鈥極nly the signboard of the syndicate has changed鈥�: Hasnat
Hasnat Abdullah, a key coordinator of the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement, has expressed concerns about the interim government鈥檚 inability to dismantle syndicates...
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AIUB architecture student receives CAA award
An American International University-Bangladesh architecture department student Shahira Sarwat has received a commendation at the Commonwealth Association of Architects Awards 2024 in the CAA Presidents Awards category recently...
Urdu-speaking people demand withdrawal of 鈥榝alse鈥� cases
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...
Restoring dignity of students
THE saying 鈥榓 bad apple spoils the whole barrel鈥� perhaps applies to any group of people. This means that, in certain circumstances, it takes only one or a few elements to ruin the reputation of an entire community...
A cartoonist鈥檚 journey towards red July
鈥楤E READY, there is a chance that they can take you away any day now.鈥� This was the warning my editor, Nurul Kabir, gave me after more than two decades of career as editorial cartoonist at the daily 抖阴精品. It was July 23, and by then, the student鈥檚 movement for reforms in the quota system in public services had already...
ACC sues Asaduzzaman, family for amassing illegal wealth
The Anti-Corruption Commission has found illegal assets worth Tk 60.55 crore amassed by former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan, his wife, and two...
RAB arrests ex-MP Sohrab Uddin from Dhaka鈥檚 Uttara
Members of Rapid Action Battalion have arrested former Kishoreganj-2 constituency MP Advocate Sohrab Uddin from Diabari area in Uttara, Dhaka.
Former chief of Bangladesh Police Mamun placed on 43-day remand
A Dhaka court on Tuesday placed former Inspector General of Police Chowdhury Abdullah Al Mamun on a 43-day remand in connection with eight cases filed over the killings during the July-August student-led mass uprising.
Dhaka not aware of whereabouts of ousted Bangladesh PM Hasina
The foreign affairs adviser to the interim government, Md Touhid Hossain, on Tuesday said that they were not aware of the present whereabouts of deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina as...
Students, family want justice
Students, family members, and well-wishers of the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology鈥檚 slain student Abrar Fahad on Monday urged the government to ensure...
Interim govt publishes preliminary list of people killed in July-Aug mass uprising
Bangladesh鈥檚 interim government on Sunday published a preliminary list of people who died during the student-led mass uprising in July and August.
Justice, list of deceased demanded
Family members of the deceased and injured in the student-led mass uprising on Sunday demanded justice and a complete list of martyred.
Khurshed Alam resigns as maritime affairs secy, Khastagir鈥檚 appointment as envoy to Poland cancelled聽
Foreign ministry鈥檚 secretary for maritime affairs unit retired rear admiral Md Khurshed Alam, whose contractual appointment was extended on occasions, has resigned...
BFIU seeks bank details of journalist Munni Saha
The Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit on Sunday asked the banks to provide details of bank accounts in the name of journalist Munni Saha, who is now facing several cases on charges of murder and crimes against humanity committed during the recent anti-discrimination student movement...
105 children killed in July-Aug uprising in Bangladesh: Adviser
A total of 105 children, under 18 years of age, were killed in Bangladesh during the recent student-led mass uprising in July and August, said social welfare and women and children鈥檚 affairs adviser Sharmin S Murshid.
Death dashes dream
Tanoy Chandra Das, a Class XII student of Kuliarchar Government College in Kishoreganj, moved to Gazipur four months ago to work as an apprentice at a barber鈥檚 to pay for his studies and...
Parties scrabble to lay claim to deceased: Citizens鈥� Committee
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...
Students for Sovereignty protests at sectarian violence in CHT
Students for Sovereignty, a student organisation of Dhaka University, on Friday protested at spreading sectarian violence in the Chittagong Hill Tracts.
鈥楶lease, take my body home鈥�
Nafisa Hossen Marwa, 17 years old, could call her father on August 5 to say: 鈥楤aba, I am dying. Please, take my body home.鈥�
Role of students, masses in state reconstruction
HILE many may not agree to label the July-August uprising as a revolution, I view it as a potentially revolutionary mass movement. However, after the fall of the Hasina government on...
Malaysian PM leaves Dhaka for home
Malaysian prime minister Anwar Ibrahim left Dhaka for Kuala Lumpur on Friday evening wrapping up his brief visit to Bangladesh.
Ex-minister Sadhan, Krishak League president Samir on remand
Two metropolitan magistrate courts in Dhaka on Friday placed former food minister Sadhan Chandra Majumder and Awami League鈥檚 farmer wing Bangladesh Krishak League president...
Ganosamhati Andolan seeks implementation of spirits of student, people movement
The Ganosamhati Andolan, a partner of Ganatantra Mancha, on Friday sought implementation of spirits of the recent students and people movement that ended fascist rule of the...
Bangladesh interim chief holds one-on-one talk with Malaysian PM
Bangladesh鈥檚 interim government chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus held a brief one-to-one talk with visiting Malaysian prime minister Anwar Ibrahim at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka on Friday.
DB arrests ex-AL lawmaker Shahidul Islam
Detective Branch of Dhaka Metropolitan Police arrested former Awami League-backed lawmaker Shahidul Islam Milon, elected from Jashore Sadar constituency, from Dhaka鈥檚 Gulistan area on Thursday.
17 JU student movement leaders resign for 鈥榙eviation from goal鈥�
A total of 17 coordinators of the Student Movement Against Discrimination from Jahangirnagar University resigned amid the student platform鈥檚 alleged deviation from its goal of upholding the spirit of a discrimination-free state...
Coordinator Hasnat demands president鈥檚 removal
Hasnat Abdullah, one of the key coordinators of the anti-discrimination student movement, demanded president Mohammed Shahabuddin be removed from his post on Thursday.
Reforms in education should be priority agenda of govt
ISSUES of national education have recently come to the fore, with the cancellation of a textbook review and revision committee on September 28 apparently amidst opposition by some right-wing Islamist groups after it was formed on September 15. The process of national education also came to be questioned when the authorities cancelled the...
A happy return home turns sad in minutes
Meherun Nesa went to Ganabhaban, the residence of the prime minister, in the afternoon of August 5 as countless others did to celebrate Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 fall.
Failure of interim govt would increase chances of Hasina鈥檚 return: Time
Political observers and analysts in Bangladesh and abroad said that dysfunction in Bangladesh鈥檚 interim government would considerably boost the chances of Sheikh Hasina鈥檚...