Workers at a garment factory have blocked the busy Arakan Road in Chattogram city, demanding payment of outstanding salaries and overtime. The blockade began around 11:00 am today, Saturday, in the C&B area of the city, causing severe traffic jam on the major thoroughfare. As of 3 pm, when this report was filed, the blockade […]
The 36-hour nationwide blockade launched today, Tuesday, has been called by the BNP and marks the eleventh round of such blockade, which is scheduled to end tomorrow, Wednesday at 6:00 pm. After a grand rally in Dhaka on 28 October, the BNP launched a dawn-to-dusk strike (bandh) across the country on 29 October. Since then, […]
During the ‘peace rally’, Dhaka Metropolitan North Awami League office secretary William Praloy Samaddar was delivering a speech when the bus was set on fire. He told Prothom Alo that while speaking he saw that the bus was on fire. When the Prajapati Paribahan bus was set on fire, there were about 40 passengers on […]
He also said that two units of the fire service immediately responded to the report of fire in the bus and successfully extinguished the flames. There is no news of any casualty in the incident yet. Today, Thursday, is the last day of the three-day blockade called by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party to press its […]
However, the ‘crime scene’ tape was not seen today. Since the clash took place in the center of the party’s grand rally on October 28, the police cordoned off the area in front of the party office with ‘crime scene’ tape. Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Motijheel Division Deputy Commissioner (DC) Hayatul Islam Khan told Prothom […]
Although the BNP general secretary is in jail and many leaders are on the run to avoid arrest, the party has imposed a continuous blockade for three days amid the adverse situation. BNP leaders said that they want to continue the program without any pause despite the difficult situation. The party will observe a continuous […]
Vehicular movement was almost normal in various areas of the capital from 7:00 am to 8:00 pm on Tuesday, the first day of the three-day non-stop blockade imposed separately by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party and Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami. . More rickshaws and CNG-run auto-rickshaws were seen plying in the capital’s Green Road, Tejgaon, Vijay Sarani, Farmgate, […]