Category: Culture
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has taken a Bangladeshi named Zobaidul Amin from Malaysia to the United States after arresting him on various charges, including running an international child sexual abuse ring. FBI…
In the pursuit of political interests: a Tk304 crore loan, thousands of workers laid off, and the looting of state assets—Biman Bangladesh Airlines during the era of Dr. MA Momen and the illegal Muhammad Yunus.…
A diehard supporter of the Yunus-led illegal regime, Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) has strongly demanded the cancellation of the appointment of newly appointed Governor Md. Mostaqur Rahman, in the interest of maintaining the independence and…
The BNP-led government has decided to award the Independence Award (posthumously) to former Prime Minister, BNP chairperson and wife of the country’s first military dictator General Ziaur Rahman, Begum Khaleda Zia, for her overall contribution…
Faruk Wasif, a top organizer of the meticulously designed July uprising in civil society, worked as the planning editor of the Daily Samakal before his reward appointment at the Press Institute of Bangladesh (PIB) on…
Ever since the July conspirators took office in August 2024, they have withdrawn their cases and convictions in various cases, filed for corruption, the 10-truck arms smuggling and the August 21 terrorist attack of 2004.…
Nepal’s Gen Z-led protest was triggered by a government ban on major social media platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, X, and YouTube, amid online campaigns against the ruling coalition and the elite class for corruption and…
Over the last six months, since the student uprising that unseated the CPN-Congress coalition government on September 9, 2025, Gen Z has become hopeless after seeing their patrons indulge in the same old political traditions…
Human rights advocacy group Write For Rights has issued an urgent press release calling on the Bangladeshi government to launch a comprehensive crackdown on religious extremists and militants, warning that their growing influence threatens national…
The run-up to the 13th National Parliament election has been marred by intense scrutiny over candidates’ affidavits, which are required to disclose personal details such as profession, income, assets, liabilities, and age. These documents, submitted to…
On February 5, 2013, the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT-BD) announced the verdict in the case against razakar Abdul Quader Molla. But the justice-seekers were disappointed as the special tribunal handed down life-term imprisonment instead of…
In early 2013, Bangladesh witnessed widespread violence orchestrated by Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing, Islami Chhatra Shibir, in response to the International Crimes Tribunal’s proceedings against their leaders for 1971 war crimes. The unrest intensified…
Bangladesh’s recently signed reciprocal trade agreement with the United States faces fresh uncertainty following the US Supreme Court’s landmark ruling, which struck down President Donald Trump’s broad emergency tariffs as unlawful. The decision has prompted…
A sharply worded opinion piece published in the Organiser magazine has accused certain media outlets of abandoning impartiality and transforming journalism into a form of moralistic judgment, particularly in their coverage of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina…
Exiled former Prime Minister and Awami League President Sheikh Hasina has condemned the recent election, excluding her party, as illegitimate and warned of national decline under the current leadership. Those who have come to power…
In a gut-wrenching betrayal of Bangladesh’s liberation struggle and the blood of countless martyrs, the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court—led by Chief Justice Zubayer Rahman Chowdhury—has shamelessly acquitted Khan Akram Hossain, a notorious Razakar…
In the wake of widespread unrest and violence during the July-August 2024 protests, which claimed the lives of at least 44 police officers in targeted attacks and mob violence, the appointment of a new Inspector…
As someone who has long advocated for accountability, truth, and justice in Bangladesh’s fractured political landscape, I find the current spectacle surrounding Jamaat-e-Islami and its Ameer, Dr. Shafiqur Rahman, both predictable and profoundly disappointing. Just…
Human rights advocacy group Write For Rights has issued an urgent call for the United Nations to launch an official, independent investigation into every reported death during the July-August 2024 student-led protests in Bangladesh and…
Mufti Amir Hamza, the Jamaat-e-Islami MP for Kushtia-3 and an Islamic orator with a disgusting history of controversy, has elevated self-promotion to divine levels. On Thursday, after a meeting with officials at Kushtia Medical College, he…
ইফতারে প্রধানমন্ত্রী ও জামায়াতের আমির শফিকুর রহমান একই টেবিলে বসেছিল। তাদের সঙ্গে ছিল বিএনপি ও জামায়াতের নেতারা। পাশের টেবিলে ছিল জামায়াতের নায়েবে আমির, একাত্তরের আল বদর কমান্ডার এটিএম আজহার। মুক্তিযুদ্ধের পর জামায়াতসহ অন্যান্য ধর্মভিত্তিক রাজনৈতিক…
The Kalyanpur militant den operation occurred on July 26-27, 2016, in Dhaka, amid a wave of butcheries by al-Qaeda’s Ansar al-Islam and Islamic State (ISIS). The country was in heightened security concerns following two major attacks: the…
In a grotesque display of selective amnesia and self-preservation, the anarchist elements who orchestrated the July 2024 bloodbath—deliberately targeting and slaughtering police officers starting as early as July 19 to shatter their morale and pave…
The recent killings of three Hindu individuals in separate incidents across Chattogram and Kurigram have deepened grave concerns over the persistent vulnerability of Bangladesh’s Hindu minority to extortion, targeted violence, and land-related aggression—even under the…
By Aminul Hoque Polash The recent removal of Muhammad Tajul Islam from the post of the Chief Prosecutor of the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT-BD) marks a long-overdue reckoning with one of the most egregious abuses of judicial…
By Akhtaruzzaman Azad Meet Md. Sarjis Alam—Panchagarh’s third Nawab, Chief Machado of the northern chapter of the National Citizen Party (NCP), former Chhatra League worker, son of Atwari Upazila Awami League labour secretary Akhtaruzzaman Saju, son-in-law of…
The notorious extortionist Abdur Razzak bin Sulaiman Riyad—a thug who rose through the ranks of the so-called Anti-Discrimination Student Movement (ADSM) and later infested the National Citizen Party (NCP) through its top leadership—has once again…
The BNP-led government under Prime Minister Tarique Rahman has once again shown its swift, decisive, and uncompromising approach to prioritising national interests and cleaning up institutions by immediately removing controversial Bangladesh Bank Governor Dr. Ahsan H.…
A harrowing photograph of a woman tumbling onto the street while desperately clinging to a moving TCB truck has gone viral, once again thrusting Bangladesh’s persistent economic hardships into the spotlight. The image, taken in…
There is clear, reliable, and objective evidence linking the BNP-Jamaat alliance to the BDR massacre. They have never been able to provide a satisfactory answer to any of it. Here are some deeply troubling questions:…