Bangladesh

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

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

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

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.

A High Security Alert has been issued for the whole of Bangladesh, as violent clashes between students and police continue.

Following the escalating violence during the student protests about quota reforms in Bangladesh in July, Catherine West, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of ...

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

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

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

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

Anger over job quotas highlights deep economic distress in world's second-largest garment exporter.

Bangladesh issued a high security alert across the country and shut down internet and mobile services on Friday after violent protests against a government ...

Death toll expected to rise amid violence that has seen government buildings torched and telecommunications disrupted.

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 ...

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.

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 can access open, secure, and unrestricted internet during the ongoing student ...

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.

The rising death toll is a shocking indictment of the absolute intolerance shown by the Bangladeshi authorities to protest and dissent.

Authorities in Bangladesh have imposed a nationwide curfew, after further rioting in the capital Dhaka left an additional 35 people dead.

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 ...

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

Police have not provided details on the arrest, but Ruhul Kabir Rizvi Ahmed, a leader of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), is facing hundreds of charges, ...