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Students of Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University block Agargaon road in Dhaka on 31 August 2025. Photo: TBS

Agri students lift Agargaon blockade after protest demanding 10th-grade positions for agriculture degree holders

They lifted the blockade around 6:30pm

Students Cuet hold a torch-lit procession to protest a police crackdown on demonstrating engineering students in Dhaka and threats of rape and murder allegedly from some polytechnic students, yesterday, 29 August 2025. Photo: TBS

Cuet students protest police crackdown in Dhaka, threats from polytechnic students

Drivers and transport workers of Shah Cement company block Dhaka-Aricha Highway on 29 August, 2025 over murder of fellow driver. Photo: TBS

Protesters lift Dhaka–Aricha Highway blockade after an hour over fellow driver's murder

Cuet suspends exams until 4 September amid engineering students’ protest

Cuet suspends exams until 4 September amid engineering students’ protest

Photo: RumourScanner

'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