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News in Brief
Joint forces to conduct drives in
capital if necessary: DMP
Staff Correspondent
Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) said joint forces will conduct drives in the capital, if necessary.
"We have considerable information about three people out of the 11 who took part in the rampage at Motijheel on Friday. If we fail to bring them to book soon, there may be a joint drive," Monirul Islam, joint commissioner of DMP, told reporters yesterday.
On Friday, more than 500 Jamaat-Shibir men unleashed a reign of terror near Motijheel AGB Colony kitchen market, protesting the execution of war criminal Abdul Quader Mollah.
DMP published photographs of 11 people on its website and announced Tk 1 lakh reward for information leading up to the arrest of each.
Pro-BNP-Jamaat teachers call for non-party polls-time government
Staff Correspondent
University Teachers Association of Bangladesh (UTAB), a body of pro-BNP-Jamaat teachers, yesterday urged the government to stop the "one-sided and farcical" election and reintroduce non-party polls-time government for a free, fair and participatory election to save the country and its democracy.
A statement, signed by all 625 members of UTAB, noted that in a country of 160 million people with more than 90 million voters, only 600 candidates, from 16 out of 40 active political parties, showed interest in participating in the polls.
BGB seizes illegal goods worth Tk526cr this year
Staff Correspondent
Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) this year seized contraband goods and drugs worth overTk 526.52 crore while those were being smuggled in and out of the country'.
BGB also rescued 685 women and 168 children from being trafficked out of the country' and detained 16 human traffickers and filed 404 cases in this connection, said a press release yesterday.
BGB detained 1,488 persons on charge of smuggling in 11 months since January this year. The drugs include Phensidyl, Yaba pills and foreign wine.
Obituary
Staff Correspondent
Kazi Sayeed Uddin Papon, an associate professor of Khagrachhari Government College, died due to a cardiac arrest on Monday. He was 46.
He left behind his wife and two children, says a press release.
A doa mahfil will be held on Friday after Juma prayers in the
capital's Shekhertek's house-10 and road-9.