Bangladesh

The quota protestors are likely to announce fresh programmes on Thursday as the 48-hour ultimatum to fulfill their four-point demand ends tomorrow. The protestors said that they will speak to the mediamen after the ultimatum period. Earlier on Tuesday, four co-coordinators of the quota reform movement at a press conference in Dhaka Reporter’s Unit, rejected the government circular allocating the ...

Demanding not to spare any of the perpetrators involved in  the countrywide havoc and atrocities, editors and senior journalists have raised questions whether there were any failure of execution of the intelligence report to thwart the destructive mayhem unleashed by the BNP-Jamaat in-guise of quota reform movement. They also put emphasis on strengthening Awami League as a political party and ...

Dr M Harun-Ur-Rashid Askari, a former vice-chancellor of Islamic University in Kushtia, took over as the director general of Bangla Academy on Wednesday, reports UNB. The government appointed him to the post for the next three years on July 18. He was replaced by Nurul Huda as his tenure came to an end. The officials of the Bangla Academy, however, ...

Dhaka Elevated Expressway will remain closed until the curfew is completely lifted by the government. Expressway management company First Dhaka Elevated Expressway Company Ltd (FDEE) stated it on Wednesday. According to the FDEE, the decision was taken in the wake of torching two toll booths on the expressway during the recent violence over the quota reform movement.  

The ruling Awami League has become detached from people, BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has said. He made the remark while speaking at a press conference at the party chairperson’s political office at Gulshan in the capital on Wednesday afternoon. At that time, Mirza Fakhrul said: “The present Awami League doesn’t have any similarity with the previous Awami ...

All examinations, including the viva voce of the 44th Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS), under the Public Service Commission (PSC) have been postponed until July 31 for unavoidable grounds. PSC public relations officer SM Matiur Rahman informed the media through a text on Monday. He said that all the changed schedule of the exams will be informed through PSC website and ...

Two Northern University students were reportedly shot dead by police in capital’s Uttara during the complete shutdown called by the agitating students demanding quota reform. In connection with the ongoing quota movement and the attack of Chhatra League on students and killings in different parts of the country, ‘Complete Shutdown’ is going on across the country on the call of ...

To maintain law and order amid the ongoing quota reform movement, Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) is deploying 229 platoons across the country, including in Dhaka. Meanwhile, a total of 16 platoon of ansar members, including 40 female members, have been deployed in Dhaka. Md Rubel Hossain, Ansar and Village Defense Force’s assistant director (VDP Training) and public relations officer, confirmed ...

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 ...