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Khulna Varsity closed: Students, transport workers’ violent clash: 30 injured: Inmates asked to vacate dormitories
Khulna Correspondent
At least 50 students of Khulna University were injured in series of clashes between students and transport workers in the city's Sonadanga Bus Terminal on Thursday and Friday morning.
The Khulna University (KU) authority, in an emergency meeting at noon declared the Institution closed sine die and asked the students to vacate the dormitories by 3:00pm on Friday.
The KU on Tuesday went on a month-long summer vacation.
Source said the clashes occurred when four students of the university went to board a Hanif Paribahan bus for Dhaka at Sonadanga Bus Terminal with their computers, luggage and books at 9:00pm on Thursday.  |
Jailbreak in Chuadanga: Massive manhunt, BDR on alert
BSS, Chuadanga
Authorities yesterday ordered a massive manhunt alerting Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) border guards after four "hardcore criminals" serving life imprisonments fled the district jail breaking their prison cells.
"A countrywide alert was issued as police, RAB and army-led joint forces launched a massive manhunt for the jail breakers," deputy commissioner of Chuadanga Mokhlesur Rahman told BSS.
Police super of the district Mofizuddin Ahmed said, coloured photographs of the four criminals, one of them having links with an outlawed ultra left outfit, were circulated in police stations across the country and BDR outposts in frontlines. |
No dialogue, no polls unless Hasina is released: AL leaders
Staff Reporter
Senior leaders of the Awami League yesterday threatened to boycott the ensuing dialogue and general elections if the detained party President Sheikh Hasina was not released before the formal talks between the government and political parties.
"The Awami League will not participate in the formal dialogue between the Government and the political parties as well as in the parliamentary election if President Sheikh Hasina is not released without any condition to join them," influential Presidium member and the top leader of the so-called AL 'reformist' group Amir Hossain Amu told a meeting of the Dhaka Divisional Representatives' of Jubo Mohila (Youth Women) League. |
30 lakh cellphone users face axe: Registration deadline expires May 31
Staff Reporter
A huge number of people are going to lose their mobile phone connections by the end of this month as the operators would be forced to disconnect their lines for their failure to register afresh.
The Government will not extend the deadline to re-register each active SIM card after May 31, though more than 30 lakh subscribers are yet to do it, due mainly to their lethargy, sources in the BTRC said.
Chairman of the Bangladesh Telecom Regulatory Commission Manzurul Alam on Thursday said that the re-registration deadline wouldn't be extended anymore. |
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Internet Edition. May 17, 2008, Updated: Bangladesh Time 12:00 AM 
