Former additional attorney general Barrister Md Mehedi Hasan Chowdhury and Gazipur Metropolitan Awami League Advisory Council member Riaz Mahmud were arrested in Jhenaidah district while trying to cross the border illegally...
Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Tuesday said that the frequency of power cuts had increased dramatically in the country due to the looting and laundering of huge amounts of money by the previous Awami League government.
The Awami League has called on party leaders, activists, and supporters to stand by the family of former Rajshahi University Chhatra League leader Abdullah Al Masud, who was killed in a mob attack two days ago...
International Crimes Tribunal chief prosecutor Md Tajul Islam on Monday said that efforts were on to collect evidence of genocides those had been allegedly committed by past Awami League government while attempting to quell the recent anti-discrimination student movement...
The families of the victims of enforced disappearance on Monday issued a 48-hour ultimatum demanding return of them who disappeared during the tenure of the Awami League government...
BANGLADESH has entered a critical phase in its history on August 5. The student-mass uprising of July-August is evidence that Bangladeshis will not tolerate fascism. What started off from Dhaka University on July 1 as an innocuous demand for reforms of the quota system for government jobs turned into a massive revolution and ousted 16-year-old Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 despotic Awami League government...
THE death of a former leader of the Chhatra League, the student wing of the Awami League, in a case of lynching is unacceptable. The incident shows that the interim government has a number of issues to attend to in keeping law and order. The former Chhatra League leader, who worked as a section officer at the University of Rajshahi, was beaten by a mob...
Awami League president Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 son, Sajeeb Wazed Joy, on Monday demanded immediate arrest and exemplary punishment of the killers of Abdullah Al Masud, a former leader of Chhatra League at Rajshahi University...
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Sunday took decisions for conducting enquiries against three people, including two former lawmakers of the Awami League government over...
Finance, commerce and science and technology adviser Salehuddin Ahmed on Sunday criticised the recently ousted Awami League regime for following the 鈥業ndian syndrome of monument projects鈥�...
The purchasing managers鈥� index increased in August by 6.6 points, but the economic indicators of August were on the downward trend, according to the latest reading of the PMI index published by the Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and Industry...
A court on Sunday sent to jail former shipping minister Shajahan Khan in a case filed over the killing of Abdul Motalib, 14, in Dhanmandi, Dhaka during the recent student-led mass uprising.
Mohammad Tajul Islam, known for his role in defending leaders of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami in war crimes cases during the rule of Sheikh Hasina-led Awami League governments, has been appointed as the chief prosecutor of the International Crimes Tribunal....
THE average daily hospital admission of patients with dengue, which in the first six days in September doubled the number in the corresponding days of August, suggests a potentially threatening outbreak of the disease and a general failure of the health and local government authorities concerned to control the dengue vector during the...
A Bangladesh Chhatra League leader, who died of cancer in Jamalpur two years ago, had been named in a case filed after the fall of Awami League government, his family said.
Bangladesh Nationalist Party standing committee member AZM Zahid Hossain on Friday said that the Awami League was dreaming of returning to power through a conspiracy.
A Dhaka metropolitan magistrate court on Friday placed former shipping minister and Awami League presidium member Shahjahan Khan on seven-day remand in a murder case filed with...
Former shipping minister and Awami League presidium member Shahjahan Khan was arrested from Dhanmondi in Dhaka early Friday morning.
THE call of the Supreme Court Bar Association for an immediate removal of the 鈥榗ontroversial鈥� High Court judges appointed during the 15 years鈥� rule of the Awami League, which was overthrown on August 5 amidst a student-mass uprising, is dubious. The association鈥檚 president AM Mahbub Uddin Khokon, who was elected member of parliament for the Noakhali...
Five more cases were filed against the deposed prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, her cabinet and party colleagues and several members of the police on the charges of killing demonstrators during the student-people mass uprising...
Chief election commissioner Kazi Habibul Awal and all four election commissioners resigned on Thursday.
Supreme Court Bar Association president AM Mahbub Uddin Khokon on Wednesday called for immediate removal of what he described as 鈥榗ontroversial鈥� High Court judges appointed during the Awami League鈥檚 15-year rule...
Students under the platform of the Student Movement Against Discrimination on Wednesday announced that they would hold the 鈥楽haheedi March鈥� today across the country marking the one-month of ousting of the Awami League government by the student-led mass uprising...
Many former ministers and key police officials blamed for the mass killings during the student-people mass uprising remain traceless while many top Awami League leaders have been named in genocide and murder cases since the fall of the AL government...
The banking sector is one among many that has plunged into a sorry state during the 15 years of Awami League regime. The sector witnessed major financial scams and a record surge in non-performing loans. The Awami League government pushed the sector into a precarious state through approval for banks, the appointment of partisan people to...
A murder case was filed on Tuesday night against over 430 people, including Selina Hayat Ivy, the former mayor of Narayanganj City Corporation, over the death of Monirul Islam, who was killed during the student-led mass uprising in Siddhirganj...
A group of Bangladeshi expatriates in Europe submitted a memorandum to the European Union, demanding that it should put pressure on the interim government to stop alleged human rights violations and killings in Bangladesh...
Awami League has welcomed the joint operation to recover weapons and ammunition, but urged the authorities to ensure the innocents are not harassed...
The banking sector witnessed a staggering increase in the non-performing loans by Tk 1,90,000 crore in the past 14 years since 2009, when the Awami League-led government assumed...
Activities in the country鈥檚 bureaucratic enclave have remained limited within routine works after the student-led mass protest toppled the past political regime on August 5 and unleashed shockwaves among administrative officers at the secretariat...