Separate courts in Dhaka and Narayanganj on Wednesday placed former minister Golam Dastagir Gazi and an ex-Awami League lawmaker for Kushtia-4 constituency, Selim Altaf George, on remand for different terms in separate cases of murders during the recent student-led mass uprising...
A sedition case has been filed against former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and three former chief election commissioners in Chattogram for conducting illegal and fraudulent elections during the Awami League government鈥檚 tenure...
Bangladesh鈥檚 external debts skyrocketed to a staggering $103.78 billion by June 2024, a colossal leap from just $23.5 billion in 2009 when the Awami League-led government came to power...
THE months of July-August 2024 emerged as remarkable on many counts. To say the least, the months marked the end of an era where, allegedly, 鈥� development of underdevelopment鈥� was the order of the day. This was driven by the distorted socio-economic and political policies of the Awami League government. After one and a half...
REVOLUTIONS or mass uprisings have been both triumphs and tragedies in history鈥檚 archives, marked by the inevitable complexities that follow the overthrow of entrenched regimes. The July uprising, which brought down the Awami League鈥檚 16-year autocratic rule, is no exception. This student-led uprising was hailed as a watershed moment for democracy in Bangladesh,...
UNABATED rights violations, including custodial torture, extrajudicial killing and enforced disappearances, at the hands of the law enforcement agencies, which characterised the authoritarian Awami League regime, are where reform is expected. The reported allegation that a leader of Juba Dal, the youth wing of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, has died in...
The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council on Wednesday approved a total of four development projects involving an overall estimated cost of Taka 1,222.14 crore.
Calling upon own party leaders and activists to stay away from acts of repression, or else the BNP would meet the fate same as Awami League, said Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Wednesday...
Rapid Action Battalion has detained former mayor of Habiganj Municipality and organising secretary of the district Awami League Ataur Rahman Selim and later handed him to police...
FOLLOWING the fall of the authoritarian Awami League regime in August, one challenge Bangladesh faces as it moves forward is the sheer size and untenable budget of the Bangladesh Civil Service. The budget for the financial year 2023鈥�2024 reveals that 22 per cent of our national budget goes into public administration, which is a clear marker of the...
THE unforeseen collapse of the Awami League government on August 5 sparked new forms of political violence across the country and created fertile ground for religious tensions. Attacks took place on homes and establishments belonging to people of different religions, raising concerns over rising communal violence...
The police arrested former railway minister Nurul Islam Sujan on Monday in connection with a case filed with Jatrabari police station over the killing of student Imran Hossain in the capital during the student-led mass uprising.
Bangladesh government has formed a five-member committee to look into the appeals of the government officials who were reportedly deprived of promotion and service benefits during the immediate past Awami League regime....
A United Nations Human Rights Office fact-finding team, which is conducting an independent and impartial investigation into alleged human rights violations that took place in Bangladesh between July 1 and August 15 this year arising from the recent protests, has sought first-hand information from all concerned.
A Dhaka magistrate court on Monday sent former cultural affairs minister Asaduzzaman Noor and former state minister for civil aviation and tourism Md Mahbub Ali to jail in a case filed over the death of hotel staff Siam Sarder in the capital鈥檚 Mirpur area during the quota reforms movement on July 18.
The president of Awami League鈥檚 Madaripur district unit, Shahabuddin Ahmed, has been detained by the Border Guard Bangladesh while attempting to flee to India.
Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) today arrested former Awami League lawmaker Engineer Md Enamul Haque from Adabar in Dhaka on Monday morning on charges of shooting at students and common people during student-led mass uprising at Baghmara in Rajshahi district on August 5.
A case was filed against 704 people, including former Gazipur city mayor and former Awami League city unit general secretary Md Jahangir Alam on several charges, including...
THAT the Awami League had a master plan to capture power forever is discerned from some deplorable incidents that happened just after it assumed office in 2009. The party president, Sheikh Hasina, along with her leaders, did not hesitate even a little to kill our 57 patriotic army officers. Almost all the party leaders knew about what happened in the...
A NUMBER of incidents of vandalism and violence have taken place since the fall of the Awami League regime and people and the government have jointly succeeded in addressing most of them. But, attacks on shrines of pirs, fakirs and saints have, however, posed a big question mark on the success of the interim government in keeping law and order. While attacks on shrines have continued for over two to three weeks, the authorities have almost completely failed to address the issue...
RENTAL power plants, set up as an emergency measure under an indemnity law to resolve power shortage soon after the Awami League had assumed office in 2009 that ended in a permanent arrangement to drain the state exchequer by channelling public money into private pockets through capacity charge payment, have not only been a great burden to the economy...
International Crimes Tribunal chief prosecutor Md Tajul Islam on Sunday said that the tribunal would be reconstituted soon...
Awami League on Sunday issued some instructions to its leaders and workers urging them to earn public trust and not to be misled by any provocative social media post...
At least one Bangladesh Nationalist Party volunteer wing Swechchhasebak Dal central leader was killed and 22 others were injured as Awami League activists launched an attack on Swechchhasebak Dal central president SM Jilani鈥檚 motorcade at Gunapara crossing under Sadar upazila in Gopalganj Friday afternoon...
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Thursday initiated enquiries against former mayor of Narayanganj City Corporation Selina Hayat Ivy, and former two lawmakers of the Awami League government over allegations of amassing illegal wealth through corruption...
Cash held outside the country鈥檚 banking system surged in July, driven by depositors鈥� decreased confidence and inflationary pressures...
THE chief adviser to the interim government Muhammad Yunus has announced the formation of six commissions, headed by eminent citizens, to effect national reforms to make people鈥檚 aspirations come true, prevent the recurrence of fascism or autocratic rule and introduce a state system based on people鈥檚 ownership, oriented towards welfare and...
Rapid Action Battalion on Wednesday arrested the private car driver of Ajmeri Osman, son of late Jatiya Party lawmaker Nasim Osman and a nephew of former Awami League lawmaker Shamim Osman, in connection with the case of killing Tanwir Muhammad Taqi...
THE main challenge for the interim government in rebuilding the economy is to bring back the money laundered during the authoritarian Awami League regime toppled on August 5. The economic crisis, especially the dollar shortage, has largely been due to an unabated capital flight. A statement of the chief adviser鈥檚 office on August 31 said preliminary...
Rapid Action Battalion claimed that they arrested former Awami League lawmaker for Thakurgaon-2 constituency, Mazharul Islam Suzon, at Nikunja in Dhaka on Wednesday...