In protest against recent nationwide killings, arrests, and oppression students and people from all walks of life took position in different areas in Bangladesh capital Dhaka on Friday...
Six coordinators of the Student Movement Against Discrimination, who were held in custody by the Detective Branch of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police for days without...
A group of civil society representatives on Thursday issued a 24-hour ultimatum, demanding the unconditional release of students detained illegally during the quota reform movement, who were mostly charged with sabotage...
A Dhaka juvenile court on Thursday rejected the bail petition of Dhaka College student Hasnatul Islam Faiyaz in a case filed over the killing of a police constable during violence centring on the quota reform movement in Jatrabari area on July 19...
The National Committee on Security Affairs will meet on Sunday amid ongoing student protests seeking justice for over 200 killed and thousands injured in the recent...
Visual artists organised a programme titled Bhoyhin- Nejjya- Manobik Morjadar Bangladesh Chai in front of Ananda Cinema Hall near Farmgate to declare solidarity with the students鈥� nine-point demand in the ongoing anti-quota student movement on Thursday morning...
Bangladesh government on Thursday widened the judicial inquiry commission鈥檚 scope and jurisdiction tasking it with the investigation of all the killings and violence perpetrated between July 16 and July 21 during the students鈥� quota reform movement.聽
Posts and Telecommunication Division, Information and Communication Technology Division and private sector suffered a loss of Tk 18,000 crore during unrest over quota reform protests, state minister for posts, telecommunications, and information technology Zunaid Ahmed Palak said on Thursday.
The government has formed a three-member judicial inquiry commission to probe the deaths, violence, sabotage, arson attacks, looting, criminal activities and damages during the recent violence in the name of the quota reform movement across the country from July 16 to 21.
The Detective Branch of Dhaka Metropolitan Police on Thursday released six coordinators of the Students Movement Against Discrimination, a platform for students...
The government on Thursday suspended the Higher Secondary Certificate and equivalent examinations till August 10 and announced that all the suspended exams would be held from...
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday sought cooperation from the United Nations and other international organisations to conduct a proper investigation into the nationwide mayhem to punish the real culprits involved in the attacks taking advantage of the anti-quota movement...
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday said that the lives lost during the recent quota reform violence can never be brought back even though the destroyed structures were rebuilt...
The Student Movement Against Discrimination platform for quota reform protests on Tuesday announced the 鈥楳arch for Justice鈥� programme to be held today in all courts, campuses and...
The Amnesty International secretary general Agn猫s Callamard in a letter to prime minister Sheikh Hasina urged to take urgent and concrete action to end the violence and...
A section of citizens under the banner of 鈥楤ikkhubdha Nagarik Samaj鈥� on Tuesday issued a 24-hour ultimatum to the authorities concerned demanding release of six leaders of the quota reform...
Police are torturing arrested people in the ongoing crackdown on students, and opposition political parties after deadly quota reform protests, political parties and...
Security forces in plainclothes are taking fingerprints and photos of individuals admitted to various city hospitals with injuries from violence during the recent countrywide student protests seeking...
At least 16 children, including nine students and a preschooler, were killed and scores of others were injured in violent clashes during recent student protests for quota reform in...
Cultural activists of 31 cultural organisations on Tuesday demanded the resignation of the Awami League government for killing of students and people during the quota reform movement of the student...
A cross-section of people, including teachers, parents, civil society members, and cultural organisations, have joined the students in expressing solidarity with their demand to ensure justice for...
IN MID-JULY, students in Bangladesh took to the streets to protest an illogical quota system which was meant to restrict their employment opportunities in the public sector. The government response to this peaceful, democratic movement has been brutal and cruel. In order to squelch this spontaneous student mobilisation, it launched a crackdown which is nothing but a euphemism for mass slaughter...
IN A historically and politically significant move, a national mass inquiry commission to investigate the recent violent crackdown on student protests that sought reforms in public service job quota was announced on July 29 at a protest that lawyers organised in Dhaka. The commission is meant to establish the political and legal liability for...
Detective Branch of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police has kept six coordinators of the Students Movement Against Discrimination, a quota reform platform, in its custody for up to...
Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina visited Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College and Hospital on Tuesday to meet people who sustained injuries during the recent nationwide unrest centring quota reform protests.
Jahangirnagar University teachers on Tuesday staged a silent procession on the campus protesting against the 鈥榢illing鈥� of students during the recent unrest centring around the quota reforms movement that sparked a lethal police crackdown across the country.
The police obstructed protesting guardians of students in front of Dhaka Medical College while they were going to Shagbagh on Tuesday morning to organise a rally protesting against casualties in the unrest centring quota reforms movement.
The High Court on Tuesday expressed deep shame over the deaths that occurred during the quota reform protests and called every death a tragedy.
The National Human Rights Commission has issued a call for the identification and prosecution of perpetrators involved in recent violence surrounding the quota reform movement in government jobs, emphasising that this process should be based solely on reliable and specific information...
Seventy-four eminent citizens demanded unbiased, independent, transparent, and credible investigations into the killings of students and other citizens during the quota reform movement under the supervision of United Nations high-level experts...