TIB for stopping repressive measures against students
Transparency International Bangladesh on Thursday called upon the government to immediately stop repressive measures against students and announce acceptance of all their legitimate demands...
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Disjointed key protest leaders create confusion
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...
Student movements cannot be controlled applying forces: Chhatra Jote
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...
JU teacher resigns protesting at attack on students
An associate professor of Jahangirnagar University has resigned from his position protesting at 鈥榖rutal attacks鈥� on students by the government...
Rights activists find excessive use of force
Noted human rights activists on Wednesday said that they found that the government applied excessive force to prevent the agitation of unarmed students that started with the demand for reform in the quota system in government jobs...
Another missing quota protest coordinator Asif reappears after 6 days
Asif Mahmud, one of the co-coordinators of the Students Movement Against Discrimination, a platform demanding quota reform in government jobs, reappeared on Wednesday morning about six days after he had gone missing...
Protesters term SC verdict unclear, demand law
The Students鈥� Movement Against Discrimination, a platform of students demanding quota reform in government jobs, on Sunday demanded to enact a law by calling a special session of Jatiya Sangsad within a week, terming the day鈥檚 Supreme Court verdict 鈥榰nclear鈥�...
Quota protest coordinator Nahid reappears injured
Nahid Islam, one of the coordinators of the Students Movement against Discrimination, a platform for the quota reform system in government services, was traced early Sunday, day after he went missing...
Opposition parties demand resignation of AL govt
Leaders of Ganatantra Mancha and some others political parties on Sunday demanded immediate resignation of Awami League government on charges of creating anarchies in the name of controlling students鈥� movement for quota reform in government services...
978 Indian students return amidst violence
As violence in Bangladesh intensified further, taking the death toll to more than 100, the Indian government continued to facilitate the return home of its nationals, including students...
Govt destroys evidence of killings: BNP
The main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Tuesday alleged that the Awami League government was destroying the evidences of killings and attacks during the countrywide...
Govt to see if judicial probe can be widened
Law minister Anisul Huq said on Tuesday that the government would consider empowering the judicial inquiry commission that was formed to probe into the killings of six people on...
Withdraw curfew, reopen campuses by 48 hours, say quota protesters
A group of protesters of the Students Movement Against Discrimination, a platform for the anti-quota movement, on Tuesday gave a 48-hour ultimatum demanding reopening of the...
Govt meeting with few protesters creates confusion
A meeting held on Saturday between three leaders of the Students Movement Against Discrimination, the platform leading the ongoing quota reform movement, with three ministers created confusions as their demands differed with other leaders of the movement...
Quota protest coordinator Nahid goes missing
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...
3 journalists killed, 150 injured in 6 days
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...
3 students killed daily in road accidents: report
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...
Students keep blocking roads, railways
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...
Students hold demos for cancelling HC order
Public university students on Monday blocked highways, brought out protest processions and held rallies demanding cancellation of the High Court order for the...
RSU gets new central Committee
The Revolutionary Students Unity on Friday announced its 17-member new central committee in its 16th council session.
Menon鈥檚 81st birthday today
The 81st birthday of Workers Party of Bangladesh president Rashed Khan Menon will be celebrated today...
UK businesses criticise visa crackdown on int鈥檒 students
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...
NMST distributes umbrellas among students
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...
Two more years for madrassah students to join new curriculum
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...
Of journalists, students and power
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 on right side of history
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...
Dublin campus barricaded in pro-Palestinian protest
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...
AUST offers 40 scholarships to students from Gaza
Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology will provide full free scholarships to up to 40 female students from Gaza in Palestine, and provide...
Pro-BCL BUET students appeal to VC for security
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...
JU students seize buses over peer鈥檚 car accident
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...