Rahat Fateh Ali Khan to perform at charity concert in Dhaka
Celebrated singer Rahat Fateh Ali Khan will perform at a charity concert for supporting families of victims of the student-led mass uprising in December in Dhaka.
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Suspended Lalmonirhat assistant commissioner Urmi gets bail upon surrender
A Dhaka court on Thursday granted bail to Taposhee Tabassum Urmi, a Lalmonirhat assistant commissioner who was suspended over comments about the government, in a defamation case...
Women鈥檚 role in mass uprising to be preserved: adviser
Women and children affairs ministry adviser Sharmeen S Murshid in Dhaka on Wednesday said that steps would be taken to highlight and preserve women鈥檚 contributions to the July-August student-led mass uprising through stories, publications, and events...
Justice for mass killing demanded
The Democratic Students鈥� Alliance on Wednesday afternoon held a demonstration demanding justice for mass killings during the July uprising, and financial assistance for families of the martyrs...
How reasonable is demand for polls before reform?
AFTER the July-August 2024 mass uprising, the nature and framework of the interim government have sparked fresh debates in political and intellectual circles. Some argue that failing to establish a 鈥榬evolutionary government鈥� following such a massive uprising was a mistake. This has led to disagreements on how best to address the ongoing crisis in the country. While some, including the BNP and many...
Students vow not to allow AL in polls
University students who actively participated in the 2024 student-mass uprising unanimously said they would not allow the ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina or any member of Awami League to participate in the next elections...
Prioritising child labour issues on reform agenda stressed
Speakers, including journalists, emphasised that the interim government, formed following the recent student-led July-August mass uprising, must prioritise child labour issues on its reform agenda...
BSMMU authorities visit students injured in mass uprising
The authorities of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University on Tuesday visited the students injured in the student-led mas uprising at the university鈥檚 Cabin Block in Dhaka...
Govt should find out quarters at play and take lawful action
A GATHERING of people, reported to have been falsely promised loans, converging from across the country at Shahbagh in Dhaka on November 25 prompted police intervention. The city police say that the organisers had promised the people, mostly low-income people from villages, help in getting more than Tk 100,000 in loans without interest and brought...
Poetry for upholding mass uprising spirit held at BSA
Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy held a poetry recitation programme to uphold the spirit of the recent student-led mass uprising at its National Art Gallery Auditorium in Dhaka on Sunday...
Some BB officials demand removing 2 dy governors
A group of Bangladesh Bank officials on Sunday again urged the interim government to remove two deputy governors, Nurun Nahar and Habibur Rahman, who were appointed during the tenure of Awami League-led government deposed on August 5 through a mass uprising...
Bullet removed from beggar鈥檚 left leg
A bullet from the left leg of Ayesha Begum, an elderly beggar, was removed on Saturday, 110 days after she was shot in the leg during the anti-quota student movement in Munshiganj.
JL activist held聽for firing 28 gunshots聽at protesters
The police arrested an alleged activist of Juba League, the youth organisation of the Awami League, for firing 28 rounds at anti-discrimination student protesters and a聽 crowd in Chattogram...
Govt should ease doing business to better SEZs
INITIATIVES for special economic zones of the Awami League government, which was toppled through a mass uprising on August 5, have almost fallen flat. Modelled on the Chinese success of industrialisation, the initiatives taken in 2015 to set up 97 such zones still fall short of the target. The government of the day planned to set up 68 of them...
Equal presence of women in policymaking demanded
Women participants in the student-led mass uprising on Friday demanded equal presence of women in state policy making.
SC halts ex-addl AG Mehedi鈥檚 bail in garment worker murder case
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Thursday stayed a High Court order granting interim bail to former additional attorney general Mehedi Hasan Chowdhury in the case of the killing of...
Roadmap for treatment, rehab of uprising victims announced
The representatives of health and family welfare ministry, July Shaheed Smriti Foundation and Mass Uprising Special Cell on Thursday jointly announced the roadmap for treatment and rehabilitation of...
Moody鈥檚 ratings fail to reflect positive changes in economy, says BB
The Bangladesh Bank on Thursday said that the recent ratings given by Moody鈥檚 rating agency did not appropriately reflect the positive changes that happened in the political and economic areas following the August mass uprising in the country...
DU MCJ dept discusses July uprising graffiti
A presentation and discussion titled 鈥楪raffiti in the July Mass Uprising鈥� was held by the Department of Mass Communication and Journalism at the University of Dhaka on Wednesday...
76-yr old Ayesha begs with bullet-hit leg, struggles to get treatment
Ayesha Begum, an elderly woman from Manikpur of Munshiganj, had been shot in the left leg on August 4, just a day before the Awami League regime was toppled amid a student-led mass uprising. Since then the 76-year old woman, who lives alone and begs for survival, has been struggling...
JL activist files case against Hasina, 186 other AL leaders
A Juba League activist has filed a case accusing 187 individuals, including several top Awami League leaders, of orchestrating and carrying out attacks during the anti-discrimination student movement and mass uprising in Chattogram...
Home adviser labels most post-uprising cases as fake
Home affairs adviser retired Lieutenant General Jahangir Alam Chowdhury on Tuesday described the majority of the cases filed against different individuals following the recent mass uprising as 鈥榝ake鈥�...
Most cases filed to suppress mass uprising withdrawn, Asif Nazrul says
Bangladesh鈥檚 interim government law adviser Asif Nazrul said most of the cases filed to suppress the student-led mass uprising between July 1 and August 5 have been withdrawn.
Ex-minister Qamrul arrested, remanded
An additional metropolitan magistrate court in Dhaka on Tuesday allowed the police to take placed Awami League presidium member and former food minister Qamrul Islam in custody for eight days for interrogation in a case of killing during the recent student-mass uprising...
Cop on 5-day remand for killing journo in uprising
A Sylhet court on Monday granted police 5 days to interrogate a police constable in a case filed for shooting a photo-journalist to death during the student-led mass uprising in July.
Ex-MP Ahmed Hossain shown arrested
A metropolitan magistrate court in Dhaka on Monday allowed a police petition to show Awami League organising secretary and former lawmaker Ahmed Hossain arrested in a case lodged over killing a teenage boy in the capital during the July-August mass uprising...
Midnight procession in support of Sheikh Hasina, 2 arrested
A sudden procession in support of deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina was brought out late Sunday night at Prabartak intersection in the Panchlaish area of Chattogram city...
Cop on 5-day remand for killing journo in uprising
A Sylhet court on Monday granted police 5 days to interrogate a police constable in a case filed for shooting a photo-journalist to death during the student-led mass uprising in July.
Desh TV MD Arif remanded in attempted murder case
A metropolitan magistrate court in Dhaka on Sunday placed Arif Hasan, the managing director of private television channel Desh TV, on聽 a two-day remand in a case filed over...
Bureaucrats demand reform inspired by spirit of uprising
High government officials at a seminar on Saturday demanded that reform of public administration uphold the spirit of student-mass uprising and that the interim government remove...