Leaders and activists of the banned organisation Chhatra League, the banned Awami League and their affiliate organisations clashed with police in Gopalganj with chase and counter-chase. At that time a police pickup was set on fire. Six platoons of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) members have been deployed in the district to control the situation.
Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Shayestaganj Police Station Abul Kalam has said police stopped a Baul song session in Shayestaganj upazila of Habiganj. The programme was scheduled to be held at the premises of Purasunda Government Primary School in the upazila organised by local cultural organisation ‘Sanskritik Sandhya’ on Monday night (November 9).
Hasib Al Islam, president of the Dhaka University unit of Jatiya Chhatra Shakti, an affiliate of the National Citizen Party (NCP), was attacked by a group of armed miscreants in Srimangal, Moulvibazar, on Tuesday, 10 November, while travelling to a resort in an autorickshaw.
A bus driver died from suffocation after a fire broke out in a parked local bus at the New Bus Terminal in Faridpur early Tuesday.
Six factories in three industrial areas of Gazipur declared a one-day general holiday on Tuesday after workers staged protests demanding higher wages and attempted to persuade employees at neighbouring factories to stop work.
Coastal fishermen and bawalis have held a boat human chain and protest rally on the Kholpetua river in Shyamnagar of Satkhira with the one-point demand of eliminating forest bandits from the Sundarbans.