India, Nov. 1 -- Garment workers in Bangladesh on Sunday staged violent protests in the capital Dhaka and its outskirts over their longstanding demand for higher pay, prompting the Government to announce the formation of a wage board, officials and media reports said.

Slogan-chanting protestors torched a police vehicle in the Capital, set on fire a police box in Gazipur, where they also blocked the Dhaka-Tangail highway, demanding a minimum monthly wage of 30,000 Bangladeshi Taka (approx Rs 23,000), police and witnesses said.

Authorities deployed five platoons of paramilitary Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) personnel to help bring the situation under control in the suburban industrial district, as workers carrying sticks occupied several ...