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5 AL members held for July student attack

Police arrested five leaders and activists of Awami League and its wing organisation from Mirpur in Dhaka Friday night in connection with the attack on the anti-discrimination student movement in the city’s Pallabi area...

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Five arrested over attack on coordinators’ car

Five suspects were arrested between Monday and Tuesday, in connection with an alleged robbery and attack on the vehicle carrying eight student leaders of the Student Movement Against Discrimination in Narayanganj’s Sonargaon upazila...

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Police uniform still strikes fear: Sarjis

Sarjis Alam, a coordinator of the Student Movement Against Discrimination and also general secretary of the July Shaheed Smriti Foundation, said that police uniforms continue to strike fear due to the...

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Revisiting Shahbagh events and July-August uprising

THE Shahbagh movement of 2013 and the recent July-August uprising stand as defining chapters in the evolving narrative of Bangladesh’s socio-political history. The two protests, distinct in origins and goals though, explain interwoven paths of public mobilisation, collective memory and the exercise of state power. The Shahbagh movement emerged from a nation’s quest for justice, its rallying cry demanding the...

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Railway employees’ movement disrupts train services

Passengers continued to suffer for the second consecutive day on Monday as the running staff members of the Bangladesh Railway continued their movement for restoration of their previous benefits for working extra hours...

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UAE releases 75 more expats arrested over July protest

The United Arab Emirates on Friday released 75 more Bangladeshi nationals who were arrested for holding protests in that country, expressing solidarity with the Student Movement Against Discrimination in July-August.

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Dr Milon Day observed

Political parties and socio-cultural organisations on Wednesday observed Dr Milon Day in Dhaka as elsewhere in the country by paying tributes to the supreme sacrifice of Shamsul Alam Khan Milon 34 years ago...

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Bullet removed from beggar’s left leg

A bullet from the left leg of Ayesha Begum, an elderly beggar, was removed on Saturday, 110 days after she was shot in the leg during the anti-quota student movement in Munshiganj.

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RSJA protests at attack on uprising leader Ariful

Rastra Sanskar Juba Andolan on Saturday protested at the miscreants’ attack on the July movement leader Md Ariful Islam and demanded punishment for the attackers immediately...

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Countering false narratives

THE latest addition to the ongoing propaganda from domestic and foreign think tanks supporting the ousted Hasina regime regarding Bangladesh’s July-August uprising alleges that it was a military coup disguised as a public movement. This baseless claim aims to alienate America and Western democratic nations from the uprising, thereby enabling...

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RCC dismisses 159 employees

Rajshahi City Corporation dismissed its 159 master-roll employees and served show cause notices on 38 other officials and employees on various allegations including irregularities, corruption and taking a stand against student-led anti-discrimination movement...

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JL activist files case against Hasina, 186 other AL leaders

A Juba League activist has filed a case accusing 187 individuals, including several top Awami League leaders, of orchestrating and carrying out attacks during the anti-discrimination student movement and mass uprising in Chattogram...

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Political parties obstructing measures to ban AL: adviser

The adviser to the Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development and Co-operatives Asif Mahmud Shojib Bhuiyan said that political parties were hindering efforts to ban the Awami League from doing politics on charge of mass killing during the recent anti-discrimination movement...

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Experts emphasise political consensus for constitution reforms

Leading legal and constitution experts and dignitaries on Saturday emphasised the necessity of political consensus for amending or rewriting the constitution, aligning it with people’s aspirations, particularly in the spirit of the July-August Students’ Movement Against Discrimination...

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Siblings of Abu Sayeed quit job of Bashundhara

Ramzan Ali and Abu Hossain, two brothers of Begum Rokeya University’s martyred student Abu Sayeed, who was shot dead by the police during the anti-discrimination student movement, left the jobs of Bashundhara Group...

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Anti-discrimination students clash in Sunamganj, 8 injured

A programme of the Sunamganj district chapter of the Student Movement Against Discrimination was foiled on Thursday as supporters of two factions of the platform clashed, leaving at least eight of the both groups injured...

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Anatomy of AL’s complaint to ICC

THE name ‘Bangladesh’ is not stranger to the International Criminal Court. It was one of the earliest signatories to the ICC Rome Statute and ratified the same on March 23, 2010. Publicly available information shows that the ICC received at least four communications containing complaints (institutionally known as Article 15 Communications or...

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Students form human chain demanding removal of Feni DC

Students on Thursday formed a human chain demanding removal of Feni deputy commissioner Musammat Shahina Akter, accusing her of being an ‘accomplice’ in killings during the anti-discrimination student movement in Feni.

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