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UNB, Khulna

Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) members arrested four suspected members of banned Islamist outfit Harkatul Jihad Al Islami (Huji) from inside a mosque in the city yesterday afternoon.

On information, a team of RAB-6 raided Darus Salam Mosque in the city' s Khalispur area at about 5:00 pm and arrested the four young men identified as Mijanur Rahman, 22, Omar Faruk, 26, Yusuf Al Helel, 21, and Mujahidul Islam, 19.

They were holding a meeting inside the mosque, the sources said.

RAB-6, in a press briefing in this evening, said that the suspects were being interrogated.

Prof Dr Md Saifuddin Shah new VC of Khulna University UNB, Khulna The government yesterday appointed Prof Dr Md Saifuddin Shah as the new Vice-Chancellor of Khulna University.

As a senior most Professor, Dr Saifuddin had been acting VC since February 28.

He has been appointed on a four-year term under section 11(1) of Khulna University Act 1990, according to a notification issued by the Ministry of Education.

He joined the Fisheries Marine Resources Technology Department in 1995 as a Professor.