Staff Reporter with DU Correspondent :Students, representing the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement and supported by people from various walks of life...
Farrukh Khosru : The World Trade Organization (WTO) in its latest data has unveiled that Bangladesh exported $38.4 billion worth...
DU Correspondent :The six coordinators of the quota reform platform, an anti-discrimination student movement, who were freed on Thursday from the custody of the Detective Branch (DB) of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police, claimed that they were forced to announce the withdrawal of the movement while in police custody. In a statement issued on Friday and signed by key coordinators Nahid Islam, Sarjis Alam, Hasnat Abdullah, Asif Mahmud, Abu Bakr Majumder, and Nusrat Tabassum, they asserted, “We did not voluntarily give...
Staff Reporter :UNICEF has expressed deep concerns over the killings of at least 32 children during the July protests over the quota reform movement. The organisation has also stated that the children must be protected and it is the responsibility of all and they should be protected when they speak up. “UNICEF has now confirmed that at least 32 children were killed during July’s protests, with many more injured and detained. This is a terrible loss,” UNICEF South Asia Regional...
Staff Reporter : Clashes and police firing left one person dead in Habiganj while a police constable was beaten to...
Staff Reporter : On Friday, August 2, protesting students spray-painted an armoured personnel carrier (APC) of the Bangladesh Police in...
Staff Reporter : On Friday morning in Dhanmondi, Dhaka, artistes gathered to protest against the killing of students during the...
Abu Jakir :In a bold show of solidarity, Gonojagoron Mancha activist Lucky Akhter joined the ongoing student movement against the...
Court Correspondent :A Dhaka court placed six individuals, including BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi Ahmed, on a three-day remand on Thursday each in connection with a case involving the vandalism and arson at Setu Bhaban on July 18. The other accused are BNP Organising Secretary Qazi Sayedul Alam Babul, Dhaka North City unit Member Secretary Aminul Haque, Publicity Secretary Sultan Salauddin Tuku, Bagerhat district unit Convener MA Salam, and Jamaat-e-Islami Secretary General Miah Golam Parwar. Dhaka Metropolitan...
Staff Reporter : Six organizers (coordinators) of the quota reform movement, who had been in the custody of the Detective Branch of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police for the past six days, were released on Thursday noon. The coordinators are- Nahid Islam, Sarjis Alam, Hasnat Abdullah, Abu Baker Majumdar, Asif Mahmud and Nusrat Tabassum. DB Ramna division additional commissioner (ADC) Azhar Mukul confirmed the matter to the media on Thursday afternoon. Earlier on July 26, the three coordinators of the quota...
Staff Reporter :Bangladesh’s remittance inflow sharply declined by 24.87 per cent month-on-month in July amid the deadly protests as the banks could not collect the money sent home by the migrant workers because of a five-day internet blackout from July 19 and July 24 across the country. In July, expatriates remitted $1.9 billion home through banking channels which was $2.51 billion in June this year, according to Bangladesh Bank Spokesperson Md Mezbaul Haque. The decreased inflow of remittance badly impacted...