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Another case filed against 5400 AL followers over Gopalganj violence

Another case has been filed against over 5, 400 leaders and activists of Awami League and its associate bodies, including the banned Bangladesh Chhatra League, over the attack on an NCP rally in Gopalganj on July 16, raising the number of cases over it to 13...

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Ex-CJ Khairul on 7-day remand

An additional chief metropolitan magistrate court in Dhaka on Wednesday allowed the police to take former chief justice ABM Khairul Haque in custody for seven days for interrogation in a case filed over manipulating the Supreme Court verdict on the caretaker government system...

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Accused fled from scene yet to be arrested

The police is yet to arrest another accused Kazi Gaurab Apu in the past two days, who fled from the scene when they arrested five individuals caught red handed from the house of Shammi Ahmed, the international affairs secretary of Awami League, while collecting extortion money on Saturday evening...

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CID freezes Tk 17cr of ex-AL MP Bahar, daughter ex-mayor Suchona

The Criminal Investigation Department has frozen Tk 17.40 crore deposited in 17 banks belonging to former Awami League lawmaker for Cumilla-6 AKM Bahauddin Bahar and his daughter former Cumilla city mayor Tahseen Bahar Suchona, facing allegations of acquiring money through cheating, forgery, commission and laundering and receiving money through hundi...

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Reconstructing killing through counter-forensics

ABU Sayed, a student activist at Begum Rokeya University in Rangpur, was killed on July 16, 2024. The death became a flashpoint in what would grow into the July uprising. While the Awami League government, toppled in the uprising,  then claimed that Sayed had been killed with bricks and firearms by other protesters, video footage shared widely on social media...

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No complete list of July martyrs, wounded as yet troubling

THIS is unfortunate that the interim government, which assumed office after the overthrow of the Awami League government on August 5, 2024 in an uprising that began on July 1 that year as student protests against civil service job reservations, has yet to comprehensively enlist all who died and became wounded at the hand of law enforcers who were aided by the...

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Youths setting up ‘research institute’ at AL HQ

A group of youths claiming to be students and general people said that they were setting up ‘International Fascism and Genocide Research Institute’ at the Awami League headquarters on Shaheed Abrar Fahad Avenue in the capital’s Gulistan area. 

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Youths setting up ‘research institute’ at AL HQ

A group of youths claiming to be students and general people said that they were setting up ‘International Fascism and Genocide Research Institute’ at the Awami League headquarters on Shaheed Abrar Fahad Avenue in the capital’s Gulistan area. 

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ACC sues Saifuzzaman, 30 others

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Thursday filed a case against former land minister and Awami League leader Saifuzzaman Chowdhury Javed, his family members and several senior officials of United Commercial Bank PLC and Aramit Group on charges of embezzling and laundering Tk 25 crore from UCB...

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Legal notoriety of cases against hundreds unnamed should end

THE legacy of filing cases against hundreds of unnamed people, as has been by successive governments, including the authoritarian Awami League government, regrettably persists. After the Awami League regime was toppled in an uprising, it was expected that the abuse of legal devices would end. But the legacy, unfortunately, continues apace. In the recent examples, the...

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Yunus orders preparing list of people killed in AL attacks before mass uprising

Bangladesh interim government chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus on Thursday ordered preparing a list of those killed in attacks by the Bangladesh Chhatra League and other affiliated bodies of Awami League, and also by state forces on the orders of the then government in the 15 years before the July mass uprising in 2024...

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Ordinary citizens must not face any harassment

THE attacks on the National Citizen Party’s rally in Gopalganj by alleged Awami League activists are condemnable; equally troubling is the harassment of ordinary citizens. Since the attack on July 16, the government has imposed a curfew in the district, filed eight cases accusing about 8,400 unnamed individuals, and arrested at least 321 people. Among the arrested are...

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4 AL bodies’ strike gets no response

Bangladesh Awami League’s four front organisations, including banned student front Bangladesh Chhatra League, youth front Bangladesh Awami Juba League, volunteer front Bangladesh Awami Swechasebak League and worker front Jatiya Sramik League, on Sunday failed to impose its countrywide strike, protesting at what they said ‘Gopalganj mass killing’...

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Hasina’s close aides try to transfer assets in UK

Several Bangladeshis who are under the Anti-Corruption Commission scrutiny in Bangladesh appear to have either sold, transferred or refinanced property in the United Kingdom since the past year’s mass uprising that toppled the Sheikh Hasina-led authoritarian Awami League regime...

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AL front bodies call countrywide strike for today

Four front organisations of the Awami League, including banned student body Bangladesh Chhatra League called countrywide dawn to dusk general strike for today protesting at ‘Gopalganj mass killing’, and demanding the cancellation of ‘illegal tribunal’ and ouster of ‘fascist Yunus government’...

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3,000 sued, 250 arrested, curfew on

The government again extended the curfew in Gopalganj district from 8:00pm on Saturday to 6:00am on Sunday while the joint forces arrested 250 people in the three days till Saturday afternoon over the violence centering on the National Citizen Party rally in Gopalganj on Wednesday...

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Intelligence failures behind different crises in Bangladesh: Ashraful Huda

Former inspector general of police Ashraful Huda on Friday said that intelligence failures were responsible for some of Bangladesh’s most critical national crises, including the assassinations of former presidents Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and Ziaur Rahman, as well as the deadly August 21, 2004 grenade attack on an Awami League rally in Dhaka.

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NCP arch torched ahead of rally in Narayanganj

Unidentified miscreants set fire to an archway erected by the Nationalist Citizen Party (NCP) in Narayanganj’s College Road early Friday, ahead of the party’s scheduled rally.

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Army compelled to use force in self-defence in Gopalganj violence: ISPR

Bangladesh Army was compelled to use force at one point in self-defence in Gopalganj town on Wednesday as attackers hurled a huge number of crude bombs and brick chips towards them, said a press release of the Inter Services Public Relation Directorate issued on Thursday.

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Long march to Gopalganj if AL goons not held: NCP

National Citizen Party convener Nahid Islam at a rally in Faridpur on Thrusday said that the party would bring out a long march to Gopalganj if Awami League hooligans, including those involved in Wednesday’s attack on their rally in the...

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Sohel Taj, Sharmin Ahmad meet Yunus

The family members of Bangladesh’s first prime minister and one of the leading Liberation War organisers, Tajuddin Ahmad, on Thursday met chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus and invited him to attend the events marking Tajuddin’s birth centenary.

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Govt forms committee to probe Gopalganj violence

The Interim government has established a three-member committee to investigate Wednesday’s acts of violence and deaths that occurred in Gopalganj over the National Citizen Party’ rally in the district.

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BNP alleges plot to delay polls

Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Thursday alleged that conspiracies were under way to thwart the people’s aspiration for a democratic transition through elections in Bangladesh.