Bangladesh

Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets and blocked highways in Dhaka and other districts on Tuesday (July 16). Meanwhile, the students’ demand for reforming the quota system has intensified across the country. Universities, including Dhaka, Chattogram, and Begum Rokeya, have turned into battlegrounds. A student of Begum Rokeya University in Rangpur was killed in a clash between police and ...

A writ has been filed seeking directive to prepare a list of freedom fighters declaring all citizens of Bangladesh, except Razakars, during the War of Liberation in 1971 as freedom fighters. Supreme Court lawyer Yunus Ali Akanda filed the writ on Tuesday (July 16). The writ was filed making the Secretary to the Ministry of Liberation War Affairs, Jatiya Muktijoddha ...

Two people were killed in a clash between Chhatra League and protesters demanding quota reform in Chittagong. The incident happened around 4 pm on Tuesday (July 16). Both bodies are in the emergency department of Chittagong Medical College Hospital. Chittagong Metropolitan Police (CMP) Commissioner Saiful Islam confirmed the information. One of the dead was a student of Chittagong College and ...

Dhaka has expressed extreme disappointment over the US State Department’s claim of deaths of at least two persons from the ongoing quota reform movement in Bangladesh, saying that such “baseless claim” can fuel the violence and undermine the government’s efforts. “Use of unverified information to make such baseless claims can fuel violence and undermine Bangladesh government’s efforts to maintain a ...

Dhaka came to a standstill as students from different colleges and private varsities blocked various city streets as part of the ongoing quota reform movement. After 12noon on Tuesday, students from Dhaka College, Ideal College, City College, Birshreshtha Noor Mohammad Public College started gathering in Science Lab intersection, causing huge traffic congestion in and around the area. BM College and ...

At least six people, including Eden College Samajtantrik Chhatra Front unit President Shahinur Sumi, were injured in an alleged attack by the college’s Chhatra League unit activists. The others injured include Saima, Tamanna, Fahmida, Sanjida, and Mim. DMCH police outpost in-charge Inspector Bachchu Mia confirmed the matter, adding that Sumi is undergoing treatment at the DMCH emergency department. Students demand ...

Former Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB) president Manzurul Ahsan Khan, who was removed from the post of advisor and whose party membership was suspended for six months for violating party discipline, has been expelled from the party. Ruhin Hossain Prince, general secretary of the CBP, said in the central committee meeting on February 26 Manzurl was suspended from the advisory ...

Several students were injured during a clash between quota protestors and Bangladesh Chhatra League activists at Bijay Ekattor Hall of Dhaka University on Monday afternoon. Around 3pm, BCL men, equipped with sticks, started throwing brick bats to the protesting students from inside locking the hall gate. The protestors also retaliated with the sticks and threw brick chips. At one stage, ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today termed the slogan, “Who are you? Who am I? Razakar. Razakar.” chanted by the anti-quota protesters in the government jobs as “very regrettable” saying, “They don’t feel ashamed to call themselves Razakars as they don’t know the history.” “They didn’t know how the Pakistani occupation forces and Razakar Bahini had resorted to torture in the ...

Students started their pre-announcement demonstration at Dhaka University (DU) at 12noon on Monday protesting Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s comment on quota. Students from different halls and affiliated colleges started gathering in front of the Raju sculpture near TSC in processions before 12noon. Meanwhile, the students of different medicals and different private varsities joint the protest rally against quota with public ...