THE government is still showing an unwillingness to bring those responsible for the death of more than 200 students and people, including at least 16 children, mostly in indiscriminate police firing during the student protests to justice. The government is still continuing with the wholesale arrest of students and people in cases of 鈥榲andalism and violence鈥�...
AMIDST the global and national call for an immediate end to the ongoing violence against student protests seeking reforms public service quota that left more than 200 dead and...
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday said that the lives lost during the recent quota reform violence can never be brought back even though the destroyed structures were rebuilt...
US-based credit ratings agency S&P Global downgraded Bangladesh鈥檚 credit rating on Tuesday, citing pressures on external metrics and the ongoing violence in the country...
One more critically injured person died on Sunday while undergoing treatment in Dhaka Medical College Hospital, taking the death toll from the recent violence during countrywide student protests to at least 213...
The government, which forced peaceful protests for a legitimate cause into violence that left more than 200 people dead, now appears to be playing to the gallery in what might be called a damage control effort. The prime minister on July 28 distributed financial assistance to families of 34 people killed in during the protests...
Taking note of the concerns expressed by some international partners, including civil society organisations and media, over the recent incidents of violence in Bangladesh, the government in a statement has intended to assure all that the overall situation was turning to normalcy...
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...
Solidarity rallies and protests were held in various countries worldwide in response to the student movement and violence in Bangladesh over quota reform in public services in the past week...
The main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party said on Friday that people wanted to know the exact figure of deaths and injured persons during the week-long deadly violence...
Bangladeshi nobel peace prize laureate Muhammad Yunus urged the international community on Monday to stop the deadly violence that has wracked his country since students started protesting against civil service hiring rules...
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...
The judicial inquiry commission on Wednesday requested the people to provide information by August 6 about 鈥榲iolence, arson attacks, looting and criminal activities鈥� that took place across the country in between July 5-16 during the students鈥� quota reform movement...
The state minister for information, Mohammad A Arafat, said on Wednesday that everyone involved in recent violence would be brought to justice following a thorough investigation by the judicial inquiry commission...
A total of 7,500 passports of overseas workers were burnt to ashes as miscreants set ablaze on Narayanganj regional passport office during the recent violence...
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...
At least 13 more people were killed as protests and violence continued for the second day of the nationwide curfew on Sunday...
The area-based and, on a priority basis partly reinstated broadband internet connections in the Capital Dhaka and Chattogram were extended by a small portion on Wednesday, following a complete internet blackout for five straight days, amid the countrywide violence over student protest against quota in government job...
The law enforcement agencies on Sunday continued arrest of leaders of the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party in connection with the cases filed on charges of violence centring the student movement demanding reforms of quotas in government jobs...
As violence in Bangladesh intensified further, taking the death toll to more than 100, the Indian government continued to facilitate the return home of its nationals, including students...
A terrorist group or quarter with vested interest was involved in the violence and arson attacks on state-owned establishments in an attempt to topple the government, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan said on Tuesday...
Protests, violence, killings marked the first day of curfew imposed by the government on midnight Friday while many people defied the order to go out of their homes for works and other purposes...
Violence against women and girls in England and Wales is a 鈥榥ational emergency鈥� with almost 3,000 offenses recorded daily, police warned in a new report published on Tuesday....
THE death of 45 people of minority communities in sectarian violence in July 2023鈥揓une 2024, as a Bangladesh Hindu Buddhist Christian Unity Council report claims, is alarming. The report, made public on July 8, says that there were 1,045 incidents of attacks and rights violations against religious minorities in a year...
The Bangladesh Hindu Buddhist Christian Unity Council reported that 45 religious minorities were killed in sectarian violence across the country between...
Incidents of mob violence are on the rise, with at least 32 people killed in the first six months of this year, compared to 24 in the same period last year...
Myanmar鈥檚 Rakhine State is facing a terrifying situation similar to the run up to 鈥榞enocidal violence鈥� eight years ago against the persecuted Rohingya minority, a UN expert warned on Thursday...
Violence against children in armed conflicts reached 鈥榚xtreme levels鈥� in 2023, particularly in Gaza and Sudan, according to a forthcoming UN report obtained by AFP on Tuesday...
A baby and a toddler were among six members of the same family murdered in a central Mexican state plagued by gang-related violence, a local official said on Monday....
The police registered a murder case two days after the death of Masud Rana, who was killed in the early hours on Thursday, in a clash between supporters of two defeated upazila vice-chairman candidates in Kamarkhanda upazila elections.....