Hapless parents, relatives wail as bodies pile up at DMCH聽
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...
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Hospitals overwhelmed by patients with gunshot wounds
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...
Over 110 killed in protests in four days
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...
Curfew imposed as 67 more killed in countrywide protests
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...
Govt to brief foreign diplomats over developing situation Sunday
The foreign ministry is scheduled to hold a briefing for foreign diplomats in Dhaka at state guesthouse Jamuna today, a day after the imposition of curfew to protect people鈥檚 life and the state鈥檚 property amid the ongoing anti-quota student movement...
People opting for newspapers, tv, radio amid internet shutdown
People in the Dhaka city were seen buying newspapers, watching television or listening to radio for updated information on Friday and Saturday as the country had been under complete internet blackout since Thursday night amid the countrywide unrest over the ongoing quota reform movement...
JU students build monument
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...
31 cultural bodies demand revoking of curfew
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...
Govt mustn鈥檛 use coercion to resolve quota reform 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...
RMG factories to remain shut today, say BGMEA, BKMEA
The country鈥檚 apparel makers have decided to keep their factories shut today considering the safety of workers and employees amid unrests centring the quota reform movement...
Dhaka stocks drop after four-week rise
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...
Rally demands quick solution to quota crisis
Leaders of Ganatantra Mancha, a combination of six political parties on Thursday at a rally in Dhaka called on the Awami League government to take immediate steps to...
RMG factories across Bangladesh to reopen Wednesday amid curfew
Bangladesh鈥檚 export-oriented readymade garment factories are going to resume its operation on Wednesday after four day closure since Saturday due to the unrest over the quota reform movement....
Opposition parties say all record of brutality broken
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...
SC set to hear appeal against quota verdict this morning
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court is set to hear the government appeal against the High Court verdict on quota in civil service recruitment at 10:00am today just as the curfew ends...
Govt meeting with few protesters creates confusion
A meeting held on Saturday between three leaders of the Students Movement Against Discrimination, the platform leading the ongoing quota reform movement, with three ministers created confusions as their demands differed with other leaders of the movement...
Quota protest coordinator Nahid goes missing
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...
Govt accepts demands of protesting students: AL
The ruling Awami League on Thursday night said that it accepted the demands of the students who continued protests demanding the reform of quota system in...
Bangladesh govt will take care of injured students鈥� treatment: law minister
Law minister Anisul Huq today said that Bangladesh government has published gazette notification on the reformed quota system, according to the court rule....
Judicial inquiry commission to sit today
The commission of inquiry, headed by Justice Khandaker Diliruzzaman, is scheduled to sit with the cabinet secretary today to set out the agenda for investigating 鈥榯he reasons behind the death of six people on July 16 and identify the persons responsible鈥� for the killings...
Mobile internet services disrupted
Amid the ongoing student protests for quota reform, mobile users nationwide faced difficulties, accessing internet services provided by telecom operators since...
BNP to hold countrywide procession today
The main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Thursday announced that it would hold a rally and procession in front of the National Press Club on Friday protesting against the...
City hospitals flooded with protesters with pellet injuries
Many public and private city hospitals became overloaded with hundreds of injured, mostly protesting students with pellet injuries from Jatrabari, Rampura, and Uttara, as...
Broadband internet connection partially restored in Dhaka
Broadband internet connection was restored in Dhaka city at about 9:00pm on Tuesday, five days after the government had shut down the internet connection across Bangladesh on July 18 amid countrywide quota reform protests....
22 DU teachers demand trace of anti-quota protester Rashidul
Twenty-two current and former teachers of Dhaka University鈥檚 international relations department on Tuesday demanded trace of the department鈥檚 3rd year Bachelor student Rashidul Islam who went missing since Friday.....
Arafat for taking action against attackers, killers upon investigation
Expressing grief over the causalities during the violence across Bangladesh, centring job quota reform movement, state minister for information and broadcasting Mohammad Ali Arafat said on Tuesday that action would be taken against the attackers, perpetrators and killers upon investigation....
Journalist killed in Bangladesh capital during police-quota protesters clash
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....
Govt for talks, protesters reject
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...
Govt forms judicial inquiry committee
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...
AD to hear govt appeal against quota verdict Sunday
The Appellate Division has set July 21 for hearing a government recent petition that sought cancellation of the High Court鈥檚 June 5 verdict on maintaining quotas in...
