Bangladesh

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday extended her condolences and support to the families of those killed during the mayhem created by “BNP-Jamaat terrorists,” leveraging the quota reform movement. Family members of Abu Sayeed, an English Department student of Begum Rokeya University in Rangpur, along with 33 other bereaved families, gathered at the Prime Minister’s official residence, Ganabhaban, in Dhaka, ...

The ongoing curfew has been relaxed for 11 hours from 7AM to 6PM for three days in Dhaka, Gazipur and Narayanganj. Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal said this to reporters on Saturday night after holding a meeting with the officials of law enforcement agencies at his Dhanmondi residence. Asaduzzaman Khan said the curfew for these districts was relaxed for Sunday, Monday ...

A delegation of 12 teachers belonging to the University Teachers’ Network went to the Detective Branch (DB) office at Minto Road in the capital on Saturday (July 27) afternoon to inquire about three coordinators of Anti-Discriminatory Students Movement. However, DB police chief Mohammad Harun-ar-Rashid declined to meet the teachers on the ground of his “busy schedule.” The teachers went to ...

The government offices will be open from 9:00am to 3:00pm for the next three days — from Sunday to Tuesday — this week, Public Administration Minister Farhad Hossain said today. Banks, insurance and courts will set their own time, said the minister through SMS sent to the media. After Tuesday, the office schedule will be fixed according to the curfew ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday said the nationwide mayhem was a part of conspiracy to completely cripple the economy to make Bangladesh again a country of beggars. “It might be their conspiracy to make us again a nation of beggars by crippling the country’s economy completely,” she said. The prime minister made the remarks with emotional voice after paying ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday morning visited Setu Bhaban to witness the extent of damage caused by attackers during the recent quota reform movement by students. She went there at about 10am and inspected vandalised floors and premises of the building. Minister of Road Transport and Bridges Obaidul Quader and other senior officials of the Ministry were present at ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday visited the National Institute of Traumatology and Orthopedic Rehabilitation (NITOR), popularly known as Pongu Hospital, to see the injured victims during countrywide destruction centering the quota reform movement. The head of the government enquired about the treatment of the injured people, several with severe injuries and assured them of extending all sorts of assistance ...

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 ...