A rational reform of the quota system in government jobs has remained unresolved even after a year of the anti-quota movement under the Students Against Discrimination platform in July-August 2024 that led to the fall of the Sheikh Hasina-led Awami League regime...
Three out of the four persons arrested in connection with the alleged gang-rape of a female student at a city-based law college had pre-planned the assault, a police officer said on Monday, Press Trust of India...
COLLEGES and universities are caught in a moral and political dilemma. Students are encouraged, on the one hand, to engage in party-affiliated or factional campus politics. And, on the other hand, that very political involvement becomes a black mark when they apply for government jobs. Many of us advocate student politics on campus, yet the same political affiliations...
Former Students Against Discrimination spokesperson Umama Fatema has quit the platform, alleging internal arbitrariness, smear campaigns against her and political favouritism, days after the platform elected its new leaders...
The authorities have deferred Jahangirnagar University Central Students鈥� Union elections for the third time, citing incomplete disciplinary proceedings over attacks on students during the student-led mass uprising in July-August.
The chief adviser鈥檚 press wing said on Friday that the authorities concerned were actively considering allowing a female candidate who was unable to take this year鈥檚 Higher Secondary Certificate examination on the first day to retake the exam.
A group of students of the Aga Khan Academy Dhaka won the Australian government鈥檚 Study Australia Entrepreneurship Challenge 2025 Bangladesh competition...
Twenty-nine students taking their high school exams in the Central African Republic died in a stampede sparked by an exploding power transformer, the health ministry said Thursday...
Rashidul Islam, also known as Rifat Rashid, and Sheikh Enamul Hasan, known as Hasan Enam, were elected as the new president and general secretary of Students Against Discrimination, a platform that led the July uprising...
A 36-member national committee has been formed to celebrate the student-people uprising days in July-August...
Students of the Dhaka Medical College on Monday continued their protest on campus to press their demand for safe accommodation, defying the DMC authorities鈥� directive to vacate hostels...
BANGLADESH is facing an alarming decline in science student enrolment at the higher secondary certificate level and, as a result, the country now stands at a critical crossroads. While Asian nations such as Japan, South Korea, China, Vietnam, Singapore and Malaysia surge ahead on the engines of science and technology, we are witnessing a significant aversion to and...
Dhaka Medical College on Saturday suspended all academic activities for an indefinite period amid ongoing student protests to press home their five demands.
Foreigners seeking to study in the United States will be required to make public their social media profiles to allow screening for anti-American content under new State Department guidelines released Wednesday.
The Dhaka University authorities have adopted a series of strict security measures to address the prevailing concerns over campus safety and prepare for potential challenges ahead of the forthcoming Dhaka University Central Students鈥� Union elections...
A group of private university students on Wednesday protested at a 15 per cent income tax on private universities demanding immediate withdrawal of the tax...
Universal Medical College in Dhaka hosted an orientation programme for its 11th batch of MBBS students, marking the beginning of their medical education journey, on Sunday...
A judge on Monday extended a restraining order pausing Donald Trump鈥檚 ban on Harvard bringing in and hosting foreign students as part of the US president鈥檚 escalating campaign against the elite university...
Gonoshasthaya Samaj Vittik Medical College officially welcomed its 30th batch of MBBS students with an oath-taking and orientation ceremony on Tuesday...
New Delhi said Monday its diplomats were helping some Indian students relocate out of harm鈥檚 way in Iran, which has come under days of deadly Israeli bombardment.
A Dhaka University fine art faculty student allegedly committed suicide in Manikganj early Tuesday after being threatened over a social media comment.
US president Donald Trump told reporters late Friday he wanted to assure Chinese international students in the country that they would be fine amid his administration鈥檚 crackdown on academia.
An activist of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami has been expelled for his involvement in an attack on left students鈥� protest that left at least 15 injured in Chattogram on May 28.
Chinese students lamented Washington鈥檚 latest tirade against them on Thursday, accusing the Trump administration of acting 鈥榬ecklessly鈥� and tarnishing their once-sparkling image of an American higher education.
The US State Department has ordered the suspension of student visa processing in the latest escalation of a Trump administration crackdown on foreign students criticised Wednesday by China...
Several left-leaning student organisations, including Bangladesh Students鈥� Union, on Tuesday staged a protest rally protesting at the acquittal of Bangladeshi Jamaat-e-Islami leader and former alleged Al-Badr commander ATM Azharul Islam who was charged with war crimes...
The Dhaka Metropolitan Police on Tuesday said that eight more suspects were arrested in a case filed over the murder of Dhaka University student Shahriar Alam Shammo on May 13...
A Dhaka court on Tuesday placed three individuals on one-day remand each in a case filed over assaulting two Dhaka University students who reportedly protested at stalking their female fellow...
Between jabs at Donald Trump鈥檚 US trade tariffs and criticism of Beijing鈥檚 assertiveness in the South China Sea, French president Emmanuel Macron warned Vietnamese students Tuesday that 鈥榦n the impulse of a superpower, everything can change鈥�...
KFC Bangladesh has launched an offer allowing students to purchase 2 pieces of hot and crispy chicken at Tk 198 instead of regular price of Tk 329, said a press release...