Human Rights Watch handed over a report on the July Uprising to Bangladesh interim government chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus on Tuesday, saying that officers had told them the ousted Bangladesh dictator, Sheikh 鈥楬asina directly ordered enforced disappearances and killings.鈥�, said a press release.
AFTER the July uprising of students and the public, the call for educational reform has become louder, highlighting the need to rebuild a liberal, democratic and developed Bangladesh. The education sector must evolve in a way that nurtures the development of new ideas, policies, and intellectual practices. Amidst these cries for reform, one issue...
A Dhaka metropolitan magistrate court on Monday placed former state minister for disaster management and relief Enamur Rahman on a six-day remand in police custody in a murder case following his arrest Sunday night by the Dhaka Metropolitan Police鈥檚 detective branch...
The International Crimes Tribunal on Sunday issued a warrant for the arrest of former director general of the Rapid Action Battalion, Harun Ur Rashid, in a case over killing people shooting聽 from...
United Nations high commissioner for human rights Volker T眉rk said that the UN fact-finding report on the atrocities during the July-August uprising was at final stage and would be released by mid-February...
Speakers, including academics and politicians, called for national unity among all political parties and other stakeholders for bringing democratic reforms in the country in keeping with the spirit of the War of Independence and July uprising...
At least seven students, including a woman, who were involved in the July uprising, were injured in a clash reportedly with the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement members at its central office on Tuesday...
Academics, writers, experts and rights activists on Monday said that attacks on freedom of expression and discriminations based on economy, health, education, religion, gender and ethnicity continued even after the July uprising.
The International Crimes Tribunal on Monday sent assistant commissioner of Police Tanjil Ahmed and two constables in cases for involvement 鈥榠n crimes against humanity鈥� during the July uprising...
Border Guard Bangladesh provided financial assistance to 18 students and people injured in the July-August uprising at an event at the Border Conference Centre of the BGB Headquarters in Dhaka on Sunday...
ACCESS to the internet has become indispensable in modern life, intertwining with rights like freedom of expression. However, government-enforced internet shutdowns, often justified under national security, disrupt daily life and infringe on fundamental human rights. Bangladesh鈥檚 July uprising exposed the devastating impact of these blackouts...
Political parties on Thursday urged the interim government to form a committee to prepare the text of the July uprising proclamation on the basis of a consensus through detailed discussion with all anti-fascist forces...
A human chain has called for the swift provision of assistance to the families of those martyred in the July uprising...
The Students Against Discrimination and the Jatiya Nagorik Committee on Friday distributed leaflets and conducted nationwide mass contact programmes as part of their weeklong campaign...
The newly formed July Uprising Cell by students against discrimination on Friday requested all to provide information on six unidentified and unclaimed bodies kept at Dhaka Medical College Hospital since the mass uprising.
The Students Against Discrimination and Jatiya Nagorik Committee on Wednesday continued leaflet distribution and rallies in Dhaka city and elsewhere as part of their weeklong nationwide campaign demanding the July uprising proclamation by January 15...
A new directorate dedicated to the July Uprising will be set up next month under the Ministry of Liberation War Affairs, said Information and Broadcasting Adviser Mohammad Nahid Islam.
Fifteen staff members, including senior doctors and nurses of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University have been suspended in connection with the killing that occurred near the university鈥檚 cabin block during the anti-discrimination student movement in July...
The chief adviser鈥檚 press secretary, Shafiqul Alam, on Sunday said that the interim government would hold discussion with political parties soon to prepare the proclamation of the July uprising based on national consensus.
Leaders of Ganosamhati Andolan on Saturday at a dialogue on current political issues in Dhaka called on all to work for implementing the spirit of the July movement for establishing a democratic Bangladesh...
The interim government has taken an initiative to prepare a declaration of the July mass uprising based on a national consensus, said the chief adviser鈥檚 press secretary, Shafiqul Alam, on Monday.
The revolutionary task of the 鈥榬evolutionary potential鈥� of the 2024 mass uprising is to dismantle Bangladesh鈥檚 authoritarian state structure and establish a new political framework. This is...
THE escape of many leaders of the Awami League accused of killing several hundred students and people during the July uprising, who the nation expects to be held to justice, is unacceptable. Such escapes of the perpetrators of the mass murder is an insult to victims and their family. While the former prime minister Sheikh Hasina fled the country to India...
Students of Pathshala South Asian Media Institute on Sunday organised an exhibition titled 36 to pay tribute to July uprising heroes on their premises at the Drik Path Bhaban in the capital...
SOCIAL media platforms such as Facebook, You Tube, TikTok, X, WhatsApp, etc are powerful tools of information and can be used to build public opinion. The flow of right information makes an individual more powerful, more knowledgeable. It not only broadens the intellectual horizon of individuals but also helps them to make correct decisions...
Healthcare providers and the sector experts at a discussion on Thursday said that there were no significant negative health impacts from India鈥檚 suspension of visas after the July uprising for there were no lack of facilities in the health sector of the country...
IN AN era of political fragmentation, the concepts of divisive politics and political spirituality provide critical lenses for understanding emerging political realities and perhaps possibilities. Nationalism, initially a unifying force against colonial oppression, has often devolved into exclusionary ideologies, resulting in divisions within the populace of modern...
THE recent visit of India鈥檚 foreign secretary to Dhaka came at a time charged with transformative potential and stakes that are unrivalled. To Bangladesh, the July uprising is more than just a tectonic shift; it鈥檚 a declaration of people鈥檚 will against tyranny, it is a beacon for nations under oppression, and it is a call for unification. For India, it is a moment of...
Politicians, academics, professionals and women leaders on Tuesday at a seminar demanded increasing participation of women in the implementation of sprits of recent student-people movement...
Performance art titled 1971/2024: Shono Mohajon Amra Hajarjon, directed by artist-critic Mustafa Zaman, pays tributes to July uprising martyrs and injured and heroes of the War of Independence.