DEATH OF TWO STUDENTS IN ACCIDENT IN CAPITAL Protests bring traffic to a halt
Students of different educational institutions, including Shaheed Ramiz Uddin Cantonment College, blocked the capital’s Airport Road for nearly six hours Monday, protesting at the deaths of two of their fellows in a road accident at Kurmitola on Sunday.
Rajshahi polls mired in irregularities
Opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party mayoral candidate in Rajshahi Mossaddique Hossain Bulbul staged a sit-in at a polling station protesting at ousting or barring his polling agents from polling stations and other irregularities that mired the Rajshahi city polls on Monday.
My resignation no solution: Shajahan
Shipping minister Shajahan Khan on Monday said that his resignation was no solution to traffic accidents as his remarks over deaths of two students in Kurmitola bus accident on Sunday sparked huge criticism on social media and street protests in Dhaka.
RAB arrests three JMB people
The Rapid Action Battalion on has arrested three members of banned extremist outfit Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh at places in Dhaka
Students block city roads, bus drivers held
Rapid Action Battalion on Monday arrested two bus drivers and their assistants as students of Shaheed Ramiz Uddin Cantonment College and other institutions took to the streets protesting at the death of two college students in a road accident at Kurmitola on Sunday.
Bulbul begins sit in at a Rajshahi centre
Bangladesh Nationalist Party’s mayoral candidate for Rajshahi city corporation Mosaddek Hossain Bulbul began sit in at Islamia College polling centre at Binodpur in Rajshahi protesting at irregularities in election.
BNP candidate quits polls in Barisal
Bangladesh Nationalist Party’s mayoral candidate for Barisal City Corporation, Mojibar Rahman Sarwar has boycotted the elections protesting at widespread stuffing and manipulation.
Voting in Rajshahi, Barisal, Sylhet on
Voting in the elections to Rajshahi, Barisal and Sylhet city corporations began on Monday morning amid allegations of intimidation of opposition polling agents and electorates and fear ballot stuffing.
Angry students block Airport Road
Traffic on Airport road came to a halt on Monday morning as students of different schools and colleges blocked the road protesting the death of two students of Shaheed Ramiz Uddin School and College in a road accident on Sunday.
Shajahan makes light of deaths of students in road accident
People responsible for road accidents would get punished as per gravity of the crime, said shipping minister Shajahan Khan on Sunday, breaking almost into a giggle as he faced questions from journalists at Bangladesh Secretariat in the capital.
