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...
Hasi Begum was crying sitting on the floor outside of the emergency room at Dhaka Medical College Hospital on Friday as she lost her son Md Rakib, 22, who died in a clash during...
Many public and private hospitals in the capital were overwhelmed treating hundreds of patients with gunshot injuries for the second consecutive day, as law enforcers fired indiscriminately on...
At least 110 people were killed and several thousand others were injured in clashes in the past four days of quota protests across the country, starting from...
The government imposed a curfew across the country for an indefinite period from midnight past Friday as at least 67 people were killed on Friday taking to 112 the death toll in the...
Thousands of people rallied on Friday against a planned operation by the Pakistan military to root out militants along the Afghan border, with at least one protester killed when gunfire broke out, officials and witness said...
UN human rights chief Volker Turk said on Friday he was deeply concerned by this week鈥檚 violence in Bangladesh, calling the attacks on student protesters 鈥榮hocking and unacceptable鈥�...
The students of Jahangirnagar University on Saturday built a monument on the campus in memory of the students who were killed amid the ongoing anti-quota movement...
Thirty-One cultural organisations on Saturday demanded revoking of countrywide curfew imposed on midnight past Friday after 110 people were killed in the ongoing quota protests...
THE deployment of the army in aid of civil administration to contain the protests of the students who have legitimately sought reforms in civil service job reservations means that the government鈥檚 earlier employment of the ruling Awami League鈥檚 fronts Chhatra League and Juba League and the deployment of various law enforcement units, including the...
Dhaka stocks dropped in the past week after gaining for four consecutive weeks, amid the countrywide shutdown enforced by the quota reform protesters, market operators said...
Protests, violence, killings marked the first day of curfew imposed by the government on midnight Friday while many people defied the order to go out of their homes for works and other purposes...
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina put all records of brutal crackdown in the history Bangladesh in the manner she had attempted to suppress the ongoing student protest over quota reform in government service, opposition politicians said on Saturday...
Many people, including a significant number of students, were at risk of losing sight in their either one or both eyes for injuries they sustained in violent clashes during anti-quota student protests across Bangladesh....
A sudden curfew, imposed across the country since midnight past Friday against the backdrop of violent student protests demanding reform of quotas in government jobs, has left people who are in dire need to leave Dhaka, stranded at railway stations, launch and bus terminals...
Nahid Islam, one of the coordinators of the Students Movement Against Discrimination, a platform for anti-quota movement, went missing in the wee hours of Saturday as some 50鈥�60 people identified themselves as Detective Branch members, picked him up from his friend鈥檚 house in Khilgaon鈥檚 Nandipara area in the capital...
The rising casualties of journalists while covering the ongoing government crackdown on the students鈥� protest demanding quota reform in the civil service exposed the dangerous environment in which journalists work in Bangladesh...
Many public and private city hospitals became overloaded with hundreds of injured, mostly protesting students with pellet injuries from Jatrabari, Rampura, and Uttara, as...
A journalist was killed while covering a clash between the police and protesting students demanding quota reform in government jobs at Jatrabari of Bangladesh capital Dhaka on Thursday....
The government has, in principle, agreed to reform the quota system in public services amid protests in Dhaka and elsewhere in the country that saw at least 26 killed...
Law, justice and parliamentary affairs minister Anisul Huq on Thursday said that a judiciary committee was formed to probe the deaths of students in the ongoing quota protest...
At least one student was killed on Thursday after jumping into a lake in Madaripur as students demanding quota reform in government jobs were chased by the police and Chhatra League activists during the students鈥� protest programme....
In response to the unrest sparked by ongoing protests demanding reforms to the quota system in government jobs, mobile internet services have been temporarily shut down, state minister for posts, telecommunications, and information technology, Zunaid Ahmed Palak said on Thursday...
Bangladesh government has, in principle, agreed to reform the quota system in government jobs amid protests in Dhaka and elsewhere in the country....
Rail communications between Dhaka and the rest of Bangladesh were snapped Thursday afternoon as students demanding quota reform in government jobs blocked the rail track at Mohakhali area in the capital....
As part of the announced countrywide 鈥楥omplete Shutdown鈥� for Thursday, students demanding quota reform in Government jobs from several colleges and universities took to the streets in Uttara area of Bangladesh capital Dhaka....
A clash erupted between police and students of BRAC University in the Badda area of Bangladesh capital Dhaka on Thursday when the students demanding quota reform in government jobs gathered there as part of the 鈥榗omplete shutdown鈥� programme....
In a move to maintain law and order, a total of 229 platoons of Border Guard Bangladesh were on Thursday deployed nationwide, including in Dhaka, authorities said....
No city service buses were seen running in the capital city Dhaka since Thursday morning...
