International Crimes Tribunal chief prosecutor Muhammad Tajul Islam on Thursday said that the prosecution found evidences of conspiracy to thwart the trial of the July-August massacre...
Drik Picture Library organised a solidarity rally on Monday at Rabindra Sarobar in Dhanmondi of Dhaka in memory of the martyred children of Palestine...
EACH year, on March 25, the world pauses to observe International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, an occasion that commemorates one of the most brutal and dehumanising chapters in history. This remembrance is not merely symbolic. It is a moral imperative, a call to reflect on a legacy that still ripples through our...
Eighteen Bangladeshi human trafficking victims returned home from Myanmar early Wednesday...
DESPITE support and care from authorities, particularly the healthcare providers, the eight-year-old rape victim from Magura lost the battle for life in Combined Military Hospital in Dhaka on March 13 while anti-rape protests raged. Four accused in this case are arrested and the law minister assured a speedy trial of the case but the movement against rape continued as the...
The declaration of the daily 鈥楯aiJai Din鈥� has been revoked by the office of the Dhaka district magistrate and deputy commissioner following an application by its former editor Shafik Rehman, sparking protests from the newspaper鈥檚 current management and journalists...
A Dhaka court on Wednesday convicted three men and sentenced them to life term in jail in a case filed over the rape of a 13-year-old girl in Kamrangirchar area of Dhaka...
THAT pedestrians continue to constitute the largest group of road accident victims warrants special attention and specific measures are needed to protect them. In February, at least 114 pedestrians died in road accidents. In a road accident on March 10, a pedestrian died and another was seriously injured when a covered van ran over them at Banani in Dhaka. Both of them...
Dhaka North City Corporation administrator Mohammad Azaz asked illegal land grabbers to pay rent during an eviction drive in the Beribandh area of Gabtoli in the capital on Wednesday...
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...
RECENTLY, the global geopolitical landscape has undergone rapid changes. The war in Ukraine, followed by the Israel-Palestine conflict and the rise of right-wing governments across various European nations, has significantly altered the world鈥檚 political dynamics. Additionally, the removal of Bashar al-Assad in Syria and Sheikh Hasina in Bangladesh has introduced...
The principal of Cumilla Victoria Government College, Professor Mohammad Abul Bashar Bhuiyan, along with several other teachers, was injured during an incident between two groups over the firing of an imam at the mosque of college on Friday...
Fiction writer Afsana Begum has brought two new literary works at the Amar Ekushey Book Fair...
The interim government on Thursday announced that the government was likely to start from March the distribution of monthly allowance for the victims of July mass uprising...
Protesting interns and students of public medical colleges and hospitals on Tuesday said that they would continue their work abstention programme along with boycotting the academic activities for the next 48 hours till Thursday late night, pressing for a number of demands...
Mayer Dak, a platform of families of enforced disappearance victims, on Tuesday submitted formal complaints to the office of the chief prosecutor at the International Crimes Tribunal, about 100 cases of enforced disappearance and extrajudicial killing...
The chairman of the International Crimes Tribunal, Golam Mortuza Mozumder, has urged tribunal employees and officers to familiarise themselves with the laws, rules, and procedures governing war crimes trials, emphasising that the public expects them to be knowledgeable in these matters.
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...
Elon Musk has said he would work with US president Donald Trump for as long as he 鈥榗an be helpful,鈥� as the pair dismissed concerns over possible conflicts of interest due to the tech tycoon鈥檚 work with the White House...
Chief adviser鈥檚 press secretary Shafiqul Alam on Tuesday said that the interim government would soon form a high-level committee to investigate corruption and irregularities committed in the information and communication technology sector...
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...
Qatar, a key mediator in the Gaza conflict, said on Tuesday that Palestinians 鈥� not outsiders 鈥� must decide the territory鈥檚 future after the Israel-Hamas war...
Gazipur Zila Parishad on Sunday distributed a cheque of Tk 1 lakh each to the families of 9 martyrs in the July-August mass uprising in the district...
Activists, journalists and families of enforced disappearance victims said on Thursday that the Bangladesh government should cooperate fully with the United Nations in its fair and transparent investigation into the massacre of people, including children, during the July-August mass uprising...
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Thursday filed a complaint with the office of the chief prosecutor of the International Crimes Tribunal seeking justice over the reported killings of 848 party activists and their relatives during the July-August mass uprising in 2024.
International Crimes Tribunal chief prosecutor Muhammad Tajul Islam on Thursday said the fact-finding Report of the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) would be used at the tribunal as an irrefutable evidence for crimes against humanity during the July-August student-led mass uprising.
Families of the victims of the February 25-26, 2009 rebellion in the erstwhile Bangladesh Rifles on Wednesday urged not to release death row and life term convicts in murder case without applying law properly...
The International Crimes Tribunal on Wednesday expressed dissatisfaction over law adviser Asif Nazrul鈥檚 Tuesday statement in which he hoped that the ICT would deliver verdicts in three or four cases of the killings during the July-August mass uprising by October...
The International Crimes Tribunal on Tuesday ordered the jail authorities to produce detained former Dhaka North City Corporation mayor Atiqul Islam and five other Awami League leaders before the tribunal on February 17.
