At least 15 people, including eight policemen, have been injured in a clash with engineering students from BUET and other universities demonstrating over three demands. Students, however, claim that more than 50 of their peers were hurt in police attacks. The clashes broke out on Wednesday afternoon outside InterContinental Dhaka when students marching towards the chief advisor’s residence, State Guest House Jamuna, were blocked by police. Police used stun grenades, tear shells and water cannons to disperse the students. Earlier, the students had staged a sit-in and blocked roads at Shahbagh intersection in protest. In response to the police attack, the protesters decided to continue their sit-in at Shahbagh in the afternoon, demanding an apology from the home advisor. They...
Engineering students marching towards Chief Advisor Muhammad Yunus’s official residence, the State Guest House Jamuna, have clashed with police who blocked their procession. Reporting from...
Engineering students from BUET and some private universities engaged in a clash with police at the InterContinental Dhaka intersection on Wednesday afternoon while staging demonstrations...
Ten people were injured as police lobbed tear gas shells and charged baton to disperse engineering students near Hotel Intercontinental when they attempted to move...
Students of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) and several private engineering universities have announced a fresh program – a “Long March to Dhaka”...
Engineering students protesting at Shahbagh over different demands have withdrawn from the streets after DMP Commissioner Sheikh Md Sazzat Ali apologised for police baton charges...
Rejecting the interim government's newly formed committee, protesting engineering students have announced a fresh five-point demand. Speaking at a press conference this afternoon (27 August)...
Students of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) have announced a ‘Long March to Dhaka’ programme to press home their three-point demand, including the...
Protesting engineering students have called for an apology from Home Advisor Jahangir Alam Chowdhury and raised five demands, alleging a police attack on them. They...
Students from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology and several other engineering universities are blocking Dhaka’s Shahbagh intersection for a second consecutive day. They...
Speaking to reporters at the Bangladesh Secretariat on Wednesday, August 27, Fouzul Kabir Khan, holds portfolios of three ministries – Ministry of Power, Energy and...
Engineering students from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) and several other universities have blocked the Shahbagh intersection, staging a protest to press...
Students of the Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology (RUET) blocked the Dhaka-Rajshahi Highway to protest a police attack on their BUET peers, who are...