IN RECENT years, Bangladesh has been facing a critical issue, widening the gap between the education provided by its higher institutions and the actual demands of the job market. This mismatch is not just a concern for the career prospects of graduates but a pressing challenge that demands immediate attention. It could potentially stifle the nation鈥檚...
European stock markets and the dollar recovered Monday after big pre-weekend falls caused by concerns about the health of the US economy, but Asian equities declined further...
Job seekers on Saturday noon blocked the Shahbagh intersection in the capital, demanding that the age limit for entry into government jobs be raised to 35 years from existing 30 years...
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MULTIPLE assumptions emerged from the furious anti-job quota protests that recently catapulted Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina to her worst encounter during her last 15-years of uninterrupted rule. The number of deaths swirled beyond two hundred as of this writing; overwhelming brutalities, rampant arson, prolonged curfews...
People from all walks of life have taken to the streets to lend their support for the student protests, which聽in the beginning of July sought reforms in civil service job reservations but have now been on the streets demanding the resignation of the government. The protests which begun with a single demand came up with fresh demands as the government...
The US jobs market cooled much more than expected in July with unemployment reaching its highest rate since 2021, government data showed Friday, fuelling calls for interest rate...
IN A historically and politically significant move, a national mass inquiry commission to investigate the recent violent crackdown on student protests that sought reforms in public service job quota was announced on July 29 at a protest that lawyers organised in Dhaka. The commission is meant to establish the political and legal liability for...
TWO protests began on July 1. Teachers of the 35 public universities that have teachers鈥� associations started abstaining from work to press home their exclusion from the universal pension scheme called Pratyay that the government made mandatory. And, students and job-seekers started holding protests, first, against civil service job reservations and, then, for reforms...
Students Movement Against Discrimination, a platform for anti-quota movement, announced protest rallies across the country on Monday for pressing their demand.
The government at last disclosed on Sunday that 147 people, including common people, students, police, and ruling Awami League activists, were killed in...
Leaders of two women oganisations on Saturday at a human chain formed in Dhaka called on the government to restore justified per cent of the quota for women in government jobs...
A DEARTH of work and an absence of support from authorities, coupled with a fresh increase in goods prices, amidst the ongoing curfew has made lives of low-income people, especially day labourers, unbearable. The government imposed curfew at midnight past July 19 after at least 112 people were killed in July 16鈥�19 in the student movement over...
Leaders of the Ganatantra Mancha and some opposition political parties on Wednesday said that the ruling Awami League government was making arrests of opposition leaders to hide numbers of deaths in atrocities by law enforcers during the agitation of the students demanding quota reforms in government jobs...
The main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Wednesday claimed that at least 2,000 leaders and activists of their party and other opposition parties as well were arrested in the past few days during the ongoing student protest demanding quota reform in government jobs...
Noted human rights activists on Wednesday said that they found that the government applied excessive force to prevent the agitation of unarmed students that started with the demand for reform in the quota system in government jobs...
Asif Mahmud, one of the co-coordinators of the Students Movement Against Discrimination, a platform demanding quota reform in government jobs, reappeared on Wednesday morning about six days after he had gone missing...
The Appellate Division on Sunday scrapped the High Court verdict on quota in government job and ordered a 7 per cent quota 鈥� 5 per cent for the children of freedom fighters, 1 per cent for national minorities, and 1 per cent for people with disabilities and third genders...
The Students鈥� Movement Against Discrimination, a platform of students demanding quota reform in government jobs, on Sunday demanded to enact a law by calling a special session of Jatiya Sangsad within a week, terming the day鈥檚 Supreme Court verdict 鈥榰nclear鈥�...
People鈥檚 sufferings exacerbated as the shutdown of internet continued on Sunday amid the countrywide protests and demonstrations against the killing of students amid the movement for quota reform in government jobs...
Law minister Anisul Huq said on Sunday that the government would issue a gazette notification on Tuesday regarding the quota in government jobs following the verdict delivered by the Supreme Court...
Thirty lawyers condemned the 鈥榰se of excessive and disproportionate force鈥� on the student protesters demanding quota reforms in government jobs in a statement issued on Sunday...
THE Appellate Division has revoked the High Court verdict of June 5 that ordered the government to reinstate 30 per cent of civil service job reservations for the children and grandchildren of freedom fighters. The appeals court in its verdict after hearing two petitions on July 21 brought down the civil service job reservations...
Socialist Women Forum and Women Cell of Communist Party of Bangladesh on Tuesday demanded restoration of 10 per cent women quota in government jobs...
THE foreign minister Hasan Mahmud briefed foreign diplomats in Dhaka on July 21 and screened a 15-minute video for them which was focused on the damage allegedly caused by the protesters who sought reforms in civil service job reservations. What the government showed to the ambassadors is half-truth, which is at times worse than lies...
Expressing grief over the causalities during the violence across Bangladesh, centring job quota reform movement, state minister for information and broadcasting Mohammad Ali Arafat said on Tuesday that action would be taken against the attackers, perpetrators and killers upon investigation....
The administration of Jagannath University has revoked its decision to close the Bangamata Sheikh Fazilatunnesa Mujib Hall amid student protests....
Police on Wednesday afternoon fired tear gas and sound grenades at protesting students of Dhaka University who brought out a coffin procession after holding a 'gayebana jazana' for six persons killed on Tuesday as students鈥� protests against the quota system in government jobs across Bangladesh turned deadly amid attacks by the police and ruling Awami League supporters on protesters....
Dhaka University students on Wednesday rejected the university authorities鈥� decision to vacant halls by 6:00pm on the day....
Mobile phone users have been experiencing slow internet speed on most public university campuses, including Dhaka University, Jahangirnagar University, Rajshahi University and Chittagong University...