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Journalist, protester killed at Nepal pro-monarchy rally

A journalist and a protester were killed Friday as thousands of people gathered in Kathmandu demanding the restoration of the monarchy, police said, with security forces using live fire to disperse the rally.

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JCD protests at police attack on anti-rape protesters

Bangladesh Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal, student wing of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, on Monday night strongly condemned and protested at police attack on anti-rape protesters and case against them...

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Govt should, rather, attend to procedural issues to stop rape

THE government’s high-handedness in dealing with the outrage manifest in protests sparked off the recent bout of rape incidents is not what the government should show. It should, rather, get down to work, rooting out the causes that create the space for such crimes and amend the laws to deterrently stop the recurrence of such incidents. Protests, which have continued for...

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Anti-rape protests continue to spread

Countrywide protests against rape and all other forms of violence against women and children continued for the eighth day running on Friday demanding that capital punishment must be made sure for rapists and safety must be ensured for women and children.

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Protesters sued, anti-rape protests on

A case was filed against anti-rape protesters on Tuesday night as protests against rape and other forms of violence against women continued for the fifth day in a row on Wednesday in Dhaka and elsewhere across the country, demanding capital punishment for rapists...

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Workers stage protests in Gazipur

The country’s major industrial hub, Gazipur, witnessed a daylong workers’ protest in various parts of the districts, which resulted in a halt in traffic on the Dhaka-Mymensingh and Dhaka-Tangail highways...

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More people join protests against rape

Countrywide protests against rape continued for the third day in a row on Monday with more people joining the demonstrations with roads being blocked, human chains formed and rallies held, demanding capital punishment for...

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200 attend Pro-Palestine protests near Columbia University

More than 200 pro-Palestinian protesters gathered Tuesday in front of Columbia University in New York to demonstrate against former Israeli prime minister Naftali Bennett, who was at the campus for a speaking engagement...

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Recommended pry teachers continue protest in Ramadan

Assistant teachers of government primary schools, whose appointments were cancelled by a court order on February 6, continued their protest at Shahbagh in the capital on the first day of Ramadan on Sunday demanding their appointments...

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Protests against home adviser widen

Protests demanding the resignation of home adviser retired Lieutenant General Jahangir Alam Chowdhury for his failure to ensure public safety widened, as students of different educational institutions in Dhaka and...

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Recommended pry teachers continue protests for 15th day

Assistant teachers of government primary schools, whose appointments were cancelled by a court order on February 6, continued their protest for 15 days in a row on Thursday demanding their appointments...

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Medical college students block road in Barishal

A section of students of Sher-e-Bangla Medical College in Barishal blocked a road in front of their college for about an hour on Thursday demanding an immediate solution to the crisis of teachers...

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Delhi should show neighbourly attitude on Teesta water plans

THE protests that thousands of people, mostly of Gaibandha, Kurigram, Lalmonirhat, Nilphamari and Rangpur have held are a rightful reaction to India’s unilateral withdrawal of water of the River Teesta which causes a gradual desertification of Bangladesh’s north. The people have sat in for two days on the river bank in Lalmonirhat, marched along a four-kilometre stretch...