Cultural activists perform in street joining protests聽
Ganahatya O Nipiran Birodhi Shilpi Samaj, a platform for cultural activists, made a three-point demand expressing its solidarity with the ongoing quota reform movement and...
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Bangladesh violence leaves at least 32 children killed: UNICEF
At least 32 children were killed in Bangladesh during the quota reform protests in July with many more injured and detained, said UNICEF regional director for...
Students participate in mass procession on Dhaka-Pabna Highway
Students participated in a mass procession on Friday on the Dhaka-Pabna Highway to press home their nine-point demand, including justice for those who died during the quota reform movement and the withdrawal of cases.
Freed student coordinators vow to continue protests
Six coordinators of the Student Movement Against Discrimination, who were held in custody by the Detective Branch of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police for days without...
Who will be responsible for so many deaths: PM
Referring to the ongoing student protests, prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday questioned, 鈥榃hat kind of movement it was?鈥� and added, 鈥榃ho will shoulder the...
Visual artists demand justice for murders
Visual artists organised a programme titled Bhoyhin- Nejjya- Manobik Morjadar Bangladesh Chai in front of Ananda Cinema Hall near Farmgate to declare solidarity with the students鈥� nine-point demand in the ongoing anti-quota student movement on Thursday morning...
DU Blue Panel urges campus security for students, teachers
The pro-Awami League 鈥楤lue Panel鈥� teachers of Dhaka University on Thursday held a press conference calling for the security of everyone on campus, including students and teachers...
Inquiry commission expanded, asked to investigate all killings during deadly protests
Bangladesh government on Thursday widened the judicial inquiry commission鈥檚 scope and jurisdiction tasking it with the investigation of all the killings and violence perpetrated between July 16 and July 21 during the students鈥� quota reform movement.聽
Protests on as police scuffle with teachers
Students and teachers of different public and private universities, along with other professionals, continued their protests on Thursday, seeking justice for the killings in the...
Transfer of errant police officers not enough
THE decision to transfer additional deputy commissioner of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police Harun Or Rashid, who has recently been at the centre of public criticism for his use of unlawful means to quell students protest seeking reforms in public job quota, appears an admission on part of the government that some city police officials have...
Govt plays to crowd as it seeks UN help in mayhem probe
THE prime minister Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 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...
Police take 12 students of Barishal University into custody
Twelve students of Barishal University who gathered on the campus to participate in a programme titled 鈥楻emembering Our Heroes鈥� were taken into custody on Thursday, the police said.
Musicians, bands boycott 鈥楯oy Bangla Concert鈥� in solidarity with student protests
A good number of bands and musicians of the country have boycotted the 鈥楯oy Bangla Concert鈥� in solidarity with student protests.
PM again seeks UN, foreign countries鈥� 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.
Six quota protest leaders released after hunger strike
The Detective Branch of Dhaka Metropolitan Police on Thursday released six coordinators of the Students Movement Against Discrimination, a platform for students...
Death toll rises to 214 as one more dies
One more critically injured person died while undergoing treatment at Dhaka Medical College Hospital, taking the death toll from the recent violence during student protests to at least 214 till Wednesday...
BAPA demands probe, punishment for killing students, people
Bangladesh Poribesh Andolon in a statement on Wednesday said that indiscriminate firing by the security agencies caused the huge number of deaths and injuries during the student protest for quota reform in the government jobs...
EU suspends negotiation talks with Bangladesh after deadly protests
The European Union on Wednesday said that it postponed negotiation talks with Bangladesh on a new cooperation agreement amid聽 widespread criticism at home and abroad over killings of more than 200 people during student protests for government job quota reform...
Govt becomes public enemy by mass killing: BNP
The main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Wednesday said that the ruling Awami League government became the public enemy by committing mass killings to quell the student movement for quota reform in civil service jobs...
HC hearing postponed
A two-judge High Court bench on Wednesday could not hold the scheduled hearing of a writ petition that sought the release of six coordinators of the quota reform movement from the custody of the detective branch of Dhaka Metropolitan Police...
People in fear as arrest drives on
Police continued the countrywide arrest drives as at least 150 more people were arrested on Wednesday in connection with cases filed on charges of violence during the student protests against the quota system in the civil service...
100 injured, many held as student protests intensify
Scores of people, including students, journalists, and police, were injured, and dozens were detained as the ongoing student protest seeking justice for the recent killings intensified further on Wednesday across the country...
Govt must honour and heed demands for justice
THE government is still showing an unwillingness to bring those responsible for the death of more than 200 students and people, including at least 16 children, mostly in indiscriminate police firing during the student protests to justice. The government is still continuing with the wholesale arrest of students and people in cases of 鈥榲andalism and violence鈥�...
Intimidation of injured victims at hospitals inhumane
AMIDST the global and national call for an immediate end to the ongoing violence against student protests seeking reforms public service quota that left more than 200 dead and...
Police foil Ganatantra Mancha march at Purana Paltan
The police on Wednesday foiled the prescheduled rally of the Ganatantra Mancha in the capital protesting against killings and repressions of the law enforcers to control the ongoing student movements for reforming quotas in the government jobs...
Govt primary schools in Bangladesh, except in cities, reopen Sunday
Academic activities in all government primary schools across Bangladesh except city corporation areas are going to resume on Sunday after about half a month of closure following student protests for quota reform in government jobs...
March for Justice faces obstruction from law enforcers
Students and teachers of different universities are participating in processions across the country demanding justice for wholesale arrests, attacks, cases, enforced disappearances and killings of students and ordinary people, despite facing obstruction from law enforcers.
Protesters announce 鈥榤arch for justice鈥� for today
The Student Movement Against Discrimination platform for quota reform protests on Tuesday announced the 鈥楳arch for Justice鈥� programme to be held today in all courts, campuses and...
72 citizens condemn wholesale arrests, torture in remand
Seventy two eminent citizens in a statement on Tuesday strongly condemned the wholesale arrests of students via block raids and the reported torture under the guise of remand following the countrywide student protests...