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Empowering women entrepreneurs

WOMEN entrepreneurs are emerging as powerful change agents, particularly in the aftermath of the 2024 student movement. The interim government is in a rare position to undertake policies that can significantly empower women and promote their entrepreneurial activities. By removing systemic impediments and leveraging digital tools, Bangladesh...

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Students demand roadmap for reforms

The Student Movement Against Discrimination platform on Thursday demanded the immediate announcement of a roadmap for state reforms.

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‘Shaheedi March’ held across Bangladesh

The Anti-discrimination Student Movement on Thursday brought out the ‘Shaheedi March’ across Bangladesh to honour the martyrs of the student-people uprising, marking one-month of the fall of the autocratic Awami League regime...

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Students to hold `shaheedi march’ today

Students under the platform of the Student Movement Against Discrimination on Wednesday announced that they would hold the ‘Shaheedi March’ today across the country marking the one-month of ousting of the Awami League government by the student-led mass uprising...

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Injured worry about future

Injured patients admitted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital during the quota reform movement and subsequent student-led mass uprising now worry about their future as many of them do not know when they can return to normal life and work...

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Three more murder cases filed against Hasina, aides

Three more murder cases have been filed against deposed prime minister and Awami League president Sheikh Hasina and her aides, taking the number of cases against her to 95 after her resignation and fleeing to India amid a mass uprising led by students on August 5...

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A doctor brutally killed

ON AUGUST 8, a 31-year-old doctor at the RG Kar Medical College in Kolkata (West Bengal, India) finished her 36-hour shift at the hospital, ate dinner with her colleagues and went to the college’s seminar hall to rest before her next shift...

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112 workers killed in mass uprising in Bangladesh

At least 112 working-class people were killed in violence during the movement of the Student Movement Against Discrimination platform and the subsequent student-led mass uprising...

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From protest to policy

STUDENT power, often seen as the untapped potential within educational institutions, has historically been a force of significant social change. This power, wielded by young minds full of idealism, energy and a desire to reshape the world, has played a crucial role in numerous political, social and cultural movements across the globe. We can also see how far...

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Two RU students assaulted for taking part in movement

Leaders and workers of Bangladesh Awami League and its students’ wing Bangladesh Chhatra League assaulted two students of Rajshahi University as they took part in the Anti-discrimination student movement...

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Ensure proper treatment injured students: BSMMU VC

The vice-chancellor of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University, Professor Dr Md Sayedur Rahman, on Wednesday visited the students and people injured in the Students Movement Against Discrimination, and gave necessary instructions to the concerned to ensure better and proper treatment...

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Stop filing wholesale cases: students

Students under the platform of Student Movement Against Discrimination on Wednesday urged all people and students to refrain from filing cases in a wholesale manner to harass innocent people...

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Student movement leader Mahfuz Alam made special assistant to CA

Md Mahfuz Alam, a leader of the Student Movement Against Discrimination, has been appointed as special assistant to the interim government’s chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus with the status of a secretary on a contractual basis...

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Relief keeps coming to Dhaka University

The Student Movement Against Discrimination on Sunday continued their relief collection programme at Dhaka University for the fourth consecutive day to aid flood-affected people in southeastern districts of the country...

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Awami League’s fall: shaping future

FOLLOWING an unprecedented student-led movement that precipitated the dramatic collapse of the Sheikh Hasina administration, Bangladesh finds itself navigating uncharted waters in an effort to forge a future unlike anything experienced since its independence in 1971. This mass insurrection and its immediate triumph will be remembered as one of...

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Urgent call for major reform

BANGLADESH has recently experienced a student movement and the victory of the movement on August 5 after a month of student-led protests that sought reforms in the quota system for civil service jobs. The students have always been at the forefront of change, from their role in the 1952 language movement to the 1971 liberation war and the recent..

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Israel kills top Fatah commander

Israel killed a senior commander from Fatah’s armed wing on Wednesday in a strike on Lebanon, leading to accusations from the Palestinian movement that Israel is trying to ‘ignite a regional war’...

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Turning into a colour revolution?

THE student-led anti-quota movement has made the headlines globally, not only for its original demands but also for the broader implications it carried for the entire country. Initially sparked by grievances over the government’s quota system in public sector jobs, the movement evolved swiftly into a much larger political struggle...

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Hasina sued over student’s murder in Laxmibazar

A murder case was filed against ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina and 49 others over the killing of a student during the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement in the city’s Sutrapur area on July 19.

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Anti-discrimination student movement forms 4 new teams

The Student Movement Against Discrimination on Monday formed four new teams to reorganize the platform that led the mass protests forcing Sheikh Hasina to resign as Bangladesh prime minister and flee the country on August 5....

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Gen Z’s call of duty

HOW could they be so brave as to defy death, opening their chests, arms wide, in front of guns? How could they not fear the sight of blood gushing from the bodies of their fallen brothers? How could the death of one not deter the rest? What drove them to embrace the inevitable?...