Student-movement

The ‘Cockroach People’s Party’ (CJP) is once again preparing to take to the streets. After a national executive committee meeting in New Delhi on Monday the organization announced that it will hold a peaceful march in the capital on September 5, Teachers’ Day. The organization claims that key parts of the commitments made by the central government after the July 25 agreement have still not been implemented. Family members of candidates who died in incidents related to the National Eligib...

A July fighter and a former leader of the Anti Discrimination Student Movement were allegedly assaulted at an event held in Shariatpur to mark July Mass Uprising Day. The allegation has been raised against Mahbub Morshed Tipu Madbar, general secretary of Sadar Upazila BNP. The incident took place around 10:30 am Wednesday at the Shariatpur Municipality Auditorium. The district administration was organizing a reception for the families of martyrs and July fighters. July fighter Zakir Hossain Mint...

A court has shown Ajay Kar Khokon, former general secretary of the banned organization Chhatra League, arrested in the murder case of Md. Nazmul Mia in the Mohammadpur area of the capital. On Monday, Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Md. Jamsed Alam ordered that he be shown arrested and sent to jail. With this, he has now been shown arrested in three cases. Later, as he was being taken out of the courtroom, Ajay Kar said, “There is no general diary or case against me in the country. Even then, one c...

Meta has apologized to the Indian government after a video of Prime Minister Narendra Modi was temporarily blocked on Facebook in India. According to sources familiar with the matter, the company said the video was removed because of a technical error. A Meta spokesperson said in a statement, “The content was removed by mistake. It has since been restored.” According to the sources, the Indian government is treating the matter seriously. Meta’s explanation and the circumstances under whic...

India’s Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has resigned amid a student movement led by the Cockroach Janata Party (CJP). He submitted his resignation letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Pradhan confirmed the development in a post on social media platform X on Saturday afternoon. He resigned a few hours before the third round of talks between the CJP and the central government, scheduled for Saturday afternoon. In a statement posted on X, Pradhan said, “Considering the situat...

Students have blocked the Shahbagh intersection to press their three-point demand, including the resignation of the education minister. They blocked the intersection at around 6 pm on Wednesday. Earlier on Wednesday, the protesting students began a long march toward the Secretariat after staging a road blockade and demonstration for about half an hour at the Science Laboratory intersection. They remained at the Education Building intersection until around 6 pm After nearly two hours of de...

Students demanding the resignation of the education minister are staging a sit-in protest in front of the Parliament Building after marching from Science Lab in the capital. They took position in front of Gate No. 2 of the Parliament Building at around 6 pm on Tuesday. Earlier on Tuesday, students blocked the road at the Science Lab intersection in the capital, pressing three demands, including the resignation of Education Minister A N M Ehsanul Hoque Milon. They later staged demonstrati...

HSC examinees leading the ongoing movement have announced a new program demanding the resignation of the education adviser. According to the program, they will observe a ‘March to the Ministry of Education’ on Wednesday. The announcement was made around 3 pm Tuesday by protesting students in Uttara. At the time, they issued an ultimatum demanding the resignation of Education Adviser A N M Ehsanul Hoque Milon. Meanwhile, protesters staged a demonstration in the Dhaka University (DU) campu...