The Office of the Chief Prosecutor is set to file the first-ever formal charge with the International Crimes Tribunal after the Eid vacation in a case of crimes against humanity linked to the student-led mass uprising in July and August in 2024.
A case was filed against 431 people, including ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina and former road transport and bridges minister Obaidul Quader allegedly for attempting to murder Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal activist Zakirul Islam during the July-August mass uprising....
Bangladesh Nationalist Party acting chairman Tarique Rahman on Sunday said that if the BNP came to power, it would take all necessary steps to prosecute those who were responsible for killings and torture during the anti-dictatorship movement and the July-August mass uprising...
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...
EVERY nation faces moments that define its future, crossroads where it must decide whether to cling to a broken past or embrace the promise of transformation. Bangladesh stands at such a crossroad. The July mass uprising was more than a protest; it was a declaration that the people refuse to be silent...
Emergency services at the National Institute of Traumatology and Orthopaedic Rehabilitation were suspended for hours on Monday following a clash between the hospital鈥檚 staff and victims of the July-August mass uprising...
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 International Crimes Tribunal on Sunday asked the jail authorities to produce four arrested suspects before the court on April 9 in connection with a case of crimes against humanity committed in Rangpur during the July-August mass uprising.
The interim government has decided to keep quota for family members of the July mass uprising victims 鈥� injured or martyred 鈥� along with children of the freedom fighters and martyred freedom fighters for admission in the...
Three political parties and a student organisation on Friday gave mixed reactions to the formation of a new political party by leaders of the student-led July-August mass uprising that ousted the authoritarian Awami League regime.
The liberation war affairs ministry has published a gazette notification recognising 1,401 individuals injured in the July mass uprising as 鈥楯uly Warriors鈥�.
The interim government on Thursday announced that the government was likely to start from March the distribution of monthly allowance for the victims of July mass uprising...
A group of people who were injured in the July-August mass uprising on Wednesday took position in front of the chief adviser鈥檚 office at Tejgaon in Dhaka city over demand for the removal of Category C from the list the interim government has made for the uprising injured...
A group of leaders of the Student Against Discrimination that led the July-August mass uprising on Wednesday launched a new student organisation, the Bangladesh Ganatantrik Chhatra Sangsad, amid protests and scuffles at the launching venue in Dhaka.
The manifesto and the programmes of the new political party of the students who led the July-August mass uprising are yet to be finalised though the party is going to be floated on February 28.
WHEN the chief advisor professor Muhammad Yunus extended an official invitation to the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights to conduct an independent fact-finding into human rights violations committed during the July mass uprising, it was highly commended by rights organisations and civil society alike, except for those sections of...
The International Crimes Tribunal鈥檚 chief prosecutor Mohammad Tajul Islam on Sunday claimed that the deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina had issued a 鈥榥o treatment, no release鈥� directive to a hospital in Dhaka during the July-August uprising.
FEBRUARY 21, 2025 marks the first observance of the historic language movement since the July 2024 mass uprising in Bangladesh. The groundbreaking political change brought about by last year鈥檚 student-led movement is likely to provide new or more nuanced ways of reflecting on the language struggle of the Pakistan period that, among other things, fundamentally...
The International Crimes Tribunal on Tuesday extended the deadline to April 20 for submitting investigation reports against deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina and 45 others over the allegations of genocide and crimes against humanity committed during the July-August mass uprising...
A group of people injured in the July-August mass uprising blocked the Shahbagh intersection in Dhaka on Monday, demanding the removal of Category C, which was created by the government for their treatment.
A group of leaders of the anti-discrimination student movement that led the student-led mass uprising in July and August in 2024 on Monday announced that they would form a new student organisation.
Gazipur Zila Parishad on Sunday distributed a cheque of Tk 1 lakh each to the families of 9 martyrs in the July-August mass uprising in the district...
Bangladesh Udichi Shilpigoshthi, protesting mob attacks at different book fairs and cultural events, urged the interim government to ensure that no new fascist forces emerge undermining the spirit of the student-led mass uprising of 2024.
Cultural organisation Samageet on Friday celebrated the arrival of Basanta organising a music festival and dedicated it to the student-led mass uprising that ousted Sheikh Hasina-led Awami League regime on August 5 in the past year.
Activists, journalists and families of enforced disappearance victims said on Thursday that the Bangladesh government should cooperate fully with the United Nations in its fair and transparent investigation into the massacre of people, including children, during the July-August mass uprising...
THE horror of the secret detention centres that law enforcement and security forces ran and kept victims of enforced disappearances for months and years during the Awami League regime, toppled in a mass uprising on August 5, 2024, was evident even after modifications were made to the centres. While media reports and the report of the commission of inquiry on...
THE findings of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights report on the student protests and consequent mass uprising in July鈥揂ugust 2024 that it was the prime minister Sheikh Hasina, deposed on August 5 that year, ordered security forces to kill protesters and hide their bodies point to heinous crimes. The report, released in Geneva on February 12, also...
Speakers including poets, activists and academics at a discussion held at the Amar Ekushey Book Fair 2025 on Wednesday, said that slogans during the student-led mass uprising depicted common people鈥檚 language and aspirations...
A Chattogram court on Wednesday granted permission for a three-day jail gate interrogation of former Chattogram Metropolitan Police Commissioner Saiful Islam in the murder case of Hridoy Chandra Tarua, a university student killed during the student-led mass uprising...
The International Crimes Tribunal on Wednesday expressed dissatisfaction over law adviser Asif Nazrul鈥檚 Tuesday statement in which he hoped that the ICT would deliver verdicts in three or four cases of the killings during the July-August mass uprising by October...