Workers and employees of a garment factory are staging a sit-in demonstration in Ashulia of Savar demanding payment of three months’ unpaid wages and allowances and withdrawal of cases filed against labour leaders. The programme began in front of the main gate of Clothing Carnivals Limited factory in Buribazar area from 10am on Sunday.
Nearly 350 tonnes or 352,786 kg of Indian hilsa has been imported through Benapole land port in Jessore in the first two months (July and August) of the current 2026-27 fiscal year. Of this, 29,440 kg arrived in July and 323,346 kg in August alone.
Law Minister Asaduzzaman has claimed that no false cases have been filed in the country after August 5, 2024.
Members of a voluntary organisation named ‘Gen Z Aloron’ have arrested six people from a residential hotel in Ullapara of Sirajganj. The organisation claimed it received complaints of immoral activities at the hotel, involved locals, arrested the six and informed the police. However, questions have been raised over whether members of a voluntary organisation can themselves arrest anyone on any allegation. Police have also said they knew nothing about the matter beforehand.
More than fifty people including women, men and children have been injured in a clash between two sides centering the allegation of secretly taking photos of women bathing in Baniachong of Habiganj.
Production of one unit of the Rampal coal-based thermal power plant in Bagerhat has been shut down due to technical fault. As a result electricity production of the plant has reduced and come down to almost half.