Clinton, Trump launch aggressive ad campaigns
ORLANDO: Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have launched aggressive advertisement campaigns running into millions of dollars, with the two rivals virtually carpet bombing key battleground states with their election rallies a week ahead of the US presidential polls.
The advertisement blitz came as the Clinton campaign battles to contain the fallout from her latest brush with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) after the agency revived questions about her use of a private email server as secretary of state.
Latest polls have shown Trump gaining in the opinion polls he trailed until before the announcement by the FBI. Trump and Clinton now are neck-and-neck in several national polls, and in such a situation, the swing states hold the key for them.
Given the schedule of Clinton and Trump, along with President Barack Obama, Ohio and Florida states have emerged as the nucleus of the November 8 presidential elections.
On the first day of the last week before the elections, Clinton addressed three rallies in Florida, while Obama campaigned for her in Ohio. Trump campaigned in Pennsylvania and will address three rallies in Florida over the next two days. Obama would hit the ground in Florida with a series of rallies until tomorrow.
The two rival campaigns have said new meetings would keep adding to their leaders' schedule even till the last minute. DHAKA: The Bangladesh police on Wednesday suspended a senior officer for negligence of duty in Bramhanbaria temple demolition incident, as the top counter-terrorism unit began probing the origin of a controversial Facebook post that sparked the communal violence against Hindus this week.
Brahmanbaria district's Nasirnagar police station Officer- in-charge Md Abdul Kader was suspended for negligence of duty in the temple demolition incident, the Dhaka Tribune reported. The suspension order was issued today, Assistant Police Commissioner (Headquarters) Razon Kumar Das said. About 3,000 people gathered in Nasirnagar upazila on Sunday to stage a protest against the Facebook post. The rally organised by radical Islamist groups resulted in the violence against the minority Hindus and the demolition of temples.
More than 100 people were injured, hundreds of families were left homeless and more than 10 temples vandalised in the nearby villages, the paper said.
The Facebook account was owned by 30-yearold Rasraj Das - an Awami League supporter. Rasraj, who had deleted the post on early Saturday. He was taken into custody the same day. The CounterTerrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit has started the probe into the origin of the Facebook post.