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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 of deadly nationwide unrest after student protests that started weeks ago turned violent this week. Dhaka is in the midst of a near-total internet blackout,…

Protests in Bangladesh over government job quotas escalate, leading to clashes, calls for reform, and political tensions.

Police fire teargas at university campuses as students demand end to discriminatory job quotas

Bangladesh ordered schools and universities around the country to close indefinitely on Tuesday after six students were killed in protests that prompted the mobilisation of paramilitaries to keep order.

Students demanding reforms in the quota system say they have come under attack from the government and its allies.

Demonstrators demand end to scheme that prioritises families of veterans of 1971 independence war.

Police and students say police fired tear gas and charged with batons during clashes between a pro-government student body and student protesters, leaving dozens injured at a university in Bangladesh

River’s main channel previously ran about 100km south of Dhaka in Bangladesh