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For days, university students in Bangladesh have been locked in deadly clashes with the police and supporters of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s party, in which at least 19 people have been killed and more than 1,000 injured.
Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi recently, at Hyderabad House in Delhi, signed 10 memoranda of understanding – seven new and three renewed agreements to further strengthen the relationship between two neighbors. However, that four-day visit by Sheikh Hasina to India ended without any breakthrough in the long pending Teesta Water Sharing Treaty.
NEW DELHI (AP) — Internet and mobile services were cut off in Bangladesh on Friday, following days of violent protests over the allocation of government jobs, with local media reports saying at least 28 people had been killed this week.
DHAKA — Thirteen people were killed as thousands of students armed with sticks and rocks clashed with armed police in Dhaka on Thursday (July 18), the worst day of violence so far in protests in Bangladesh against a policy that sets quotas for the allocation of government jobs.
Protests in Bangladesh against the reimposition of a quota system for government jobs have turned deadly. Dozens of people were killed in demonstrations calling for an end to the quota system, which favours the children of fighters in the 1971 war of independence from Pakistan.
Tens of thousands of Bangladeshi citizens took to the streets on Thursday, joining students who have been agitating for weeks about a quota system for government jobs that benefits certain groups, including the descendants of those who fought for independence from Pakistan.
Police fire tear gas at students in Dhaka who are demonstrating against civil service hiring rules they call discriminatory.
Video shared by an opposition party in Bangladesh is said to show police detaining an imam as he led funeral prayers for students killed during demonstrations over government job quotas.