Local people on Monday staged demonstrations on Monday in different parts of the city protesting frequent load shedding. Several hundred people thronged at Mira Bazar area around 11 am and staged sit-in in front of the power office for an hour. Later, they withdrew their programme after getting assurance from the authorities concerned of the power office. When speaking, local people said they have been experiencing frequent load shedding for the past one week and the power development authorities did not follow the schedule set by the government, which disrupts their business and damaged electrical equipment’s. Read: Parts of Sylhet city to experience 13-hour load shedding per day They are not getting pure water for household work and they are going through immense suffering. They also demanded load shedding as per schedule announced by the Prime Minister. The residents of Mirabazar and Darjipara also staged demonstration for same demand.

Residential students of Rajshahi University’s Begum Rokeya Hall on Saturday staged a sit-in in front of their hall demanding solutions to various problems they are facing, presenting a ten-point charter of demands. The demands include cancelling the ‘evening law’ (whereby students have to be in their dorms by a certain time each evening or risk being locked out), better quality meals, fixing canteen mismanagement, allowing guests, alumni and residents of other halls to enter the premises, better WiFi, cleaner surroundings, clean washrooms, action against hall staff for misbehaving, allowing the students to stay in the hall for at least two months after the completion of Master's exams, resolving the problems in the reading room and arranging a kitchen for the students in the 'gono room'. Read: Apparel makers urged not to take work orders without justified rate Students reported that the meal price in the hall’s diner and canteen has been increased since the campus reopened, but the quality of food has not improved. Hall authority has been repeatedly informed but they are not taking any action. Internet speed is very weak too. Hall staff misbehave when someone enters the hall after 7 pm. Mosquitoes and flies are on the rise as the washrooms and surroundings of the hall are not kept clean, students alleged. The students also warned that they would go for a tougher movement if their demands are not met by November 23. Later, student adviser Md Tareq Nur and proctor Md Liaket Ali came and asked for a few days to negotiate the problems but students refused. Read: Young generation to forge greater Bangladesh-Japan cultural ties: Envoy Then, under the pressure of the students, they held a meeting with the provost of Rokeya Hall. After the meeting, the students postponed their movement after getting assurance. After the meeting, Rokeya Hall provost Dr Jayanti Rani Basak said, “The students have pressed home a few demands while some decisions have been taken to solve some of them. The administration will make a decision on the other demands.” The authorities took three days to consider the demands. An overall final decision will be announced in the afternoon of November 23.

Having failed to hold its scheduled rally in the city due to ‘obstruction’ by the police on the first anniversary of the 11th parliamentary election, BNP on Monday announced that it will stage demonstrations in the capital on Tuesday.

Jatiya Oikyafront Convener Dr Kamal Hossain on Thursday said they will take to the streets uncompromisingly to ‘restore’ democracy and people’s voting rights by strengthening their unity further.

Workers of a readymade garment factory staged demonstrations here on Tuesday blocking Dhaka-Aricha highway near Savar Bazar bus stand demanding that unpaid wages be cleared.