DHAKA, 28 March, 2021, (TON): Huge number of law enforcement agencies’ members were deployed across Bangladesh on Sunday as Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh, along with their supporters, observed their pre-announced nationwide strike.

 A clash between madrassah students and police reportedly took place in the Signboard area at about 10:30am as police fire bullets to disperse a gathering of madrassah students.

 Long-distance buses were not seen on the roads as Hefazat supporters put barricades on the roads limiting communication.

Police are seen patrolling on the roads and ruling party supporter were seen insisting drivers to ply their vehicles on roads to foil the strike.

DHAKA, 24 March, 2021, (TON): A man was shot dead without trying to hide in Dhaka's Dakshinkhan zone earlier today. The expired was basically recognized as Abdur Rashid. The occurrence occurred around 11:30 am at Ainushbagh territory.

Azizul Haque, inspector (investigation) of Dakshinkhan Police Station said, "We initially came to know that one Hannan, known as "Japan Hannan" in the locality, shot two rounds of bullets at the victim. The first bullet missed the target while another hit the victim in the head,”

He was raced to a nearby clinic where specialists proclaimed him dead. On data, police hurried to the spot. In the interim, irritated by the episode, local people burnt a vehicle close to the spot of the occurrence.

Two firefighting units from Uttara surged there and were attempting to soak the blast, said Ershad Hossain, obligation official of Fire Service and Civil Defense Headquarters.

DHAKA, 17 March, 2021, (TON): The dead body of the politician and lawyer Barrister Moudud Ahmed will be brought back home on Thursday evening (today).  He will be buried in the family graveyard at Manikpur village in Noakhali’s Companiganj on Friday. 

Moudud Ahmed, a standing committee member of the BNP, he also former prime minister and vice-president of the country. He had been suffering from lung congestion and heart and kidney complications for a long time.

He passed away while undergoing treatment of heart, lung, and kidney diseases in Singapore at the age of 81. He left Dhaka for Singapore for better treatment on February 1. He was accompanied by his wife Hasna Jasimuddin Moudud.

DHAKA, 15 March, 2021, (TON): A court in Bangladesh on Sunday ordered a probe into claims by a formerly jailed cartoonist that he was tortured before police detained him under the country's harsh internet laws, his lawyer said.

Ahmed Kabir Kishore, 45, was arrested in May 2020 under the controversial laws and charged with carrying out anti-state activities and spreading rumors.

The prominent sketch artist was delivered on bail fourteen days prior after a public objection over the demise in prison in February of an essayist, Mushtaq Ahmed, who was captured under similar laws.

Kishore has affirmed he and Ahmed were held at the very prison and that the essayist was likewise tormented by obscure men guarantees that authorities have straight denied.

Kishore filed a petition with a Dhaka court on Wednesday, saying he was beaten with sticks and slapped hard by more than a dozen unknown men who abducted him on May 2 and held him for nearly three days.

Kishore said the unknown men later handed him over to an elite police unit, the Rapid Action Battalion.

Barua said the court had ordered three doctors from the Dhaka Medical College Hospital to examine Kishore, and added that he had undergone an operation on his right ear on Saturday for injuries allegedly sustained when he was beaten.

Quick Action Battalion representative Lieutenant Colonel Ashique Billah said that neither Ahmed nor Kishore were tormented while they were in their care or in prison.

Ahmed's passing in jail started long periods of fights against Prime Minister Sheik Hasina's administration. The nonconformists additionally required the annulment of the advanced laws, which critics say are utilized to suppress disagreement.