Rehabilitation for Urdu-speaking people sought
Speakers, including right activists and Urdu-speaking people, on Sunday demanded permanent rehabilitation of Urdu-speaking people in Bangladesh...
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Restoration of democracy demanded
Different political parties on Thursday observed November 7, Sepoy People Mass Revolution Day, demanding restoration of democratic rule in the country and formation of a bicameral parliament.聽
Dawn-to-dusk blockade observed in Khagrachari
The United People鈥檚 Democratic Front, a Chittagong Hill Tracts-based political organisation, on Thursday observed a dawn-to-dusk road blockade in Khagrachari district protesting against Wednesday鈥檚 killing of its three activists and demanding immediate arrest of the killers...
Four cleaners injured in cocktail explosion at camp for Urdu speaking people in Dhaka
Around four cleaners of Dhaka North City Corporation were injured in a cocktail explosion at the camp for Urdu speaking people in Dhaka on Wednesday morning.
Three UPDF members shot to death in Khagrachari
Three activists of United People鈥檚 Democratic Front, a political organisation based in the Chattogram Hill Tracts, were shot dead at Panchari upazila in Khagrachari on Wednesday...
Kutubuddin appointed as honorary consul of Timor-Leste
Kutubuddin Ahmed has been appointed as honorary consul of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste in Bangladesh, said a press release...
Citizens鈥� Committee to float party
The National Citizens鈥� Committee, a recently launched platform of citizens who were directly involved in the July student-people movement that ensured the fall of the Sheikh Hasina regime on...
Flood-hit people face scarcity of drinking water
The flood situation in Mymensingh division has started to improve although the flood-hit people were still prone to waterborne diseases amid scarcity of drinking water...
Urdu-speaking people demand withdrawal of 鈥榝alse鈥� cases
Urdu-speaking people and leaders on Wednesday protest rally in Mirpur demanded the withdrawal of all cases filed against them in killing during the student-led mass uprising...
Parties scrabble to lay claim to deceased: Citizens鈥� Committee
Leaders of Jatiya Nagarik Committee, an organisation launched by the youths who participated in the recent student-people uprising, on Saturday alleged that different political parties were trying to claim...
Extension of social safety net programmes demanded
Rights activists at a dialogue on Wednesday called on the government to expand its social safety net programmes to reduce extreme poverty and vulnerability of the marginalised people...
Biggest military base empire on earth
US FOREIGN military bases provoke war, pollute communities, and steal land from indigenous peoples...
Sri Lanka鈥檚 new leader says no magic solution to crisis
Sri Lanka鈥檚 first leftist president was sworn in to office Monday and vowed to restore public faith in politics, but said he had no magic solution to the hardships suffered following an unprecedented economic crisis...
Instigators of genocide to be brought to book: Nahid
Information and Broadcasting Adviser Md Nahid Islam on Wednesday said the instigators of the genocide, committed during the student-people uprising, will be brought to book...
Six die of dengue, 865 hospitalised in 24 hours in Bangladesh
Six more people died of dengue in 24 hours till Wednesday morning, raising the number of fatalities from the mosquito-borne disease in Bangladesh to 119 this year...
Work as a team to compete globally, Yunus urges business leaders
Seeking support for building a new Bangladesh, chief adviser professor Muhammad Yunus on Thursday urged the businesspeople to come forward and work together as...
Unresolved Adivasi questions and state reforms
AT LAMA upazila in Bandarban, different companies have been active for a long time in their attempts to grab jum lands and hill ecosystems to establish rubber gardens. One such hill is called 鈥榮oroi hung鈥� 鈥� soroi hill 鈥� in the Mro language. The Lama Rubber Industries Limited exists on 400 acres of forcefully grabbed jum land and hill forest of soroi hung...
Community Bank Bangladesh contributes Tk 30 lakh to CA鈥檚 relief fund for flood victims
Community Bank Bangladesh PLC contributed Tk 30 lakh to Bangladesh interim government chief advisor鈥檚 relief and welfare fund on Tuesday in a bid to stand by the flood-affected people under its corporate social responsibility programme, says a press release.
鈥楤usiness is business鈥� at bustling China-Africa summit
Hundreds of African political and business leaders filed into China鈥檚 Great Hall of the People on Thursday eager to forge new partnerships, sign contracts and make industry connections...
People returning to damaged homesteads on broken roads
The flood affected people in eastern, south-eastern and north-eastern Bangladesh are continuing to suffer as roads, other infrastructures and homesteads are severely damaged in the flood...
UIU stands beside the flood-affected people
The United International University students distributed food and essential items to flood-affected people of Burichang in Cumilla on Wednesday...
Hundreds of villages flooded, six lakh people stranded in Lakshmipur
Around six lakh people have been stranded in Lakshmipur as hundreds of low-lying villages, including four municipal towns of the district have been affected by the unprecedented floods, disrupting daily life, said locals.
Adviser from persons with disability demanded
The Bangladesh Pratibandhi Kalyan Samity and the National Alliance of Disabled Peoples鈥� Organisations on Monday demanded the inclusion of an adviser representing the persons with disabilities in the interim government...
Constitutional recognition of nat鈥檒 minorities sought
Students and youths from ethnic minority communities rallied on Friday, demanding constitutional recognition and protection of the rights of ethnic minorities in the country...
Appointment of Supradip Chakma as adviser opposed
A group of national minority people of the Chittagong Hill Tracts on Friday protested at the appointment of the CHT Development Board chairman Supradip Chakma as adviser to the newly formed interim government...
Thai opposition party relaunches under new name, leader
Thailand鈥檚 main opposition party relaunched on Friday with a new name and leader, after its old version won the popular vote in last year鈥檚 elections but was forced by a court to disband this week...
Low-income people hit hard amid curfew
People from low-income group, including rickshaw pullers and day labourers, in the capital are grappling with a scarcity of work amid the countrywide curfew imposed from midnight past Friday after at least 112 people were killed across the country in July 16鈥�19 in the movement over quota reform in government jobs...
The sentencing of the Hindujas
IN HIS seminal work on modern slavery, Kevin Bales does away with certain, antiquated concepts. In its insidious, older form, one focused on the concept of natal alienation, slaves were chattels and assets, outrightly owned. Each slave system was distinct and protean, if marked by certain universal features...
Specific budget for marginalised people stressed
Speakers, including economists, emphasised the importance of allocating a dedicated budget to support marginalised populations, such as rural women and ethnic minorities, during a discussion on Tuesday...
Proposed budget doesn鈥檛 address woes of ordinary people
POOR allocation for sectors such as social safety, education, health and agriculture as proposed in the budget for the 2024鈥�25 financial year is concerning. The proposed budget would hit the disadvantaged hardest. Economists at a discussion that the Citizen鈥檚 Platform for SDGs organised...