Ex-AL MP Zafar Alam arrested in Dhaka
Former Awami League lawmaker for Cox鈥檚 Bazar-1 constituency Zafar Alam was arrested at Dhanmondi in the capital on Sunday....
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Eight more held in Dhaka over AL processions
The Detective Branch of Dhaka Metropolitan Police has detained eight more members of Awami League and its associated bodies including banned Chhatra League from various parts of the capital for their alleged involvement in bringing out sudden processions...
Different political parties demand ban on AL
Leaders and activists of various political and civil society groups on Friday demanded a ban on the Awami League and ensuring justice for state-led atrocities, including the July, Pilkhana, and Shapla Square massacre...
Over 50 injured in AL-BNP clash in Habiganj
At least 50 people were injured in a clash between supporters of an Awami League leader and a Bangladesh Nationalist Party leader at Ajmiriganj upazila in Habiganj on Friday over establishing dominance in the area.
Madaripur AL leader held over post on Yunus
Police detained a local Awami League leader for allegedly sharing a defamatory post, including a doctored image, on chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus on Facebook.
JL activist hacked, shot in Rajshahi
A group of four masked youths allegedly hacked and shot an activist of Juba League, youth wing of the ousted Awami League, in the Kharbona Garoanpara area in Rajshahi city on Wednesday night...
Ex- Kotalipara municipality mayor Kamal arrested in Dhaka
A team of Dhaka Metropolitan Police detective branch arrested Md Kamal Hossain Sheikh, former mayor of Kotalipara municipality in Gopalganj, raiding the capital鈥檚 Bhasantek area on early Thursday...
ACC starts inquiry into聽graft allegations against Shakib
The Anti-Corruption Commission has begun formal inquiry against national team cricketer and former Awami League lawmaker Shakib Al Hasan over allegations of amassing illegal assets and money laundering.
Authorities should heed Mayer Daak鈥檚 demands
SLOW progress in the arrest and trial of accused Awami League leaders and officers of different law enforcement and security agencies involved in enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings is disconcerting. What is more disconcerting is that the authorities are yet to trace the whereabouts and status of nearly 200 victims of enforced disappearance incidents. Families of...
25 activists of AL, associate bodies held in Khulna over sudden processions
Police have detained at least 25 leaders and activists of Awami League and its affiliated bodies, including banned Chhatra League, following several flash processions in the city and upazilas...
AL brings out surprise procession in Khulna city
Activists of the Awami League staged a surprise procession in Khulna city on Sunday morning, the first such demonstration in the city since the party鈥檚 fall from power on August 5 last year...
Establishment of welfare state demanded
Politicians, academics and professionals on Saturday at a discussion in Dhaka demanded formation of a welfare state after the student-led mass uprising on August 5 after fall of the fascist Awami League government...
Stern measures against police inaction over AL processions: home adviser
Home adviser retired Lieutenant General Jahangir Alam Chowdhury on Saturday warned of stern action against those police officials who would fail to act against the Awami League holding flash processions and other activities...
DB arrests six AL, JL, BCL leaders in Dhaka
The Dhaka Metropolitan Police Detective Branch arrested six leaders of Bangladesh Awami League, its youth front Juba League and its student organisation Bangladesh Chhatra League, which is now banned, in Dhaka city since Thursday...
AL holds processions in Dhaka demanding Yunus鈥檚 resignation
Leaders and activists of Awami League on Friday morning brought out two protest processions at Jatrabari and Uttara in Dhaka city, demanding interim government chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus to resign.聽
Former AL Dhaka south city GS arrested
A team of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police鈥檚 Detective Branch arrested former Awami League Dhaka south city unit general secretary Shah Alam Murad in the Uttara area in the capital Dhaka on Thursday.
Dhaka south AL leader Murad arrested
A team of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police鈥檚 Detective Branch arrested former Awami League Dhaka south city unit general secretary Shah Alam Murad in the Uttara area in the capital Dhaka on Thursday....
Freezing 59 bank accounts of ex-MPs Bahauddin, Anwarul ordered
The Dhaka Metropolitan Senior Special Judge Court on Thursday ordered to freeze a total of 59 bank accounts of former lawmaker for Cumilla-6 constituency AKM Bahauddin, and former lawmaker for Narsingdi-2 constituency Anwarul Ashraf Khan over graft allegations...
Withdrawal of 7,184 politically motivated cases recommended:聽 adviser
Law affairs adviser Asif Nazrul on Sunday said that the law ministry had recommended the withdrawal of 7,184 politically-motivated cases filed during the tenure of the Awami League regime...
Reflections on July uprising聽聽
Eight months into the political changeover that end the fascist Awami League regime on August 5, 2024, stakeholders, including certain political groups and sections of the public, are showing signs of confusion regarding the path...
On rehabilitating Awami League
DEALING with the fallen Awami League has posed a political and diplomatic challenge for Professor Yunus鈥檚 interim government. While this appears to be a tricky issue, Awami League鈥檚 de facto national identity as a political entity needs foregrounding.聽聽
ICT seeks steps for Interpol red notice against 9 top AL leaders
The chief prosecutor of the International Crimes Tribunal on Thursday requested the inspector general of police to initiate the process for issuing Interpol red notices against 10 individuals including nine senior Awami League leaders.
Juba League leader hacked to death in Chattogram
A local leader of Juba League, the youth front of Awami League, was hacked to death by unidentified attackers in Muradpur under Sitakunda upazila in Chattogram on Thursday evening.
Hefazat, NCP demand AL鈥檚 trial as party for July massacre
Leaders of the National Citizen Party and Hefazat-e-Islam on Wednesday shared common demand for the trial of the Bangladesh Awami League as a party for carrying out massacre during the July-August聽mass uprising in 2024...
ICT allows interrogation of ex-AL MP in custody
The International Crimes Tribunal on Tuesday allowed the Investigation Agency to interrogate former Awami League lawmaker ABM Fazle Karim Chowdhury in custody on April 16 in connection with the killing of six people during the July uprising in Chattogram...
Case filed against over thousand people, 7 arrested
The police on Sunday filed a case against 1,086 people and arrested seven over Awami League factional clash at Durbadanga of the upazila in Shariatpur on Saturday morning...
Doughty Street Chambers, ICC communication and interim govt
THE recent move by the ousted Awami League leadership to engage the renowned British law firm Doughty Street Chambers, led by Stephen Powles, in drafting an Article 15 communication seeking an International Criminal Court investigation into Bangladesh鈥檚 interim government has reignited discussions about its potential impact in Bangladeshi politics...
Govt should root violence out of political culture
CLASHES in two places in Rangpur and in Shariatpur, one between followers of local Bangladesh Nationalist Party leaders and the other between followers of local Awami League leaders, over supremacy the same day are unfortunate. The clashes show that the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, which is bent on power assumption in elections that could be forthcoming after...
61 pro-AL lawyers sent to jail
A Dhaka court on Sunday sent to jail 61 pro-Awami League lawyers in a case lodged over assault, vandalising and attempt to murder allegedly committed during July-August mass uprising...
AL holds protest procession in city
The Awami League鈥檚 Dhaka south city unit leaders and activists brought out a protest procession from the south gate of Baitul Mukarram that ended at party headquarters on Bangabandhu Avenue in the capital on Sunday morning...