Bangladesh Awami League has opened a 鈥榩arty office鈥� and has been operating for months from the office at a commercial complex in a busy suburb on the outskirts of Kolkata in the Indian state of West Bengal, reported BBC Bangla on Friday.
THE interim government of the peace Nobel laureate professor Muhammad Yunus has completed one year in office today. Three days after the Awami League鈥檚 authoritarian government of Sheikh Hasina had been ousted from power in the face of a massive popular uprising on August 5, 2024, Yunus took over with three pronounced objectives: the trial of the League leaders...
A Dhaka court on Thursday placed Sumaiya Jafrin, wife of Major Sadique, on a five-day remand in a case filed over her alleged involvement in a secret meeting with Awami League leaders and activists...
The detective branch of police arrested 12 more activists of the banned Awami League and its affiliated organisations during a special operation conducted in different parts of the capital in the past 24 hours.
Below is the text of the July Declaration that the chief adviser to the interim government Muhammad Yunus read out at a public gathering on the South Plaza of the National Assembly building in Dhaka on August 5, marking a year of the deposal of the authoritarian Awami League government...
THE much-expected shift in mainstream political culture is far from a reality although it has been a year since the fall of the Awami League regime. A Transparency International Bangladesh study that reviewed the performance of the interim government since August 8, 2024, when the government under review was installed, reports political violence, partisan control of state...
A NUMBER of challenges persist in economic recovery, especially in poverty reduction, employment generation and business environment despite some improvement in the macroeconomic sector in the past year. While it is understandable that the authoritarian and kleptocratic Awami League regime, toppled in a mass uprising in August 2024, left the economy in a shattered...
The Rajshahi University unit of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal on Monday announced a protest programme against the institution鈥檚 pro-Awami League teachers and officials allegedly involved in suppressing the student movement during the July uprising, demanding their trial.
A local leader of Awami League, who has been accused in nine murder cases, escaped from police custody in handcuffs on Monday in Baniachong upazila of Habiganj district.
The Dhaka Metropolitan Police at a press conference on Sunday said that 26 individuals have been arrested so far in connection with a programme organised to train activists of the Awami League in Dhaka under the Bhatara police station on July 8.
Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Sunday urged all to vow to permanently bar ousted prime minister Sheikh Haisna from the country鈥檚 political arena.
Academics and activists have urged all to tone down the celebration of the one year anniversary of the July uprising, saying that too many lives were lost in the struggle to overthrow the autocratic Awami League regime, while most of the demands remained unfulfilled...
The Bangladesh Army has formed a court of inquiry against an army officer over allegations of his political involvement and a preliminary investigation has found the allegations true, said a press release issued by the Inter Services Public Relation Directorate on Friday.
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Thursday raised question about the legality of a second confessional statement made in the two August 2004 grenade attack cases, by Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami leader Mufti Abdul Hannan in 2007 who was already a death row prisoner when he gave it...
The Bangladesh Army on Thursday said that they had taken major Sadikul Islam Sadek into custody over the allegation of training Awami League men, adding that they would take necessary actions if Sadek was found guilty in the investigation.
Two Dhaka Special Judges Courts on Thursday framed charges against 29 people, including deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina, her sister Sheikh Rehana, and their children, in six cases filed on charges of corruption in allotting Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,聽 then claimed that Sayed had been killed with bricks and firearms by other protesters, video footage shared widely on social media...
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...
In a pre-dawn attack on Sunday, homes and political offices belonging to Bangladesh Nationalist Party leaders and activists at Ula village of Lohagara upazila in Narail, were allegedly vandalised by Awami League members...
A local leader of Awami League, Sarwar Hossain Nanu, died in jail custody in Munshiganj early Sunday morning...
Cultural platform Ganatantrik Sanskritik Oikya on Saturday celebrated the first anniversary of a protest event they undertook to defy the curfew imposed by the ousted Awami League regime during the July uprising...
A group of youths claiming to be students and general people said that they were setting up 鈥業nternational Fascism and Genocide Research Institute鈥� at the Awami League headquarters on Shaheed Abrar Fahad Avenue in the capital鈥檚 Gulistan area.聽
A group of youths claiming to be students and general people said that they were setting up 鈥業nternational Fascism and Genocide Research Institute鈥� at the Awami League headquarters on Shaheed Abrar Fahad Avenue in the capital鈥檚 Gulistan area.聽
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...
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...
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...
