Bangladesh

Begum Rokeya University (BRU) has provided financial assistance to the family of the university’s English department student Abu Sayeed who was killed during the recent quota reform movement. A team from the BRU administration went to Pirganj in Rangpur Friday morning and handed over a cheque of Tk 7,50,000 to Abu Sayeed’s parents. Proctor Shafiqul Islam confirmed the matter. He ...

Former Dhaka University Central Students’ Union (DUCSU) vice-president Nurul Haque Nur couldn’t stand on the dock firmly after he was produced before court on Friday following his five days of remand in a case filed over vandalizing and setting fire to Setu Bhaban at Banani in the capital. Former Dhaka University Central Students’ Union (DUCSU) vice-president Nurul Haque Nur couldn’t ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Friday urged the citizens to cooperate with the government to make sure the perpetrators of the recent mayhem are nabbed from every nook and corner of the country to get punishment. “I would like to call upon the people of the country that they should find out those who were involved in these destructions and ...

The government has announced to relax the ongoing nationwide curfew in Dhaka, Gazipur, Narsingdi, Narayanganj from 8am to 5pm for Friday and Saturday. Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan said on Thursday night. The local administrations will set the timing in other districts. The minister said special prayers will be held in the mosques on Friday, and in temples, churches and pagodas ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina visited the violence-hit state-owned Bangladesh Television (BTV) Bhaban at Rampura in the capital on Friday morning. She entered the BTV Bhaban around 9:13am on Friday and inspected all the sections damaged heavily in Thursday’s mayhem by the BNP-Jamaat clique taking advantage of the quota-reform movement. The Prime Minister was seen disappointed and unhappy after witnessing the ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday sought justice from countrymen for widespread destruction of the government establishments during recent nationwide mayhem as she paid visit to vandalised Mirpur-10 Metro Rail Station. “The people of the country have to expose them (culprits involved in nationwide mayhem) to justice. I am seeking justice from the masses. I have no word to describe ...

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Thursday (July 25) alleged that leaders and workers of the opposition political parties including the BNP were being arrested constantly over the last couple of days. Strongly protesting and condemning the arrest, he issued a statement on Thursday. In his statement, Mirza Fakhrul has demanded to bring those before justice who were ...

Bangladesh Jatiya Party (BJP) chairman and former lawmaker Barrister Andaleeve Rahman Partho has been arrested. Partho was arrested from his Gulshan residence in the capital at about 1AM on Thursday, said Detective Branch (DB) Chief Md Harun-Or-Rashid. He added, Andaleeve Rahman was arrested on charge of inciting violence during the Quota Reform Movement. He was produced before a court at ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday morning visited the vandalised metro rail station at Mirpur 10. She inspected different parts of the station which was totally devastated in the recent mayhem centering the student movement for reformation of quota in public service. Senior officials of the Dhaka Mass Transit Company Limited (DMTCL) briefed the PM regarding the destruction and the ...

Ekushey Padak and Bangla Academy Award-winning linguist, educationist and essayist Prof Dr Mahbubul Haque passed away at Combined Military Hospital (CMH) early Thursday. He breathed his last around 1:45am while undergoing treatment at the hospital in Dhaka. He had been suffering from heart and kidney diseases for a long time, said Prokash Das Gupta, assistant professor of Bangla Department at ...