AMID the curfew imposed on July 20 for an indefinite period apparently to contain violence centring student protests for quota reforms, businesspeople at a meeting with the prime minister on July 22 urged the government to immediately reopen factories. Most business leaders who attended applauded the government for creating...
THE foreign minister Hasan Mahmud briefed foreign diplomats in Dhaka on July 21 and screened a 15-minute video for them which was focused on the damage allegedly caused by the protesters who sought reforms in civil service job reservations. What the government showed to the ambassadors is half-truth, which is at times worse than lies...
Hasi Begum was crying sitting on the floor outside of the emergency room at Dhaka Medical College Hospital on Friday as she lost her son Md Rakib, 22, who died in a clash during...
At least 110 people were killed and several thousand others were injured in clashes in the past four days of quota protests across the country, starting from...
The government imposed a curfew across the country for an indefinite period from midnight past Friday as at least 67 people were killed on Friday taking to 112 the death toll in the...
The students of Jahangirnagar University on Saturday built a monument on the campus in memory of the students who were killed amid the ongoing anti-quota movement...
Thirty-One cultural organisations on Saturday demanded revoking of countrywide curfew imposed on midnight past Friday after 110 people were killed in the ongoing quota protests...
THE deployment of the army in aid of civil administration to contain the protests of the students who have legitimately sought reforms in civil service job reservations means that the government鈥檚 earlier employment of the ruling Awami League鈥檚 fronts Chhatra League and Juba League and the deployment of various law enforcement units, including the...
Protests, violence, killings marked the first day of curfew imposed by the government on midnight Friday while many people defied the order to go out of their homes for works and other purposes...
A sudden curfew, imposed across the country since midnight past Friday against the backdrop of violent student protests demanding reform of quotas in government jobs, has left people who are in dire need to leave Dhaka, stranded at railway stations, launch and bus terminals...
The protesting students for quota system reform in government jobs on Saturday gave a 24-hour ultimatum for withdrawal of the police case against them and demanded actions against...
Sweeper community members, different socio-political, religious and cultural organisations and rights groups on Saturday protested against recent attack on Miranzilla Harijan Sweeper Colony in Old Dhaka鈥檚 Bangshal area through protest rallies and processions, demanding exemplary punishment for those involved...
IN RECENT days, Bangladesh has seen student protests in many parts of the country, especially on university campuses. The protesting students have valid reasons to protest about a quota system that they find highly unfair and discriminatory. A whopping 30 per cent of the well-paid and massively oversubscribed Bangladesh Civil Service posts...
The Dhaka Metropolitan Police additional commissioner Khandkar Muhid Uddin on Thursday said that there was no scope for anti-quota protesters to take to the streets after the Appellate Division decision on Wednesday to stay for four weeks a High Court verdict that had asked the government to restore a 30 per cent quota for freedom fighters鈥� descendants....
Law, justice and parliamentary affairs minister Anisul Huq said on Tuesday that the Appellate Division would decide on quota system based on all sides鈥� statements....
The Appellate Division has set today to hear a fresh petition seeking a stay on a High Court verdict that directed the government to restore a 30 per cent quota for...
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday dismissed the movement against the quota system in the government jobs as irrational saying, 鈥業t is sub-judice.鈥�...
The students of different public universities continued their protests on Friday demanding cancellation of the High Court order for restoring a 30 per cent quota for...
Dozens of Kenyans took to the streets on Tuesday under a heavy police presence, with many shops shuttered as youth activists called for fresh protests after...
Five people were shot dead and 31 wounded on Tuesday during protests in Kenya over proposed tax hikes, an NGO said...
China on Tuesday said it had protested to the European Union after the bloc imposed sanctions on 19 Chinese companies for abetting what the West believes is Beijing鈥檚 support for Russia鈥檚 war in Ukraine...
The Left Democratic Alliance leaders on Friday at a protest rally called on the Dhaka South City Corporation authority to refrain from evicting the dwellers of the Miranzilla Harijan Sweeper Colony in the capital鈥檚 Bangshal area until their relocation...
COLLEGE campuses and universities across the country have organised some of the largest peace activities and anti-war protests since 1969. As the social movement points in specific directions in calling for Palestinian liberation, over 100 schools scattered across the United States...
The government has backtracked on its decision to ban operations of unauthorised battery-run rickshaws in Dhaka city amid street protests by...
DURING the wave of campus protests opposing the US-backed war on Gaza and calling for divestment from Israel, students weren鈥檛 the only demonstrators to face arrest 鈥� supportive faculty members were also caught up in the crackdown...
Armenia on Tuesday detained dozens of demonstrators in the capital Yerevan as large protests continue against government plans to concede land to the country鈥檚...
Georgia鈥檚 parliament on Tuesday adopted a controversial 鈥榝oreign influence鈥� law that has sparked weeks of mass protests against the measure, which...
Hundreds of young Georgians crowded outside the Caucasus country鈥檚 parliament on Monday after a night-long demonstration against a...
Columbia, the prestigious New York university at the heart of US campus protests against the war in Gaza, announced on Monday that it has cancelled the main ceremony for graduating students next week...
Students of Dhaka University organised a rally on Sunday expressing solidarity with students who are protesting on campuses across the US against Israel鈥檚 attacks on Gaza...