Bangladesh

Staff Correspondent: The UK is providing £30,000 or Tk 4.5 crores of vital humanitarian assistance to support flood-affected communities in Sylhet, where over three million people have been impacted and 260,000 are displaced.The current flooding in Bangladesh has so far affected over 14.8 million people in different parts of the…

Industry Desk: Tawhid Hridoy and Shoriful Islam, two stars of the Bangladesh national cricket team, took to social media to urge an end to the bloodshed surrounding the ongoing student protests. The protests, demanding reform of the quota system in civil service jobs, saw one death on Tuesday in Rangpur.…

Industry Desk: Dhaka’s rail communications with other parts of the country have been suspended as quota protesters put up barricade on the level crossing in Dhaka’s Mohakhali.According to Ferdous Biswas , Officer-in-Charge of the Dhaka Railway Police Station, the protesters gathered there around 2 pm on Tuesday.Since then, rail communications…

Rangpur Correspondent: A student of Begum Rokeya University in Rangpur was killed during a clash between quota protesters and police on the campus on Tuesday afternoon, said police . The deceased was identified as Abu Sayeed, 22, a 12th batch student of Rokeya University’s English department. Commissioner of Rangpur Metropolitan…

Chattogram Correspondent: A violent clash between quota reform protesters and Chhatra League members in Chattogram’s Sholashohor to Muradpur area has resulted in the deaths of two individuals. Their bodies were taken to Chattogram Medical College Hospital (CMCH), where authorities confirmed the fatalities. Md. Saiful Islam, Commissioner of Chattogram Metropolitan Police…

Staff Correspondent: BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Monday said those who unleashed ruling party student front Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) ‘cadres’ and police against common students protesting the quota system in government jobs are inhumane devoid of humanity. In a statement, he also alleged that the government…

Staff Correspondent: Quota reform protesters at Jahangirnagar University were subjected to violent attacks. Chhatra League carried out two separate attacks, bringing in outsiders, leading to clashes between general students and the police, turning the campus into a battlefield. Earlier, fearing Chhatra League attacks, quota reform protesters had taken refuge inside…

Staff Correspondent: A clash broke out between quota protestors and activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League(BCL) near Bijoy Ekattor hall of Dhaka University on Monday afternoon. The chase and counter-chase between the general students and BCL activists started around 3pm, reports our correspondent from the spot. Earlier, the quota protestors gathered…

Staff Correspondent: Amid the students’ ongoing agitation demanding quota reform, Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner Mohammad Habibur Rahman on Monday warned that any attempt to deteriorate the law and order will be resisted strictly.He issued the warning while talking to reporters over the security measures centring the upcoming Holy Ashura…

Staff Correspondent: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday slammed the female students of Dhaka University’s Ruqayyah Hall, who chanted slogans by calling themselves razakars -collaborators of Pakistani forces in 1971.“I felt sorry when I heard yesterday the students of Ruqayyah Hall calling themselves razakars. Do they know what had taken…