The road safety protesters again came under attack in the capital yesterday, a day after the students were attacked by police and “ruling party men” in Mirpur.

Reckless driving claimed five more lives yesterday amid the nationwide student protest for road safety.

Being thoroughly outclassed in the first game, Bangladesh will be looking to save the three-match T20I series against West Indies when they take the field for the second game at the Central Broward Regional Park in Florida tomorrow.

It's anarchy of an incredible scale. Consider this: There are some 35.36 lakh registered vehicles in the country. So far, the BRTA, a transport regulator, has issued 26.39 lakh driving licences. This means, around 9 lakh vehicles are in the hands of drivers who do not have licences.

Dhaka Metropolitan Police Commissioner Asaduzzaman Mia last night claimed a vested quarter infiltrated into students' road safety movement and police will take legal actions if the infiltrators create anarchy.

In Bangladesh it is easy to pass a law and then forget about its implementation and making any real effort to correct the system.

Rejecting assurances from three ministers, student protesters hit the streets for the fifth straight day yesterday, issuing a clarion call to meet their demands for a safe and orderly road and justice for their two fellows killed in recent road crash.

Police and alleged ruling party men attacked student protesters in the capital and elsewhere, injuring a number of them yesterday.

Three ministers have blasted the BNP over the ongoing student protest that has spread across the country.

Commuters in different parts of the capital struggled to reach their destinations yesterday as public transports were off the streets fearing retaliation from aggrieved protestors.

Revote at two polling centres in Sylhet City Corporation will be held on August 11.

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School children coming in hordes, marching down the street in raw rage is something unprecedented. But that is happening right now, and it signifies only one thing – a show of complete no-confidence on the governance in the transport system.

Student protests spread like wildfire across the capital and elsewhere in the country yesterday, as demonstrators vowed to remain on the streets until their demand for safe road is met.

Agitating students put two buses on fire at Dhaka’s Uttara as they take to the streets for the third consecutive day protesting death of two college students being run over by a bus on Sunday.

A schoolgirl was killed and another injured when a truck hit them in Comilla's Muradnagar upazila yesterday. The accident happened at a time when school and college students took to the streets in the capital, demanding justice for the death of the two college students.

The Prime Minister's Office yesterday directed the Dhaka Metropolitan Police to take legal action against those responsible for Sunday's road crash that took the lives of two college students and left several others injured.

Heated debates over stripping around 40 lakh people in Assam of citizenship continued for the second day yesterday with the opposition parties accusing the government of politicising the issue and making people refugees in their own country.

Bangladesh will embark on the three-match T20I series against West Indies today with the first match to take place from 6:30am Bangladesh time in St Kitts.

The election result that put the BNP mayoral hopeful ahead of the Awami League contestant in the Sylhet city polls came as a "surprise" to the party high-ups as they had feared the ruling party would take away all the three mayoral posts through irregularities.