Response Battalion (SRB) has called upon the general public to provide information on looted and illegal arms scattered across various places of the country. The force has informed that if information is given about the location of arms, the informant will be rewarded according to government rules without putting them into any kind of legal complications.
Multiple cocktail explosions and gunfire have taken place in front of the main gate of Jatrabari Police Station of the capital. One person has been injured by being shot in this, it has been learnt. This incident took place at 7:40pm on Friday (September 18).
Police have recovered the throat-slit body of a housewife named Yanur, 25, from under a bed of a rented house in Kadamtali of the capital. No trace of her husband Jewel Rana has been found since the incident. Police are primarily assuming that the husband may have fled after killing the wife.
Cocktail explosions have taken place in Agargaon and Mohakhali after Malibagh of the capital. These separate explosions took place in the area adjacent to Bangladesh Betar Bhaban in Agargaon and in Mohakhali around the evening on Friday (September 18).
The government has issued urgent directives to all district councils in the country to ensure sustainable energy use and electricity savings. All district councils have been directed to install rooftop solar power systems at their installations by January 31.