A United Nations Human Rights Office fact-finding team, which is conducting an independent and impartial investigation into alleged human rights violations that took place in Bangladesh between July 1 and August 15 this year arising from the recent protests, has sought first-hand information from all concerned.
A Dhaka magistrate court on Monday sent former cultural affairs minister Asaduzzaman Noor and former state minister for civil aviation and tourism Md Mahbub Ali to jail in a case filed over the death of hotel staff Siam Sarder in the capital鈥檚 Mirpur area during the quota reforms movement on July 18.
Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) today arrested former Awami League lawmaker Engineer Md Enamul Haque from Adabar in Dhaka on Monday morning on charges of shooting at students and common people during student-led mass uprising at Baghmara in Rajshahi district on August 5.
Separate metropolitan magistrate courts in Dhaka on Sunday placed former public administration minister Farhad Hossain and ex-Awami League lawmaker for Barishal-2 constituency...
Sumaiya Akter stepped out onto the balcony at her parents鈥� house at Siddhirganj in Narayanganj in the evening of July 20 as a helicopter was flying past amidst the sound of gunshots.
Leaders of Anti-discrimination student movement on Sunday exchanged views with the families of the people who were killed and injured in the student-led mass uprising in Manikganj.
A Rajshahi court on Sunday placed an activist of Jubo League, the youth wing of the Awami League, on five-day remand in police custody in a case filed in connection with killing of an Islami Chhatra Shibir leader in Rajshahi on August 5...
International Crimes Tribunal chief prosecutor Md Tajul Islam on Sunday said that the tribunal would be reconstituted soon...
The interim government on Sunday sought support from the United States to bring about the reforms it had initiated in various sectors in a move to rebuild the country and...
Writers, teachers and activists said on Saturday that women were the vanguard of the student-led mass uprising and their participation in reforms of the state must be ensured.
CULTURE is the聽integrated聽pattern of human knowledge, belief and behaviour, as the Merriam-Webster dictionary defines, that depends on the capacity for learning and transmitting knowledge to succeeding generations. True it is that the existence of culture depends on its power of dissemination. Dissemination of knowledge can be of two types...
IN THE 1960s East Bengal, now Bangladesh, witnessed a huge uprising in political and cultural awareness. This period is generally referred to as a political and cultural renaissance, driven by a deep desire for autonomy, democracy, the freedom of speech, secularism and justice. This collective awakening among the people of East Bengal laid the foundation for a non-sectarian, progressive society, which culminated in the 1969 mass uprising and played an important role in Bangladesh鈥檚 independence in 1971...
THE police have decided not to arrest any public servants without specific information and evidence in cases filed in connection with the student-mass uprising that spanned July and August. The police have also decided to drop the names of public servants and other individuals accused in such cases if their involvement is not proved in preliminary...
A human rights body Human Rights Support Society on Friday unveiled a list of martyrs revealing that 875 people were killed in the student-led mass uprising that brought Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 autocratic regime to an end.
Asma stared at a photograph, mounted in an album that she spread out, sitting on the bed in a rented one-room house at Dayaganj in Dhaka on September 9.
The police have decided not to arrest any government officials and employees without exact information and evidence in cases centring the student-led mass uprising and also...
THE success of a mass uprising depends on the indomitable courage and steadfastness of its revolutionary soldiers. Just as a successful uprising requires fearless individuals, it also needs...
Dhaka is ready to host a comprehensive and multi-faceted discussion as it welcomes the first US high level delegation on Saturday following the formation of the interim government, led by...
The remaining 26 Bangladeshi migrants who have been granted a pardon by Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the president of the United Arab Emirates, returned on Friday.
RAB-3 has arrested Liton Akand and his two associates from Jatrabari in Dhaka for their involvement in attacks on students and the public during the recent student-led mass uprising.
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB)-3 on Friday arrested inspector Arafat Hossain for his involvement in burning bodies of students and common people in front of the Ashulia Police Station on August 5, reports UNB.
A Jhenaidah court on Friday placed former Awami League lawmaker for Jhenaidah-1 constituency Nayeb Ali Joarder on four-day remand in two separate cases on allegations of...
He stopped short for a while only to glance back at his mother with a smile before stepping out of the house near Dhupkhola field in Old Town of Dhaka at about...
The Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development, and Co-operatives on Thursday directed Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority deputy managing director AKM Shahid Uddin to cease functioning as the organisation鈥檚 managing director....
Switzerland pledged to fully cooperate in repatriating illegal money deposited by Bangladeshi nationals in Swiss banks, in accordance with international standards and procedures...
鈥楯uly Shaheed Smriti Foundation鈥� has been formed with chief adviser of interim government Muhammad Yunus as its president and Mir Mugdho鈥檚 twin brother Mir Mahbubur Rahman Snigdho as secretary.
A Dhaka court on Thursday sent Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal-Jasod president Hasanul Haq Inu, Workers Party of Bangladesh president Rashed Khan Menon, ex-state minister for ICT Junaid Ahmed Palak and ex-IGP Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun to jail in expiry of their remand period.
Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Thursday said that the party hoped that the reforms announced by the chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus would be accomplished quickly to...
Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun has been shown arrested in four more cases filed over killings that have taken place in the capital during the recent anti-discrimination student movement.
JAMES C Scott, who passed away on July 19 this year, was a prominent political scientist and anthropologist known for his interdisciplinary work platforming the ways ordinary people resist domination, emphasising the value of local knowledge, hidden transcripts of resistance, and the limits of centralised power. To me, the character is vehemently...