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The protesters under the banner of Anti-discrimination Student Movement continuously organised four-point demands on 1 July 2024, in support of civil service reservation quota reform in Bangladesh. From 2 to 6 July, students of various institutions held protests , human chains , highway blockades , etc. in different parts of the country.
Abu Sayed (Bengali: আবু সাঈদ; 1998/1999 – 16 July 2024) was a Bangladeshi student activist who was shot dead by the Bangladesh Police on 16 July 2024, [107] [108] [109] while participating in the 2024 Bangladesh quota reform movement.
The government banned the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, its student wing, the Bangladesh Islami Chhatra Shibir and its associated bodies citing anti-terrorism laws following their involvement in the protests. [271] [272] So far, 274 cases have been filed against students in various police stations in Dhaka Metropolitan.
DHAKA (Reuters) -Bangladesh's chief justice and central bank governor have resigned, officials said on Saturday, as student protests that forced Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to flee have widened ...
Bangladesh Bank announced its monetary policy for the first half of fiscal year 2024-25 last month and the next policy for the second half is due in January. (Reporting by Ruma Paul; writing by ...
Other possible names for the head of government included Salahuddin Ahmed, a former governor of Bangladesh Bank, retired General Jahangir Alam Chowdhury, and lawyer Sara Hossain. [191] The nomination of Yunus, who accepted the advisory role in the interim government, has also been supported by prominent figures within the student movement. [192]
The protest began in June 2024, in response to the Supreme Court of Bangladesh reinstating a 30% quota for descendants of freedom fighters, reversing the government decision made in response to the 2018 Bangladesh quota reform movement. Students began to feel like they have a limited opportunity based on merit.
On 5 August 2024, Bangladesh's longtime Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigned and fled to India following the non-cooperation movement.It was a pro-democratic disinvestment movement and mass uprising, of which the sole demand was the resignation of Sheikh Hasina and her cabinet, initiated within the framework of the month-long quota reform movement resulting in mass killings.