The Awami League has announced a month-long demonstration, including leaflet distribution, protest rallies and processions, blockades, and general strike throughout February demanding the resignation of interim government chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus...
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...
BANGLADESH is at a crossroads. As the world braces for the seismic shifts brought on by the fourth industrial revolution, a question looms large: will our workforce be ready? The 4IR, driven by advancements in artificial intelligence, robotics, the internet of things, big data, blockchain, and biotechnology, is rapidly transforming industries, economies, and...
Several hundred workers of a readymade garment factory at Ashulia, on the outskirts of the capital, on Monday blocked the Dhaka-Tangail Highway for five hours demanding their termination benefit...
The students of University Of Liberal Arts Bangladesh on Wednesday evening blocked the main entrance to the campus, demanding vice-chancellor Imran Rahman to resign...
Postgraduate trainee doctors and private postgraduate trainee physicians on Sunday blocked the Shahbagh crossing to press home their one-point demand for increasing their pay to...
Commuters and patients seeking treatment at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University suffered terribly on Sunday as postgraduate trainee physicians blocked the city鈥檚 Shahbagh crossing for hours pressing for pay rises.
The International Air Transport Association has once again called on Bangladesh to immediately release $196 million in blocked revenues owed to foreign airlines, highlighting that the restriction contravenes international agreements...
Farmers on Thursday blocked the Dhaka-Rajshahi highway at Sherpur upazila in Bogura demanding potato seeds at a fair price...
Workers in Gazipur staged demonstrations on Thursday, blocking the busy Chandra-Nabinagar Highway to press home demands that include compensation for injured colleagues, improved safety measures, and unpaid wages...
Commuters鈥� sufferings became terrible on Thursday in the capital as battery-run rickshaw pullers blocked at least 11 important crossings and points for hours, pressing demands for...
STUDENTS of the Government Titumir College holding a blockade of Mohakhali in Dhaka on November 18 demanding an upgrade of the institution to a university inconvenienced city people for four hours and a half beginning half an hour before the noon. The tailback that the blockade created spilled to areas bordering Mohakhali, Tejgaon, Moghbazar...
Passengers and transport workers terribly suffered as students of Government Titumir College blocked rail lines and roads in Mohakhali area in the capital for over four hours on Monday, demanding...
Commuters suffered immensely as several hundred students of the Dhaka Residential Model College blocked Mirpur Road for about one and a half hours on Sunday in Asadgate area in the capital.聽
The protesters who were injured during the student-led mass uprising lifted the blockade on the Agargaon-Shyamoli road after around 13 hours, following assurances from four advisers to interim-government to address their demands, including ensuring proper treatment...
Traffic came to a halt for about an hour on Dhaka-Mymensingh highway after workers of a readymade garment factory blocked the road demanding overdue wages in Tongi on Wednesday morning, said police...
Workers of TNZ garment factory have withdrawn their blockade on Dhaka-Mymensingh Highway after the authorities assured them of paying their overdue wages by November 30...
Vehicular movement on Dhaka-Mymensingh Highway has been suspended since Saturday morning as workers of a factory blocked the highway, demanding payment of their dues in Gazipur.
The United People鈥檚 Democratic Front, a Chittagong Hill Tracts-based political organisation, on Thursday observed a dawn-to-dusk road blockade in Khagrachari district protesting against Wednesday鈥檚 killing of its three activists and demanding immediate arrest of the killers...
Several hundred students of seven colleges affiliated to Dhaka University on Monday blocked Nilkhet and Science Laboratory crossings for about four hours placing a three-point demand...
Vehicular movement on Nabinagar-Chandra highway remained suspended since Wednesday morning as workers of a garment factory staged demonstration by blocking roads for arrears in Ashulia of Savar...
Normalcy is returning to hill district Khagrachari with no reports of fresh violence till Monday and the last day of the 72-hour blockade, called by Jumma students protesting at the recent incidents, is underway peacefully...
Environmental activists blocked the cruise ship port in the southern French city of Marseille on Saturday to protest against the sea, air and climate pollution generated by these huge vessels...
A 72-hour road and waterway blockade is underway in protest against the recent attacks, arson, and violence in Khagrachhari and Rangamati districts...
Canada has suspended some 30 permits for arms shipments to Israel, including a rare move against a US company鈥檚 Canadian subsdiary鈥檚 deal with the US government, the foreign minister said Tuesday...
IT SEEMS that the entertainment arena has been thrown into turmoil once again 鈥� though this time, it鈥檚 not due to a blockbuster film or a controversial drama. Instead, the source of this noise is a simple, unassuming WhatsApp group. But don鈥檛 be fooled by its innocent name, 鈥楢lo Asbei鈥� (which one might think means 鈥楲ight Will Come鈥�), because this group...
Seventy two eminent citizens in a statement on Tuesday strongly condemned the wholesale arrests of students via block raids and the reported torture under the guise of remand following the countrywide student protests...
Fear gripped many families having young members in Dhaka as law enforcement agencies continued their night-time block raids and door-to-door searches in residential areas to arrest people...
Filing of new cases, arresting political opposition and students through night-time block raids, and regular drives by law-enforcing agencies have continued across Bangladesh in the...
Students who have been staging demonstrations demanding reform in the quota system resumed their 鈥楤angla Blockade鈥� in Bangladesh's capital Dhaka on Thursday afternoon despite DMP鈥檚 warning against road blockade....