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  Bangladeshi students set fire to the state broadcaster on Thursday, a day after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina appeared on it to address deadly clashes that killed at least 39 persons over a quota system for government jobs. Hundreds of protesters, demanding civil service hiring reforms, fought with riot police who fired rubber bullets. The angry crowd chased retreating officers to BTV's headquarters in Dhaka, setting fire to the reception building and dozens of parked vehicles. Rights groups accused Hasina's government of abusing state institutions to solidify its power and suppress dissent, including through extrajudicial killings of opposition activists. This week, her administration ordered schools and universities to close indefinitely as police intensified efforts to control the worsening law and order situation. Protester Bidisha Rimjhim, 18, told AFP, “Our first demand is that the prime minister must apologise to us. Secondly, justice must be ensured for our killed brot...

 Microsoft Windows users are facing Blue Screen of Death errors across the world. Many users took to microblogging platform X (formerly Twitter) to report about the issue. Windows users are seeing blue screen errors on their screen with the laptop/PC getting stuck on restart loop. The outage has disrupted operations of several airlines, banks, broadcasting and emergency services across the world. Microsoft has acknowledged the issue on its service status page. US-based security giant CrowdStrike too said in a post on Reditt that outage is result of 'faulty update' that has now been rolled back. "We have widespread reports of BSODs on windows hosts, occurring on multiple sensor versions." "[We have] identified a content deployment related to this issue and reverted those changes," it said in the post. So it is not clear which, if any, of the outages are related to the CrowdStrike problem or issue at Microsoft. Microsoft outage: Impact in India The disruption ...