WHEN the chief advisor professor Muhammad Yunus extended an official invitation to the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights to conduct an independent fact-finding into human rights violations committed during the July mass uprising, it was highly commended by rights organisations and civil society alike, except for those sections of...
The International Crimes Tribunal鈥檚 chief prosecutor Mohammad Tajul Islam on Sunday claimed that the deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina had issued a 鈥榥o treatment, no release鈥� directive to a hospital in Dhaka during the July-August uprising.
FEBRUARY 21, 2025 marks the first observance of the historic language movement since the July 2024 mass uprising in Bangladesh. The groundbreaking political change brought about by last year鈥檚 student-led movement is likely to provide new or more nuanced ways of reflecting on the language struggle of the Pakistan period that, among other things, fundamentally...
The International Crimes Tribunal on Tuesday extended the deadline to April 20 for submitting investigation reports against deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina and 45 others over the allegations of genocide and crimes against humanity committed during the July-August mass uprising...
A group of people injured in the July-August mass uprising blocked the Shahbagh intersection in Dhaka on Monday, demanding the removal of Category C, which was created by the government for their treatment.
A group of leaders of the anti-discrimination student movement that led the student-led mass uprising in July and August in 2024 on Monday announced that they would form a new student organisation.
Gazipur Zila Parishad on Sunday distributed a cheque of Tk 1 lakh each to the families of 9 martyrs in the July-August mass uprising in the district...
Bangladesh Udichi Shilpigoshthi, protesting mob attacks at different book fairs and cultural events, urged the interim government to ensure that no new fascist forces emerge undermining the spirit of the student-led mass uprising of 2024.
Cultural organisation Samageet on Friday celebrated the arrival of Basanta organising a music festival and dedicated it to the student-led mass uprising that ousted Sheikh Hasina-led Awami League regime on August 5 in the past year.
Activists, journalists and families of enforced disappearance victims said on Thursday that the Bangladesh government should cooperate fully with the United Nations in its fair and transparent investigation into the massacre of people, including children, during the July-August mass uprising...
THE horror of the secret detention centres that law enforcement and security forces ran and kept victims of enforced disappearances for months and years during the Awami League regime, toppled in a mass uprising on August 5, 2024, was evident even after modifications were made to the centres. While media reports and the report of the commission of inquiry on...
THE findings of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights report on the student protests and consequent mass uprising in July鈥揂ugust 2024 that it was the prime minister Sheikh Hasina, deposed on August 5 that year, ordered security forces to kill protesters and hide their bodies point to heinous crimes. The report, released in Geneva on February 12, also...
Speakers including poets, activists and academics at a discussion held at the Amar Ekushey Book Fair 2025 on Wednesday, said that slogans during the student-led mass uprising depicted common people鈥檚 language and aspirations...
A Chattogram court on Wednesday granted permission for a three-day jail gate interrogation of former Chattogram Metropolitan Police Commissioner Saiful Islam in the murder case of Hridoy Chandra Tarua, a university student killed during the student-led mass uprising...
The International Crimes Tribunal on Wednesday expressed dissatisfaction over law adviser Asif Nazrul鈥檚 Tuesday statement in which he hoped that the ICT would deliver verdicts in three or four cases of the killings during the July-August mass uprising by October...
The Gono Odhikar Parishad on Tuesday announced a countrywide programme demanding a ban on and trial of ousted prime minister and Awami League president Sheikh Hasina and other AL leaders allegedly involved in killing during the student-led mass uprising...
The International Crimes Tribunal on Sunday issued arrest warrants against two police officers and five others for their alleged involvement in committing crimes against humanity in the capital鈥檚 Mohakhali, Rampura, and Uttara areas during the July-August mass uprising...
The government invited students and civilians injured during the July-August mass uprising to submit their medical expense claims for reimbursement if they received treatment at private hospitals.
Renowned mime artist Mir Lokman depicted student-led July mass uprising and contemporary issues in a solo mime show at the experimental theatre hall of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy on Thursday...
Sangbadpatre July Obhyutthan, a compilation of the front page of 25 leading newspapers of the country during the July mass uprising by journalist Ahammad Foyez was launched at a programme at the Bangla Academy seminar room in the capital Dhaka on Wednesday...
A court in Sirajganj on Tuesday sent former Awami League lawmaker for Sirajganj-3, Md Abdul Aziz, to jail in a case of attempted murder during the July-August mass uprising, a day after he was arrested at the capital鈥檚 Kalabagan area Monday night...
A Dhaka court on Tuesday framed charges against suspended assistant commissioner Tapasi Tabassum Urmi in a case filed for making derogatory remarks about Abu Sayed and other martyrs of student-led July-August mass uprising...
Chattogram Metropolitan Police arrested 46 leaders and activists of Awami League, Chattra League, and Juba League for attacking protesters during the student-led mass uprising in July and August...
ATTACKS on the police and police stations in different parts of the country in the past few weeks suggest a worrying law and order situation. The attacks were perpetrated by activists of different political parties, including the ousted Awami League. In a recent incident, activists of the Awami League attacked a police vehicle at Sujanagar in Pabna on February 2 and...
Jamaat-e-Islami will spare no effort in fulfilling the aspirations of the students who fought during the July uprising, said the party鈥檚 Ameer Shafiqur Rahman...
Protesting victims of the July-August mass uprising called off their demonstration in Dhaka early Monday after receiving assurance that their demands including proper treatment, rehabilitation and state recognition would be met...
People suffered immensely on roads in the capital throughout Sunday as traffic congestion occurred across the city due to road blockades by the students and injured July mass uprising victims and the end of the first phase of Bishwa Ijtema...
A court in Dhaka sent to jail former state minister for disaster management and relief Md Enamur Rahman in a case lodged over the killing of hawker Sagor in the city鈥檚 Mirpur area during the student-led July-August mass-uprising.
A group of July-August uprising victims, including several undergoing treatment at hospitals, blocked different roads in Dhaka city until Sunday evening starting from the previous evening, pressing for...
A group of victims of the student-led mass uprising in July and August on Tuesday staged a sit-in in Dhaka to press home their demands including lifetime treatment facilities, rehabilitation, and employment opportunities...