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Top AL leaders, many key police officials traceless

Many former ministers and key police officials blamed for the mass killings during the student-people mass uprising remain traceless while many top Awami League leaders have been named in genocide and murder cases since the fall of the AL government...

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Injured worry about future

Injured patients admitted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital during the quota reform movement and subsequent student-led mass uprising now worry about their future as many of them do not know when they can return to normal life and work...

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Murder case filed against Ivy, others in Siddhirganj

A murder case was filed on Tuesday night against over 430 people, including Selina Hayat Ivy, the former mayor of Narayanganj City Corporation, over the death of Monirul Islam, who was killed during the student-led mass uprising in Siddhirganj...

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Countrywide joint operation begins

The first day of the countrywide joint drives to recover illegal arms and bring drug dealers to book apparently was a lackluster one...

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Get ready for reform, CA asks secretaries

Chief adviser to the interim government Professor Muhammad Yunus on Wednesday gave a host of directives to secretaries for building a new Bangladesh in the spirit of the recent mass uprising that ousted the Awami League-led regime...

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Three more murder cases filed against Hasina, aides

Three more murder cases have been filed against deposed prime minister and Awami League president Sheikh Hasina and her aides, taking the number of cases against her to 95 after her resignation and fleeing to India amid a mass uprising led by students on August 5...

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Two ex-IGPs Shahidul, Mamun on remand

A Dhaka metropolitan magistrate court on Wednesday placed two former inspectors general of police AKM Shahidul Haque and Chowdhury Abdullah-Al-Mamun on seven-day and eight-day remand respectively on charges of murder during the student-led mass uprising...

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Perils of forced resignations

In the aftermath of a student mass uprising that saw the resignation of Sheikh Hasina and the dissolution of parliament, Bangladesh’s educational institutions are now dealing with unprecedented changes. A wave of resignations across universities and colleges, with vice chancellors, pro-vice chancellors, proctors, registrars, and provosts has followed...

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Govt must fully enlist deceased, injured in mass uprising

THE interim government, determined to recognise the contribution of all who took part in the student-mass uprising that resulted in the fall of the authoritarian Awami League regime, has talked about a foundation to archive the history, memorialise the contribution of the students and citizens who risked their life for a democratic transformation...

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112 workers killed in mass uprising in Bangladesh

At least 112 working-class people were killed in violence during the movement of the Student Movement Against Discrimination platform and the subsequent student-led mass uprising...

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Limbs of 23 people amputated at NITOR, DMCH

At least 23 people, including students, injured in the violence during the movement of the Students Against Discrimination and the subsequent student-led mass uprising, have had their...

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Five more cases filed against Hasina, aides

At least five more cases, including one on genocide charge and four on murder charges, were filed against ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina and her aides on Wednesday night and Thursday.

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Legal challenges to extradite Sheikh Hasina from India

THE deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina has taken shelter in India since August 5, when she was compelled to resign in the face of a student-led mass uprising. Subsequently, the media reported, and her son Sajeeb Wazed Joy also confirmed that she was not willing to leave the country, whereas her family members forced Hasina to flee to India as they...

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Indian media’s role in harming Bangladeshi Hindus

FOLLOWING the student-led protests, the mass uprising and the prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s exit on August 5, Indian mainstream media and social media have circulated false claims of rising persecution against the religious minority, the Hindu community, in Bangladesh. The reports, frequently accompanied by misleading footage, misrepresent...

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Students demand Hasina’s speedy trial

Students under the Student Movement Against Discrimination platform on Wednesday demanded speedy trial of ousted former prime minister Sheikh Hasina and others involved over the killings carried out during the mass uprising led by students...

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Families demand justice for victims in student movement

Members of the families of those killed during the quota reform movement on Wednesday held a human chain at the Central Shaheed Minar demanding trial of Sheikh Hasina and those who ordered the shooting during the movement...

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Death toll rises to 151 in violence since Hasina deposed

Nine more bodies were taken to Dhaka Medical College Hospital raising the death toll to 151 till filing of this report at 6:00pm Wednesday since the forced resignation of Sheikh Hasina amid mass uprising triggered by student protests for quota reform in government jobs...

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Ministers of deposed govt flee Minto Road bungalows

Ministers and state ministers of the overthrown government who were living in government bungalows in the capital’s Mintu Road fled from their residences as the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigned from her post on Monday and also fled the country amid students-led mass uprising...

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Wanted: mass uprising against neoliberal Matrix

A FEW months before the coronavirus shut down the world, Chile exploded against neoliberalism. A World Bank economist, Sebastian Edwards, was on the ground to record the rebellion:..

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Shaheed Anwara Park must be restored immediately

IN A complete disregard for citizens’ opinions and their need for green open space, the city authorities continue to deny access to public parks in the city. The case of Shaheed Anwara Park, named after the first woman martyr...