Police force is showing "extreme level of patience" under the leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to tackle the present law and order situation, said Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal at parliament yesterday

Those who will create an anarchic situation like Saturday will be prosecuted, said Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal yesterday, pointing at BNP leaders and activists.

Awami League leaders and activists were seen in the major intersections of the capital yesterday protesting the hartal called by BNP and Jamaat.

Amirul Parvez, a police constable of  the counter-terrorism unit at DMP, had a dream of becoming an assistant sub-inspector. He was also preparing for an exam for the promotion.

There was confusion regarding the identity of Shameem Mia, who was killed during police-BNP clash in Dhaka on Saturday.

Afroza Begum kept on crying as family members tried to console her.

Dhaka wore a deserted look amid thin traffic yesterday as the dawn-to-dusk hartal called by BNP and Jamaat took place with sporadic incidents of vandalism and arson in different parts of the city.

The government appears to have taken a tough stance against the BNP after Saturday’s clashes that turned the heart of the capital into a battlefield.

After enforcing its first nationwide hartal in eight years, BNP yesterday called a three-day rail, road, and waterways blockade across the country from Tuesday to Thursday.

The way the events unfolded on Saturday has given the Awami League rank and file a confidence boost, claim leaders of the ruling party.

Mentioning that any kind of political violence is undesirable, Election Commissioner Anisur Rahman yesterday said they would go ahead with their preparations for holding the next parliamentary election as they are constitutionally bound to do so.

Even a fire engine was torched last evening when it was returning after extinguishing a fire

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and 163 other leaders of the party and its associate bodies have been sued in connection with the killing of a police constable during the clash between law enforcers and the party men in the capital's Fakirapool area yesterday

From October 21 to October 28, a total of 1,480 individuals were arrested

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir landed in Dhaka Central Jail in Keraniganj around 10:30pm tonight in a case filed over the vandalism of the chief justice's residence during yesterday's BNP-police clash

The rally will be held at 3:00pm in front of AL central office in the city's Bangabandhu Avenue

There is no scope for BNP's involvement in the election-time government, says Quader

Saturday’s violence may only be a premonition of much worse days to come

A man has been arrested in a case filed over setting fire to a bus in Munshiganj's Gazaria upazila last night

Picketers today set fire to a private car at Bagha upazila in Rajshahi during the hartal enforced by the BNP