Kamal Ahmed Mojumder, former state minister for industries under the Awami League government, has been arrested in connection with a murder case related to the anti-quota reform student movement...
Rana Talukder, who worked as a car driver, left home after lunch with the family on August 5 to celebrate, like many others, the fall of the Awami League.
President of Sutrapur Thana Tati League Abu Sayeed, 59, was arrested by the police on Thursday night in connection with the murder of student Nadimul Hasan Elem.
Veteran politician and Bangladesh Awami League presidium member Matia Chowdhury was buried at Mirpur Martyred Intellectual Graveyard in Dhaka on Thursday.
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general, Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, in his review petition with the apex court, has placed 10 grounds to restore the caretaker government system.
Foreign affairs adviser Md Touhid Hossain on Thursday said Bangladesh鈥檚 interim government would take necessary measures to bring back deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina and others as International Crimes Tribunal issued arrest warrant for them.
The International Crimes Tribunal has issued arrest warrants for former prime minister Sheikh Hasina and 45 others, including Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader, as part of the ongoing trial proceedings related to killings of students and people during the student-led mass uprising in July and August.
A Dhaka court on Thursday sent to jail former agriculture minister and Awami League presidium member Abdur Razzaque and former civil aviation and tourism minister Lt Colonel, retd, Faruk Khan in two separate murder cases.
Veteran politician and Bangladesh Awami League presidium member Matia Chowdhury died at a hospital in Dhaka on Wednesday. She was 82.
Hundreds of anticipatory bail seekers were left in limbo on Tuesday after a two-judge High Court bench abruptly left the courtroom without hearing any of the 811 cases scheduled for the day, amid chaotic scenes.
The Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit on Monday froze bank accounts of Bangladesh Workers Party president Rashed Khan Menon and folk singer and former Awami League lawmaker Momtaz Begum...
A LACK of interest among people to participate in the universal pension scheme has been there since its introduction about a year ago by the now-deposed Awami League government. The interest appears to have slipped further down and many participants have also stopped paying premiums. According to the National Pension Authority, about 20...
The police arrested Awami League presidium member and former agriculture minister Muhammad Abdur Razzaque at Eskaton in the capital on Monday...
Pro-Bangladesh Nationalist Party lawyers on Monday warned that the politically biased and corrupt judges, appointed during the ousted Awami League regime, would no longer be able to hold office or preside over court proceedings...
Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami amir Shafiqur Rahman on Sunday said that Awami League leaders should be tried under the black laws, they formulated over an extended period.
The police arrested Awami League鈥檚 voluntary wing Awami Swechchhasebak League central committee leader Tarique Afzal Sabuj in a murder case on Saturday night while a Dhaka court on...
At least 25 activists of Bangladesh Nationalist Party were injured in an attack by the Awami League activists at Bhangura in Pabna.
Bangladesh having slipped three notches in the Global Hunger Index 2024, based on 2019鈥�2023 data, shows that the development model pursued and trumpeted by the toppled Awami League government ignored people鈥檚 most basic necessities. The index, prepared by two European non-governmental organisations and made public on October 11, has...
THE Anti-Corruption Commission appears to have changed its priority as since the fall of the Awami League government on August 5, it has been busy dealing with inquiries against more than a hundred former ministers and members of parliament alleged to have made illegal wealth and been involved in illicit capital flow while the investigation and trial of...
Awami League activists attempted thrice to take Sakib Anjum鈥檚 body away after he had died of excessive bleeding following a one-hour struggle without any treatment during the...
Bangladesh Nationalist Party senior joint secretary Ruhul Kabir Rizvi said on Saturday that the Awami League regime used labels such as militancy, communalism, and various other terms to create divisions in society to prolong its authoritarian tenure...
IN HIS incisive essay 鈥楴otes on Nationalism鈥�, British novelist and poet George Orwell astutely remarked that nationalism often manifests as power hunger tempered by self-deception. This observation finds a striking parallel in the Awami League鈥檚 narrow, distorted narrative of Bengali nationalism. The party鈥檚 appropriation of Bengali nationalism...
Attorney general Md Asaduzzaman on Saturday defended the International Crimes Tribunal Act 1973, stating that it would be adequate to prosecute autocrats of Awami League鈥檚 government and their aides responsible for the offenses committed during the Students Movement Against Discrimination in July-August...
The interim government has taken some initial moves to bring back the stolen assets from abroad after the previous Awami League regime overthrown amid a student-led mass uprising on...
Three deceased Awami League leaders, who died much earlier, have been prosecuted over the attack on the recent anti-quota student protests in Cumilla...
AN ALARMING increase in mob violence in two months is disconcerting, especially because a major policy focus of the interim government is to improve law and order and to restore public trust in law enforcement. In August鈥揝eptember, after the fall of the Awami League regime, as Ain O Salish Kendra says, at least 49 people were killed in mob violence. In the corresponding period in 2023, the number of mob violence deaths was 10...
EXTORTION in the road transport regime appears to have been back to square again in full swing although the amount of money that changed hands during the authoritarian rule of the Awami League, which was toppled on August 5, in the process has come to almost a half in most cases. Yet, this is extortion, which is a crime, and it adds to the bus fare, finally burdening passengers. This also shows the failure of the interim...
The police recovered the body of an Awami League leader from a pointed gourd field at Mohanpur in Rajshahi on Wednesday...
ON AUGUST 5, the world witnessed a significant political upheaval in Bangladesh, as the long-standing autocratic prime minister Sheikh Hasina was forced to flee the country amid a revolution led by students and citizens. Her 15-year rule had deeply corrupted and politicised various government institutions, including the...
BANGLADESH, following the overthrow of an extremely repressive government of the Awami League, in the face of a great democratically oriented student-mass uprising and subsequent voluntary disappearances of all the League leaders from the country鈥檚 political scene, obviously with a view to escaping court proceedings...