The public transport system, particularly in Dhaka city, has descended into greater turmoil, as the interim government could establish little order in the virtually lawless sector it inherited from the autocratic Awami League regime.聽
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Thursday initiated an inquiry into allegations of appointing 21 people to different cadre positions illegally under the 29th Bangladesh Civil Service examinations during the Awami League regime which was ousted past year...
AN INCREASE in crimes that include murder, robbery, drug dealing, theft and, even, killing suggests that the law and order, which drastically declined soon after the August 2024 political changeover, has not yet been fully restored. The situation is worrying in view of the fact that the interim government, installed on August 8, 2024 after the overthrow of the Awami League...
The National Independent Investigation Commission formed to investigate the 2009 BDR carnage said on Wednesday that fugitive Awami League presidium member Jahangir Kabir Nanak and former lawmaker for Jamalpur-3 constituency Mirza Azam provided their testimonies to the commission via email...
THE second interim report of the commission of inquiry on enforced disappearances, partially made public on June 23, suggests that the culture of impunity has still alarmingly been at play even in the political changeover that happened on August 5, 2024 with the fall of the Awami League government, which had governed the country for about a decade...
The Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami on Tuesday got back its registration with the Election Commission as a political party and its electoral symbol, scale.
The Dhaka Metropolitan Senior Special Judge Court on Sunday allowed the Anti-Corruption Commission to freeze 29 bank accounts of former Awami League lawmaker for Narayanganj-4 constituency Shamim Osman, his family members and their beneficiaries for their alleged involvement in corruption...
Today is the 76th founding anniversary of the Bangladesh Awami League, activities of which have recently been banned until trial of its leaders and activities for their atrocities during the July uprising...
A team of Dhaka Metropolitan Police Detective Branch arrested former independent lawmaker for Munshiganj-3 Mohamamd Faisal Biplob in the capital鈥檚 Manipuripara area on Sunday night.
The Anti-Corruption Commission is carrying out inquiries or investigations into allegations of corruption against at least 20 former vice-chancellors of public universities who served under Awami League regimes.
The interim government on Thursday decided to declare August 5 as 鈥楽tudent-People Mass Uprising Day鈥� to mark the anniversary of the student-led July mass uprising that ousted authoritarian Awami League regime on August 5, 2024.
The International Crimes Tribunal-1 on Thursday appointed senior Supreme Court lawyer AY Mashiuzzaman as amicus curiae to give his legal opinion on June 25 in a contempt of court case against ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina and...
A team of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police detective branch arrested Shamsul Alam, former state minister for planning during the tenure of the ousted Awami League government, in the capital鈥檚 Mohammadpur area on Wednesday night...
Former Awami League lawmaker for Kusthia-1 constituency AKM Sarwar Jahan was arrested at Basila in Mohammadpur in Dhaka city on Tuesday afternoon...
The Commission of Inquiry on Enforced Disappearances鈥� second interim report showed that the median spending of each of the reappeared enforced disappearance victims during the Awami League regime was around Tk 7,00,000 as they had to fight fabricated cases.
THE true extent of the vulnerability of the banking sector, weighed down by a massive volume of non-performing loans, has increasingly come to light following the ouster of the Awami League government. While the previous administration reported that non-performing loans accounted for about 10 per cent of total outstanding loans, recent data from the...
The Dhaka Metropolitan Senior Special Judge Court on Monday imposed a travel ban on 15 people, including former Awami League lawmaker and national cricketer Shakib Al Hasan, over allegations of corruption, embezzlement, illegal investment in the...
Awami League and its associate bodies held processions in the capital鈥檚 Shahbagh and College Gate areas on Monday morning defying the ban on its activities...
The United Kingdom鈥檚 National Crime Agency has frozen properties in the United Kingdom owned by Saifuzzaman Chowdhury, Bangladesh鈥檚 former minister of land, according to a report by Al Jazeera鈥檚 Investigative Unit...
An activist of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party was hacked to death on Tuesday night at Sharsha upazila in Jashore allegedly by activists of the Awami League over previous rivalry...
HORRIFYING details of enforced disappearances and custodial torture in secret detention centres that the deposed Awami League government had for long denied have been substantiated in the second report of the Commission of Inquiry on Enforced Disappearances set up in August 2024. The commission in the report submitted on June 4 said that more than 300 victims of...
The police on Tuesday arrested Awami League Gopalganj district unit general secretary Shahabuddin Azam from Benapole border while he was trying to flee to India.
The High Court on Monday granted interim bail to Jhenaidah district Awami League general secretary Saidul Karim Mintu in connection with the abduction of Jhenaidah-4 lawmaker Anwarul Azim Anar, whose dismembered body was later allegedly recovered in Kolkata, India.
The interim government, which assumed power following the collapse of the Awami League鈥檚 one-and-a-half-decade-long autocratic rule鈥攚idely blamed for devastating the country鈥檚 economy鈥攊s set to commence a new financial year amid high public expectations. However, the general population is increasingly facing hardship due to declining incomes and soaring prices of essential goods...
The Anti-Corruption Commission filed two cases against former Awami League lawmaker from Kishoreganj-2 constituency Nur Mohammad and his wife Ismat Ara Begum on charges of amassing illegal wealth...
The prosecution of the International Crimes Tribunal on Sunday pressed charges against deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina, former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan, and former inspector general of police Chowdhury Abdullah Al Mamun for their alleged involvement in...
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Sunday overturned a 2013 High Court verdict that had declared the registration of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami as a political party illegal, bringing a significant legal shift after more than a decade of proceedings.
Nursing and empowering organisations of poorly-focused farmers, workers, small businesses and students are crucial for reforming the democratic institutions severely affected by the ousted Awami League regime, said discussants at a seminar held on Friday...
A Manikganj court on Friday placed former Awami League lawmaker and noted singer Momtaz Begum on a fresh two-day remand in a case filed over assault and vandalism in Harirampur upazila.
BANGLADESH has registered a surge in suspicious financial transactions and activities during the tenure of the interim government, installed after the fall of the Awami League regime on August 5, 2024, which suggests that it has not done enough to contain money laundering. The most recent annual report of the Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit says that suspicious...
