Mujib killing day passes off unceremoniously
Leaders and activists of the Awami League and its front bodies did not pay tributes to the country鈥檚 founding president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on his 50th death anniversary...
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AL did not pay tribute to Mujib in Dhanmondi-32
Awami League and its front bodies鈥� leaders and activists did not pay any tribute to the country鈥檚 founding president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, marking his 50th death anniversary.
Ex-AL minister Mosharraf, actress Shomi Kaiser released on bail
Former Awami League minister Engineer Mosharraf Hossain and actress Shomi Kaiser were released from jail on Thursday after securing bail in separate cases linked to the 2024 July uprising.
Govt should make clear rules for state benefits for July martyrs
AN ALLEGEDLY unequal application of the rule for the disbursement of state benefits to the families of the martyrs of the July uprising, which toppled the Awami League regime on August 5, 2024, is worrying as the proposition has sparked off disputes, created resentment and intensified insecurity in the families. Whilst some widows have received the full one-time grant...
Major Sadikul鈥檚 wife gives confessional statement over secret meeting in Dhaka
Sumaiya Tahmid Zafrin, wife of Major Sadikul Haque (currently under military custody), has given confessional statement in a case filed under the Anti-Terrorism Act over a secret meeting allegedly organised by activists of banned outfit Bangladesh Chhatra League in Dhaka.
Mobile exhibition of uprising photographs begins
A two-day mobile exhibition of the 2024 July mass uprising photographs began in the capital Dhaka on Monday with the exhibition travelling the city areas where the autocratic Awami League regime had faced significant resistance during the uprising...
HC defers ex-CJ Khairul鈥檚 bail hearing to Aug 17 amid chaos
The High Court on Monday deferred the hearing on former chief justice ABM Khairul Haque鈥檚 bail petition and plea to quash a murder case against him to August 17, following chaos in the courtroom between pro-Awami League lawyers and government law officers.
AL鈥檚 denial, drama and conspiracy theories
IN A dazzling twist that no playwright could鈥檝e scripted better, the once-mighty Awami League 鈥� yes, the very party that lorded over Bangladesh for 15 and a half uninterrupted years 鈥� has now declared its own fall as the result of a grand, globe-spanning conspiracy. Naturally. Because when authoritarianism topples under the weight of its own hubris, what else could...
AL activities under govt monitoring: CA鈥檚 press secy
Chief adviser鈥檚 press secretary Shafiqul Alam on Sunday said that the government had kept the Awami League鈥檚 activities under monitoring as the interim government had banned the party鈥檚 activities.
AL opens office in Kolkata
Bangladesh Awami League has opened a 鈥榩arty office鈥� and has been operating for months from the office at a commercial complex in a busy suburb on the outskirts of Kolkata in the Indian state of West Bengal, reported BBC Bangla on Friday.
Govt needs better relation with key forces to deliver good polls
THE interim government of the peace Nobel laureate professor Muhammad Yunus has completed one year in office today. Three days after the Awami League鈥檚 authoritarian government of Sheikh Hasina had been ousted from power in the face of a massive popular uprising on August 5, 2024, Yunus took over with three pronounced objectives: the trial of the League leaders...
Dhaka court puts Major Sadique鈥檚 wife Jafrin on 5-day remand
A Dhaka court on Thursday placed Sumaiya Jafrin, wife of Major Sadique, on a five-day remand in a case filed over her alleged involvement in a secret meeting with Awami League leaders and activists...
12 more banned AL men held in city
The detective branch of police arrested 12 more activists of the banned Awami League and its affiliated organisations during a special operation conducted in different parts of the capital in the past 24 hours.
July Declaration
Below is the text of the July Declaration that the chief adviser to the interim government Muhammad Yunus read out at a public gathering on the South Plaza of the National Assembly building in Dhaka on August 5, marking a year of the deposal of the authoritarian Awami League government...
Democratic shift in political culture far from reality
THE much-expected shift in mainstream political culture is far from a reality although it has been a year since the fall of the Awami League regime. A Transparency International Bangladesh study that reviewed the performance of the interim government since August 8, 2024, when the government under review was installed, reports political violence, partisan control of state...
