The authorities of Hajee Mohammad Danesh Science and Technology University have taken disciplinary action against nine students, including expelling them from class examinations, in connection with a ragging incident. A notice signed by the university's registrar Professor Saifur Rahman, informed the concerned about the punishment. Read: HC orders Kushtia DC to probe ragging of a female student at IU The university Proctor Dr Mamunur Rashid confirmed that disciplinary action has been taken against the accused. According to the extent of ragging, two students of the 22nd batch of Marketing department were expelled from participating in classes and examinations for two semesters (one year) and four from one semester (six months). Three other students have been warned on oral notices. Read: JU organises ragging resistance rally Some of the new students of the university's 2023 academic year were harassed in different ways on the pretext of ragging in the residential hostel area including the campus on August 24. In this regard, the students complained to the university administration. The matter was investigated and evidence was found.

A college student was stabbed and injured in an attack by miscreants in Khilgaon RailGate area on Tuesday. The victim was identified as Kaisar Ahmed Shourav, 18, a class XII student of Siddheshwari College and resident of Shahjahanpur area. Quoting Abu Hanif, father of Shourav Inspector Bachhu Mia, in-charge of Dhaka Medical College and Hospital said, Shourav picked up a quarrel with some miscreants while he along with his two friends was returning to home in the afternoon. At one stage, he tried to run away but a miscreant stabbed him from behind with a knife, leaving him injured. Later, he was taken to DMCH.  

More than 200 Rajshahi University (RU) students were injured in a clash with locals over a bus seat on Saturday. The incident took place at the university's Binodpur gate in the evening, said Professor Sultan-Ul-Islam, pro-vice-chancellor of the university. The injured are now receiving treatment at Rajshahi University Medical Centre and Rajshahi Medical College Hospital (RMCH). At least 10 campus journalists were also injured while covering the incident. Witnesses said Akash, a student of the university, was coming to Rajshahi by bus from Bogura. He had an argument with the driver Shariful and his assistant Ripon over the bus seat. When the bus reached the Binodpur area of the university, they again got into an argument. Later, a local shopkeeper came there and got into an argument with the students. This ultimately led to the clash. During the clash, the students set several shops and the police box at Binodpur gate on fire.

A court in Moscow sentenced a student activist to 8 1/2 years in prison for social media posts criticizing Russia’s war in Ukraine, the latest step in a sweeping crackdown on dissent unleashed by the Kremlin. Dmitry Ivanov, 23, was convicted of spreading false information about the Russian army, which was made a criminal offense under a new law that Russian lawmakers rubber-stamped a week after Moscow sent troops into Ukraine. The legislation has been used to prosecute individuals who deviate from the government’s official narrative of the conflict that the Kremlin insists on calling “a special military operation.” Prominent opposition politicians, such as Ilya Yashin, who is serving an 8 1/2 prison term, and Vladimir Kara-Murza, who is in jail awaiting trial, also were charged with spreading false information about the military. Also Read: A year into Ukraine war, bodies dug up in once occupied town Ivanov was charged over a number of social media posts in his Telegram channel that called Russia’s campaign in Ukraine a “war” and talked about Russian forces attacking civilians and civilian infrastructure in Ukraine, committing war crimes in the Kyiv suburbs of Bucha and Irpin, and targeting the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant. Most were reposts from other sources. At the time of his April 2022 arrest, Ivanov was a student at Lomonosov Moscow State University, one of Russia’s top universities also known as the MSU. He ran a popular Telegram channel called Protest MSU, which was launched in 2018 to cover student protests against the construction next to the university’s main building of a fan zone for the Russia-hosted World Cup soccer tournament. Ivanov initially was jailed for 10 days on the charge of organizing an unauthorized rally. Authorities jailed him again on the same charge for 25 days, and then he was arrested over the social media posts. Also Read: Russians mark Ukraine war anniversary with flowers, arrests While in custody, the student missed his final exams and failed to submit his final dissertation. He was expelled from the university. During Ivanov’s trial, in an unusual twist the court approved a defense request to subpoena Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov and Russia’s ambassador to the U.N., Vasily Nebenzya. Ivanov’s lawyers argued that since the authorities had used the officials’ statements to prove that Ivanov’s social media posts contained false information, they should be deposed in court. However, neither of the three complied with the subpoenas to appear in court. In his final address to the court last week, Ivanov rejected the charges against him as “looking absurd” and said the crime he was prosecuted for “shouldn’t exist at all.” “The investigation, in trying to accuse me of spreading ‘fakes,’ has built one big fake (itself). Literally the entire indictment, from the first to the very last word, contradicts the reality,” Ivanov said. “I, in the meantime, stand by every word I wrote a year ago.”

A Bangladeshi student named Md Golam Syed Rinku has been reported missing in the wake of the powerful earthquake that rocked Türkiye and Syria along their borders early Monday, toppling hundreds of buildings and killing more than 2,800 people. Rinku is from Bogura, Mohammed Nore-Alam, consul general of Bangladesh in Istanbul, told UNB. "Nur, one of the two missing students, has been found. However, Rinku is still missing," he added. Rinku's friends identified him as an undergraduate student but could not provide any more details. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Dhaka is in touch with the Embassy of Bangladesh in Ankara. "We are in touch with our mission," MoFA spokesperson Seheli Sabrin told UNB. Authorities feared the death toll would keep climbing as rescuers searched through tangles of metal and concrete for survivors in a region beset by more than a decade of Syria's civil war and a refugee crisis, AP reported. Read more: Powerful quake rocks Turkey and Syria, kills more than 2,800

