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Cuet suspends exams until 4 September amid engineering students’ protest

Cuet suspends exams until 4 September amid engineering students’ protest

Examinations scheduled from 31 August to 4 September will remain suspended

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'Authentic, not AI-generated': Rumor Scanner on photo of Buet protester's mouth clamped by DC Masud

The photo taken by The Business Standard’s Rajib Dhar on 27 August 2025 shows a police officer covering a protester’s mouth during a scuffle as the force uses water cannon to disperse engineering students marching toward the Chief Adviser’s official residence, Jamuna, on the Minto Road in Dhaka.

Photographers, metadata dismiss DMP claim that photo of DC Masud clamping Buet protester's mouth is AI-generated

Police detain an engineering student protestor during demonstration on 27 August 2025. Photo: TBS

Committee formed to investigate police action on engineering students’ march to CA residence

Students of Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University (SAU) block Agargaon road in Dhaka on 28 August 2025. Photo: UNB

Agri students block Agargaon road, demand exclusive 'Krishibid' title

The students demand that the existing 33% quota for diploma engineers in the ninth-grade posts of government service be abolished, and appointments be made solely on the basis of merit. Photo: TBS

BSc vs diploma engineers: Why the conflict, and what they demand

Police escort former textiles minister Latif Siddique from a meeting of Mancha 71 on 28 August 2025. Photo: TBS

Protesters disrupt 'Mancha 71' meeting, ex-minister Latif Siddique taken to DB

Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Buet). Photo: Collected

Buet suspends all undergraduate exams from 30 Aug till 18 Sept amid protests

An empty classroom at Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology (Cuet) is pictured as students of engineering universities boycott classes and exams as part of a 'complete shutdown' programme today, 28 August 2025. Photo: TBS

Shutdown underway at Buet, other engineering universities as students press for 3 demands

Screengrab from a video shows Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner Sheikh Md Sazzat Ali speaking to students at Shahbagh on 27 August 2025.

Protesting students leave Shahbagh after DMP chief apologises, announce shutdown at engineering institutions on Thursday

Cuet students blocked the Gate No 2 intersection in Chattogram on 27 August 2025. Photo: TBS

Cuet, Ruet students stage protests over attack on peers in Dhaka

Students of engineering universities have blocked the Shahbagh intersection in Dhaka for the second consecutive day today (27 August), pressing home their three-point demand. Photos: Rajib Dhar, TBS

Engineering students vow to continue protest after clash with police; reject govt committee

Families of the martyrs and injured of the July movement staged a sit-in in front of the Hotel InterContinental on 24 August. Photo: Tahsin Samin/TBS

Bail orders, advisers’ resignation: July martyrs' families stage protest at InterContinental intersection