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...
Nahid Islam, one of the coordinators of the Students Movement Against Discrimination, a platform for anti-quota movement, went missing in the wee hours of Saturday as some 50鈥�60 people identified themselves as Detective Branch members, picked him up from his friend鈥檚 house in Khilgaon鈥檚 Nandipara area in the capital...
The rising casualties of journalists while covering the ongoing government crackdown on the students鈥� protest demanding quota reform in the civil service exposed the dangerous environment in which journalists work in Bangladesh...
Road accidents killed three students on average per day in the country in the past five years and a half, revealed a Road Safety Foundation report published on Saturday...
IN RECENT days, Bangladesh has seen student protests in many parts of the country, especially on university campuses. The protesting students have valid reasons to protest about a quota system that they find highly unfair and discriminatory. A whopping 30 per cent of the well-paid and massively oversubscribed Bangladesh Civil Service posts...
Thousands of students agitating for quota system reform in government jobs in the capital and elsewhere across the country vowed on Friday to resist attacks and overcome obstacles...
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...
Public university students on Monday blocked highways, brought out protest processions and held rallies demanding cancellation of the High Court order for the...
A MADRASSAH teacher was arrested Saturday night for allegedly molesting a student at Azizul Ulum Qawmi Madrassah and Orphanage in Alamdanga upazila of Chuadanga...
AT SCHOOL, I was an average student overall, but I was terrible in maths. Some of my friends claimed perfect scores in the subject. Their achievement level was beyond my reach. I don鈥檛 remember ever scoring in the 90s out of 100 in maths in my whole life...
Political fellows and admirers of former student leader Shafi Ahmed on Tuesday paid last respects to him as his body was brought to the Central Shaheed Minar...
The Revolutionary Students Unity on Friday announced its 17-member new central committee in its 16th council session.
COLLEGE campuses and universities across the country have organised some of the largest peace activities and anti-war protests since 1969. As the social movement points in specific directions in calling for Palestinian liberation, over 100 schools scattered across the United States...
The 81st birthday of Workers Party of Bangladesh president Rashed Khan Menon will be celebrated today...
The police on Thursday arrested a transport worker on allegation of attempting to sexually harass a female student of Jahangirnagar University on a moving bus on her way to the university campus on May 14...
The UK government鈥檚 toughening of immigration policy for overseas university students risks weakening the higher education sector and could hit recruitment and investment, business leaders warned on Thursday...
ON APRIL 30, when Columbia University student protesters took over Hamilton Hall, they renamed it 鈥楬ind鈥檚 Hall鈥�, dropping a large banner out the windows above the building鈥檚 entrance. This was a hall famously occupied by students in the 1968 protests against the Vietnam War and against Jim Crow racism in the United States...
Considering the ongoing heatwave and it dire impact, National Museum of Science and Technology took an initiative to distribute umbrellas among the poor students in the remote areas of the country...
Madrassah students will have to wait for at least two more years to get their specialised textbooks under the new national curriculum that has already been introduced for general students, authorities said...
THE American media are never short of red-letter days when it comes to their wonderful combination of superciliousness and irresponsibility. But last week the mainstream dailies and magazines went all the way to scarlet and alizarin crimson...
Students of Dhaka University organised a rally on Sunday expressing solidarity with students who are protesting on campuses across the US against Israel鈥檚 attacks on Gaza...
HELICOPTERS have been throbbing overhead for days now. Nights, too. Police are swarming the streets of Broadway, many in riot gear. Police vans, some as big as a city bus, are lined up along side streets and Broadway...
Student protests against the Israeli military assault on Gaza following the unprecedented October 7 attack by Hamas on Israel have spread to several countries.
Students at Ireland鈥檚 prestigious Trinity College Dublin university manned an on-campus protest on Saturday against Israel鈥檚 actions in Gaza, after...
Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology will provide full free scholarships to up to 40 female students from Gaza in Palestine, and provide...
Dozens of helmeted police flooded Columbia University鈥檚 campus in the heart of New York City on Tuesday to evict a building occupied by pro-Palestinian student protesters and detain demonstrators.......
A group of Pro-Bangladesh Chhatra League, the student wing of the ruling Awami League, students of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology on Monday submitted a petition to the vice-chancellor requesting him to ensure a safe and free campus to express their opinions...
Jahangirnagar University students seized eight buses of 鈥業tihas Paribahan鈥� over an accident with a private car of a female student of the university in...
During the last Eid-ul-Fitr holiday, daily on an average nearly five students were killed in road crashes, a report of the Road Safety Foundation revealed on Wednesday...
Tensions flared between pro-Palestinian student protesters and school administrators at several US universities on Monday, as in-person classes were cancelled and demonstrators arrested...