College student electrocuted on foot-over bridge
A college student electrocuted on a foot-over bridge on the Dhaka-Aricha highway in Savar Monday morning...
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All pry students to get textbooks by Jan: adviser
The primary and mass education affairs adviser, Bidhan Ranjan Roy Poddar, on Sunday said that all primary students would get textbooks by January...
Students block highway for end to mugging
Over a hundred students from different educational institutions on Saturday held a demonstration blocking the Dhaka- Mymensingh highway demanding an end to mugging at Tongi in Gazipur...
Students protest against rape, murder of Bangladeshi in India
The Students Against Discrimination on Saturday staged a demonstration on the Dhaka University campus in the capital demanding justice over Friday鈥檚 rape and murder of a 28-year-old Bangladeshi woman in India鈥檚 Bengaluru.
3 held as Khulna University student shot dead
The police on Saturday detained three suspects over the murder of Khulna University student by miscreants at Tetultala in Khulna city on Friday night...
Sarjis files cyber bullying case
Sarjis Alam, a key coordinator of the Anti-discrimination Student Movement and the chief organiser of the Jatiya Nagorik Committee, on Thursday filed a case against the administrators of two Facebook pages for spreading propaganda and cyber bullying...
New political party to be launched by Feb: Akhtar
Member-secretary of the Jatiya Nagorik Committee Akhtar Hossain said that a new political party was going to be launched in the country by February next...
SC stays HC bail for journalist couple Shakil, Rupa
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court has stayed a High Court order granting bail to Shakil Ahmed, former head of news at Ekattor Television, and his wife Farzana Rupa, the television鈥檚 principal correspondent, in connection with the killing of garment worker Rubel during the July-August 2024 student-led mass uprising...
鈥楨nvironment council鈥� for JUCSU election formed
The authorities of Jahangirnagar University formed an environment council to oversee the electoral processes of the upcoming Jahangirnagar University Central Students Union election...
Student Movement leader beaten in Rajshahi聽
A coordinator of the Student Movement Against Discrimination was beaten in his room at a rented hostel in Rajshahi city on Tuesday night...
A WOUNDED TRUST: Healing police-public relations
THE relationship between the police and the public has for long been marred by mistrust and conflict, rooted in colonial history and exacerbated by systemic abuse. The events of the student-led uprising in July-August 2024, when excessive police force, mass shooting and enforced disappearances took place, marked a low point in this strained relationship...
7 injured in clash at Anti-Discrimination Student Movement central office
At least seven students, including a woman, who were involved in the July uprising, were injured in a clash reportedly with the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement members at its central office on Tuesday...
Students鈥� Front calls for people鈥檚 unity, education reforms
Socialist Students鈥� Front, left-leaning student wing of the Socialist Party of Bangladesh (Marxist), on Tuesday called for people鈥檚 unity to abolish fascism...
INCREASING INTERN ALLOWANCE: SAU veterinary students boycott classes
Students of the Sylhet Agricultural University鈥檚 veterinary faculty on Tuesday staged demonstrations after boycotting academic activities for 5-point demands, including enhancement of an intern鈥檚 monthly allowance to Tk 20,000 from Tk 9,000...
ATTACK ON NATIONAL MINORITY STUDENTS: Protests on as advisers say meeting all demands impossible
Adviser to the ministry of Chittagong Hill Tracts affairs Supradip Chakma on Monday said that the government had all sympathy for the protesting national minority students but could not meet all their demands...
Deplorable nonchalance towards student suicide
A LACK of initiatives to arrest student suicide is deplorable. When a few hundred students commit suicides and many more attempt it every year, it is worrying that authorities and educational institutions fail to take programmes that could contain such incidents. A report by the Aachol Foundation says that at least 310 students committed suicide...
Shaheed Asad Day today
Shaheed Asad Day will be observed on Monday, commemorating the supreme sacrifice of the student leader Asaduzzaman Asad...
Visual artist Debashish portrays bravery of people: discussion
Writers, researchers and poets said on Saturday that visual artist Debashish Chakrabarty portrayed bravery of people during the student-led mass uprising when the protesters were being killed by the ousted fascist Awami League government.
BOU committed to equal rights for third gender students: VC
Bangladesh Open University is committed to establishing non-discrimination, safety and equal rights in education for third-gender students, said the university vice-chancellor, ABM Obaidul Islam, on Thursday...
KILLING OF MUGHDHO, JAMAAT LEADER: Complaints filed with ICT
The elder brother of Mir Mahfuzur Rahman Mugdho, who was shot dead during the demonstrations of the Student Movement Against Discrimination on July 18, 2024, filed a complaint on Thursday with the International Crimes Tribunal chief prosecutor...
Attacks on national minority student protests outrageous
THE attacks on the protests that national minority students held on January 15 and the attacks on a rally that mostly students held the next day in protest at the attacks on the January 15 protests are as unsavoury as equally outrageous. Students of national minorities, banded as the Aggrieved Indigenous Students and People, held protests at the...
ATTACK ON NATIONAL MINORITY STUDENTS: Protests spreading
Amid the growing condemnation triggered by a recent attack on a national minority students鈥� demonstration, pressing for the re-inclusion of the word 鈥楢divasi鈥� in the textbooks, at least seven individuals were injured again on Thursday when the police swooped on a protest rally tied to the issue in the capital...
ATTACK ON NATIONAL MINORITY STUDENTS: Govt slams attack, starts probe
The interim government on Thursday strongly condemned Wednesday鈥檚 attack on ethnic minority students鈥� peaceful gathering in front of the NTCB in Dhaka...
Construction work of JnU 2nd campus handed over to army
The construction works of a Jagannath University second campus in Keraniganj have been handed over to the Bangladesh Army amid student protests...
148 killed on July 19 alone
At least 148 people were killed in gunfire by the members of law enforcement agencies and the then ruling Awami League leaders and activists on July 19, 2024 during the student movement for quota reform...
Elected student rep should be DUCSU president, not VC: JCD
Dhaka University unit of the Bangladesh Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal, the student wing of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, on Wednesday demanded an elected student representative for the Dhaka University Central Students鈥� Union president post instead of the ex-officio vice-chancellor...
DU to launch Tk 3,000 monthly aid for female students facing accommodation crisis
The Dhaka University authorities will launch a temporary financial assistance programme for female students who cannot stay in university halls due to accommodation crisis.
We鈥檒l break pens supporting fascism: Hasnat
Hasnat Abdullah, convenor of the anti-discrimination student movement, reaffirmed their firm stance against media outlets that support fascism...
Left leaning students march towards CA office demanding VAT rollback
The Democratic Student Alliance, a combine of seven student wings of left leaning political parties, on Tuesday held a protest march towards the chief adviser鈥檚 office, pressing for a five-point demand, including the withdrawal of the Value Added Tax recently imposed on over 100 commodities...
Unity among political parties in Bangladesh falling apart
The unity among political parties is now falling apart despite discussions about the importance of unity among the forces behind the student-led mass uprising to uphold its spirit.