Rajshahi University authorities early Sunday suspended admissions under the controversial ward quota, renamed as 鈥榠nstitutional facilities鈥�, after days of student protests and an unprecedented scuffle between students and teachers.
President Donald Trump demanded a massive $1 billion fine from the prestigious University of California system on Friday as the administration pushed its claims of anti-Semitism in UCLA鈥檚 response to 2024 student protests related to Gaza...
I MOSTLY head home from the office and back to the office from home, which has been a routine for long but for a few erratic days when I have ventured out in other directions, mostly before and after work hours. But it gradually became challenging, risky too, to shuttle between the office and home, let alone darting out here and there even when the need was pressing as violence broke out with student protests...
A LOOK into the newspaper photo morgue, basically an array of directories sequentially numbered by date on the server in this digital era, where photojournalists 鈥� Md Sourav and Sony Ramani in the case of 抖阴精品 鈥� rest their day鈥檚 work, might weave a pattern of an event that broke out over days. This might also tell a story. The photographs of the student protests...
THIS is unfortunate that the interim government, which assumed office after the overthrow of the Awami League government on August 5, 2024 in an uprising that began on July 1 that year as student protests against civil service job reservations, has yet to comprehensively enlist all who died and became wounded at the hand of law enforcers who were aided by the...
Dhaka Medical College on Saturday suspended all academic activities for an indefinite period amid ongoing student protests to press home their five demands.
The government on Tuesday relieved Barishal University鈥檚 vice-chancellor Professor Shuchita Sharmin, pro-vice-chancellor Professor Golam Rabbani and treasurer Professor Mamunur Rashid from their duties amid student protests demanding their removal...
Khulna University of Engineering and Technology (KUET) Vice-Chancellor Professor Mohammad Mashud and Pro-Vice-Chancellor Professor Sheikh Shariful Alam were removed from their posts on Friday night following prolonged student protests.
The US government will review $9 billion of funding for Harvard University over alleged anti-Semitism on campus, authorities said Monday, after it cut millions from Columbia University, which has also seen fierce pro-Palestinian student protests.
THE attacks on the protests that national minority students held on January 15 and the attacks on a rally that mostly students held the next day in protest at the attacks on the January 15 protests are as unsavoury as equally outrageous. Students of national minorities, banded as the Aggrieved Indigenous Students and People, held protests at the...
The construction works of a Jagannath University second campus in Keraniganj have been handed over to the Bangladesh Army amid student protests...
Anwar Hossain, 55, has had an unbearable life since 2020, when he lost his 18-year-old daughter to Covid 19...
Md Kamrul Islam came to be shot in the neck at Mirpur 10 on August 4 when he was carrying another person, wounded by a gunshot, during the uprising born out of the student protests that had continued since July 1.
Md Mamun, a security guard, was shot at in the chest on a road near his workplace in Narayanganj at 4:00am on July 22 during the curfew imposed to quell student protests seeking reforms in civil service job reservations...
WOMEN have played a pivotal role in the student protests seeking reforms in civil service job reformation flared into a mass uprising against the authoritarian Awami League government, but their contribution and voice have been largely ignored in the post-uprising political affairs and public narrative...
Aklima Begum has plunged in a plight since her husband Akhter Hossain died after being shot in clashes on July 19 that broke out over student protests.
Seven-year-old Musa Khan, who was shot in the head inside the garage of his Rampura house on July 19 during student protests demanding quota reform in government jobs, was sent to...
Three deceased Awami League leaders, who died much earlier, have been prosecuted over the attack on the recent anti-quota student protests in Cumilla...
ISSUES of national education have recently come to the fore, with the cancellation of a textbook review and revision committee on September 28 apparently amidst opposition by some right-wing Islamist groups after it was formed on September 15. The process of national education also came to be questioned when the authorities cancelled the...
NEARLY a month after taking office, the chief adviser of the interim government, Dr Muhammad Yunus, announced through a televised speech on September 11 that the families of the martyrs, as well as the students and citizens injured during the July uprising, will receive rehabilitation and their treatment costs will be covered...
Sanjida was hit with a bullet in the lower abdomen as she turned to step inside the room with her daughter, who stepped out onto the balcony a while before...
Students of different polytechnic institutes, including Dhaka Polytechnic Institute and Dhaka Mohila Polytechnic Institute, held demonstrations demanding end of discrimination against them in...
THE departure of the deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina to India on August 5 against the backdrop of the student protests for civil service quota reform causing the murder of several hundred people has triggered the relations between Bangladesh and India for another paradigm shift. Although Hasina sought and obtained political asylum after the...
A Dhaka court on Saturday placed former chief whip and six-time Awami League lawmaker ASM Feroz on a three-day fresh remand in a murder case filed with the...
A case has been filed on Friday with Munshiganj Sadar police station against 313 people, including ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina, over the killing of Dipjol Sardar during the student protests.
A Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Court on Thursday remanded former commerce minister Tipu Munshi in police custody for four days in a murder case filed with...
Bangladesh Bank will donate Tk 5 crore to the foundation formed for those injured and killed in the recent student protests.
THE education ministry has decided not to hold the remaining Higher Secondary Certificate and equivalent examinations deferred in the changed reality that had emerged in the middle of July out of the student protests seeking reforms in civil service job reservations. The examinations were scheduled to begin on June 30 and end on August 21...
The Human Rights Support Society, a non-government human rights organisation, said in a report that at least 819 people were killed during student protests and its aftermath across the country between July 16 and August 18...
At least 50 named and 1000 to 1200 unnamed leaders and activists of Bangladesh Awami League, including its presidium member and Rajshahi City Corporation former mayor AHM Khairuzzaman Liton, were sued in a case for killing a student in indiscriminate firing during recent student protests...
