The interim government on Thursday approved the draft of the National Human Rights Commission Ordinance, 2025, empowering the commission to investigate human rights violations committed by law enforcement agencies as well as abuses carried out under state sponsorship or with state support...
MY KNOWLEDGE of the people鈥檚 movements and uprisings that have taken place across the Bangladesh is very limited. The histories prior to the Hatikheda uprising of 170 years ago remain blurry to me. Yet I do know the story of Amrita Devi of Rajasthan from 1730 鈥� who sacrificed her life to save trees 鈥� the spirit that later inspired the Chipko movement. However,...
WHEN the July Uprising swept across Bangladesh, it was the workers, the invisible pillars of the nation鈥檚 economy, who paid the highest price. They marched for justice, raised their voices for dignity and faced tear gas and bullets in the hope of change...
Detective on Tuesday arrested a girl allegedly for posting a derogatory video on social media about the July mass uprising and its fighters from Godagari upazila in Rajshahi...
The International Crimes Tribunal-1 on Thursday concluded the trial of deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina, former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan, and former inspector general of police Chowdhury Abdullah Al Mamun...
International Crimes Tribunal 1 on Wednesday sent the 15 detained serving army officers to jail in three cases of crimes against humanity, two for enforced disappearances during the fallen Awami League regime and the other for 2024 July uprising atrocities...
The government has decided to hold the trials of cases filed for the killings during July 2024 mass uprising at speedy trial tribunals...
Bangladesh Nationalist Party standing committee member Salahuddin Ahmed on Sunday said that no attempt to pit the BNP against the July uprising would succeed.
Chief prosecutor Muhammad Tajul Islam on Wednesday told the International Crimes Tribunal-1 that bullets recovered from the bodies of several victims of the July uprising were fired from military rifles.
Chief prosecutor Muhammad Tajul Islam on Tuesday argued that disciplinary actions taken by different universities against pro-Awami League teachers and Chhatra League activists for attacking student protesters proved deposed prime minister...
The International Crimes Tribunal-2 (ICT-2) on Tuesday ordered the publication of a public notice in two national dailies, demanding that Awami League joint general secretary and former lawmaker Mahbubul Alam Hanif, along with three other party leaders, surrender by October 23.
The youth and sports and local government, rural development and cooperatives adviser, Asif Mahmud Shojib Bhuyain, on Thursday testified that Dhaka Metropolitan Police鈥檚 Detective Branch former chief Harun-ur-Rashid had threatened to...
Interim government鈥檚 cultural and information advisers on Tuesday said that the past year鈥檚 student-led mass uprising was against any forms of fascism...
The police Monday night arrested five leaders of the Awami League, activities of which are now banned, and its associate bodies in connection with the murder of a student during the student-led July 2024 mass uprising at Dhamrai in Dhaka...
Local people, including the families of martyred during July uprising, on Monday besieged the office of Sherpur deputy commissioner, protesting bail granted to Awami League leader Chandan Kumar Pal in a murder case...
The International Crimes Tribunal-2 on Monday issued arrest warrants against Awami League joint general secretary and former lawmaker Mahbubul Alam Hanif and three other local leaders for their alleged involvement in committing crimes against humanity in Kushtia during the July uprising...
The prosecution of the International Crimes Tribunals on Sunday filed formal charges against Awami League joint general secretary and former lawmaker Mahbubul Alam Hanif and three other party leaders for their alleged superior command...
The filing of false cases continued over incidents during the July uprising, creating doubt and concern among the victims about getting justice in the cases.
The government will honour the families of children killed during the July鈥揂ugust mass uprising in 2024, as part of World Children鈥檚 Day...
An investigation officer in a case of crimes against humanity against deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina and two others on Tuesday testified that the law enforcement agencies and the then ruling party affiliates were involved in widespread, systematic and targeted killings in at least 41 districts across the country during the July uprising...
Leaders of the 12-Party Alliance and the Left Democratic Alliance on Sunday demanded the legal basis of the July Charter to uphold the spirit of the July uprising...
Lauding the role of non-resident Bangladeshis, Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus on Sunday said the remittance of Bangladeshi expatriates saved the country鈥檚 economy after the July uprising...
The International Crimes Tribunal-1 on Sunday reviewed video footage documenting widespread violence, shooting and crimes against humanity during the July uprising across the country...
Bangladesh interim government chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus on Saturday called upon non-resident Bangladeshis (NRBs) to actively participate in rebuilding the nation through their collaboration and contributions, says a press release.
A metropolitan magistrate court in Chattogram on Thursday accepted the charge sheet against 231 people, including former foreign minister Hasan Mahmud, former land minister Saifuzzaman Chowdhury Javed and former education minister Mohibul Hasan Chowdhury, in the case of...
I first considered calling this essay Political Zionism. But what matters more than terminology is the kind of politics that has taken root since last July in Bangladesh, and how, a year later, we are using that event as a tool of partisan gain in the name of...
A police officer on Tuesday told the International Crimes Tribunal-1 that he had received a wireless message from the then DMP commissioner Habibur Rahman on July 17, 2024, ordering the use of maximum force against the July protesters and...
Home affairs adviser Md Jahangir Alam Chowdhury on Saturday inaugurated murals titled 鈥楯uly Heroism鈥� and 鈥楯uly Sacrifice鈥� at the Mawa end of the Padma Bridge, commemorating the martyrs of the July uprising.
The liberation war affairs ministry on Tuesday said that anyone proved to have made false claims would be dropped from the official list of July martyrs and July fighters and legal action would be taken against them.
A July uprising injured victim on Sunday expressed doubt over getting justice regarding a 鈥榝alse case鈥� filed by a person in Dhaka in his name, claiming that he was actually injured in Chattogram and filed a case there in that connection...
