LAX monitoring and consequent traffic mismanagement have worsened the already chaotic Dhaka roads. Since the political changeover on August 5, when the Awami League regime was toppled by a student-mass uprising, Dhaka roads appear to have become more chaotic, with vehicles and pedestrians showing more disregard for traffic rules. The police...
RIGHTS organisation Odhikar in its quarterly July鈥揝eptember report has enlisted at least eight people having been extrajudicially killed in August 9鈥揝eptember 30. The interim government was installed on August 8 after a student-mass uprising that spanned the month of July had finally toppled the 15 years of the authoritarian regime of the Awami League...
Marking 100 days of the student-led mass uprising, the National Citizens鈥� Committee convened a gathering Friday afternoon to demand the trial of Awami League for its role in the July-August massacre.
Gangacharan Rajbangshi, a car driver, was on his way back home at Badda in Dhaka in the evening of July 18, as he used to do on any other day.
Two former Awami League lawmakers have been arrested at separate places in the capital and they were sent to jail on Thursday in cases over murders during the recent student-led mass uprising...
The interim government on Thursday announced that the people injured in July-August student-led mass uprising will get a lifetime free medical services at all government hospitals...
PROTESTERS injured during the student-mass uprising in July-August that toppled the autocratic Awami League government on August 5 having not received adequate support for treatment and rehabilitation from the interim government is unacceptable. About 30,000 people, including many students, were injured in the uprising while at least 708 died...
One more student hit by bullets during the student-led mass uprising died on Thursday while undergoing treatment at Combined Military Hospital in Dhaka...
Political analysts, academics and journalists on Wednesday urged the democratic political parties and groups to keep a close eye on the interim government for the realisation of the people鈥檚 expectations borne out of the student-mass uprising...
The protesters injured during the student-led mass uprising blocked the road in front of the National Institute of Traumatology and Orthopaedic Rehabilitation for hours, demanding a meeting with health and family welfare adviser Nurjahan Begum over mismanagement in their treatment...
A cultural programme on Saturday reminisced the student-led mass uprising that forced Sheikh Hasina to flee the country to India.
Students, mass people, activists of Bangladesh Nationalist Party and its wing organisations on Saturday night brought out protest processions and short rallies at several places in Dhaka protesting against Awami League for announcing procession marking Noor Hossain Day.
People from different professional groups on Friday called for an immediate beginning of a long-term rehabilitation process for the people injured during the July-August mass uprising, which arose...
Md Rustum, 14 years old, argued with his parents at night on July 18 about his having joined student protests that demanded reforms in civil service job reservations.
Speakers, including journalists, writers, academics and artists on Friday said that youths expressed their thoughts through graffiti during the student-led mass uprising that...
Md Mahmud Hossain and Salma Zakera sent their only son, Sabid Hossain, to Dhaka when he was a student of Class III, hoping for a good education.
Abu Ishaque, who returned home to celebrate Eid-ul-Fitr with the family after having lived for about 17 months in Saudi Arabia, was supposed to fly back to the Gulf state on...
Former Jatiya Sangsad speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury has recently given her fingerprints to obtain a new passport from the Department of Immigration and Passports, Dhaka.
When Abdullah Al Mahin was five years old, he almost got lost while he was leaving the Shishu Academy. Police personnel posted outside the academy, fortunately, recognised him...
Bangladesh鈥檚 interim government posts, telecommunications and information technology adviser Md Nahid Islam on Sunday called for cooperation in rehabilitating the families of victims killed in the July-August student-led mass uprising and treating the injured.
Literary magazine Agnisetu on Saturday at Dhaka University organised a discussion to address the role of private university students in the July-August student-led mass uprising that...
Abu Bakkar Siddique, aged 59, felt happy when he could put his only son, Abdullah Siddique, in charge in his business of automobile spares in July...
The government on Saturday formed a 17-member committee for July Mass Uprising Memorial Museum with writer and filmmaker Ebadur Rahman as its convenor...
A case was filed with Munshiganj Sadar police station on Friday against more than 250 Awami League leaders and activists, including two former lawmakers, for attempting to murder a...
Safwan Akhtar, 15 years old, loved to study and sing and was interested in sports and, especially, video games that would make him dream of becoming a software engineer.
Hasib Ahasan, aged 50, was the cornerstone of the family. Anyone would fall back on him for everything, from money to everyday chores...
The United Nations fact-finding mission investigating rights abuses and atrocities committed during the July-August mass uprising is likely to finalise its report by the first week of December...
Dhaka metropolitan magistrate courts on Wednesday placed 10 people, including five former ministers, of the ousted Awami league government on different terms of remand in different cases...
Md Kamrul Islam came to be shot in the neck at Mirpur 10 on August 4 when he was carrying another person, wounded by a gunshot, during the uprising born out of the student protests that had continued since July 1.
Cultural activists and July martyred Farhan Faiz Ratul鈥檚 relatives said on Tuesday that cultural activists should work for fulfilling people鈥檚 aspirations and creating a discrimination-free society, the key spirit of the student-led July-August mass uprising...