One person has died in a clash between the protestors and the police as the Students Against Discrimination called for a mass procession to press home their demand of justice for those killed during the quota reform movement. Mostak Mia, 24, a readymade garments factory worker, died in bullet injuries in Habiganj town Friday afternoon. Maruf Hossain, a colleague of ...

The police had picked up three students, including a job seeker, during a drive in a mess in Sylhet in the dead of night on Wednesday. Learning about the incident, five teachers of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) went to the police station and brought them back on Thursday afternoon. In a separate incident, the police detained an ...

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 ...

Social media platform Facebook and Russian-based messaging app Telegram have been found unresponsive on mobile network. According to the relevant sources, after 12.15 pm on Friday, users have been having trouble using the two apps with a few of them facing no such issue. Those concerned say that if Facebook is closed on mobile data, the use of VPN will ...

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 ...

A Britney Spears biopic is in development after Universal Pictures bought movie rights to the pop star’s best-selling memoir, the Hollywood studio announced Thursday. “Crazy Rich Asians” director Jon Chu is attached to develop and direct the film, based on Spears’s recent autobiographical book “The Woman In Me,” the company said in a statement to AFP. Universal won a “highly ...

FIFA said on Thursday it had invited FIFPRO Europe and the European Leagues body for talks following a dispute over the sport’s calendar. On July 23, the global players’ union FIFPRO and European Leagues, which brings together more than one thousand clubs from 33 countries, filed a complaint to the European Commission accusing FIFA of abusing its position, AFP reports. ...

Hezbollah said it launched rockets at northern Israel Thursday “in response” to a deadly Israeli strike in south Lebanon — the group’s first attack after Israel killed a top commander earlier this week. The Iran-backed group said in a statement that it “launched dozens of Katyusha rockets… in response to the Israeli enemy’s attack on… (the southern village of Shama) ...