BGB enhances security measures nationwide
Border Guard Bangladesh has intensified security measures across the country, particularly in key areas of Dhaka, to maintain law and order.
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Arrests, clashes mark fresh student protests in many areas of Bangladesh
Students protesting under the banner of the Students Movement Against Discrimination returned to the streets on Monday, holding fresh demonstrations across the country to protest...
Deaths on roads go unabated
Six years have passed since student protests for road safety gripped the nation in 2018 that led the government to make many promises and take several initiatives, but fatal...
Repression and propaganda
THE wholesale arrest of dozens of students and hundreds of leaders, activists and supporters of opposition parties in cases filed in connection with violence and vandalism during the student protests for reforms in government job quota is another misstep of the government, the like of which forced a peaceful protest into a violent one...
Reckless lies and deceit are no answers
THE only responsible government response to the violent policing of student protests seeking public job quota reform was to take responsibility for the death and injuries. But the government continues to spread reckless lies and deceive the public. The first information report that the Rangpur police filed about the death of a Begum Rokeya University...
Mobile internet restored, social media platforms still inaccessible in Bangladesh
The government restored mobile internet services at about 3:00pm on Sunday after almost 10 days, but users found difficulties in using the internet services...
14 foreign missions in Dhaka seek sustainable solution to current unrest
Though a number of countries expressed their concern over the recent violence in Bangladesh, 14 foreign missions stationed in Dhaka have jointly written to foreign minister Hasan Mahmud seeking a sustainable solution to the issue to ensure a lasting peace in the country...
SC guidelines largely ignored in wholesale arrests, remand
Law enforcement agencies are largely ignoring the Supreme Court guidelines while making blanket arrests of citizens on suspicion of their involvement in violence during the recent student protests...
Who decides, who defines who the 鈥榗ulprits鈥� are
THE prime minister Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 call on people to help identify the 鈥榗ulprits鈥� involved in the mayhem, born out of the peaceful student protests seeking reforms in civil service job reservations, makes sense. While she sought people鈥檚 support in holding the culprits to justice, she said that the culprits, in whatever corner they are staying...
Banks to operate from 10:00am to 3:00pm till July 30
Bangladesh Bank has instructed banks in the country to keep their branches open from 10:00am to 3:00pm in accordance with the reduced curfew hours.
Wholesale arrests, night-time block raids continue across Bangladesh
Law enforcement agencies have continued arrests, and night-time block raids in many areas of Dhaka and other places across the country as part of their special drive against...
2 more injured victims die at DMCH
Two more critically injured people died on Friday while undergoing treatment at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital, taking the death toll from the recent violence during...
AL dissolves 27 unit committees
The committees of 27 units of the ruling Awami League under the Dhaka-13 constituency were dissolved on Thursday night due to their inaction during the anti-quota student protest in...
1,300 more arrested across Bangladesh in聽24 hours
Police on Thursday arrested at least 1,307 suspects, mostly opposition leaders and activists, across the country in connection with violence and vandalism during...
Hospital visits reveal 209 deaths during deadly protests in Bangladesh
Hospitals in the capital Dhaka and 10 other districts reported at least 209 killings during the violent student protests for quota reform in the past 10 days across the...
Diplomats confront FM over violence
Diplomats in Dhaka questioned the government鈥檚 deadly response to widespread student protests following a presentation by the foreign minister that laid the blame for recent violence at demonstrators鈥� feet, diplomatic officials said Monday...
Many killed, hurt at home, workplaces during deadly protests in Bangladesh
Many ordinary people, including children, were killed and wounded at home and workplaces in allegedly indiscriminate firing by the security agencies on roads and in residential areas to disperse the clashing protesters from different locations in the capital as student protests for quota reform turned violent...
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...
Massive manhunt continues across Bangladesh after deadly protest
Police continued the countrywide arrest drives as 641 more people were arrested in Dhaka city on Wednesday in connection with violence and vandalism during student protests for quota reform for government jobs that left at least 162 killed...
30 lawyers condemn use of 鈥榚xcessive, force鈥� on quota protesters
Thirty lawyers condemned the 鈥榰se of excessive and disproportionate force鈥� on the student protesters demanding quota reforms in government jobs in a statement issued on Sunday...
The wound will cast a long, indelible shadow
THE Appellate Division coming to revoke the July 5 High Court verdict that asked the government to reinstate 30 per cent quotas in government jobs for the children and grandchildren of freedom fighters, sparking massive student protests, does not, and will not, heal the wounds that have been inflicted on the nation since July 15...
Some int鈥檒 media outlets circulate false, fabricated reports: FM聽
Foreign minister Hasan Mahmud on Tuesday said that some international media outlets including Qatar-based Al Jazeera circulated false, distorted and fabricated reports on...
Police on arrest spree after student protests
Authorities launched a countrywide arrest drive after dozens of cases were filed on charges of acts of sabotage after violent student protests that left at least 157 killed in the past...
The fear of truth
TRUTH is defiant. It finds its way to be in public circulation. Sometimes quietly. That has been the case since July 18, when the government suspended all internet services in Bangladesh apparently to 鈥榗ontain violence surrounding the student protest for quota reform鈥�. Public, however, thinks otherwise. Words on the streets are that the...
Business community must rise above partisan position
AMID the curfew imposed on July 20 for an indefinite period apparently to contain violence centring student protests for quota reforms, businesspeople at a meeting with the prime minister on July 22 urged the government to immediately reopen factories. Most business leaders who attended applauded the government for creating...
Attacks on Bangladesh student protesters unacceptable: UN HR chief
UN human rights chief Volker Turk said on Friday he was deeply concerned by this week鈥檚 violence in Bangladesh, calling the attacks on student protesters 鈥榮hocking and unacceptable鈥�...
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...
Many people injured in Bangladesh protests at risk of losing vision
Many people, including a significant number of students, were at risk of losing sight in their either one or both eyes for injuries they sustained in violent clashes during anti-quota student protests across Bangladesh....
Many people stranded in Dhaka for curfew
A sudden curfew, imposed across the country since midnight past Friday against the backdrop of violent student protests demanding reform of quotas in government jobs, has left people who are in dire need to leave Dhaka, stranded at railway stations, launch and bus terminals...