At least 30 people, including 15 women, were injured in clashes between agitating garments workers and police on the Dhaka-Tangail highway at Narasinghapur in Ashulia on Monday. Police said hundreds of workers of Ha-Meem Group in Narasinghapur reported for work around 7.45am. They then staged a demonstration, demanding
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Police, RMG workers clash leaves 30 hurt
At least 30 people, including 15 women, were injured in clashes between agitating garments workers and police on the Dhaka-Tangail highway at Narasinghapur in Ashulia on Monday. Police said hundreds of workers of Ha-Meem Group in Narasinghapur reported for work around 7.45am. They then staged a demonstration, demanding
31 killed in police, Hefazat clash
Fierce clashes broke out between the Hefazat-e-Islam activists and the law enforcing agencies from early Monday morning and as many as 31 people, including three members of the law enforcing agencies, were killed in different areas of the country. Around 3 am, members of police, Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) and Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) stormed ... Read more
Police demand risk allowance
The home ministry in its budgetary proposal last week placed the demand for paying the police 70 per cent of basic salary as risk allowance from the next fiscal year which according to finance ministry calculations would require an additional expenditure of Tk 8.24 billion a year from the public exchequer, officials said. The home ... Read more
Two killed in ‘crossfire’
Two men were killed by a team of the police and the Rapid Action Battalion in ‘gunfights’ in Chuadanga and Pirojpur early Wednesday. The deceased were Azizul Islam, 38, second-in-command of the Enamul Bahini at Alamdanga in Chuadanga and Motaleb Sheik, 38, of Darir Char at Mongla in Khulna, said to be a gangster