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Transwoman student’s expulsion is exclusionary move

THE decision to cancel the studentship of a gender minority student of a private university raises concern about the exclusionary academic environment and the integrity of the administration. More than a hundred citizens in a statement on August 16 expressed concern and termed the expulsion of Sahara Chowdhury, a transwoman in the Metropolitan University...

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162 citizens condemn expulsion of transgender student Sahara

A total of 162 citizens, including academics, activists, journalists, and artists, on Saturday issued a joint statement condemning the recent expulsion of a transgender student named Sahara Chowdhury from a private university...

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Charge sheet filed against banned BCL leader Naimul, 13 others

The police have filed a charge sheet before a court in Dhaka against 13 people, including president of Mohammadpur unit of the banned Bangladesh Chhatra League, Naimul Islam Russell, in a case allegedly for sexually abusing a woman for taking part in the anti-quota student movement in July 2024...

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GAU holds teacher-student dialogue

A student-faculty dialogue was organised by the faculty of forestry and environment at Gazipur Agricultural University was held on the GAU campus on Thursday...

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UGC congratulates 159 Erasmus Mundus scholarship recipients

Chairman of the University Grants Commission of Bangladesh Professor SMA Faiz at a programme in Dhaka on Thursday congratulated 159 Bangladeshi students who received the Erasmus Mundus scholarships in the 2025-26 academic year...

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AHZ hosts pre-departure event for UK-bound students in city

AHZ hosted a pre-departure event, celebrating the journey of nearly 1,000 Bangladeshi students who are set to begin their studies at leading universities across the United Kingdom, at the Gulshan Shooting Club in Dhaka...

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Proposition to ban student politics ahistorical, reactionary

THE proposition to ban student politics in universities is ahistorical and not only disregards the glorious contributions of student politics in the country’s history but also seeks to rob students of their democratic voice. While such a proposition has long been put forward by a section of people, the controversy surrounding student politics appears to have resurfaced...

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Trump seeks $1b from University of California over UCLA protests

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’s response to 2024 student protests related to Gaza...

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Rally demands action after student falls into manhole

Social activists, students and local residents held a protest rally in Rajshahi city on Thursday, demanding urgent action from the authorities after a student of Rajshahi College was seriously injured by falling into an uncovered manhole near the college...

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Two DU needy students awarded scholarships

Two indigent students of two departments of the faculty of social sciences of Dhaka University were awarded a one-time trust fund scholarship of Tk 25,000 each at a programme at the DU on Thursday...

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Road home, back to office

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...

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25 injured as fire breaks out in school lab

At least 25 students were injured after a fire broke out during a training session in the science lab of Niyaz Mohammad High School in Brahmanbaria town on Wednesday afternoon...

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JnU celebrates uprising anniversary excluding student protesters

Frontline student protesters, many of whom were injured during the 2024 July uprising, on Tuesday criticised the authorities of Jagannath University as the authorities celebrated the first anniversary of the uprising excluding the student protesters...

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Slogans on posters

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 — Md Sourav and Sony Ramani in the case of ¶¶Òõ¾«Æ· — rest their day’s 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...

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Eight CUET students selected for higher edn in Norway

Eight students from Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology have been awarded scholarships to pursue higher education in Norway under the Collaborative Academic Research and Education project...

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RUCSU polls scheduled for September 15

The authorities on Monday announced that the elections to the Rajshahi University Central Students’ Union would be held on September 15...

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No complete list of July martyrs, wounded as yet troubling

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...

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SAD suspends committees following extortion charges

Students Against Discrimination on Sunday afternoon suspended all its committees across the country except its central committee following the alleged involvement of some leaders of the platform in extortion...

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New VC to meet teachers, students today over resuming classes

A tripartite discussion of the newly appointed vice-chancellor, all teachers and student representatives is likely to be held today on the resumption of academic activities at the Khulna University of Engineering and Technology after over five months...

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40 students nominated as PRAN-RFL campus ambassadors

PRAN-RFL Group selected 40 students from different universities across the country as NextGen Campus Ambassadors at a ceremony at the auditorium of the Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Dhaka on Saturday...