A fire broke out in Dhaka’s Gendaria area early today. Ten shops and a rickshaw garage were on fire. The blaze started at around 4:20 am in the morning, said Anwarul Islam, warehouse inspector of Fire Service and Civil Defense headquarters' media cell. The first unit of the fire service reached the spot around 4:30 am. Also read: 4 dwelling houses, 2 shops gutted in Barishal fire Four units from Sutrapur and Postagola fire stations rushed there and doused the flame at around 5:40 am. No injury or casualty was reported. The origin of the fire could not be known yet.    

Allama Shah Ahmed Shafi, the rector of Hathazari Madrasa and chief of Hefazat e Islam, breathed his last in a hospital in the capital on Friday evening, within 24 hours of resigning from his post at Hathazari in the face of student protests.