The Awami League plans to mobilize its members throughout Dhaka starting early tomorrow to maintain control over the capital, amid concerns that the BNP and its allied groups could attempt to disrupt the city by inciting disturbances. In addition to organizing a “peace rally” to counter the BNP’s large-scale gathering, the party intends to station…
Bangladesh has announced the imposition of a curfew and the deployment of military forces after days of clashes at protests against government job quotas across the country. “The government has decided to impose a curfew and deploy the military in aid of the civilian authorities,” Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s press secretary Nayeemul Islam Khan, told the news…
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the people of the country must come forward to make sure that the perpetrators of the recent violence face trial and punishment. “They [people] have to try the culprits. I am seeking justice from them,” she said after visiting the vandalised metro rail station at Mirpur-10 in the morning….
Dengue fever is no longer considered a seasonal disease, experts have said, warning that it may persist to some extent throughout the year. Previously, dengue was considered seasonal, typically starting in April or May and ending around September or October. However, now it appears to be present, in varying degrees, year-round. Although dengue cases were…
Three quota protest coordinators — Dhaka University’s Asif Mahmud, Abu Baker Mazumder and Rifat Rashid — have been found after five days. Asif and Bakar both wrote on Facebook that they were blindfolded and left in Hatirjheel and Dhanmondi areas of the capital yesterday. Neither of them mentioned who took them. Rifat wrote on Facebook…
Horrific crimes such as murder, robbery, theft, and dacoity have surged alarmingly across the country. As night falls, control of the streets increasingly shifts into the hands of these criminals. In particular, the fear of muggings has spread among ordinary citizens in the capital. Although there have been over a thousand reported muggings in the…
In a major reform to the quota system in public jobs, the government yesterday issued a circular, taking merit-based recruitment in civil service to 93 percent from the existing 44 percent. The rest seven percent will come from various quotas. The new quota system, which came in line with Sunday’s Supreme Court order, will come…
Protesters in Bangladesh have issued demands amid a lull in the violence that has filled the streets in recent days after the government backed down on quotas on hiring for government jobs. Student leaders said on Monday that they plan to continue demonstrations despite a decision by the Supreme Court the previous day scaling back the…
Nahid Islam, a key organiser of quota reform movement, alleged he was “tortured physically” until he was unconscious. In the early hours Saturday, he was picked up allegedly by law enforcers from a house in the capital’s Sabujbagh. Talking to The Daily Star, Nahid said, “After taking me into a room, they interrogated me over…
A large number of BNP leaders and activists have gathered on the road in front of the party’s central office at Naya Paltan in the capital. To mark ‘National Revolution and Solidarity Day’ on November 7, the party will hold a colorful procession in the capital this Friday afternoon. Leaders and activists are assembling in…
