THE judiciary appears to be in need of an urgent course correction as it appears to have shifted its standing with the change in the government. And, such a shift questions the independence of the judiciary that was officially effected on November 1, 2007 from the executive and the legislative based a 12-point directive that the Appellate Division issued...
All contractual appointments of officials, made during the tenure of the recently ousted Awami League government, are set to be cancelled.....
A student who sustained bullet injuries after police and Awami League activists opened fire on the students who brought out a procession defying curfew on Monday demanding the resignation of the then prime minister Sheikh Hasina....
The Gopalganj district unit of Awami League and its associate bodies have pledged to bring back Sheikh Hasina to Bangladesh.
Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus returned to Bangladesh on Thursday to lead the interim government after a student-led uprising ended the 15-year rule of Awami League leader Sheikh Hasina....
THE Sheikh Hasina-led Awami League regime is over after 16 years and we are now in a new phase which is best described as interim. From the look of things, it seems to be heading towards the earlier pre-2007鈥�8 BNP-Jamaat alliance phase...
THE new government that would be installed this evening should establish legal liability for victims of extrajudicial killing, custodial death, torture and enforced disappearances done during the authoritarian Awami League regime for a meaningful political transformation in the days to come. Rights organisations say that security forces have been...
NOW that it has been decided that Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus would lead the interim government and the installation of the government would be held this evening, it is imperative that the composition of the government should reflect a full-scale representation of society, with people from the Bengalis, national and religious minorities...
VIOLENCE, vandalism and looting in many places across the country after the resignation of Sheikh Hasina on August 5 are shocking and unacceptable. The incidents have left a few dozen dead while many establishments and houses have been burnt. Awami League leaders and the police appear to have been particularly targeted by the mob while...
THE deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina has left the country after she resigned. The parliament has been dissolved. The president is now in full charge. But, no interim government has yet been installed to look after the affairs of the state. And, this has left the country with a constitutional and political void, which is not good for any modern-day state...
Three people, including Kayra Upazila Parishad chairman and Upazila Awami League president GM Mohsin Reza, were killed following a mob attack on Monday evening in Khulna....
At least 18 people died after mobs set fire to five-star Zabeer International Hotel, owned by lawmaker and Jashore district Awami League general secretary Shahin Chakladar Monday night....
Most political parties on Monday demanded a democratic transition in politics after the resignation of the Sheikh Hasina-led Awami League government.
People from all walks of life on Monday across the capital took to the streets greeting the fall of Sheikh Hasina-led government with rapture...
Two charred bodies were recovered from the burnt house of Awami League lawmaker Jannat Ara Henry for Sirajganj 2 on Sunday after miscreants had attacked and set fire to the house...
GRAVE violations of rights witnessed during the student movement for reforms in quota for public service leading to the overthrow of the authoritarian regime of the Awami League should be addressed with a credible investigation by holding all perpetrators to justice. When the now-deposed prime minister of the Awami League government...
THE authoritarian government of the Awami League has been overthrown by the democratically oriented student and mass movement and the deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina has fled the country in half an hour after her resignation. Earlier, several hundred people were killed, several thousand people, including student protesters and...
The Awami League president Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 son Sajeeb Wazed Joy said that his mother, who stepped down on Monday, would not comeback in politics...
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina resigned on Monday and fled the country, ending her 15-year rule amid an unprecedented student-led mass uprising against her authoritarian regime.
Bangladesh Army chief Waker-Uz-Zaman on Monday said that an interim government will be formed to govern the country as prime minister Sheikh Hasina has resigned from her post.
Ruling Bangladesh Awami League presidium member Jahangir Kabir Nanak on Sunday urged the party people for resistance, saying that the party had reached the...
The 75th birth anniversary of valiant freedom fighter Sheikh Kamal, the eldest son of the founding president of the country Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, will be observed on Monday...
People from all walks of life have taken to the streets to lend their support for the student protests, which聽in the beginning of July sought reforms in civil service job reservations but have now been on the streets demanding the resignation of the government. The protests which begun with a single demand came up with fresh demands as the government...
At least two people were killed and seven others were injured with gunshots in a clash amongst protesters, police and activists of Juba League, Awami League-backed youth organisation, in Supermarket area in Munshiganj city on Sunday morning...
Several leftist political parties on Saturday called for the immediate resignation of the Awami League government, holding it responsible for the deaths of over 200 students and civilians during the student protests, demanding quota reform in government jobs...
The Workers Party of Bangladesh, a partner in the Awami League-led alliance, called for resolving the ongoing student movements in the country through dialogue with the government...
Awami League general secretary and road transport and bridges minister Obaidul Quader announced gatherings of party leaders and activists across all wards in...
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday called upon the agitating students to sit with her at her official Ganabhaban residence to put an end to violence in the ongoing protests seeking justice for...
THE Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh, which is accused of having actively collaborated with General Yahya鈥檚 regime that killed thousands of people during the liberation war in 1971, has been...
At least 50 people were injured during a clash between the police and protesters in Habiganj on Friday.
