Intruders enter into quota reform movement: DB
Dhaka Metropolitan Police additional commissioner and Detective Branch chief Harun Or Rashid on Saturday said that intruders entered into the quota movement to divert it in a different direction...
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It鈥檚 time to say 鈥榥o鈥� to discriminatory quota
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...
BNP for withdrawal of case against聽anti-quota protesters
The main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Saturday demanded withdrawal of the case filed against the students agitating for quota system reform in...
Unidentified quota protesters sued over vandalising police vehicles
A case was filed against unidentified quota protesters for vandalising vehicles of the police and assaulting their personnel during Thursday鈥檚 blockade programme at the Shahbagh crossing in Dhaka....
It will be sub judice if we meet protesting students: Obaidul
The road transport and bridges minister Obaidul Quader on Saturday said that if they met with the protesting students against the quota system then it would be a sub judice...
AL asks quota protesters not to become political tools
Urging the quota protesters not to be abused as political tools of anyone, Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader on Friday said that their party was always...
Ghosts of anti-independence elements conspiring: Anisul
Law, justice and parliamentary affairs minister advocate Anisul Huq said on Friday that ghosts of anti-independence elements were conspiring in the name of...
Students keep blocking roads, railways
Thousands of students agitating for quota system reform in government jobs in the capital and elsewhere across the country vowed on Friday to resist attacks and overcome obstacles...
Police won鈥檛 tolerate violation of law: DMP commissioner
Mentioning that everyone should obey by the court order, Dhaka Metropolitan Police commissioner Habibur Rahman on Friday said that police would not tolerate...
Quota protesters vow to resist intimidation
Hundreds of quota protesters gathered at the Shahbagh crossing in Bangladesh鈥檚 capital Dhaka on Friday and vowed to resist intimidation against students protesting at the reinstatement of quotas in public services and demanding reform in the system....
Govt, AL, BCL warn anti-quota protesters
The government and the ruling Awami League issued a warning on Thursday for students protesting against the quota system in public service on the streets, saying that...
Ensure proper coordination, adjustment of quota-related issue: NHRC
The National Human Rights Commission chairman Kamal Uddin Ahmed on Thursday said that it was important to ensure proper coordination and adjustment of issues related to quota in the government jobs...
JCD expresses support for anti-quota movement
Jatiyatavadi Chhatra Dal, the student wing of the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party, on Thursday expressed its full support to the ongoing movement waged by students and jobseekers demanding quota reform in government jobs...
Protesters face attacks, intimidation
Students protesting against the reinstatement of quotas in public services and demanding reform in the system faced attacks and intimidation by the police and the ruling Awami League鈥檚...
Chhatra Dal extends support to quota movement
Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal on Thursday extended its full support to the ongoing movement of general students demanding reform in the existing quota system for government jobs.
BNP must walk the walk and stop belittling legitimate issues
THE remark of the senior joint secretary general of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party that the government is creating various issues to deflect public attention away from agreements 鈥� said to have been against Bangladesh鈥檚 national interests 鈥� that the government has signed with other countries is misleading on a few counts...
Govt can change, reduce, increase quotas: HC
The High Court in the operative part of its verdict on quota in government job has said that the government at liberty to change, reduce or increase the ratio or...
Quota protesters block Shahbagh breaking police barricade
Students who have been staging demonstrations demanding reform in the quota system resumed their 鈥楤angla Blockade鈥� in Bangladesh's capital Dhaka on Thursday afternoon despite DMP鈥檚 warning against road blockade....
Quota protestors crossing the line, says home minister
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan on Thursday said that students continuing quota protest are crossing the line....
Six injured as police clash with quota protesters in Cumilla
At least six people were injured as police and quota protesters locked in a clash when the protesters from Cumilla University tried to block the Dhaka-Chittagong highway near their university Thursday afternoon....
DMP warns anti-quota protesters not to cause further public suffering
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....
Chhatra League urges quota protesters to return to classrooms
Bangladesh Chhatra League has called on students protesting at the quota system in government jobs to await the court鈥檚 decision and return to their classrooms and exams. BCL expressed its stance on the ongoing anti-quota movement at a press conference held at Madhur Canteen, Dhaka University, on Thursday at about 12:00pm...
Air passengers suffer due to anti-quota blockade
Air passengers, especially those departing for overseas jobs, have suffered because of blockade of roads and railways by anti-quota protesters across the country on Wednesday as many had to reach the airport in Dhaka hours before their scheduled journeys...
Quota protesters want law, not litigation
Students protesting for reform in the existing quota system in government services vowed to continue their movement despite the Appellate Division鈥檚 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...
Quota reform to be resolved in August鈥檚 1st week through SC hearing: Quader 聽
Calling the agitating students to go back to classrooms, ruling Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader on Wednesday said that the quota system reform issue in government jobs would be resolved through the Supreme Court hearing in the first week of August...
HC verdict on job quota stayed
The Appellate Division on Wednesday ordered status quo for four weeks over a High Court verdict that asked the government authorities to restore a 30 per cent quota for the descendants of freedom fighters while recruiting officers in the civil service...
Protesters against quota block roads, rail tracks at places across Bangladesh
Students of different public universities and colleges began its pre-announced day-long all-out blockade by blocking roads, highways and rail tracks in Dhaka and elsewhere across Bangladesh to press home their one-point demand to reform the existing quota system....
SC asks govt not to implement quota restoration verdict for four weeks
The Appellate Division on Wednesday asked the government authorities not to implement the High Court verdict that ordered them to restore 30 per cent quota for the children and dependents of freedom fighters while making recruitment in various cadre service...
Day-long blockade today
Students continued their protests against the existing quota system in government jobs for the ninth consecutive day on Tuesday by blocking highways at places in the...