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229 BGB platoons deployed across the country

BSS, Dhaka: A total of 229 platoons of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) have been deployed across the country including the capital, to maintain law and order amid the ongoing quota

Nationwide ‘complete shutdown’: Clashes erupt in Dhaka, other cities

Quota Reform Movement TDS Desk: The students and job seekers, who have been waging a movement seeking reform in the quota system in government jobs, observing a “complete shutdown” across

Teenage boy killed during violence Jatrabari

UNB, Dhaka: An 18-year-old boy has reportedly been killed during a clash between quota-reform protesters and riot police in Dhaka’s Jatrabari area, hospital sources said on Thursday. Official confirmation of

Dr Zafar Iqbal declared unwanted at SUST

TDS Desk: Professor Dr Muhammad Zafar Iqbal has been declared a persona non grata by the anti-quota protesters at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) in Sylhet. The students

DU students issued ‘counter notice’

UNB, Dhaka: Enraged by the university closure notice, the students of Dhaka University (DU) under the banner of “General Students of Dhaka University” have issued a “counter-notice” to keep the

Police hurl tear shells, sound grenades at DU coffin procession

DU Correspondent: The police have fired tear shells and sound grenades at a students’ procession, organised after absentee funeral prayers [Gayebana Janaza] held at Dhaka University (DU) in memory of