Hasina should keep mum until trial: Yunus
Bangladesh鈥檚 ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina should 鈥榢eep quiet鈥� while exiled in India until she is brought home for trial, interim leader Muhammad Yunus told...
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Interim govt yet to make list of casualties
The interim government led by professor Muhammad Yunus could not make a complete list of the people killed and injured during the student-led peoples uprising in July and August that ousted the government of Sheikh Hasina on August 5...
Top AL leaders, many key police officials traceless
Many former ministers and key police officials blamed for the mass killings during the student-people mass uprising remain traceless while many top Awami League leaders have been named in genocide and murder cases since the fall of the AL government...
Complex tapestry of Bangladesh-India relations
THE departure of the deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina to India on August 5 against the backdrop of the student protests for civil service quota reform causing the murder of several hundred people has triggered the relations between Bangladesh and India for another paradigm shift. Although Hasina sought and obtained political asylum after the...
BB frees IFIC Bank from Salman鈥檚 grip
The Bangladesh Bank on Wednesday freed IFIC Bank from the control of controversial Salman F Rahman, former adviser to ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina, by dissolving the bank鈥檚 board and appointing independent directors to it...
Some expats urge EU to stop 鈥榬ights violation鈥� in Bangladesh
A group of Bangladeshi expatriates in Europe submitted a memorandum to the European Union, demanding that it should put pressure on the interim government to stop alleged human rights violations and killings in Bangladesh...
Hasina鈥檚 role 鈥榤ysterious鈥� after BDR carnage: BNP聽聽
Bangladesh Nationalist Party standing committee member major (retired) Hafiz Uddin Ahmed on Tuesday said that the activity of the ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina was...
ACC probe sought into allegations against Hasina, family
A writ petition was filed on Tuesday with the High Court, seeking a directive for the Anti-Corruption Commission to investigate allegations against deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina, her family members, and her former defence and security adviser, Tarique Ahmed Siddique, over the alleged embezzlement of $5 billion from the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant Project...
Six more cases filed against ousted Bangladesh PM Hasina
Ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina has been sued in six more cases, including five lodged over murders that took place during the recent anti-discrimination student movement in Dhaka.
Ex-Bangladesh PM Hasina becomes diplomatic headache for India
Four weeks after ex-premier Sheikh Hasina fled Bangladesh by helicopter during a student-led revolution, analysts say she has become a diplomatic headache for her hosts in India...
HC seeks report on expenses
The High Court on Sunday directed the interim government authorities to submit a detailed report within 30 days on the costs incurred for assets, security, benefits, and privileges provided to deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina and...
Govt to bring back Hasina, if court orders: Touhid
Foreign affairs adviser Md Touhid Hossain on Sunday said that the foreign ministry would put efforts to bring back ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina from India if required by the...
CID starts probe against Salman, Nafeez Sarafat
The Criminal Investigation Department said that the agency has launched investigations against deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 private industry and investment adviser Salman F Rahman and...
No regular activities at most govt cultural institutions
Most of the cultural institutions under the Ministry of Cultural Affairs and Ministry of Women and Children鈥檚 Affairs have remained closed since the fall of the Sheikh Hasina-led government on August 5 amid the student-led mass uprising...
Perils of forced resignations
In the aftermath of a student mass uprising that saw the resignation of Sheikh Hasina and the dissolution of parliament, Bangladesh鈥檚 educational institutions are now dealing with unprecedented changes. A wave of resignations across universities and colleges, with vice chancellors, pro-vice chancellors, proctors, registrars, and provosts has followed...
Ashulia video clip of body dumping warrants early probe
A VIDEO clip of apparently police personnel dumping a body onto several other bodies onto a rickshaw van, said to have taken place on Dhaka鈥檚 outskirts of Ashulia, that has gone viral on social media warrants immediate government attention. It calls for an early investigation to establish whether the video clip is real or fake...
India, Sheikh Hasina blamed for 2009 BDR Mutiny
Speakers at a discussion blamed the ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina and the Indian government for the February 25鈥�26, 2009 rebellion in the headquarters of erstwhile Bangladesh Rifles, now Border Guard Bangladesh...
Prof Yunus starts his office at CAO
Chief adviser to the interim government professor Muhammad Yunus on Sunday started his office at the chief adviser鈥檚 office, previously known as prime minister鈥檚 office, at Tejgaon in Dhaka...
Looted arms, ammunition must be returned by Tuesday: Police HQ
The looted arms and ammunition of the police after the fall of Sheikh Hasina-led Awami League government must be returned to police headquarters by September 3.
26 people at risk聽of losing complete vision after deadly protests in Bangladesh
At least 26 patients are at risk of losing their complete vision in both eyes from injuries they sustained in violence during the movement spearheaded by the Student Movement Against Discrimination...
A call for a depoliticised police
IN THE tumultuous arena of the current political landscape, the police force has been thrust into the spotlight, often for all the wrong reasons. Once seen as a bulwark of public order, today it stands accused of abandoning its foundational role in favour of a dark purpose. Mass shooting, an unauthorised use of lethal force and the dereliction of duty...
Ex-chief whip ASM Feroz placed on fresh remand
A Dhaka court on Saturday placed former chief whip and six-time Awami League lawmaker ASM Feroz on a three-day fresh remand in a murder case filed with the...
Four more cases filed against ousted Bangladesh PM Hasina, aides
At least four more cases, including three for murders, were filed against ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina and her aides on Thursday and Friday.
With Hasina鈥檚 fall in Bangladesh, a rival family tastes power
Two women dominated Bangladeshi politics for decades. One was chased into exile. The other is newly free from custody and too sick to rule, but her heir looks set to take power...
Murder case filed against Hasina in Munshiganj
A case has been filed on Friday with Munshiganj Sadar police station against 313 people, including ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina, over the killing of Dipjol Sardar during the student protests.
Five more cases filed against Hasina, aides
At least five more cases, including one on genocide charge and four on murder charges, were filed against ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina and her aides on Wednesday night and Thursday.
Govt committed to follow legal process in cases against Prof Yunus: AG
Attorney general Md Asaduzzaman said on Thursday that the government intended to clear Professor Muhammad Yunus, the chief adviser to the interim government, of the financial irregularities charges levelled against him during the ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina regime, following due process...
Salman, Anisul placed on fresh remand
A Dhaka court on Thursday placed ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina's private industry affairs adviser Salman Fazlur Rahman and former law minister Anisul Haque on five-day fresh remand in a murder case filed with Badda Police Station on 21 August.
Bank accounts of Salman, Selim frozen
Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit on Wednesday froze bank accounts of Salman F Rahman, former private industry and investment adviser to ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina, and Sheikh Fazlul Karim Selim, a former lawmaker and paternal cousin of Sheikh Hasina...
BNP asks people not to file wholesale cases
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Wednesday asked leaders and activists of the party not to file cases in a wholesale manner relating to the recent student-people uprising that ensured fall of former prime minister Sheikh Hasina-led Awami League government...
