Outpatient services at the National Institute of Ophthalmology and Hospital in the capital Dhaka resumed on Thursday morning amid security concern after remaining suspended for over two weeks following clashes among the hospital staff, outpatients and July uprising-injured patients...
Leaders of Ganosamhati Andolan, a partner of 6-party alliance Ganatantra Mancha, on Wednesday said that the interim government had failed to reflect the spirits of the July uprising in the proposed budget for fiscal year 2025鈥�26 placed on Monday...
THERE are moments in a nation鈥檚 history when silence bears more weight than slogans. In post-uprising Bangladesh, a country navigating political rupture and renewal after the fall of long-standing authoritarian rule, the language of reform rings loudly across press briefings and policy drafts. Yet parallel to this public performance of transformation runs a quieter, more...
THE recent surge in violence against women perpetrated by Islamist groups or mobs acting as 鈥榯awhidi janata鈥� alongside the government鈥檚 failure to adequately respond is gravely concerning. After the July uprising, in which women and girls from diverse backgrounds actively participated and which they often led, it was hoped that women鈥檚 democratic aspirations...
Speakers at a book launching event on Saturday deplored that discrimination against persons with disabilities continued even after the student-led July uprising that called for ending all forms of discrimination...
The patients at the National Institute of Ophthalmology and Hospital had to suffer immensely on Thursday as treatment remained suspended there for the second consecutive day on the day.
Operations at the National Institute of Ophthalmology and Hospital were suspended Wednesday morning following clashes involving hospital doctors and staff, patients injured during the July movement, and general patients...
Foreign adviser Md Touhid Hossain on Monday expressed concerns over the widespread rumour campaigns during the post-July uprising by vested quarters...
More political parties on Sunday called on chief adviser Professor Mohammad Yunus to announce a comprehensive road map for the next Jatiya Sangsad elections, a charter for consensus-based reforms, and to ensure visible progress in the trial of the July Uprising killings.
MANY people are now openly saying that the government and the state are not functioning well. There is no reason to brand everyone making such observations as fascists or their sympathisers. A significant portion of those who directly participated in or supported the anti-fascist movement in the past are also openly voicing such concerns, motivated by their...
July fighter Mohammad Hasan died in Thailand after long struggle following a gunshot wound to the head during the July-August mass uprising in Chattogram.
Actor Nusraat Faria Mazhar walked out of Kashimpur female鈥檚 Central Jail on Tuesday afternoon, several hours after she had secured bail in a case of attempted murder allegedly committed during the past year鈥檚 July mass uprising.
A Dhaka metropolitan magistrate court on Monday sent actor Nusraat Faria Mazhar to jail in a case of attempted murder allegedly committed during the July uprising last year.
THE 鈥楬uman Project鈥� is a conceptual blueprint for fostering socially and fiscally responsible economic justice, especially in systematically exploited, excluded, and disempowered communities. By focusing on social equity and deep investment in human capital and thereby engineering shared prosperity as the sustainable return, the Human Project aspires to bring...
The police have arrested six Awami League leaders, including two public representatives, in connection with the murder of four students in the July uprising in the past year...
Chief prosecutor of the International Crimes Tribunal Muhammad Tajul Islam on Tuesday said mass murder had taken place, not genocide, during the July uprising, calling for not spreading confusions over this.
The Investigation Agency of the International Crimes Tribunal on Monday submitted its investigation report against deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina, former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan and former inspector general of police...
THE July uprising exposed harsh truth. One of the most painful aspects was that the police, once seen as protectors, become a symbol of repression. The realisation pushed police reforms into the national spotlight, prompting the interim government to establish the police reforms commission, one of the six set up in the early phase of the interim goverment. The recently...
THE issue of public service job reservation that initiated the July uprising has remained unattended since the uprising finally toppled the Awami League government. The students who took to the streets in July 2024, demanding a rational reform in the quota system, and the authorities have somewhat accepted the reform that the Awami League government announced days...
Journalist, artistes and academics were among 201 accused in an attempt to murder case of a madrassah student, Saifuddin Mohammad Emdad, during the student-led July uprising.
The International Crimes Tribunal on Monday granted the chief prosecutor additional time until May 25 to submit the investigation report in a crimes against humanity case involving the killing of six people on the outskirts of Ashulia during the student-led uprising in July鈥揂ugust 2024.
The International Crimes Tribunal on Monday fixed May 25 for the submission of the investigation report into a case over burning the bodies of six students after killing them at Ashulia in Savar on August 5...
THE term 鈥榦pposition to inequality鈥� has re-emerged with striking political significance in the wake of the August student-popular uprising led by the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement. But this resurgence raises a pressing question: Is opposition to inequality merely a slogan to mobilise mass sentiment, or does it hold practical significance in dismantling the...
A group of students has formed a 35-member shadow investigation committee to identify those directly and indirectly involved in the attacks on Dhaka University students during the July Uprising between July 15 and August 5, 2024.
The International Crimes Tribunal on Tuesday allowed the Investigation Agency to interrogate former Awami League lawmaker ABM Fazle Karim Chowdhury in custody on April 16 in connection with the killing of six people during the July uprising in Chattogram...
A 17-year-old boy who sustained bullet injuries to the head during the July uprising in Dhaka died at a hospital in Bauphal upazila of Patuakhali district on Friday...
Dhaka district鈥檚 civil surgeon, Mohammad Zillur Rahman, faced strong criticism from valiant freedom fighters on Wednesday after comparing the July 2024 uprising to the 1971 Liberation War...
Political leaders say that the July uprising has paved the way for a discrimination-free society and democratic governance in line with the aspirations of the liberation war which have remained unfulfilled even 54 years after independence.
The European Union on Wednesday launched a project to support around 8,000 individuals severely affected by the violence and disruption which occurred in the context of the July-August 2024 uprising in Bangladesh...
Jahangirnagar University authorities have suspended nine teachers, 289 students and three employees for their involvement in 鈥榙irecting and instigating鈥� attacks on student protesters during the mass uprising that led to the fall of the...