At least 92 people, including 14 policemen, demonstrators, and political activists, were killed in clashes amongst protesters, members of law-enforcing agencies, and activists of ruling Awami League across the country on the first day of the students’ all-out non-cooperation programme demanding resignation of the government. Of the victims, the highest 22
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42 HSC examinees arrested over quota movement get bail
Separate Dhaka courts today granted bail to total 42 HSC examinees who were arrested across the capital over anarchy marking the recent quota reform movement. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Rashidul Alam allowed bail to 37 students arrested under different police stations in the capital while Senior Judicial Magistrate Mostafizur Rahman gave bail
DB held us forcibly, will continue movement, say six leaders of quota movement after release
A day after their release from Detective Branch (DB) custody, six coordinators of the Anti-Discrimination Students’ Movement issued a joint statement on Friday morning saying that they had been held captive “forcibly” for seven days in the name of “safety”. Urging the country’s students and citizens to take to the streets
Jamaat-Shibir in-guise intruded into quota movement: PM
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said Jamaat-Shibir terrorists initially maintained low profile intruding in-guise into the quota reform movement "but afterwards they appeared dangerously in the front cashing in on the movement". She said this while Spanish Ambassador to Bangladesh Gabriel Maria Sistiaga Ochoa de Chinchetru called on her at her
Expat Bangladesh nationals imprisonment over quota movement concerned PM: Arafat
State Minister for Information and Broadcasting Mohammad Ali Arafat today said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is concerned about Bangladeshi expatriates safety in Middle East countries as many of them were exposed to legal actions over the quota movement at home. “Many of the expatiates Bangladeshi have been prosecuted and sentenced in
Soldiers will be on streets until normalcy returns: Army Chief
Army Chief General Waker-Uz-Zaman on Tuesday said soldiers will patrol the streets until the return of normalcy in the country. He said this during a call on with President Mohammed Shahabuddin at Bangabhaban at noon, President's Press Secretary Joynal Abedin told reporters. During the meeting, the army chief said that a total