State security forces and armed Awami League (AL) supporters had abused girls and women sexually during the July uprising to deter their participation in the movement, according to a recent report of the United Nations (UN) rights office.
Local government adviser Asif Mahmud Sajib Bhuiyan has stated that the Awami League should not only be banned but completely eradicated for carrying out a genocide...
Former lawmaker for Jhenaidah 3 constituency and also defence affairs secretary of the ousted Awami League government, retired major general Salahuddin Miazi, was detained by the joint forces from Shyamolchhaya, a private park at Rudrapur village at Jashore Sadar on Tuesday night, said Kazi Babul Hossain officer-in-charge of the Kotwali police...
The Awami League could not enforce its countrywide dawn-to-dusk hartal on Tuesday...
Local government, rural development and co-operatives adviser Asif Mahmud Sajib Bhuiyan on Tuesday said that the Awami League activists who were not involved in any injustice or mass killing or crime...
The auction of 24 luxury vehicles imported by former lawmakers of the ousted Awami League under a duty-free quota was postponed on Monday due to poor response and low bids...
Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) commissioner Sheikh Md Sajjat Ali on Monday assured the city-dwellers not to be panicked for tomorrow鈥檚 (Tuesday) hartal called by the Awami League, saying that police is ready to tackle it in every way.
The UN rights office has said armed Awami League (AL) leaders incited their armed activists including now disbanded Chhatra League (BCL) to resort to violent means to suppress the July August protestors.
The High Court on Sunday dismissed a writ petition challenging the legality of Bangladesh Bank鈥檚 decision to appoint an administrator to oversee Nagad Limited鈥檚 operations after dissolving its board of directors, which was...
Attorney general Md Asaduzzaman on Saturday claimed that the killings of 74 people including 57 army officers during the 2009 BDR mutiny were part of an international conspiracy aiming at prolonging the rule of the then Awami League government.
Cultural organisation Samageet on Friday celebrated the arrival of Basanta organising a music festival and dedicated it to the student-led mass uprising that ousted Sheikh Hasina-led Awami League regime on August 5 in the past year.
THE horror of the secret detention centres that law enforcement and security forces ran and kept victims of enforced disappearances for months and years during the Awami League regime, toppled in a mass uprising on August 5, 2024, was evident even after modifications were made to the centres. While media reports and the report of the commission of inquiry on...
A student who was injured in a counter attack by local people allegedly over attacking on the ousted Awami League government鈥檚 liberation war affairs minister AKM Mozammel Haque on February 7 night, died while undergoing treatment at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital Wednesday afternoon...
A student who was injured in a counter attack by local people allegedly over attacking on the ousted Awami League government鈥檚 liberation war affairs minister AKM Mozammel Haque on February 7 night, died while undergoing treatment at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital Wednesday afternoon.
Describing the Aynaghar, secret torture cells, as horrific, chief adviser professor Muhammad Yunus on Wednesday said that the deposed Awami League government had established the age of brutality in all sectors and the Aynaghar was the sample of it...
THE misuse of three special energy funds 鈥� set up with money set aside from gas and electricity sales every month to reduce power and energy sector expenses by investing in least cost power production, natural gas exploration and production and energy efficiency 鈥� tells how the Awami League government, toppled in a mass uprising in August 2024, breached laws...
The ousted prime minister and Awami League president, Sheikh Hasina, herself ordered security forces to kill protesters and hide their bodies to quell the student-led protests in July 2024 in Bangladesh, according to a report by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights...
The Gono Odhikar Parishad on Tuesday announced a countrywide programme demanding a ban on and trial of ousted prime minister and Awami League president Sheikh Hasina and other AL leaders allegedly involved in killing during the student-led mass uprising...
A female activist of the Bangladesh Awami League was handed over to police in Rajshahi city on Monday night....
THE unresolved murder of journalist couple Sagar Sarwar and Meherun Runi, found dead in their flat at Pashchim Rajabazar in Dhaka on February 11, 2012, is one of the many cases that have created a public perception that the legal system was working to protect partisan interests of the deposed Awami League regime. As the investigation agency failed to submit the...
Law adviser Asif Nazrul on Tuesday said that verdicts in three or four cases currently under trial with the International Crimes Tribunal regarding the killings during the July-August uprising were expected to be handed down by October.
A Habiganj court has sent former Awami League lawmaker Advocate Majid Khan to jail in a murder case...
Eighty-one people have been arrested in Gazipur on the third day of ongoing drive Operation Devil Hunt...
THE Bangladesh Awami League, once an authoritarian political power, has been on many counts can be termed as no less than an anti-state organisation. Their regime was characterised by judicial murder, mass corruption, sexual violence, and the misuse of state forces against the people. Their crimes did not stop after the Awami League government was deposed...
Dhaka Metropolitan Police detective branch on Monday arrested former state minister of Chittagong Hill Tracts Affairs, Awami League lawmaker Dipankar Talukdar.
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Monday filed separate cases against former minister Dipu Moni and her husband Tawfique Nawaz on the charges of amassing illegal wealth worth Tk 7.88 crore...
Former Awami League lawmaker from Sirajganj-6 (Shahjadpur) constituency Chayan Islam was arrested at a residence of his relative in Sreepur upazila of Gazipur, said police on Monday morning...
Women from different walks of life at a protest rally on Sunday said that the culture of impunity in cases of violence, attacks, and cyberbullying against women has continued during the interim government, just as it did under the ousted Awami League regime...
A 16-year-old boy sustained bullet injuries in a clash between local units of Awami League youth front Juba League and Bangladesh Nationalist Party鈥檚 student wing Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal, over jhut business in Ashulia of Savar, on the outskirts of Dhaka on Sunday...
A Chattogram court on Sunday put former Awami League lawmaker from Chattogram 15 constituency Abu Reza Muhammad Nezamuddin Nadvi on two-day remand in connection with the murder of an Islami Chhatra Shibir activist during the quota reform student movement...