Two suspected female militants from the Nilufa Villa building in Narsingdi’s Madhabdi are transferred to a vehicle by SWAT team members on Tuesday after they surrendered. Photo: Obaidur Masum

Technicians working at the CNG Conversion and Testing Workshop of the state-owned Rupantarita Prakritik Gas Company Limited at Rayerbagh in Dhaka on Wednesday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

Technicians working at the CNG Conversion and Testing Workshop of the state-owned Rupantarita Prakritik Gas Company Limited at Rayerbagh in Dhaka on Wednesday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

A view of the CNG Conversion and Testing Workshop of the state-owned Rupantarita Prakritik Gas Company Limited and the Department of Explosives at Rayerbagh in Dhaka on Wednesday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

A view of the CNG Conversion and Testing Workshop of the state-owned Rupantarita Prakritik Gas Company Limited and the Department of Explosives at Rayerbagh in Dhaka on Wednesday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

Different streets of the capital, such as these in Mohakhali, were severely gridlocked on Wednesday evening. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Different streets of the capital, such as these in Mohakhali, were severely gridlocked on Wednesday evening. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

Different streets of the capital, such as these in Mohakhali, were severely gridlocked on Wednesday evening. Photo: Asif Mahmud Ove

A child symbolising the living image of the goddess Durga receives prayers at Dhaka’s Ramkrishna Mission on Wednesday, the Durga Puja Maha Ashtami. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

Devotees worship at Dhaka’s Ramkrishna Mission on Wednesday, the Durga Puja Maha Ashtami. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

The Kumari Puja is held at the Ramkrishna Mission in Dhaka on the Durga Puja Maha Ashtami on Wednesday. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

A child symbolising the living image of the goddess Durga receives prayers at Dhaka’s Ramkrishna Mission on Wednesday, the Durga Puja Maha Ashtami. Photo: Abdullah Al Momin

Two suspected female militants from the Nilufa Villa building in Narsingdi’s Madhabdi are transferred to a vehicle by SWAT team members on Tuesday after they surrendered. Photo: Obaidur Masum

Akhtar Hossen, at the centre in white punjabi, a Dhaka University law student, has started a hunger strike at the foot of the Raju Sculpture in protest against the alleged leak of 'Gha' unit admission test question paper. Quota reform protesters expressed solidarity with Akhtar on Wednesday.

Mainul Husein, an adviser to the military-controlled caretaker government, speaking at the launch of an organisation styled Movement for Justice at the National Press Club in Dhaka on Wednesday.