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FSIB employees hold protest outside S Alam residence

Officials and employees of the privately-owned First Security Islami Bank staged a protest in front of the residence of S Alam Group’s owner in Chattogram, demanding repayment of Tk 35,000 crore...

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Georgia’s outlook cut to negative by Fitch

Fitch Ratings downgraded Georgia’s outlook to negative from stable on Friday, citing sharply increased political risks following disputed October parliamentary elections that have sparked widespread protests in the Caucasus nation...

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BNP front wings march towards Indian mission, urge action

Police stopped the joint procession of the affiliated organisations of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party near Rampura Bridge on Sunday as it was marching towards the Indian high commission in Dhaka from the party’s central office at Naya Paltan...

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Pro-EU protesters march on Georgia parliament

Thousands of protesters marched in the Georgian capital Tbilisi on Saturday for the 10th day of rallies sparked by a disputed election and the government decision to shelve EU accession talks...

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Protests against mission attack continue

Protests over the attack on the Bangladesh assistant high commission in India’s Agartala rolled into the fourth consecutive day on Thursday in Dhaka city and some other places in the country.

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500 arrested in Chennai

The police in Chennai of India arrested 500 people, including 100 women, from BJP, RSS, ABVP, Hindu Munnani, and other Hindu organisations on Wednesday for staging a protest, demanding safety of Hindus in Bangladesh in front of the Raja Rathinam Stadium...

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Uprising criminal cases should have sound legal footing

THE wholesale filing of cases in connection with murder of and attacks on protesters that took place in July–August and flaws in the filing of the cases stand to harm justice and allow perpetrators to escape unpunished. The police say that more than 2,500 cases have been filed until mid-November in connection with the murders and attacks during the uprising, noting that about 8,000 people have also...

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5 Mahila AL leaders arrested

The police arrested five Mohila Awami League leaders on Thursday in connection with an attack on an anti-discrimination student protest during the student-mass uprising in Dhaka’s Pallabi area.

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1,000 Pakistan protesters arrested in Imran Khan capital march

Pakistan police said on Wednesday that they had arrested nearly 1,000 protesters who marched on the capital demanding the release of jailed ex-prime minister Imran Khan, after crowds were evicted from the city centre in a sweeping security crackdown...

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Stop attack on left party rallies: LDA

Leaders of the Left Democratic Alliance, a combine of six left political parties, on Tuesday at a protest rally in Dhaka called on the interim government to take immediate steps to stop attacks on left party rallies across the country...

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Four killed as Imran followers force way into Islamabad

Pakistani protesters demanding the release of ex-prime minister Imran Khan on Tuesday killed four members of the nation’s security forces, the government said, as the crowds defied police and closed in on the capital’s centre...

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Targeted intimidation of media disconcerting

THE untoward incident of chaos and anarchy in front of the office of the daily Prothom Alo is deeply concerning. As reported in ¶¶Òõ¾«Æ· on November 24, a group of individuals, some of them identifying themselves as ‘anti-India protesters,’ staged a sit-in programme in front of the Prothom Alo office and also tried to block the surrounding roads...

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Police remove protesters from near Prothom Alo, Daily Star

At least 10 protesters were injured when police baton-charged to disperse a group of people staging sit-in programme in front of the Prothom Alo office at Karwan Bazar, blaming Pothom Alo and The Daily Star ‘for plying role as agents of India’...

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India mosque survey sparks clashes, 2 dead

Indian Muslim protesters clashed with police on Sunday with at least two people killed in riots sparked by a survey investigating if a 17th-century mosque was built on a Hindu temple...

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Battery-run rickshaw drivers continue protests 

Several thousand battery-run rickshaw drivers on Sunday blocked several roads in the capital city pressing for their 12-point charter of demands that included allowing them to ply city roads...

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RSJA protests at attack on uprising leader Ariful

Rastra Sanskar Juba Andolan on Saturday protested at the miscreants’ attack on the July movement leader Md Ariful Islam and demanded punishment for the attackers immediately...

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Beximco workers block highway for pays

The workers of Beximco Industrial Park in Gazpiur continued their protests for the seventh day running on Thursday, demanding salaries and allowances...

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Farmers target PM in protest against new UK tax rules

Hundreds of farmers, many in tractors, gathered in Wales on Saturday to protest against UK prime minister Keir Starmer and his government’s decision to change inheritance tax rules for farms...

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A life with lost meaning

Anwar Hossain, 55, has had an unbearable life since 2020, when he lost his 18-year-old daughter to Covid 19...