[Bangla Daily Star] BNP has called a 24-hour hartal... a peculiarly Bangla combination of a general strike and a riot, used by both major political groups in lieu of actual governance ...
in the Dhaka city from Sunday morning to protest the arrest and remand of the party's Vice-President Sadeque Hossain Khoka.
Meanwhile,
...back at the pond, the radioactive tadpoles grown into frogs. Really big frogs, in fact...
the main opposition party declared a two-day dawn-to-dusk shutdown in Moulvibazar district from Sunday and daylong shutdown in Titas upazila of Comilla for Sunday demanding release of its big shots and withdrawal of cases against them.
Abdus Salam, member secretary of Dhaka city unit of the main opposition party, told news hounds that they would enforce the shutdown from 6:00am Sunday to 6:00am Monday.
The BNP also demanded immediate release of Khoka, also Dhaka city convenor of the party.
A Dhaka court yesterday placed Khoka on a two-day remand in connection with an arson attack on a bus at Shahbagh that left three passengers dead and 16 others injured.
Members of Rapid Action Battalion
(Rab) and detectives tossed in the clinkYouse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit!
the BNP leader from a house at the capital's Uttara on Wednesday.
On November 28, the bus in Shahbagh carrying 19 people was set on fire and Shahbagh police filed the case for instigating and criminal masterminding the arson attack.