Govt forms working group to review demands of engineering students
The committee, formed to resolve the ongoing movement of the engineering students, on Thursday formed a 14-member working group to work on the demands of the students...
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Protesters block Cumilla-Sylhet Highway for its repair
Locals on Wednesday morning staged demonstrations and blocked several points of the busy Cumilla-Sylhet Highway, demanding its immediate repairs and long-awaited plan to upgrade the route into a four-lane one...
US envoy cuts short south Lebanon visit amid protests
Lebanese state media said US envoy Tom Barrack cut short a visit to the south on Wednesday, amid protests in two planned stops against US pressure to disarm Hezbollah...
Pro-BNP RU teachers, students protest alleged irregularities in recruitment
Bangladesh Nationalist Party-backed teachers and students of Rajshahi University staged a demonstration on Sunday night, protesting against alleged irregularities in the university鈥檚 teacher recruitment process...
DB, AL asked doctors not to treat bullet-hit protesters, doctors tell ICT-1
A doctor on Wednesday testified before the International Crimes Tribunal-1 that plainclothes police, identifying themselves as Detective Branch officers, asked the doctors and medical staff not to treat injured student protesters during the July 2024 uprising...
Man demands Hasina, associates be burned like his son
The father of As Sabur, one of six protesters who were shot and then burnt to death together, testified before the International Crimes Tribunal-1 on Sunday...
Serbia president vows response after days of unrest
Serbia鈥檚 president on Sunday vowed a 鈥榮trong鈥� response to anti-government protests, after nearly a week of violent clashes involving his supporters, police and demonstrators across the country...
Demonstrators take to streets across Israel calling for end to Gaza war
Demonstrators took to the streets across Israel Sunday calling for an end to the war in Gaza and a deal to release hostages still held by militants, as the military prepares a new offensive...
Palestine Solidarity protests at Israel鈥檚 decision to occupy Gaza
Leaders of Palestine Solidarity Committee, Bangladesh on Saturday protested against Israel鈥檚 recent decision to occupy Gaza and called on an immediate end to aggression and mass killings in Palestine.聽..
Protesters at DU throw shoes at photos of celebrities for remembering Mujib
Some students and people threw shoes at the photos of several celebrities on Saturday, labelling them as 鈥榗ultural fascists鈥� for paying tributes to Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in their social media posts on his anniversary of death...
Syrian Druze protesters demand self determination
Hundreds demonstrated in Syria鈥檚 Sweida on Saturday, denouncing last month鈥檚 sectarian violence and calling for the right to self-determination for the Druze-majority province, an AFP correspondent reported...
CUFL workers stage protests in Ctg for pay hike
Workers and employees of the Chittagong Urea Fertiliser Company Limited at Anwara upazila in Chattogram staged a protest rally on Thursday, demanding an end to disparity in pay structure...
15 RMG factories closed early amid protests
Authorities at 15 garment factories at Ashulia of Savar on Thursday declared a day off for the workers after protests erupted at a nearby factory to demand payment of arrear wages, said an Industrial Police official...
Serbia鈥檚 political crisis escalates into clashes
Clashes between rival groups of protesters in Serbia left dozens injured overnight, police said Thursday, as months of anti-government demonstrations boiled over into street violence for a second night...
Editors鈥� Council protests at 鈥榮weeping鈥� allegations against media
The Editors鈥� Council on Wednesday strongly protested at 鈥榰nwarranted鈥� and 鈥榮weeping鈥� allegations made against the media at a conference organised by Jatiya Jubashakti, the youth front of the National Citizen Party...
BGMEA seeks data on losses in NBR protests
The Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association urged its members to submit details of financial losses caused by the 鈥榗omplete shutdown鈥� programme observed by employees of the customs, VAT, and tax departments...
Trump seeks $1b from University of California over UCLA protests
President Donald Trump demanded a massive $1 billion fine from the prestigious University of California system on Friday as the administration pushed its claims of anti-Semitism in UCLA鈥檚 response to 2024 student protests related to Gaza...
RMG exports drop in Apr-Jun due to NBR protest, tariff fear
The export of readymade garments experienced negative growth in the April-June quarter of the past financial year 2024-25, compared to the preceding quarter of January-March in FY25, primarily due to extended protests by the National Board of Revenue officials and tariff concerns...
Protests erupt on Dhaka University campus against politics in dormitories
Dhaka University students staged demonstrations on early Saturday demanding ban on politics in dormitories...
Rally demands action after student falls into manhole
Social activists, students and local residents held a protest rally in Rajshahi city on Thursday, demanding urgent action from the authorities after a student of Rajshahi College was seriously injured by falling into an uncovered manhole near the college...
Road home, back to office
I MOSTLY head home from the office and back to the office from home, which has been a routine for long but for a few erratic days when I have ventured out in other directions, mostly before and after work hours. But it gradually became challenging, risky too, to shuttle between the office and home, let alone darting out here and there even when the need was pressing as violence broke out with student protests...
Facing newsroom constraints
IT WAS quite challenging to have covered the uprising events, each bloody day especially after July 16, when six of the protesters were left dead, with a handful of reporters. It was a small group, composed of, alphabetically ordered, Ahammad Foyez who on December 5, 2024 was appointed to the press wing of the chief adviser to the interim government as...
JnU celebrates uprising anniversary excluding student protesters
Frontline student protesters, many of whom were injured during the 2024 July uprising, on Tuesday criticised the authorities of Jagannath University as the authorities celebrated the first anniversary of the uprising excluding the student protesters...
Slogans on posters
A LOOK into the newspaper photo morgue, basically an array of directories sequentially numbered by date on the server in this digital era, where photojournalists 鈥� Md Sourav and Sony Ramani in the case of 抖阴精品 鈥� rest their day鈥檚 work, might weave a pattern of an event that broke out over days. This might also tell a story. The photographs of the student protests...
Palestinians across West Bank protest at Gaza war
Thousands of Palestinians protested in the occupied West Bank鈥檚 major cities Sunday against the war in Gaza and in support of Palestinians held in Israeli prisons...
Assange joins pro-Palestinian protest on Sydney Harbour Bridge
Tens of thousands of pro-Palestinian protesters including WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange marched across the Sydney Harbour Bridge on Sunday, closing the world famous landmark...
More clashes, arrests at UK immigration protests
Further scuffles broke out at anti-immigration protests in the UK on Saturday, with police making several arrests...
Protests to continue till abolishing fascist structure: Droho Jatra
Participants, including academics, rights activists, cultural activists and labour leaders at a programme said that protests like Droho Jatra would continue until the abolition of the fascist structure of the state and oppression...
Govt urged to bring back July protesters from UAE jail
Bangladeshi migrants who were arrested and jailed in the UAE in July 2024 and returned home receiving special pardon demanded that the government bring back the rest 26 migrants who are still in jail...
No complete list of July martyrs, wounded as yet troubling
THIS is unfortunate that the interim government, which assumed office after the overthrow of the Awami League government on August 5, 2024 in an uprising that began on July 1 that year as student protests against civil service job reservations, has yet to comprehensively enlist all who died and became wounded at the hand of law enforcers who were aided by the...