Story Archive
2024-07-22
Military, police maintain patrols to keep people inside their homes.
2024-07-21
The Supreme Court scaled back – but did not abolish – contentious quotas for government jobs.
2024-07-20
More than two dozen were killed in violent clashes in Dhaka.
2024-07-19
The death toll from clashes has risen dramatically as security forces struggle to restore order.
2024-07-19
A BenarNews journalist witnessed Border Guard Bangladesh members shoot three youths.
2024-07-18
Death toll climbs as anti-quota protesters accuse police and ruling party of stoking violence.
2024-07-18
Protests over a quota system for government jobs turned violent across the nation.
2024-07-17
Sheikh Hasina delivers address after seven were killed protesting against quota system for government jobs.
2024-07-16
A court’s reinstatement of a quota system for government jobs has stirred violent unrest.
2024-07-15
Sheikh Hasina had equated anti-quota protesters and collaborators with the Pakistan Army in the 1971 independence war.
2024-07-13
A new bill would give the envoy a $10 million annual budget to investigate atrocities against the ethnic minority.
2024-07-12
Thousands of civilians and about 100 junta troops have fled from the fighting into Bangladesh.
2024-07-12
Southeastern Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar, meanwhile, saw a foot of rain fall over 24 hours.
2024-07-08
Large loan request could help ease any unhappiness Beijing feels over Dhaka preferring New Delhi’s Teesta project.
2024-07-02
Authorities, recently arrived refugees say clashes between Myanmar junta, rebels drove them across the border.
