Bangladesh Red Crescent Society (BDRCS) has 13,336 trained, skilled and active RCY volunteers under 68 units of BDRCS. Experts feel the training should be made mandatory for people living in areas vulnerable to disasters
A Dhaka court today placed Mufti Sharifullah, an assistant publicity secretary of Hefajat-e-Islam's central committee, on a one-day remand in a case filed under the Special Powers Act with Jatrabari Police Station on May 6, 2013. Metropolitan Magistrate Abu Syeed passed the order after Ayan Mahmud, an inspector of Jatrabari Police Station and also the investigation officer of
We will produce the arrestee before court tomorrow in the case filed in 2013, he added.
On May 5, 2013, thousands of members of Hefajat, a Qawmi madrasa-based Islamist organisation, clashed with law enforcers and ruling AL men, turning Motijheel and Paltan areas into a battlefield.
They set fire to hundreds of shops, vehicles and police outposts and looted stores, including those with Islamic books. Clashes also took place in different other districts in the following couple of days.
A total of 83 cases were filed in seven districts including in Dhaka, accusing 3,416 named and 84,796 unnamed people. Many of the accused were from Hefajat, Jamaat-e-Islam and the BNP.