PERSISTENT food inflation was a major issue that aggrieved people, especially low- and fixed income people, who were disappointed about inadequate regulatory measures and took to the streets during the Awami League鈥檚 rule. Low-income people, who were one major group that actively participated in the July uprising...
The Rapid Action Battalion on Tuesday evening arrested former Awami League lawmaker for Sunamganj-5 constituency Mohibur Rahman Manik from Bashundhara residential area in Dhaka.
Former planning minister and ex-Awami League lawmaker for Sunamganj-3 constituency MA Mannan has been shifted to Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital from Sylhet Central Jail for treatment.
A Dhaka court on Tuesday freed former environment, forest and climate change affairs minister Saber Hossain Chowdhury after granting his bail applications in six cases, including...
Police have arrested four leaders of Awami League in connection with the killing of Sheikh Md Sakib Rayhan, a student, during a protest organised as part of the anti-discrimination student movement in Dhaka鈥檚 Pallabi area...
Police have arrested former chairman of Manda Upazila Parishad, Tofazzal Hossain in the Bindubazar area of Manda upazila in Naogaon on Monday...
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Monday decided for inquiry against former Awami League minister Anisul Huq and former chairman of Citizen Bank Towfika Karim over...
The political parties that joined the 12th parliamentary polls on January 7 and the Awami League鈥檚 allies and beneficiaries will not be invited to dialogues organised by the interim government鈥檚...
A Dhaka court on Monday placed former environment minister Saber Hossain Chowdhury on a five-day remand in connection with the murder of Bangladesh Nationalist Party activist Mokbul in 2022...
The Border Guard Bangladesh on Sunday evening detained former land minister and a former Awami League lawmaker for Khulna-5 Narayan Chandra Chanda while he was fleeing India through Maheshpur border in Jhenaidah district...
THE July-August uprising, which courageously stood against the oppressive Sheikh Hasina-led Awami League regime, led to the fall of a government many considered authoritarian. However, this victory came at a tremendous cost, with thousands of lives lost, many of them young protesters who made the ultimate sacrifice...
The members of the law enforcement agencies on Sunday arrested former environment, forest and climate change affairs minister Saber Hossain Chowdhury, former Awami League lawmaker...
The Rapid Action Battalion on Sunday arrested former Awami League lawmaker for Rajshahi-3 constituency Asaduzzaman Asad in Baridhara, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
THE Awami League government, before its downfall on August 5, had revised the budget on June 6 allotting, Tk 414,080 million in the 2025 financial year, with a 9 per cent increase from the 2024 budget to accommodate macroeconomic challenges sucg as pandemic, price inflation and banking sector instability in banking. The health budget accounted for...
CULTURAL practice, considered pivotal in building an inclusive society and youth development, has largely been neglected since the fall of the authoritarian Awami League regime as the sector has run into trouble with most publicly funded cultural institutes having closed or been largely inactive. The Shilpala Academy, considered the centre of cultural...
Detective Branch of Dhaka Metropolitan Police arrested former Awami League-backed lawmaker Shahidul Islam Milon, elected from Jashore Sadar constituency, from Dhaka鈥檚 Gulistan area on Thursday.
The Awami League on Thursday demanded the arrest of those who attacked the party leaders and activists and vandalised, looted and set fire to their establishments on and after...
Director general Border Guard Bangladesh Major General Mohammad Ashrafuzzaman Siddiqui has acknowledged the BGB鈥檚 partial responsibility in preventing Awami League leaders and activists from fleeing the country.
The Dhaka Metropolitan Police detective branch on Thursday evening arrested former food minister Sadhan Chandra Majumder in the capital鈥檚 Bashundhara Residential Area while a Dhaka court placed former Awami League lawmaker Masuda Siddique Rozy on two-day remand in a murder case...
Over the past two and a half years, leaders and activists of the Jagannath University unit of Bangladesh Chhatra League, student wing of the Awami League, have owed the university cafeteria debts of Tk 7 lakh...
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Wednesday stayed the High Court鈥檚 interim bail order for Sohel Rana, the owner of Rana Plaza and former leader of the Awami League鈥檚 youth wing, Juba League...
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Wednesday decided to launch inquiries against 10 former lawmakers from the ousted Awami League government, including former whip Shamsul Haque Chowdhury over allegations of abuse of power, and amassing illegal wealth through corruption...
THE Financial Stability Report 2023 of the Bangladesh Bank paints a disturbing picture of the banking sector that deteriorated rapidly during the Awami League regime. The total amount of distressed assets in the banking sector surged to a staggering Tk 5.47 lakh crore, or about 32 per cent of the total outstanding loan, by 2023. The amount is...
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Wednesday stayed the High Court鈥檚 interim bail order for Sohel Rana, the owner of Rana Plaza and former leader of the Awami League鈥檚 youth wing, Juba League.
A complaint was on Wednesday filed with the International Crimes Tribunal seeking a 10-year ban on the Awami League-led alliance, accusing them of committing genocide and crimes against humanity during the student-led mass uprising...
The Rapid Action Battalion arrested Sanwar Hossain Bablu, president of the Gangni municipality unit of Awami League, and Nabir Uddin, vice-president of the Gangni Juba League, on Tuesday night...
Ousted prime minister鈥檚 principal secretary Kamal Abdul Naser Chowdhury, former youth and sports ministry secretary Mesbah Uddin Ahmed, and former Khulna-4 lawmaker Abdus Salam Murshedy were remanded in separate cases on Wednesday...
Rapid Action Battalion on Tuesday arrested former Awami League lawmaker for Khulna-4 constituency Abdus Salam Murshedy from Bashundhara Residential Area in Dhaka.
THE government鈥檚 not effectively minding the absence, or presence, of public prosecutors and government pleaders in lower courts is delaying justice as judges are compelled to adjourn hearing during cross-examination of or deposition by witnesses, which undermines the delivery of justice. The law officers, including public prosecutors and government...
Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit has frozen the bank accounts of ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 son Sajeeb Wazed Joy, daughter Saima Wazed Putul and nephew Radwan Mujib Siddiq Bobby in connection with the Awami League鈥檚 think-tank Centre for Research and Information.