The defence ministry proposed to rename 16 sangsthas, institutions and establishments under the jurisdiction of Bangladesh army, changing the previous ones given after the names of ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina or her family members or people involved with her government.
BANGLADESHI parties, still gutsy, encounter a heightened existential fear 鈥� the disquiet of a deep institutional crisis for them and the nation at large. And yet, parties are strategic to the country鈥檚 liberal democratic future. Since prime minister Sheikh Hasina lost power to the unprecedented civil unrest on August 5, 2024 and Nobel laureate Dr Muhammad Yunus-led...
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Wednesday said that there was no relation between the legal proceedings against ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina and the upcoming national election...
A case was filed against three named and 14-15 unnamed people on Wednesday over alleged looting of valuables from a house Tuesday evening in the capital鈥檚 Gulshan area claiming that the house belonged to Tanveer Imam, son of the ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 political adviser late HT Imam...
Bangladesh chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus in an interview with the United Kingdom-based Sky News has said that the ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina will stand trial for crimes against humanity...
The metropolitan special judge court on Tuesday ordered to freeze 14 bank accounts of Suchana Foundation of Saima Wajed Putul, South East Asian regional director of the World Health Organization and daughter of ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina...
Bangladesh interim government chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus on Sunday stressed documenting all atrocities committed during the regime of ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina, including the crackdown on protesters at Shapla Chattar, police brutality against protesters after the verdict against Delwar Hossain Sayeedi and extrajudicial killings over the years.
The High Court (HC) today acquitted former BNP lawmaker Habibul Islam Habib of the charges in a case lodged over the 2002 attack on the motorcade of the then leader of the opposition Sheikh Hasina in Satkhira.
Voices for justice over the killings of 74 people, including 57 army officers, in the then Bangladesh Rifles headquarters at the capital鈥檚 Pilkhana during the 2009 BDR mutiny have been getting louder since the fall of the Sheikh Hasina regime on August 5, 2024 amid a mass uprising.
The International Crimes Tribunal鈥檚 chief prosecutor Mohammad Tajul Islam on Sunday claimed that the deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina had issued a 鈥榥o treatment, no release鈥� directive to a hospital in Dhaka during the July-August uprising.
THE political landscape of Bangladesh has been irrevocably altered by the events of July and August 2024, when the Awami League, led by former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, responded to student-led protests with brutal repression. Law enforcement, alongside party activists, cracked down on predominantly non-violent demonstrations, culminating...
The International Crimes Tribunal on Tuesday extended the deadline to April 20 for submitting investigation reports against deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina and 45 others over the allegations of genocide and crimes against humanity committed during the July-August mass uprising...
The Network for Democratic Bangladesh, an international activist group of expatriate Bangladeshis, on Sunday urged the interim government to prosecute deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina and others on charge of...
Women who actively participated in the July movement on Sunday demanded that Sheikh Hasina and the Awami League be banned, accusing them of committing mass killings during the uprising.
The United Nations Human Rights Office in a fact-finding report has stated that it did not find any genuine efforts by the Sheikh Hasina government to investigate any of the serious violations and abuses committed by the state鈥檚 security forces...
Cultural organisation Samageet on Friday celebrated the arrival of Basanta organising a music festival and dedicated it to the student-led mass uprising that ousted Sheikh Hasina-led Awami League regime on August 5 in the past year.
THE findings of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights report on the student protests and consequent mass uprising in July鈥揂ugust 2024 that it was the prime minister Sheikh Hasina, deposed on August 5 that year, ordered security forces to kill protesters and hide their bodies point to heinous crimes. The report, released in Geneva on February 12, also...
Dhaka would continue to wait for New Delhi鈥檚 response to its request for the extradition of deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina who fled to India for shelter on August 5, 2024 amid a student-led mass uprising.
The Bangladesh interim government has welcomed the fact-finding report of the UN human rights office on the July-August protests.
The ousted prime minister and Awami League president, Sheikh Hasina, herself ordered security forces to kill protesters and hide their bodies to quell the student-led protests in July 2024 in Bangladesh, according to a report by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights...
Bangladesh interim government chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus on Wednesday visited three spots of Aynaghor, the notorious secret prison during the era of fallen Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 government, in Dhaka.
The Gono Odhikar Parishad on Tuesday announced a countrywide programme demanding a ban on and trial of ousted prime minister and Awami League president Sheikh Hasina and other AL leaders allegedly involved in killing during the student-led mass uprising...
Most of the special energy funds worth Tk聽53,000 crore was misused by the Sheikh Hasina government, ousted in August past year amid a mass uprising, through breaching policies and guidelines during its 15 years of authoritarian regime.
The National Board of Revenue issued a gazette notification on Monday, scrapping two statutory regulatory orders granting tax waivers for Saima Wazed Putul鈥檚 Shuchona Foundation...
Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Sunday urged the country鈥檚 anti-fascist forces not to fall into the trap laid by ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina...
NOBEL laureate Dr Mohammad Yunus鈥� interim regime took over soon after prime minister Sheikh Hasina resigned and fled to India on August 5, 2024. Backed by the unyielding student leaders who steered the huge anti-Hasina civil unrest, his ad hoc government upended the prevailing state symbols and practices of the overthrown leadership. Those activities ranged...
India on Friday said that the comments attributed to the ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina were made in her individual capacity in which India had no role to play.
The Anti-Corruption Commission has launched an inquiry into the allegations of wasting public money by ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina during her foreign trips and for acquiring 鈥榝ake鈥� honorary doctorate degrees...
THE vandalisation of the historic Dhanmondi residence of Bangladesh鈥檚 founding president, the late Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, on February 5 appears to have been a direct result of the indirect provocation of the fallen prime minister Sheikh Hasina and the reactive political behaviour of a section of the agitating students who led the democratically oriented...
Bangladesh interim government on Thursday lodged a strong protest against the 鈥榝alse and fabricated statements鈥� made by the deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina sheltered in India.