Students Against Discrimination and National Citizen Party activists postponed their Wednesday鈥檚 demonstration in Chattogram till noon today after hours of laying siege to the Patiya police station and blockade of Chattogram-Cox鈥檚 Bazar highway...
The newly elected leaders of Students Against Discrimination on Tuesday said that they would take forward their organisational activities prioritising the demands for the July Declaration to uphold the spirit of the July uprising and the July Charter for reforms in various sectors...
The number of incidents of human rights violation in the Chittagong Hill Tracts鈥攃overing Rangamati, Khagrachhari and Bandarban districts鈥攕lightly decreased in the first half of 2025, with 103 incidents reported, compared with 107 incidents during the same period last year, according to a half-yearly report by Parbatya Chattagram Jana Samhati Samiti...
A rational reform of the quota system in government jobs has remained unresolved even after a year of the anti-quota movement under the Students Against Discrimination platform in July-August 2024 that led to the fall of the Sheikh Hasina-led Awami League regime...
Former Students Against Discrimination spokesperson Umama Fatema has quit the platform, alleging internal arbitrariness, smear campaigns against her and political favouritism, days after the platform elected its new leaders...
The prosecution of the International Crimes Tribunal聽1 on Sunday urged the tribunal to frame charges of crimes against humanity against former Dhaka Metropolitan Police commissioner Habibur Rahman and seven other police personnel...
Rashidul Islam, also known as Rifat Rashid, and Sheikh Enamul Hasan, known as Hasan Enam, were elected as the new president and general secretary of Students Against Discrimination, a platform that led the July uprising...
From Gaza to the Democratic Republic of Congo, violence against children in conflict zones reached 鈥榰nprecedented levels鈥� in 2024, a United Nations annual report said Thursday.
The International Crimes Tribunal-1 on Wednesday showed retired Rear Admiral Muhammad Sohail, former Rapid Action Battalion media wing director, arrested in a case over crimes against humanity...
THE recent surge in violence against women perpetrated by Islamist groups or mobs acting as 鈥榯awhidi janata鈥� alongside the government鈥檚 failure to adequately respond is gravely concerning. After the July uprising, in which women and girls from diverse backgrounds actively participated and which they often led, it was hoped that women鈥檚 democratic aspirations...
The prosecution of the International Crimes Tribunal on Sunday pressed charges against deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina, former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan, and former inspector general of police Chowdhury Abdullah Al Mamun for their alleged involvement in...
Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami leader ATM Azharul Islam, who had been on death row for war crimes, was released from custody on Wednesday morning鈥攋ust a day after the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court overturned his conviction for crimes against humanity committed during the War of Independence in 1971...
WAZ mahfils 鈥� Islamic religious sermons rooted in centuries of South Asian Islamic tradition 鈥� have long served as spaces for spiritual guidance, communal unity, and a shared moral framework for communities across both rural and urban spaces. Many of these wazs continue to offer meaningful religious education and moral direction grounded in Islamic knowledge...
At least eight leaders of the National Citizen Party and Students Against Discrimination were injured as they came under attack early Thursday at a lead factory in the Goailbari Bazar area under Ashulia police station, on the outskirts of Bangladesh capital Dhaka...
The Investigation Agency of the International Crimes Tribunal on Monday submitted its investigation report against deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina, former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan and former inspector general of police...
A group of miscreants allegedly led by an expelled leader of the Student Movement Against Discrimination beat the platform鈥檚 four leaders, including its Habiganj district member secretary Mahdi Hasan, injured on Friday evening.
The Appellate Division on Sunday deferred until tomorrow the hearing on a government petition for permission to appeal against a High Court verdict that acquitted acting Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairman Tarique Rahman and 48 others in the two August 21 grenade attack cases...
Mercantile Bank PLC has organised a training programme on 鈥楶revention of money laundering and combating financing against terrorism鈥� for officials of Chattaogram, Feni, Noakhali and Cumilla regions, said a press release...
At least four people were injured as two groups of Students Against Discrimination leaders and activists clashed during a National Citizen Party rally in Bogura on Wednesday.
The High Court on Sunday directed the government to take action by August 27 against recruiters who failed to send 17,000 Malaysia-bound aspirant migrants, despite receiving payments from them months before the Awami League regime鈥檚 ouster amid a student-led mass uprising on August 5, 2024...
Protests against Israel鈥檚 military offensive in Palestine continued for the fourth consecutive day on Thursday in Dhaka and elsewhere across the country, demanding an immediate end to the bombardment and mass killings...
Protests against Israel鈥檚 military offensive in Gaza continued for the third consecutive day on Wednesday in Dhaka and other parts of the country, demanding an immediate end to the bombardment and mass killings in the besieged enclave...
Taskin Ahmed was ruled out due to an injury while Tanzim Hasan got his maiden Test call-up as the Bangladesh Cricket Board announced the squad for the first Test against Zimbabwe on Tuesday...
Maternal mortality rates have dropped dramatically in the past quarter of a century, but the UN on Monday warned that progress had stalled, risking major backsliding amid unprecedented global aid cuts...
Bangladesh Mahila Parishad in a statement on Sunday expressed concern over the social media smear campaign targeting the female journalist who was attacked and sexually assaulted on April 2 evening...
Umama Fatema, spokesperson of the Students Against Discrimination, has rejected the US State Department's 'Madeleine Albright Honorary Group Award,' which was given in recognition of the courage and bravery of all Bangladeshi women involved in the July-August uprising in 2024...
The International Crimes Tribunal鈥檚 investigation agency has completed its probe into crimes against humanity committed during the July-August uprising at the Chankharpool area in the capital...
A STUDENT-LED procession against violence and discrimination was making its way through the bazaar when it was suddenly ambushed by a violent mob. Chaos erupted as the crowd scattered in all directions. Anik Chakma, a 17-year-old higher secondary student, ran for his life, but there was nowhere to escape 鈥� they were surrounded. He tried to hide in a nearby...
The president has directed the Supreme Judicial Council to initiate a full probe into the allegations of misconduct against Justice Md Akhtaruzzaman...
Speakers, including academics, rights activists, labour leaders and cultural activists on Saturday demanded the government take effective steps to ensure security of women and children, trial for rape and withdrawal of a case filed against left student leaders...