The infiltrators were handed the opportunity on a silver platter the moment BCL ensured that violence took over the movement.

While the micro and messo levels of losses are immediate and short term, macro level losses would be medium to long term.

The government wasted time while the violence continued.

History and ordinary people in general will remember very well what happened over the last week or so.

They are struggling to provide necessary care to patients

As a grandchild of a freedom fighter, I would have felt ashamed to use the quota after so many lost their lives over this issue.

It is critical that there should be proper accounting for who authorised this kind of use of force, which has been excessive and disproportionate

The vigour of youth emerges because they have not been disillusioned into accepting the deficiencies of the present.

Internet shutdown is one of the major aspects of control that the Awami League government has exercised to curb the protests.

Proper action needed to remove accumulated waste

Court grants 93 percent quota for talent-based recruitment

The students’ awakening was unsurprising for those with some political sensibility left.

Investigate allegations of abuse

Resulting damage could have severe long-term impacts

There is no shame in admitting that in the last few days many of us have cried helplessly, over the senseless deaths of students—teenagers or in their early twenties—the same age or close to the ages of our children.

It is a special kind of horror to see the semi-abstract theories you studied for your semi-abstract major come to life, and begin to apply to events 20 minutes away from you.

The Appellate Division verdict of July 21 has opened the scope for resolution of the main issue around the demands coming from the quota reform movement.

Legal action for violence is vital, and so is addressing popular anger

The impact of all these on the poor and low-income groups will be devastating.

The verdict is in. The Appellate Division through its observations has recommended that quotas be restricted to seven percent: five percent for freedom fighters’ descendants, one percent for ethnic minorities, and one percent for people with disabilities.