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Protesters term SC verdict unclear, demand law

The Students’ Movement Against Discrimination, a platform of students demanding quota reform in government jobs, on Sunday demanded to enact a law by calling a special session of Jatiya Sangsad within a week, terming the day’s Supreme Court verdict ‘unclear’...

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People worried as internet blackout goes on

People’s sufferings exacerbated as the shutdown of internet continued on Sunday amid the countrywide protests and demonstrations against the killing of students amid the movement for quota reform in government jobs...

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Quota protest coordinator Nahid reappears injured

Nahid Islam, one of the coordinators of the Students Movement against Discrimination, a platform for the quota reform system in government services, was traced early Sunday, day after he went missing...

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Opposition parties demand resignation of AL govt

Leaders of Ganatantra Mancha and some others political parties on Sunday demanded immediate resignation of Awami League government on charges of creating anarchies in the name of controlling students’ movement for quota reform in government services...

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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...

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Govt mustn’t 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’s earlier employment of the ruling Awami League’s fronts Chhatra League and Juba League and the deployment of various law enforcement units, including the...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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....

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22 DU teachers demand trace of anti-quota protester Rashidul

Twenty-two current and former teachers of Dhaka University’s international relations department on Tuesday demanded trace of the department’s 3rd year Bachelor student Rashidul Islam who went missing since Friday.....

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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...

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Tense situation prevails at Badda after students-police clash

A clash erupted between police and students of BRAC University in the Badda area of Bangladesh capital Dhaka on Thursday when the students demanding quota reform in government jobs gathered there as part of the ‘complete shutdown’ programme....

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Quota protesters announce ‘complete shutdown’ across Bangladesh for Thursday

Student protesters for quota reform in government jobs on Wednesday announced to enforce a ‘complete shutdown’ for Thursday across Bangladesh protesting at the attack by the members of police, Border Guard Bangladesh, Rapid Action Battalion and the Special Weapons And Tactics on Dhaka University campus and elsewhere in the country....

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Quota protesters block Khulna-Jashore Highway

Students from different government and private universities and colleges in Khulna blocked the Khulna-Jashore Highway Tuesday morning, protesting at Chhatra League’s attack on students demanding quota reform....

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Remarks of prime minister that are unbecoming, unacceptable

THE prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s remarks of July 14 at the press conference on the outcome of her visits to India and China about the ongoing movement for quota reforms in the recruitment of public servants and the movement of teachers of 35 public universities demanding the cancellation of the universal pension scheme Pratyay...

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Intruders enter into quota reform movement: DB

Dhaka Metropolitan Police additional commissioner and Detective Branch chief Harun Or Rashid on Saturday said that intruders entered into the quota movement to divert it in a different direction...