Bangladesh

Popular celebrities from different sectors in Bangladesh took to the street on Thursday to extend solidarity with the students’ nine-point demands. Defying rain, around 11am, the artists from different sections united at Farmgate in the capital with banners and festoons to stand by the students. Popular actors, filmmakers and social media personalities including Amitabh Reza, Redoan Rony, Mosharraf Karim, Siam ...

The High Court on Thursday will also not hold the hearing on the writ seeking directive to stop firing on demonstrators and to release of six coordinators from DB custody. As Justice SM Masud Hossain Dolon, the junior judge of the bench, has been on leave due to physical illness since Wednesday, the hearing will not be held. The hearing ...

HSC and equivalent examinations have been postponed till August 11 due to the situation arising out of the quota reform movement. Exams will start from August 11 in the new schedule. Dhaka Education Board Chairman Professor Tapan Kumar Sarkar told the media on Thursday. Earlier, the HSC and equivalent exams were suspended three times. First, the exam of July 18 ...

The month of mourning begins on Thursday commemorating the brutal assassination of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and most of his family members on August 15, 1975. The August 15 carnage is the ugliest chapter of the nation’s history as the self-confessed killers not only assassinated the nation’s founding father, but also killed 16 other members of ...

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP)’s additional commissioner (DB) Mohammad Harun ar Rashid has been removed. DMP Commissioner Habibur Rahman confirmed the Daily Observer about the removal on Wednesday (July 31) night. He said Harun ar Rashid was transferred to the Crimes and Operations Department at the DMP Headquarters from the Detective Branch. Mohd Ashrafuzzaman, additional commissioner (Logistics, Finance and Procurement) of ...

The government primary schools across the country will reopen on Sunday (August 4). The authorities, however, decided that the schools in 12 city corporations and all municipalities in Narsingdi district will remain shut for the time being. The primary and mass education ministry and primary education directorate have taken the decision after a meeting on Wednesday afternoon. A formal notice ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday (July 31) said the anarchists had tried to create Sri Lanka type mayhem in the country during the recent quota reform movement and they planned to topple the government. “Actually, they (the anarchists) planned to create Sri Lanka type violence and oust the government,” she said when Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Pranay Verma ...

Expressing strong resentment, Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader on Wednesday (July 31) morning left an opinion-sharing meeting with former Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) leaders amid a pandemonium and slogans chanted against him. Quader hurriedly left the venue of the meeting when the former BCL leaders chanted ‘fake,’ ‘fake’ slogans against him at the party’s central office at Bangabandhu Avenue ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday said the lives lost during the recent quota reform violence can never be brought back even though the destroyed structures are rebuilt. “The structures that were destroyed can be rebuilt. But we will never get back the lives that were lost,” she said, reports UNB. The premier said this while inaugurating the National Fisheries ...

Quota Reform Movement protestors took position in front of the Chattogram court on Wednesday morning defying police barriers as part of their nationwide ‘March for Justice’. At 11:30am, around 200 protestors gathered on the court premise breaking the police barricades. A group of lawyers from the court later joined the protesters, extending their support. Both the protestors and lawyers then ...