Govt needs to prioritise job creation, poverty reduction
A NUMBER of challenges persist in economic recovery, especially in poverty reduction, employment generation and business environment despite some improvement in the macroeconomic sector in the past year. While it is understandable that the authoritarian and kleptocratic Awami League regime, toppled in a mass uprising in August 2024, left the economy in a shattered...
RU Chhatra Dal to stage protest, display list of pro-AL teachers
The Rajshahi University unit of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal on Monday announced a protest programme against the institution鈥檚 pro-Awami League teachers and officials allegedly involved in suppressing the student movement during the July uprising, demanding their trial.
Habiganj AL leader flees in handcuff from police custody
A local leader of Awami League, who has been accused in nine murder cases, escaped from police custody in handcuffs on Monday in Baniachong upazila of Habiganj district.
Police arrest 26 over AL programme in Dhaka
The Dhaka Metropolitan Police at a press conference on Sunday said that 26 individuals have been arrested so far in connection with a programme organised to train activists of the Awami League in Dhaka under the Bhatara police station on July 8.
Hasina won鈥檛 be allowed to do politics in Bangladesh: Fakhrul
Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Sunday urged all to vow to permanently bar ousted prime minister Sheikh Haisna from the country鈥檚 political arena.
Discussion calls July uprising anniv celebration crude
Academics and activists have urged all to tone down the celebration of the one year anniversary of the July uprising, saying that too many lives were lost in the struggle to overthrow the autocratic Awami League regime, while most of the demands remained unfulfilled...
Army forms court of inquiry against Major Sadikul over 鈥榯raining AL people鈥�
The Bangladesh Army has formed a court of inquiry against an army officer over allegations of his political involvement and a preliminary investigation has found the allegations true, said a press release issued by the Inter Services Public Relation Directorate on Friday.
SC questions legality of Mufti Hannan鈥檚 2nd confession
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Thursday raised question about the legality of a second confessional statement made in the two August 2004 grenade attack cases, by Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami leader Mufti Abdul Hannan in 2007 who was already a death row prisoner when he gave it...
Army major held over training AL people: AHQ聽
The Bangladesh Army on Thursday said that they had taken major Sadikul Islam Sadek into custody over the allegation of training Awami League men, adding that they would take necessary actions if Sadek was found guilty in the investigation.
Charges framed against Hasina, family
Two Dhaka Special Judges Courts on Thursday framed charges against 29 people, including deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina, her sister Sheikh Rehana, and their children, in six cases filed on charges of corruption in allotting Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha...
Another case filed against 5400 AL followers over Gopalganj violence
Another case has been filed against over 5, 400 leaders and activists of Awami League and its associate bodies, including the banned Bangladesh Chhatra League, over the attack on an NCP rally in Gopalganj on July 16, raising the number of cases over it to 13...
Ex-CJ Khairul on 7-day remand
An additional chief metropolitan magistrate court in Dhaka on Wednesday allowed the police to take former chief justice ABM Khairul Haque in custody for seven days for interrogation in a case filed over manipulating the Supreme Court verdict on the caretaker government system...
Accused fled from scene yet to be arrested
The police is yet to arrest another accused Kazi Gaurab Apu in the past two days, who fled from the scene when they arrested five individuals caught red handed from the house of Shammi Ahmed, the international affairs secretary of Awami League, while collecting extortion money on Saturday evening...
CID freezes Tk 17cr of ex-AL MP Bahar, daughter ex-mayor Suchona
The Criminal Investigation Department has frozen Tk 17.40 crore deposited in 17 banks belonging to former Awami League lawmaker for Cumilla-6 AKM Bahauddin Bahar and his daughter former Cumilla city mayor Tahseen Bahar Suchona, facing allegations of acquiring money through cheating, forgery, commission and laundering and receiving money through hundi...
Reconstructing spaces of violence through counter-forensics
ABU Sayed, a student activist at Begum Rokeya University in Rangpur, was killed on July 16, 2024. The death became a flashpoint in what would grow into the July uprising. While the Awami League government, toppled in the uprising,聽 then claimed that Sayed had been killed with bricks and firearms by other protesters, video footage shared widely on social media...
