DUCSU
Ducsu election: Identity, strategy, and the politics
Those who won the Ducsu election on Tuesday have set a new precedent.
11 September 2025, 11:30 AM
Some allegations in otherwise smooth voting
Voters stood in long queues in blazing September heat yesterday, eager to cast what was, for most, the first ballot of their lives.
9 September 2025, 18:22 PM
Huge turnout, festivity mark Ducsu polls
Brimming with excitement and hope, thousands of students cast their votes in the Ducsu and hall union elections yesterday, as renewed democratic spirit and festive energy swept through the Dhaka University campus.
9 September 2025, 18:22 PM
A new breed of politics may take shape
Mushtuq Husain, who was elected Ducsu general secretary in 1989, expects the rise of a new generation of politics in Bangladesh in the wake of this year’s central student union polls in Dhaka University.
9 September 2025, 18:11 PM
DUCSU elections: How are students feeling about it?
The Dhaka University Central Students' Union, more commonly known as the DUCSU, is holding elections after six long years. But arguably, a fair election has not been held since the 1990s. The last DUCSU election, held in 2019 under the Awami League government, was marred by controversies and ele
4 September 2025, 16:00 PM
Ducsu election: Classes to remain closed only on Sept 9
Classes and exams will continue as usual on September 8 and 10
3 September 2025, 14:21 PM
DU restricts outsiders in dormitories ahead of Ducsu, hall polls
Chief Returning Officer said in an official notification issued today
2 September 2025, 05:41 AM
Hamim for Ducsu charter changes to ensure rights
Shaikh Tanvir Baree Hamim, the general secretary candidate from the Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD)-nominated panel in the Dhaka University Central Students’ Union election, has pledged to bring major changes to the Ducsu constitution.
27 August 2025, 18:29 PM
A non-inclusive July Charter will be a betrayal
If the charter turns out to be a document that serves only the majority and the powerful, and if it is imposed upon the rest, it will be a huge disappointment.
27 August 2025, 07:00 AM
Housing, food may top the manifestos
Panels contesting Ducsu election are signalling key reform priorities in their upcoming manifestos
23 August 2025, 18:28 PM
Ducsu polls: Candidates start reaching out to voters
Ahead of the central students’ union and hall union elections on September 9, informal campaigns have begun at Dhaka University.
22 August 2025, 18:47 PM
Ducsu: From student union to shaping Bangladesh’s politics
From Language Movement to anti-Ershad protests, Dhaka University’s student body left a lasting mark on national history
21 August 2025, 11:14 AM
DUCSU polls 2025: Democracy’s dress rehearsal?
We can view the holding of DUCSU polls (followed by JUCSU and RUCSU polls in the same month) as a step towards rebuilding democracy from the foundation.
16 August 2025, 10:20 AM
Tougher demo if no action against attackers by April 8: Nur
Ducsu VP Nurul Haq Nur threatens to launch a tougher movement if the authorities of Dhaka University do not take any action by April 8 against those who assaulted him and a resident student in two separate incidents.
3 April 2019, 07:16 AM
BCL men ‘confine’ DUCSU VP Nur at SM hall
Bangladesh Chhatra League men reportedly confine Ducsu VP Nurul Haque Nur and its Social Welfare Secretary Aktar Hossain at Salimullah Muslim Hall of Dhaka University.
2 April 2019, 14:14 PM
Ducsu finally gets going
The Dhaka University Central Students' Union yesterday saw its first executive meeting in nearly three decades with different student organisations demanding repolling to the prestigious platform.
23 March 2019, 18:00 PM
Decision on Hasina’s life term Ducsu membership in next meeting: DU VC
Dhaka University Vice-Chancellor and Ducsu President Prof Md Akhtaruzzaman says that they will reach a decision later over the proposal of giving life term membership of the university's students’ union to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
23 March 2019, 12:55 PM
I am happy as well as sad: Nur
Terming the recent Ducsu elections “tainted and questionable”, its Vice President Nurul Haque Nur says he assumed office only to continue to place the demand for reelection before the Dhaka University authorities.
23 March 2019, 09:01 AM
Student movements and the culture of dissent
After a long and agonising wait, we are finally going to witness the election of Dhaka University Central Students' Union (Ducsu) on March 11.
5 March 2019, 18:00 PM
Make Ducsu centre of all campus activities
It is good to learn that the DU authorities are hoping to hold the Dhaka University Central Students' Union (Ducsu) election by March 31 this year.
15 January 2019, 18:00 PM