DU students hold midnight protest demanding ban on Awami League
A group of Dhaka University students on early Friday night staged a protest march on the Dhaka University campus demanding a ban on the Awami League.
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Travel ban on graft suspects already abroad questioned
Travel ban imposition by courts on the Anti-Corruption Commission鈥檚 applications on dozens of former ministers and Awami League leaders, including the deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina and her relatives, after they left the country raises questions...
Registration of 96 local election observer orgs likely to be cancelled
The Election Commission is going to cancel the registration of 96 local election observation organisations registered during the ousted Awami League government...
Govt committed for polls on time, Yunus tells Crisis Group
The interim government is steadfast to hold the elections on schedule, refusing to delay the vote for any demands, Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus said on Thursday.
Former AL MP Golap sued over Tk 68cr illegal assets
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Wednesday filed a case against former Awami League lawmaker Abdus Sobhan Mia Golap on charges of amassing illegal wealth of Tk 68.76 crore...
Juba League activist killed over internal feud
An activist of Juba League, youth wing of the ousted Awami League, was allegedly shot dead near Jashore Model Mosque in the town at around 11:45pm on Monday...
AL holds progs on limited scale to mark Mujib鈥檚 birth anniv
The Awami League and its associate bodies on Monday celebrated the country鈥檚 founding president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman鈥檚 105th birth anniversary on a limited scale at places by holding flash processions, iftar parties and distributing foods.
Juba Dal activist killed as factions clash
A Jatiyatabadi Juba Dal activist was allegedly killed, and three others were injured as two factions of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party clashed at Raujan in Chattogram over removal of a banner featuring a former Awami League lawmaker...
Students stage demo demanding removal of officials appointed during AL govt
Students have staged protests at Khamarbari in the capital, demanding the removal of secretaries and bureaucrats appointed during the tenure of the ousted Awami League government...
HC upholds death sentences for 20 ex-BCL leaders in Abrar murder case
The High Court on Sunday confirmed death sentences for 20 former leaders and activists of the Awami League-backed student body Bangladesh Chhatra League on the charge of murdering fellow student Abrar Fahad at a Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology hall in 2019.
Budget slashed by Tk聽53,000cr
The government on Wednesday revised down the 2024-25 financial year budget by 6.6 per cent, or Tk聽53,000 crore, to Tk聽7,44,000 crore because of a shortage of resources, said officials...
Bogura jail inmate AL leader dies at hospital
A local leader of Awami League, who was in Bogura jail, died while undergoing treatment at the Shaheed Ziaur Rahman Medical College and Hospital under police custody on Tuesday.
Police should step up efforts to arrest July-August jailbreakers
THE failure of the law enforcement agencies to arrest almost none of more than 700 prisoners who escaped jails around the fall of the Awami League government, toppled on August 5, 2024 in a mass uprising, is gravely concerning. The prisons directorate at a press conference in Dhaka on March 10 said that the law enforcers could arrest only one of more than...
PURBACHAL PLOT SCAM:聽ACC okays charges against Hasina, family in 6 cases
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Monday approved charge sheets against 29 people, including deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina and her sister Sheikh Rehana, in six cases filed on charges of corruption in allotting...
Stringent action, not redundant comment, is expected
The remark made by an adviser that mob violence and moral policing will significantly decrease once law and order is fully restored and once people are aware is a redundant remark that only states the obvious. The environment, forest and climate change adviser made the remark at a briefing on March 4 after an advisory council meeting, which discussed the recent spate...
Court orders freeze of Amu family鈥檚 44 bank accounts
A Dhaka court on Sunday ordered to freeze 44 bank accounts of former industries minister and veteran Awami League leader Amir Hossain Amu, his wife Saida Haque and daughter Sumaia Hossain over graft allegations...
Indo-Bangla border haats suspended since August
The operations of border haats between Bangladesh and India, dominated by industrial products from the latter, have remained suspended since August after a mass uprising toppled the Awami League regime on August 5, 2024...
Govt requisition of buses for NCP launch criticised
The government鈥檚 requisition of buses for people to attend the launch of the National Citizens Party in Dhaka on Friday has sparked criticism...
Inclusive politics is not about making rhetorical claims
JULY uprising student leaders on February 28 launched a political party, the National Citizen Party, with the aspirations of establishing a second republic. Coordinators of the Students Against Discrimination platform, formed seeking reforms in public service job reservations, and members of the National Citizens鈥� Committee, another platform formed after the fall of the...
Govt committed to probe into killings under AL regime: Shafiqul
Chief adviser鈥檚 press secretary Mohammad Shafiqul Alam said on Friday that the interim government was committed to investigating all killings that took place during the tenure of the ousted prime minister...
Stock market exploited politically: Amir Khasru
The stock market was politically exploited under the previous Awami League-led government, claimed BNP Standing Committee member and former commerce minister Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury...
Medical professional alleges AL govt sabotaged her gynecology career
Medical officer Nilufa Yasmin on Wednesday accused the Awami League government of derailing her career as a gynecologist by preventing her from completing the FCPS Part-2 training at Dhaka Medical College Hospital in 2009.
Govt should deliver justice for BDR carnage
WHILE the 2009 carnage in the Bangladesh Rifles, later renamed as Border Guard Bangladesh, remains a shocking incident, leaving an indelible scar, the failure to establish the motive and the plotters of the incident and to bring them to justice is unsettling. The rebellion, which began in the border guard headquarters on February 25 and spilled over to some other sector...
Govt needs to shore up issues to maintain law and order
AN INCREASE in the incidents of robbery and extortion across the country suggests the government鈥檚 deplorable failure to ensure law and order. The interim government, which assumed power on August 8, 2024, after the fall of the Awami League government on August 5, vowed to prioritise the restoration of law and order. While this is understandable that there was...
DU students stage midnight protest demanding home adviser鈥檚 resignation
Dhaka University students on Midnight past Sunday, staged a protest march on campus demanding resignation of home adviser Lieutenant General (retired) Jahangir Alam Chowdhury...
21 DCs sent on compulsorily retirement
Bangladesh interim government has sent 21 deputy commissioners on compulsory retirement due to their roles in the controversial elections held under the previous Awami League government, said senior secretary of the Public Administration ministry Md Mokhles Ur Rahman on Thursday.
AG breaks down in court seeking justice for BUET student Abrar鈥檚 murder
Attorney general Md Asaduzzaman broke down in tears in the High Court on Wednesday while seeking justice for Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology student Abrar Fahad, who was brutally murdered for expressing dissent against the then Awami League government...
Asif backtracks on AL鈥檚 joining election
Local government, rural development and co-operatives adviser Asif Mahmud Sajib Bhuiyan on Wednesday said that the question of ousted Awami League鈥檚 participation in elections was irrelevant...
How do we address Awami League conundrum?
THE political landscape of Bangladesh has been irrevocably altered by the events of July and August 2024, when the Awami League, led by former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, responded to student-led protests with brutal repression. Law enforcement, alongside party activists, cracked down on predominantly non-violent demonstrations, culminating...
Violence should have no place in student politics
THE clash between the Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal, the student wing of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, and the Students Against Discrimination, which led the July-August uprising that toppled the Awami League government, at the Khulna University of Engineering and Technology on February 18 is shocking. The clash, which reportedly broke out over an altercation...