Abhijit Dipke, founder of the Cockroach Janata Party, or CJP, demanded the resignation of Indian Home Minister Amit Shah on July 30, alleging that police action against students during a July 20 march over examination irregularities was ordered by Shah. Dipke said the attack on students and bloodshed among protesters could not have occurred without the home minister’s instructions.

A day earlier, opposition leader Rahul Gandhi made a similar allegation during debate on an anti-question-paper-leak bill and also sought Shah’s resignation. The report said police used batons, tear gas and pellets during the march. Dipke further alleged that Delhi Police deliberately created a stone-throwing incident to justify action against protesters, claiming stones and a damaged vehicle were brought to Jantar Mantar and that BJP members threw stones while students were blamed.

Dipke rejected allegations that CJP received foreign funding for its Jantar Mantar protest, saying failure to stop such funding would itself reflect a Home Ministry failure. The report said Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan left office on July 25 following the movement. Dipke also alleged harassment of activists after protests were withdrawn and said the movement could expand if necessary.

State Minister for Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives Mir Shah Alam said the current government’s achievements and public welfare activities during its first 180 days must be presented to the public in a factual, concise and objective manner. He made the remarks as chief guest at a meeting on Thursday, July 30, at the Rural Development and Cooperatives Division conference room in the Secretariat. The meeting reviewed progress in implementing the ministry and division’s 180-day action plan under the government’s election manifesto.

At the start of the meeting, offices and agencies under the division presented implementation progress, achievements, existing challenges and proposed responses. The state minister directed each office to provide brief, data-based accounts of its work and results. He said reports should include specific information on tree planting and environmental protection, employment creation, women’s empowerment, new projects, agricultural development, loan distribution, beneficiary numbers, cooperative membership growth, training programmes and public-awareness activities.

He also called for stronger coordination with NGOs, volunteer groups and social organisations to make government activities more effective and public-oriented. Mir Shah Alam stressed skills training, third-language education and needs-based technical training to expand overseas employment opportunities. He said an initiative would be taken to conduct a national survey collecting population, socioeconomic and other important data to support future planning and targeted service delivery.

Sheikh Azizur Rahman, who was seriously injured during the July movement, met Prime Minister Tarique Rahman on Thursday, July 30, 2026, at the Prime Minister’s Office under the Cabinet Division at the Bangladesh Secretariat. Azizur presented the national flag he had tied around his head to stop bleeding from a gunshot wound. The flag had become stained with blood, and he said handing it to the prime minister fulfilled a long-held wish.

The meeting followed a media report saying Azizur had not received recognition as a July warrior despite being shot, allegedly because of his involvement with Chhatra Dal. After the report came to the prime minister’s attention, Additional Press Secretary Atikur Rahman Rumon was instructed to look into the matter and Azizur was brought to the office. The prime minister asked about his injuries, education, treatment, living conditions and his work driving a CNG vehicle to cover education costs.

Azizur is a second-year social work honours student at Government Bangla College and a member of its Chhatra Dal convening committee. He is from Lohagara upazila in Narail. The report says he was injured during the July 2024 mass movement at Mirpur-10 flyover, arrested on July 19, remanded for two days and released on July 21. It says he has yet to receive July warrior recognition.

Rural Development and Cooperatives Minister Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said that, in his experience over five months as a minister, nothing has changed in the country and people who took bribes continue to do so. Speaking as chief guest at a discussion meeting at the DFP auditorium in the Circuit House in the capital on Thursday, he called for change in the state and society in line with the spirit of July.

Fakhrul, also BNP secretary general, described change as a scientific and ongoing process, while saying that achieving it through movements and war under rules is different. He said Bangladesh gained independence through war in 1971 but has continued to call for change since then. He compared Bangladesh's position with the economic progress and livelihoods of China and Singapore.

He said lives have repeatedly been lost whenever change was demanded, and that young people joined the July 2024 movement, initially over their own demands before it developed into a demand for a change of government. He said the sacrifices made for change must be upheld, or the tears of mothers and bloodshed of July martyrs would be lost. Representatives of media, judicial and professional bodies also spoke at the event.

Leaders of Jahangirnagar University Central Students’ Union, or JAKSU, have rejected an administrative decision allowing elected JAKSU and hall union representatives to remain in university-assigned dormitories until their terms end, even after their student status expires. The decision was announced in a notice signed by acting registrar Dr A B M Azizur Rahman on July 29. JAKSU leaders and student organisation representatives criticised the move on social media.

The notice said students elected to posts in JAKSU and hall unions could stay in assigned halls for the duration of their respective terms. However, Clause 5(ta) of the university’s Student Discipline Ordinance-2018 requires students to leave halls within seven days after their academic life ends. JAKSU social service and human resource development secretary Ahsan Labib said JAKSU had not made such a demand and called for the office order to be withdrawn.

