Quota for freedom fighters鈥� grandchildren dropped
The education ministry on Thursday published the college admission guidelines for the current academic year, dropping quota for the grandchildren of the freedom fighters...
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No quota for July injured in public service
Liberation war affairs ministry adviser Faruk-e-Azam on Monday said that there would be no quota in government jobs for those recognised as 鈥楯uly fighters鈥�, injured in the July uprising in 2024...
RUET students protest quota, promotion discrimination in engineering jobs
The students of the Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology on Sunday at a demonstration demanded reforms in engineering job recruitment...
Reform proposals include July quota
The proposed reforms to the guideline for the current year鈥檚 college admission that the education boards have submitted to the education ministry contain quotas for the July uprising victims...
Govt job quota reform remains unresolved
A rational reform of the quota system in government jobs has remained unresolved even after a year of the anti-quota movement under the Students Against Discrimination platform in July-August 2024 that led to the fall of the Sheikh Hasina-led Awami League regime...
Women quota in non-govt teacher recruitment abolished
The education ministry abolished the women quota in the teacher recruitment for the secondary-level schools and colleges under the monthly pay order system...
Not settling public service quota early can be unsettling later
THE issue of public service job reservation that initiated the July uprising has remained unattended since the uprising finally toppled the Awami League government. The students who took to the streets in July 2024, demanding a rational reform in the quota system, and the authorities have somewhat accepted the reform that the Awami League government announced days...
Govt job quota聽reform issue on back burner
No initiative to streamline the quota system in government jobs is in sight after the 2024 changes that abolished women and district quotas, frustrating different sections of people.
Ex-ICT judge鈥檚 son named in another ICT case
Gana Odhikar Parishad general secretary Rashed Khan on Wednesday filed a complaint with the Office of the Chief Prosecutor of the International Crimes Tribunal alleging that he was tortured in custody in Dhaka by detained Rangamati additional superintendent of police Ishtiaq Ahmed during the 2018 quota reform movement...
Support for youth quota in JS almost nil
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party strongly disagreed with the Constitutional Reform Commission on its proposal for a quota of 10 per cent parliamentary seats for young candidates...
SUST students issue 48hr ultimatum to abolish irrational quotas
Students of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology on Monday issued a 48-hour ultimatum demanding the abolition of all irrational quotas, including the ward quota...
GOVT SECONDARY SCHOOL ADMISSION: Govt changes decision on uprising victim family quota
The interim government on Tuesday changed its decision to reserve seats for family members of the July mass uprising victims 鈥� injured or martyred 鈥� for admission to government secondary schools...
Ex-minister, mayor sued for attack on quota protesters
A case has been filed against former education minister Mohibul Hassan Chowdhoury and former Chattogram city mayor Rezaul Karim Chowdhury, along with 127 others, in connection with an attack on a...
Ex-AL MP put on remand over Shibir activist murder
A Chattogram court on Sunday put former Awami League lawmaker from Chattogram 15 constituency Abu Reza Muhammad Nezamuddin Nadvi on two-day remand in connection with the murder of an Islami Chhatra Shibir activist during the quota reform student movement...
JU forms committee to review dependant quota in admissions
Jahangirnagar University authorities on Monday formed a committee to review the university鈥檚 dependant quota in the admission process.
PROTESTS AGAINST ADMISSION QUOTAS: 7-college聽 students block Science Lab crossing
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...
BB resets sukuk allocation quotas
The Bangladesh Bank has reset quotas for allocating sukuk among Shariah-based banks, financial institutions, insurance companies and individual investors...
BCL leader arrested over attack on July protests
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...
FF quota forgery: ACC sues Atrais UNO Kamal
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Thursday filed a case against Kamal Hossain, now serving as the upazila nirbahi officer of Atrai in Naogaon, on charges of fraud and misuse of the freedom fighter quota to secure government job.
HC questions player, staff quotas in DU admission
The High Court on Tuesday issued a rule asking Dhaka University authorities to explain within two weeks why the quotas for the children of university teachers and employees and the sports quota in admission should not be declared illegal...
RU teachers-employees, students at loggerheads
The teachers, employees and students of Rajshahi University have locked horns over cancelling the existing ward quota for the children and grand-children of the university teachers, officials and employees for admission to undergraduate courses.
JU students protest at admission quota, demand reforms
A group of Jahangirnagar University students staged a demonstration on JU campus, calling for reforms to what they described as a discriminatory quota system in university admissions, on Sunday...
Foysal never came back home, dead or alive
On July 19, after having lunch, Md Foysal Sarker told his mother, Hajera Begum, that he would return soon before stepping out of their rented house in Savar鈥檚 Abdullahpur about 3:00pm...
Quota reform movement revisit
THE quota reform movement taking the whole nation by storm finally brought down the undemocratic government in Bangladesh. The indignant people, because of the...
Rokeya Univ to sue 81 teachers, students as probe finds involvement
The authorities of the Begum Rokeya University have taken a decision to file a case against 81 people, including two teachers and 72 students in connection with the killing of anti-quota movement leader and the university鈥檚 student Abu Sayeed...
Bullet-hit child Musa sent to Singapore
Seven-year-old Musa Khan, who was shot in the head inside the garage of his Rampura house on July 19 during student protests demanding quota reform in government jobs, was sent to...
Sarjis slams negligence
A central coordinator of the Student Movement against Discrimination Sarjis Alam slammed the adviser to the health ministry Nurjahan Begum for alleged negligence in treating the...
3 deceased AL leaders named in case
Three deceased Awami League leaders, who died much earlier, have been prosecuted over the attack on the recent anti-quota student protests in Cumilla...
Ex- planning minister Mannan granted bail
A Sunamganj court on Wednesday granted bail to former planning minister MA Mannan in a case filed for alleged attack on a rally of the anti-quota movement...
Juba League activist held for shooting at quota protesters
The Rapid Action Battalion on Tuesday arrested an activist of Juba League, the youth wing of Awami League, allegedly for shooting at protesting students in the capital鈥檚 Uttara during the...