Thirty writers on Saturday issued a statement expressing condemnation over the attack on the quota reform movement protesters and demanding exemplary punishment of those responsible involved in the attacks...
THE quota reform movement, a movement birthed from the desperate cries of Bangladesh鈥檚 youth, has transformed into a chilling indictment of a nation in crisis. What began as a plea for equitable opportunities in government service has morphed into a battleground where students face the full force of a militarised police state...
Dhaka stocks fell for the third consecutive week in the past week amid economic worries and the ongoing countrywide turmoil centring the quota reform movement, market operators said...
Bangladesh Health Watch, a non-governmental organisation, urged the authorities concerned to immediately issue directives and provide resources to all healthcare institutions for treating people injured amid the unprecedented situation that has been created in the country in the past few weeks.
The death toll from the recent violence during student protests reached at least 218 till Saturday across the country as a wounded person died while undergoing treatment in hospital, and another man died in a clash in Gazipur in the afternoon on the day...
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...
Journalists gave a 48-hour ultimatum demanding justice for the murders of journalists, including Hasan Mehedi of Dhaka Times, who was killed while covering the quota reform movement in...
Two Dhaka courts on Friday granted bail to 42 Higher Secondary Certificate examinees who were arrested in connection with cases filed on charges of violence and...
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...
A group of civil society representatives on Thursday issued a 24-hour ultimatum, demanding the unconditional release of students detained illegally during the quota reform movement, who were mostly charged with sabotage...
A Dhaka juvenile court on Thursday rejected the bail petition of Dhaka College student Hasnatul Islam Faiyaz in a case filed over the killing of a police constable during violence centring on the quota reform movement in Jatrabari area on July 19...
The National Committee on Security Affairs will meet on Sunday amid ongoing student protests seeking justice for over 200 killed and thousands injured in the recent...
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
Posts and Telecommunication Division, Information and Communication Technology Division and private sector suffered a loss of Tk 18,000 crore during unrest over quota reform protests, state minister for posts, telecommunications, and information technology Zunaid Ahmed Palak said on Thursday.
The government has formed a three-member judicial inquiry commission to probe the deaths, violence, sabotage, arson attacks, looting, criminal activities and damages during the recent violence in the name of the quota reform movement across the country from July 16 to 21.
The Detective Branch of Dhaka Metropolitan Police on Thursday released six coordinators of the Students Movement Against Discrimination, a platform for students...
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday sought cooperation from the United Nations and other international organisations to conduct a proper investigation into the nationwide mayhem to punish the real culprits involved in the attacks taking advantage of the anti-quota movement...
The Student Movement Against Discrimination platform for quota reform protests on Tuesday announced the 鈥楳arch for Justice鈥� programme to be held today in all courts, campuses and...
The Amnesty International secretary general Agn猫s Callamard in a letter to prime minister Sheikh Hasina urged to take urgent and concrete action to end the violence and...
A section of citizens under the banner of 鈥楤ikkhubdha Nagarik Samaj鈥� on Tuesday issued a 24-hour ultimatum to the authorities concerned demanding release of six leaders of the quota reform...
Police are torturing arrested people in the ongoing crackdown on students, and opposition political parties after deadly quota reform protests, political parties and...
Security forces in plainclothes are taking fingerprints and photos of individuals admitted to various city hospitals with injuries from violence during the recent countrywide student protests seeking...
At least 16 children, including nine students and a preschooler, were killed and scores of others were injured in violent clashes during recent student protests for quota reform in...
Cultural activists of 31 cultural organisations on Tuesday demanded the resignation of the Awami League government for killing of students and people during the quota reform movement of the student...
A cross-section of people, including teachers, parents, civil society members, and cultural organisations, have joined the students in expressing solidarity with their demand to ensure justice for...
Detective Branch of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police has kept six coordinators of the Students Movement Against Discrimination, a quota reform platform, in its custody for up to...
Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina visited Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College and Hospital on Tuesday to meet people who sustained injuries during the recent nationwide unrest centring quota reform protests.
The police obstructed protesting guardians of students in front of Dhaka Medical College while they were going to Shagbagh on Tuesday morning to organise a rally protesting against casualties in the unrest centring quota reforms movement.
The High Court on Tuesday expressed deep shame over the deaths that occurred during the quota reform protests and called every death a tragedy.