The Commission of Inquiry on Enforced Disappearances鈥� second interim report showed that the median spending of each of the reappeared enforced disappearance victims during the Awami League regime was around Tk 7,00,000 as they had to fight fabricated cases.
THE true extent of the vulnerability of the banking sector, weighed down by a massive volume of non-performing loans, has increasingly come to light following the ouster of the Awami League government. While the previous administration reported that non-performing loans accounted for about 10 per cent of total outstanding loans, recent data from the...
The Dhaka Metropolitan Senior Special Judge Court on Monday imposed a travel ban on 15 people, including former Awami League lawmaker and national cricketer Shakib Al Hasan, over allegations of corruption, embezzlement, illegal investment in the...
Awami League and its associate bodies held processions in the capital鈥檚 Shahbagh and College Gate areas on Monday morning defying the ban on its activities...
The United Kingdom鈥檚 National Crime Agency has frozen properties in the United Kingdom owned by Saifuzzaman Chowdhury, Bangladesh鈥檚 former minister of land, according to a report by Al Jazeera鈥檚 Investigative Unit...
An activist of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party was hacked to death on Tuesday night at Sharsha upazila in Jashore allegedly by activists of the Awami League over previous rivalry...
HORRIFYING details of enforced disappearances and custodial torture in secret detention centres that the deposed Awami League government had for long denied have been substantiated in the second report of the Commission of Inquiry on Enforced Disappearances set up in August 2024. The commission in the report submitted on June 4 said that more than 300 victims of...
The police on Tuesday arrested Awami League Gopalganj district unit general secretary Shahabuddin Azam from Benapole border while he was trying to flee to India.
The High Court on Monday granted interim bail to Jhenaidah district Awami League general secretary Saidul Karim Mintu in connection with the abduction of Jhenaidah-4 lawmaker Anwarul Azim Anar, whose dismembered body was later allegedly recovered in Kolkata, India.
The interim government, which assumed power following the collapse of the Awami League鈥檚 one-and-a-half-decade-long autocratic rule鈥攚idely blamed for devastating the country鈥檚 economy鈥攊s set to commence a new financial year amid high public expectations. However, the general population is increasingly facing hardship due to declining incomes and soaring prices of essential goods...
The Anti-Corruption Commission filed two cases against former Awami League lawmaker from Kishoreganj-2 constituency Nur Mohammad and his wife Ismat Ara Begum on charges of amassing illegal wealth...
The prosecution of the International Crimes Tribunal on Sunday pressed charges against deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina, former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan, and former inspector general of police Chowdhury Abdullah Al Mamun for their alleged involvement in...
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Sunday overturned a 2013 High Court verdict that had declared the registration of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami as a political party illegal, bringing a significant legal shift after more than a decade of proceedings.
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...
A Manikganj court on Friday placed former Awami League lawmaker and noted singer Momtaz Begum on a fresh two-day remand in a case filed over assault and vandalism in Harirampur upazila.
BANGLADESH has registered a surge in suspicious financial transactions and activities during the tenure of the interim government, installed after the fall of the Awami League regime on August 5, 2024, which suggests that it has not done enough to contain money laundering. The most recent annual report of the Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit says that suspicious...
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the reinstatement of 988 employees of the National University who were dismissed during the Awami League government鈥檚 tenure between 2011 and 2012...
A faction of Bangladesh Nationalist Party formed a human chain in Rajshahi city on Monday, demanding reformation of the party鈥檚 Rajshahi metropolitan, thana and ward unit committees by removing individuals allegedly affiliated with the Awami League...
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Sunday filed two cases against former whip of the Jatiya Sangsad Abu Sayeed Al Mahmud Swapon and his wife Mehbuba Alam on charges of amassing illegal wealth...
An Awami League leader who was beaten after being tied with an electric pole at Puthia in Rajshahi on January 4 succumbed to his injuries on Friday.
Human Rights Watch on Thursday said that the interim government鈥檚 arbitrary targeting of the supporters of the Awami League failed accountability...
A case was filed against 193 people, including ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina, for arranging dummy elections in 2024 during the tenure of the Awami League government and vote rigging...
The Appellate Division on Monday upheld the Appellate Division chamber judge鈥檚 decision to stay the High Court鈥檚 orders that granted bail to 23 pro-Awami League lawyers in a case related to the July鈥揂ugust mass uprising...
Bangladesh has witnessed an unprecedented surge in political parties in the wake of the Awami League government鈥檚 ouster in a student-led mass uprising on August 5, 2024.聽
At least 11 leaders and activists of the Awami League were arrested on Sunday afternoon when they tried to enter the party headquarters on Bangabandhu Avenue in the capital defying the government ban on its activities.
Bangladesh Nationalist Party standing committee member Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury on Saturday said that Awami League supporters who were not involved in repressing or obstructing BNP activities could join the BNP.
Though Nurjahan Begum, wife of Feni鈥檚 former Awami League lawmaker Nizam Uddin Hazari, was not involved in any profession or any legally income generating activity, she owned huge property and bank balance beyond her known source of income.
Bangladesh interim government chief adviser鈥檚 press secretary Shafiqul Alam on Friday said the next general election is likely to be held between December and June.
The country鈥檚 economy had been making speedy recovery from haemorrhage suffered during the last three years of Awami League regime amid mismanagement, loan thefts and capital flights...
THE death of eight people at the hands of law enforcement agencies in January鈥揗arch, as the first quarterly update of 2025 on the rights situation that the rights group Odhikar made public on May 14 says, is gravely worrying. The Odhikar report lists 20 people in all having been killed extrajudicially from August 2024, when the interim government was installed after the...