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An announcement claiming that Sheikh Hasina, president of the banned Awami League and fugitive former prime minister, would return to Bangladesh was made over a loudspeaker while traveling around in a battery-powered autorickshaw in Manda upazila of Naogaon. A video of the incident has spread on social media. The announcement was made publicly on Thursday in Chhoto Mulluk village under Kalikapur Union of the upazila. A loudspeaker was attached to a battery-powered autorickshaw for the pur...

Mahdi Hasan, member secretary of the Habiganj district unit of the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement, was released nearly 21 hours after being taken into police custody during a protest. He left Habiganj Sadar Model Police Station at around 2:30 pm Tuesday along with several others who had also been in police custody. Police said Mahdi was released after signing a bond following measures to maintain law and order. Sadar Model Police Station Officer in Charge (OC) Zahidur Rahman told re...

Chhatra Shakti has announced a protest program at the University of Dhaka in protest of the attack on NCP leaders in Habiganj. The protest march will be held tonight. In a statement, Chhatra Shakti said the protest rally will be held “to protest the attack on the convoy of NCP leaders during the July march yesterday and the imposition of Section 144 and police obstruction to today's centrally announced program, which amount to the reestablishment of a fascist system of rule, and to demand...