The Bangladesh Army on Sunday arranged an Iftar party followed by dinner in honour of the victims of July mass uprising at Senamalancha at the Cantonment in the capital Dhaka, according to a press release issued by the Inter Services Public Relation Directorate.
EVERY nation faces moments that define its future, crossroads where it must decide whether to cling to a broken past or embrace the promise of transformation. Bangladesh stands at such a crossroad. The July mass uprising was more than a protest; it was a declaration that the people refuse to be silent...
The interim government has decided to keep quota for family members of the July mass uprising victims 鈥� injured or martyred 鈥� along with children of the freedom fighters and martyred freedom fighters for admission in the...
The interim government on Thursday announced that the government was likely to start from March the distribution of monthly allowance for the victims of July mass uprising...
A group of leaders of the Student Against Discrimination that led the July-August mass uprising on Wednesday launched a new student organisation, the Bangladesh Ganatantrik Chhatra Sangsad, amid protests and scuffles at the launching venue in Dhaka.
WHEN the chief advisor professor Muhammad Yunus extended an official invitation to the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights to conduct an independent fact-finding into human rights violations committed during the July mass uprising, it was highly commended by rights organisations and civil society alike, except for those sections of...
Renowned mime artist Mir Lokman depicted student-led July mass uprising and contemporary issues in a solo mime show at the experimental theatre hall of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy on Thursday...
Sangbadpatre July Obhyutthan, a compilation of the front page of 25 leading newspapers of the country during the July mass uprising by journalist Ahammad Foyez was launched at a programme at the Bangla Academy seminar room in the capital Dhaka on Wednesday...
ATTACKS on the police and police stations in different parts of the country in the past few weeks suggest a worrying law and order situation. The attacks were perpetrated by activists of different political parties, including the ousted Awami League. In a recent incident, activists of the Awami League attacked a police vehicle at Sujanagar in Pabna on February 2 and...
The Democratic Students鈥� Alliance on Wednesday afternoon held a demonstration demanding justice for mass killings during the July uprising, and financial assistance for families of the martyrs...
A presentation and discussion titled 鈥楪raffiti in the July Mass Uprising鈥� was held by the Department of Mass Communication and Journalism at the University of Dhaka on Wednesday...
The government on Saturday formed a 17-member committee for July Mass Uprising Memorial Museum with writer and filmmaker Ebadur Rahman as its convenor...
Speakers including journalists and activists at a discussion in Dhaka said on Monday that the 鈥榩ropaganda machinery鈥� of the Awami League was spreading misinformation and disinformation even after the fall of the authoritarian regime of Sheikh Hasina amid the July mass uprising...
JAMES C Scott, who passed away on July 19 this year, was a prominent political scientist and anthropologist known for his interdisciplinary work platforming the ways ordinary people resist domination, emphasising the value of local knowledge, hidden transcripts of resistance, and the limits of centralised power. To me, the character is vehemently...
THE student-led July mass uprising for a democratic political and economic order, which culminated in the ouster of the brutally authoritarian regime of Sheikh Hasina from power, forcing her to flee the country and take refuge in India, the hegemonic neighbour that patronised Hasina to cling to power without proper people鈥檚 mandate for years, has installed an 鈥榠nterim government鈥�, led by globally known Nobel Peace Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus, to fix the order 鈥� if not fully democratise the state...