Bangladesh

Rangpur Correspondent: The administration of Begum Rokeya University, Rangpur (BRUR) has provided financial assistance to the family of Abu Sayed, a student of the university’s English department who is widely acknowledged to have been the first victim of the quota reform movement to have died in police firing. Abu Sayed…

Staff Correspondent: The East Zone of Bangladesh Railway has suffered a loss of Tk 21.70 crore during the nationwide violence over quota reform as 40 bogies of different trains were damaged and four bogies were set on fire by miscreants. The information was revealed by a probe body formed by…

Staff Correspondent: The Anti-discrimination Student Movement has announced their next course of action programme. Rifat Rashed, Abdul Hannan Masud and Mahin Sarker, 3 coordinators of the anti-discrimination student movement, held the briefing on Saturday evening, in the background of three of their fellow leaders of the movement having been picked…

Staff Correspondent: A delegation of the University Teachers Network went to the DB office on Saturday afternoon to inquire about the three coordinators of the anti-discrimination student movement, Nahid Islam, Asif Mahmud and Abu Baker Majumdar. The members of the delegation stayed there for about 20 minutes and went back…

Barishal Correspondent: The students of Barishal University have placed a 4-point set of demands, including withdrawal of cases filed against students centering the quota reform movement and stopping police harassment. Sujoy Shuvo, coordinator of the quota reform movement at the university, made the demands in a press conference held on…

Industry Desk: The government has announced to relax the ongoing nationwide curfew in Dhaka, Gazipur, Narsingdi, Narayanganj for three more days. Home Ministry’s Public Relations Officer Md Sharif Mahmud Apu told media quoting Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan. He said the curfew for these districts was relaxed for Sunday, Monday and…

Staff Correspondent: BNP has extended all-out support to the nationwide ‘complete shutdown’ programme for Thursday, announced by the Anti-discrimination Student Movement in protest against attacks on students at various university campuses that resulted in at least six deaths. BNP Senior Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi made the announcement during…

Staff Correspondent: The US Embassy in Dhaka has said it will remain closed to the general public on July 18 due to the current situation. Mission personnel have been advised to limit their movements to the diplomatic enclave, according to an alert issued for US citizens. U.S. citizens should practice…

Staff Correspondent: A clash erupted between police and students of Brac University in the Badda area of Dhaka on Thursday when the students gathered there as part of the ‘complete shutdown’ programme.The situation turned worse as police fired several rounds of tear gas to disperse the students in the morning…

Staff Correspondent: An 18-year-old boy has reportedly been killed during a clash between quota-reform protesters and riot police in Dhaka’s Jatrabari area, hospital sources said on Thursday.Official confirmation of the death was not immediately available.The victim has been identified as a Siam, from Charfashion of Bhola who resided in Matuail,…