At least 50 ready-made garment workers, including eight policemen, were injured in a clash between the workers and police in Savar on the outskirts of the capital today. Police said the employees of Unlima Group have been protesting since last Saturday to reinstate their four fellow-workers, who were fired before Eid vacation.
At least 20 people, including five policemen, were injured in a clash between police and members of Hizb ut-Tahrir in front of Baitul Mokarram National Mosque in the city after Jumma prayers yesterday.
The Government is going to raise the price of oil and gas and an announcement to this regard is likely to be made anytime.
Chief Adviser's Special Assistant for Power and Energy Dr M Tamim yesterday dropped the hint of price hike, triggering uproar among ordinary consumers and industrialists.
Passengers settling score with CNG-run transport
workers over extra fare, while policemen play the spectator,
at Dhanmondi in the city yesterday.
Banglar Chokh
RAB, cops, villagers fight alleged dacoits
Nine suspected robbers were killed in a mass beating and gunfight between robbers and the elite force RAB at Bara Adimpur village at Singra upazila in Natore on Wednesday night.
Police said local people surrounded the alleged robbers numbering twelve
Police yesterday recovered all the five firearms looted from police patrol at Taherpur in Rajshahi from a pond at Manjigachha near Naldanga thana in the district.
Police recovered the arms looted from Taherpur
outpost under Bagmara Police Station in Rajshahi from a pond
at Naldanga in Natore yesterday.
Focus Bangla
Hearing in scam case against Hasina adjourned
Two senior police officers whose misbehavior with journalists had triggered impromptu court boycott offered apology to the newspersons in the presence of prosecution and defence lawyers at a special corruption trial court Thursday.
A Chuadanga court yesterday sentenced five policemen to life imprisonment for raping a woman at a police camp in Alamdanga upazila on December 18, 2004.
District Women and Children Repression Prevention Court Judge Motahar Hossain delivered the verdict in presence of the five convicts.
Health services at all seven police hospitals in the country are in jeopardy as 380 staff members of the hospitals are not receiving their salaries for the last seven months due to bureaucratic tangles.