The fine arts department students of Chattogram University were asked to leave their hall and the campus by 10pm Thursday due to "renovation work" on the campus, the authorities said. The decision was taken at the 542nd syndicate meeting this evening, Chattogram University Proctor Rabiul Hasan Bhuiyan said. "After the urgent meeting, the students were asked to leave the campus and vacate the Shilpi Rashid Chowdhury dormitory by 10pm. All in-person classes and exams will be suspended in the fine arts institute for the next month to carry out some renovation work," he added. On Wednesday night, the proctorial team and police conducted a raid on the campus. They searched every room of the institution's Shilpi Rashid Chowdhury dormitory and the teachers' club. On November 2 last year, the students staged a sit-in programme and started boycotting classes for an indefinite period to press home their 22-point demand, including renovation of dormitories and the library, and relocation of the campus to Hathazari main campus. On November 16, the students staged a demonstration, locking the main gate of the institute and boycotting classes and exams, as their demands were not met. The students returned to classes on January 23 on some conditions. However, they resumed their protest Tuesday as their "demands were not met." Read more: 22-point demand: CU fine arts students on indefinite class boycott

A first year student of the journalism and media studies department of Jahangirnagar University is on life support after being hit by a bike and dragged under the bike on campus. The incident took place near Maulana Bhasani Hall at 7:30 pm. The victim Jahid was going to "Gerua" near campus.The bike hit from behind and dragged him several yards. Ferdous Mahamud Neon of the philosophy department was driving the bike. Some of Jahid's friends and other students took him to university medical centre then to Enam Medical College Hospital. Ujjal Kumar Mandal, assistant professor of his department, quoting doctors, said that Jahid's condition is not good. "He is on life support. He has scalp fracture on the right side of head. Brain hemorrhage on the left side of head." In this regard, Proctor ASM Firoz Ul Hasan said, "I went to Enam Medical and saw the injured student. I will go out and talk to the students." Meanwhile, students of the journalism department staged a protest before the vice-chancellor's house. Read more: Northern University  student killed in road crash

In a historic judgment today, the High Court said that from now on, mothers will be recognised as legal guardians of students in official documents. The High Court bench of Justice Naima Haider and Justice Razik-Al-Jalil pronounced the judgment. After hearing on January 16, the court fixed January 24 for delivering the verdict on whether mothers will be recognised as legal guardians or not. Advocate Ainun Nahar Siddiqua, Advocate SM Rezaul Karim and Advocate Ayesha Akhter stood for the petitioner at the court while Deputy Attorney General Amit Das Gupta represented the state. Read more: HC issues rule on migration system in admission process According to the lawyers, a female SSC examinee from Thakurgaon was denied admit card in 2007 as she could not mention her father's name in the information form which is required before participating in the Secondary School Certificate (SSC) examination. The girl grew up with her mother after her father left them without giving them recognition. Later, on August 2, 2009, three human rights organizations — Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust (BLAST), Bangladesh Mahila Parishad and Nari Paksha — jointly filed a writ petition citing public interest. On August 3 of the same year, the High Court bench of Justice Syed Refat Ahmed and Justice Moinul Islam Chowdhury issued a rule asking why this discriminatory provision, which is an obstacle to human rights, equality and especially the right to education, should not be declared as contrary to law and unconstitutional. Read more: HC issues rule on compensation for daily labourers jailed by mobile court The court also ordered submitting a report on the education boards where mentioning both father’s and mother’s names is compulsory in getting the registration cards for the SSC examinations and what kind of measures are taken to ensure participation of those eligible examinees in the examination who are unable to mention the identity of their fathers. Later on June 6, 2021, Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust (BLAST) filed a supplementary affidavit in court on behalf of the petitioners.

Vehicular movement on Airport Road remained suspended for one hour on Monday as protestors blocked the road following the death of a university student in a road crash. Azizul Haque, officer-in-charge of Airport Police Station, said the students of Northern University took to the street around 1:05 pm to press home their four point demand, halting vehicular movement on the road. Earlier on Sunday, Nadia, 24, a 4th year student of the Pharmacy department of Northern University, died when a Victor Paribahan bus hit the motorcycle she was on near Jamuna Future Park in the city. The demands of the students are cancellation of the route permit of Victor Paribahan Classic; to provide compensation to the family members of Nadia; provide adequate evidence of arresting the driver and helper of the killer bus, and construction of a safe bus stoppage in Kawla area. Also Read: Northern University  student killed in road crash A long tailback has been created from Airport to Khilkhet area which spread to Mohakhali, Badda, and Gulshan areas, following the road blockade, OC Haque said. On information, police rushed to the spot and assured the students of meeting their demands. Traffic on the road returned to normal around 2pm. Quoting witnesses, police said Nadia, riding on friend Mehedi’s motorcycle, was going to Narda area at noon. When the motorcycle reached near Jamuna Future Park area, a bus of Victor Paribahan hit the motorcycle at around 12:45 pm. Nadia fell on the street and died on the spot, while her friend Mehedi received minor injuries, said OC of Bhatara police station ABM Asaduzzaman.    

A student of DWF Nursing College apparently committed suicide by hanging herself in the dormitory of the nursing college on Friday night. The deceased was identified as Lamia Akter Saima, 22, a third-year student of the college and daughter of Shajahan Molla. Sudip Kumar Nath, a teacher at the college, said that Lamia did not go to the Sher-E Bangla Medical College and Hospital for her internship with her batchmates due to sickness. She was alone in her room. Other inmates of the hostel found Lamia hanging from the ceiling in her room at around 8 p.m. and rushed her to the hospital, where doctors declared her dead. “The reason behind the apparent suicide could not be known. We informed her family,” he said. SI Moinul of Sher-E Bangla Medical College and Hospital Police Camp said police recovered the body and sent it to the hospital morgue. A police case will be filed over the unusual death, he added.