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The quota system has become a flashpoint in this debate. Its reform highlights the need for Bangladesh to find new ways of honouring its past while fostering a more inclusive economic future.
Quota reform may have been the spark ... Although the student protest movement created a rare opportunity for a broad coalition, opposition parties like the BNP and JI were too mired in past ...
A court in Bangladesh’s capital Thursday allowed ... government to crush the students in the quota reform movement. The ...
In Bangladesh, a day of national mourning will be observed today over deaths of people who were killed in the recent countrywide violence centering the Quota Reform Movement. The decision was taken at ...
In the wake of recent violent clashes between student protesters and Bangladesh Chhatra League ... from celebrities has emerged for the quota reform movement. The incident, which occurred on ...
"We started this movement for reforming the quota," Nahid said. "But we did not want quota reform at the expense ... some leaders of the opposition Bangladesh National Party.
The students argue that the quota system is discriminatory and hinders merit-based appointments in government jobs.
They allegedly harassed students on campus, and even threatened to kill many of them if they would participate in or support the quota reform movement ... to Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB).
SAD initially began a street campaign demanding reform of the quota system for ... Hasina left Bangladesh for India on August 5, 2024, when the violent movement visibly turned into a mass uprising.
A drive for fairness in hiring led students to overthrow a ruler. Now a new student-led party anchors itself in such values.
DHAKA: Bangladesh's top court on Wednesday (July ... adding there was "no justification for the anti-quota movement". Thousands of students on Wednesday threw up barricades across key ...
People are pouring into the streets of the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka to voice their displeasure at where the country is going, less than a year after a student-led revolution toppled former prime ...