BNP calls daylong hartal in capital for Dec 4

The BNP has called a daylong general strike in the capital to campaign against the decision to divide the Dhaka City Corporation (DCC). The party will seek to enforce the hartal on December 4 as part of other programmes, acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir told reporters Wednesday evening. Alamgir emerged at 9: 25pm from a meeting of the party's policymaking standing committee to announce the decision to waiting journalists at the Gulshan offices of the chairperson. -bdnews24.com. 6 die in Habiganj road accident HABIGANJ, Nov 30: Six people including four of a family were killed as a microbus carrying nine persons was sandwiched between two petroleum lorries on the Dhaka-Sylhet highway at Nabiganj upazila of Habiganj, police said. - BSS