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Show-cause notice issued on JU Bangla dept chair

The authorities of Jahangirnagar University on Friday issued a show cause notice to professor Shamima Sultana, chairperson of the university’s Bengali department, for removing a portrait of...

Who will be responsible for so many deaths: PM

Referring to the ongoing student protests, prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday questioned, ‘What kind of movement it was?’ and added, ‘Who will shoulder the...

JU Bangla dept chair removes PM’s portrait from office

Students demand justice amidst massacre

SHEIKH Hasina’s government is now under fire for what many are calling a war against her own people. In the past week alone, more than 200 people were reportedly killed in a brutal crackdown on protests. The government deployed helmeted forces, the Chhatra League, the army, the police and border guards using armoured vehicles and helicopters...

Govt plays to crowd as it seeks UN help in mayhem probe

THE prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s statement that she seeks cooperation of the United Nations and other international organisations for a fair and proper investigation of the mayhem, born out of the student protests that sought reforms in civil service job reservations, to establish the culprits involved in the attacks and punish them appears...

PM again seeks UN, foreign countries’ coop to expose perpetrators

Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday once again sought cooperation from the United Nations and foreign countries to probe into every incident during the countrywide mayhem to expose the perpetrators and bring them to justice.

Tulip Siddiq investigated over London property income

British minister and Labour Party lawmaker Tulip Siddiq, also the niece of Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina, is being investigated by the United Kingdom parliament’s standards watchdog over a failure to register rental income on a London property...

PM visits Kurmitola Hospital to meet injured in unrest

Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina visited Kurmitola General Hospital on Wednesday afternoon to see the injured victims of the recent nationwide violence centring around the quota reforms movement.

PM seeks UN, other int’l orgs’ coop for mayhem probe

Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday sought cooperation from the United Nations and other international organisations to conduct a proper investigation into the nationwide mayhem to punish the real culprits involved in the attacks taking advantage of the anti-quota movement...

Lives lost during violence over quota protests will never come back: PM

Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday said that the lives lost during the recent quota reform violence can never be brought back even though the destroyed structures were rebuilt...

Amnesty Int’l chief calls on Hasina for urgent action to end violence

The Amnesty International secretary general Agnès Callamard in a letter to prime minister Sheikh Hasina urged to take urgent and concrete action to end the violence and...

PM visits Suhrawardy hospital to meet victims of unrest

Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina visited Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College and Hospital on Tuesday to meet people who sustained injuries during the recent nationwide unrest centring quota reform protests.

Govt to take foreign technical assistance for judicial probe: PM

Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday said that foreign technical assistance would be taken for the judicial probe committee, formed by the government aims at...

Govt set to ban Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami: minister

Two ministers on Tuesday said that the government decided to ban the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami through an executive order within a very short time...

Mourning day being observed today

Mourning day is being observed across Bangladesh on Tuesday for those who died during unrest centring around student protests for quota reform in the past week.

Mancha demands resignation of AL govt

The leaders of Ganatantra Mancha, a combine of six political parties, on Monday demanded the resignation of the Awami League government and protested against the...

Foreign missions working so that no more Bangladeshis in trouble: info minister

State minister for information Mohammad Ali Arafat said that Bangladesh missions aboard were working on the instructions of prime minister Sheikh Hasina so that any more Bangladeshi expatriates were not in further troubles over protests in solidarity with quota reform student movement back home...

Govt’s efforts will be to find culprits involved in murders: PM

Seeking cooperation from the countrymen, prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday reiterated that her government’s efforts would be to find out those involved in the...

PM visits BSMMU, police hospital to meet injured in unrest

Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina visited Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University Hospital at Shahbagh and Central Police Hospital at Rajarbagh in the capital on Sunday afternoon to check on the injured victims of the recent nationwide violence.

Prime minister meets with families of those killed during protests

Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday extended her condolences and support to the families of those killed during the mayhem created by ‘BNP-Jamaat terrorists,’ leveraging the quota reform movement...

Who decides, who defines who the ‘culprits’ are

THE prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s call on people to help identify the ‘culprits’ involved in the mayhem, born out of the peaceful student protests seeking reforms in civil service job reservations, makes sense. While she sought people’s support in holding the culprits to justice, she said that the culprits, in whatever corner they are staying...

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...

Prime minister visits NITOR to see victims of quota protests

Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday morning visited National Institute of Traumatology and Orthopaedic Rehabilitation to see the injured people who came under attacks during the recent countrywide protests...

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’s development alongside...

Prime minister visits BTV Bhaban to inspect damage

Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday morning visited Bangladesh Television Bhaban to see the extent of damage after it came under attack during the recent protests...

Businesses call for factory reopening

Country’s business leaders on Monday urged the government to reopen factories across the country and restore internet connection to resume exports and imports business...

PM attributes Jamaat, BNP to nationwide mayhem

Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday attributed the nationwide mayhem over the students’ quota movement as she held a meeting with the country’s top business leaders while offered her all out government support to normalise the businesses...

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...

PM apprehends such strike by BNP, Jamaat to halt country’s prosperity 

Referring to the countrywide recent havoc and atrocities, prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday said that she had an apprehension there might be a strike like this by the BNP-Jamaat clique to pull down the country’s prosperity...

Malaysia can fully manufacture Perodua car in Bangladesh: PM

Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday invited Malaysia to set up facilities to fully manufacture their Perodua brand car in Bangladesh...