Over two dozen workers of an Epyllion Group factory in Mirpur-11 were injured as unidentified outsiders allegedly entered their workplace and assaulted them with rods during a silent protest for higher minimum wages yesterday.

South Surma Police Station Officer-in-Charge (OC) was injured in a misfire at Satmile in Lalabazar area of South Surma upazila of Sylhet last morning.

Police yesterday recovered a man’s body from a pond near his residence three days after his disappearance in Khulna’s Daulatpur upazila.

A Jubo Dal leader wearing a “press” vest torched a bus in Dhaka’s Kakrail during Saturday’s clash between BNP men and law enforcers.

Left-leaning leaders from various organisations have demanded justice for two readymade garment workers who were killed during recent clashes between police and RMG workers.

They were arrested in connection with a case filed with Paltan Police Station over the death of a police constable during a clash on the day of BNP's grand rally on October 28

The High Court today cleared the way for the married and pregnant students to stay in one of the women's residential halls of Jagannath University in Dhaka

Lieutenant General (Retd) Chowdhury Hasan Sarwardy, one of those seen with the Bangladesh-origin US citizen who posed as an adviser to Joe Biden during a press briefing at the BNP office on Saturday, was arrested from Savar this evening

Workers of a garment factory in Mirpur-11 said rod-wielding outsiders entered their workplace and assaulted them while they were waging a silent protest for a raise in minimum wages. At least 60 workers were injured in the attack.

A Dhaka court today issued an arrest warrant against BNP standing committee member Mirza Abbas after dismissing his time petition in a graft case filed against him in 2007

The US encouraged Bangladeshi authorities to thoroughly investigate the incidents surrounding the October 28 BNP rally and hold to account those responsible for the violence.

Miscreants yesterday poured petrol and set a bus on fire on the Gazipur-Tangail highway in Gazipur

Police suspect foul play

Two officials of Royal Canadian Mounted Police yesterday narrated before a Dhaka court how some people, including a former Bangladeshi minister received bribes from Niko, a Canadian Oil and Gas Exploration Company, to award a gas exploration and extraction deal to the company.

A garment worker was killed after Gazipur Industrial Police personnel allegedly shot him from close range as RMG workers and law enforcers clashed in Gazipur and Ashulia yesterday.

The High Court yesterday commuted the death sentence of seven jailed militants to imprisonment until death in the Holey Artisan attack case.

A Dhaka court yesterday sentenced Farmers Bank’s former audit committee chairman Mahbubul Haque Chisty, alias Babul Chisty, and his son Rashedul Haque Chisty to 12 years’ rigorous imprisonment in a case filed over laundering Tk 160 crore from the bank.

Two men were handed the death penalty in Natore and Sirajganj yesterday on charges of killing their wives.

A farmer was hacked to death and two others were injured over a land dispute in Mymensingh’s Phulbaria upazila Sunday night.

A Dhaka court yesterday sentenced 11 leaders and activists of Jubo Dal of Badda thana unit to three years imprisonment in a case filed over torching a private car in the city’s Progati Sarani area in November 2013.