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2024 Bangladesh quota reform movement Over 100 people are injured in violent clashes in Dhaka , Bangladesh , between supporters of the ruling Awami League party and opposition demonstrators protesting government job quotas which benefit pro-government families.
The largest component of the average price of $2.80/gallon of regular grade gasoline in the United States from 2012 through 2021, representing 54.8% of the price of gas, was the price of crude oil. The second largest component during the same period was taxes—federal and state taxes representing 17% of the price of gas.
The massacre was a significant event in the political spectrum of Bangladesh, and part of the ongoing unrest that began in mid-2024. [30] The Supreme Court's decision to reinstate a 30% job quota for descendants of freedom fighters sparked initial protests as the decision reversed reforms from 2018 made in response to the 2018 Bangladesh quota reform movement. [31]
A preliminary report by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights published on 16 August 2024 stated that more than 400 fatalities were reported nationwide between 16 July and 4 August, mainly due to violence carried out by state forces such as the Bangladesh Police, RAB, BGB and Army, as well as the Chhatra League ...
In 1998, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina visited Pakistan. [15] In July 2002, Pakistani General Pervez Musharraf also visited the war memorial and said "Your brothers and sisters in Pakistan share the pain of the events of 1971." [15] Relationship, however suffer miserable under first term of Khaleda Zia in 1991 to 1996. As exactly 30,000 Biharis ...
Bangladesh completed a second-test victory against Pakistan on the last afternoon Tuesday and achieved an historic sweep of the series. Needing 143 more runs on the final day with 10 wickets in ...
Wafi Energy Pakistan Limited, doing business as Shell, is a Pakistani oil marketing company based in Karachi. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It is a subsidiary of Wafi Energy Holding, a Saudi Arabian oil and gas company. [ 4 ]
Ekattor TV (Bengali: একাত্তর টিভি; lit. ' seventy-one tv ', in reference to the 1971 War) [3] is a Bangladeshi Bengali-language satellite and cable news television channel owned by the Meghna Group of Industries, [4] commencing transmissions on 21 June 2012, as Bangladesh's first news-oriented television channel broadcasting in full HD.