The Awami League and its associate bodies on Monday celebrated the country鈥檚 founding president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman鈥檚 105th birth anniversary on a limited scale at places by holding flash processions, iftar parties and distributing foods.
A Jatiyatabadi Juba Dal activist was allegedly killed, and three others were injured as two factions of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party clashed at Raujan in Chattogram over removal of a banner featuring a former Awami League lawmaker...
Students have staged protests at Khamarbari in the capital, demanding the removal of secretaries and bureaucrats appointed during the tenure of the ousted Awami League government...
The High Court on Sunday confirmed death sentences for 20 former leaders and activists of the Awami League-backed student body Bangladesh Chhatra League on the charge of murdering fellow student Abrar Fahad at a Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology hall in 2019.
The government on Wednesday revised down the 2024-25 financial year budget by 6.6 per cent, or Tk聽53,000 crore, to Tk聽7,44,000 crore because of a shortage of resources, said officials...
A local leader of Awami League, who was in Bogura jail, died while undergoing treatment at the Shaheed Ziaur Rahman Medical College and Hospital under police custody on Tuesday.
THE failure of the law enforcement agencies to arrest almost none of more than 700 prisoners who escaped jails around the fall of the Awami League government, toppled on August 5, 2024 in a mass uprising, is gravely concerning. The prisons directorate at a press conference in Dhaka on March 10 said that the law enforcers could arrest only one of more than...
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Monday approved charge sheets against 29 people, including deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina and her sister Sheikh Rehana, in six cases filed on charges of corruption in allotting...
The remark made by an adviser that mob violence and moral policing will significantly decrease once law and order is fully restored and once people are aware is a redundant remark that only states the obvious. The environment, forest and climate change adviser made the remark at a briefing on March 4 after an advisory council meeting, which discussed the recent spate...
A Dhaka court on Sunday ordered to freeze 44 bank accounts of former industries minister and veteran Awami League leader Amir Hossain Amu, his wife Saida Haque and daughter Sumaia Hossain over graft allegations...
The operations of border haats between Bangladesh and India, dominated by industrial products from the latter, have remained suspended since August after a mass uprising toppled the Awami League regime on August 5, 2024...
The government鈥檚 requisition of buses for people to attend the launch of the National Citizens Party in Dhaka on Friday has sparked criticism...
JULY uprising student leaders on February 28 launched a political party, the National Citizen Party, with the aspirations of establishing a second republic. Coordinators of the Students Against Discrimination platform, formed seeking reforms in public service job reservations, and members of the National Citizens鈥� Committee, another platform formed after the fall of the...
Chief adviser鈥檚 press secretary Mohammad Shafiqul Alam said on Friday that the interim government was committed to investigating all killings that took place during the tenure of the ousted prime minister...
The stock market was politically exploited under the previous Awami League-led government, claimed BNP Standing Committee member and former commerce minister Amir Khasru Mahmud Chowdhury...
Medical officer Nilufa Yasmin on Wednesday accused the Awami League government of derailing her career as a gynecologist by preventing her from completing the FCPS Part-2 training at Dhaka Medical College Hospital in 2009.
WHILE the 2009 carnage in the Bangladesh Rifles, later renamed as Border Guard Bangladesh, remains a shocking incident, leaving an indelible scar, the failure to establish the motive and the plotters of the incident and to bring them to justice is unsettling. The rebellion, which began in the border guard headquarters on February 25 and spilled over to some other sector...
AN INCREASE in the incidents of robbery and extortion across the country suggests the government鈥檚 deplorable failure to ensure law and order. The interim government, which assumed power on August 8, 2024, after the fall of the Awami League government on August 5, vowed to prioritise the restoration of law and order. While this is understandable that there was...
Dhaka University students on Midnight past Sunday, staged a protest march on campus demanding resignation of home adviser Lieutenant General (retired) Jahangir Alam Chowdhury...
Bangladesh interim government has sent 21 deputy commissioners on compulsory retirement due to their roles in the controversial elections held under the previous Awami League government, said senior secretary of the Public Administration ministry Md Mokhles Ur Rahman on Thursday.
Attorney general Md Asaduzzaman broke down in tears in the High Court on Wednesday while seeking justice for Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology student Abrar Fahad, who was brutally murdered for expressing dissent against the then Awami League government...
Local government, rural development and co-operatives adviser Asif Mahmud Sajib Bhuiyan on Wednesday said that the question of ousted Awami League鈥檚 participation in elections was irrelevant...
THE political landscape of Bangladesh has been irrevocably altered by the events of July and August 2024, when the Awami League, led by former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, responded to student-led protests with brutal repression. Law enforcement, alongside party activists, cracked down on predominantly non-violent demonstrations, culminating...
THE clash between the Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal, the student wing of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, and the Students Against Discrimination, which led the July-August uprising that toppled the Awami League government, at the Khulna University of Engineering and Technology on February 18 is shocking. The clash, which reportedly broke out over an altercation...
State security forces and armed Awami League (AL) supporters had abused girls and women sexually during the July uprising to deter their participation in the movement, according to a recent report of the United Nations (UN) rights office.
Local government adviser Asif Mahmud Sajib Bhuiyan has stated that the Awami League should not only be banned but completely eradicated for carrying out a genocide...
Former lawmaker for Jhenaidah 3 constituency and also defence affairs secretary of the ousted Awami League government, retired major general Salahuddin Miazi, was detained by the joint forces from Shyamolchhaya, a private park at Rudrapur village at Jashore Sadar on Tuesday night, said Kazi Babul Hossain officer-in-charge of the Kotwali police...
The Awami League could not enforce its countrywide dawn-to-dusk hartal on Tuesday...
Local government, rural development and co-operatives adviser Asif Mahmud Sajib Bhuiyan on Tuesday said that the Awami League activists who were not involved in any injustice or mass killing or crime...
The auction of 24 luxury vehicles imported by former lawmakers of the ousted Awami League under a duty-free quota was postponed on Monday due to poor response and low bids...