July uprising 2024
July 21, 2024: 2nd day of curfew, clashes continue
At least seven people were killed and dozens injured in sporadic clashes between law enforcers and protesters in Dhaka, Narayanganj, and Narsingdi on July 21, 2024 -- the second day of a nationwide curfew.
20 July 2025, 18:12 PM
It is time for a citizens’ petition law
A citizen petition system would allow for opposition views and alternative ideas to be aired, not suppressed.
20 July 2025, 07:30 AM
July Uprising: Nationwide film screenings today to commemorate one year
To honour the July Uprising, films such as “People Who Fought for Us” and “Digital Security Act: Story of Mushtaq Ahmed" will be screened at key locations across Bangladesh today.
20 July 2025, 04:59 AM
July uprising and the rise of collective power
Through this movement, the people of Bangladesh expressed their protest using a language shaped by long-standing discontent.
20 July 2025, 02:00 AM
Atrocities during July uprising: Of pellets and lost eyesight
20 lose both eyes; scores of people still bear the scars of eye injury
18 July 2025, 19:37 PM
July 19, 2024: Country descends into deeper crisis
By July 19, 2024, Bangladesh stood at the brink of collapse as the quota reform movement spiralled into its deadliest phase.
18 July 2025, 18:25 PM
Families of July’s fallen journalists: How are they now?
A year has passed since the country erupted in protests over the quota-reform movement — a wave of demonstrations that soon snowballed into a nationwide uprising.
18 July 2025, 18:00 PM
Why the July Charter matters
The July Charter may not do everything, but it must do enough to catalyse the much-needed reforms.
17 July 2025, 02:00 AM
Child victims of July uprising: Of abandoned toys and unlived tomorrows
They were readers of fairy tales, keepers of marbles, chasers of kites across twilight skies. Some still asked to sleep in their mother’s arms. Others, on the cusp of adolescence, had just begun to dream in the language of futures -- of stethoscopes, classrooms, galaxies. They were children, dreamers of careers, cartoons, and cricket.
16 July 2025, 18:11 PM
July 17, 2024: Grief turns into defiance
On the public holiday marking Ashura, Dhaka and other parts of the country witnessed unrelenting student protests, road and highway blockades, symbolic funeral prayers, coffin processions, and repeated clashes with police and pro-government activists.
16 July 2025, 18:06 PM
From fear to defiance: How Rajshahi University stood up on July 16
First campus to drive out BCL during quota protests
16 July 2025, 06:26 AM
A soul that lit the darkness
The way he embraced death raises a profound question: what truly gives life its meaning—its duration or its quality?
16 July 2025, 02:00 AM
July 16, 2024: Nationwide mayhem leaves 6 dead
July 16, 2024, marked a grim escalation in the quota reform protests as violence swept across Bangladesh, leaving at least six people dead, including three students, and hundreds injured in fierce clashes involving protesters, Chhatra League activists, and police..In Chattogram, three peop
15 July 2025, 18:30 PM
The hands that stretched to freedom
Abu Sayed is no longer just a name.
The English department student of Begum Rokeya University, Rangpur (BRUR) was brutally shot dead by police on this very day a year ago.
15 July 2025, 18:13 PM
Women’s voices drove anti-fascist struggle forward: Ali Riaz
He underscores the importance of institutionalising women's participation in nation-building
14 July 2025, 08:13 AM
Red is the colour of July
When July turns crimson repeatedly, you don’t need a commission of inquiry to recognise a pattern.
14 July 2025, 03:00 AM
July 12, 2024: No holiday from resistance
Despite the weekly holiday, anti-quota protesters once again blocked the Shahbagh intersection in Dhaka, demanding reforms to the quota system in government jobs and condemning the police action on students the previous day.
11 July 2025, 18:00 PM
Our dreams are NOT for sale!
Supreme Court Advocate Manzur-al-Matin writes
11 July 2025, 02:00 AM
‘Wherever they find, they will shoot’
Deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina personally authorised the use of lethal force against student-led protests in Bangladesh last year, according to a verified audio recording of a phone call revealed by BBC Eye.
9 July 2025, 18:02 PM
July 9, 2024: A pause before the storm
The ongoing Bangla Blockade paused for a day as students leading the quota reform movement prepared for their next round of protests.
8 July 2025, 18:06 PM