US revokes 6,000 student visas
The US State Department has revoked 6,000 student visas since secretary of state Marco Rubio took office seven months ago, it said Monday...
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Some BRUR students end hunger strike
Some of the students of Begum Rokeya University, Rangpur, who began hunger strike three days ago, demanding a clear roadmap for the central student union election, continued their fast unto death protest on Tuesday...
DUCSU nomination collection ends amid festivity
The nomination paper collection for the Dhaka University Central Students鈥� Union elections witnessed a festive mood on the last day on Tuesday as hundreds of students crowded in the senate building area to secure forms.
Student bodies gear up for DU, RU, JU polls
Student organisations are becoming active on the campuses of Dhaka University, Jahangirnagar University, and Rajshahi University as these public universities are set to hold the long-due elections to their student unions in September.
Four BRUR students fall ill amid hunger strike
Four students of Begum Rokeya University in Rangpur reportedly fell ill on Monday as they began indefinite hunger strike on Sunday, demanding a clear roadmap for the Central Students鈥� Union election at the institution...
565 nomination forms collected for DUCSU posts
A total of 565 nomination forms were sold till Monday against 28 posts in the upcoming Dhaka University Central Students鈥� Union elections scheduled to be held on September 9...
64 more collect nomination papers on sixth day
The number of students collecting nomination papers for the elections to the Dhaka University Central Students鈥� Union reached 125 as 64 collected nomination papers on the sixth day of the distribution of the papers on Sunday...
Transwoman student鈥檚 expulsion is exclusionary move
THE decision to cancel the studentship of a gender minority student of a private university raises concern about the exclusionary academic environment and the integrity of the administration. More than a hundred citizens in a statement on August 16 expressed concern and termed the expulsion of Sahara Chowdhury, a transwoman in the Metropolitan University...
162 citizens condemn expulsion of transgender student Sahara
A total of 162 citizens, including academics, activists, journalists, and artists, on Saturday issued a joint statement condemning the recent expulsion of a transgender student named Sahara Chowdhury from a private university...
Charge sheet filed against banned BCL leader Naimul, 13 others
The police have filed a charge sheet before a court in Dhaka against 13 people, including president of Mohammadpur unit of the banned Bangladesh Chhatra League, Naimul Islam Russell, in a case allegedly for sexually abusing a woman for taking part in the anti-quota student movement in July 2024...
GAU holds teacher-student dialogue
A student-faculty dialogue was organised by the faculty of forestry and environment at Gazipur Agricultural University was held on the GAU campus on Thursday...
UGC congratulates 159 Erasmus Mundus scholarship recipients
Chairman of the University Grants Commission of Bangladesh Professor SMA Faiz at a programme in Dhaka on Thursday congratulated 159 Bangladeshi students who received the Erasmus Mundus scholarships in the 2025-26 academic year...
AHZ hosts pre-departure event for UK-bound students in city
AHZ hosted a pre-departure event, celebrating the journey of nearly 1,000 Bangladeshi students who are set to begin their studies at leading universities across the United Kingdom, at the Gulshan Shooting Club in Dhaka...
Students鈥� Federation observes 1st death anniv of Shakil
Dhaka city unit of the Students鈥� Federation of Bangladesh, the student wing of Ganosamhati Andolan, on Thursday observed the first anniversary of death of its former leader Julfikar Ahmed Shakil...
Proposition to ban student politics ahistorical, reactionary
THE proposition to ban student politics in universities is ahistorical and not only disregards the glorious contributions of student politics in the country鈥檚 history but also seeks to rob students of their democratic voice. While such a proposition has long been put forward by a section of people, the controversy surrounding student politics appears to have resurfaced...
Trump seeks $1b from University of California over UCLA protests
President Donald Trump demanded a massive $1 billion fine from the prestigious University of California system on Friday as the administration pushed its claims of anti-Semitism in UCLA鈥檚 response to 2024 student protests related to Gaza...
Ban on dormitory-level politics to remain in force: DU VC
Dhaka University vice-chancellor Professor Niaz Ahmed Khan on Saturday said that the decision taken last year to keep halls free from student politics would remain in force...
Protests erupt on Dhaka University campus against politics in dormitories
Dhaka University students staged demonstrations on early Saturday demanding ban on politics in dormitories...
Rally demands action after student falls into manhole
Social activists, students and local residents held a protest rally in Rajshahi city on Thursday, demanding urgent action from the authorities after a student of Rajshahi College was seriously injured by falling into an uncovered manhole near the college...
RUCSU election draft voter list published
A draft voter list was published for the next election of Rajshahi University Central Students Union in its official website Wednesday night...
Two DU needy students awarded scholarships
Two indigent students of two departments of the faculty of social sciences of Dhaka University were awarded a one-time trust fund scholarship of Tk 25,000 each at a programme at the DU on Thursday...
Scholarship exam for madrassah 5th graders reintroduced
The scholarship examinations for fifth-grade students under the Ebtedayi madrassah will be held in December this year...
Road home, back to office
I MOSTLY head home from the office and back to the office from home, which has been a routine for long but for a few erratic days when I have ventured out in other directions, mostly before and after work hours. But it gradually became challenging, risky too, to shuttle between the office and home, let alone darting out here and there even when the need was pressing as violence broke out with student protests...
25 injured as fire breaks out in school lab
At least 25 students were injured after a fire broke out during a training session in the science lab of Niyaz Mohammad High School in Brahmanbaria town on Wednesday afternoon...
JnU celebrates uprising anniversary excluding student protesters
Frontline student protesters, many of whom were injured during the 2024 July uprising, on Tuesday criticised the authorities of Jagannath University as the authorities celebrated the first anniversary of the uprising excluding the student protesters...
Probe into July atrocity cases sees little progress聽聽聽
One year after the July 2024 student-led mass uprising that overthrew Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 16-year authoritarian regime, investigations into the violence and killings remain slow and scattered.
Slogans on posters
A LOOK into the newspaper photo morgue, basically an array of directories sequentially numbered by date on the server in this digital era, where photojournalists 鈥� Md Sourav and Sony Ramani in the case of 抖阴精品 鈥� rest their day鈥檚 work, might weave a pattern of an event that broke out over days. This might also tell a story. The photographs of the student protests...
Police officer arrested over killing of MIST student during July Uprising
Police have arrested assistant sub-inspector Mohammad Ali in connection with the killing of Shaikh Ashabul Yamin, a student of the Military Institute of Science and Technology, during last year鈥檚 July Uprising...
Eight CUET students selected for higher edn in Norway
Eight students from Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology have been awarded scholarships to pursue higher education in Norway under the Collaborative Academic Research and Education project...
DUCSU polls on Sept 9 after five-year gap
The authorities on Tuesday announced that the elections to the Dhaka University Central Students鈥� Union would be held on September 9...
