Students block Mirpur road protesting for merit-based admissions
Students block Mirpur road protesting for merit-based admissions

Students of Mohammadpur Residential School and College in Dhaka have blocked Mirpur Road in front of their institution, demanding that admissions be based on merit. According to police, the protest began around 10:30 am when students, after breaking open the schools entrance gate, took to the...

Student kills eight in mass stabbing in China after failing exams
Student kills eight in mass stabbing in China after failing exams

A 21-year-old former student carried out a stabbing attack at a vocational college in Chinas eastern city of Wuxi on Saturday evening. The attack left eight people dead and 17 others hurt, police reported. The knife attack took place at the Wuxi Vocational College of Arts and Technology, in...

Students and public gather at Dhaka-Ctg highway
Students and public gather at Dhaka-Ctg highway

Students and the public gathered this morning on the Dhaka-Chattogram Highway to prevent any disorder that can be created by the Awami League. They have been holding a sit-in at Kanchpur, in Narayanganjs Sonargaon, one of the busiest entry points to Dhaka. Along with the sit-ins, people were...

Gulistan: Students and public gather, police on alert
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
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....

Campuses must not be turned into dens of terror: CA press secretary
Campuses must not be turned into dens of terror: CA press secretary

Urging everyone to keep educational institutions across the country safe, Chief Advisers Press Secretary Shafiqul Alam has said campuses must not be turned into dens of terrorism. Safety has to be ensured at educational institutions and terrorism has to be eradicated from campuses to keep...

Shuvosangho provides Bochaganj madrasa students with educational materials
Shuvosangho provides Bochaganj madrasa students with educational materials

Shuvosangho, the countrys one of the leading social welfare platforms sponsored by Bashundhara Group, provided educational materials to madrasa students of Bochaganj Upazila in Dinajpur on Friday. The volunteers of the platform distributed education supplies to at least 30 students of Khadijatul...

GM Quader claims AL blackmailed JaPa into elections
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
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...

Students to serve as traffic police for 4 hours daily
Students to serve as traffic police for 4 hours daily

Youth and Sports Advisor Asif Mahmud Sojib Bhuyain announced that students will take on traffic police duties for four hours each day on a part-time basis. He made this announcement during a press conference in his ministrys conference room at the Secretariat on Wednesday, ahead of the...

Govt waives tuition fees for students injured in students-mass people uprising
Govt waives tuition fees for students injured in students-mass people uprising

The students who sustained injuries during the recent Students-mass people uprising from the secondary level to university will get tuition fee waiver from the government. The Ministry of Education issued a notification in this regard on Tuesday in line with the directive of the President....

Students of 7 DU-affiliated colleges block Science Lab
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
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
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...

Govt. announces school admission policy for 2025
Govt. announces school admission policy for 2025

All non-government schools will select students for admission in the 2025 academic year through digital lottery, reports BSS. Students will be admitted from class-one to ninth-grade based on seat availability, with a maximum 55 students in a section, according a policy issued on Monday by the...

Sarjis, Hasnat seek HC order to restrain AL from political activities
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
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...

Conspiracies on rise since the August Revolution: Sarjis
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...

Business owners struggle to bounce back from losses
Business owners struggle to bounce back from losses

Following the StudentPeoples uprising that resulted in the collapse of Sheikh Hasinas government, extensive violence erupted throughout the countrys industrial sector. Several factories in Gazipur, Narayanganj, Ashulia, and Savar were vandalized and set on fire. This halted production and...

Will write a new constitution: Student protest leaders
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
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
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...

Awami League plotting rehabilitation: Hasnat Abdullah
Awami League plotting rehabilitation: Hasnat Abdullah

Hasnat Abdullah, one of the coordinators of the Anti-discrimination Student movement, has said that Awami League is secretly plotting rehabilitation to regain political power, reports UNB. In a video message shared on his verified Facebook page on Monday afternoon, Hasnat claimed that the Awami...

4 other accused of students killing arrested in Dinajpur
4 other accused of students killing arrested in Dinajpur

Police arrested four more accused persons from Hakimpur and Ghoraghat thana areas of Dinajpur for their involvement in killing two students during the anti-discrimination student movement. Driving raids on Saturday midnight police arrested them, reports BSS. The arrestees are Hakimpur Upazila...

Students siege HC demanding resignation of pro-AL judges
Students siege HC demanding resignation of pro-AL judges

Students have staged a demonstration surrounding the High Court, demanding the resignation of judges they accuse of being collaborators of fascism. The protest took place today, Wednesday, around 11:45 AM when the students surrounded the High Court. The students were chanting slogans against...