A group of Jahangirnagar University students staged a demonstration on JU campus, calling for reforms to what they described as a discriminatory quota system in university admissions, on Sunday...
Hundreds of thousands of people on Friday came out on the streets across the country protesting at brutal killings and repression by the government during the student movement in...
IN MID-JULY, students in Bangladesh took to the streets to protest an illogical quota system which was meant to restrict their employment opportunities in the public sector. The government response to this peaceful, democratic movement has been brutal and cruel. In order to squelch this spontaneous student mobilisation, it launched a crackdown which is nothing but a euphemism for mass slaughter...
THE recent events in Bangladesh have jolted the nation. What began as peaceful protests by public university students demanding the reforms in the quota system in public jobs has...
Noted human rights activists on Wednesday said that they found that the government applied excessive force to prevent the agitation of unarmed students that started with the demand for reform in the quota system in government jobs...
The main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Tuesday alleged that the Awami League government was destroying the evidences of killings and attacks during the countrywide...
THE job and social quota system has always been there and exists in one form or other in many countries...
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...
The main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Saturday demanded withdrawal of the case filed against the students agitating for quota system reform in...
Hundreds of quota protesters gathered at the Shahbagh crossing in Bangladesh鈥檚 capital Dhaka on Friday and vowed to resist intimidation against students protesting at the reinstatement of quotas in public services and demanding reform in the system....
Students continued their protests against the existing quota system in government jobs for the ninth consecutive day on Tuesday by blocking highways at places in the...
Law, justice and parliamentary affairs minister Anisul Huq said on Tuesday that the Appellate Division would decide on quota system based on all sides鈥� statements....
Students from different public universities and colleges blocked major highways in the country and several crossings in Dhaka on Sunday, demanding the cancellation of the...
Students from different public universities and colleges on Saturday blocked major highways across the country, including Dhaka-Tangail, Dhaka-Rajshahi, Dhaka-Pabna...
A SURGE of protests by teachers and students at public universities across Bangladesh underscores a deepening crisis in the country鈥檚 higher education system. The causes of this unrest are multifaceted, involving contentious policies such as the newly introduced pension scheme named Prattay under the Universal Pension Scheme and the reinstatement of...
Foreign minister and the ruling Awami League joint general secretary Hasan Mahmud on Thursday said that the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party had infiltrated student and teacher movements over quota system and pension, as the party 鈥榣acks the capability to initiate independent actions.鈥�....
Thousands of students in Dhaka and elsewhere in the country on Thursday continued their street protests by blocking the capital鈥檚 Shahbagh intersection and major highways...
Students of Barisal University blocked the Dhaka-Barisal Highway for an hour on Tuesday protesting against the restoration of the quota system in government jobs....
Students of the University of Dhaka and Jahangirnagar university on Tuesday blocked the Shahbagh intersection and Dhaka-Aricha highway as protests demanding...
Students of different public universities, including Dhaka University, Rajshahi University and Jahangirnagar University on Thursday protested at the...
Students of Rajshahi University on Thursday staged demonstrations protesting against the High Court order that asked the government to restore 30 per cent quota for the children and grandchildren of freedom fighters while recruiting cadre and non-cadre officers in the civil service...