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SAD leader Umama rejects US award honouring women of July-August uprising

Umama Fatema, spokesperson of the Students Against Discrimination, has rejected the US State Department's 'Madeleine Albright Honorary Group Award,' which was given in recognition of the courage and bravery of all Bangladeshi women involved in the July-August uprising in 2024...

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ICT probe into Chankharpool atrocities ends

The International Crimes Tribunal’s investigation agency has completed its probe into crimes against humanity committed during the July-August uprising at the Chankharpool area in the capital...

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ATTACK ON UPRISING PROTESTERS: RUET expells 4 BCL leaders, punishes 44

The authorities of Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology on Wednesday took disciplinary actions against 48 students, including the permanent expulsion of four leaders and activists of banned Bangladesh Chhatra League, on various charges, including attacking protesters during the July-August uprising and cheating in examinations...

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Violence should have no place in student politics

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...

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Returned migrants issue 10-day ultimatum

Expatriate workers who were sent back from different countries, including the United Arab Emirates, for supporting the Students’ Movement Against Discrimination in the July-August uprising suspended their protest with a 10-day ultimatum on Monday...

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July mass killing trial could be completed before election: law adviser

The Bangladesh interim government law adviser, Asif Nazrul, on Wednesday hoped that the trial of the ‘July mass killings’ could be completed before the next national election as the interim government was committed to ensuring justice for brutal, inhuman killings committed during the July-August uprising.

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Integrating mental health into health care

THE loss of vision of a large number of people to police firing during the July-August uprising and the subsequent agony have laid bare the pressing need for prioritising mental health in the...

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12-year-old boy shot during uprising dies

Md Arafat, a 12-year-old boy who was shot during the July-August student-led mass uprising, died at Combined Military Hospital in Dhaka on Sunday night.

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July-August uprising: Boy who was shot and burnt

On the morning of August 6, during her frantic search for her adolescent son Sabur, missing since previous noon, Rahen Jannat Ferdousi encountered a rickshaw-van piled with several burnt bodies near Ashulia police station in Savar. 

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Addressing mental health crisis of victims stressed

Speakers, including academics, on Thursday stressed the need for initiatives to address the mental health crisis of those injured and families of those killed during the student-led mass uprising in July and August...

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Revisiting Shahbagh events and July-August uprising

THE Shahbagh movement of 2013 and the recent July-August uprising stand as defining chapters in the evolving narrative of Bangladesh’s 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’s quest for justice, its rallying cry demanding the...

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Sangskriti Bangla for people’s democratic aspirations

The recently launched platform Sangskriti Bangla has formed a 31-member committee with the aim of establishing cultural unity centring on the democratic and humane aspirations of the people stirred up in the July-August uprising...

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Justice for July massacre

THE July-August uprising, which courageously stood against the oppressive Sheikh Hasina-led Awami League regime, led to the fall of a government many considered authoritarian. However, this victory came at a tremendous cost, with thousands of lives lost, many of them young protesters who made the ultimate sacrifice...

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Uprising only transition of power so far: discussion

Writer and professor Salimullah Khan on Friday at a discussion in Dhaka said that the July-August uprising resulted in only a transition of power and nothing new was born completely in the past two months...

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Education-friendly environment

IN THE wake of the July-August uprising, there has been fresh discussion on reforms to the education sector. It is clear that an education-friendly environment is essential to eradicating...

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