Quota protest

All campuses across Bangladesh held rallies and programmes on 2 July under the banner of Students Against Discrimination. Photo: Md Belal Hossen
Panorama

2 July 2024: Campuses across the country unite against ‘irrational quotas’

Key demands raised by students included reforming the quota system by capping it at 10%, restricting the use of quota facilities multiple times in job examinations, and filling vacant posts based...

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Pursuit

How to handle a dictator at work: Lessons from the quota reform protests

Former member of parliament and whip Saimum Sarwar Kamal. Photo: Collected
Crime

Student movement: Former whip, 150 others sued in murder case in Cox's Bazar

Bangladeshi Nobel Peace Prize winner Dr Muhammad Yunus looks on as he poses for photo during an interview with Reuters in his office, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, June 4, 2024. Photo REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir Hossain/File photo
Bangladesh

‘Hurts when India calls protests internal affair of Bangladesh’: Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus

FILE PHOTO: The United Nations headquarters building is pictured though a window with the UN logo in the foreground in the Manhattan borough of New York August 15, 2014. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri (UNITED STATES
Bangladesh

The secretary general of the United Nations stands in solidarity with Bangladesh

Indian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Image: UNB
Bangladesh

Indian MEA issues advisory for citizens in Bangladesh

Protesters charge at ruling party activists, who were attacking them, with sticks during a clash in Jatrabari of the capital on 4 August afternoon. Photo: Mehedi Hasan/TBS
Bangladesh

Deadliest day: At least 94 killed across Bangladesh

Clashes broke out at Mohammadpur bus stand. Photo: Kanchan Kumar Nath/TBS
Economy

Quota protests rooted in deeper economic, political issues: Economists

A vendor at Shaheed Minar in Dhaka University. Photo: TBS
Bangladesh

'We too want to be financially stable, be able to educate our children': Shaheed Minar vendor

protesters assembling at Shibbari Mor in Khulna. Photo: TBS
Bangladesh

Students on the streets of Khulna, long-distance buses halted, public in fear

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Bangladesh

Two killed in Munshiganj, at least 30 injured

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Thoughts

Whose responsibility is it anyway to uphold the Constitution?

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Bangladesh

Second-generation apparel leaders express solidarity with students' demands