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Police remove protesters from near Prothom Alo, Daily Star

At least 10 protesters were injured when police baton-charged to disperse a group of people staging sit-in programme in front of the Prothom Alo office at Karwan Bazar, blaming Pothom Alo and The Daily Star ‘for plying role as agents of India’...

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India mosque survey sparks clashes, 2 dead

Indian Muslim protesters clashed with police on Sunday with at least two people killed in riots sparked by a survey investigating if a 17th-century mosque was built on a Hindu temple...

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Battery-run rickshaw drivers continue protests 

Several thousand battery-run rickshaw drivers on Sunday blocked several roads in the capital city pressing for their 12-point charter of demands that included allowing them to ply city roads...

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RSJA protests at attack on uprising leader Ariful

Rastra Sanskar Juba Andolan on Saturday protested at the miscreants’ attack on the July movement leader Md Ariful Islam and demanded punishment for the attackers immediately...

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Beximco workers block highway for pays

The workers of Beximco Industrial Park in Gazpiur continued their protests for the seventh day running on Thursday, demanding salaries and allowances...

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Farmers target PM in protest against new UK tax rules

Hundreds of farmers, many in tractors, gathered in Wales on Saturday to protest against UK prime minister Keir Starmer and his government’s decision to change inheritance tax rules for farms...

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A life with lost meaning

Anwar Hossain, 55, has had an unbearable life since 2020, when he lost his 18-year-old daughter to Covid 19...

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Govt should heed grievances of wounded protesters

PROTESTERS injured during the student-mass uprising in July-August that toppled the autocratic Awami League government on August 5 having not received adequate support for treatment and rehabilitation from the interim government is unacceptable. About 30,000 people, including many students, were injured in the uprising while at least 708 died...

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BGTF withdraws nationwide protest

The Bangladesh Group Theatre Federation withdrew their nationwide protest scheduled for Friday amid the Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy’s decision to stop the Desh Natok production Nityapuran’s show for security concerns and attack on a protest rally...

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Drive against polythene postponed amid protests

The Department of Environment-led joint drives against manufacturing illegal polythene bags were postponed halfway on Wednesday amid protests by polythene factory workers at Kamalbagh of Chawk Bazar in Old Dhaka...

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Protests in DU against JCD Nov 7 posters

Some Dhaka University students on Wednesday night staged a procession on the campus, protesting at pasting posters by Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal marking ‘National Revolution and Solidarity Day’ with...

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Samaritan shot and dead

Md Kamrul Islam came to be shot in the neck at Mirpur 10 on August 4 when he was carrying another person, wounded by a gunshot, during the uprising born out of the student protests that had continued since July 1.

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Dhaka City College closed for today

Dhaka City College will remain closed today (Tuesday) following the daylong students’ protest on Monday demanding resignation of its acting principal and vice-principal.

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Hit with bullet, dead in custody

Md Mamun, a security guard, was shot at in the chest on a road near his workplace in Narayanganj at 4:00am on July 22 during the curfew imposed to quell student protests seeking reforms in civil service job reservations...

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Women’s exclusion reflects govt’s patriarchal bias

WOMEN have played a pivotal role in the student protests seeking reforms in civil service job reformation flared into a mass uprising against the authoritarian Awami League government, but their contribution and voice have been largely ignored in the post-uprising political affairs and public narrative...

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