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Anti-Discrimination Student Movement forms 18-member central committee
The Anti-Discrimination Student Movement has unveiled its 18-member central executive committee. The announcement was made in a press release on Thursday night, reports UNB. According to the release, the committee will include the convener, member secretary, chief organiser, and spokesperson...
Protesters hurt in agargaon road blockade
Injured individuals from the July Movement, who were on their way to the hospital for treatment, staged a road blockade on the Shyamoli-bound lane of Agargaon, directly in front of the National Orthopaedic Hospital and Rehabilitation Institute (NITOR). The protest began around 1:20 p.m. on...
Gulistan: Students and public gather, police on alert
The Awami League and the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement have called competing rallies at Zero Point in Gulistan, Dhaka. Both rallies are scheduled to begin after 3 p.m. today, Sunday. To counter the Awami Leagues program, students and people have been gathering at Zero Point since...
191 BGB platoons deployed across country
To maintain law and order, 191 platoons of the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) have been deployed across Dhaka and other parts of the country, reports Dhaka Tribune. This information was provided in a message by BGB Headquarters Public Relations Officer Md Shariful Islam on Sunday morning....
GM Quader claims AL blackmailed JaPa into elections
Jatiya Party (JaPa) Chairman GM Quader claimed on Friday that his party was blackmailed into joining elections under the Awami Leagues tenure, saying that their involvement was far from voluntary, reports Dhaka Tribune. At an emergency press conference called at the Jatiya Party headquarters in...
Anti-discrimination Students Movement announces to seal Jatiya Party office
Mahin Sarkar, one of the coordinators of the anti-discrimination student movement, announced the shutdown of Jatiya Party office soon. He announced this in front of anti-terrorism Raju sculpture of Dhaka University around 8 pm on Thursday. Mahin Sarkar said, Today a part of our...
Contradictory demos by college students over affiliation halt Dhaka traffic
Students of seven colleges affiliated with the University of Dhaka (DU) blocked the Science Lab intersection for the second consecutive day on Wednesday, demanding the constitution of a university dedicated to the service of the seven colleges only. Ironically, students of Titumir college, one...
Students of 7 DU-affiliated colleges block Science Lab
Students from seven colleges affiliated with Dhaka University blocked the Science Lab intersection around 12:15 pm on Tuesday, calling for the establishment of an independent university for their institutions, reports The Business Standard. According to eyewitnesses, as a result of the protest,...
Hasnat-Sarjis not to continue writ to suspend of AL, 10 other parties' activities
Sarjis Alam and Hasnat Abdullah, coordinators of the Anti-discrimination Student Movement, have decided not to proceed with the writ seeking court directives to prevent 11 parties, including the Awami League, from conducting political activities, reports The Business Standard. At the same time,...
BCL members should not be arrested indiscriminately: Sarjis
Sarjis Alam, one of the key co-ordinators of Anti-Discrimination Student Movement on Monday said that the members of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL), who held posts in different university hall committees, should not be arrested indiscriminately, reports The Business Standard. In a post on his...
Sarjis, Hasnat seek HC order to restrain AL from political activities
Anti-discrimination Student Movement coordinators Hasnat Abdullah and Sarjis Alam have filed a writ petition with the High Court seeking an order restraining Awami League from political activities. They filed the petition on Monday, confirmed Senior Lawyer Advocate Ahsanul Karim. The petition...
Asif Mahmud refutes claims of party formation by students
The adviser for labour and employment as well as youth and sports Asif Mahmud Shojib Bhuyain has condemned the spread of propaganda regarding the formation of political parties by students involved in the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement, reports Dhaka Tribune. He said this during a courtesy...
Government job has to be ensured for family member of martyrs: Jamaat Ameer
Warning that no conspiracy of the conspirators will be realized anymore, Jamaat-e Islami Ameer Dr Shafiqur Rahman said the killers and looters of the past cant save themselves by escaping the country. He said this in a view exchange meeting with the family members of the martyrs who died in the...
Conspiracies on rise since the August Revolution: Sarjis
July Martyrs Memorial Foundation General Secretary, Sarjis Alam, stated, There will be no political party under the banner of the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement, and this is absolutely certain. However, if individuals associated with this movement wish to engage in politics or form a...
Will write a new constitution: Student protest leaders
Student leaders, who led the ouster of the Awami League regime on 5 August, on Wednesday declared they would throw out the countrys constitution, written in 1972, and draft a new one. Those who were in favour of the July-August mass uprising cannot support the 1972 constitution written by mostly...
No decision yet on President's resignation: CA's press secretary
The Press Secretary of the Interim Governments Chief Adviser, Dr. Muhammad Yunus, Shafiqul Alam, has reported that no decision has been made regarding the resignation of President Mohammed Shahabuddin. He made this announcement during a press briefing with journalists at the State Guest House...
Anti-discrimination Students Movement announces 5-point demands
The Anti-discrimination Students Movement on Tuesday evening has announced five-point demands, including the removal of President Md. Shahabuddin, the banning of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) as a terrorist organization within 48 hours and the annulment of the constitution. In protest of...
DU-affiliated 7 college students gather at Nilkhet, demand separate university
Students from seven colleges affiliated with Dhaka University gathered at the Nilkhet intersection in the capital on Monday, demanding separation from the university and the establishment of an independent institution, reports Dhaka Tribune. Zakaria, a representative of the Seven College Reform...
Anti-discrimination Students Movement calls urgent press conference
The Anti-discrimination Students Movement called a press conference to take legal actions against those who had conducted and led brutal attacks in Dhaka University campus from July 15 to July 17. The press conference will be held at Payra Chattar of TSC in DU on Monday around 3 pm. A message...
1695 cases filed and 3195 arrested over killings during uprising: Police
Law enforcers have arrested 3, 195 accused including 74 high profile figures of the then ruling party upon specific evidence of their alleged involvement in in the attacks, instigation and giving orders to kill students during the recent Anti-Discrimination Movement, reports UNB. Police...