Snakes
Issue 17
Panic gripped the nation. The once extinct Russell’s Viper has returned. One AL man offered a $425 bounty for each viper caught in Faridpur.
A $10,000 goat has brought down an NRB official. After Matiur Rahman’s son bragged about the sacrificial goat online, Rahman lost his job and passport. His house and cars may be next.
While AL leadership awaits DW’s next Gaza documentary, a bureaucrat, somewhere, thought better of it, and quietly removed two RAB personnel from the next UN peacekeeping rotation.
According to Zillur Rahman, and the New Age opinion editor, US ambassador Peter Haas channeled his inner-Archer Blood and resigned in protest against the US’ election policy. If only it were true.
It wasn’t the Americans. Chinese or Russians either. There were no complicated loans. Or bribes paid. Just bullets and shells. The junta in Myanmar, and its civil war, that cut St. Martin’s off.
It’s not just St. Martin’s. “[The Aarakan Army] could have already taken over” Cox’s Bazar.
China and India will stage a tug of war over the Teesta River. Organizers haven’t set a date. But the contest will likely begin after the prime minister’s trip to China next month.
Now that outrage over the proposed $5 billion loan from Beijing has subsided, the prime minister will request another $2 billion. Its use for import payments should confuse regime critics.
Bangladesh slipped notches. But don’t worry. It’s still ahead of India, Pakistan.
The railway transit agreement with India has some wondering whether the country will be sold to India. They are Pakistan’s stooges, according to the prime minister. It is they who have sold themselves.
Khaleda Zia, 79, remains critically ill. She has a new pacemaker. Stents. But her hospital’s board says ‘it is not possible to treat the disease of Khaleda Zia’.
Controversy has struck Bangladesh Scouts. They chose compromise over an election.
Jollad Shahjahan, 74, felt chest pain Monday morning. He died hours later, ending his rise from robber and murderer to the country’s most prolific executioner, published author, and TikTok star. None of the teenage girls featured in his shorts were interviewed.