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...
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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...
Court will decide on quota system: minister
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....
SC to hear DU students鈥� plea today
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...
Quota protesters鈥� blockades on tracks disrupt rail communications across Bangladesh
Rail communications across Bangladesh disrupted on Monday as students blocked the rail tracks at different places including Rajshahi, Chattogram and Mymensingh demanding cancellation of the High Court order that reinstated 30 per cent quotas for freedom fighters鈥� children and grandchildren in government jobs....
Anti-quota protests rock Bangladesh
Students from different public universities and colleges on Monday blocked rail tracks, roads, and highways in Dhaka and other places across the country, demanding reform in the...
Quader meets ministers over movements of students, teachers
Road transport and bridges minister Obaidul Quader, also the general secretary of the ruling Awami League, met five other ministers and state ministers on Monday over the ongoing students鈥� protests against quota system in government jobs and teachers鈥� movement to cancel the new pension scheme....
RU students block rail tracks in Rajshahi demanding cancellation of quota
Rail communication between Rajshahi and the rest of the country remained suspended as a group of Rajshahi University students on Monday blocked the rail tracks near the university central graveyard demanding cancellation of the High Court order that reinstated 30 per cent quotas for freedom fighters鈥� children and grandchildren in government jobs...
Solution to quota issue should come from court, says PM
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday said that quota issue in the government jobs should be settled in the apex court.
Quota protesters leave Shahbagh announcing blockade for Monday
The students who gathered at Shahbagh in Bangladesh capital Dhaka at about 4:00pm to block the intersection and its adjoining areas left the place after over four hours announcing that they would block different areas in the city Monday afternoon....
PM dismisses anti-quota protests terming it as irrational, sub-judice
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�...
Dhaka traffic paralysed, highways in different parts of Bangladesh blocked
Students from different public universities and colleges blocked major highways in the country and several crossings in Dhaka on Sunday, demanding the cancellation of the...
Quota protesters block highways, announce blockade for today聽聽
Students from different public universities and colleges on Saturday blocked major highways across the country, including Dhaka-Tangail, Dhaka-Rajshahi, Dhaka-Pabna...
BNP morally supports movements of teachers, students: Fakhrul
The main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said on Saturday that the party morally supported the ongoing movements by public university teachers and students based on 鈥榡ustified鈥� demands....
Students block Dhaka-Tangail highway demanding cancellation of quota
Students of Mawlana Bhashani Science and Technology University in Tangail blocked the Dhaka-Tangail highway for around two hours on Saturday demanding cancellation of quota system in government jobs...
Anti-quota protests keep spreading
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...
Unrest at public universities
A SURGE of protests by teachers and students at public universities across Bangladesh underscores a deepening crisis in the country鈥檚 higher education system. The causes of this unrest are multifaceted, involving contentious policies such as the newly introduced pension scheme named Prattay under the Universal Pension Scheme and the reinstatement of...
BNP infiltrates student, teacher movements: Hasan Mahmud
Foreign minister and the ruling Awami League joint general secretary Hasan Mahmud on Thursday said that the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party had infiltrated student and teacher movements over quota system and pension, as the party 鈥榣acks the capability to initiate independent actions.鈥�....
Student protests aganist quota intensify
Thousands of students in Dhaka and elsewhere in the country on Thursday continued their street protests by blocking the capital鈥檚 Shahbagh intersection and major highways...
