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Politics and role of BDS movement – I

AT THE outset I want to beg your indulgence and forgive me for a somewhat misleading title, ‘The Role of BDS in the Struggle for Palestine’. A better title might have been ‘The politics of BDS and the struggle for Palestine.’ What I want to do tonight is to go back to the basics, as it were, and think about how BDS fits into the long history of the struggle for self-determination in Palestine...

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JnU student shot during student movement dies

A student of Jagannath University who sustained bullet injuries during the student movement in Mirpur area of Bangladesh capital Dhaka on August 4 died on Wednesday....

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Families demand justice for victims in student movement

Members of the families of those killed during the quota reform movement on Wednesday held a human chain at the Central Shaheed Minar demanding trial of Sheikh Hasina and those who ordered the shooting during the movement...

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Hasina, aides to be tried at ICT

The interim government has decided to hold trials for the ‘mass killing’ committed during the Student Movement Against Discrimination between July 1 and August 5 under the International Crimes Tribunal Act...

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Quota protests: result of social inequality

THE current student movement in Bangladesh highlights the nation’s ongoing struggles with inequality, poor governance and political manipulation. The events have resulted in significant casualties, raising concerns about the country’s democratic fabric and the government’s handling of dissent. The movement and reform efforts have broader...

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NSU stands by Khairul injured in quota reform movement

The North South University authority is monitoring a former student of the university, Khairul Alam, who is on life support at a hospital in Dhaka after he was injured on August 5 while participating in the student movement for quota reform...

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Govt tenure yet to be decided: law adviser

The interim government on Saturday decided to withdraw within the next three working days the criminal cases filed to suppress the mass movement led by students between July 1 and August 5...

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AWC offers complimentary health services to students

The American Wellness Center has launched a new initiative to support students in response to the profound losses and financial hardships endured by many due to the anti-quota student movement, said a press release...

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Fahmin’s homecoming turns into his journey to eternity

After protests sparked at most of the educational institutes in Dhaka and other parts of the country on July 18, Sheikh Fahmin Jafor told his father over the phone that he was coming home as there would be no classes and/or examinations at the college for the day...

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Rangpur manager Bithi reinstated

Rangpur Division women’s cricket team manager Arifa Jahan Bithi – who was dismissed from her role following her participation in helping the protestors during the recent Anti-Discrimination Student Movement in the country – has been reinstated...

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RU, IU VCs, others resign

The vice-chancellors of Rajshahi University and Islamic University in Kushtia resigned from their posts on Thursday after the students issued ultimatums...

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Students demand resignation of CJ, other AD justices

The Student Movement Against Discrimination on early Thursday demanded resignation of the chief justice and other Appellate Division justices by the morning to eliminate fascism from the country’s judiciary system...

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Amzad’s widow left without any shelter

Violence during the countrywide student movement for quota reform in government jobs has left many families in grief and sorrow after having lost their family during clashes with police and other forms of roadside violence...

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We haven’t fought to fulfill any party’s wish: students

The Students Movement Against Discrimination, a platform for quota reform movement, on Wednesday said that the students-led mass uprising was aimed at eliminating fascist system from the country and to reform the state but not to fulfill the will of any political party or group to go to power...

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Political parties protest at sectarian attacks, vandalism

Leaders of different political parties on Wednesday welcoming the victory of students’movements called on the authorities concerned to take immediate steps to stop countrywide political and sectarian attacks on religious minorities and vandalisms...

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Bangladesh A team’s Pakistan tour rescheduled

Bangladesh A team’s tour of Pakistan has been rescheduled following the turmoil the country went through in recent days which led to the resignation of Sheikh Hasina as prime minister following protests all over the country, which had initially begun as a quota reform movement...

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BGMEA members express no-confidence in president, directors

A group of members of the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association have expressed their no-confidence in the existing board of directors of the trade body, alleging that the president of the trade body SM Mannan Kochi opened fire on students during the student movement against discrimination...