UCSI University Bangladesh Branch Campus commemorated the first anniversary of the July 2024 uprising with a discussion and photo exhibition, reflecting on the movement鈥檚 legacy and the nation鈥檚 political direction, in Dhaka鈥檚 Banani area on Tuesday...
The Small and Medium Enterprise Foundation initiated a skills development training programme on Tuesday for the members of martyrs and injured fighters of the July Uprising...
Bangladesh Krishi Bank on Monday held a special discussion meeting to celebrate 鈥楯uly Revolution 2025鈥� at its head office, said a press release...
National Consensus Commission vice-vhairman Professor Ali Riaz on Tuesday said all the issues on which consensus has been reached through talks should be finalised quickly.
The government has issued a new gazette recognising 1,757 more injured people from the July Uprising as July fighters under three categories...
The president on Monday gave approval to the Bangladesh Judicial Service Formation Rules, 2025, that stated that 25 per cent officials in law and judiciary would be appointed outside from members of Bangladesh judicial service...
Political parties on Monday received the draft of the 鈥楯uly National Charter 2025鈥�, prepared by the National Consensus Commission, which would bind the parties to implement the consensus-based reforms within two years after the formation of the parliament.
The National Book Centre organised the award-giving ceremony of an essay competition to mark the birth centenary of Tajuddin Ahmed, the first prime minister of Bangladesh and the pioneer of independence, at the book centre in Dhaka on Monday...
ABU Sayed, a student activist at Begum Rokeya University in Rangpur, was killed on July 16, 2024. The death became a flashpoint in what would grow into the July uprising. While the Awami League government, toppled in the uprising,聽 then claimed that Sayed had been killed with bricks and firearms by other protesters, video footage shared widely on social media...
THIS is unfortunate that the interim government, which assumed office after the overthrow of the Awami League government on August 5, 2024 in an uprising that began on July 1 that year as student protests against civil service job reservations, has yet to comprehensively enlist all who died and became wounded at the hand of law enforcers who were aided by the...
The first-ever international conference on the July uprising was held at the University of Dhaka on Sunday, with researchers and analysts from home and abroad calling for a national commitment to documenting and preserving the history of the 2024 student-led mass uprising...
The interim government has failed to complete lists of the people who died and became wounded in the July-August uprising a year after the event...
A meeting of the executive committee of the National Economic Council on Sunday approved a dozen projects involving Tk聽8,149.38 crore, but sent back a proposal on a housing project for the July martyrs鈥� families for further scrutiny...
National consensus commission vice-chairman Professor Ali Riaz on Sunday said the preliminary draft of the much-cherished 鈥楯uly Charter鈥� has been prepared.
Cultural platform Ganatantrik Sanskritik Oikya on Saturday celebrated the first anniversary of a protest event they undertook to defy the curfew imposed by the ousted Awami League regime during the July uprising...
United International University organised a discussion to commemorate the July uprising at the UIU in Dhaka on Saturday...
THE continuation of extrajudicial killing and custodial death during the tenure of the interim government, which was installed after a political changeover that promised meaningful changes in governance, is worrying. Right group Odhikar in its latest report, published on July 24, says that at least 29 people were extrajudicially killed between August 9, 2024 and this June 30...
Former chief justice ABM Khairul Haque and economist professor Abul Barkat have been sharing same building as division 1 inmates of the Dhaka Central Jail at Keraniganj, on the outskirts of the capital...
At least 29 people fell victim to extrajudicial killings from August 9, 2024, to June 30, 2025, under the interim government, with eight people encountering such killings between April and June.
National Citizen Party convener Nahid Islam today said their party is determined to realise the July charter and July declaration by August 5, as part of its ongoing movement for reforms, justice, and a new constitution.
The Chattogram Metropolitan Sessions Judge Court on Thursday rejected Bangladesh Sammilita Sanatan Jagran Jote spokesperson Chinmoy Krishna Das Brahmachari鈥檚 bail petitions in five cases, including the case of killing lawyer Saiful Islam Alif...
At least seven people were killed and 41 others injured in road accidents in Faridpur, Sunamganj and Madaripur districts on Thursday...
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...
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...
The doctor who conducted the autopsy of Abu Sayeed said that the police forced him to change the post-mortem report five times, reports Al Jazeera.
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...
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.
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聽 of the 1971 War of Independence, wanted to establish a democratic country upholding the rights of the common聽people...
Bangladesh鈥檚 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...
Syria said on Tuesday that it had launched investigations into reported extrajudicial killings in the country鈥檚 Druze heartland, promising to punish perpetrators including any government-affiliated personnel after a week of sectarian bloodshed...