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Chhatra League violence: How will the hall administration avoid liability?

The ferocity of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) in the residential hall of Rajshahi University has reached an extreme. They arbitrarily lock students’ rooms and kick out anybody they wish

The signing of Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) Peace Accord

Chittagong Hill Tracts Rebel group UPDF offers peace talks

A rebel group in Bangladesh has offered to hold peace talks, officials said Monday, raising hopes for an end to 25 years of violence that has killed hundreds of people

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Ending Israel's occupation key to halting violence: UN report

UN investigators on Tuesday blamed Israel's continued occupation and discrimination against Palestinians for the endless cycles of violence in the decades-long conflict, prompting angry Israeli ...

Supyar Devi (C, laying on ground) mourns for her three married daughters and two grandchildren, who were found dead in a well in Dudu village on May 28, at the family home in Chhapya village of India's Rajasthan state on 31 May, 2022

Death of three sisters spotlights India dowry violence

The sisters had wed brothers from the same household and lived under the same roof, but suffered constant violence from their husbands and in-laws, according to the trio’s grieving relatives

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3 killed, 11 wounded in latest US mass shooting

Three people were killed and 11 others wounded late Saturday in the US city of Philadelphia after multiple shooters opened fire into a crowd on a busy street, police said.

BNP's hopes and despair in politics of power

BNP's hopes and despair in politics of power

The election commission took a bold decision. Then why cannot they take a decision in the national elections as they did in the case of the pourashava?

Speakers at the research dissemination event of a research report titled ‘Adolescent Girls’ Vulnerabilities and Transitions in the context of Covid-19’at capital’s Brac Centre Inn

26pc adolescents victims of violence during coronavirus outbreak: Research

Comparatively younger adolescents were more subjected to violence. And 27 per cent adolescents aged between 12 to 14 years were victimis of violence

Chhatra League carries out violence at directives from higher-ups: Ex DUCSU leaders

Chhatra League carries out violence at directives from higher-ups: Ex DUCSU leaders

Former Dhaka University Central Students' Union (DUCSU) leaders alleged that Chhatra League is carrying out violence on DU campus at the directives of government higher-ups

BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir

AL unleashing a reign of terror ahead of national elections: Fakhrul

Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) on Monday vowed to move ahead braving what it said the government’s intensified repression to subdue its opponents ahead of the next election

Indian rapper killed in gang-related violence: Police

Indian rapper killed in gang-related violence: Police

An Indian rapper with a major following both at home and among the diaspora in Canada and Britain was gunned down near his hometown in a gang-related killing, Indian police have said.

Chhatra League men attack Chhatra Dal activists in front of Central Shaheed Minar on 24 May

Why does Chhatra League fear elections despite being victors in violence?

Chhatra League has the backing of a party like Awami League, the support of the government, of the administration and the police, so why should such a student organisation be scared of holding an ...

Actor Johnny Depp waves to supporters from his vehicle as he leaves a Fairfax County Courthouse on 27 May 2022 in Fairfax, Virginia

Depp vs Heard defamation case goes to the jury

Depp filed suit against Heard over an op-ed she wrote for The Washington Post in December 2018 in which she described herself as a “public figure representing domestic abuse”

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal

No legal basis of ‘Gono Commission’: Home Minister

They have published a book ‘2002 Diner Shontrash’. I don’t know what they have written in the book, said Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal

Government supporters and police clash outside the President's office in Colombo on 9 May, 2022. Violence raged across Sri Lanka late into the night on 9 May, 2022, with five people dead and some 180 injured as prime minister Mahinda Rajapaksa quit after weeks of protests.

Curfew in Sri Lanka after day of deadly unrest

Sri Lanka deployed thousands of troops and police Tuesday to enforce a curfew after five people were killed in the worst violence in weeks of protests over an unprecedented economic crisis

Charred remains of a bus is pictured near Sri Lanka's outgoing prime minister Mahinda Rajapaksa's official residence in Colombo 9 May, 2022

Sri Lanka's day of violence: key flashpoints

At least three people were killed and more than 150 wounded on Monday in a wave of violence between government supporters and demonstrators demanding President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's resignation.

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