A Supreme Court lawyer serves a legal notice on Shipping Minister Shahjahan Khan, requesting him (Shahjahan) to explain in 24 hours under what authority he has been holding the post of executive president of Bangladesh Sarak Paribahan Sramik Federation.

Hundreds of student protesters who have been gathering at Farmgate intersection, stands up and sings the national anthem as a part of their agitation programme.

Taking matters on to their hands in an attempt to bring discipline in traffic management, the students have now engaged in enforcing rules and regulations. Such actions have been reported from all over – Chittagong, Tangail, Narayanganj, Savar and other places – led by protestors in Dhaka.

Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of River Police Habib was cruising along Karwan Bazar in his black jeep, hoisting a signboard ‘police’ to avoid the students on the road. But the school and college students who are on the streets since Sunday had no time for hierarchy and spared him not. They stopped him up and asked for papers.

A group of celebrities take to the streets expressing solidarity with the students demonstrating at Uttara demanding safe roads.

Students across Bangladesh join in protests, echoing the demand for safe roads in parallel to those agitating in Dhaka with perseverance. Reports of blockades enforced have come from Savar, Narayanganj, Tangail, Natore, Bogra and Rajshahi so far.

A truck ran over a student demonstraing for road safety in Shanir Akhra in the capital at around 9:30am yesterday, angering the protertors demonstrators further.

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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.

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.

Terming all demands of agitating students “logical”, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan yesterday said they have taken the demands into consideration and will implement those.

Rights group Ain O Salish Kendra (ASK) condemns the police action on agitating students demonstrating in Dhaka demanding safe roads.

A school student who was run over by a truck during a protest is alive and recovering in a hospital, doctors say.

Demonstrators stop Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed's car for driving on the wrong side of a road near Bangla Motor.

DMP Commissioner Asaduzzaman Mia today urged the law enforcers not to use force against students, who have taken to streets protesting the death of their two peers in a road accident on Airport Road in Dhaka on Sunday.

The Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) cancels the registration of two buses of 'Jabal-e-Noor Paribahan' amid public outrage over the death of two college students in a road crash on Airport Road on Sunday.

A Dhaka courted place bus driver of Jabal-e-Noor Paribahan Masum Billah on a seven-day remand in a case filed over the death of the two students on Airport Road in Dhaka on Sunday.

During a demo of transport workers, an altercation broke out between them and passengers of a bus at Mouchak area of Siddhirganj in Narayanganj, witnesses say.

Students blocked roads in Narayanganj and Gazipur as protest over the demand for safe roads spread outside Dhaka.