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.
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...
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...
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...
A Dhaka court on Saturday placed Hasnatul Islam Faiyaz, 17, an eleventh grade student of Dhaka College, on a seven-day remand in a case filed with Jatrabari police station, accusing him of killing a cop on July 24 during the quota protest...
Protesting students for quota reform in government jobs on Saturday issued a 24-hour ultimatum to meet their three-point demand, including enactment of a law in the parliament through...
A Class IX student was sitting on a bed beside a window in Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College and Hospital, both legs bandaged after being bit by two bullets on...
Maria Akhter, wife of Gono Odhikar Parishad president and former vice-president of Dhaka University Central Students Union Nurul Haque Nur, alleged on Saturday that her husband was seriously tortured physically by the law enforcers during five-day remand...
Filing of new cases, arresting political opposition and students through night-time block raids, and regular drives by law-enforcing agencies have continued across Bangladesh in the...
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...
THE detention of three coordinators of the Students Movement against Discrimination, the platform that seeks quota reforms, from Gonoshasthaya Nagar Hospital in Dhaka on July 26 is unacceptable and inhumane. The coordinators, allegedly earlier picked up by law enforcement agencies on July 19 who reappeared with injuries...
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...
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.
Different political parties and cultural activists on Friday against staged protests wholesale killing of students, wholesale arrest and intimidation.
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...
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...
Different security organisations of the government picked up Students Movement Against Discrimination coordinators Nahid Islam, Abu Bakar Mazumdar and co-coordinator Asif Mahmud from the Gonoshasthaya Nagar Hospital in Dhanmondi, Dhaka on Friday afternoon.
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...
The Anti-quota protest platform Students Movement Against Discrimination鈥檚 several co-coordinators on Thursday pressed their demands to withdraw curfew and...
The main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Thursday demanded an international probe into the country鈥檚 recent anti-quota student movement and its...
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...
Police on Thursday arrested at least 1,307 suspects, mostly opposition leaders and activists, across the country in connection with violence and vandalism during...
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...
Transparency International Bangladesh on Thursday called upon the government to immediately stop repressive measures against students and announce acceptance of all their legitimate demands...
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...
The lack communication between leaders of the Students Movement Against Discrimination, a platform for anti-quota movement has resulted in confusion among the protesters about their next course of actions...
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 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...
Leaders of the Ganatantrik Chhatra Jote in a press statement on Monday said that although the Awami League government was trying to control the students鈥� movement applying forces and repressions, by doing so the ongoing students鈥� movements could not be controlled...
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...