Cultural activists said on Wednesday that following the 2024 student-led mass uprising, cultural activities were needed to build an inclusive and discrimination-free society...
All academic activities at the Khulna University of Engineering and Technology are scheduled to be resumed on Tuesday after over five months.
Students Against Discrimination on Sunday afternoon suspended all its committees across the country except its central committee following the alleged involvement of some leaders of the platform in extortion...
Police detained five individuals, including a leader of student groups, on charges of demanding Tk聽50 lakh from former reserved seat lawmaker Shammi Ahmed at her residence in Gulshan...
A group of attackers stabbed a leader of the Students Against Discrimination in Sylhet city Thursday night.
Vice-chancellor of the Bangladesh Medical University Professor Dr Md Shahinul Alam at a programme in Dhaka on Thursday said that by embodying the spirit of the July uprising, a society and state with non-discrimination and justice must be established in the future...
The students of the Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology on Sunday at a demonstration demanded reforms in engineering job recruitment...
Students and people will not accept the next national election before the completion of fundamental reforms in various sectors and they will resist the election without reforms, said the Students Against Discrimination president on Friday.
National Citizen Party and the Students Against Discrimination on Thursday continued their demonstration protesting against police action against their activists at Patiya police station and demanding comprehensive police reforms...
Students Against Discrimination and National Citizen Party activists postponed their Wednesday鈥檚 demonstration in Chattogram till noon today after hours of laying siege to the Patiya police station and blockade of Chattogram-Cox鈥檚 Bazar highway...
The newly elected leaders of Students Against Discrimination on Tuesday said that they would take forward their organisational activities prioritising the demands for the July Declaration to uphold the spirit of the July uprising and the July Charter for reforms in various sectors...
A rational reform of the quota system in government jobs has remained unresolved even after a year of the anti-quota movement under the Students Against Discrimination platform in July-August 2024 that led to the fall of the Sheikh Hasina-led Awami League regime...
Former Students Against Discrimination spokesperson Umama Fatema has quit the platform, alleging internal arbitrariness, smear campaigns against her and political favouritism, days after the platform elected its new leaders...
HINDU women in Bangladesh still live in a kind of invisible prison, the walls of which are made of centuries-old religious family law. Their limited rights in matters related to marriage, divorce and inheritance are not only in conflict with the constitution but also with human rights...
Rashidul Islam, also known as Rifat Rashid, and Sheikh Enamul Hasan, known as Hasan Enam, were elected as the new president and general secretary of Students Against Discrimination, a platform that led the July uprising...
Speakers at a book launching event on Saturday deplored that discrimination against persons with disabilities continued even after the student-led July uprising that called for ending all forms of discrimination...
A case was filed against four leaders, including the member secretary of Sylhet district unit of Anti-Discrimination Student Movement by a female leader of the platform on allegation of threatening to rape her after abduction.
At least eight leaders of the National Citizen Party and Students Against Discrimination were injured as they came under attack early Thursday at a lead factory in the Goailbari Bazar area under Ashulia police station, on the outskirts of Bangladesh capital Dhaka...
A group of miscreants allegedly led by an expelled leader of the Student Movement Against Discrimination beat the platform鈥檚 four leaders, including its Habiganj district member secretary Mahdi Hasan, injured on Friday evening.
At least four people were injured as two groups of Students Against Discrimination leaders and activists clashed during a National Citizen Party rally in Bogura on Wednesday.
THE term 鈥榦pposition to inequality鈥� has re-emerged with striking political significance in the wake of the August student-popular uprising led by the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement. But this resurgence raises a pressing question: Is opposition to inequality merely a slogan to mobilise mass sentiment, or does it hold practical significance in dismantling the...
Speakers at an energy fest in the capital Dhaka called on the interim government to ensure energy justice by ending discrimination embedded in the current power and energy system...
THE recommendations that the women鈥檚 affairs reforms commission, set up on November 18, 2024, put forth on April 19 for the government to effect appear assuring in that they are mostly meant to do away with the discrimination that exists in society against women. The commission has made 15 specific recommendations, which include the provision for equal rights...
The police have arrested Anisul Islam Chowdhury Tushar, 35, a leader of the Swechchhasebak League, in connection with a case filed over violence during anti-discrimination student protests in July in Moulvibazar.
Umama Fatema, spokesperson of the Students Against Discrimination, has rejected the US State Department's 'Madeleine Albright Honorary Group Award,' which was given in recognition of the courage and bravery of all Bangladeshi women involved in the July-August uprising in 2024...
A STUDENT-LED procession against violence and discrimination was making its way through the bazaar when it was suddenly ambushed by a violent mob. Chaos erupted as the crowd scattered in all directions. Anik Chakma, a 17-year-old higher secondary student, ran for his life, but there was nowhere to escape 鈥� they were surrounded. He tried to hide in a nearby...
Speakers at a discussion in Dhaka on Monday said that to eliminate discrimination against women, women鈥檚 work must be recognised and women鈥檚 family and social status must be ensured...
A Dhaka court on Saturday sent 14 people, including a leader of Student Against Discrimination, to jail over allegations of vandalising and looting a construction office for extortion Friday afternoon.
Joint forces arrested 14 people, including the Student Against Discrimination Kalabagan Thana unit convener Salahuddin Salman over allegedly vandalising and looting a construction office for extortion on Friday evening in the capital鈥檚 Kalabagan area.
The Chattogram Metropolitan Police arrested four individuals in connection with abduction of a garment factory official and his driver, who were taken hostage for ransom by perpetrators posing as representatives of the Student Against Discrimination.