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Establishing discrimination-free society demanded

Vice-chancellor of the Bangladesh Medical University Professor Dr Md Shahinul Alam at a programme in Dhaka on Thursday said that by embodying the spirit of the July uprising, a society and state with non-discrimination and justice must be established in the future...

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Climate crisis to legal battles

IN A quiet courtroom in the Hague, history stirred. A legal ripple, as gentle as a sigh from the Pacific, reached the shorelines of global governance. The International Court of Justice declared, in an advisory fashion though, that one country may, indeed, sue another for climate change. The words hung heavy in the air, stirring both celebrations and scepticism. Rightly so...

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Yunus orders preparing list of people killed in AL attacks before mass uprising

Bangladesh interim government chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus on Thursday ordered preparing a list of those killed in attacks by the Bangladesh Chhatra League and other affiliated bodies of Awami League, and also by state forces on the orders of the then government in the 15 years before the July mass uprising in 2024...

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Ex-CJ Khairul arrested in July murder case

Former chief justice ABM Khairul Haque was arrested by a Detective Branch team of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police at his Dhanmondi house in Dhaka Thursday morning.

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Birth centenary of Tajuddin Ahmad observed

Academics, professionals and journalists on Wednesday at a discussion meeting held in Dhaka said the late politician Tajuddin Ahmad, founding prime minister of Bangladesh, who was one of the organisers  of the 1971 War of Independence, wanted to establish a democratic country upholding the rights of the common people...

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Challenges still remain in banking sector in Bangladesh

Bangladesh’s banking sector has seen some tangible reforms over the past one year under the interim government, but a sustainable recovery of the sector damaged badly during the past government is constrained by some knotty challenges such as rising non-performing loans, outdated regulations and weak institutional capacity, economists said...

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Syria launches probes into extrajudicial killings in Druze

Syria said on Tuesday that it had launched investigations into reported extrajudicial killings in the country’s Druze heartland, promising to punish perpetrators including any government-affiliated personnel after a week of sectarian bloodshed...

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FAO keen to help Bangladesh boost jute market

Commerce adviser Sk Bashir Uddin on Tuesday urged the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations to support Bangladesh for bringing back the golden past of jute...

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Pro-BNP lawyers oppose SC judge appointment council

Pro-Bangladesh Nationalist Party lawyers on Wednesday demanded the abolition of the newly formed Supreme Judicial Appointment Council, calling it ‘controversial’, ‘unconstitutional’ and ‘motivated by the interim government’...

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Myanmar junta drone crashes over Thailand border

A Myanmar junta drone targeting anti-coup fighters crashed over the border in Thailand, the kingdom’s military said, prompting an official rebuke over hazardous spillover from the civil war....

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Charge hearing on July 28

The International Crimes Tribunal-2 on Tuesday set July 28 for hearing charges against Begum Rokeya University vice-chancellor Hasibur Rashid Bachchu and 29 others, accused in connection with a crimes against humanity case over killing of Abu Sayeed during 2024 July uprising...

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No quota for July injured in public service

Liberation war affairs ministry adviser Faruk-e-Azam on Monday said that there would be no quota in government jobs for those recognised as ‘July fighters’, injured in the July uprising in 2024...

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DU opens July memorial archive

Vice-chancellor of Dhaka University Professor Niaz Ahmed Khan at a discussion on Monday said that as the events of 1969, 1971, 1990 and 2024 were interconnected, any attempt to use them for dishonest purposes would be resisted...

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EU marks July uprising

The Eastern University marked the anniversary of the July uprising with a discussion and documentary screening at the EU in Dhaka on Monday...

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SAU VC urges all to make Bangladesh free from corruption

On the occasion of July Uprising’24 Vice-chancellor of the Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University Professor Md Abdul Latif at a rally in Dhaka on Monday urged the people of the country to make Bangladesh free from corruption...

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Deplorable delay in disbursing grants to July uprising victims

THE delay in disbursing grants and allowances to those wounded and to the families of those martyred during the July uprising is deeply disappointing. The interim government — formed after the student-led mass movement toppled the authoritarian Awami League government in August 2024 — repeatedly pledged that support and rehabilitation for the victims would be...

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SC gets two chamber judge courts

Chief justice Syed Refaat Ahmed on Sunday nominated justice Md Rezaul Haque as judge-in-chamber-1 and justice Farah Mahbub as judge-in-chamber-2, forming two chamber judge courts to dispose of emergency matters at the Appellate Division...

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Many victims yet to get any help

Sufferings and disappointment of the people wounded in the July uprising deepens on as many of them have yet to receive any or furhter financial help from the July Shaheed Smrity Foundation...

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Alfred coasts in London, but Lyles pipped in 100m

Julien Alfred fired out a broadside at her rivals for the women’s world 200m crown with an impressive victory in the London Diamond League meet on Saturday, but Noah Lyles was pipped in his opening 100m of the season.

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Environmental justice

UNDERSTANDING the concept of environmental crime is a complex attempt that seeks consideration of the overall socio-cultural as well as political structure of a particular area. And the narrow view of criminology and criminal justice theories are changing over time. The idea of environmental justice within the criminological literature started to become prevalent in the...

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Emerging right-wing politics a threat to democracy

WHILE the youth leaders of the victorious July uprising against the autocratic regime of Awami League, a year ago, announced that the spirit of their struggle was to establish a democratic polity and, that too, in the light of Bangladesh’s historic promise to establish equality, human dignity and social justice, the Jamaat-e-Islami and its political allies at a huge gathering on July...

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Absence of educational reform decried

Transparency International Bangladesh executive director Iftekharuzzaman on Saturday alleged that no commission had been formed to reform the education sector whereas the historic July uprising began from the educational institutions...