The family members of Bangladesh鈥檚 first prime minister and one of the leading Liberation War organisers, Tajuddin Ahmad, on Thursday met chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus and invited him to attend the events marking Tajuddin鈥檚 birth centenary.
July Martyrs Day was observed with due respect in Dhaka and elsewhere across the country on Wednesday, marking the first anniversary of death of Abu Sayeed, a student of Begum Rokeya University, Rangpur, who was shot dead on July 16 last year during the nationwide Students Against Discrimination movement.
IN THE political history of Bangladesh, election periods have always been of paramount importance. From the Pakistan Movement to the birth of Bangladesh, the mass uprising of the 1990s, or the aftermath of the 2024 鈥楯uly Uprising鈥�, the right to vote has consistently been at the centre of political discourse. Although the three elections after 1990 were considered free...
The Supreme Judicial Appointment Council, led by chief justice Syed Refaat Ahmed, has scheduled July 18-19 to conduct viva voce interviews of at least 60 shortlisted candidates for the posts of additional High Court judges.
The government is now constructing a 鈥楯uly Martyrs鈥� Monument鈥� at the base of a mural of the country鈥檚 founding president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at C&B intersection in Rajshahi city.
The advisory council committee on economic affairs on Tuesday agreed in principle to implement two projects worth Tk聽111.19 crore at the Ganabhaban to turn it into a July uprising memorial museum...
Bangladesh Maritime University, country鈥檚 specialised public university, organised 鈥楾he July Mass Uprising Revival Programme-2025, July Commemoration鈥� on its temporary campus in Dhaka on Tuesday...
THERE has long been speculation that the Easter bombing of April 2019 had a relationship to Sri Lankan politics. The near simultaneous bombings of three Christian churches and three luxury hotels, with a death toll of 270 and over 500 injured, by Muslim suicide bombers made no sense in Sri Lanka where there has been no history of conflict between the two religions...
SEXUAL and reproductive health and rights lie at the foundation of bodily freedom, gender justice and fair development. They are not limited to medical access but stretch into the right to decide 鈥� freely and safely 鈥� about one鈥檚 body, one鈥檚 relationships and one鈥檚 future. For Bangladesh, which has made remarkable socio-economic progress in recent decades, ensuring...
Ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina had split the country using the freedom fighters versus Razakars divide and using 鈥楳ujibism鈥� for past 50 years the country was kept divided, while the July uprising was organised against such divisions in society and to build a new Bangladesh, said National Citizen Party convener Nahid Islam...
The foundation stone of July Martyrs鈥� Monument was laid at Bakultala in Jashore town on Monday.
July uprising women activists, martyr families, and cultural activists on Monday observed July Women鈥檚 Day in recognition of women鈥檚 contributions to the student-led mass uprising that led to the ouster of the authoritarian regime of Sheikh Hasina on August 5, 2024.
The proposed reforms to the guideline for the current year鈥檚 college admission that the education boards have submitted to the education ministry contain quotas for the July uprising victims...
Law, justice and parliamentary affairs adviser Asif Nazrul on Monday said that the trial of the July killings will be completed during the tenure of the incumbent government.
Perpetrators involved in the July 9 killing of scrap metal trader Md Sohag, also known as Lal Chand, near Sir Salimullah Medical College Mitford Hospital in the capital Dhaka, allegedly created a plot to show the incident as the outcome of mob violence.
The July Memorial Museum will be inaugurated on August 5 as the work of the museum is almost at its final stage.
The International Crimes Tribunal-1 on Monday charged former Dhaka Metropolitan Police commissioner Habibur Rahman and seven of his subordinates with crimes against humanity for the murder of six protesters at Chankharpool in Dhaka during the...
Dhaka University teachers, belonging to the pro-Bangladesh Nationalist Party White Panel, on Sunday demanded trial of ousted former prime minister Sheikh Hasina and her collaborators among fellow teachers for their role in crackdown on students during the July uprising...
To preserve the memory of martyrs of the July Uprising, the first 鈥楯uly Martyr鈥檚 Monument鈥�, implemented by the ministry of housing and public works, will be inaugurated on Monday at 3:00pm in Narayanganj under the July Resurgence Programme 2025...
A visual artist platform on Sunday announced a daylong programme to be held on August 2, commemorating the July uprising on the occasion of its first anniversary...
Ministry of information and broadcasting on Sunday released posters and postcards, marking anniversary of the July Mass Uprising...
Protests against the July 9 killing of a trader allegedly by the activists of Bangladesh Nationalist Party-affiliated organisations near Sir Salimullah Medical College Mitford Hospital continued for the third day on Sunday...
Jatiyatabadi Juba Dal, the youth wing of Bangladesh Nationalist Party, will hold demonstrations across the country, including in Dhaka, on Thursday to protest against the worsening law and order situation.
Bangladesh Jatiotabadi Juba Dal, the youth body of Bangladesh Nationalist Party, has expelled former organising secretary of its Chattogram city unit Emdadul Haque Badsha over allegations of extortion and land grabbing...
A case was filed with Daulatpur police station on Saturday against unidentified assailants over Friday鈥檚 murder of Mahbubur Rahman Molla, an expelled leader of Jatiyatabadi Juba Dal in Khulna...
The murder of Abu Sayeed, a student at Begum Rokeya University in Rangpur, during the 2024 mass uprising was a deliberate extrajudicial killing by the police, according to a counter-forensic investigation jointly conducted by Drik Picture Library and Forensic Architecture, a London-based research agency...
Bangladesh Nationalist Party and its three affiliated bodies 鈥� Jatiyatabadi Juba Dal, Jatiyatabadi Swechchhasebak Dal, and Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal 鈥� on Saturday accused the government of deliberately paralysing the police administration to fuel instability across the country as a pretext for delaying the national election...
The chief adviser鈥檚 deputy press secretary, Mohammad Abul Kalam Azad Majumder, on Saturday said that the government had already instructed the law enforcement agencies to improve the law and order situation ahead of the upcoming national election...
About 4,000 people, including a leader of Jatiyatabadi Juba Dal, were sued on Friday over the death of an ambulance driver on July 7 during a clash between inhabitants of two villages under Nabiganj upazila in Habiganj...
THE brutal murder of a scrap trader near Sir Salimullah Medical College in Dhaka on July 9 is a betrayal of sacrifices of the martyrs of the July uprising, which topped the authoritarian Awami League regime in hopes for a political culture to uphold democratic values. The victim was repeatedly hit with a large chunk of concrete in daylight, with dozens watching. The police and...