A complaint was filed on Monday with the International Crimes Tribunal accusing 24 people on charge of crimes against humanity for the killing of Abu Sayeed, a student activist shot dead on July 16, 2024 during the student-led uprising.
The High Court on Monday rejected a writ petition challenging the legality of the president鈥檚 reference to the Supreme Court and the subsequent Appellate Division opinion on the formation of an interim government after the overthrow of the Sheikh Hasina-led regime on August 5, 2024 amid a student-led mass uprising...
Family members initially identified and claimed two bodies kept at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital mortuary since the student-led mass uprising that forced Sheikh Hasina to flee to India bringing an end to a 15-year fascist Awami League regime...
Shahjalal University of Science and Technology authorities suspended 29 students, all leaders and activists of the banned student organisation Bangladesh Chhatra League, for their involvement in attacks on participants of the anti-discrimination students鈥� movement...
The International Crimes Tribunal on Sunday ordered detention of Armed Police Battalion constable Md Sujon Hossain in a case concerning crimes against humanity during the student-led mass uprising at Chankharpool in Dhaka on August 5, 2024...
Political party leaders and eminent citizens on Sunday demanded rehabilitation of the families of the martyrs and wounded people during the July-August mass uprising...
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai urged Muslim leaders on Sunday not to legitimise the Afghan Taliban government and to 鈥榮how true leadership鈥� over their assault on women鈥檚 rights.
LAW and order go hand in hand to ensure justice and well-being of society, to maintain a balance of power, to limit excessive authority that infringes on others鈥� basic freedom and to uphold basic rights for the vulnerable. While the law includes punishment by suspending certain fundamental human rights of prisoners to serve the greater purpose, it is never...
A human chain has called for the swift provision of assistance to the families of those martyred in the July uprising...
Business leaders have raised serious concerns to the Bangladesh Bank Governor over the proposed hike in gas prices, along with a host of other economic challenges that are increasingly hindering operations...
The Students Against Discrimination and the Jatiya Nagorik Committee on Friday distributed leaflets and conducted nationwide mass contact programmes as part of their weeklong campaign...
Thousands of people on Thursday signed a UK petition calling for Frenchwoman Gisele Pelicot to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, for her response to the discovery that she had been drugged and...
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Malala Yousafzai will attend an international summit on girls鈥� education hosted by her native Pakistan, where she was nearly killed by militants as a schoolgirl.
The newly formed July Uprising Cell by students against discrimination on Friday requested all to provide information on six unidentified and unclaimed bodies kept at Dhaka Medical College Hospital since the mass uprising.
PETROBANGLA鈥橲 proposal seeking an increase in gas prices supplied to industries and captive power plants by 152 per cent and 140 per cent respectively, which the government says is unpleasant and unavoidable, is worrying in that industrialists say that such a move would increase production cost that will eventually fall on consumers. Whilst the...
The Students Against Discrimination and Jatiya Nagorik Committee on Wednesday continued leaflet distribution and rallies in Dhaka city and elsewhere as part of their weeklong nationwide campaign demanding the July uprising proclamation by January 15...
The Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission is evaluating a Petrobangla鈥檚 proposal to increase by up to 152 per cent the price of gas supplied to industries and captive power plants...
Finance adviser Salehuddin Ahmed on Tuesday said that not all but the price a specific variety of rice increased on the local market and blamed that supply chain management problems were behind the price hike...
Home adviser lieutenant general (retired) Md Jahangir Alam Chowdhury on Tuesday said that they were going to initiate the process of recruiting 100 injured in the July-August mass uprising in the police force...
SUFFERINGS have intensified and despair has deepened for the people who became wounded in and for the families who lost their members to the July-August uprising, with the July Shaheed Smrity Foundation 鈥� set up to provide early health care, financial assistance and long-term, sustainable support for the martyrs and the victims of the uprising...
The police charged batons on a group of students of Prime Asia University in front of the Bangladesh Secretariat, following an altercation and chase and counter-chase between the two sides on Tuesday afternoon...
A new directorate dedicated to the July Uprising will be set up next month under the Ministry of Liberation War Affairs, said Information and Broadcasting Adviser Mohammad Nahid Islam.
The male family members of the July-August uprising martyrs will be exempted from the minimum 65 years age requirement while purchasing family savings certificates.
The Bangladesh interim government information and broadcasting adviser, Nahid Islam, said on Monday that the government has allocated Tk 637 crore and 80 lakh for the families of martyrs and the injured from the July-August uprising.
Fifteen staff members, including senior doctors and nurses of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University have been suspended in connection with the killing that occurred near the university鈥檚 cabin block during the anti-discrimination student movement in July...
The government has exempted 826 members of the families of martyrs in the July-August uprising from giving proof of filing income tax returns for purchasing savings certificates with the money provided to them as government assistance....
The chief adviser鈥檚 press secretary, Shafiqul Alam, on Sunday said that the interim government would hold discussion with political parties soon to prepare the proclamation of the July uprising based on national consensus.
Leaders of Ganosamhati Andolan on Saturday at a dialogue on current political issues in Dhaka called on all to work for implementing the spirit of the July movement for establishing a democratic Bangladesh...
Private sector credit growth in Bangladesh fell sharply to 7.66 per cent in November, the lowest in 41 months, intensifying challenges in the banking sector and the broader economy...
Global food prices fell by 2.1 per cent in 2024 compared to the average for the previous year, mainly due to declines in cereal and sugar prices, according to the latest report released Friday by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization...