<div style="text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 1rem;"><br></span></div><div style="text-align: justify; "><b><span style="font-size: 1rem;">The latest 24-hour road-rail-waterway blockade, called by BNP, is underway across Bangladesh with reports of arson attacks.</span><br></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Dhaka is witnessing usual traffic this morning despite the blockade.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Commuters were seen going to their respective destinations in a rush while activities at government and private offices were going on as usual.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Many students with guardians are going to their respective schools for their final exams.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">A bus of Turag Paribahan was set on fire by miscreants at Dholaipar in Shyampur area of Dhaka at 5:30 am.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">A total of 428 patrol teams of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) have been deployed across the country to maintain law and order during the ongoing 24-hour rail, road and waterways blockade called by BNP.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">BNP called for a daylong blockade today and a daylong hartal on Thursday to protest the schedule for the next national election announced by the Election Commission (EC).</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Party's Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi came up with the announcement at a virtual press briefing on Monday.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Rizvi said the programmes are also meant to mount pressure on the government to quit, hold the next election under a non-party neutral government, and release BNP leaders and activists, including its secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir. UNB</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/kh</div>