Road and rail services in Brahmanbaria returned to normal after local residents withdrew a five-hour blockade protesting a move to form a new Barishal Union comprising six villages in Brahmanbaria Sadar upazila and establish a new upazila under the same name.
Local residents have blocked railway tracks and roads in Brahmanbaria, disrupting train services on the Dhaka-Chattogram and Dhaka-Sylhet routes, demanding the division of Brahmanbaria Sadar upazila to form a new upazila and the restoration of six villages to Basudeb Union.
The organisers have dropped film actress Pori Moni from an award programme in Chattogram amid protests by journalists. They announced this decision on Saturday afternoon (November 7).
Chattogram City BNP had taken a programme of broadcasting party songs and speeches on microphones in different areas of Chattogram city on the occasion of ‘National Revolution and Solidarity Day’. During this programme in Agrabad area on Saturday morning (November 7) the song ‘Bangabandhur Kanya Tumi Bangladesher Neta’ written about former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, who was ousted from power in the student-people’s mass uprising, started playing on the microphone.
Four people including three of a family were killed in a road accident in Melandah upazila of the district this morning.
A dispute has resurfaced over the ownership and preservation of the historic home of language movement veteran and martyred Liberation War figure Dhirendranath Datta in Dharmasagarpar area of Cumilla city, after leaders and activists of the National Citizen Party (NCP) demolished a signboard installed in front of the property.