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Students to protest advisory council appointments today
The Anti-Discrimination Student Movement and Dhaka University students will stage a joint protest today at 4:00pm against the recent appointments made by the interim government.
DU students denounce JCD's poster campaign on campus
Removing the posters would undermine the dignity of individuals, says proctor
BNP’s unfolding strategic stance: Straddling the aftermath of a revolutionary ‘event’ and realpolitik
The BNP’s stance, which shifted from initially aligning with the students to later portraying the president as a stabilising figure, could risk dissipating the transformative potential of this “moment.”
Students of 7 DU-affiliated colleges block Science Lab for second consecutive day
Students of the seven Dhaka University-affiliated colleges blocked the Science Lab intersection for the second day in a row, demanding the formation of an independent university for their institutions.
Students of 7 DU-affiliated colleges block Science Lab, halt traffic
Blockade lifted as of 5:00pm; protesters announce fresh blockade from 9 to 5 tomorrow
Watch / Students besiege HC demanding resignation of 'pro-AL fascist judges'
A group of students marched to the High Court premises to besiege the court, demanding the resignation of "pro-Awami League fascist judges"
Empowering women beyond protests
To ensure that contributions from individuals like Nusrat, Prapti, and Dipty are not isolated, we must take concrete steps to empower the next generation of women
What politics for the new generation should look like
Politicians need to start understanding that the loud, unnecessary, intrusive politics that we know today needs to become the politics of the past.
Can the student movement free us from dynastic politics?
The students can help establish a new political party and free the country from the burden of family dynasties.
How social media mobilised netizens as vigilantes in a “lawless” country
August 5. The day the student-led mass protests did the unthinkable in toppling the previous regime, with the aspiration to build back the country from the ground up - one brick at a time.
July Revolution and Gen-Z’s march to mass political awareness
Gen-Z have finally become mass aware of their socio-political rights and started to ask for accountability, transparency, and honour.
Lessons learnt: Partisan student politics must be banned
It is deplorable how the previous government did not find it shameful to allow students to be harassed, beaten, and even killed to satisfy political desires.
Protesters gather on SC premises, issue ultimatum to CJ to resign by 1pm
Protesters have issued an ultimatum to Chief Justice Obaidul Hassan and judges of the Appellate Division to resign by 1:00pm today
Rapper-barrister Towfique Ahmed offers legal support to quota reform protesters
As quota reform protesters clashed violently with police and the Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) during their "complete shutdown" movement, rapper and barrister Towfique Ahmed announced on Facebook that his law firm would provide assistance to the protesters.
‘I don’t want to go to Dhaka University anymore’
“There is only one life to live— In this lifetime, why should Rajakars have to be seen again?”
World leaders are disconnected from the youth
Student protestors are calling out the double standards of Western powers
Zadie Smith’s rhetorical tricks
Smith’s framing runs into the same blind spot in other criticisms levelled at student protests, i.e. it detaches the student’s cause from the activists, academics, and journalists, Palestinian or otherwise, who have been documenting Israel’s settler colonial project for 75 years.
The war on error
Israel’s occupation of territories and desire to parcel all Palestinians as Arabs to the neighbouring countries have become blatantly clear.
Plains of protest
Students have always been the first to engage in discourses on divisive borders with imagined, imposing lines, language, religion or tradition.