Executive member Nabila Binte Harun alleged the administration was using JAKSU to legitimise an opportunity for others to stay unlawfully and demanded rejection of the decision. Student Dal convenor Jahiruddin Mohammad Babar questioned differing treatment of expired students, while Student Shakti president Ziauddin Ayan asked whether separate rules were being created for ordinary students and JAKSU leaders.

In an interview with Amar Desh published on July 30, 2026, Fatema Rahman Bithi said her decision to lead from the front during the July uprising in Tangail was driven by her desire for a Bangladesh founded on equality, justice and democracy. Politically active since 2018, she said restrictions on freedom of expression and repression of students’ and ordinary people’s demands made silence feel like surrender to injustice.

Bithi said she led marches despite threats and attacks she attributed to Chhatra League, police barricades and fears of arrest, and said she also faced legal cases. She described how, on July 18, she took about 50 female students into a diagnostic centre after police began baton charges, firing tear gas and bullets. After police moved away, she said arrangements were made to take the students home safely and send injured male colleagues to hospital.

She said women activists’ leadership, organising and sacrifices have not received full recognition after the uprising, citing cyberbullying and mental harassment. Bithi called for rule of law, democratic rights, freedom of expression, institutional accountability and equality of opportunity, urging younger people to remain active against injustice.

Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer and parliamentary opposition leader Dr Shafiqur Rahman said betrayal of July fighters would not be forgiven by Allah. He made the remarks at a discussion meeting with families of martyrs of the July mass uprising and injured July fighters at about 1 pm on Thursday. He said the referendum verdict would be implemented on Bangladesh’s soil and that his side would never bow before injustice.

Rahman said the July revolution was not intended to remove one party and install another in power. He also said Jamaat had not compromised with autocrats at night while protesting during the day. His remarks linked the party’s stated position to responsibility toward families of those killed and people injured in the uprising.

According to the report, the meeting brought together martyr families and injured July fighters. Rahman reiterated a commitment to implementing the referendum result and maintaining a stance against injustice. No further details about the venue, the referendum, or specific implementation steps were provided in the source.

A report published by Amar Desh on July 30, 2026 recounts how quota reform protests in Chattogram during July and August 2024 developed into a student-public mass uprising. Students from Chittagong University, Chittagong College and other institutions joined the programmes, followed by workers, parents, professionals, businesspeople and activists from political parties. The report says the movement culminated on August 5, when news spread that then-prime minister Sheikh Hasina had resigned and left the country.

According to the report, police operations, attacks and gunfire in Muradpur on July 16 left three people dead and more than 100 injured. Chittagong University student Hriday Chandra Tarua, injured in clashes on July 18, later died while receiving treatment. A curfew was imposed from July 19, mobile internet was shut down, and the army and Border Guard Bangladesh were deployed, but small marches and organisational activities continued.

Large marches and rallies in early August included a one-point demand for the government’s resignation. Preliminary draft data from the Health Ministry and local district administration put the death toll in Chattogram division at 43, with more than 1,738 people injured.

National Citizen Party, or NCP, chief organiser for the northern region Sarjis Alam accused BNP activists of attacking his vehicle in Golapganj, Sylhet, on Thursday. In social-media posts, he alleged that BNP “terrorists” carried out a bloody attack and vandalised the vehicle. He later alleged a second attack at Five Mile Bazar in Sylhet and asked whether Tarique Rahman wanted to become Sheikh Hasina.

Police said stones were thrown at Alam’s vehicle as he travelled toward Kanaighat after completing a programme in Golapganj. The vehicle’s glass was broken, but no one was injured. The police account did not identify the people involved or attribute responsibility to any political party.

The report also refers to an attack on an NCP march in Habiganj on Tuesday. NCP had accused local BNP and Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal leaders and activists in that incident. BNP leaders, however, denied the allegations related to the Habiganj attack.

Khulna University Vice-Chancellor Professor Dr. Md. Rezaul Karim said in an article that the university played a peaceful and disciplined role in Bangladesh’s 2024 July mass uprising. Students used human chains, protest gatherings, marches and awareness programmes to voice support for democratic rights. The article says coordinated programmes with Khulna University of Engineering and Technology, Government BL College, Khulna Medical College and other institutions built wider unity in the south-western region.

The account identifies the death of mathematics student Mir Mahfuzur Rahman Mughdha as a defining sacrifice for the university. It says he was shot while distributing water among people involved in the movement. After his death, students sought an absentee funeral prayer on campus. The article says the then university administration initially hesitated over a positive decision, but the prayer was ultimately held following students’ firm stance and moral support from some teachers.

