Saturday, January 3rd, 2009 Ignoring Awami League President Sheikh Hasina's instructions, cadres of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) have occupied the rooms of many students, journalists and leaders of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) in all dormitories of Dhaka University.Resident students alleged that the BCL cadres have also gathered firearms in the university halls which, along with the internal clashes among BCL factions, has frightened them.Meanwhile, DU authorities on Thursday postponed all examinations until January 5, for "unavoidable reasons".After the landslide victory of the AL-led grand alliance in the ninth parliamentary elections, Hasina directed BCL General Secretary Mahfuzul Haider Chowdhury Roton not to engage in any ...
(read more) Sunday, March 9th, 2008 The army headquarters yesterday termed false and fabricated some newspaper reports and editorial that the army chief of staff during his India visit had stated that Bangladesh would show respects to the martyred Indian soldiers of 1971 on March 25 every year."As a matter of fact, during his India visit, the army chief didn't make any such statement formally or informally," said an ISPR release.It said that at different meetings during the visit, apart from entourage of the army chief, the Bangladesh high commissioner to India was present."During the meeting of the two army chiefs, the Bangladesh army chief recalled ...
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