Bangla Blockade

Detention of student coordinators: Was it really for their security?

On that evening, the student activists were scheduled to brief the media about the ongoing movement.

A generation's fight in the shadows of quota

The movement was no longer about quotas; it was about justice.

Anti-quota protests: Police sue protestors over vandalism, assault

A case was filed against anti-quota protesters on charges of vandalising police vehicles, assaulting police officers, and attacking policemen during the ongoing quota reform movement

Attack on Quota protesters: RU students block rail line near campus

Several hundred students of Rajshahi University blocked a railway line near the university campus this afternoon, protesting police attack on Comilla University students during a quota reform demonstration yesterday

Students block Shahbagh removing police barricade

Students and jobseekers faced off with police at Shahbagh in Dhaka today as the protesters marched to the intersection for their Bangla Blockade programme to protest reinstatement of quotas in government jobs

BCL ready to face those trying to politicise quota protests: Saddam

Some demonstrators trying to prolong movement by holding general people hostage, says BCL president

Will take legal action if quota protesters continue to block roads: DMP

DMP Additional Commissioner (Crime and Ops) KH Mahid Uddin said today that they would take legal action if quota protesters continued to block the roads

Sufferings all around

The ongoing student protest against the quota system in government jobs caused severe disruptions in Dhaka and other parts of the country, leaving people in severe misery.

Quota protesters to continue Bangla Blockade from 3:30pm tomorrow

Students and job seekers who are protesting the reinstatement of the quota system in government jobs today declared they would continue their “Bangla Blockade” movement tomorrow

July 8, 2024
July 8, 2024

Movements that cause public suffering should be avoided: Quader

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader today said programmes like the anti-quota movement that cause public suffering should be avoided

July 7, 2024
July 7, 2024

Reforming the quota system is long overdue

Public service recruitment should be based primarily on merit

July 7, 2024
July 7, 2024

'Bangla Blockade': Students block major Dhaka intersections protesting quota system

Science Lab, Agargaon intersections also blocked; students in Barishal, Savar wage similar movement

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