News Watch (26-04-2018)

Suitor knifes schoolgirl

CHUADANGA, Apr 25: A schoolgirl sustained injuries as a miscreant stabbed her in Hajrahati village under Chuadanga municipality on Wednesday as she refused his love proposal. The victim was identified as Lima Khatun, 14, daughter of Abdur Rahman of the village and a Class VIII student of Chuadanga Rahela Khatun Girls' Academy. Witnesses said Rana, son of Liakat, swooped on the schoolgirl around 9:20am while she was going to her school. He had also threatened to kill her. Chuadanga Police Superintendent Mahbubur Rahman said they were trying to arrest Rana. — UNB

Police release Bdjobs CEO

Police have released AKM Fahim Mashroor, chief executive of Bangladesh's largest online job site bdjobs.com, hours after detaining him on charges of ridiculing Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Facebook. The police detained him from the Bdjobs office at Karwan Bazar in Dhaka around 1:00pm on Wednesday, said ADC Nazmul Islam of cyber crime cell of the DMP's Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crimes Unit.

— bdnews24.com