THE wholesale arrest of dozens of students and hundreds of leaders, activists and supporters of opposition parties in cases filed in connection with violence and vandalism during the student protests for reforms in government job quota is another misstep of the government, the like of which forced a peaceful protest into a violent one...
THE only responsible government response to the violent policing of student protests seeking public job quota reform was to take responsibility for the death and injuries. But the government continues to spread reckless lies and deceive the public. The first information report that the Rangpur police filed about the death of a Begum Rokeya University...
The government restored mobile internet services at about 3:00pm on Sunday after almost 10 days, but users found difficulties in using the internet services...
Though a number of countries expressed their concern over the recent violence in Bangladesh, 14 foreign missions stationed in Dhaka have jointly written to foreign minister Hasan Mahmud seeking a sustainable solution to the issue to ensure a lasting peace in the country...
Law enforcement agencies are largely ignoring the Supreme Court guidelines while making blanket arrests of citizens on suspicion of their involvement in violence during the recent student protests...
THE prime minister Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 call on people to help identify the 鈥榗ulprits鈥� involved in the mayhem, born out of the peaceful student protests seeking reforms in civil service job reservations, makes sense. While she sought people鈥檚 support in holding the culprits to justice, she said that the culprits, in whatever corner they are staying...
Bangladesh Bank has instructed banks in the country to keep their branches open from 10:00am to 3:00pm in accordance with the reduced curfew hours.
Law enforcement agencies have continued arrests, and night-time block raids in many areas of Dhaka and other places across the country as part of their special drive against...
Two more critically injured people died on Friday while undergoing treatment at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital, taking the death toll from the recent violence during...
The committees of 27 units of the ruling Awami League under the Dhaka-13 constituency were dissolved on Thursday night due to their inaction during the anti-quota student protest in...
Police on Thursday arrested at least 1,307 suspects, mostly opposition leaders and activists, across the country in connection with violence and vandalism during...
Hospitals in the capital Dhaka and 10 other districts reported at least 209 killings during the violent student protests for quota reform in the past 10 days across the...
Diplomats in Dhaka questioned the government鈥檚 deadly response to widespread student protests following a presentation by the foreign minister that laid the blame for recent violence at demonstrators鈥� feet, diplomatic officials said Monday...
Many ordinary people, including children, were killed and wounded at home and workplaces in allegedly indiscriminate firing by the security agencies on roads and in residential areas to disperse the clashing protesters from different locations in the capital as student protests for quota reform turned violent...
The main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Wednesday claimed that at least 2,000 leaders and activists of their party and other opposition parties as well were arrested in the past few days during the ongoing student protest demanding quota reform in government jobs...
The police on Wednesday handed over eight unidentified bodies from Dhaka Medical College Hospital in connection with the quota reform movement to Anjuman Mufidul Islam for burial...
Police continued the countrywide arrest drives as 641 more people were arrested in Dhaka city on Wednesday in connection with violence and vandalism during student protests for quota reform for government jobs that left at least 162 killed...
Thirty lawyers condemned the 鈥榰se of excessive and disproportionate force鈥� on the student protesters demanding quota reforms in government jobs in a statement issued on Sunday...
THE Appellate Division coming to revoke the July 5 High Court verdict that asked the government to reinstate 30 per cent quotas in government jobs for the children and grandchildren of freedom fighters, sparking massive student protests, does not, and will not, heal the wounds that have been inflicted on the nation since July 15...
Foreign minister Hasan Mahmud on Tuesday said that some international media outlets including Qatar-based Al Jazeera circulated false, distorted and fabricated reports on...
Authorities launched a countrywide arrest drive after dozens of cases were filed on charges of acts of sabotage after violent student protests that left at least 157 killed in the past...
TRUTH is defiant. It finds its way to be in public circulation. Sometimes quietly. That has been the case since July 18, when the government suspended all internet services in Bangladesh apparently to 鈥榗ontain violence surrounding the student protest for quota reform鈥�. Public, however, thinks otherwise. Words on the streets are that the...
AMID the curfew imposed on July 20 for an indefinite period apparently to contain violence centring student protests for quota reforms, businesspeople at a meeting with the prime minister on July 22 urged the government to immediately reopen factories. Most business leaders who attended applauded the government for creating...
UN human rights chief Volker Turk said on Friday he was deeply concerned by this week鈥檚 violence in Bangladesh, calling the attacks on student protesters 鈥榮hocking and unacceptable鈥�...
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina put all records of brutal crackdown in the history Bangladesh in the manner she had attempted to suppress the ongoing student protest over quota reform in government service, opposition politicians said on Saturday...
Many people, including a significant number of students, were at risk of losing sight in their either one or both eyes for injuries they sustained in violent clashes during anti-quota student protests across Bangladesh....
A sudden curfew, imposed across the country since midnight past Friday against the backdrop of violent student protests demanding reform of quotas in government jobs, has left people who are in dire need to leave Dhaka, stranded at railway stations, launch and bus terminals...
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...
ON APRIL 30, when Columbia University student protesters took over Hamilton Hall, they renamed it 鈥楬ind鈥檚 Hall鈥�, dropping a large banner out the windows above the building鈥檚 entrance. This was a hall famously occupied by students in the 1968 protests against the Vietnam War and against Jim Crow racism in the United States...
Students of Dhaka University organised a rally on Sunday expressing solidarity with students who are protesting on campuses across the US against Israel鈥檚 attacks on Gaza...