FICCI suggests steps to fully restore economic activities
The Foreign Investors鈥� Chamber of Commerce and Industry has recommended a list of measures to recover from economic losses amid unrests centring the quota reform protests...
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147 killed in聽violence during quota protests across Bangladesh: govt
The government at last disclosed on Sunday that 147 people, including common people, students, police, and ruling Awami League activists, were killed in...
Rallies held worldwide over student movement in Bangladesh
Solidarity rallies and protests were held in various countries worldwide in response to the student movement and violence in Bangladesh over quota reform in public services in the past week...
Protesters issue 24-hr ultimatum for 3-point demands
Protesting students for quota reform in government jobs on Saturday issued a 24-hour ultimatum to meet their three-point demand, including enactment of a law in the parliament through...
Govt can鈥檛 avoid responsibility for killings, repressions: opposition leaders
Leaders of Ganatantra Mancha and other opposition political parties, in a statement on Saturday, said that the Awami League government was attempting to evade responsibility for the killings of students, involved in quota reform movement, by arresting opposition leaders and activists...
Dollar price rises to Tk 121.5 on kerb market
The dollar rate on the open market, also known as the kerb market, rose by over Tk 1.5 to reach Tk聽121.5 a dollar on July 25 amid unrests centring quota reform protests across the country...
2536 people arrested in Dhaka over quota protests: DMP
The police have arrested 2536 people in Dhaka in connection with the recent unrest centring student protests for quota reforms in public services.
Nationwide mayhem conspiracy to destroy economy: PM
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday said that the nationwide mayhem was a part of a conspiracy to completely cripple the economy to make Bangladesh again a...
RAB arrests 290 more people from Dhaka, elsewhere
Members of Rapid Action Battalion arrested 290 people from different parts of the country, including Dhaka, in connection with the recent violence over quota reform protests.
Bangladesh says quota protest leaders held for their own safety
Bangladesh said three student leaders had been taken into custody on Friday for their own safety.
69 injured still undergoing treatment at NITOR
At least 69 people, including students, who were injured in the violence during the quota reform student movement, were undergoing treatment at the National Institute of Traumatology and...
BRUR gives financial aid to family of Sayeed killed in police shooting
The authorities of Begum Rokeya University, Rangpur gave financial assistance to the family of deceased quota reform movement organiser Abu Sayeed on...
Expose culprits from every nook and corner to justice: PM
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday said that the BNP-Jamaat and Shibir carried out the nationwide mayhem to undermine the country鈥檚 development alongside...
Expose perpetrators, bring them to justice: PM
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday said BNP, Jamaat and Shibir carried out acts of vandalism nationwide to undermine the country鈥檚 development and tarnish its image abroad.
Loss of lives highlights governance failures: TIB
The recent repression of the students鈥� quota reformation movement for government jobs, coupled with unprecedented deaths and destruction, highlights severe...
Left parties to hold countrywide mourning procession today
Left leaning political parties will hold countrywide mourning procession on Friday, commemorating the people and students, who were killed during the countrywide...
Govt urged to stop arrests of opposition leaders, activists
A faction of the Supreme Court Bar Association on Thursday urged the government to stop arresting and harassing opposition leaders and activists without first identifying the perpetrators, responsible for the destruction of state properties during the student quota reform movement...
Businesses call for factory reopening
Country鈥檚 business leaders on Monday urged the government to reopen factories across the country and restore internet connection to resume exports and imports business...
Opposition activists, leaders among over 800 arrested on sabotage charges
More than 800 people, mostly leaders and activists of the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party, and Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, have been arrested from different areas of the capital and districts across the country in the last three days on the charges of sabotage during the student movement for quota reform...
Notification to be issued anytime, says minister
A notification on the order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court over quota reform is likely to be issued today or tomorrow, public administration minister Farhad Hossain said on Monday...
Low-income people hit hard by curfew, fresh price increase
A DEARTH of work and an absence of support from authorities, coupled with a fresh increase in goods prices, amidst the ongoing curfew has made lives of low-income people, especially day labourers, unbearable. The government imposed curfew at midnight past July 19 after at least 112 people were killed in July 16鈥�19 in the student movement over...
Prices of vegetables, eggs remain high
The prices of vegetables and eggs remained high on Monday on the kitchen markets in the capital Dhaka...
PM seeks justice for vandalism of govt establishments
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina said on Wednesday that people should bring those responsible for the destruction of government establishments to justice as she...
Judicial commission seeks info of July 5-16 violence
The judicial inquiry commission on Wednesday requested the people to provide information by August 6 about 鈥榲iolence, arson attacks, looting and criminal activities鈥� that took place across the country in between July 5-16 during the students鈥� quota reform movement...
Govt arresting opposition leaders to hide number of death: parties
Leaders of the Ganatantra Mancha and some opposition political parties on Wednesday said that the ruling Awami League government was making arrests of opposition leaders to hide numbers of deaths in atrocities by law enforcers during the agitation of the students demanding quota reforms in government jobs...
2,000 opposition people arrested, says BNP
The main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Wednesday claimed that at least 2,000 leaders and activists of their party and other opposition parties as well were arrested in the past few days during the ongoing student protest demanding quota reform in government jobs...
8 unidentified bodies handed over to Anjuman
The police on Wednesday handed over eight unidentified bodies from Dhaka Medical College Hospital in connection with the quota reform movement to Anjuman Mufidul Islam for burial...
Another missing quota protest coordinator Asif reappears after 6 days
Asif Mahmud, one of the co-coordinators of the Students Movement Against Discrimination, a platform demanding quota reform in government jobs, reappeared on Wednesday morning about six days after he had gone missing...
Everything will be under control in 3-4 days: HM
Home minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal on Thursday said that law enforcement agencies had been identifying criminals one by one...
RMG units start production, FBCCI demands port demurrage waiver
All export-oriented readymade garment factories reopened on Wednesday after a four-day closure since Saturday due to the unrest over the quota reform movement and curfew imposed by the government to control the situation...
