Trial of Awami League leaders, allies demanded
Speakers, including political and youth leaders, academics, rights activists, and the victims of Awami misrule at a discussion demanded trial of ousted Awami League leaders, activists and...
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Political parties obstructing measures to ban AL: adviser
The adviser to the Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development and Co-operatives Asif Mahmud Shojib Bhuiyan said that political parties were hindering efforts to ban the Awami League from doing politics on charge of mass killing during the recent anti-discrimination movement...
3 cases filed against AL, JP leaders in Rangpur, Sylhet
Three cases have been filed against Awami League and Jatiya Party leaders, including former AL lawmaker Asaduzzaman Bablu and former JP lawmaker Mashiur Rahman Ranga on various charges in Rangpur and Sylhet...
Ex-minister Qamrul arrested, remanded
An additional metropolitan magistrate court in Dhaka on Tuesday allowed the police to take placed Awami League presidium member and former food minister Qamrul Islam in custody for eight days for interrogation in a case of killing during the recent student-mass uprising...
Ex-MP Ahmed Hossain shown arrested
A metropolitan magistrate court in Dhaka on Monday allowed a police petition to show Awami League organising secretary and former lawmaker Ahmed Hossain arrested in a case lodged over killing a teenage boy in the capital during the July-August mass uprising...
Streamlining banking sector should be a policy priority
THE volume of non-performing loans in the banking sector had already been grim during the toppled Awami League. An even grimmer picture is reported with a staggering Tk 2.85 crore in default loans in September, which is a radical increase from what was reported earlier this year. The central bank data show that the defaulted loans shot up to...
Submit Hasina case probe report in one month: ICT
The International Crimes Tribunal on Monday gave the chief prosecutor one more month to complete investigations into two complaints of crimes against humanity filed against deposed prime minister...
11 AL leaders, two others likely to be produced before ICT today
The jail authorities are set to produce eleven Awami League leaders, a retired Supreme Court judge and a retired bureaucrat before the reconstituted International Crimes Tribunal...
Govt to seek extradition of Hasina: Yunus
Bangladesh鈥檚 interim government chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus on Sunday said his interim government would seek extradition of deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina who fled to India after the fall of the Awami League regime in the face of a student-led mass uprising on August 5.
Ex-minister Maya鈥檚 Chandpur house set on fire
Miscreants set the village home of former minister Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya in Chandpur on fire Saturday night.
Moral taint and the Awami League
THERE is little or no doubt that the recently ousted Awami League and its members established a horrific dictatorship in Bangladesh. The Awami League, as a party, and its leaders and workers, as individuals, were steeped in corruption and appeared as ruthless adversaries to their opponents. It is difficult to overlook that this party and its leaders...
Post-Hasina Bangladesh: realigning parties?
CONFIGURATIONS of political parties in Bangladesh now carry multiple drifts 鈥� they are still inchoate after a long hiatus under an authoritarian stretch of 15 plus years. But the parties got a new lease of life since a populist revolt ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 repressive regime. Now, they are optimistic, alive and thrusting. The expected...
Stringent action needed to discipline roads in Dhaka
LAX monitoring and consequent traffic mismanagement have worsened the already chaotic Dhaka roads. Since the political changeover on August 5, when the Awami League regime was toppled by a student-mass uprising, Dhaka roads appear to have become more chaotic, with vehicles and pedestrians showing more disregard for traffic rules. The police...
No scope for govt indifference to exrajudicial killing
RIGHTS organisation Odhikar in its quarterly July鈥揝eptember report has enlisted at least eight people having been extrajudicially killed in August 9鈥揝eptember 30. The interim government was installed on August 8 after a student-mass uprising that spanned the month of July had finally toppled the 15 years of the authoritarian regime of the Awami League...
Tajul condemns Nur鈥檚 supporters鈥� rally outside tribunal
The chief prosecutor of the International Crimes Tribunal, Mohammad Tajul Islam, on Thursday, condemned a rally organised by followers of Gana Odhikar Parishad leader Nurul Huq Nur outside the tribunal鈥檚 gate in Dhaka.
EX-MPs Solaiman, Mukul arrested, sent to jail
Two former Awami League lawmakers have been arrested at separate places in the capital and they were sent to jail on Thursday in cases over murders during the recent student-led mass uprising...
Arbitrary act gives rise to energy costs
Bangladesh paid over Tk 1 trillion in capacity charge to power plants during the 14 years of rule of the immediate-past and now ousted Awami League government until 2023...
Govt should heed grievances of wounded protesters
PROTESTERS injured during the student-mass uprising in July-August that toppled the autocratic Awami League government on August 5 having not received adequate support for treatment and rehabilitation from the interim government is unacceptable. About 30,000 people, including many students, were injured in the uprising while at least 708 died...
Ex-Dhaka-7 lawmaker Solaiman Salim arrested
Former lawmaker for Dhaka-7 Mohammad Solaiman Salim was arrested in the capital鈥檚 Gulshan area on early Thursday...
Ex-Bhola-2 lawmaker Mukul arrested
Rapid Action Battalion on Wednesday arrested former Awami League-backed lawmaker for Bhola-2 constituency Ali Azam Mukul in Hazaribagh area in the capital...
Govt seeks to repeal most parts of 15th amendment
Attorney general Md Asaduzzaman argued before the High Court on Wednesday that the interim government wanted to declare the ousted Awami League鈥檚 15th amendment to the constitution largely unconstitutional, retaining only select provisions...
Anatomy of AL鈥檚 complaint to ICC
THE name 鈥楤angladesh鈥� is not stranger to the International Criminal Court. It was one of the earliest signatories to the ICC Rome Statute and ratified the same on March 23, 2010. Publicly available information shows that the ICC received at least four communications containing complaints (institutionally known as Article 15 Communications or...
Justice for Limon would be step towards police reform
VICTIMS of gross human rights violation in the hands of the law enforcement agencies who were denied justice during the Awami League regime are now coming forward to seek legal redress. This is a first step towards police reforms. Limon Hossain, a victim of attempted extrajudicial killing, lodged a complaint with the International Crime Tribunal against...
BNP for defeating AL through vote: Khosru
Bangladesh Nationalist Party senior leader Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury on Tuesday said the Awami League should be defeated through the democratic process of voting, not through any other means.
DB arrests former Barguna-1 MP Shambhu
Dhaka Metropolitan Police detective branch arrested former Awami League lawmaker for Barguna-1 constituency Dhirendra Debnath Shambhu in Uttara, Dhaka on Monday evening.
Former Narsingdi-3 MP Shirajul Islam Mollah arrested in Dhaka
Former independent lawmaker for Narsigdi-3 constituency Shirajul Islam Mollah was arrested on Monday evening from Mohammadpur in Dhaka.
SC stays bail of former AL lawmaker鈥檚 son Bakhtiar
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Sunday stayed a High Court order that had granted bail to Bakhtiar Alam Rony, son of former Awami League lawmaker Pinu Khan, in a...
Bankrupt AL trying to reappear in disguises,聽 says BNP
Bangladesh Nationalist Party standing committee member Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury said on Sunday that the bankrupt Awami League is attempting to return in various disguises.
Awami League issues directives to activists on Sunday鈥檚 programme
The Awami League has issued eight-point directives to party activists ahead of Sunday鈥檚 scheduled programme marking Noor Hossain Day in Dhaka鈥檚 Gulistan area...
Govt to seek Interpol help to arrest Hasina, other genocide case fugitives
Law, justice and parliamentary affairs adviser Asif Nazrul on Sunday said that the government would request INTERPOL to issue red notices to arrest and bring back fugitives, including...