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...
Cultural activists from Bangladesh Udichi Shilpigosthi and other organisations on Monday protested against the killings and wholesale arrests by law enforcement agencies during the ongoing quota protests...
The family members of the six coordinators of the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement were allowed to meet the leaders at the detective branch custody on Monday...
Garment Sramik Samhati expressed concern over the killing of five garment workers during the students鈥� movement, demanding quota reform in government jobs.
At least 15 students were injured in an alleged attack by Bangladesh Chhatra League activists at Barishal University.
Teachers from various universities across Bangladesh, united under the banner of 鈥楢nti-Repression Teachers Rally,鈥� have called for an immediate end to the harassment of students as well as 鈥榤ass arrests.鈥�
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday asked all concerned including cabinet members and government officials to remain alert against 鈥榬umours鈥� over聽 violence during...
Fourteen more cases have been filed in connection with the quota movement clashes in Dhaka over the last 24 hours till 6:00am on Monday.
Students Movement Against Discrimination, a platform for anti-quota movement, announced protest rallies across the country on Monday for pressing their demand.
Awami League general secretary and road transport and bridges minister Obaidul Quader on Sunday said that BNP had a plot to capture Ganabhaban like Sri Lanka, if the curfew had not been enforced on the night of July 19 to control the situation created centering the quota reform movement...
The main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Sunday said that law enforcement agencies were arresting the students who took part in the quota reform student movement in a...
The country鈥檚 business leaders on Sunday demanded low-cost bank loans, rescheduling facilities, deferred payment of loan instalments and waiver of port demurrage due to the suspension of business activities caused by the nationwide shutdown, curfew, general holidays and internet outage centring the quota reform movement...
The Foreign Investors鈥� Chamber of Commerce and Industry has recommended a list of measures to recover from economic losses amid unrests centring the quota reform protests...
The government at last disclosed on Sunday that 147 people, including common people, students, police, and ruling Awami League activists, were killed in...
Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader on Sunday said that 鈥榩ossible involvement鈥� of Professor Muhammad Yunus, and others giving statements, in the recent quota reform movement and violence needed to be looked into...
Arif Sohel, Jahangirnagar University quota reform student movement convener, was picked up from his house in Savar at about 5:00am on Sunday allegedly by members of law enforcement agencies...
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday said that Jamaat-Shibir 鈥榯errorists initially kept a low profile within the quota reform movement.鈥�...
Members of Rapid Action Battalion in separate drives arrested 304 people raiding different parts of the country, including Dhaka, in connection with the recent violence over quota reform protests...
