Dhaka limps back to normal amid echoes of protests

 

 

 

WITH the Metro resuming services,buses and tax is plying regularly and university students enjoying care free evening strolls in the gardens of the historic Curzon Hall - life seems to be returning to normal in Dhaka. Businesses have resumed but it’s not business as usual in the capital city of Bangladesh. Till three weeks ago, the streets of the capital were floodedwithanti-Government protesters, many public squares choked by the agitating masses reaching a dramatic climax on August 5 - - the fall of the Sheikh Hasinaled Government and her fleeing to India.

 

The wave of the resistance has subsided and an interim Government has bee nin place since August 8, but the streaks of rebellion remain in many streets of Dhaka. In the past few days, several Government employees have held protests in groups at the Government Secretariat while some demonstrators have marched in streets near the famousAhsanManzilandother areas to put forth their demands. ManyDhakaUniversity students are raising their voices regularly atthe Raju Memorial Site opposite the Teacher StudentCentre (TSC) for holding students’ union elections at the varsity and demanding “no political interference” on the campus.

 

 

 

 

BANGLADESH’S former Textile and Jute Minister Golam Dastagir Gazi has been arrested here as the police take stern measures against officials and Ministers of the ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League Government, according to media reports on Sunday. The 76-year-old leader was detained late Saturday night from a house in the Piergoli area of the capital Dhaka around 3 am, ‘The Daily Star’ news paper quoted Paltan police station officer-in-charge Mollah Mohammad Khalid Hussain as saying.