University Press Limited has launched Professor Ali Riaz鈥檚 new book 鈥楢 fractured path: challenges of democratic transition in Bangladesh鈥� delving into the country鈥檚 political course after the July uprising.
The interim government on Thursday approved the draft of the National Human Rights Commission Ordinance, 2025, empowering the commission to investigate human rights violations committed by law enforcement agencies as well as abuses carried out under state sponsorship or with state support...
MY KNOWLEDGE of the people鈥檚 movements and uprisings that have taken place across the Bangladesh is very limited. The histories prior to the Hatikheda uprising of 170 years ago remain blurry to me. Yet I do know the story of Amrita Devi of Rajasthan from 1730 鈥� who sacrificed her life to save trees 鈥� the spirit that later inspired the Chipko movement. However,...
AFTER the July 2024 mass uprising, Bangladesh stands at a crossroads. For decades, its political and moral trajectory had been defined by authoritarianism, fear, and institutionalised repression. The interim government, born out of the people鈥檚 mandate, was expected to mark a rupture 鈥� to rebuild institutions, protect the vulnerable, and dismantle the structures of...
AS THE entire Bangladesh is keenly waiting for the post-mass uprising political and constitutional reforms and, obviously, electoral transition to democratic governance, the thinking sections of the people are having a lot of private and public discussions over theoretical aspects of various proposals put forward by different political and legal authorities. The high-level...
Law enforcers on Tuesday arrested a 19-year-old college student from Godagari upazila in Rajshahi on charges of making derogatory remarks about the July mass uprising and its participants.
WHEN the July Uprising swept across Bangladesh, it was the workers, the invisible pillars of the nation鈥檚 economy, who paid the highest price. They marched for justice, raised their voices for dignity and faced tear gas and bullets in the hope of change...
Detective on Tuesday arrested a girl allegedly for posting a derogatory video on social media about the July mass uprising and its fighters from Godagari upazila in Rajshahi...
The father of eight-year-old Musa Khan, who has been on tube feeding since being shot during the July mass uprising in 2024, appeared before the International Crimes Tribunal-1 on Monday seeking justice for his son鈥檚 suffering and the killing of his mother.
Nepal鈥檚 prime minister Sushila Karki expanded on Sunday her interim cabinet which was formed in the wake of youth-led uprising last month, inducting two ministers seen as popular among young people...
The International Crimes Tribunal-1 on Thursday concluded the trial of deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina, former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan, and former inspector general of police Chowdhury Abdullah Al Mamun...
Leaders of the National Citizen Party and Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami on Wednesday called on chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus to issue a constitutional order to give the July National Charter a firm legal and institutional foundation...
International Crimes Tribunal 1 on Wednesday sent the 15 detained serving army officers to jail in three cases of crimes against humanity, two for enforced disappearances during the fallen Awami League regime and the other for 2024 July uprising atrocities...
The government has decided to hold the trials of cases filed for the killings during July 2024 mass uprising at speedy trial tribunals...
Bangladesh Nationalist Party standing committee member Salahuddin Ahmed on Sunday said that no attempt to pit the BNP against the July uprising would succeed.
Many supposedly invincible leaders have been forced to flee their countries or have gone into hiding to avoid incarceration, execution, or political retaliation by successor governments due to revolutions, military coups or mass protests.
Chief prosecutor Muhammad Tajul Islam on Wednesday told the International Crimes Tribunal-1 that bullets recovered from the bodies of several victims of the July uprising were fired from military rifles.
Chief prosecutor Muhammad Tajul Islam on Tuesday argued that disciplinary actions taken by different universities against pro-Awami League teachers and Chhatra League activists for attacking student protesters proved deposed prime minister...
The International Crimes Tribunal-2 (ICT-2) on Tuesday ordered the publication of a public notice in two national dailies, demanding that Awami League joint general secretary and former lawmaker Mahbubul Alam Hanif, along with three other party leaders, surrender by October 23.
Evidence from prosecution witnesses proved joint attacks carried out by the Awami League, its affiliates, and law enforcement agencies against civilians during the July 2024 mass uprising amounted to crimes against humanity.
The youth and sports and local government, rural development and cooperatives adviser, Asif Mahmud Shojib Bhuyain, on Thursday testified that Dhaka Metropolitan Police鈥檚 Detective Branch former chief Harun-ur-Rashid had threatened to...
Interim government鈥檚 cultural and information advisers on Tuesday said that the past year鈥檚 student-led mass uprising was against any forms of fascism...
The government has once again amended the International Crimes (Tribunals) Act, 1973, barring anyone charged with crimes against humanity for their alleged role in committing atrocities during the mass uprising of July and August 2024 from contesting elections or...
The police Monday night arrested five leaders of the Awami League, activities of which are now banned, and its associate bodies in connection with the murder of a student during the student-led July 2024 mass uprising at Dhamrai in Dhaka...
Local people, including the families of martyred during July uprising, on Monday besieged the office of Sherpur deputy commissioner, protesting bail granted to Awami League leader Chandan Kumar Pal in a murder case...
The International Crimes Tribunal-2 on Monday issued arrest warrants against Awami League joint general secretary and former lawmaker Mahbubul Alam Hanif and three other local leaders for their alleged involvement in committing crimes against humanity in Kushtia during the July uprising...
The prosecution of the International Crimes Tribunals on Sunday filed formal charges against Awami League joint general secretary and former lawmaker Mahbubul Alam Hanif and three other party leaders for their alleged superior command...
The filing of false cases continued over incidents during the July uprising, creating doubt and concern among the victims about getting justice in the cases.
The government will honour the families of children killed during the July鈥揂ugust mass uprising in 2024, as part of World Children鈥檚 Day...
An investigation officer in a case of crimes against humanity against deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina and two others on Tuesday testified that the law enforcement agencies and the then ruling party affiliates were involved in widespread, systematic and targeted killings in at least 41 districts across the country during the July uprising...
