Dhaka metro rail compartments were seen brimming with commuters this morning, just a day after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated the Agargaon-Motijheel route. This occurred simultaneously with reports of arson violence across the capital amidst a 48-hour road, rail, and waterways blockade organized by BNP, Jamaat, and other like-minded opposition parties nationwide. Commuters in Dhaka were boarding the train in ...

BNP’s Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Sunday condemned the arrests of the party’s vice chairmen Barrister Shahjahan Omar, Air Vice Marshal (retd) Altaf Hossain Chowdhury, and organizing secretary (Mymensingh division) Syed Saleh Ahmed Prince as well as others. Of them, Barrister Shahjahan Omar was arrested from Dhaka late at night yesterday, Altaf from Uttara early today, and ...

More than 30 people were killed in an Israeli bombing on a refugee camp in central Gaza late Saturday, the Hamas-run health ministry there said, amid ongoing fighting between Israel and Hamas militants. “More than 30 (dead) arrived at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir Al-Balah in the massacre committed by the occupation in Al-Maghazi camp in the central Gaza Strip,” ...

Twenty-seven platoons of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) have been deployed in Dhaka and adjoining districts to maintain law and order situation as the 48-hour countrywide blockade called by the BNP, Jamaat and like-minded opposition parties began on Sunday morning. Shariful Islam, public relations officer (PRO) at BGB headquarters, confirmed the development this morning, saying that 10 more platoons of the ...

A goods-laden pickup van was set on fire in Sylhet’s South Surma on the first day of the second phase of blockade called by BNP-Jamaat. Police arrested one person in the incident. Witnesses said picketers pelted bricks at a pick-up van carrying food products in Jalkarkandi area of Parairchak. Later, petrol bombs were thrown. At that time, the front part ...

The by-elections to Brahmanbaria-2 and Lakshmipur-3 constituencies are underway peacefully, with low voter turnout, amid the countrywide blockade on Sunday Voting began at 8 am and will continue till 4 pm without any break. Though the presence of voters at polling centers was thin, with time the voter turnout will increase, authorities hoped. In Brahmanbaria-2, voters are casting their votes ...

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) and detectives arrested BNP’s Vice Chairmen Air Vice Marshal (retd) Altaf Hossain Choudhury and Barrister Shahjahan Omar from Dhaka early Sunday. A team of RAB arrested former Home and Commerce Minister and chief of Air Staff Altaf Hossain from Tongi, who had been hiding there since a case filed over the attack on the ...

Game 37 of the ongoing ODI World Cup 2023 will feature a clash between India (IND) and South Africa (SA) at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata, on Sunday, November 5. Both sides have been in fantastic form in the tournament, with the Indian team staying unbeaten so far. The side will be coming into the game on the back of ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina left Dhaka for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) on Sunday morning to attend the International Conference on Women in Islam to be held in Jeddah. The Kingdom in coordination with the General Secretariat of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) is hosting the conference on November 6-8. A commercial flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines, carrying ...

The main opposition BNP and its ally Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami have called a two-day blockade starting today to press home their one-point demand for resignation of the Awami League government. Unidentified people set fire to four minibuses at different places in Gulistan, Elephant Road, New Market and Saidabad on Saturday night ahead of the blockade, said officials of Fire Service and ...