The United States embassy in Dhaka issued a security alert on Saturday, advising US citizens to consider returning to the country if they feel unsafe, as Bangladesh has been placed on a Level 4 travel advisory鈥斺�楧o Not Travel鈥�...
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday called upon the agitating students to sit with her at her official Ganabhaban residence to put an end to violence in the ongoing protests seeking justice for...
Protesting students under the banner of Students Movement against Discrimination on Saturday afternoon blocked Science Laboratory crossing demanding resignation of the prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, for killing students and people during their movement for quota reformation...
UK police geared up Friday for possible further far-right protests this weekend following several violent skirmishes in the wake of a mass stabbing that...
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...
At least 13 people died during protests in Nigeria on Thursday, according to rights group Amnesty International, which accused security forces of killing peaceful protesters.
Protesters took to the streets again in Chattgogram city on Friday.
At least 13 people were killed during protests over economic hardship in Nigeria on Thursday, according to rights group Amnesty International, which accused security forces of killing peaceful demonstrators.
Clashes broke out between students and the police during a rally organised under the banner of Student Movements Against Discrimination on Friday afternoon.
Ganahatya O Nipiran Birodhi Shilpi Samaj, a platform for cultural activists, made a three-point demand expressing its solidarity with the ongoing quota reform movement and...
At least 32 children were killed in Bangladesh during the quota reform protests in July with many more injured and detained, said UNICEF regional director for...
Students participated in a mass procession on Friday on the Dhaka-Pabna Highway to press home their nine-point demand, including justice for those who died during the quota reform movement and the withdrawal of cases.
Referring to the ongoing student protests, prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday questioned, 鈥榃hat kind of movement it was?鈥� and added, 鈥榃ho will shoulder the...
Bangladesh government on Thursday widened the judicial inquiry commission鈥檚 scope and jurisdiction tasking it with the investigation of all the killings and violence perpetrated between July 16 and July 21 during the students鈥� quota reform movement.聽
Students and teachers of different public and private universities, along with other professionals, continued their protests on Thursday, seeking justice for the killings in the...
SHEIKH Hasina鈥檚 government is now under fire for what many are calling a war against her own people. In the past week alone, more than 200 people were reportedly killed in a brutal crackdown on protests. The government deployed helmeted forces, the Chhatra League, the army, the police and border guards using armoured vehicles and helicopters...
THE decision to transfer additional deputy commissioner of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police Harun Or Rashid, who has recently been at the centre of public criticism for his use of unlawful means to quell students protest seeking reforms in public job quota, appears an admission on part of the government that some city police officials have...
THE prime minister Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 statement that she seeks cooperation of the United Nations and other international organisations for a fair and proper investigation of the mayhem, born out of the student protests that sought reforms in civil service job reservations, to establish the culprits involved in the attacks and punish them appears...
鈥楤ikkhubdho Nagorik Shomaj,鈥� a citizens鈥� platform, on Thursday gave a 24-hour ultimatum to authorities to release all students and general people arrested over the recent protests across Bangladesh....
A good number of bands and musicians of the country have boycotted the 鈥楯oy Bangla Concert鈥� in solidarity with student protests.
In Rajshahi, teachers and students on Thursday scuffled with the law enforcers after the law enforcers attempted to pick up several students from Rajshahi University campus following a peaceful demonstration...
The government on Thursday suspended the Higher Secondary Certificate and equivalent examinations till August 10 and announced that all the suspended exams would be held from...
One more critically injured person died while undergoing treatment at Dhaka Medical College Hospital, taking the death toll from the recent violence during student protests to at least 214 till Wednesday...
Bangladesh Poribesh Andolon in a statement on Wednesday said that indiscriminate firing by the security agencies caused the huge number of deaths and injuries during the student protest for quota reform in the government jobs...
The European Union on Wednesday said that it postponed negotiation talks with Bangladesh on a new cooperation agreement amid聽 widespread criticism at home and abroad over killings of more than 200 people during student protests for government job quota reform...
A two-judge High Court bench on Wednesday could not hold the scheduled hearing of a writ petition that sought the release of six coordinators of the quota reform movement from the custody of the detective branch of Dhaka Metropolitan Police...
Teachers of different public and private universities joined the students in demonstrations on Wednesday, demanding justice for the killings in the recent protests and the resignation of the government...
Police continued the countrywide arrest drives as at least 150 more people were arrested on Wednesday in connection with cases filed on charges of violence during the student protests against the quota system in the civil service...
Scores of people, including students, journalists, and police, were injured, and dozens were detained as the ongoing student protest seeking justice for the recent killings intensified further on Wednesday across the country...