The university has moved to observe 18 July as Shaheed Mir Mughdha Day, rename its main gate Shaheed Mir Mughdha Toron, and establish a July ’24 Mass Uprising Memory Corner. It also plans to name an inter-discipline football tournament after Mughdha and install Mughdha Water Corners in university buildings.

Hundreds of people in Rampur, Uttar Pradesh, are holding a sit-in demanding withdrawal of an order to demolish 38 buildings at Mohammad Ali Jauhar University. On July 15, the Rampur district administration declared 38 of the 40 buildings on the 250-acre campus illegal and instructed the university to demolish them at its own expense by August 5. It warned that government bulldozers would be used if the deadline was not met.

The state administration has issued an interim stay on the Rampur Development Authority order, but Vice-Chancellor Zahiruddin said it only extended time and did not cancel the order. Samajwadi Party legislator Javed Ali Khan described the move as political retaliation. BJP state spokesperson Rakesh Tripathi rejected that allegation, saying the action was a normal legal process against construction on illegal land and outside approved plans.

The university was founded in 2006 through the efforts of Azam Khan and has about 3,000 students. Nearly half are women, while more than one-third are from the Hindu community. Students and local residents continue their protest, and students say they will pursue legal and social efforts to protect the campus.

Tan​zila Akter Tanu recounts her participation in Bangladesh’s July 2024 anti-discrimination student movement, describing street violence and repeated injuries. She writes that students from Dhaka University and educational institutions across the country mobilised to demand merit as the sole measure of qualification. She identifies the July 16 killing of Abu Sayeed by police gunfire at Begum Rokeya University in Rangpur as a turning point that transformed the movement’s atmosphere.

According to the writer, she joined protests in Jatrabari and Shanir Akhra on July 17, where she encountered gunfire, sound grenades and tear gas. She says she was injured in an attack by Chhatra League members on July 18. On July 19, she went out despite warnings that police and Chhatra League controlled the streets, witnessed a man shot in the forehead, and returned home injured again.

She further writes that police fired at women standing at the front of a procession in Jatrabari’s Kutubkhali area on August 4, leaving her with six bullet wounds. The article says an Appellate Division ruling in late July allocated 93 percent of posts on merit, but the movement later became a one-point demand for the government’s resignation. The writer says a historic mass uprising succeeded on August 5.

Chhatra Dal distributed financial assistance and gift items to families of people described as martyrs of the mass uprising in Lakshmipur on Wednesday. The assistance was provided on behalf of Prime Minister Tarique Rahman as part of a month-long July programme announced by the central Chhatra Dal parliament. Leaders visited the homes of the families of Sabbir, Bijoy and others to deliver the gifts.

A special prayer and munajat were held for the forgiveness of those killed in the July-August mass uprising and for the speedy recovery of those injured. Those present included central vice-president Manjurur Alam Riyad, district convener Abul Barakat Saurav and member secretary Hasibur Rahman Abhi, along with leaders from several local units.

Riyad said BNP does not forget people who work for the country, referring to those injured and killed during the movement. He said the gifts had been sent for the families of the martyrs and were being delivered by Chhatra Dal. He added that BNP would remain beside martyr families.

U.S. President Donald Trump has asked the Supreme Court to overturn a jury’s $83.3 million defamation award to writer E. Jean Carroll, according to a report published July 30. The U.S. Justice Department filed a separate, similar request. It remains uncertain whether the Supreme Court will agree to hear the new appeal.

Trump’s lawyers argue that his statements about Carroll while serving as president were part of his official duties and should therefore receive presidential legal immunity. Federal lawyers for the Justice Department said that without Supreme Court intervention, a sitting president could face nearly $100 million in personal financial liability for comments made within the scope of official responsibilities.

The filings cite the Westfall Act, which provides federal officials legal protection in some civil cases involving specified actions taken while performing official duties. Trump’s private lawyers also invoked the Supreme Court’s 2024 Trump v. United States ruling, which expanded presidential criminal immunity, while seeking to apply similar reasoning in civil litigation. The Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York rejected that argument last year. In June, the Supreme Court declined to hear Trump’s appeal of a $5 million penalty, which had grown to about $5.8 million with interest.

The Communist Party of Bangladesh, or CPB, held a human chain demanding a permanent solution to gas problems to protect industrial factories. The programme took place on Thursday afternoon outside the Titas Gas office in Karwan Bazar, Dhaka.

Participants displayed placards calling for the elimination of gas theft and mismanagement. One of the messages shown at the demonstration said, “Eliminate gas theft and mismanagement.”

Another placard demanded gas in quality cylinders with correct weight and fair prices. The report did not provide details of speeches, the number of participants, or any response from the authorities or Titas Gas.