Nursing and empowering organisations of poorly-focused farmers, workers, small businesses and students are crucial for reforming the democratic institutions severely affected by the ousted Awami League regime, said discussants at a seminar held on Friday...
IT IS unfortunate that the people injured during the July mass uprising had to take to the streets repeatedly to press home their demand for quality treatment and rehabilitation. On February 2, a group of injured persons, including several undergoing treatment at hospitals, blocked different roads in Dhaka as the government so far has failed to provide...
The Chattogram Customs House is set to auction nearly 100 vehicles, including 31 luxury Land Cruiser cars imported under a duty-free privilege for former members of parliament during the ousted Awami League regime...
THE police personnel who lost their job during the 15 years of the authoritarian Awami League regime, toppled in a mass uprising on August 5, 2024, have held protests for a couple of days seeking their reinstatement in the job. The sacked police personnel also held a protest in front of the police headquarters in Dhaka on January 12 to press home their...
Family members initially identified and claimed two bodies kept at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital mortuary since the student-led mass uprising that forced Sheikh Hasina to flee to India bringing an end to a 15-year fascist Awami League regime...
Voices for the central student union elections at major public universities in the country are getting louder, with the students raising the demand to the university authorities for holding the long due elections in the changed political scenario after the fall of authoritarian Awami League regime...
Finance adviser Salehuddin Ahmed on Sunday expressed displeasure with the queries from multilateral lenders while seeking additional fund for reforms aiming at reviving the economy wounded deeply during the past 15 years of the Awami League regime...
The megaprojects implemented mostly with foreign loans by the now ousted Awami League regime have left the nation with concerns over the debt trap amid the questionable expected returns...
SINCE the fall of the Awami League regime on August 5 amid a student-led mass uprising, there has been a noticeable shift in India-Bangladesh relations. Historically regarded as each other鈥檚 closest allies, the two countries share significant geographic and cultural ties. However, tensions have occasionally surfaced, with a considerable portion of the Bangladeshi population perceiving India as the more advantaged...
VICTIMS of gross human rights violation in the hands of the law enforcement agencies who were denied justice during the Awami League regime are now coming forward to seek legal redress. This is a first step towards police reforms. Limon Hossain, a victim of attempted extrajudicial killing, lodged a complaint with the International Crime Tribunal against...
FOR the interim government to facilitate any meaningful political transformation in the days to come, it should establish legal liability for victims of enforced disappearances, extrajudicial killing, custodial death, and torture done under the authoritarian Awami League regime. According to human rights organisations, security forces have committed...
Bangladesh Nationalist Party senior joint secretary Ruhul Kabir Rizvi said on Saturday that the Awami League regime used labels such as militancy, communalism, and various other terms to create divisions in society to prolong its authoritarian tenure...
AN ALARMING increase in mob violence in two months is disconcerting, especially because a major policy focus of the interim government is to improve law and order and to restore public trust in law enforcement. In August鈥揝eptember, after the fall of the Awami League regime, as Ain O Salish Kendra says, at least 49 people were killed in mob violence. In the corresponding period in 2023, the number of mob violence deaths was 10...
THE July-August uprising, which courageously stood against the oppressive Sheikh Hasina-led Awami League regime, led to the fall of a government many considered authoritarian. However, this victory came at a tremendous cost, with thousands of lives lost, many of them young protesters who made the ultimate sacrifice...
CULTURAL practice, considered pivotal in building an inclusive society and youth development, has largely been neglected since the fall of the authoritarian Awami League regime as the sector has run into trouble with most publicly funded cultural institutes having closed or been largely inactive. The Shilpala Academy, considered the centre of cultural...
THE Financial Stability Report 2023 of the Bangladesh Bank paints a disturbing picture of the banking sector that deteriorated rapidly during the Awami League regime. The total amount of distressed assets in the banking sector surged to a staggering Tk 5.47 lakh crore, or about 32 per cent of the total outstanding loan, by 2023. The amount is...
Justice seekers across the country are facing prolonged delays due to the persistent absence of public prosecutors and government pleaders, appointed under the overthrown Awami League regime, from lower courts since the fall of the AL government amid a student-mass uprising on August 5...
THE apparent indifference of the interim government to engage or coordinate with political parties to address the pressing issues that the country faces and the reforms that the country needs is concerning on a couple of counts. The distance between the government and the political parties also suggests a distance between the government and the...
THE dramatic fall of the authoritarian Awami League regime, driven by the unyielding energy and vision of Gen Z, marks a watershed moment in Bangladesh鈥檚 history. Like many, I have been both a witness to and an active supporter of this transformative movement, marvelling at how young students, popularly referred to as Generation Z, have ignited the...
THE rule of law, accountability, transparency, equality, social justice, etc are key elements of good governance. Previously, even democratically elected governments became unpopular due to a lack of accountability and transparency. However, the common people want the overall success of the interim government, which assumed office after the fall...
THIS is alarming that the tendency to muzzle any voice critical of the government is repeated by the political groups that have been vocal against legal harassment of dissenting voice and political opposition during the tenure of the toppled Awami League regime. A case was filed on September 24 under repressive clauses of the Cyber Security Act against a man...
UNPRECEDENTED inflation rate in a few years has eroded people鈥檚 purchasing power, leading to a decrease in food and health spending. After the fall of the authoritarian Awami League regime, inflation eased in August but remained at over 10 per cent, as prices of goods and services continued to skyrocket. In an effort to contain prices, the interim government...
IN VARIOUS public and private universities in Bangladesh, as a University Grants Commission report said, there are about 4.69 million students in 2020. The number speaks to the demand for higher education and the growth of public and private universities in Bangladesh. The growing trend created a need for academics who can play the leadership role as...
UNABATED rights violations, including custodial torture, extrajudicial killing and enforced disappearances, at the hands of the law enforcement agencies, which characterised the authoritarian Awami League regime, are where reform is expected. The reported allegation that a leader of Juba Dal, the youth wing of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, has died in...
FOLLOWING the fall of the authoritarian Awami League regime in August, one challenge Bangladesh faces as it moves forward is the sheer size and untenable budget of the Bangladesh Civil Service. The budget for the financial year 2023鈥�2024 reveals that 22 per cent of our national budget goes into public administration, which is a clear marker of the...
Finance, commerce and science and technology adviser Salehuddin Ahmed on Sunday criticised the recently ousted Awami League regime for following the 鈥業ndian syndrome of monument projects鈥�...
THE victims of Aynaghar, where they were held in inhuman conditions during the Awami League regime, have started to recount the horrific ordeals that they have gone through. The victims come from different age groups as well as political and social backgrounds. The victims of enforced disappearances must now get justice...