Police yesterday arrested BNP leader Mokbul Hossain for instigating the clashes between shopkeepers and Dhaka College students in the capital’s New Market area that left two persons dead and scores others wounded.
Police have filed a case against former New Market thana BNP president Makbul Hossain and former general secretary of the unit Jahangir Hossain Patwari for obstructing police from discharging duties, assaulting law enforcement officers, and damaging properties.
50 trees cut down in Patuakhali; local AL leaders blamed
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At least 50 government owned trees planted on both sides of a road have been cut down at Dhulia in Patuakhali s Baufal upazila.
Dhulia Union Parishad Chairman Anichur Rahman lodged a written complaint with the upazila engineer of Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) on April 24.
The UP chairman in a written complaint said Dhulia union Jubo League Vice-president Shoaib, Dhulia ward Awami League General Secretary Shahidul Islam and AL activist Harun Hawlader cut down these trees from a strip of road stretching from Verantala Bazar to Chaumohani in the area. The trees are worth about Tk 10 lakh.