Leaders and activists of Students Against Discrimination and political platform Jatiya Nagorik Committee on Saturday held protest rallies and processions over the Friday night attack on students, leaving 15 people injured in Gazipur.
A sub-inspector of Uttara West police station was withdrawn early Wednesday, hours after Tuesday evening鈥檚 detention of three students of the Students Against Discrimination in the capital鈥檚 Uttara...
A SERIES of mob attacks on the police and their stations centring on attempts at snatching away the detained that have taken place recently, the latest having happened in Dhaka at night on February 4, are deplorable on a couple of counts. Such incidents taking place one after another harm law enforcement and the public perception about law enforcement. The...
The Students鈥� Against Discrimination and the Jatiya Nagarik Committee at a press conference in Dhaka on Wednesday said that they would announce the formation of a new moderate political party by February, following a week-long campaign titled 鈥楢pnar Chokhe Natun Bangladesh鈥�...
The American International University-Bangladesh has recently organised an interactive educational field visit for its master鈥檚 of public health students to enhance their practical understanding of occupational health practices, said a press release on Tuesday...
A TASK force that the government instituted in September 2024 submitted its report, Re-strategising the Economy and Mobilising Resources for Equitable and Sustainable Development, on January 30. The task force, composed of 12 members, in the sixth chapter of the report titled 鈥楻eaping the Benefits of Demographic Dividends: Investment in...
A recently published task force report on re-strategising the economy recommended that the government should develop and implement a single university admission test for all public and private universities in the country...
Students鈥� Federation of Bangladesh, student wing of Ganosamhati Andolan, at a rally in Dhaka on Friday demanded the justice for killing in the student-led mass uprising that forced Sheikh Hasina to flee to...
People suffered immensely on Thursday as the students of Government Titumir College and Dania University College block roads in Mohakhali and Jatrabari areas pressing for their separate demands...
More than half of the free textbooks meant for the students from the pre-primary level to the higher secondary level in the country are yet to be distributed among the students although the education ministry officials promised to distribute all books by today...
The students of Government Brojomohun College in Barishal blocked the Barishal-Patuakhali Highway protesting at assault and attack on students on Tuesday.
A group of victims of the student-led mass uprising in July and August on Tuesday staged a sit-in in Dhaka to press home their demands including lifetime treatment facilities, rehabilitation, and employment opportunities...
A college student electrocuted on a foot-over bridge on the Dhaka-Aricha highway in Savar Monday morning...
The primary and mass education affairs adviser, Bidhan Ranjan Roy Poddar, on Sunday said that all primary students would get textbooks by January...
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...
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.
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 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...
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...
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...
The authorities of Jahangirnagar University formed an environment council to oversee the electoral processes of the upcoming Jahangirnagar University Central Students Union election...
A coordinator of the Student Movement Against Discrimination was beaten in his room at a rented hostel in Rajshahi city on Tuesday night...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 will be observed on Monday, commemorating the supreme sacrifice of the student leader Asaduzzaman Asad...
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.