Law enforcement agencies are largely ignoring the Supreme Court guidelines while making blanket arrests of citizens on suspicion of their involvement in violence during the recent student protests...
THE prime minister Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 call on people to help identify the 鈥榗ulprits鈥� involved in the mayhem, born out of the peaceful student protests seeking reforms in civil service job reservations, makes sense. While she sought people鈥檚 support in holding the culprits to justice, she said that the culprits, in whatever corner they are staying...
The dollar rate on the open market, also known as the kerb market, rose by over Tk 1.5 to reach Tk聽121.5 a dollar on July 25 amid unrests centring quota reform protests across the country...
The Detective Branch of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police picked up two more leaders of the Students Movement Against Discrimination 鈥� Sarjis Alam and...
The lacklustre curfew continued for the eighth day in a row on Saturday as many people and vehicles were seen plying on roads beyond the curfew hours in...
The police in France on Saturday blocked climate activists from holding a demonstration in central Paris on the first official day of the Olympic Games.
Police arrested 139 people, including Bangladesh Nationalist Party and Jamaat activists in connection with the violence amid students鈥� protests demanding reformation in government job quota in Sylhet...
Bangladesh Bank has instructed banks in the country to keep their branches open from 10:00am to 3:00pm in accordance with the reduced curfew hours.
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday morning visited National Institute of Traumatology and Orthopaedic Rehabilitation to see the injured people who came under attacks during the recent countrywide protests...
Law enforcement agencies have continued arrests, and night-time block raids in many areas of Dhaka and other places across the country as part of their special drive against...
Two more critically injured people died on Friday while undergoing treatment at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital, taking the death toll from the recent violence during...
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...
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday morning visited Bangladesh Television Bhaban to see the extent of damage after it came under attack during the recent protests...
Nahid Islam, Abu Baker Mazumdar, and Asif Mahmud, three coordinators of Students Movement Against Discrimination, a platform for quota reform movements, were allegedly picked up by...
The Anti-quota protest platform Students Movement Against Discrimination鈥檚 several co-coordinators on Thursday pressed their demands to withdraw curfew and...
Police on Thursday arrested at least 1,307 suspects, mostly opposition leaders and activists, across the country in connection with violence and vandalism during...
Hospitals in the capital Dhaka and 10 other districts reported at least 209 killings during the violent student protests for quota reform in the past 10 days across the...
Condemning the 鈥榖rutal repression鈥� by the state against quota reform protesters in Bangladesh, 201 academics, including both Bangladeshis and non-Bangladeshis in the United Kingdom, on Thursday issued a statement, expressing full solidarity with the student movement...
Amnesty International in a statement on Thursday said that Bangladesh authorities have continued to use unlawful force against student protesters, amid six days of shutdown and communication restrictions, during the quota-reform protest across the country...
The lack communication between leaders of the Students Movement Against Discrimination, a platform for anti-quota movement has resulted in confusion among the protesters about their next course of actions...
State minister for information and broadcasting Mohammad A Arafat on Monday said that the BNP and miscreants carried out attacks across the country as part of their well-thought and pre-designed blueprint to disconnect the country from the world, stop development efforts and disrupt its journey towards next level of development...
Diplomats in Dhaka questioned the government鈥檚 deadly response to widespread student protests following a presentation by the foreign minister that laid the blame for recent violence at demonstrators鈥� feet, diplomatic officials said Monday...
Many ordinary people, including children, were killed and wounded at home and workplaces in allegedly indiscriminate firing by the security agencies on roads and in residential areas to disperse the clashing protesters from different locations in the capital as student protests for quota reform turned violent...
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...
The prices of vegetables and eggs remained high on Monday on the kitchen markets in the capital Dhaka...
The United Nations high officials have called on Bangladesh to urgently disclose the details of the past week鈥檚 crackdown on protests amid accounts of 鈥榟orrific violence鈥�, calling for...
Top US Democratic senator Chuck Schumer weighed in on the situation surrounding the quota protests in Bangladesh...
The main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Wednesday claimed that at least 2,000 leaders and activists of their party and other opposition parties as well were arrested in the past few days during the ongoing student protest demanding quota reform in government jobs...
The police on Wednesday handed over eight unidentified bodies from Dhaka Medical College Hospital in connection with the quota reform movement to Anjuman Mufidul Islam for burial...
Asif Mahmud, one of the co-coordinators of the Students Movement Against Discrimination, a platform demanding quota reform in government jobs, reappeared on Wednesday morning about six days after he had gone missing...