The Anti-Corruption Commission on Wednesday decided to launch inquiries against three people, including Jatiya Kabi Kazi Nazrul Islam University former vice-chancellor professor Soumitra Sekhar Dey and former assistant personal secretary of former prime minister Sheikh Hasina Gazi Hafizur Rahman Liku over allegations of corruption...
The interim government of Bangladesh has sought assistance from the United Kingdom to investigate the overseas wealth of allies of former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, as the new administration intensifies its crackdown on members of her ousted regime, according to a report by The Financial Times on Wednesday...
A sedition case has been filed against former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and three former chief election commissioners in Chattogram for conducting illegal and fraudulent elections during the Awami League government鈥檚 tenure...
FOLLOWING the avid days of a successful student-mass uprising, gross injustice will be done to the blood spilled on the walls and streets of Bangladesh in the months of July and August of 2024 if significant reforms are not made to the system. The immense plight of Bangladeshis in the time following up to the former prime minister Sheikh Hasina鈥檚...
The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council on Wednesday approved a total of four development projects involving an overall estimated cost of Taka 1,222.14 crore.
Deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina and her associates, including high-ranking party members and police officials, face three new cases of genocide and crimes against...
The police arrested former railway minister Nurul Islam Sujan on Monday in connection with a case filed with Jatrabari police station over the killing of student Imran Hossain in the capital during the student-led mass uprising.
A United Nations Human Rights Office fact-finding team, which is conducting an independent and impartial investigation into alleged human rights violations that took place in Bangladesh between July 1 and August 15 this year arising from the recent protests, has sought first-hand information from all concerned.
A court on Sunday set October 15 to submit a probe report in a case filed against ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina and six others over the murder of grocer Abu Saiyed on July 19 in...
Seven new cases, including five on the charges of genocide and crimes against humanity, were filed on Sunday against deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina and her...
THAT the Awami League had a master plan to capture power forever is discerned from some deplorable incidents that happened just after it assumed office in 2009. The party president, Sheikh Hasina, along with her leaders, did not hesitate even a little to kill our 57 patriotic army officers. Almost all the party leaders knew about what happened in the...
AN UNHEALTHY culture of taking law into one鈥檚 hand has surfaced after the student-mass uprising. Revolution by nature breaks down the status quo, resulting in drastic changes in political, social and legal spheres. It is apparent that uprising in Bangladesh has led to a change in power, bringing with it both hope and turmoil. Although some people have...
A case was filed against 59 people, including former prime minister Sheikh Hasina and former whip Iqbalur Rahim, on charge of attempting to kill a student by shooting during the...
The National Citizens鈥� Committee, a recently launched platform of citizens who were directly involved in the July student-people movement that ensured Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 fall, on Saturday said that they were not satisfied with the one-month performance of Professor Muhammad Yunus-led interim government...
A case was filed against 59 people, including former prime minister Sheikh Hasina and former whip Iqbalur Rahim on charge of attempting to kill a student by shooting during the anti-government movement on August 4 in Dinajpur...
A human rights body Human Rights Support Society on Friday unveiled a list of martyrs revealing that 875 people were killed in the student-led mass uprising that brought Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 autocratic regime to an end.
Three more cases have been filed against deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina and her aides, including 25 journalists, on charges of murder and attempt to murder between...
The Dhaka Metropolitan Police traffic department has begun drives against unauthorised battery-run rickshaws plying main roads in the city ignoring traffic rules after the fall of the Sheikh Hasina regime on August 5...
Journalists on Tuesday launched a forum titled Journalists for Justice to work for journalists and media workers oppressed during the 15 years of the authoritarian regime of deposed former prime minister Sheikh Hasina...
BESIEGED by the largest protest in the country鈥檚 history and the unbending public fury against her rule, Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina suddenly resigned and fled to India in a hurry on August 5. Bangladesh and the region are still reeling since that seismic event. Barely a month has passed since Dr Muhammad Yunus鈥檚 interim government has...
Attorney general Md Asaduzzaman on Thursday defended Bangladesh's interim government鈥檚 decision to form reform commissions, stressing that these measures are essential to safeguard constitutional institutions undermined during deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 15-year tenure.
JAMES C Scott, who passed away on July 19 this year, was a prominent political scientist and anthropologist known for his interdisciplinary work platforming the ways ordinary people resist domination, emphasising the value of local knowledge, hidden transcripts of resistance, and the limits of centralised power. To me, the character is vehemently...
AN IRONY points to the gap between what is said and what is implied, or what is expected and what happens in reality. It is a rhetorical technique that is widely used in literature. It creates dramatic effects by presenting contrasts or opposites. What is called dramatic irony is often used in tragedy to illustrate a character鈥檚 ignorance of happenings on one hand and tragic consequences on the other...
THE student-led July mass uprising for a democratic political and economic order, which culminated in the ouster of the brutally authoritarian regime of Sheikh Hasina from power, forcing her to flee the country and take refuge in India, the hegemonic neighbour that patronised Hasina to cling to power without proper people鈥檚 mandate for years, has installed an 鈥榠nterim government鈥�, led by globally known Nobel Peace Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus, to fix the order 鈥� if not fully democratise the state...
Five more cases, including two on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity, two on murder charges and one on attempt to murder, were filed against deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina and her aides...
Ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 energy adviser Tawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury was arrested in the capital鈥檚 Gulshan area on Tuesday night.
Five more cases 鈥� one on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity, three on murder charges and one on attempt to murder charge 鈥� have been filed against...
BANGLADESH has entered a critical phase in its history on August 5. The student-mass uprising of July-August is evidence that Bangladeshis will not tolerate fascism. What started off from Dhaka University on July 1 as an innocuous demand for reforms of the quota system for government jobs turned into a massive revolution and ousted 16-year-old Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 despotic Awami League government...
The Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday launched an investigation into allegations of stock market anomalies by Salman F Rahman, private industries and...
Human rights activists on Sunday called for the establishment of hotlines to support victims of custodial torture during the regime of deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina...