Separate courts in Dhaka and Narayanganj on Wednesday placed former minister Golam Dastagir Gazi and an ex-Awami League lawmaker for Kushtia-4 constituency, Selim Altaf George, on remand for different terms in separate cases of murders during the recent student-led mass uprising...
The Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission has formed a committee to investigate alleged irregularities in Strategic Equity Management Ltd, owned by controversial businessman Chowdhury Nafeez Sarafat and his family members...
Factory roofs blown off, products worth millions of dollars destroyed, supply chains disrupted: Typhoon Yagi has had a disastrous impact on local and global companies in northern Vietnam who could take months to recover, business leaders warn...
REVOLUTIONS or mass uprisings have been both triumphs and tragedies in history鈥檚 archives, marked by the inevitable complexities that follow the overthrow of entrenched regimes. The July uprising, which brought down the Awami League鈥檚 16-year autocratic rule, is no exception. This student-led uprising was hailed as a watershed moment for democracy in Bangladesh,...
UNABATED rights violations, including custodial torture, extrajudicial killing and enforced disappearances, at the hands of the law enforcement agencies, which characterised the authoritarian Awami League regime, are where reform is expected. The reported allegation that a leader of Juba Dal, the youth wing of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, has died in...
Calling upon own party leaders and activists to stay away from acts of repression, or else the BNP would meet the fate same as Awami League, said Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Wednesday...
Home adviser Lt Gen Md Jahangir Alam Chowdhury, retd, said on Wednesday the people would get benefit of bestowing magistracy power upon the army.
Jahangirnagar University鈥檚 environmental sciences department professor AKM Rashidul Alam has been appointed as proctor of the university.
The authorities of Jahangirnagar University have invited applications from the university students injured during the quota reform student movement for providing treatment costs...
FOLLOWING the fall of the authoritarian Awami League regime in August, one challenge Bangladesh faces as it moves forward is the sheer size and untenable budget of the Bangladesh Civil Service. The budget for the financial year 2023鈥�2024 reveals that 22 per cent of our national budget goes into public administration, which is a clear marker of the...
THE unforeseen collapse of the Awami League government on August 5 sparked new forms of political violence across the country and created fertile ground for religious tensions. Attacks took place on homes and establishments belonging to people of different religions, raising concerns over rising communal violence...
Bangladesh鈥檚 interim government home adviser Lt Gen, retd, Md Jahangir Alam Chowdhury on Monday asked the Coast Guard to work attentively to prevent the smuggling of fertiliser, Hilsha fish and others through the river and marine routes.
Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Monday urged the interim government to arrange a national election immediately....
A case was filed against 704 people, including former Gazipur city mayor and former Awami League city unit general secretary Md Jahangir Alam on several charges, including...
The Eid-e-Milad- un-Nabi, marking the day of birth and passing away of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), will be observed across Bangladesh on Monday with due religious solemnity...
Environment, forest and climate change adviser Syeda Rizwana Hasan on Sunday said that an initiative would be taken to ensure widespread use of environment-friendly jute packaging through the proper implementation of the Jute Packaging Act, 2010...
Volunteers rushed to areas inundated by floods in Myanmar on Sunday as the country鈥檚 death toll from the Typhoon Yagi deluge surged to 113 and remote areas...
A mentally challenged girl was killed after being struck with a hammer allegedly for playing loud music in front of a house at Thanaghata village in Satkhira Sadar upazila on Saturday...
Hundreds of villagers in Myanmar waded or swam through chin-high waters, fleeing severe floods around the remote capital Naypyidaw on Friday, while Vietnam began clearing up...
Millions of people across Southeast Asia struggled on Thursday with flooded homes, power cuts and wrecked infrastructure after Typhoon Yagi swept through the region, as the death toll passed 200...
THE chief adviser to the interim government Muhammad Yunus has announced the formation of six commissions, headed by eminent citizens, to effect national reforms to make people鈥檚 aspirations come true, prevent the recurrence of fascism or autocratic rule and introduce a state system based on people鈥檚 ownership, oriented towards welfare and...
RESUMING teaching after my doctoral degree, I soon found myself in a new situation. One of the formidable aspects of this newness was, of course, the big class sizes I was having to deal with. In the academic department where I have worked in the past many years, I have usually taught a class size of around 25鈥�40 students. When I first began...
ARCHAEOLOGY 鈥� as a modern discipline encompassing other two areas of study 鈥� humanity and social sciences 鈥� helps us to understand the living activity of pre-historic people covering 99 per cent of the human past from the Paleolithic period until the advent of literacy in societies around the world. It deals with the material culture of human...
IN THE recent rise of secular authoritarian government and the rise of religious orthodoxy in response to the so-called development-focused regime, let us take a step back and reread Lalon Fakir (d. 1890) to find what he professed and practiced in a similar situation. Lalon鈥檚 reformulation of the concept of spiritual practice was informed by the...
Indian opposition leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday denounced an 鈥榠deological war鈥� in the South Asian country, ruled by prime minister Narendra Modi and his Hindu nationalist party...
The government has appointed Muhammad Syed Ali, deputy secretary of central digital cell of the commerce ministry, as administrator of the e-Commerce Association of Bangladesh...
WHEN I was in sixth grade, around twelve years old, I used to attend math tuition with a local teacher. It never bothered me or anyone in my family that I was a young Muslim girl walking more than a mile alone through a predominantly Hindu area to study with a Hindu teacher...
Belgium captain Kevin De Bruyne鈥檚 future with the national side has been thrown into doubt after he slammed his teammates as 鈥榥ot good enough鈥� after a 2-0 Nations League...
The World Trade Organisation (WTO) has urged the low- and middle-income countries to bridge the digital divide, tackle regulatory capacity and compliance issues to take...
Tens of thousands of people were forced to flee their homes on Tuesday as massive floods inundated northern Vietnam in the wake of Typhoon Yagi and the death toll climbed to 82.
