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...
Former minister for expatriates鈥� welfare and overseas employment of the ousted Awami League government Imran Ahmed was admitted to Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital on Wednesday morning after he fell sick at Sylhet Central Jail...
The police have arrested six Awami League leaders, including two public representatives, in connection with the murder of four students in the July uprising in the past year...
India on Tuesday expressed concerns over the ban imposed by the interim government on the activities of Bangladesh Awami League.
A Dhaka metropolitan magistrate court on Tuesday placed popular folk singer and former Awami League lawmaker for Manikganj-2 Momtaz Begum on four-day remand in police custody 聽over the allegations of killing Md Sagar in the capital鈥檚...
Police have detained Advocate Zeenat Sohana Chowdhury, Chattogram divisional leader of the Awami League-backed NGO Suchinta Foundation, from the Aturar Depot area of the port city on early Tuesday...
A team of Dhaka Metropolitan Police detective branch arrested folk singer and former Awami League lawmaker for Manikganj-2 Momtaz Begum in the capital鈥檚 Dhanmondi area on Monday night.
A group of students and youths under the banners of the Private University National Association of Bangladesh and the July Revolutionary Alliance on Monday celebrated the ban on all activities of the Bangladesh Awami League by organising a programme at Shahbagh in the capital Dhaka...
The Election Commission on Monday suspended the registration of Bangladesh Awami League after the government issued a gazette notification banning all activities of the party and its affiliated, associate, and like-minded organisations.
Bangladesh interim government on Monday issued a gazette notification imposing ban on all activities of Bangladesh Awami League and its affiliated, associate and like-minded organisations until the completion of ongoing trial proceedings against the party鈥檚 leaders and activists at the International Crimes Tribunal.
The National Citizen Party on Monday asked the accused collaborators in the genocide during the War of Independence in 1971 to clarify their political position to the nation.
Gono Odhikar Parishad has submitted a written petition to chief election commissioner AMM Nasir Uddin, calling for the cancellation of the registration of the Awami League, Jatiya Party, and other members of the 14-party alliance...
Chief election commissioner AMM Nasir Uddin on Monday said that the Election Commission would make a decision regarding the reported ban on the Awami League鈥檚 political activities only after receiving official documentation...
Chief election commissioner AMM Nasir Uddin on Sunday said that the election commission would take appropriate steps once it received the official gazette or paper over the ban of all activities of the Awami League under the Anti-Terrorism Act...
Political parties have expressed mixed reactions to the government decision to ban all activities of the Bangladesh Awami League pending its trial, along with that of its leaders, by the International Crimes Tribunal.
THE issue of public service job reservation that initiated the July uprising has remained unattended since the uprising finally toppled the Awami League government. The students who took to the streets in July 2024, demanding a rational reform in the quota system, and the authorities have somewhat accepted the reform that the Awami League government announced days...