Another case was filed against Bangladesh ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina and her aides on Monday night in Rajshahi, taking the number of cases filed against her to 68 after the fall of her government on August 5 amid a mass uprising led by students...
Planning adviser Wahiduddin Mahmud on Monday said that the interim government had no time to give attention to plans and strategic papers of the just ousted political regime...
The immediate past Awami League government extended the lifetime of costly rental power plants three times their recommended efficient operational life, paying them around Tk 33,000 crore between 2009 and 2023...
THE victims of Aynaghar, where they were held in inhuman conditions during the Awami League regime, have started to recount the horrific ordeals that they have gone through. The victims come from different age groups as well as political and social backgrounds. The victims of enforced disappearances must now get justice...
ON AUGUST 26, the National Committee to Protect Oil, Gas, Mineral Resources, Power, and Port commemorated the lives lost in the movement against an open-pit coal mine in Phulbari, Dinajpur, and expressed their sheer frustration at successive governments鈥� indifference towards the full implementation of the Phulbari Agreement...
DR MUHAMMAD Yunus, the chief adviser to the interim government, which was sworn in office three days after the fall of the Awami League government on August 5 in the face of a massive student-led mass uprising, finally addressed the nation on August 25 and revealed his government鈥檚 plans about reforms to state institutions...
A case was filed against 13 people, including ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina and former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan, on Sunday night with the Mohammadpur police station for killing Mahmudur Rahaman Saikat on July 19...
THROUGHOUT Bangladesh鈥檚 history, the political landscape has been consistently shaped by efforts to establish a dominant-party system. Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, a central figure in the independence movement, who initially championed people鈥檚 rights, ultimately veered towards authoritarianism...
FOLLOWING an unprecedented student-led movement that precipitated the dramatic collapse of the Sheikh Hasina administration, Bangladesh finds itself navigating uncharted waters in an effort to forge a future unlike anything experienced since its independence in 1971. This mass insurrection and its immediate triumph will be remembered as one of...
AUGUST 5 is yet another day added to the history of Bangladesh. On this day, Sheikh Hasina resigned as prime minister amidst a student-mass uprising, ending her 15 years鈥� iron-fist rule. She left Bangladesh and took refuge in India. Events unfolded quickly that day. The fall of the government appears a huge shock to both Awami League and India...
Detectives in a drive arrested Awami League leader and former lawmaker Abdus Sobhan Miah Golap from Tejkunipara in Dhaka on Sunday.
BLANKET murder cases brought against Awami League leaders, activists, aides and even professionals close to them and their detention in such cases after the fall of the Awami regime on August 5 are worrying on a number of counts. Such cases dilute crimes of some people of the deposed Awami government and the criminal high-handedness of the law...
Former Awami League lawmaker for Dhaka-13 Sadek Khan was arrested on Saturday from Paschim Nakhalpara in Dhaka.
A Dhaka Court on Saturday placed former chief whip and six-time Awami League lawmaker ASM Feroz on seven-day remand in a murder case while police on the day...
A Dhaka Court on Friday placed the Workers Party of Bangladesh president and former minister of the Awami League-led government, Rashed Khan Menon, on five-day remand in a...
Quoting some unnamed leaders of the Awami League, Indian newspaper The Indian Express reported on Thursday that four people, including son Sajeeb Wazed Joy, were responsible for the...
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Thursday decided to launch probes against the ousted Awami League government鈥檚 five more former ministers and lawmakers, including...
Eighty two leaders and activists of the Awami League, including its presidium member and Rajshahi City Corporation former mayor AHM Khairuzzaman Liton, have been sued in a case for attacking the house of Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson鈥檚 political adviser Mizanur Rahman Minu in 2018...
A case was filed against 75 Awami League men, including former KCC mayor Talukder Abdul Khaleque, former parliament members - Begum Monnujan Sufian and SM Kamal Hossain with Khalishpur police station on charge of vandalism, arson and looting of Ward no-7 BNP office on August 27...
THE education ministry has decided not to hold the remaining Higher Secondary Certificate and equivalent examinations deferred in the changed reality that had emerged in the middle of July out of the student protests seeking reforms in civil service job reservations. The examinations were scheduled to begin on June 30 and end on August 21...
The unruly behaviour of a section of lawyers allegedly loyal to the Bangladesh Nationalist Party on court premises during the remand hearing of a number of leaders of the deposed Awami League is unacceptable. A section of lawyers and activists, allegedly loyal to the BNP, attacked former social welfare minister Dipu Moni and former sports and youth deputy...
Over a dozen more cases, including three on charge of genocide, were filed on Wednesday against deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina and her aides, taking the number of cases filed against her to 44 since the fall of her government in a student-led uprising on August 5...
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Wednesday said that at least 198 leaders and activists of the party were killed in the recent student-people movement that ensured the fall of Awami League rule under Sheikh Hasina...
A case has been filed against 87 people, including ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina, her sister Sheikh Rehana and Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader in connection with attacks on protesters on August 4 in Sylhet city鈥檚 Bandarbazar area.
The 20th anniversary of the August 21 grenade attack on an Awami League rally in Dhaka passed off silently on Thursday without any programme from the party, left in shatters after a student-led upsurge ended former prime minister Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 15-year rule....
Justice is delayed further for the families of the 24 people killed and the scores of survivors wounded in the August 21, 2004 grenade attack on an Awami League rally at...
The Rajshahi Speedy Trial Tribunal on Tuesday sentenced nine people, including a former union parishad chairman to death and five others to life imprisonment in a case filed for killing an Awami League leader in 2022...
A team of the Rapid Action Battalion on Tuesday arrested a former Awami League lawmaker from Cox鈥檚 Bazar-4 constituency, Abdur Rahman Bodi, at a location in GEC area in Chattogram...
THE interim government has removed representatives of all local government institutions but for the union councils and appointed administrators, giving the absence of chairs and mayors from office as a reason in less than a fortnight after the downfall of the Awami League鈥檚 authoritarian regime that was toppled on August 5...
A murder case has been filed against 350 people, including Awami League president and ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina, former minister Obaidul Quader and former foreign minister Hasan Mahmud for killing auto-rickshaw driver Mehdi, 25, during the anti-discrimination student movement.
