The Awami League was not allowed to hold any programme at Bangabandhu Museum in Dhaka鈥檚 Dhanmondi area on Thursday marking the country鈥檚 founding president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's death anniversary...
The Awami League will observe mourning day today, marking the 49th death anniversary of Bangladesh鈥檚 founding president, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman...
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party said on Wednesday that the Awami League leaders and activists were carrying out various kinds of campaigns by organising dramas out of communal attacks in a planned manner...
THE police on August 13 arrested Salman F Rahman, who was the private industries and investment adviser to the deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina, and Anisul Huq, who was law minister in the deposed prime minister鈥檚 cabinet, at Sadarghat in Dhaka reportedly when they were trying to flee using a boat. Student protests for reforms in civil service job...
THIS is disheartening and morally perplexing to see relatives of victims of enforced disappearances holding protests between their visiting the headquarters of the law enforcement agencies seeking information on members of the families while the government has so far taken no decisive steps to end their unimaginable sufferings...
A handful of cultural organisations in the country were attacked by miscreants after the resignation of the Awami League president Sheikh Hasina as prime minister on August 5 and fled to India amid a mass uprising spearheaded by students...
WE MAY find a useful clue on August 15 to the direction the turbulence-stricken Bangladesh is heading in. August 15 marks India鈥檚 Independence Day, but it also became the day in 1975 when the founding father of Bangladesh, Sheikh Mujibur Rehman, was assassinated in a military coup. The Awami League government of Sheikh Hasina Wajed subsequently...
The banking sector is in a bad shape as massive irregularities gripped most banks and non-bank financial institutions in 15 years. The sector ran, as the Centre for Policy Dialogue says, beyond regulatory control while the central bank favoured certain individuals and groups. The think tank says that Tk 92,261 crore was embezzled in 24 major banking scams...
Sajeeb Wazed Joy, son of Bangladesh鈥檚 ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina, on Tuesday claimed the 鈥榮ame mob鈥� is threatening the home affairs adviser of the interim government to suffer the same fate as his mother...
A CLASH between two groups of employees of Islami Bank on August 11 and reported tension in some other banks and financial institutions demand early attention of the authorities. At least six Islami Bank employees were injured as unnamed attackers fired into them. The clash erupted when the bankers appointed before 2017, when the S Alam Group with the...
A COUPLE of advisers to the interim government, which has yet to clearly define its tenure, reforms agenda and the terms of reference of the government installed after the downfall of the authoritarian rule of Sheikh Hasina, have聽 already given a reaction that is reflective of an apparent resent when they have been asked about the issues...
The ousted Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 son, Sajeeb Wazed Joy, urged the people to pay their tributes peacefully to the country鈥檚 founding president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and his family members on August 15 at Dhanmondi 32...
Home affairs adviser to the interim government retired Brigadier General M Sakhawat Hossain on Monday warned the Awami League for not attempting any 鈥榗ounter revolution鈥� as it would cost hundreds of lives...
Former Awami League lawmaker for Noakhali-6 in the recently dissolved 12th Jatiya Sangsad, Mohammad Ali, was arrested on Sunday...
THE reports that Bangladesh Nationalist Party鈥檚 student and youth wings have started grabbing local Awami League party offices after the fall of the authoritarian Awami League regime on August 5 are worrying. As AL activists are on the run to avoid backlash, many of their local offices have been either burnt or grabbed by Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal and Juba Dal...
WHILST some attacks on the Hindus, many actively involved with the Awami League, and their establishments have, indeed, taken place in some areas soon after the downfall of the authoritarian rule of Sheikh Hasina, they have now been contained. The Muslims along with the Hindus immediately started guarding the Hindus and their establishments...
At least 10 people, including five army personnel and journalists, were injured as Awami League leaders and activists allegedly attacked army members and other people while protesting at Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 鈥榝orced resignation鈥� from the post of the prime minister of Bangladesh and demanding her return to the country...
The cash of about taka 7 lakh and a mobile phone looted from the house of Awami League leader and former Barishal mayor Serniabat Sadiq Abdullah was handed over to police...
Local people alleged that two bombs were blasted in front of a Hindu temple in Munshiganj鈥檚 Sirajdikhan upazila by men paid by a local Awami League leader to spread panic...
At least 10 people, including army personnel and journalists, were injured as the ruling Awami League leaders and activists allegedly attacked army members and other people while protesting at the prime minister Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 forced resignation and demanding her return to the country...
The leaders and activists of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party and its associate bodies have allegedly started grabbing local level offices of the Awami League after the fall of the Sheikh Hasina government on August 5 amid a student-led mass uprising...
WE ARE worried. We are worried after the interim government says that there is no need for the citizens to be worried about its tenure. We are worried because people are still in the dark about the intention and the terms of reference of the interim government. An interim government everywhere in the world is a transitional government under...
Sajeeb Wazed Joy, the son of ousted former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, said that the Awami League would participate in the next election under the interim government...
AN INTERIM government has finally been sworn in and portfolios of the government have already been distributed. The government, with Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus as the chief adviser, has 16 other advisers, including two leaders of the student protests that ultimately brought about the downfall of the 15 years of the authoritarian regime of the Awami League...
Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Friday called upon everyone to remain vigilant as the autocratic Awami League which was ousted in the face of a student-led movement was now active with a blueprint of revenge....
Sirajul Islam Chana, 50, chairman of Panchgaon union parishad of Rajnagar upazila in Moulvibazar was allegedly shot dead at Madhur Bazar of the upazila on Friday in a clash between two groups of villagers....
Awami League president and former prime minister Sheikh Hasina will return to the country once democracy is restored, said her son Sajeeb Wazed, according to a report of the Press Trust of India...
The Bangladesh Cricket Board鈥檚 future 鈥� since the resignation of Sheikh Hasina as prime minister of Bangladesh 鈥� has been up in the air as the organisation鈥檚 president and other directors were also part of the former government and ruling party Bangladesh Awami League...
HISTORIANS acknowledge that history doesn鈥檛 quite repeat itself. But it has, in Bangladesh!...
THE incidents of and attempts at jailbreak in a number of districts after the fall of the Awami League government on August 5 point to an alarming law and order. At least six inmates of the Kashimpur central jail in Gazipur were killed and about two dozens were injured as prison guards shot them when the inmates attempted to break free on August 7...
