Bangladesh

Authorities cut some mobile internet services to quell anti-quota protests that have killed at least 12 people this week.

Incensed crowd facing riot police set BTV building on fire as students demand end to discriminatory job quotas.

The death toll is based on police sources, as the government has yet to announce casualty figures. At least six people were killed on Tuesday. Bangladesh ...

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

Protests against a civil service job quota system have spread across the country after six demonstrators were killed.

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

Media reports from Bangladesh say 19 more people have died in clashes between police and student protesters attempting to impose a “complete shutdown” of ...

Protesters set fire to the headquarters of the state broadcaster in Bangladesh on Thursday as violent clashes between students and police continued, ...

Thousands of students clash with police in protests against civil service hiring rules they call discriminatory.

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 ...

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 ...

Students have been demonstrating for weeks against a quota system for government jobs they say favors allies of the ruling party.

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

Internet and mobile services were cut off in Bangladesh on Friday following days of violent protests over the allocation of government jobs, with local ...

NEW DELHI: Telecommunications were widely disrupted in Bangladesh on Friday (Jul 19) 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 ...

Bangladeshi authorities had cut some mobile services on July 18 to try to quell the unrest. Read more at straitstimes.com.

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 ...

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 ...

Telecoms links were widely disrupted in Bangladesh on Friday, with television news channels going off the air amid violent student protests against quotas ...

Mobile internet access blocked and news broadcasts shut down as students demand end to discriminatory job quotas.

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 ...

KeepItOn coalition urges authorities in Bangladesh to ensure that people's access to internet during the ongoing student protests.

NEW DELHI - Deadly protests by thousands of students in Bangladesh against quotas in government jobs has brought focus to a history of violence in a country ...

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

The government of Bangladesh has imposed a nationwide communications shut down amidst recent protests. Bangladesh. – Getty Images.

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.

DHAKA: Bangladeshi student protesters stormed a prison and freed hundreds of inmates Friday (Jul 19) as police struggled to quell unrest, with huge rallies ...

The announcement came after police and security officials fired on protesters earlier Friday and banned all gatherings in the capital.

The curfew comes amid a telecommunications blackout that has left the country of 170 million cut off from the world.

DHAKA: Bangladesh on Friday (Jul 19) announced the imposition of a curfew and the deployment of military forces after police failed to quell days of deadly ...

Violence on July 18 in 47 of Bangladesh's 64 districts killed 27 and injured 1500. Read more at straitstimes.com.

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

A demonstrator gestures as protesters clash with paramilitary force Border Guard Bangladesh and the police outside the state-owned Bangladesh Television on ...