quota protest
Shot during protest: Many barely hanging on to life
The sudden twitches of his left hand and his attempts to speak in too weak a voice are just about the only signs that 16-year-old Raiyan Ahmed is still alive.
'He was just 14...'
Says mother of Munna who was shot dead in Dhanmondi
'They shot my boy six times'
Says mother of Raihan, 17, who died of bullet wounds
When will we democratise the political parties of Bangladesh?
The real test lies in the reform strategies that can steer a country toward justice.
We must never let such an environment of fear reign again
Fear cannot ever lead to forgetting.
Opinion / We must step back from the precipice
If the ruling party leaders don’t understand or pretend not to understand why students are not staying back at home (their campuses and dormitories remain shuttered), we are in much deeper trouble than one could imagine
Govt announces three-day public holiday from tomorrow
The government has announced a three-day general holiday on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday for ensuring public safety amid the ongoing violent protests across the country
Those engaging in sabotage are not students, but criminals: PM
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said those who are engaging in sabotage in the name of protest are no longer students, but criminals
HC rejects writ filed challenging legality of firing on protesters
The High Court today rejected a writ that challenged the legality of keeping six coordinators of Anti-Discrimination Student Movement in DB custody and the use of live rounds at demonstraters
More than just numbers
The people who lost their lives in the recent violence are more than mere statistics; they are family members and friends. We try to know the stories of three such names
The cost of crisis: Who will bear it?
Violence comes with a hefty price tag for the economy. Beyond the immediate death toll mostly in police shootings, the convulsion of violence that gripped Bangladesh in the middle of this month has left a debilitating impact on the economy.
Shutdown cost the economy $10 billion: FICCI
The recent shutdown has significantly impacted Bangladesh's economy with over $10 billion and climbing in estimated losses, according to the Foreign Investors Chamber of Commerce & Industries (FICCI)
At least 147 dead in violence centring quota protests: home minister
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan today said around 147 people were killed in the conflict and violence centring the quota reform movement
JU student and quota reform movement coordinator 'picked up by DB'
A Jahangirnagar University student, one of the coordinators of the quota reform movement, was picked up early today by men in plainclothes who said they were from the detective branch (DB) of police, his family said
Mobile internet restored in Bangladesh
Bangladesh is once again connected to 4G internet, 10 days after mobile internet connectivity was restricted across the country
Bangladesh likely to unblock mobile internet at 3pm
Says State Minister for ICT Zunaid Ahmed Palak; users to get 5GB free data for 3 days
We cannot let ourselves become comfortably numb
With our collective inability to pay attention, it is not that unlikely that we will forget this too.
Block raids unnerve city residents
City residents, still reeling from the shocks of deaths and destructions over the quota protests, are now feeling a fresh wave of fear.
Internet outage, curfew: Default loans to soar, banks’ profit to dip
Bankers are dreading a big drop in their profits as their defaulted loans are likely to increase further due to the curfew and the five-day internet blackout.