Islamist parties won’t be banned : Hasina
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Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday reportedly asked the cabinet members to maintain close contact with leaders of the Islamic political parties, except Jamaat-e-Islami, and to assure them that religion-based politics would not be banned.
The Prime Minister gave the directives at the regular cabinet meeting held at Bangladesh Secretariat, according to insiders.
Sources said Sheikh Hasina also suggested the ministers to exchange views with leaders of Islamist parties, if necessary, to dispel their confusion over reprinting the Constitution in line with a High Court judgment scrapping the Fifth Amendment to it.
Super Typhoon Megi hits northern Philippines
An intense "super typhoon" has made landfall in the northern Philippines, lashing the area with heavy rain and winds of up to 225km/h (140mph). At least one person has been reported killed, and thousands have fled their homes. Emergency services are on alert, and many schools are closed. Typhoon Megi is the strongest storm the Philippines has faced for four years. In 2006, a storm with winds of 155km/h triggered mudslides, burying villages and killing about 1,000 people. Tropical cyclones formed in the Pacific Ocean are called typhoons, but are classified on a scale of one to five in the same way as Atlantic Ocean hurricanes. |
6 hurt in Fatullah explosion
At least six persons received severe injuries when an explosion with big bang blown off roof of a tin-shed mess at Masdair in Fatulla early yesterday. Members of different agencies started investigation just after the incident. Police recovered some religious books, ID cards and some evidences from the spot. A team of DB's bomb disposal unit had been conducting massive search to find out any clue behind the explosion till the time of filing this report at about 7:30 pm on Monday. Locals suspected that it was an act of militants who had been using the house as a hideout of a militant outfit. |
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