THE important promises of the NPP government to the people includes addressing the problem of corruption and waste. This was the centrepiece of the Aragalaya protests that brought down the government in 2022. The government made many other promises too when it was in the opposition. But unlike in the case of these other promises...
The Detective Branch of Dhaka Metropolitan Police has arrested Sajibur Rahman Sajib, a leader of the banned Bangladesh Chhatra League, in a case filed over an attack on students during the quota reform movement on the Dhaka University campus in July 2024...
Thousands of rival South Korean protesters rallied in the capital Saturday, a day after a failed attempt to arrest suspended president Yoon Suk Yeol for imposing a short-lived martial law decree that led to his impeachment.
Syrian security forces are conducting a security sweep in the city of Homs, state media reported on Thursday, with a monitor saying targets include protest organisers from the Alawite minority of the former president...
THERE is a good side to the story. After a politically influential group 鈥榲isits鈥� a TV station asking the top brass to 鈥榯ake appropriate action鈥� against journalists whose reporting they dislike, the matter is now being debated. There is no DGFI [Directorate General of Forces Intelligence] involved. No guns are on display. No false cases have been filed. No one...
Officials of 25 cadres under the Bangladesh Civil Service on Thursday held human chains in front of their work stations for a one-hour across the country demanding elimination of discrimination among the cadre services...
Inquilab Mancha, a platform supporting the July-August student-mass uprising, on Sunday gave a seven-day ultimatum for the interim government to accept their three-point charter of...
Different organisations on Thursday demonstrated in Dhaka and elsewhere in the country, condemning attacks on and murders of students who participated in the student-led mass uprising in July-August...
Officials of the health and education cadres are planning to make louder their protests against the public administration reform commission鈥檚 proposals, including separating the health and education sectors from the Bangladesh Civil Service, in the coming weeks...
Leaders of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party and 12-Party Alliance on Wednesday at a protest rally alleged that the Indian Narendra Modi government and a section of Indian media were conspiring against Bangladesh and its interim government headed by Muhammad Yunus...
BUET students on Tuesday demonstrated in front their vice chancellor鈥檚 office to protest against the delay in submitting the report of investigation against banned Bangladesh Chhatra League...
Jahangirnagar University students have issued a seven-day ultimatum demanding justice for those, including activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League, responsible for attacks on their fellows during the July-August student-led mass uprising...
Different organisations on Tuesday held rallies and human chains in Bangladesh protesting at the attack on the Bangladesh assistant high commission in India鈥檚 Agartala on December 2 and Indian aggression as well...
Officials and employees of the privately-owned First Security Islami Bank staged a protest in front of the residence of S Alam Group鈥檚 owner in Chattogram, demanding repayment of Tk 35,000 crore...
Fitch Ratings downgraded Georgia鈥檚 outlook to negative from stable on Friday, citing sharply increased political risks following disputed October parliamentary elections that have sparked widespread protests in the Caucasus nation...
Police stopped the joint procession of the affiliated organisations of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party near Rampura Bridge on Sunday as it was marching towards the Indian high commission in Dhaka from the party鈥檚 central office at Naya Paltan...
Thousands of protesters marched in the Georgian capital Tbilisi on Saturday for the 10th day of rallies sparked by a disputed election and the government decision to shelve EU accession talks...
Protests over the attack on the Bangladesh assistant high commission in India鈥檚 Agartala rolled into the fourth consecutive day on Thursday in Dhaka city and some other places in the country.
The police in Chennai of India arrested 500 people, including 100 women, from BJP, RSS, ABVP, Hindu Munnani, and other Hindu organisations on Wednesday for staging a protest, demanding safety of Hindus in Bangladesh in front of the Raja Rathinam Stadium...
Members of the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement staged a protest outside the Indian Assistant High Commission in Khulna on Monday night, condemning the attack on Bangladesh鈥檚 Assistant High Commission in Agartala...
A group of Jahangirnagar University students staged a demonstration on JU campus, calling for reforms to what they described as a discriminatory quota system in university admissions, on Sunday...
THE wholesale filing of cases in connection with murder of and attacks on protesters that took place in July鈥揂ugust and flaws in the filing of the cases stand to harm justice and allow perpetrators to escape unpunished. The police say that more than 2,500 cases have been filed until mid-November in connection with the murders and attacks during the uprising, noting that about 8,000 people have also...
Workers of a readymade garment factory set fire to three vehicles on Dhaka-Mymensingh highway to protest at the death of a security guard of the organisation in a bus crash, said police on Sunday morning...
The police arrested five Mohila Awami League leaders on Thursday in connection with an attack on an anti-discrimination student protest during the student-mass uprising in Dhaka鈥檚 Pallabi area.
Garment workers from Mahmud Jeans Limited staged a protest on Thursday, blocking the Dhaka-Tangail Highway in the Chandra area of Kaliakair upazila, Gazipur, demanding their overdue wages.
Pakistan police said on Wednesday that they had arrested nearly 1,000 protesters who marched on the capital demanding the release of jailed ex-prime minister Imran Khan, after crowds were evicted from the city centre in a sweeping security crackdown...
Leaders of the Left Democratic Alliance, a combine of six left political parties, on Tuesday at a protest rally in Dhaka called on the interim government to take immediate steps to stop attacks on left party rallies across the country...
Pakistani protesters demanding the release of ex-prime minister Imran Khan on Tuesday killed four members of the nation鈥檚 security forces, the government said, as the crowds defied police and closed in on the capital鈥檚 centre...
THE untoward incident of chaos and anarchy in front of the office of the daily Prothom Alo is deeply concerning. As reported in 抖阴精品 on November 24, a group of individuals, some of them identifying themselves as 鈥榓nti-India protesters,鈥� staged a sit-in programme in front of the Prothom Alo office and also tried to block the surrounding roads...
A prominent Iranian activist has sewn his lips together and is holding daily protests in Tehran following the apparent suicide last week of a fellow campaigner, he posted on social media on Thursday...