The Awami League has announced a month-long demonstration, including leaflet distribution, protest rallies and processions, blockades, and general strike throughout February demanding the resignation of interim government chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus...
Pakistan criminalised online disinformation on Tuesday, passing legislation dictating punishments of up to three years in jail and prompting journalist protests accusing the government of quashing dissent...
The students of Dhaka University-affiliated seven colleges blocked the Science Laboratory crossing Sunday evening to press home their five demands, including the abolition of unreasonable quota in admission tests...
Journalists, officials and employees of Bangla newspaper 鈥楤horer Kagoj鈥� staged protests in front of its office at Malibagh in Dhaka on Saturday, demanding an explanation from its management for its sudden closure and the settlement of their dues...
A group of CNG-run auto-rickshaw drivers on Monday blocked the Banani road bringing traffic to a standstill in the capital鈥檚 Mohakhali area, causing immense suffering to the commuters in the city...
BEFORE 2024, such unprecedented public protests against the Awami League government would hardly have occurred. However, people have taken to the streets, and a key reason for this, I think, is the deteriorating economy. A worsening dollar crisis and liquidity crunch pushed Bangladesh to seek early financial assistance from the...
Left-leaning political activists on Sunday protested at distorting graffiti of freedom fighter and Maoist leader Sirajul Huq Sikder, better known as Siraj Sikder, on a wall at Dhaka University...
Speakers at a seminar held in Dhaka on Saturday condemned arbitrary suspension of officials from education, health, fisheries and livestock cadres, and the public administration reform commission鈥檚 negligence in listening to the voice of those protesting against inter-cadre discrimination...
The Bangladesh Agro Processors Association has called on the government to withdraw the increased VAT and taxes on processed food products and cancel the proposed gas price hike within seven days...
AS THE dust settles from the July 2024 uprising, the nation stands at a fateful crossroads. The movement that overthrew Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 autocratic regime was not an exercise in protest but a monumental act of courage, resilience and unity. Hundreds sacrificed their lives while many more were left with physical and emotional scars. The protesters are not..
THE attacks on the protests that national minority students held on January 15 and the attacks on a rally that mostly students held the next day in protest at the attacks on the January 15 protests are as unsavoury as equally outrageous. Students of national minorities, banded as the Aggrieved Indigenous Students and People, held protests at the...
The construction works of a Jagannath University second campus in Keraniganj have been handed over to the Bangladesh Army amid student protests...
Leaders of different political parties on Wednesday at separate protest programmes in Dhaka said that imposing value added tax and supplementary duties on more than 100 commodities would increase sufferings of the common people to run their families...
THE police personnel who lost their job during the 15 years of the authoritarian Awami League regime, toppled in a mass uprising on August 5, 2024, have held protests for a couple of days seeking their reinstatement in the job. The sacked police personnel also held a protest in front of the police headquarters in Dhaka on January 12 to press home their...
Sacked trainee police sub-inspectors on Monday held a sit-in programme in front of the secretariat, the country鈥檚 administrative headquarters, in Dhaka, demanding reinstatement of their jobs...
The Border Guard Bangladesh has protested at the Indian Border Security Force installing iron electric poles and an electric device on the zero line along the border at Patgram in Lalmonirhat...
Climate refugees residing in Cox鈥檚 Bazar staged a protest on Tuesday, demanding cancellation of the eviction plan linked to the airport expansion project...
THE important promises of the NPP government to the people includes addressing the problem of corruption and waste. This was the centrepiece of the Aragalaya protests that brought down the government in 2022. The government made many other promises too when it was in the opposition. But unlike in the case of these other promises...
The Detective Branch of Dhaka Metropolitan Police has arrested Sajibur Rahman Sajib, a leader of the banned Bangladesh Chhatra League, in a case filed over an attack on students during the quota reform movement on the Dhaka University campus in July 2024...
Thousands of rival South Korean protesters rallied in the capital Saturday, a day after a failed attempt to arrest suspended president Yoon Suk Yeol for imposing a short-lived martial law decree that led to his impeachment.
Syrian security forces are conducting a security sweep in the city of Homs, state media reported on Thursday, with a monitor saying targets include protest organisers from the Alawite minority of the former president...
THERE is a good side to the story. After a politically influential group 鈥榲isits鈥� a TV station asking the top brass to 鈥榯ake appropriate action鈥� against journalists whose reporting they dislike, the matter is now being debated. There is no DGFI [Directorate General of Forces Intelligence] involved. No guns are on display. No false cases have been filed. No one...
Officials of 25 cadres under the Bangladesh Civil Service on Thursday held human chains in front of their work stations for a one-hour across the country demanding elimination of discrimination among the cadre services...
Inquilab Mancha, a platform supporting the July-August student-mass uprising, on Sunday gave a seven-day ultimatum for the interim government to accept their three-point charter of...
Different organisations on Thursday demonstrated in Dhaka and elsewhere in the country, condemning attacks on and murders of students who participated in the student-led mass uprising in July-August...
Officials of the health and education cadres are planning to make louder their protests against the public administration reform commission鈥檚 proposals, including separating the health and education sectors from the Bangladesh Civil Service, in the coming weeks...
Leaders of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party and 12-Party Alliance on Wednesday at a protest rally alleged that the Indian Narendra Modi government and a section of Indian media were conspiring against Bangladesh and its interim government headed by Muhammad Yunus...
BUET students on Tuesday demonstrated in front their vice chancellor鈥檚 office to protest against the delay in submitting the report of investigation against banned Bangladesh Chhatra League...
Jahangirnagar University students have issued a seven-day ultimatum demanding justice for those, including activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League, responsible for attacks on their fellows during the July-August student-led mass uprising...
Different organisations on Tuesday held rallies and human chains in Bangladesh protesting at the attack on the Bangladesh assistant high commission in India鈥檚 Agartala on December 2 and Indian aggression as well...
