Moharram Ali, additional superintendent (crime) of Barguna police, was yesterday withdrawn hours after the home minister commented on police charging batons on BCL activists in the district on Monday.

At least 15 people including two policemen are injured as Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) activists clashed with the law enforcers in Chittagong city.

Police foil a march to energy ministry, protesting the gas price hike, using tear gas canisters and water cannons near Jatiya Press Club in Dhaka.The march was organised by Gonotantrik Bam Morcha (democratic left alliance), an alliance of left-leaning political parties.

A villager is killed in a clash with cops over a theft incident that left another man dead in Companyganj upazila of Sylhet.

A fourth victim of Friday’s clash between villagers and police in Tangail succumbs to his bullet wounds at Dhaka Medical College Hospital.