A section of police personnel is still involved in various immoral activities, including extortion, bribery, intimidation and framing innocent people in false cases, even after one year of the July uprising that ousted the Sheikh Hasina-led Awami League regime on August 5, 2024.
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...
South Asia affairs expert Michael Kugelman has said that Bangladesh will go through a major test for a post-Hasina era as the interim government unveiled its plan to host the next national election in February next...
Police Headquarters in a release on Wednesday said that the police submitted charge sheets in 19 cases, including eight murder cases so far, filed over the incidents of July Uprising that toppled Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 authoritarian regime...
One year after the July 2024 student-led mass uprising that overthrew Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 16-year authoritarian regime, investigations into the violence and killings remain slow and scattered.
Two survivors of the 2024 July uprising violence gave testimonies before the International Crimes Tribunal-1 on Monday, accusing deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina and her two co-accused of ordering indiscriminate shootings and denying medical care to the wounded.
Bangladesh today celebrates the first anniversary of the fall of the authoritarian regime of Sheikh Hasina, which was toppled on august 5, 2024 by a student-led mass uprising.
Foreign affairs adviser Md Touhid Hossain on Monday said Bangladesh is yet to receive any positive response from India regarding its request for former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 extradition to face trial at home.
Satirical cartoon exhibition titled 鈥楤idrupe Bidroho鈥� marking the fall of the authoritarian Sheikh Hasina regime is under way at the La Galerie of Alliance Fran莽aise de Dhaka at Dhanmondi in the capital...
The National Citizen Party on Sunday unveiled its manifesto pledging to introduce a new constitution and establish a second republic in recognition of the July uprising that led to the ouster of the authoritarian regime of Sheikh Hasina on August 5, 2024...
An emotional moment swept through the courtroom of the International Crimes Tribunal-1 before the deposition of Khokon Chandra Narmand began as part of the trials of deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina and her co-accused, Asaduzzaman Khan, former home minister, and Chowdhury Abdullah Al Mamun, former inspector general of police, for the crimes against humanity during the 2024 July mass uprising.
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.
Attorney General Md Asaduzzaman on Sunday said people want maximum punishment through legal framework in a crimes against humanity case against Sheikh Hasina, Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal and Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun.
The International Crimes Tribunal-1 on Sunday began the first trial of Bangladesh鈥檚 deposed聽 prime minister Sheikh Hasina and two of her associates 鈥� former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan and former inspector general of police Chowdhury Abdullah Al Mamun -- for their alleged crimes against humanity committed during the July mass uprising in 2024...
The prosecution will deliver its opening statement and testimonies in the case against deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina and two others on charges of crimes against humanity committed during the July mass-uprising 2024 will begin tomorrow.
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...
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...
The doctor who conducted the autopsy of Abu Sayeed said that the police forced him to change the post-mortem report five times, reports Al Jazeera.
Several Bangladeshis who are under the Anti-Corruption Commission scrutiny in Bangladesh appear to have either sold, transferred or refinanced property in the United Kingdom since the past year鈥檚 mass uprising that toppled the Sheikh Hasina-led authoritarian Awami League regime...
Police on Friday said that they had recently submitted charge sheets in 12 cases filed over murders and other charges during the 2024 July uprising that toppled Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 authoritarian regime on August 5 in the year.
Ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina had split the country using the freedom fighters versus Razakars divide and using 鈥楳ujibism鈥� for past 50 years the country was kept divided, while the July uprising was organised against such divisions in society and to build a new Bangladesh, said National Citizen Party convener Nahid Islam...
Dhaka University teachers, belonging to the pro-Bangladesh Nationalist Party White Panel, on Sunday demanded trial of ousted former prime minister Sheikh Hasina and her collaborators among fellow teachers for their role in crackdown on students during the July uprising...
An activist of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Sunday filed a complaint with the office of the International Crimes Tribunal鈥檚 chief prosecutor accusing deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina and 50 others of their involvement in the abduction and enforced disappearance of him and several of his associates...
Former inspector general of police Chowdhury Abdullah Al Mamun, who has been charged with crimes against humanity during the July uprising alongside deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina and former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan but has turned state witness, may face prosecution again if he withholds truth during the trial of the uprising case...
The Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court on Friday sent former law minister Anisul Huq, ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 former adviser Salman F Rahman, and former EXIM Bank chairman Nazrul Islam Mazumder, also the chairman of...
WHEN Sheikh聽Hasina鈥檚 16-year hold on Bangladeshi politics snapped during the student-led uprising in July-August, 2024, few in South Block were prepared for the geopolitical whiplash that followed. After she escaped to India, the interim government of Bangladesh demanded the extradition of Hasina, which India has so far rejected. This, along with hundreds of other...
The International Crimes Tribunal-1 on Thursday charged deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina, her home minister Asaduzzaman Khan, and former inspector general of police Chowdhury Abdullah Al Mamun with crimes against humanity during the 2024 July uprising...
Ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina and the Awami League will not be allowed in Bangladesh for their involvement in committing massacres during the 2024 July uprising, said National Citizen Party convener Nahid Islam in Chuadanga on Wednesday...
Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Thursday said the sooner the election was held, the better it would be for Bangladesh.
Audio recordings analysed by the BBC suggest Bangladesh鈥檚 deposed prime minister聽Sheikh Hasina ordered a deadly crackdown on protests in the past year, allegations for which she is on trial.