AN INCREASE in the incidents of robbery and extortion across the country suggests the government鈥檚 deplorable failure to ensure law and order. The interim government, which assumed power on August 8, 2024, after the fall of the Awami League government on August 5, vowed to prioritise the restoration of law and order. While this is understandable that there was...
Dhaka University students on Midnight past Sunday, staged a protest march on campus demanding resignation of home adviser Lieutenant General (retired) Jahangir Alam Chowdhury...
Bangladesh interim government has sent 21 deputy commissioners on compulsory retirement due to their roles in the controversial elections held under the previous Awami League government, said senior secretary of the Public Administration ministry Md Mokhles Ur Rahman on Thursday.
Attorney general Md Asaduzzaman broke down in tears in the High Court on Wednesday while seeking justice for Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology student Abrar Fahad, who was brutally murdered for expressing dissent against the then Awami League government...
Local government, rural development and co-operatives adviser Asif Mahmud Sajib Bhuiyan on Wednesday said that the question of ousted Awami League鈥檚 participation in elections was irrelevant...
THE political landscape of Bangladesh has been irrevocably altered by the events of July and August 2024, when the Awami League, led by former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, responded to student-led protests with brutal repression. Law enforcement, alongside party activists, cracked down on predominantly non-violent demonstrations, culminating...
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...
State security forces and armed Awami League (AL) supporters had abused girls and women sexually during the July uprising to deter their participation in the movement, according to a recent report of the United Nations (UN) rights office.
Local government adviser Asif Mahmud Sajib Bhuiyan has stated that the Awami League should not only be banned but completely eradicated for carrying out a genocide...
Former lawmaker for Jhenaidah 3 constituency and also defence affairs secretary of the ousted Awami League government, retired major general Salahuddin Miazi, was detained by the joint forces from Shyamolchhaya, a private park at Rudrapur village at Jashore Sadar on Tuesday night, said Kazi Babul Hossain officer-in-charge of the Kotwali police...
The Awami League could not enforce its countrywide dawn-to-dusk hartal on Tuesday...
Local government, rural development and co-operatives adviser Asif Mahmud Sajib Bhuiyan on Tuesday said that the Awami League activists who were not involved in any injustice or mass killing or crime...
The auction of 24 luxury vehicles imported by former lawmakers of the ousted Awami League under a duty-free quota was postponed on Monday due to poor response and low bids...
Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) commissioner Sheikh Md Sajjat Ali on Monday assured the city-dwellers not to be panicked for tomorrow鈥檚 (Tuesday) hartal called by the Awami League, saying that police is ready to tackle it in every way.
The UN rights office has said armed Awami League (AL) leaders incited their armed activists including now disbanded Chhatra League (BCL) to resort to violent means to suppress the July August protestors.
The High Court on Sunday dismissed a writ petition challenging the legality of Bangladesh Bank鈥檚 decision to appoint an administrator to oversee Nagad Limited鈥檚 operations after dissolving its board of directors, which was...
Attorney general Md Asaduzzaman on Saturday claimed that the killings of 74 people including 57 army officers during the 2009 BDR mutiny were part of an international conspiracy aiming at prolonging the rule of the then Awami League government.
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.
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...
A student who was injured in a counter attack by local people allegedly over attacking on the ousted Awami League government鈥檚 liberation war affairs minister AKM Mozammel Haque on February 7 night, died while undergoing treatment at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital Wednesday afternoon...
A student who was injured in a counter attack by local people allegedly over attacking on the ousted Awami League government鈥檚 liberation war affairs minister AKM Mozammel Haque on February 7 night, died while undergoing treatment at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital Wednesday afternoon.
Describing the Aynaghar, secret torture cells, as horrific, chief adviser professor Muhammad Yunus on Wednesday said that the deposed Awami League government had established the age of brutality in all sectors and the Aynaghar was the sample of it...
THE misuse of three special energy funds 鈥� set up with money set aside from gas and electricity sales every month to reduce power and energy sector expenses by investing in least cost power production, natural gas exploration and production and energy efficiency 鈥� tells how the Awami League government, toppled in a mass uprising in August 2024, breached laws...
The ousted prime minister and Awami League president, Sheikh Hasina, herself ordered security forces to kill protesters and hide their bodies to quell the student-led protests in July 2024 in Bangladesh, according to a report by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights...
The Gono Odhikar Parishad on Tuesday announced a countrywide programme demanding a ban on and trial of ousted prime minister and Awami League president Sheikh Hasina and other AL leaders allegedly involved in killing during the student-led mass uprising...
A female activist of the Bangladesh Awami League was handed over to police in Rajshahi city on Monday night....
THE unresolved murder of journalist couple Sagar Sarwar and Meherun Runi, found dead in their flat at Pashchim Rajabazar in Dhaka on February 11, 2012, is one of the many cases that have created a public perception that the legal system was working to protect partisan interests of the deposed Awami League regime. As the investigation agency failed to submit the...
Law adviser Asif Nazrul on Tuesday said that verdicts in three or four cases currently under trial with the International Crimes Tribunal regarding the killings during the July-August uprising were expected to be handed down by October.
A Habiganj court has sent former Awami League lawmaker Advocate Majid Khan to jail in a murder case...
Eighty-one people have been arrested in Gazipur on the third day of ongoing drive Operation Devil Hunt...