Harassment, killing of students condemned
Leaders of opposition parties in a statement on Sunday condemned the killings of students and people killed during the student movement for reforming quotas in the government jobs...
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JP extends support to student movement, condemns killings
The Jatiya Party has extended its full support to the student movement for reforming the quota system in government jobs...
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...
Student leaders 鈥榥ot arrested,鈥� to be released once out of danger: home minister
The home minister, Asaduzzaman Khan, clarified that the five coordinators of the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement 鈥榟ad not been arrested,鈥� and they would be released once the police deemed them out of danger.
JU unit anti-quota convener Arif Sohel 鈥榩icked up鈥�
Arif Sohel, Jahangirnagar University quota reform student movement convener, was picked up from his house in Savar at about 5:00am on Sunday allegedly by members of law enforcement agencies...
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...
BNP demands int鈥檒 probe into student movement,聽 aftermath
The main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Thursday demanded an international probe into the country鈥檚 recent anti-quota student movement and its...
Condition of 10聽injured still critical at DMCH
More than 10 critically injured people are still undergoing treatment at Dhaka Medical College Hospital as they have been hit by bullets in violence during the student movement for...
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...
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...
Public sufferings left unsorted
THE curfew ordered midnight past July 19, along with the deployment of the army in aid of civil administration, to contain unrest born out of the student movement seeking reforms in civil service job reservations had some discommoding effects on people鈥檚 daily life...
The injured must get proper treatment, mustn鈥檛 be harassed
BESIDES the death of at least 163 people in indiscriminate firing by law enforcement personnel during the student movement for reforms in government job quota, a few thousand people have been wounded, with many still in a critical condition in hospital. Many of the injured are reported to have lost their eyesight while many are at risks of losing eyesight...
BNP demands govt resignation
The main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Sunday demanded immediate resignation of the ruling Awami League accepting people鈥檚 demands raised during the ongoing student movement...
Arrest of BNP leaders continues
The law enforcement agencies on Sunday continued arrest of leaders of the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party in connection with the cases filed on charges of violence centring the student movement demanding reforms of quotas in government jobs...
Cultural activists protest at death of students
More than 400 cultural activists organised a programme titled Justice for Student in front of Jatiya Sangsad protesting at deaths of students in the ongoing anti-quota student movement on...
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...
PM takes opinions of alliance leaders before imposing curfew
Ruling Awami League president and prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday took opinions of leaders of the partners of Awami League-led alliance before imposing a countrywide curfew to control 鈥榓narchies鈥� created during the ongoing student movement demanding reform in the quota system in government jobs...
BNP must walk the walk and stop belittling legitimate issues
THE remark of the senior joint secretary general of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party that the government is creating various issues to deflect public attention away from agreements 鈥� said to have been against Bangladesh鈥檚 national interests 鈥� that the government has signed with other countries is misleading on a few counts...