Bangladesh Police fired tear gas and lobbied stun grenades to disperse tens of thousands of protesters who returned to the streets demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
At least 34 people lost their lives while numerous others have been injured as the student protest has intensified across Bangladesh by the non-cooperation movement announced by the Anti-Discrimination Students Movement on Sunday, reported Dhaka Tribune.
Student protests in Bangladesh took a new turn as the protesters who were demonstrating over quotas in government jobs, are now calling for a nationwide civil disobedience campaign until Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's government resigns, reported Al Jazeera.
Shedding light on the quota protests in Bangladesh which resulted in a breakout of violence across the country, Former Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla said that perhaps the government did not gauge the dissatisfaction at various levels, making it a much larger moment than it is.
Students from different universities and colleges held protests against the "detention of six coordinators of the quota reform protest by the Detective Branch of Dhaka Metropolitan Police and forcing them to issue a statement on ending protests.
Randhir Jaiswal stated that the Indian High Commission has arranged for the safe and secure travel of Indians to the border crossing points or to the airport, as the case may be.
In identical messages on all three sites, "Operation HuntDown, Stop Killing Students," adding in red font colour: "It's not a protest anymore, it's a war now."
The BSF South Bengal Frontier has set up special assistance counters to provide comprehensive assistance to Indian students returning from Bangladesh amid the deadly protests over the quota system for civil service jobs, Officials said on Monday.
Reacting to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's remarks offering shelter to "helpless people" from the neighbouring country, Bharatiya Janata Party leader Ravi Shankar Prasad on Monday attacked the Trinamool Congress chief and said that this right belongs to the government of India,
In the latest update on the return of Indian nationals from violence-hit Bangladesh, the Ministry of External Affairs has said that over 4500 Indian students have returned to India so far.