The International Crimes Tribunal on Monday issued warrants for the arrest of two influential Awami League leaders and six police officers for their alleged involvement in committing crimes against humanity during the...
The Chattogram Customs House authorities on Monday announced the auction of 44 vehicles, including 24 luxury cars imported under a duty-free privilege for lawmakers during the ousted Awami League regime...
BANGLADESH, a nation forged in the crucible of its 1971 liberation war, now sees its legacy of sacrifice and identity increasingly distorted into a tool for political spectacle. Over the last 16 years, the Awami League government under Sheikh Hasina has leaned heavily on emotional rhetoric and symbolic gestures to cement their authority. This reliance on...
A Dhaka metropolitan magistrate court on Monday placed former state minister for disaster management and relief Enamur Rahman on a six-day remand in police custody in a murder case following his arrest Sunday night by the Dhaka Metropolitan Police鈥檚 detective branch...
The police arrested two activists of the Awami League as the party brought out a procession at Bansa Bazar under Chatkhil upazila in Noakhali Friday evening.
Adviser to the interim government Mahfuj Alam on Saturday said that the Awami League in no way would be allowed in the next general election as it might help bring back the fascism in the country鈥檚 politics.
FOUR state-run corporations having counted Tk 282.38 billion in losses in 28 years is a glaring example of inefficiency and mismanagement. The mismanagement in two corporations, the Bangladesh Jute Mills Corporation and the Bangladesh Sugar and Food Industries Corporation, resulted in the closure of 31 mills during the third tenure, 2019鈥�2024, of the...
The Appellate Division on Thursday permitted One Entertainment Company, the parent company of private broadcaster Channel One, to seek permission to appeal against a 2010 High Court verdict that upheld the cancellation of its broadcasting frequency by the then Awami League government...
LAW and order continues to remain worrisome as the government could not improve on the situation after it had declined after the overthrow of the Awami League government on August 5, 2024 and the installation of the interim government three days later. A growing number of violent crimes such as robbery, political violence, murder, mob violence and...
THE true extent of financial crimes and malpractice of the Beximco Group, controlled by the ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 private industry and investment adviser Salman F Rahman, appear to have not been uncovered yet. Fresh investigations after the fall of the Awami League government in August 2024 in a mass uprising have showed some of the...
The Jashore Special and Session Judge Court on Wednesday sentenced former Awami League lawmaker Shahin Chakladar to four years of jail in a case filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission around 16 years ago...
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Tuesday filed two separate cases against two state ministers of the now ousted Awami League government, Meher Afroz Chumki and Zakir Hossain, on charges of amassing illegal assets...
AN ABSENCE of effective initiatives on part of the interim government, which assumed office more than five months ago, to rein in profiteers that the previous Awami League government had placed in the power and energy sector during its 15 years of authoritarian regime has rightly come to be criticised. Whilst the power plants set up by profiteers...
The interim government has taken initiatives to withdraw all fictitious and freedom of speech-related cases,聽 filed during the past 15 years of the Awami League regime, by February.
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Monday filed three cases against former Awami League lawmaker for Cumilla-6 constituency AKM Bahauddin Bahar, his wife Meherunessa, and their daughter and former Cumilla City Corporation mayor Tahseen Bahar Shuchona on charges of amassing illegal wealth...
BEFORE 2024, such unprecedented public protests against the Awami League government would hardly have occurred. However, people have taken to the streets, and a key reason for this, I think, is the deteriorating economy. A worsening dollar crisis and liquidity crunch pushed Bangladesh to seek early financial assistance from the...
Dhaka Metropolitan Police detective branch arrested Awami League presidium member Mostofa Jalal Mohiuddin raiding the capital鈥檚 Mohammadpur area on early Monday...
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Sunday filed three cases against former cabinet secretary Kabir Bin Anwar, former lawmaker Md Abdus Shahid, and their wives on charges of amassing illegal wealth...
THE Technical Education Board, which is meant to update the technical and vocational education curriculum at certain intervals, usually five years, is reported to be going slow in updating the curriculums for a large number of courses that it oversees. The board deals with courses for diploma degrees in engineering, textile engineering, agriculture...
The Chattogram Customs House is set to auction nearly 100 vehicles, including 31 luxury Land Cruiser cars imported under a duty-free privilege for former members of parliament during the ousted Awami League regime...
Former state minister for home affairs Lutfozzaman Babar walked out of Dhaka Central Jail in Keraniganj on Thursday after spending 18 years behind bars.
At least 148 people were killed in gunfire by the members of law enforcement agencies and the then ruling Awami League leaders and activists on July 19, 2024 during the student movement for quota reform...
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Wednesday filed two cases against Awami League praesidium member and former minister Jahangir Kabir Nanok and former lawmaker Shamim Osman and their family members on charges of money laundering....
THE police personnel who lost their job during the 15 years of the authoritarian Awami League regime, toppled in a mass uprising on August 5, 2024, have held protests for a couple of days seeking their reinstatement in the job. The sacked police personnel also held a protest in front of the police headquarters in Dhaka on January 12 to press home their...
Family members initially identified and claimed two bodies kept at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital mortuary since the student-led mass uprising that forced Sheikh Hasina to flee to India bringing an end to a 15-year fascist Awami League regime...
An Awami League leader was allegedly hacked by fellow activists at Charghat upazila in Rajshahi on Thursday afternoon.
Some of the power projects approved without tender by the Awami League regime ousted in August 2024 continue to receive excessive capacity charge, up to 73 per cent more than what they should get, according to a...
Capital market stakeholders on Thursday called for setting up a fact-finding committee to investigate irregularities in the market during the previous regime of the Awami League...
The police arrested former Dhaka-10 Awami League Member of Parliament Shafiul Islam Mohiuddin from his residence in Dhaka鈥檚 Uttara on Wednesday evening...
Voices for the central student union elections at major public universities in the country are getting louder, with the students raising the demand to the university authorities for holding the long due elections in the changed political scenario after the fall of authoritarian Awami League regime...