At the beginning of winter, Delhi and Lahore in India have been severely impacted by air pollution in recent days. However, the capital Dhaka has been ranked sixth as of yesterday. At 10 AM today, Dhaka’s Air Quality Index (AQI) was 181, which is considered very unhealthy. On Thursday (November 21), Dhaka ranked sixth in…
Three quota protest coordinators — Dhaka University’s Asif Mahmud, Abu Baker Mazumder and Rifat Rashid — have been found after five days. Asif and Bakar both wrote on Facebook that they were blindfolded and left in Hatirjheel and Dhanmondi areas of the capital yesterday. Neither of them mentioned who took them. Rifat wrote on Facebook…
At Dhaka’s Gulistan Zero Point, students and citizens have gathered under the banner of the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement. Demanding the establishment of democratic rights, the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement announced a public gathering at the same location as a counter-program to the Awami League’s demonstration march scheduled for Sunday, November 10. The gathering began on Saturday…
Nahid Islam, a key organiser of quota reform movement, alleged he was “tortured physically” until he was unconscious. In the early hours Saturday, he was picked up allegedly by law enforcers from a house in the capital’s Sabujbagh. Talking to The Daily Star, Nahid said, “After taking me into a room, they interrogated me over…
The police have launched special security checkpoints at various key and strategic locations in the capital to maintain law and order, combat illegal arms, drugs, and contraband, and prevent theft. This operation commenced on Monday at 4 PM. Muhammad Talebur Rahman, Deputy Commissioner of the Media and Public Relations Division of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police…
