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Transparency International reported that Bangladesh's annual military budget had reached US$4.8 billion, [147] increasing the magnitude of corruption. [ 148 ] In October 2002, more than 10,000 people were detained without charges in operation by Bangladesh Army, dubbed Clean Heart, including the Bangladesh Nationalist Party and the Awami League ...
In Comilla, The CoU coordinator of the anti-discrimination student movement was assaulted at around 8:00 p.m. when eight Chhatra League members called him to check his phone and beat him. [161] The protesters called for nationwide demonstrations and rallies in all educational institutions of the country at 3:00 p.m. on 16 July. [162]
The Students–People's uprising, [a] also known as the July Revolution, [b] was a pro-democracy mass uprising in Bangladesh. [ c ] It began as a quota reform movement in early June 2024, led by the Students Against Discrimination , after the Bangladesh Supreme Court invalidated the government's 2018 circular regarding job quotas in the public ...
DHAKA (Reuters) -Bangladesh's Supreme Court on Sunday scrapped most quotas on government jobs after nationwide action led by students spiralled into clashes that killed at least 139 people, but ...
Improving law and order in Bangladesh is a priority for the new caretaker government, the adviser to the interior ministry said on Friday, as the battered nation limps back to normality after ...
Inside Bangladesh it’s being dubbed a Gen Z revolution – a protest movement that pitted mostly young student demonstrators against a 76-year-old leader who had dominated her nation for decades ...
Attacks by Islamist extremists in Bangladesh took place during a period of turbulence in Bangladesh between 2013 and 2016 when a number of secularist and atheist writers, bloggers, and publishers in Bangladesh; foreigners; homosexuals; and religious minorities such as Hindus, Buddhists, Christians and Ahmadis who were seen as having offended Islam and Muhammad were attacked in retaliation ...
Minority groups in Bangladesh reported 2,010 incidents of communal violence across the country between 4–20 August 2024. 1,705 families were directly affected in the violence. Among them, 157 families had their homes and businesses were attacked, looted, vandalized, and set on fire. Lands of some of the families were forcibly occupied.