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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...

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State must take responsibilities of July victims: Saki 

Leaders of the Ganosamhati Andolan on Friday called on all political parties to maintain unity for implementing the spirit of the July uprising for establishing a democratic country and also establishing rights of the people.

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‘July fighters’ continue Shahbagh blockade

A group of protesters, claiming themselves as July fighters and family members of uprising martyrs, continued to block at Shahbagh crossing for the second day on Friday, demanding implementation of the July Charter and the July Declaration.

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Most economy-related expectations unmet

Many expectations, including a sustainable recovery of the country’s damaged economy, have remained unmet in the past one year since the July mass uprising, businesses and economists said.

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Cultural progs decrease across country

Cultural activists have said that the activities of cultural institutions and organisations across the country decreased after the student-led mass uprising in July and August in 2024...

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Measures taken to head off chaos

The police have taken special security measures for 11 days between July 29 and August 8, fearing that the ousted fascist force might create countrywide anarchy during anti-fascist programmes marking the first anniversary of the July uprising...

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Hardly any reform in political parties

One year after the widespread political awakening that stemmed from the 2024 July uprising, experts and political leaders observe that Bangladesh’s political parties have not yet heeded the wake-up call to initiate any meaningful internal reforms...

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UCSI Univ marks 1st July uprising anniv

UCSI University Bangladesh Branch Campus commemorated the first anniversary of the July 2024 uprising with a discussion and photo exhibition, reflecting on the movement’s legacy and the nation’s political direction, in Dhaka’s Banani area on Tuesday...

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Reconstructing killing 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,  then claimed that Sayed had been killed with bricks and firearms by other protesters, video footage shared widely on social media...

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Preserving July uprising history called for

The first-ever international conference on the July uprising was held at the University of Dhaka on Sunday, with researchers and analysts from home and abroad calling for a national commitment to documenting and preserving the history of the 2024 student-led mass uprising...

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University Teachers Link launched

A platform titled University Teachers Link was launched on Saturday, aiming to uphold the dignity of teachers at the country’s public and private universities and advance the spirit of the July-August 2024 mass uprising...

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Establishing discrimination-free society demanded

Vice-chancellor of the Bangladesh Medical University Professor Dr Md Shahinul Alam at a programme in Dhaka on Thursday said that by embodying the spirit of the July uprising, a society and state with non-discrimination and justice must be established in the future...

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Legal notoriety of cases against hundreds unnamed should end

THE legacy of filing cases against hundreds of unnamed people, as has been by successive governments, including the authoritarian Awami League government, regrettably persists. After the Awami League regime was toppled in an uprising, it was expected that the abuse of legal devices would end. But the legacy, unfortunately, continues apace. In the recent examples, the...

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Yunus orders preparing list of people killed in AL attacks before mass uprising

Bangladesh interim government chief adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus on Thursday ordered preparing a list of those killed in attacks by the Bangladesh Chhatra League and other affiliated bodies of Awami League, and also by state forces on the orders of the then government in the 15 years before the July mass uprising in 2024...

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Challenges still remain in banking sector in Bangladesh

Bangladesh’s banking sector has seen some tangible reforms over the past one year under the interim government, but a sustainable recovery of the sector damaged badly during the past government is constrained by some knotty challenges such as rising non-performing loans, outdated regulations and weak institutional capacity, economists said...

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Ex-ASP Kafi remanded in BNP activist murder case

A Dhaka court on Tuesday placed former additional superintendent of police Abdullah Hil Kafi and former detective branch inspector Arafat Hossain on a two-day remand each in connection with the killing of Bangladesh Nationalist Party activist Mamun Khandaker in Ashulia during the July-August mass uprising...