Locals on Wednesday morning staged demonstrations and blocked several points of the busy Cumilla-Sylhet Highway, demanding its immediate repairs and long-awaited plan to upgrade the route into a four-lane one...
A doctor on Wednesday testified before the International Crimes Tribunal-1 that plainclothes police, identifying themselves as Detective Branch officers, asked the doctors and medical staff not to treat injured student protesters during the July 2024 uprising...
The father of As Sabur, one of six protesters who were shot and then burnt to death together, testified before the International Crimes Tribunal-1 on Sunday...
Some students and people threw shoes at the photos of several celebrities on Saturday, labelling them as 鈥榗ultural fascists鈥� for paying tributes to Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in their social media posts on his anniversary of death...
Hundreds demonstrated in Syria鈥檚 Sweida on Saturday, denouncing last month鈥檚 sectarian violence and calling for the right to self-determination for the Druze-majority province, an AFP correspondent reported...
Clashes between rival groups of protesters in Serbia left dozens injured overnight, police said Thursday, as months of anti-government demonstrations boiled over into street violence for a second night...
IT WAS quite challenging to have covered the uprising events, each bloody day especially after July 16, when six of the protesters were left dead, with a handful of reporters. It was a small group, composed of, alphabetically ordered, Ahammad Foyez who on December 5, 2024 was appointed to the press wing of the chief adviser to the interim government as...
Frontline student protesters, many of whom were injured during the 2024 July uprising, on Tuesday criticised the authorities of Jagannath University as the authorities celebrated the first anniversary of the uprising excluding the student protesters...
Bangladeshi migrants who were arrested and jailed in the UAE in July 2024 and returned home receiving special pardon demanded that the government bring back the rest 26 migrants who are still in jail...
The residents of Rangpur district town have staged a symbolic protest by planting paddy seedlings and displaying red cards on a severely damaged road, demanding its immediate repairs...
Protests against the July 9 killing of a trader allegedly by the activists of Bangladesh Nationalist Party-affiliated organisations near Sir Salimullah Medical College Mitford Hospital continued for the third day on Sunday...
Speakers, including researchers and academics, on Wednesday said that violence against July uprising protesters was state-sponsored as the violence was perpetrated by the personnel of multiple branches of law enforcement and security agencies and leaders and activists of the then Awami League regime...
IT WILL soon be a year since the authoritarian Awami League regime was toppled in a mass uprising. Yet, the injured protesters still struggle to access long-term health care and rehabilitation. In attempts to violently repress the protest, the police and the Awami League鈥檚 armed goons fired bullets, sound grenades and other ammunition, which left at least...
Angry protesters rallied in Istanbul on Tuesday despite a heavy police presence, shouting threats following allegations a satirical magazine published a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad...
Serbian police said on Monday they had cleared barricades that anti-government protesters had set up at the weekend, after clashes between officers and demonstrators demanding early elections...
Serbian president Aleksandar Vucic insisted Sunday that he would not cave in to the 140,000 protesters who rallied in the capital overnight demanding early elections, vowing more arrests after clashes broke out...
People from the Hindu community at a protest rally on Saturday demanded the immediate reconstruction of the makeshift temple that the railway authorities have demolished at Khilkhet in Dhaka city...
Thousands of anti-government protesters rallied in the Thai capital Bangkok on Saturday, demanding prime minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra resign after a leaked diplomatic phone call stirred public anger...
A section of protesters of about 20,000 unsuccessful candidates of the latest non-government teacher鈥檚 registration examinations on Tuesday demanded resignation of the Non-Government Teachers鈥� Registration and Certification Authority chairman...
Three rights and student activists who addressed a rally in Kawkhali upazila town in Rangamati demanding justice for Kalpana Chakma were attacked allegedly by a group of unidentified Bengali people at Betchari under the upazila Thursday afternoon...
Left student organisations on Sunday condemned recent attacks on and threats to left student leaders and activists during demonstrations in Rajshahi and Chattogram rejecting the Supreme Court鈥檚 May 27 verdict acquitting Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami leader ATM Azharul Islam of 1971 war crimes charges...
Columbia has been the site of demonstrations calling for an end to violence in Gaza for the past 18 months, and more recently, has seen student protesters arrested by the Trump administration....
The National Citizen Party (NCP), along with several other political parties and groups, Friday night announced a series of blockade programmes and rallies to be held on Saturday at all 鈥楯uly Points鈥� in Dhaka and across Bangladesh.
Tens of thousands of protesters flooded the streets of major US cities on Saturday to oppose the divisive policies of president Donald Trump, in the largest demonstrations since his return to the White House...
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...
The fact-finding committee formed to investigate violent attacks on the July-August protesters at the University of Dhaka from July 15, 2024, to August 5, 2024, said on Thursday that they identified 122 DU students who were allegedly involved in the violent attacks in the period.
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...
A sub-inspector of Uttara West police station was withdrawn early Wednesday, hours after Tuesday evening鈥檚 detention of three students of the Students Against Discrimination in the capital鈥檚 Uttara...
Chattogram Metropolitan Police arrested 46 leaders and activists of Awami League, Chattra League, and Juba League for attacking protesters during the student-led mass uprising in July and August...
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..