THE Shahbagh movement of 2013 and the recent July-August uprising stand as defining chapters in the evolving narrative of Bangladesh鈥檚 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鈥檚 quest for justice, its rallying cry demanding the...
Hefazat-e-Islam on Monday refrained from marching towards the office of the Indian assistant high commissioner in Chattogram, despite earlier announcement.
The International Crimes Tribunal on Monday directed prison authorities to produce senior Awami League leaders Amir Hossain Amu and Qamrul Islam before the court on December 4...
Professor M Yaqub Ali of Al-Quran and Islamic studies department and Professor M Jahangir Alam of economics department were appointed as pro-vice-chancellor and treasurer of Islamic University in Kushtia respectively.
Theatre and performance studies department of Jatiya Kabi Kazi Nazrul Islam University staged its production titled The Rules of Love at the Zia Haider Lab of the university in Mymensingh on Sunday...
Poor West Indies catching let Bangladesh off the hook with the visitors closing a curtailed day one of the second and final Test at 69-2 after opting to bat first at the Sabina Park in Jamaica on Saturday.
A group of BNP leaders and activists detained professor PM Shafiqul Islam, vice-president of the central committee of Bangladesh Awami Swechchhasebak League, and handed him over to police on Saturday in Rajshahi...
Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir left Bangladesh for London in the United Kingdomon Saturday morning on a 10-day visit...
Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir is leaving for London today to meet the party鈥檚 acting chairperson, Tarique Rahman.聽
Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Friday said that his party will not accept any anarchy in the name of ISKCON or religion in the country.聽
Leaders and activists of Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh on Friday held a protest rally in Dhaka demanding a ban on the International Society for Krishna Consciousness and protesting the murder of lawyer Saiful Islam Alif in Chattogram.
Information and broadcasting adviser to the interim government, Nahid Islam, on Thursday said that numerous stories of oppression, including the horrifying experiences of Aynaghar remained untold because of the victims鈥� sheer terror.
Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami is in agreement with the national unity proposed by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party for the country鈥檚 sake, Jaamat amir Shafiqur Rahman has said...
A Dhaka court on Wednesday placed former law minister Anisul Huq and former food minister Qamrul Islam on fresh remand in two separate murder cases...
The police detained 27 people till Wednesday evening amid protests in Dhaka as elsewhere over the killing of lawyer Saiful Islam Alif in Chattogram city and clashes with the law enforcers over the arrest of a Hindu organisation鈥檚 leader Chinmoy Krishna Das Brahmachari...
Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said some troublemakers and instigators were making evil attempts to destroy freedom of the press and freedom of expression in the country.
The Hefazat-e-Islam Bangladesh on Tuesday filed a complaint with the International Crimes Tribunal accusing deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina and 49 others of genocide and crimes against humanity during the crackdown on its sit-in at Shapla Chattar in Dhaka on May 5-6, 2013...
The authorities of Islamic University celebrated the 46th University Day on the occasion of the 45th founding anniversary on the campus in Kushtia on Monday...
Former prime minister Imran Khan鈥檚 spouse Bushra Bibi, in a brief address to Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf rally participants, reiterated her call for the party founder鈥檚 release as the convoy from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa entered Islamabad鈥檚 limits on Monday, reports DAWN.com...
Bangladesh batters couldn鈥檛 match the prowess of their West Indian counterparts as they slipped to 269-9 at the end of the third day of the first Test at the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium in Antigua on Sunday...
Information adviser Nahid Islam and local government adviser Asif Mahmud Shojib Bhuyain on Monday suspected a conspiracy behind the clashes between the students of different colleges and other chaotic incidents concurrently happening in Dhaka city and other parts of the country...
The dismissed officers and employees of three private banks owned by the S Alam Group staged a protest by blocking the Chattogram-Cox鈥檚 Bazar highway on Sunday morning, demanding their reinstatement...
Three students of Islamic University of Technology, run and funded by Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, were killed and three others were injured as a bus carrying them became electrified when it came into contact with a high-voltage power cable in Gazipur鈥檚 Sreepur upazila on Saturday morning.
Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami secretary general, Professor Mia Golam Parwar, has said that his party was not in favour of banning any political organisation, including its rivals.
At least seven people were injured in a clash erupted between Jatiyabadi Chhatra Dal, student wing of Bangladesh Nationalist Party, and Islami Chhatra Shibir, student front of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, at Chattogram Polytechnic Institute on Thursday afternoon, over the control of a student dormitory on...
More than 15 people were injured in a clash between activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and Bangladesh Nationalist Party over the vacant acting chairman position of Mohdipur union parishad at Palashbari in Gaibanda district on Wednesday.
Union Bank PLC and First Security Islami Bank PLC have dismissed a total of 456 officers, allegedly appointed under the influence of controversial S Alam Group bypassing established recruitment protocols...
Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia, acting chairman Tarique Rahman, secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir have been invited to join the programme of Armed Forces Day on November 21.
First Security Islami Bank has taken decisive action against officials implicated in money laundering and issuing fraudulent loans to S Alam Group. The bank has withdrawn 194 officials, including 24 branch managers from its Chattogram region, in a sweeping move to address the irregularities...
An additional metropolitan magistrate court in Dhaka on Tuesday allowed the police to take placed Awami League presidium member and former food minister Qamrul Islam in custody for eight days for interrogation in a case of killing during the recent student-mass uprising...