Sarjis slams negligence
A central coordinator of the Student Movement against Discrimination Sarjis Alam slammed the adviser to the health ministry Nurjahan Begum for alleged negligence in treating the...
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Quota protests: result of social inequality
THE current student movement in Bangladesh highlights the nation鈥檚 ongoing struggles with inequality, poor governance and political manipulation. The events have resulted in significant casualties, raising concerns about the country鈥檚 democratic fabric and the government鈥檚 handling of dissent. The movement and reform efforts have broader...
Fahmin鈥檚 homecoming turns into his journey to eternity
After protests sparked at most of the educational institutes in Dhaka and other parts of the country on July 18, Sheikh Fahmin Jafor told his father over the phone that he was coming home as there would be no classes and/or examinations at the college for the day...
A mutiny rooted in history?
MULTIPLE assumptions emerged from the furious anti-job quota protests that recently catapulted Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina to her worst encounter during her last 15-years of uninterrupted rule. The number of deaths swirled beyond two hundred as of this writing; overwhelming brutalities, rampant arson, prolonged curfews...
Govt suspends HSC, equivalent exams till August 10
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...
Lives lost during violence over quota protests will never come back: PM
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...
JU teachers stage silent procession protesting at killing of protesters
Jahangirnagar University teachers on Tuesday staged a silent procession on the campus protesting against the 鈥榢illing鈥� of students during the recent unrest centring around the quota reforms movement that sparked a lethal police crackdown across the country.
NHRC wants perpetrators of violence during quota protests to be identified
The National Human Rights Commission has issued a call for the identification and prosecution of perpetrators involved in recent violence surrounding the quota reform movement in government jobs, emphasising that this process should be based solely on reliable and specific information...
Cultural activists protest at killings, wholesale arrests
Cultural activists from Bangladesh Udichi Shilpigosthi and other organisations on Monday protested against the killings and wholesale arrests by law enforcement agencies during the ongoing quota protests...
15 injured at Barishal University in alleged BCL attack
At least 15 students were injured in an alleged attack by Bangladesh Chhatra League activists at Barishal University.
Possible involvement of Yunus in quota protests needs to be probed: Quader
Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader on Sunday said that 鈥榩ossible involvement鈥� of Professor Muhammad Yunus, and others giving statements, in the recent quota reform movement and violence needed to be looked into...
RAB arrests 304 more people over quota protests violence
Members of Rapid Action Battalion in separate drives arrested 304 people raiding different parts of the country, including Dhaka, in connection with the recent violence over quota reform protests...
DB picks up two more protest leaders
The Detective Branch of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police picked up two more leaders of the Students Movement Against Discrimination 鈥� Sarjis Alam and...
Death toll reaches 212, lacklustre curfew rolls on 8th day
The lacklustre curfew continued for the eighth day in a row on Saturday as many people and vehicles were seen plying on roads beyond the curfew hours in...
139 people arrested in 11 cases filed over quota protests in Sylhet
Police arrested 139 people, including Bangladesh Nationalist Party and Jamaat activists in connection with the violence amid students鈥� protests demanding reformation in government job quota in Sylhet...
Quota protest leaders picked up from hospital
Nahid Islam, Abu Baker Mazumdar, and Asif Mahmud, three coordinators of Students Movement Against Discrimination, a platform for quota reform movements, were allegedly picked up by...
Quota protesters press for curfew withdrawal, campus reopening
The Anti-quota protest platform Students Movement Against Discrimination鈥檚 several co-coordinators on Thursday pressed their demands to withdraw curfew and...
DMCH hands over 70 bodies in four days
The Dhaka Medical College Hospital authorities have been avoiding giving information about the exact number of the deaths and injured people following clashes between job quota protesters and law enforcement agencies alongwith ruling Awami League activists since July 15 that left at least 155 killed and hundreds injured in Dhaka and elsewhere in the country till Sunday...
US senate majority leader weighs in on protests
Top US Democratic senator Chuck Schumer weighed in on the situation surrounding the quota protests in Bangladesh...
Another missing quota protest coordinator Asif reappears after 6 days
Asif Mahmud, one of the co-coordinators of the Students Movement Against Discrimination, a platform demanding quota reform in government jobs, reappeared on Wednesday morning about six days after he had gone missing...
125 arrested on sabotage charge during quota protests
At least 125 people have been arrested so far over their alleged involvement in sabotage during the quota reform system movement in the government job across the country...
30 lawyers condemn use of 鈥榚xcessive, force鈥� on quota protesters
Thirty lawyers condemned the 鈥榰se of excessive and disproportionate force鈥� on the student protesters demanding quota reforms in government jobs in a statement issued on Sunday...
Hapless parents, relatives wail as bodies pile up at DMCH聽
Hasi Begum was crying sitting on the floor outside of the emergency room at Dhaka Medical College Hospital on Friday as she lost her son Md Rakib, 22, who died in a clash during...
Hospitals overwhelmed by patients with gunshot wounds
Many public and private hospitals in the capital were overwhelmed treating hundreds of patients with gunshot injuries for the second consecutive day, as law enforcers fired indiscriminately on...
Over 110 killed in protests in four days
At least 110 people were killed and several thousand others were injured in clashes in the past four days of quota protests across the country, starting from...
JU students build monument
The students of Jahangirnagar University on Saturday built a monument on the campus in memory of the students who were killed amid the ongoing anti-quota movement...
31 cultural bodies demand revoking of curfew
Thirty-One cultural organisations on Saturday demanded revoking of countrywide curfew imposed on midnight past Friday after 110 people were killed in the ongoing quota protests...
Quota protest coordinator Nahid goes missing
Nahid Islam, one of the coordinators of the Students Movement Against Discrimination, a platform for anti-quota movement, went missing in the wee hours of Saturday as some 50鈥�60 people identified themselves as Detective Branch members, picked him up from his friend鈥檚 house in Khilgaon鈥檚 Nandipara area in the capital...
Journalist killed in Bangladesh capital during police-quota protesters clash
A journalist was killed while covering a clash between the police and protesting students demanding quota reform in government jobs at Jatrabari of Bangladesh capital Dhaka on Thursday....
Govt for talks, protesters reject
The government has, in principle, agreed to reform the quota system in public services amid protests in Dhaka and elsewhere in the country that saw at least 26 killed...