A court’s reinstatement of a quota system for government jobs has stirred violent unrest. Ahammad Foyez/Dhaka At least six people died and hundreds were injured during a third day of student protests in Bangladesh on Tuesday against a quota system for government jobs that has sparked escalating violence and brought parts of the country to …
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Hundreds of university students in Bangladesh erupted in fury on Monday against Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina after she equated those who wanted to end quotas for independence heroes’ families with Pakistan army collaborators during the independence war.
Rohingya are being brought into southeastern Bangladesh by smugglers as fighting between ethnic rebel groups and junta-aligned forces worsens next-door in Myanmar’s Rakhine state, said officials and border crossers interviewed by BenarNews.
Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus spoke out against making defendants stand in an iron cage in court, moments after his arraignment in Dhaka on Wednesday over charges linked to alleged money laundering.
The Russell’s viper has made a comeback in parts of Bangladesh after being declared an endangered species in the country in the early 2000s, and the species is blamed for dozens of fatalities from snake bites in Rajshahi in recent years, according to officials and wildlife experts.
Police launched a crackdown to remove thousands of batterpy-powered three-wheel vehicles from the streets of Dhaka after Bangladesh’s transport minister this week announced a ban because of road safety and environmental concerns.
A Bangladesh court ruled Monday that it is unconstitutional to keep inmates in solitary confinement on death row before they exhaust their appeals, said an attorney representing three prisoners whose petition secured this “historic” victory.
Myanmar Muslim insurgents have pressed about 500 Rohingya refugees in camps in Bangladesh to join the war in their homeland where fighting between rival factions has intensified sharply in recent weeks, refugees told Radio Free Asia.
About one-fifth of Bangladesh’s ready-made garment factories do not meet fire, electrical and structural safety standards 11 years after the collapse of Rana Plaza that left more than 1,100 garment workers dead, according to an industry monitoring body.
Religious tensions were high in a central Bangladesh district as hundreds of demonstrators started fires and blocked roads on Wednesday to protest last week’s deadly beating of two Muslims by a mob, allegedly of Hindus, police said.