Bangladesh

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday said a judicial enquiry will be carried out to ensure fair and just trial in the recent unwanted incidents including killings. She also announced that steps will be taken to ensure that those who committed the murders, looting and terrorist activities, whoever they are, will get the appropriate punishment. “On whose instigation the conflict ...

All government primary schools under eight city corporation areas of the country have been declared closed for an indefinite period. According to a press release, signed by Mahbubur Rahman Tuhin, senior information officer of the ministry, academic activities at all government primary schools and other primary schools and learning centres run by Shishu Kallyan Trust and Bureau of Non-Formal Education ...

Former President of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) Rownakul Islam Shraban and seven others were arrested along with several crude bombs form BNP’s Nayapaltan Central Office early Wednesday, said Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP). They were arrested during a raid at Nayapaltan BNP office hours after violent clashes between quota reformists, police and Chhatra League activists across the ...

The anti-quota students will hold gayebana namaz-e-janaza on Wednesday afternoon for the students, who were killed in violence during the movement on Monday. The coordinators of the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement announced the programme around 12:30am on Wednesday. The janaza and funeral procession will be held at 2pm at the feet of Raju Memorial Sculpture area on Dhaka University. The coordinators ...

Police raided BNP’s Nayapaltan central office early Wednesday following the explosion of some crude bombs in front of the office. A team of Detectives Branch (DB) of police conducted the raid around 12:30am,” said Shamsuddin Didar, an official of the BNP chairperson’s press wing. The Chief of the Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP), Harun Or Rashid, claimed ...

The holy Ashura, commemorating the martyrdom of Hazrat Imam Hossain Ibn Ali (RA), the grandson of Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him), is being observed across the country on Wednesday (July 7) with due religious solemnity. The Wednesday (July 17) is the 10th day of the month of Muharram in Hijri calendar-1446. This day is well-known as the “Holy ...

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 ...