THE entire law enforcement apparatus in Bangladesh is broken, and it is plain for everyone to see. Over the past twenty years, law enforcement has become riddled with corruption, brutality, and political manipulation. The revolutionary protests over the past few weeks, where citizens young and old took to the streets demanding change..
The Media Reform Initiative, a platform of journalists, on Friday presented 13 points of demand, including an ultimatum to journalist unions to unite within the next three days...
State Reform Student Movement chief coordinator Ahmed Ishak and its economic coordinator Didarul Bhuiyan on Friday joined a tea party hosted by British high commission in Dhaka...
Thirty-one cultural organisations on Wednesday paid tribute to student protesters of the quota reform movement who achieved historical one-point demand...
Violence during the countrywide student movement for quota reform in government jobs has left many families in grief and sorrow after having lost their family during clashes with police and other forms of roadside violence...
The Students Movement Against Discrimination, a platform for quota reform movement, on Wednesday said that the students-led mass uprising was aimed at eliminating fascist system from the country and to reform the state but not to fulfill the will of any political party or group to go to power...
Bangladesh A team鈥檚 tour of Pakistan has been rescheduled following the turmoil the country went through in recent days which led to the resignation of Sheikh Hasina as prime minister following protests all over the country, which had initially begun as a quota reform movement...
鈥楬ow will I survive with the child, who will now look after him,鈥� lamented Shanta Maria, the widow of Imran Hosain, who was killed in firing on student protests for government job quota reforms on July 19...
Tens of thousands of people from all walks of life took to Dhaka streets on Monday defying curfew to join the March to Dhaka programme called by the...
Home ministry extended curfew for an indefinite period in Dhaka, all divisional cities, district towns, upazila towns, city corporation areas, municipal areas and industrial areas from 6:00pm on Sunday.聽
The government-formed judicial inquiry commission鈥檚 chairman, Justice Khandaker Diliruzzaman, said on Saturday that the commission would seek international investigation agencies鈥� assistance...
The home minister, Asaduzzaman Khan, on Saturday said that no children were killed in the violence centring the student protests for public job quota reforms.
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday said that she had already instructed to release the innocent people that include general students from the jail.
Several leftist political parties on Saturday called for the immediate resignation of the Awami League government, holding it responsible for the deaths of over 200 students and civilians during the student protests, demanding quota reform in government jobs...
Thirty writers on Saturday issued a statement expressing condemnation over the attack on the quota reform movement protesters and demanding exemplary punishment of those responsible involved in the attacks...
THE quota reform movement, a movement birthed from the desperate cries of Bangladesh鈥檚 youth, has transformed into a chilling indictment of a nation in crisis. What began as a plea for equitable opportunities in government service has morphed into a battleground where students face the full force of a militarised police state...
Dhaka stocks fell for the third consecutive week in the past week amid economic worries and the ongoing countrywide turmoil centring the quota reform movement, market operators said...
Bangladesh Health Watch, a non-governmental organisation, urged the authorities concerned to immediately issue directives and provide resources to all healthcare institutions for treating people injured amid the unprecedented situation that has been created in the country in the past few weeks.
The death toll from the recent violence during student protests reached at least 218 till Saturday across the country as a wounded person died while undergoing treatment in hospital, and another man died in a clash in Gazipur in the afternoon on the day...
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday called upon the agitating students to sit with her at her official Ganabhaban residence to put an end to violence in the ongoing protests seeking justice for...
Journalists gave a 48-hour ultimatum demanding justice for the murders of journalists, including Hasan Mehedi of Dhaka Times, who was killed while covering the quota reform movement in...
Two Dhaka courts on Friday granted bail to 42 Higher Secondary Certificate examinees who were arrested in connection with cases filed on charges of violence and...
Ganahatya O Nipiran Birodhi Shilpi Samaj, a platform for cultural activists, made a three-point demand expressing its solidarity with the ongoing quota reform movement and...
At least 32 children were killed in Bangladesh during the quota reform protests in July with many more injured and detained, said UNICEF regional director for...
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...
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.