THE brutal murder of a scrap trader near Sir Salimullah Medical College in Dhaka on July 9 is a betrayal of sacrifices of the martyrs of the July uprising, which topped the authoritarian Awami League regime in hopes for a political culture to uphold democratic values. The victim was repeatedly hit with a large chunk of concrete in daylight, with dozens watching. The police and...
Trial of fascists, reforms in various sectors, and a new constitution are essential for rebuilding Bangladesh, said National Citizen Party convener Nahid Islam in Magura on Thursday....
The International Crimes Tribunal-1 on Thursday charged deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina, her home minister Asaduzzaman Khan, and former inspector general of police Chowdhury Abdullah Al Mamun with crimes against humanity during the 2024 July uprising...
Speakers, including researchers and academics, on Wednesday said that violence against July uprising protesters was state-sponsored as the violence was perpetrated by the personnel of multiple branches of law enforcement and security agencies and leaders and activists of the then Awami League regime...
Around 25 people, who were injured in the July鈥揂ugust uprising that led to the ousting of Sheikh Hasina-led Awami League government in the past year, vandalised the office of the July Shaheed Smrity Foundation in Dhaka on Tuesday after not receiving financial assistance.
A meeting of the advisory council committee on government affairs on Tuesday approved two proposals from the cultural ministry to purchase services and goods directly for arranging programme on occasion of the first anniversary of the July mass uprising...
IT WILL soon be a year since the authoritarian Awami League regime was toppled in a mass uprising. Yet, the injured protesters still struggle to access long-term health care and rehabilitation. In attempts to violently repress the protest, the police and the Awami League鈥檚 armed goons fired bullets, sound grenades and other ammunition, which left at least...
Kenya marked its fight for democracy on Monday, with police blocking main roads in Nairobi ahead of potential protests, after last month鈥檚 demonstrations descended into violent clashes...
Bangladesh interim government home adviser Lieutanant General, retd, Md Jahangir Alam Chowdhury has warn all against any sort of mob violence in the country.
The International Crimes Tribunal-1 on Monday concluded the hearing on charges against ousted prime minister and Awami League president Sheikh Hasina and his two associates over their alleged involvement in committing crimes against humanity across Bangladesh during the July鈥揂ugust 2024 mass uprising...
The National Citizens Party on Sunday said that they were promising to the countrymen that they would present them with a new democratic constitution, which would guarantee citizens鈥� rights, ensure justice, and put an end to authoritarianism and dynastic politics in Bangladesh...
Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Sunday said those who want to delay the election are certainly not pro-democratic or supporters of the July-August mass uprising.
Speakers, including those working directly with individuals injured in the July鈥揂ugust uprising, emphasised the urgent need for a coordinated and integrated system to ensure that the victims receive effective and comprehensive rehabilitation.
Leaders of the National Citizen Party on Friday said that their party would take steps to address issues such as border killings and regional disparity.
All secondary-level government and non-movement educational institutions across the country have been instructed to observe August 5 as July Mass Uprising Day and July 16 as July Martyr Day...
People will take to the streets again if no changes are made to the old political settlement for which they joined the July uprising, said National Citizen Party convener Nahid Islam on Thursday in Nilphamari...
The International Crimes Tribunal-1 on Thursday set July 14 to give a decision whether charges of crimes against humanity would be framed against former Dhaka Metropolitan Police commissioner Habibur Rahman and seven of his subordinate officials in the case of killing six protesters during the July-August mass uprising at Chankharpool in Dhaka...
The University Teachers鈥� Network on Wednesday announced month-long programmes to mark the first anniversary of the student-mass uprising that toppled the Sheikh Hasina-led Awami League government on August 5, 2024...
Bangladesh interim government has declared August 5 a nationwide public holiday in honour of those who sacrificed their lives during the July mass uprising in 2024...
Speakers at a discussion titled July Uprising: The Legacy of Kazi Nazrul said that the national poet was a symbol of the indomitable human spirit...
The body of a former leader of the Students鈥� Federation of Bangladesh, Julfikar Ahmed Shakil, was exhumed for autopsy on Wednesday, about 11 months after he was shot to death during the student-led mass uprising in August 2024....
Bangladesh interim government has declared August 5 a nationwide public holiday in honour of those who sacrificed their lives during the July uprising in 2024.
Bangladesh Ganatantrik Chhatra Sangsad on Tuesday announced a month-long programme, marking the one-year anniversary of the July uprising that overthrew the Sheikh Hasina-led Awami League regime...
Dhaka University vice-chancellor Professor Niaz Ahmed Khan on Tuesday said that the historic events of the Language Movement in 1952, the mass uprising in 1969, the War of Independence in 1971, the anti-autocracy movement in 1990s and the 2024 student-mass uprising complemented each other...
The Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami on Tuesday started its programme spanning over a month to mark the first anniversary of the student-led July mass uprising that overthrew the authoritarian regime of Sheikh Hasina on August 5, 2024...
The Ganosamhati Andolan on Tuesday began their month-long programmes to mark the first anniversary of the July-August mass uprising in 2024...
Bangladesh Medical University observed the anniversary of July mass uprising holding a rally and planting trees on the BMU in Dhaka on Tuesday...
REFORMS in the civil service job reservations that students sought, which sparked off protests on July 1, 2024, flared into a mass uprising later that month and toppled the Awami League government on August 5 that year, have worryingly remained unresolved 11 months inside the installation of the interim government. This is unfortunate of the interim government, which...
Chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus on Tuesday urged people to resist any resurgence of dictatorship in the country, emphasising that history testified that when the people wake up, no force can resist them...
National University on Tuesday launched the July Martyr Memorial Scholarship, commemorating the role youths played in spearheading the July mass uprising...