Bangladesh

Ruling MP Sarah Begum Kabari has taken part in Narayanganj mayor candidate Selina Hayat Ivy's campaign and challenge Shamim Osman. She asked the residents of Shiddhirganj wards 1 and 2 on Thursday afternoon to vote for the Narayanganj Awami League vice-president. "Ivy is a tested leader. She has done much development during her time as the municipality mayor," Kabari told reporters. "Narayanganj needs Ivy for its development," she said. Ivy's rival candidate Shamim Osman, a former Awami League MP, with whom Kabari also has a longstanding feud, secured the party's support for Narayanganj City Corporation's first election.Votes will be held in the city on Oct 30. All five parliament seats in Narayanganj district are taken by Awami League. Kabari is the only MP of the five to not join Shamim's campaign and to support Ivy's candidacy. Metropolitan Awami League president Anwar Hossain was present with Ivy and Kabari during the campaign.

The Bus Owners' and Workers' Unity Council has declared that they will enforce a transport strike on 41 routes of the North Western region of the country inorder to release the killer driver Jamir Hossain, who is alleged for murdering Tareque Masud and Mishuk Munier. Khulna Transport Workers Unity Council general secretary Sahadat Hossain Mridha told on Thursday, "Although bus movement has been suspended on 18 routes of Khulna, we will sit with the Jessore workers union at noon to take the final decision." Besides this, the strike is continuing on the 21 routes of the Jessore district, he added. Earlier on Wednesday, the association called an indefinite bus strike in 21 southwestern districts, demanding release of the driver who was allegedly responsible for the deaths of filmmaker Tareque masud and television personality Mishuk Munier. On the same evening, transport workers federation chief Shahjahan Khan said that the indefinite bus strike was withdrawn within ...