Students of Chittagong University boycotts all classes and examinations today, protesting yesterday's attack on members of quota reform movement at Sholosohor in Chittagong.

The students demonstrating for quota reform vow to boycott their classes and examinations across the country until the gazette notification abolishing the quota system in government jobs is published.

Jobseekers will launch fresh demonstration from Sunday demanding a gazette on abolition or reformation of the quota system in public service.

Protesters demanding reformation in the quota system in civil service yesterday threatened to wage tougher movement from Sunday if the government failed to publish a gazette notification to that end by today.

There has been no progress regarding the publication of a gazette abolishing the quotas in government jobs, the cabinet secretary has said as the deadline set by demonstrators expired yesterday.

Cabinet Secretary Mohammad Shafiul Alam tells journalists that the cabinet today did not hold any discussion on quota system in public service.

Leaders of quota reform movement yesterday issued an ultimatum to the government to publish a gazette notification by this month

Leaders of quota reform movement issue an ultimatum to the government for publishing within April the gazette on abolishing the quota system in government job as per the prime minister's decision.

Quota reformists protest the “throwing out” of female students at Dhaka University’s Sufia Kamal Hall demanding immediate removal of the hall’s provost.

The quota-reform agitators give a seven-day ultimatum to the authorities concerned for withdrawing all the cases filed during demonstrations at Shahbagh and Dhaka University.

Witnesses' accounts to Monday's incident involving three quota reform movement leaders contradict detectives' version that the trio

In 2016, the Supreme Court in a verdict on widespread abuse of police's powers over arrest and detention strongly denounced all sorts of torture by the law enforcement agencies and directed magistrates to take action against errant policemen in case of any such incident.

Transport system in the capital and other parts of the country collapsed yesterday as thousands of students demonstrating for reforms in the civil service quota system blocked key points in the capital and major highways. Commuters remained stuck for several hours in their vehicles on city roads and highways amid sweltering heat.

The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) demanded the formation of a judicial committee headed by a Supreme Court judge to investigate the attack on the students and job seekers waging movement for quota reforms in public service recruitment.

National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) condemns the attack on the students who have been demonstrating in the capital’s Shahbagh demanding reforms in the quota system in public services.

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader says the government will take decision on reforms in existing quota system in public service by May 7.