Bangladesh

Incensed crowd facing riot police set BTV building on fire as students demand end to discriminatory job quotas.

Thousands of students clash with police in protests against civil service hiring rules they call discriminatory.

A High Security Alert has been issued for the whole of Bangladesh, as violent clashes between students and police continue.

Six people were killed in Bangladesh and hundreds injured on Tuesday during the ongoing students' protest against the quota system that reinstates a 30 per ...

Demonstrators announced they would enforce a "complete shutdown" across the country on Thursday in response to attacks on campus protesters.

The death toll is based on police sources, as the government has yet to announce casualty figures. At least six people were killed on Tuesday. Bangladesh ...

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AFP) — Bangladeshi students set fire to the country's state broadcaster on Thursday, a day after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina appeared on the ...

Media reports from Bangladesh say 19 more people have died in clashes between police and student protesters attempting to impose a “complete shutdown” of ...

A High Security Alert has been issued for the whole of Bangladesh, as violent clashes between students and police continue.

Students have been demonstrating for weeks against a quota system for government jobs they say favors allies of the ruling party.

The country is confronting some of its most violent unrest in years over a controversial job quota system. By Christina Lu, a reporter at Foreign Policy ...

Bangladesh has been gripped by violence after relentless clashes between student protesters, security officials and pro-government student activists over a ...

Protesters in Bangladesh set fire to several government buildings during a day of deadly nationwide clashes between students and riot officers, a police ...

Thousands of students armed with sticks and rocks clashed with armed police in Dhaka on Thursday as the Bangladesh authorities cut some mobile internet ...

Huge protests across Bangladesh escalated into deadly violence this week with clashes between students, pro-government supporters and armed police fueling ...

Anger over job quotas highlights deep economic distress in world's second-largest garment exporter.

Death toll expected to rise amid violence that has seen government buildings torched and telecommunications disrupted.

State authorities in Bangladesh have responded to student protests with violence and an internet shutdown. Death toll is rising.

Television news channels were off the air and telecommunications were widely disrupted amid violent student protests against quotas for government jobs in ...

Mobile internet access blocked and news broadcasts shut down as students demand end to discriminatory job quotas.

Protesting students have returned to the streets of the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka, defying a ban on public rallies following a day of clashes which left ...

KeepItOn coalition urges authorities in Bangladesh to ensure that people can access open, secure, and unrestricted internet during the ongoing student ...

The websites for PM Hasina's office, Bangladesh's central bank have been hacked amid a telecommunications blackout.

Bangladesh police on Friday arrested one of the country's most senior opposition party leaders and banned all public rallies in the capital Dhaka after days ...

Student protests in Bangladesh have turned violent with dozens of people reportedly killed and hundreds injured in clashes with police.

The rising death toll is a shocking indictment of the absolute intolerance shown by the Bangladeshi authorities to protest and dissent.

The Bangladesh government has decided to impose a curfew across the country and deploy the army, BBC Bangla reported on Friday, citing Prime Minister Sheikh ...

The announcement came after police and security officials fired on protesters earlier Friday and banned all gatherings in the capital.

Police have not provided details on the arrest, but Ruhul Kabir Rizvi Ahmed, a leader of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), is facing hundreds of charges, ...

Bangladesh imposes curfew after dozens killed in anti-government protests · An injured woman is assisted in the Mirpur area of Dhaka on Thursday as demonstrators ...

A government curfew was in place Saturday as military forces patrolled cities around Bangladesh after another day of violent clashes between student ...