Schools and businesses were shut in Bangladesh's capital on Sunday as opposition parties enforced a daylong general strike across the South Asian nation. An 18-party opposition alliance was enforcing the strike to urge the government to find a regional opposition leader who went missing on Tuesday. Security officials cordoned off the headquarters of the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party, but the first few hours of Sunday's strike were largely peaceful. Traffic on the usually clogged streets of the capital, Dhaka, was thin amid tight security, with several thousand police deployed across the city of 10 million people, according to a report of DPA.
