Bangladesh

DHAKA: Bangladeshi students set fire to the country's state broadcaster on Thursday (Jul 18) as protests against civil service hiring rules escalated, ...

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 ...

Protesters set the headquarters of Bangladesh's main state broadcaster ablaze on Thursday after riot police retreated there after firing rubber bullets.

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

Thirteen people were killed as thousands of students armed with sticks and rocks clashed with armed police in Dhaka on Thursday, the worst day of violence ...

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

NEW DELHI (Reuters) -Telecommunications were widely disrupted in Bangladesh on Friday amid violent student protests against quotas for government jobs in ...

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

Bangladesh is suffering a nationwide Internet shutdown as students armed with sticks and hurling stones clash with police in protests against the government ...

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.

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.

DHAKA: Television news channels in Bangladesh were off the air and telecommunications were widely disrupted on Friday (Jul 19) amid violent student protests ...

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 ...

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

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

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.

Student protesters in Bangladesh on Friday stormed a prison, freeing possibly hundreds of inmates, and staged rallies in the capital Dhaka despite a police ...

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 ...

GENEVA: UN human rights chief Volker Turk said Friday (July 19) he was deeply concerned by this week's violence in Bangladesh, calling the attacks on ...

Bangladesh announces a nationwide curfew and the deployment of military forces after police failed to quell days of deadly unrest spreading throughout the ...

NEW DELHI — Bangladesh announced a nationwide curfew on Friday evening after clashes between police and various student groups killed dozens of people amid ...

DHAKA : Bangladesh soldiers patrolled Dhaka's deserted streets on Saturday (Jul 20) amid a curfew to quell deadly students-led protests against government ...