Bangladesh

UNICEF, the UN children’s agency, has expressed deep concern over the death of at least 32 children as well as many arrests and detention in last month’s violence in Bangladesh. “I have just returned from a week in Bangladesh, and I am deeply concerned about the impact of recent violence and ongoing unrest on children,” said Sanjay Wijesekera, UNICEF regional ...

Some 3,011 people have, so far, been arrested in 274 cases filed with different police stations in the capital over the violence during the recent Quota Reform Movement. They were arrested from July 17 to August 1, 2024. Among them, 516 people were sent to jail in a day on July 23. According to the Prosecution Division of Dhaka Metropolitan ...

A day after the release from Detective Branch (DB) custody, six coordinators of the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement on Friday morning issued a joint statement saying that they had been held captive ‘forcefully’ for seven days in the name of ‘safety’. Urging the country’s students and citizens to take to the streets ignoring the government’s propaganda and oppression, they vowed to ...

The newly formed Judicial Probe Commission is expected to visit Rangpur on Sunday (August 4) to investigate the deaths and injuries during the violence centering the recent Quota Reform Movement. Commission Chairman Justice Khandaker Diliruzzaman told reporters at its makeshift office on the Supreme Court premises in the capital on Thursday afternoon. He said they will visit the places where ...

The government on Thursday banned the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami and its student front Bangladesh Islami Chhatra Shibir. The Home Ministry issued a notification banning Jamaat and Shibir in the afternoon. The ban of the Islamist political party came unde clause 18 of the Anti-Terrorism Act 2009. The Awami League government has been accusing infiltration of militants from Jamaat and Chhatra Shibir ...

The United Nations has condemned the use of live fire ammunition that they have seen in Bangladesh and laid emphasis on protecting the rights to peaceful protests. It also said that they are ready to assist any government who requests help on different issues. Stéphane Dujarric, spokesperson for the UN secretary general, came up with the statement while responding to ...

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 ...