Pope’s ‘Jubilee of Youth’ ends with mass for 1m pilgrims
Pope Leo XIV presided over a final mass in Rome for over one million young people on Sunday, the culmination of a pilgrimage that has drawn Catholics from across the world...
Pope Leo XIV presided over a final mass in Rome for over one million young people on Sunday, the culmination of a pilgrimage that has drawn Catholics from across the world...
Korean electronics giant LG Electronics has officially introduced its Complete Air Solutions in Bangladesh through a partnership with RANCON Group, said a press release...
Two schoolgirls drowned in the Narsunda River at Ashtaka Manikpur village of Gundhar union under Karimganj in Kishoreganj on Wednesday...
Another case has been filed against over 5, 400 leaders and activists of Awami League and its associate bodies, including the banned Bangladesh Chhatra League, over the attack on an NCP rally in Gopalganj on July 16, raising the number of cases over it to 13...
At least 18 people were killed in eastern India on Tuesday after a bus ferrying Hindu pilgrims collided with a truck loaded with cooking gas cylinders, officials said...
The High Court on Sunday directed the government to form a committee to investigate the arrest of nine individuals alleged to be children in violation of the Children Act, 2013 following the political violence in Gopalganj on July 16, which left five people killed...
Abdelouahab Saidani, ambassador of the People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria to Bangladesh, paid an official visit to the American International University-Bangladesh on Thursday.
An individual, claiming himself to be the chief of ‘Bangabandhu Guerrilla Bahini’, has recently threatened the Kotalipara police station officer-in-charge, warning him of dire consequences regarding law enforcers’ action in Gopalganj following the July 16 violence over the National Citizen Party rally there...
THE Police Reform Commission once proposed a five-tier model for the use of force in crowd control. The first two stages emphasised non-contact measures — verbal communication, negotiation, and the use of barricades to maintain distance and prevent escalation. The third stage cautiously introduced physical force through non-lethal means: batons, gas sprays...
Bangladesh Awami League’s four front organisations, including banned student front Bangladesh Chhatra League, youth front Bangladesh Awami Juba League, volunteer front Bangladesh Awami Swechasebak League and worker front Jatiya Sramik League, on Sunday failed to impose its countrywide strike, protesting at what they said ‘Gopalganj mass killing’...
The police have filed four cases with Gopalganj sadar police station against 5,400 unnamed people over the killings of four people, out of five, in the July 16 violence in Gopalganj town centering the National Citizen Party rally...
Four front organisations of the Awami League, including banned student body Bangladesh Chhatra League called countrywide dawn to dusk general strike for today protesting at ‘Gopalganj mass killing’, and demanding the cancellation of ‘illegal tribunal’ and ouster of ‘fascist Yunus government’...
The government again extended the curfew in Gopalganj district from 8:00pm on Saturday to 6:00am on Sunday while the joint forces arrested 250 people in the three days till Saturday afternoon over the violence centering on the National Citizen Party rally in Gopalganj on Wednesday...
Home adviser Md Jahangir Alam Chowdhury on Saturday said that the measures would be taken as per the recommendations of the committee formed to probe the Gopalganj incident. ..
The Gopalganj authorities have relaxed the ongoing curfew for 14 hours on Saturday, allowing public movement from 6:00am to 8:00pm...
At least three cases, including two with the Gopalganj sadar police station and the other with the Kashiani police station, were filed against 1,329 people between Thursday night and Friday over allegations of attacking police and vandalising...
A rickshaw puller hit by bullet in Wednesday’s Gopalganj violence died while undergoing treatment at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital early Friday.
Different political parties and students’ organisations in Dhaka and elsewhere in the country on Thursday protested against Wednesday’s violence in Gopalganj over the National Citizen Party rally there.
Bangladesh Army was compelled to use force at one point in self-defence in Gopalganj town on Wednesday as attackers hurled a huge number of crude bombs and brick chips towards them, said a press release of the Inter Services Public Relation Directorate issued on Thursday.
The government on Thursday extended the curfew in Gopalganj for an indefinite period and formed a three-member committee to investigate Wednesday’s violence and deaths over the National Citizen Party rally in the district town.
Bangladesh interim government home adviser Lieutenant General, retd, Md Jahangir Alam Chowdhury on Thursday vowed to arrest all involved in the attack on the top leaders of the National Citizen Party in Gopalganj.
The Interim government has established a three-member committee to investigate Wednesday’s acts of violence and deaths that occurred in Gopalganj over the National Citizen Party’ rally in the district.
Police arrested 20 people following a series of clashes between members of law enforcement agencies and activists of Awami League in Gopalganj district town over National Citizen Party’s rally that killed four people and injured many more...
The curfew remains in force in Gopalganj district town amid an uneasy calm today (Thursday), following violent clashes on Wednesday between Awami League activists and law enforcers over an NCP rally.
The government on Wednesday night postponed the ongoing Higher Secondary Certificate and its equivalent examinations in Gopalganj district for Thursday, considering the overall law and order situation and safety of the examinees.
At least four people were killed and scores were injured in a series of clashes between the members of the law enforcement agencies and the activists of the Awami League in Gopalganj district town on Wednesday.
Bangladesh interim government on Wednesday imposed curfew in Gopalganj till Thursday evening as violent clash erupted between law enforcers and Awami League activists centering on the National Citizen Party rally marking the first anniversary of the July uprising in the district.
Security forces evacuated leaders and activists of National Citizen Party out of Gopalganj city after activists of Awami League and banned Bangladesh Chhatra League went on a rampage, attacking and setting fire to the rally venue of the NCP at Gopalganj Municipality Park and clashed with law enforcement agencies on Wednesday.
Different political parties on Wednesday condemned the violent attack on the National Citizen Party’s ‘March to Gopalganj’ programme marking the first anniversary of the July uprising.
Authorities imposed section 144 in Gopalganj on Wednesday after violent clashes erupted as activists of Awami League and banned Bangladesh Chhatra League attacked motorcade of National Citizen Party, vandalised the party’s rally venue at Gopalganj Municipality Park and clashed with security forces.