Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Saturday expressed serious concern over the alarming rise in harassment and violence against women, urging the government to take immediate action to prevent the rise of extremism...
Joint forces arrested 14 people, including the Student Against Discrimination Kalabagan Thana unit convener Salahuddin Salman over allegedly vandalising and looting a construction office for extortion on Friday evening in the capital鈥檚 Kalabagan area.
The country has yet to see any let-up in the violence against women perpetuating in diverse forms through a culture of impunity, delayed justice dispensation and deeply embedded discriminatory social psyche, rights activists observe.
Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Friday expressed grave concern about the rising incidents of harassment and violence against women across the country.
University teachers under the banner of University Teachers鈥� Network, Bangladesh on Wednesday condemned the recent incidents of sexual harassment, hatred and violence against women across the country...
THE March 3 protest at Lalmatia that Bangladesh Against Rape and Harassment held was not just a response to a single event but the culmination of growing disappointment with the government鈥檚 failure to protect women from escalating violence. The demonstrators, predominantly woman activists and concerned citizens, burnt an effigy of the home affairs adviser...
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...
Leaders of Samajtantrik Mahila Forum at a protest rally in front of the National Press Club in Dhaka on Friday demanded arrest and trial of the persons involved in the recent incidents of rape and violence against women.
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Wednesday decided to reopen the appeal of Jamaat-e-Islami leader ATM Azharul Islam, who was sentenced to death for war crimes committed during the 1971 Liberation War...
A group of leaders of the Student Against Discrimination that led the July-August mass uprising on Wednesday launched a new student organisation, the Bangladesh Ganatantrik Chhatra Sangsad, amid protests and scuffles at the launching venue in Dhaka.
THE High Court has rightly issued a warning against bureaucrats, noting that any negligence to protect the environment would entail action against the officials who would fail to comply with court orders in this connection. The bench sounded the warnings as it heard a petition that legal aid organisation Human Rights and Peace for Bangladesh filed seeking the...
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Tuesday resumed hearing of the review petition filed by death row convict ATM Azharul Islam, a senior Jamaat-e-Islami leader, challenging his death sentence for crimes against humanity committed during the War of Independence...
The Student Against Discrimination and the Jatiya Nagarik Committee announced on Monday that they would launch their political party at Manik Mia Avenue in the capital on February 28.
WHEN the chief advisor professor Muhammad Yunus extended an official invitation to the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights to conduct an independent fact-finding into human rights violations committed during the July mass uprising, it was highly commended by rights organisations and civil society alike, except for those sections of...
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court has scheduled February 25 for the hearing of a review petition filed by death row convict ATM Azharul Islam, a Jamaat-e-Islami leader, challenging his death sentence for crimes against humanity committed during the War of Independence in 1971...
A coordinator of the Students鈥� Movement Against Discrimination was attacked and injured by unidentified assailants with sharp weapons in Thakurgaon early Saturday.
The police could not arrest anyone till Thursday night in connection with a series of clash between activists of Bangladesh Nationalist Party鈥檚 student wing Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal and Students Against Discrimination on Khulna University of Engineering and Technology campus and in adjacent areas on Tuesday...
Activists of Islami Chhatra Shibir, student wing of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, allegedly cut off tendons of a leg of an activist of Students Against Discrimination of Murari Chand College in Sylhet on Wednesday night over a Facebook post...
THE decision of the Khulna University of Science and Technology to uphold the ban on student politics amid clashes allegedly between Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal, the student wing of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, and the Students Against Discrimination appears shortsighted and it carries the risk of curtailing students鈥� right to organise on campus. The clashes took place...
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...
The authorities of Khulna University of Engineering and Technology on Wednesday upheld its previous decision to ban student politics on the campus amid a tense situation over Tuesday鈥檚 clash between Bangladesh Nationalist Party鈥檚 student wing Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal and Students Against Discrimination...
Over two dozen people, including Khan Jahan Ali police officer-in-charge, were injured on Tuesday in a clash between Bangladesh Nationalist Party鈥檚 student wing Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal and Students Against Discrimination at the...
The International Crimes Tribunal on Tuesday extended the deadline to April 20 for submitting investigation reports against deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina and 45 others over the allegations of genocide and crimes against humanity committed during the July-August mass uprising...
A faction of the Students Against Discrimination in Chattogram has held a demonstration rejecting three newly announced committees, with over 50 members resigning and declaring the committees unacceptable....
WHAT hath the make America great again movement wrought? I doubt the archest of Donald Trump鈥檚 arch-enemies ever imagined that in his second term he would take things this far in the direction of dangerous or dumb or both...
Police Thursday afternoon charged batons and sprayed water through canons on the protesting assistant teachers of government primary schools, whose appointments were cancelled by a court order, after they blocked the Shahbagh crossing, demanding their appointments...
Expatriate workers who were sent back from different countries, including the United Arab Emirates, for supporting the Students鈥� Movement Against Discrimination in the July-August uprising suspended their protest with a 10-day ultimatum on Monday...
A group of students linked to the Students鈥� Against Discrimination blocked the Dhaka-Rajshahi-Rangpur highway, protesting at not being included in the newly formed Sirajganj district committee of the platform, in Sirajganj on Monday...
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...
The National Board of Revenue has decided to conduct drive against illegal tobacco trading in the market to secure revenue collection from the sector...