THE clash between the Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal, the student wing of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, and the Students Against Discrimination, which led the July-August uprising that toppled the Awami League government, at the Khulna University of Engineering and Technology on February 18 is shocking. The clash, which reportedly broke out over an altercation...
THE interim government appears to be missing out on the chance to walk away from the power and energy policy that the previous Awami League government had continued since 2009 to offer predatory profits to independent and rental power producers. An absence of effective initiatives on part of the interim government, which has been in office for about...
FOUR state-run corporations having counted Tk 282.38 billion in losses in 28 years is a glaring example of inefficiency and mismanagement. The mismanagement in two corporations, the Bangladesh Jute Mills Corporation and the Bangladesh Sugar and Food Industries Corporation, resulted in the closure of 31 mills during the third tenure, 2019鈥�2024, of the...
BEFORE 2024, such unprecedented public protests against the Awami League government would hardly have occurred. However, people have taken to the streets, and a key reason for this, I think, is the deteriorating economy. A worsening dollar crisis and liquidity crunch pushed Bangladesh to seek early financial assistance from the...
THE committee to investigate economic corruption under the deposed Awami League government in its report submitted to the interim government on December 1 termed the energy sector as a 鈥榗onduit of corruption鈥�. The findings of the committee confirm the observation of economists, energy experts, and anti-corruption watchdogs, who have all along urged the government to reform the energy sector and...
Dhaka metropolitan magistrate courts on Wednesday placed 10 people, including five former ministers, of the ousted Awami league government on different terms of remand in different cases...
The High Court on Wednesday dismissed the proceedings in 11 criminal cases filed against former prime minister and Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson聽 Khaleda Zia during the Awami League government...
WOMEN have played a pivotal role in the student protests seeking reforms in civil service job reformation flared into a mass uprising against the authoritarian Awami League government, but their contribution and voice have been largely ignored in the post-uprising political affairs and public narrative...
Bangladesh having slipped three notches in the Global Hunger Index 2024, based on 2019鈥�2023 data, shows that the development model pursued and trumpeted by the toppled Awami League government ignored people鈥檚 most basic necessities. The index, prepared by two European non-governmental organisations and made public on October 11, has...
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Wednesday decided to launch inquiries against 10 former lawmakers from the ousted Awami League government, including former whip Shamsul Haque Chowdhury over allegations of abuse of power, and amassing illegal wealth through corruption...
THE months of July-August 2024 emerged as remarkable on many counts. To say the least, the months marked the end of an era where, allegedly, 鈥� development of underdevelopment鈥� was the order of the day. This was driven by the distorted socio-economic and political policies of the Awami League government. After one and a half...
THE unforeseen collapse of the Awami League government on August 5 sparked new forms of political violence across the country and created fertile ground for religious tensions. Attacks took place on homes and establishments belonging to people of different religions, raising concerns over rising communal violence...
BANGLADESH has entered a critical phase in its history on August 5. The student-mass uprising of July-August is evidence that Bangladeshis will not tolerate fascism. What started off from Dhaka University on July 1 as an innocuous demand for reforms of the quota system for government jobs turned into a massive revolution and ousted 16-year-old Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 despotic Awami League government...
A murder case was filed on Tuesday night against over 430 people, including Selina Hayat Ivy, the former mayor of Narayanganj City Corporation, over the death of Monirul Islam, who was killed during the student-led mass uprising in Siddhirganj...
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Wednesday decided to conduct inquiries against the ousted Awami League government鈥檚 four former lawmakers, including former fisheries and livestock minister Abdur Rahman, over allegations of amassing illegal wealth...
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Wednesday asked leaders and activists of the party not to file cases in a wholesale manner relating to the recent student-people uprising that ensured fall of former prime minister Sheikh Hasina-led Awami League government...
The immediate past Awami League government extended the lifetime of costly rental power plants three times their recommended efficient operational life, paying them around Tk 33,000 crore between 2009 and 2023...
DR MUHAMMAD Yunus, the chief adviser to the interim government, which was sworn in office three days after the fall of the Awami League government on August 5 in the face of a massive student-led mass uprising, finally addressed the nation on August 25 and revealed his government鈥檚 plans about reforms to state institutions...
VICTIM families of the 2009 carnage in the headquarters of the Bangladesh Rifles, now renamed as the Border Guard Bangladesh, term the earlier legal proceedings a mockery of justice, noting that partisan interests of the Awami League government, overthrown on August 5, clouded the investigation. Several hundred border guards took up arms against...
Five retired additional secretaries have been brought back and appointed secretaries on a contractual basis.
THE incidents of and attempts at jailbreak in a number of districts after the fall of the Awami League government on August 5 point to an alarming law and order. At least six inmates of the Kashimpur central jail in Gazipur were killed and about two dozens were injured as prison guards shot them when the inmates attempted to break free on August 7...
Several leftist political parties on Saturday called for the immediate resignation of the Awami League government, holding it responsible for the deaths of over 200 students and civilians during the student protests, demanding quota reform in government jobs...
Cultural activists of 31 cultural organisations on Tuesday demanded the resignation of the Awami League government for killing of students and people during the quota reform movement of the student...
Bangladesh has been exposed to serious multidimensional crisis due to high handedness of the unelected Awami League government in containing a rational movement of the country鈥檚 student community, main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said on Monday...
Communist Party of Bangladesh on Monday demanded fresh general elections for atrocities of the Awami League government to control peaceful movement of the students for quota reformation in government jobs...
Rastra Sankar Andolan, a component of Ganatantra Mancha, on Monday demanded the resignation of Awami League government on charges of killings common people in the name of controlling students鈥� movement for quota system reformation in civil services...
Leaders of the Ganatantrik Chhatra Jote in a press statement on Monday said that although the Awami League government was trying to control the students鈥� movement applying forces and repressions, by doing so the ongoing students鈥� movements could not be controlled...
Leaders of the Left Democratic Alliance, Anti-fascism Left Alliance and some other left parties demanded resignation of the Awami League government for its failure to resolve the ongoing crisis of the country politically and its atrocities to control student protests demanding reform of the quota system in government jobs...
Leaders of Amar Bangladesh Party asserted on Monday that the current Awami League government had no legitimate right to pass the national budget in parliament, as lawmakers were not elected by the people...
Main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general MirzaFakhrul Islam Alamgir on Thursday said that the Awami League government had failed to get the fair water share of the common rivers flowing between Bangladesh and India...