Jibon passes away after two months of battle
After battling with death for two long months, 24-year-old Atikul Islam Jibon, an active participant in the student-led mass uprising that forced Sheikh Hasina to resign as prime minister and...
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Stolen asset recovery process still at preliminary stage聽
The interim government has taken some initial moves to bring back the stolen assets from abroad after the previous Awami League regime overthrown amid a student-led mass uprising on...
Feni BCL leader placed on remand over firing on students
Shafiqul Islam Samrat, a local Chhatra league leader, who was seen in a video footage firing on students during the recent student movement in Feni鈥檚 Sharshadi union, placed on a four-day remand.
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...
Battle for soul of Bangladesh far from over
ON A pillar of the metro station in Shahbagh, within view just after the flight of stairs by the side of the Pubali Bank, is a graffiti. While the form has drastically exploded in popularity during and after the July uprising of Bangladesh, there remains a political distinction. This one, evidently hastily sprayed on well after the fall...
What motivations drive anti-India sentiment
INDIA鈥橲 sheltering of Sheikh Hasina following the mass uprising in Bangladesh will shape the future of India-Bangladesh relations. The collapse of Hasina鈥檚 government also signifies a decline in India鈥檚 dominance over Bangladesh. However, it is an oversimplification to view India鈥檚 relationship with Bangladesh in such...
Politics of gender in post-uprising Bangladesh
GENDER鈥� is always a thorny topic at times of mass uprising. Historically, leaders of countless mass uprisings around the world decided to put away the gender question for dealing with later. The 鈥榤ass鈥� had been typically framed as a body that does not have any gender in the common imagination, only to eventually reveal...
Govt should immediately attend to food inflation
PERSISTENT food inflation was a major issue that aggrieved people, especially low- and fixed income people, who were disappointed about inadequate regulatory measures and took to the streets during the Awami League鈥檚 rule. Low-income people, who were one major group that actively participated in the July uprising...
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...
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...
Justice for July massacre
THE July-August uprising, which courageously stood against the oppressive Sheikh Hasina-led Awami League regime, led to the fall of a government many considered authoritarian. However, this victory came at a tremendous cost, with thousands of lives lost, many of them young protesters who made the ultimate sacrifice...
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...
List of 226 deceased, injured, missing in Uttara handed over
Citizens鈥� forum 鈥�24-er Uttara鈥� on Friday handed over a list of 226 martyred, injured, missing people at Uttara in Dhaka in the student-led mass uprising to July Shaheed Smriti Foundation...
Uprising only transition of power so far: discussion
Writer and professor Salimullah Khan on Friday at a discussion in Dhaka said that the July-August uprising resulted in only a transition of power and nothing new was born completely in the past two months...
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...
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�
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.
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...
Complaint filed at ICT accuses AL, 14-party allies of committing genocide
A complaint was on Wednesday filed with the International Crimes Tribunal seeking a 10-year ban on the Awami League-led alliance, accusing them of committing genocide and crimes against humanity during the student-led mass uprising...