AL is biggest sponsor of militancy: BNP
The main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party said on Tuesday that the ruling Awami League was the biggest sponsor of extremism in this country...
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Arrested accuse police of torture in remand
Police are torturing arrested people in the ongoing crackdown on students, and opposition political parties after deadly quota reform protests, political parties and...
Panic at hospitals as injured forced to share fingerprints
Security forces in plainclothes are taking fingerprints and photos of individuals admitted to various city hospitals with injuries from violence during the recent countrywide student protests seeking...
16 children killed, scores injured during deadly protests in Bangladesh
At least 16 children, including nine students and a preschooler, were killed and scores of others were injured in violent clashes during recent student protests for quota reform in...
Student protests spread to diverse communities
A cross-section of people, including teachers, parents, civil society members, and cultural organisations, have joined the students in expressing solidarity with their demand to ensure justice for...
Protesting students announce fresh programme across Bangladesh
The protesting students, who began their movement against discrimination in government job recruitment and the quota system reform, on Tuesday announced a fresh programme, the March for Justice, in all courts, campuses, and roads across the country on Wednesday.
What leads students to defy death on streets
IN MID-JULY, students in Bangladesh took to the streets to protest an illogical quota system which was meant to restrict their employment opportunities in the public sector. The government response to this peaceful, democratic movement has been brutal and cruel. In order to squelch this spontaneous student mobilisation, it launched a crackdown which is nothing but a euphemism for mass slaughter...
Govt should restrain Chhatra League, heed students鈥� demands
ATTACKS by the Chhatra League, the student wing of the ruling Awami League, on protesting students again at Barishal University on July 29 are deplorable. The attacks left at least 15 injured, nine of whom had to be sent to hospital. It was Chhatra League attacks on protesters on July 15 that forced a peaceful student movement into violence...
Nat鈥檒 mass inquiry commission a welcome development
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...
Train services to resume on short distances from Thursday
The Bangladesh Railway is scheduled to resume train services only on short distances from August 1, about two weeks after it had stopped the services.
PM visits Suhrawardy hospital to meet victims of unrest
Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina visited Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College and Hospital on Tuesday to meet people who sustained injuries during the recent nationwide unrest centring quota reform protests.
JU teachers stage silent procession protesting at killing of protesters
Jahangirnagar University teachers on Tuesday staged a silent procession on the campus protesting against the 鈥榢illing鈥� of students during the recent unrest centring around the quota reforms movement that sparked a lethal police crackdown across the country.
Protesting guardians face police obstruction at DMC
The police obstructed protesting guardians of students in front of Dhaka Medical College while they were going to Shagbagh on Tuesday morning to organise a rally protesting against casualties in the unrest centring quota reforms movement.
Mourning day being observed today
Mourning day is being observed across Bangladesh on Tuesday for those who died during unrest centring around student protests for quota reform in the past week.
鈥榃e鈥檙e ashamed of the violence, deaths鈥�, says HC
The High Court on Tuesday expressed deep shame over the deaths that occurred during the quota reform protests and called every death a tragedy.
US for peaceful resolution of Bangladesh situation
Reiterating their unwavering support for the freedom of peaceful assembly, the United States has called for a peaceful resolution to the current situation in Bangladesh.
NHRC wants perpetrators of violence during quota protests to be identified
The National Human Rights Commission has issued a call for the identification and prosecution of perpetrators involved in recent violence surrounding the quota reform movement in government jobs, emphasising that this process should be based solely on reliable and specific information...
Teachers say edn minister agrees to exclude public univs
Education Mohibul Hassan Chowdhoury on Monday agreed with the protesting teachers on excluding the public university teachers, officers and employees from the new universal pension scheme Prattay, said protesting teachers鈥� leaders...
Citizens for probe into killings of protesters under UN supervision
Seventy-four eminent citizens demanded unbiased, independent, transparent, and credible investigations into the killings of students and other citizens during the quota reform movement under the supervision of United Nations high-level experts...
Teachers demand release of students, campus reopening
Teachers from various public and private universities, including Dhaka University, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Jahangirnagar University, and Rajshahi University, on Monday held rallies and processions expressing solidarity with the student protests...
Bangladesh protests death toll rises to 213 as one more dies
One more critically injured person died on Sunday while undergoing treatment in Dhaka Medical College Hospital, taking the death toll from the recent violence during countrywide student protests to at least 213...
Cultural activists protest at killings, wholesale arrests
Cultural activists from Bangladesh Udichi Shilpigosthi and other organisations on Monday protested against the killings and wholesale arrests by law enforcement agencies during the ongoing quota protests...
A stitch in time would have saved nine
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...
Playing to the gallery does not always pay
The government, which forced peaceful protests for a legitimate cause into violence that left more than 200 people dead, now appears to be playing to the gallery in what might be called a damage control effort. The prime minister on July 28 distributed financial assistance to families of 34 people killed in during the protests...
Soldier, protester killed in clashes in Pakistan
Thousands of protesters brought a Pakistan port city to a standstill on Monday, igniting clashes in which a soldier and a demonstrator were killed, authorities said.聽
15 injured at Barishal University in alleged BCL attack
At least 15 students were injured in an alleged attack by Bangladesh Chhatra League activists at Barishal University.
BGB enhances security measures nationwide
Border Guard Bangladesh has intensified security measures across the country, particularly in key areas of Dhaka, to maintain law and order.
Mancha demands resignation of AL govt
The leaders of Ganatantra Mancha, a combine of six political parties, on Monday demanded the resignation of the Awami League government and protested against the...
Writ filed seeking HC order not to shoot at protesters anywhere in Bangladesh
A writ petition was filed with the High Court on Monday seeking its directive to the law enforcement agencies not to shoot at protesters from today and release of six quota coordinators from the custody of Detective Branch of police...
Arrests, clashes mark fresh student protests in many areas of Bangladesh
Students protesting under the banner of the Students Movement Against Discrimination returned to the streets on Monday, holding fresh demonstrations across the country to protest...
