Police yesterday arrested seven young men for brandishing weapons in Rajshahi’s Bongram Gangpara area on October 27.

Inspector General of Police Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun yesterday said legal action would be taken against those involved in violent incidents centring Saturday’s BNP rally and its aftermath.

Encroachers have destroyed 95 acres of the Gohira mangrove forest in Chattogram’s Anwara upazila and turned the area into fish enclosures.

Courts in Dhaka yesterday granted a five-day remand each for BNP standing committee member Mirza Abbas and joint secretary general Syed Moazzem Hossain Alal, and an eight-day remand for Lt Gen (retired) Chowdhury Hasan Sarwardi in separate cases.

The government has suspended Dinajpur Municipality Mayor Syed Jahangir Alam after he was sentenced to one month’s jail on October 12, following a contempt of court petition

A Dhaka court today placed BNP’s Standing Committee Member Mirza Abbas on a five-day remand in a case involving an act of sabotage and attempts to snatch away pistols from the law enforcers during clashes on October 28 in Dhaka

A BNP leader died yesterday after he was injured by a tear gas shell fired by police to disperse party activists in Kishoreganj's Bhairab upazila amid the party's three-day countrywide blockade programme

Garment factories in the capital's Mirpur-1 were vandalised allegedly by a section of RMG workers who have been demonstrating for a hike in wages

A bus and a truck were torched in Chattogram's Karnaphuli and Rangunia areas today, the second day of the three-day countrywide blockade imposed by BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami

A case was filed on Monday night against Rajshahi University's deputy chief physician on charges of sexually harassing a girl in Talaimari area

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