The High Court on Wednesday dismissed the proceedings in 11 criminal cases filed against former prime minister and Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson聽 Khaleda Zia during the Awami League government...
Law, justice and parliamentary affairs adviser Asif Nazrul on Tuesday said that the people of Bangladesh would decide whether the Awami League should be allowed to contest in the national election...
POWERFUL business tycoons, who had been close to the deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina, have swindled $17 billion off the banking sector, as the Bangladesh Bank government has said in an interview with the Financial Times, during the 15 years of the authoritarian regime of the Awami League. The central banker is reported to have said that the tycoons...
Three key leaders of the Students Movement Against Discrimination on Tuesday withdrew two writ petitions they filed on Monday with the High Court seeking a ban on the political activities of...
Two Dhaka metropolitan magistrate courts on Monday sent former state minister for primary and mass education Zakir Hossain and former home ministry senior secretary Mustafa Kamal Uddin to jail in separate murder cases...
Ganatantra Mancha and Amar Bangladesh Party also emphasised building a consensus among the political parties expect the Awami League and its allies on the issue of the removal of president Muhammed Shahabuddin...
Speakers including journalists and activists at a discussion in Dhaka said on Monday that the 鈥榩ropaganda machinery鈥� of the Awami League was spreading misinformation and disinformation even after the fall of the authoritarian regime of Sheikh Hasina amid the July mass uprising...
SHOULD Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami be permitted to engage in politics without first addressing its role in the 1971 liberation war? This question takes on heightened significance in light of the 2024 mass uprising. If Jamaat is sincere about its desire to participate in the current political landscape, offering an apology appears essential. Without such...
FOR the interim government to facilitate any meaningful political transformation in the days to come, it should establish legal liability for victims of enforced disappearances, extrajudicial killing, custodial death, and torture done under the authoritarian Awami League regime. According to human rights organisations, security forces have committed...
Three key coordinators of the Students Movement Against Discrimination on Sunday filed two writ petitions seeking ban on political activities of the Awami League and its 10 allies...
An activist of recently banned Bangladesh Chhatra League, student wing of the Awami League, was beaten and handed over to police when she came to attend her examination at Rajshahi Government Women鈥檚 College on Sunday...
Jahangirnagar University鈥檚 former professor Anu Muhammad on Sunday stated that although Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was considered the Father of the Nation, he could not step outside the boundaries of the Awami League and he remained its leader...
WOMEN have played a pivotal role in the student protests seeking reforms in civil service job reformation flared into a mass uprising against the authoritarian Awami League government, but their contribution and voice have been largely ignored in the post-uprising political affairs and public narrative...
A youth was beaten to death by a group of unidentified killers in Rajshahi city on Saturday night...
The Jatiya Party, ousted Awami League regime鈥檚 close ally, on Saturday staged demonstrations in Rangpur protesting at the visit of Student Movement Against Discrimination central coordinator Sarjis Alam...
THE interim government鈥檚 institution of expert committees to check against any discrepancy in national data, which came to be seriously questioned as being doctored during the Awami League government that was overthrown on August 5, is a good step forward. Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics officials say that they have already set up the committees to...
Bangladesh Nationalist Party vice-chairman and president of the Bangladesh Jatiyatabadi Ainjibi Forum advocate Zainul Abedin on Saturday said that the interim government should also think about banning the other parties under the14- party alliance led by the Awami League...
Leaders and activists of the Awami League and its student wing, the Bangladesh Chhatra League, on Friday staged brief demonstrations at places in Dhaka demanding the resignation of...
A metropolitan magistrate court in Dhaka on Friday allowed the police to take former primary and mass education affairs state minister Zakir Hossain, home ministry鈥檚 former senior secretary...
Leaders of different political parties on Thursday expressed mixed reaction over imposing ban on the Bangladesh Chhatra League, the student wing of the Awami League, by the interim government.
The Appellate Division on Thursday deferred the hearing of three petitions seeking a review of its 2011 verdict which declared the national election-time caretaker government system unconstitutional.
The All European Awami League on Thursday strongly condemned and protested the interim government鈥檚 decision to ban the Bangladesh Chhatra League...
The Students鈥� Movement Against Discrimination, the platform that spearheaded the student-led mass uprising, demanded withdrawal of the judge protesting at bail of the Awami League leaders...
The government on Wednesday banned the Awami League-backed student body Bangladesh Chhatra League under the Anti-Terrorism Act on allegation of its involvement in breaching...
The High Court on Monday granted pre-arrest bail to human rights defender and Supreme Court lawyer ZI Khan Panna in an attempted murder case.
An attempt to murder case has been filed against 180 people, including acclaimed Supreme Court lawyer and rights organisation Ain o Salish Kendra chairman ZI Khan Panna, for their...
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Sunday reinstated the constitutional provisions for Supreme Judicial Council, clearing the way for the removal of Supreme Court judges for...
Some politicians attending a dialogue on Saturday slammed civil society organisations for helping the Awami League government, which was ousted on August 5, turn...
Bangladesh Nationalist Party senior leader Nazrul Islam Khan on Saturday urged democratic political parties to maintain their unity, rising above narrow political interests, to resist the revival of Awami fascism...
A Dhaka metropolitan magistrate court on Saturday placed former state minister for industries Kamal Ahmed Mojumdar on a three-day remand in a case filed for the murder of...