Police fail to start operations outside stations for 5th day
The police could not start operations outside the police stations for the fifth consecutive day on Saturday after prime minister Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 fall amid the student-led mass uprising...
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BNP people grab many AL local offices
The leaders and activists of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party and its associate bodies have allegedly started grabbing local level offices of the Awami League after the fall of the Sheikh Hasina government on August 5 amid a student-led mass uprising...
Surge after political change sends stocks soaring in past week
Dhaka stocks saw a big increase in the past week, thanks to a surge in the last three trading sessions of the week as investors started to regain confidence in the market after the fall of Sheikh Hasina-led government on August 5, market operators said...
We are worried
WE ARE worried. We are worried after the interim government says that there is no need for the citizens to be worried about its tenure. We are worried because people are still in the dark about the intention and the terms of reference of the interim government. An interim government everywhere in the world is a transitional government under...
Hasina did not 鈥榦fficially resign鈥� before leaving Bangladesh: Sajeeb
Sajeeb Wazed, the son and adviser of Bangladesh鈥檚 ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina, has said that his mother did not officially resign as the prime minister before fleeing Bangladesh amid escalating anti-government protests...
100 of Hindus block Shahbagh to protest at attacks on them
Hundreds of people from the Hindu community took to the streets in the capital鈥檚 Shabagh area on Friday afternoon to protest against the attacks on them that had occurred since August 5, following the fall of Sheikh Hasina...
AL to participate in election under interim govt, says Sajeeb
Sajeeb Wazed Joy, the son of ousted former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, said that the Awami League would participate in the next election under the interim government...
How razakars are made and remade
IT鈥橲 such a relief that Bangladesh is now free from Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 15-year autocratic rule! Bangladeshis at home and abroad awaited this well-deserved freedom without knowing when or how it could materialise. Finally, it鈥檚 delivered by an unpredicted group in a way that was also unanticipated. It鈥檚 a case of leadership without leaders, spearheaded...
DSE market capitalisation increases by Tk 58,468cr in 3 days
The Dhaka Stock Exchange has experienced a significant increase in its market capitalisation, by Tk聽58,468.47 crore, in its past three sessions, as investors heavily bought shares following the resignation of prime minister Sheikh Hasina on August 5...
Reinvestigation into BDR rebellion cases demanded
Families of the retired border force personnel on Thursday demanded impartial re-investigation into the killing of 75 people, including 57 army officers, in the Bangladesh Rifles rebellion in 2009...
People start returning looted govt assets in Rajshahi
Rajshahi city people on Thursday started returning things they took away from various government establishments following the resignation of former prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday...
Sajeeb makes U-turn, says Hasina to return home
Awami League president and former prime minister Sheikh Hasina will return to the country once democracy is restored, said her son Sajeeb Wazed, according to a report of the Press Trust of India...
Activities at secretariat start on limited scale
Activities in the country鈥檚 administrative hub Bangladesh Secretariat remained quite limited for the second day on Thursday after the student-led mass protests ousted Sheikh Hasina from power on Monday...
Yunus-led interim govt sworn in
Nobel laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus took the oath as the chief adviser of the interim government of Bangladesh along with 13 other advisers on Thursday, four days after long-time ruler Sheikh Hasina resigned and fled to India amid a student-led mass uprising...
PMI falls by 27 points in July
Bangladesh Purchasing Managers鈥� Index in July plummeted by 27 points compared with that of the previous month, signalling a sharp contraction with a reading of 36.9 as the recent widespread unrests, leading to prime minister Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 resignation and the government鈥檚 fall, sharply contracted all key economic sectors...
Anamul asks for 鈥榚xtensive discussion鈥� for BCB future
The Bangladesh Cricket Board鈥檚 future 鈥� since the resignation of Sheikh Hasina as prime minister of Bangladesh 鈥� has been up in the air as the organisation鈥檚 president and other directors were also part of the former government and ruling party Bangladesh Awami League...
The conundrums of Bangladeshi politics
ON AUGUST 5, former prime minister Sheikh Hasina boarded a Bangladesh Air Force C-130J military transport in a hurry and fled to Hindon Air Force base, outside Delhi. Her plane was refuelled and reports said that she intended to fly on either to the United Kingdom (her niece, Tulip Siddiq is a minister in the new Labour government), Finland...
Injured during job quota movement, student dies at RMCH
A student who sustained bullet injuries after police and Awami League activists opened fire on the students who brought out a procession defying curfew on Monday demanding the resignation of the then prime minister Sheikh Hasina....
Islami Bank rejects cheques of 鈥榮uspicious companies鈥�
After the fall of the Sheikh Hasina-led government, private sector Islami bank prevented the withdrawal of Tk 2,000 crore through cheques by different 鈥榮uspicious companies鈥�.
AL unit, associate bodies in Gopalganj pledge to bring back Hasina
The Gopalganj district unit of Awami League and its associate bodies have pledged to bring back Sheikh Hasina to Bangladesh.
Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus returns to Bangladesh to lead new govt
Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus returned to Bangladesh on Thursday to lead the interim government after a student-led uprising ended the 15-year rule of Awami League leader Sheikh Hasina....
Hardly any activities in secretariat for 2nd day
Activities in the country鈥檚 administrative hub Bangladesh Secretariat remained almost suspended for the second day on Wednesday after student-led mass protests ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday...
Police not seen in uniforms for 2nd day after Hasina鈥檚 fall in Bangladesh
The police on Wednesday were not seen performing duties wearing uniforms in Dhaka and elsewhere in the country for the second consecutive day after the fall of Sheikh Hasina as prime minister amid mass uprising...
Major reshuffle in police, RAB, AG resigns
A major reshuffle was taken place in security forces, including in the police and Rapid Action Battalion, on Wednesday while the government cancelled the contractual appointment of Mohammad Tofazzel Hossain Miah, the principal secretary of former prime minister, Sheikh Hasina...
Questions cloud Shakib鈥檚 future
Bangladesh all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan鈥檚 future in the Bangladesh national team is foggy at the moment following the resignation of Sheikh Hasina from the role of prime minister and the president dissolving the Jatiya Sangsad on Tuesday...
Bangladesh A team鈥檚 Pakistan tour rescheduled
Bangladesh A team鈥檚 tour of Pakistan has been rescheduled following the turmoil the country went through in recent days which led to the resignation of Sheikh Hasina as prime minister following protests all over the country, which had initially begun as a quota reform movement...
Death toll rises to 151 in violence since Hasina deposed
Nine more bodies were taken to Dhaka Medical College Hospital raising the death toll to 151 till filing of this report at 6:00pm Wednesday since the forced resignation of Sheikh Hasina amid mass uprising triggered by student protests for quota reform in government jobs...
Why is it always military which has to intervene?
THE Sheikh Hasina-led Awami League regime is over after 16 years and we are now in a new phase which is best described as interim. From the look of things, it seems to be heading towards the earlier pre-2007鈥�8 BNP-Jamaat alliance phase...
Interim govt composition should reflect full-scale representation
NOW that it has been decided that Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus would lead the interim government and the installation of the government would be held this evening, it is imperative that the composition of the government should reflect a full-scale representation of society, with people from the Bengalis, national and religious minorities...
BGB seeks public cooperation to prevent unauthorised border crossings
The Border Guard Bangladesh has sought cooperation from the people to prevent unauthorised border crossings.