Dipu Moni, Arif Khan put on remand聽
A Dhaka Court on Tuesday remanded former social welfare minister Dipu Moni in police custody for four days and former deputy minister for youth and sports Arif Khan for...
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9 to die, 5 get life-term jail for killing AL leader in Rajshahi
The Rajshahi Speedy Tribunal on Tuesday sentenced nine people, including a former union parishad chairman, to death and five others to life-term imprisonment in a case filed for killing an Awami League leader in 2022...
Hasina sued over RMG worker鈥檚 death
A murder case was filed against ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina and 24 others for killing a garment worker during the mass uprising in the city鈥檚 Adabor area on August 5.
Hearing on writ seeking ban on Awami League Thursday
The High Court has fixed August 22 for the hearing of a writ, filed seeking ban on Bangladesh Awami League and cancellation of its registration as a political party for indiscriminate killing of students and commoners, during the quota reform protest and mass uprising....
Fakhrul urges India to extradite Hasina to Bangladesh to face trial
Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Tuesday urged India to extradite ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina to Bangladesh to face trial.
Over 1000, including RCC ex-mayor Liton, sued in murder case
At least 50 named and 1000 to 1200 unnamed leaders and activists of Bangladesh Awami League, including its presidium member and Rajshahi City Corporation former mayor AHM Khairuzzaman Liton, were sued in a case for killing a student in indiscriminate firing during recent student protests...
41 ex-AL MPs, ministers under ACC scanner
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Monday took decisions to conduct inquiries against the ousted Awami League government鈥檚 45 ministers, state ministers...
8 injured in AL, BNP clash over jhut trade, dominance
At least eight people were injured in a clash between activists of the Awami League and the Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Monday in Gazipur...
Bangladeshis deserve to hear Yunus first
THE interim government that assumed office on August 8 after the fall of the brutally repressive regime of the Awami League has so far been enjoying social and political legitimacy, largely because it is the outcome of an all pervasive student-led mass uprising. The public at large has apparently welcomed the government because of its pledge...
Bangladesh鈥檚 ex-minister Dipu Moni detained
The Dhaka Metropolitan Police on Monday arrested former social welfare minister and Awami League joint general secretary Dipu Moni in Baridhara DOHS area...
Writ seeks ban of AL for mass killing
A writ petition has been filed at the High Court, seeking a ban on Awami League and cancellation of its registration due to the party鈥檚 involvement in the indiscriminate killings of student protesters during anti-discrimination student movement...
Many in hiding with聽wealth info unchecked聽
Many former lawmakers and ministers of the ousted Awami League government, who amassed wealth abnormally, have fled or are now in hideouts since the fall of the Sheikh Hasina...
Full truth of BDR carnage a must
VICTIM families of the 2009 carnage in the headquarters of the Bangladesh Rifles, now renamed as the Border Guard Bangladesh, term the earlier legal proceedings a mockery of justice, noting that partisan interests of the Awami League government, overthrown on August 5, clouded the investigation. Several hundred border guards took up arms against...
Indemnity law repeal comes first in power, energy sector reforms
A MAJOR way to reform the power and energy sector, which has plunged the economy into a serious crisis for the 15 years of the authoritarian regime of the Awami League, toppled on August 5, is to repeal the Quick Enhancement of Electricity and Energy Supply Act 2010 that has all along safeguarded actors and their action in the sector by keeping...
Case filed against Hasina, 47 others for killing youth in N鈥檊anj
A case was filed against Awami League president and former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, general secretary Obaidul Quader, former local lawmaker Shamim Osman and 45 others on charge of killing a youth during the August 5 clash in Narayanganj...
Bangladesh needs uniters, not dividers
MONDAY, August 5, was a history-tossing day for Bangladesh, which made the headlines globally. The Awami League leader prime minister Sheikh Hasina, the country鈥檚 longest-running...
5 retired addl secretaries appointed as secretaries
Five retired additional secretaries have been brought back and appointed secretaries on a contractual basis.
Businessman urges govt to evict grabber, save Ajax Jute Mills聽
A businessman on Saturday sought government鈥檚 intervention in evicting illegal grabbers and reopening Ajax Jute Mills Limited in Khulna.
Case filed against Hasina, Quader over killing of teacher
A murder case has been filed against 101 individuals, including ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina and Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader, in connection with the killing of a teacher during the student movement in Bogura.
3 ex-lawmakers sued in Sherpur for killing of students
Three former lawmakers from Sherpur have been sued in separate cases over deaths of two students during the student movement on August 4, and attack on a BNP leader鈥檚 rice mill.
Former-Natore lawmaker Shimul, 62 others sued over attacks on BNP
Former lawmaker Shafiqul Islam Shimul of Natore-2 constituency and 62 leaders and activists of the Awami League have been sued in connection with attacks on Bangladesh Nationalist Party leaders in Natore...
AL leader MA Latif placed on three-day remand in Chattogram
A Chattogram Metropolitan Magistrate Court placed former lawmakers for Chattogram-11 and Awami League leader MA Latif on a three-day remand on Saturday.
Cartoons call for continued criticism of govt
Cartoonists on Friday called on all to keep criticising the system to reform the state through their works following the student-led mass uprising that led to the fall of the...
Graffiti expresses characters, slogans of mass uprising
Artists and activists from different organisations created graffiti works representing characters and slogans of the student-led mass uprising that led to the fall of the Awami League...
BNP supporter killed in clash with AL in Cumilla
A Bangladesh Nationalist Party supporter was allegedly killed during a clash with Awami League in Cumilla鈥檚 Debidwar on Friday....
Banks asked to freeze accounts of former Natore-2 lawmaker, family
All banks have been instructed by Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit to freeze accounts of Shafiqul Islam Shimul, former lawmaker from Natore-2, his wife Shamima Sultana Jannati and other family members.
Udichi observes mourning day
Bangladesh Udichi Shilpigoshthi at a programme on Thursday demanded justice for vandalising sculptures in the country after the fall of the Awami League government on...
AL holds no mourning programme in most dists
The Awami League on Thursday held no mourning programmes marking the 49th death anniversary of the country鈥檚 founding president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, excepting at...
BNP advises AL people to surrender
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Thursday advised the Awami League leaders to surrender to the police, dropping their conspiracy against the country.
Mashrafe won鈥檛 take legal action against people who vandalised his house
Former Bangladesh cricket captain and Awami League politician Mashrafe Bin Mortaza said he would not take legal action against the people who burned his house in Narail after the fall of the Sheikh Hasina-led government.
