FOUR months after coming to power, the National People鈥檚 Power government is facing growing criticism from those in the opposition and also scepticism regarding its ability to make policies necessary to revive the country and its economy. The catchy stories in the media are invariably in relation to some mishap or shortcoming in the past of government...
Speakers, including Urdu-speaking communities residing in various camps in Bangladesh, on Monday demanded dignified and permanent rehabilitation....
AN INCREASE in the number of unemployed people in the July-September quarter in 2024 compared with the figure of the corresponding period of 2023 is alarming. The Bureau of Statistics, which has for the first time applied the definition set at the 19th International Conference of Labour Statisticians 鈥� which considers people unemployed if they do not work...
United People鈥檚 Democratic Front leader Michael Chakma on Monday formally lodged a written complaint with the International Crimes Tribunal chief prosecutor, accusing former prime minister...
Some leaders of the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement, who were at the forefront of the July-August student-people uprising that ousted the Awami League regime, are likely to launch a new...
United People鈥檚 Democratic Front leader Michael Chakma on Wednesday lodged a verbal complaint with the International Crimes Tribunal, accusing deposed former prime minister Sheikh Hasina of involvement in his enforced disappearance...
SRI Lanka鈥檚 president Anura Kumara Dissanayake鈥檚 statement that the government will not permit the erosion of its mandate for accountable government in the context of the resignation of the speaker of the parliament is on track with the promises made during the course of the elections that brought the National People鈥檚 Power to power. The president...
THE government鈥檚 announcement for the people who did not take part in the liberation war but have managed to get certificates as 1971 veterans to return their credentials on their own is a welcome step forward towards ensuring justice for the people who took part in the war and for citizens who have so far been led to believe that a number of such people...
Chittagong Hill Tracts affairs adviser Supradip Chakma on Tuesday addressed the newly appointed chairman and members of the Chittagong Hill Tracts District Council, emphasising the need for working for the people鈥檚 welfare...
China is deploying dozens of ships in its biggest maritime mobilisation around Taiwan in years, Taipei said Tuesday, after Beijing voiced fury at President Lai Ching-te鈥檚 recent visit to the United States...
The voices of the marginalised and vulnerable groups including women, low-income households, people with disabilities, third- and trans-gender, and minorities should be included in the reform for good governance, experts said on Sunday...
Economist Debapriya Bhattacharya on Monday said that a kleptocracy was established from crony capitalism in the past 15 years under the Awami League regime ousted by a student-people uprising on August 5.
An anti-India platform named 鈥榩eople of Bangladesh鈥� on Monday gave a seven-point demand, including one to decide Awami League鈥檚 legitimacy to do politics through a referendum...
The filing of flawed and wholesale cases over the murders of and attacks on protesters during the student-people uprising is likely to hinder justice and pave the way for perpetrators to escape punishment.
People from lower to middle-class backgrounds endure long queues at the open market sales points of Trading Corporation of Bangladesh in Dhaka city as rising inflation pushed essential commodity prices higher...
Speakers, including right activists and Urdu-speaking people, on Sunday demanded permanent rehabilitation of Urdu-speaking people in Bangladesh...
Different political parties on Thursday observed November 7, Sepoy People Mass Revolution Day, demanding restoration of democratic rule in the country and formation of a bicameral parliament.聽
The United People鈥檚 Democratic Front, a Chittagong Hill Tracts-based political organisation, on Thursday observed a dawn-to-dusk road blockade in Khagrachari district protesting against Wednesday鈥檚 killing of its three activists and demanding immediate arrest of the killers...
Around four cleaners of Dhaka North City Corporation were injured in a cocktail explosion at the camp for Urdu speaking people in Dhaka on Wednesday morning.
Three activists of United People鈥檚 Democratic Front, a political organisation based in the Chattogram Hill Tracts, were shot dead at Panchari upazila in Khagrachari on Wednesday...
Kutubuddin Ahmed has been appointed as honorary consul of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste in Bangladesh, said a press release...
The National Citizens鈥� Committee, a recently launched platform of citizens who were directly involved in the July student-people movement that ensured the fall of the Sheikh Hasina regime on...
The flood situation in Mymensingh division has started to improve although the flood-hit people were still prone to waterborne diseases amid scarcity of drinking water...
Urdu-speaking people and leaders on Wednesday protest rally in Mirpur demanded the withdrawal of all cases filed against them in killing during the student-led mass uprising...
Leaders of Jatiya Nagarik Committee, an organisation launched by the youths who participated in the recent student-people uprising, on Saturday alleged that different political parties were trying to claim...
Rights activists at a dialogue on Wednesday called on the government to expand its social safety net programmes to reduce extreme poverty and vulnerability of the marginalised people...
US FOREIGN military bases provoke war, pollute communities, and steal land from indigenous peoples...
Sri Lanka鈥檚 first leftist president was sworn in to office Monday and vowed to restore public faith in politics, but said he had no magic solution to the hardships suffered following an unprecedented economic crisis...
Information and Broadcasting Adviser Md Nahid Islam on Wednesday said the instigators of the genocide, committed during the student-people uprising, will be brought to book...
Six more people died of dengue in 24 hours till Wednesday morning, raising the number of fatalities from the mosquito-borne disease in Bangladesh to 119 this year...