DU Blue Panel urges campus security for students, teachers
The pro-Awami League 鈥楤lue Panel鈥� teachers of Dhaka University on Thursday held a press conference calling for the security of everyone on campus, including students and teachers...
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Yunus鈥檚 statement tantamount to sedition: Quader
Awami League general secretary and road transport and bridges minister Obaidul Quader on Thursday said that the statement made by professor Muhammad Yunus seeking foreign intervention in Bangladesh affairs was an act of treason....
AL govt has no right to remain in power: Ganatantra Mancha
Leaders of the Ganatantra Mancha at a press conference on Thursday demanded that the Awami League government had no right to remain in power, and they should resign from the power taking the liability of killing more than 200 students and people in the student movements for reforming quotas...
Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, Islami Chhatra Shibir banned
The government on Thursday banned faith-based political Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami and its student organisation Islami Chhatra Shibir, accusing them of inciting violence in...
Govt becomes public enemy by mass killing: BNP
The main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Wednesday said that the ruling Awami League government became the public enemy by committing mass killings to quell the student movement for quota reform in civil service jobs...
Quader faces wrath of ex-BCL leaders at party office
Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader on Wednesday felt embarrassed at a programme at party鈥檚 Bangabandhu Avenue central office as former leaders of the ruling Awami League-backed Chhatra League made a commotion while he was speaking to the media instead of exchanging views with the leaders...
AL is biggest sponsor of militancy: BNP
The main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party said on Tuesday that the ruling Awami League was the biggest sponsor of extremism in this country...
Quader to exchange views with ex-student leaders today
The ruling Awami League general secretary and road transport and bridges minister Obaidul Quader will exchange views with former student leaders on Wednesday...
Cultural activists demand resignation of AL government
Cultural activists of 31 cultural organisations on Tuesday demanded the resignation of the Awami League government for killing of students and people during the quota reform movement of the student...
Govt should restrain Chhatra League, heed students鈥� demands
ATTACKS by the Chhatra League, the student wing of the ruling Awami League, on protesting students again at Barishal University on July 29 are deplorable. The attacks left at least 15 injured, nine of whom had to be sent to hospital. It was Chhatra League attacks on protesters on July 15 that forced a peaceful student movement into violence...
Bangladesh ruling party, allies decide to ban Jamaat, Shibir
Ruling Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader said that AL-led alliance leaders, in a meeting at the Ganabhaban residence of prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday, decided to ban...
BNP planned capture of PM鈥檚 residence: Quader
Awami League general secretary and road transport and bridges minister Obaidul Quader on Sunday said that BNP had a plot to capture Ganabhaban like Sri Lanka, if the curfew had not been enforced on the night of July 19 to control the situation created centering the quota reform movement...
Possible involvement of Yunus in quota protests needs to be probed: Quader
Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader on Sunday said that 鈥榩ossible involvement鈥� of Professor Muhammad Yunus, and others giving statements, in the recent quota reform movement and violence needed to be looked into...
Govt can鈥檛 avoid responsibility for killings, repressions: opposition leaders
Leaders of Ganatantra Mancha and other opposition political parties, in a statement on Saturday, said that the Awami League government was attempting to evade responsibility for the killings of students, involved in quota reform movement, by arresting opposition leaders and activists...
BNP calls for 鈥榥ational unity鈥� on one-point demand
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party has called for 鈥榥ational unity鈥� to press home the one-point demand of ousting the Awami League government in the context of mass arrests and...
AL, minister continue to post on social media amid shutdown聽
Both ruling Awami League and state minister for posts, telecommunication and information technology Zunaid Ahmed Palak continue to give posts on facebook although common users have been...
Violent offenders to face justice: Quader
Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader on Friday vowed that those, who were involved in violent acts during the quota reform movement, would be...
AL dissolves 27 unit committees
The committees of 27 units of the ruling Awami League under the Dhaka-13 constituency were dissolved on Thursday night due to their inaction during the anti-quota student protest in...
Jatiya Gonofront demands resignation of AL govt
Jatiya Gonofront on Thursday demanded the immediate resignation of the Awami League government, holding it responsible for atrocities and the killing of over 200 people and...
Dhaka tensed as curfew rolls into 3rd day
A tense situation was still prevailing in Dhaka city as elsewhere across the country as the curfew and army deployment rolled into the third consecutive day on Monday with massive arrests of the opposition activists in many places...
Fakhrul seeks all-party talks for peace
Bangladesh has been exposed to serious multidimensional crisis due to high handedness of the unelected Awami League government in containing a rational movement of the country鈥檚 student community, main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said on Monday...
DMCH hands over 70 bodies in four days
The Dhaka Medical College Hospital authorities have been avoiding giving information about the exact number of the deaths and injured people following clashes between job quota protesters and law enforcement agencies alongwith ruling Awami League activists since July 15 that left at least 155 killed and hundreds injured in Dhaka and elsewhere in the country till Sunday...
CPB demands fresh election, condemns repression of students
Communist Party of Bangladesh on Monday demanded fresh general elections for atrocities of the Awami League government to control peaceful movement of the students for quota reformation in government jobs...
Rastra Sanskar Andolan demands govt鈥檚 resignation
Rastra Sankar Andolan, a component of Ganatantra Mancha, on Monday demanded the resignation of Awami League government on charges of killings common people in the name of controlling students鈥� movement for quota system reformation in civil services...
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...
Govt has a long way to go to effectively restore peace
THE government appears to have somewhat restored peace using coercion amidst the student protests that seek reforms in civil service job reservations, which began on July 1, and the unrest born out of the event. This is what appears to have been manifest in the expression, thought and remarks of government leaders and functionaries...
Case filed against 800 BNP leaders, activists in Barishal
A case has been filed against 800 BNP leaders and activists for allegedly attacking Awami League leaders and activists, including the former mayor of Barishal City Corporation, Sadiq Abdullah.
Govt arresting opposition leaders to hide number of death: parties
Leaders of the Ganatantra Mancha and some opposition political parties on Wednesday said that the ruling Awami League government was making arrests of opposition leaders to hide numbers of deaths in atrocities by law enforcers during the agitation of the students demanding quota reforms in government jobs...
Garment Sramik Samhati demands workers鈥� safety, security
Bangladesh Garment Sramik Samhati in a statement on Wednesday called on the Awami League government to ensure safety and security of the garment workers as apparel factories were open countrywide...
Left parties demand resignation of govt
Leaders of the Left Democratic Alliance, Anti-fascism Left Alliance and some other left parties demanded resignation of the Awami League government for its failure to resolve the ongoing crisis of the country politically and its atrocities to control student protests demanding reform of the quota system in government jobs...
