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Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina visits a vandalized metro rail station at Mirpur 10, in Dhaka. | Photo Credit: PTI Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina wept on July 25 as she surveyed the destruction wrought by days of deadly unrest, as student leaders weighed the future of the protests that sparked the disorder. Last week’s…
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The student group which led this month’s protests has suspended demonstrations until at least Friday. Dhaka, Bangladesh: Garment factories and banks reopened in Bangladesh Wednesday after authorities eased a curfew imposed to contain deadly clashes sparked by student protests over civil service employment quotas. Last week’s violence killed at least 186 people, according to an…
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Police patrol the streets during an imposed curfew after scores were killed and hundreds injured in clashes over the allocation of civil service jobs, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Sunday, July 21, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP Bangladesh appeared calm on July 22 amid a curfew, but widespread disruption of telecoms prevailed a day after the Supreme…
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Students clash with police during a protest over the quota system in public service, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on July 19, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP Bangladesh’s Supreme Court on July 21scrapped most of the quotas on government jobs that have sparked student-led protests in which at least 114 people have been killed, local media reported….
A member of the Bangladesh Army checks bags of women during a curfew imposed in response to student-led protests against government job quotas, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, July 20, 2024. | Photo Credit: REUTERS Bangladesh extended a curfew on July 21 to control violent student-led protests that have killed at least 114 people, as authorities braced…
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People roam on the street after curfew has been proclaimed and army deployment in the country, as violence erupts following anti-quota protests, in Dhaka, on July 20, 2024. | Photo Credit: REUTERS The United States has recommended that its citizens not travel to Bangladesh and allowed the voluntary departure of its non-emergency government employees and…
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Bangladesh soldiers stand guard along the road following a curfew and the deployment of military forces in Dhaka on July 20, 2024, after days of clashes during protests against government job quotas across the country. Soldiers were out in force on July 20 in cities around Bangladesh after another day of lethal clashes between student…
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Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina | Photo Credit: Reuters Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s government on July 19 announced a nationwide curfew across Bangladesh and ordered the deployment of military forces to maintain order following days of deadly clashes over the allocation of government jobs. The announcement was made by Obaidul Quader, the general secretary of…
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