Hindu temple vandalised in B’desh
Dhaka: A Hindu temple was vandalised in clashes
between two groups in Bangladesh’s central Tangail district, a media report said Sunday. The family of the temple’s owner was also attacked by a group of eight to nine people in Batra village of the district Friday, Dhaka Tribune reported. Chitta Ranjan acquired the land and built a temple of lord Shiva over 20 years ago, it said.
Ex-min sent to jail on graft charges
Dhaka: A Bangladesh court on Sunday scrapped the bail former Minister Nazmul Huda and sent him to jail after he surrendered before it in Taka 2.4 crore graft case, in which he was sentenced to four years imprisonment.
Huda, who is Chairman of the Bangladesh National
Alliance (BNA) — an ally of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s ruling Awami League, was sentenced to seven-year jail term by a lower court in the case but the High Court last year, reduced his sentence to four years.