A former member secretary of the Habiganj district committee of the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement, Mahdi Hasan, has alleged that petrol bombs were thrown at his house in Habiganj.
Vehicular movement on Dhaka-Tangail highway in Palli Bidyut area of Kaliakair upazila in Gazipur district remained suspended for an hour as workers of several garment factories blocked the highway, demanding an increase in wages.
Kushtia Palli Bidyut Samity has found no evidence of an electrical short circuit in the fire that damaged the village home of reserved-seat MP and National Citizen Party (NCP) leader Nusrat Tabassum in Daulatpur Upazila.
A BNP leader has been killed and more than 100 passengers injured in a pile-up involving 10 vehicles in the Boraitola Bus Stand area of Muksudpur upazila in Gopalganj.
The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has arrested two alleged members of a human trafficking ring over the kidnapping of a Bangladeshi man in Libya and demanding ransom from his family.
A local BNP leader was shot dead by unidentified assailants in Rupsha upazila of Khulna on Thursday night.