The ongoing curfew in Dhaka, Gazipur, Narayanganj and Narsingdi districts would remain relaxed from 7:00am to 8:00pm from Wednesday, said home minister Asaduzzaman Khan.
鈥楾he curfew will be relaxed for the next four days鈥擶ednesday to Saturday and it will now remain enforced from 8:00pm to 7:00am in those districts,鈥� he told journalists after a meeting at his ministry conference room Tuesday evening.
In other districts, the local administration will decide about the duration of curfew.
Chaired by the home minister, the meeting was attended by law minister Anisul Huq, industries minister Nurul Majid Mahmud Humayun, education minister Mahibul Hasan Chowdhury, state minister for information and broadcasting Mohammad Ali Arafat, state minister for labour and employment Md Nazrul Islam Chowdhury and state minister for posts, telecommunication and information technology Zunaid Ahmed Palak.
Senior secretaries, secretaries of the respective ministries, inspector general of police, director general of RAB and top officials of law enforcement and intelligence agencies were present at the meeting.
Meanwhile, all government, semi-government, autonomous, semi-autonomous and private offices will return to usual time 鈥� 9.00am to 5.00pm 鈥� from Wednesday.
The ministry of public administration issued the instructions in this regard on Tuesday.
Besides, all banks will run their operations as per their normal schedule 鈥� 10:00am to 6:00pm 鈥� from Wednesday.
Bangladesh Bank on the same day issued a circular in this regard.
As per the regular schedule, transactions will take place from 10:00am to 4:00pm starting from Wednesday.
The banks, however, will remain open until 6:00pm to conduct post-trading activities.
