Category: Dhaka City
In a powerful display of unity, leaders from Bangladesh’s religious and ethnic minority communities gathered at the National Press Club this morning to protest the wave of communal violence that has persisted in the month…
Religious minority groups in Bangladesh are set to hold nationwide human chains and protest marches on Friday, March 13, in a unified stand against a surge in communal violence that has left communities gripped by…
The family lawyer of Tofazzal Hossain, the mentally unstable youth who was lynched at Dhaka University’s Fazlul Huq Muslim Hall in September 2024, has accused the university administration of deliberately prolonging the trial process to…
President Mohammed Shahabuddin sparked widespread discussion and went viral on social media after concluding his speech at a government event with the slogan “Bangladesh Zindabad,” a trademark of the BNP. The remark, delivered on the…
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…
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…
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…
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:…
In a powerful virtual meeting on Saturday, Awami League President and five-time former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina spoke directly to families of party members brutally persecuted by BNP-Jamaat supporters since July 2024 under what she described as…
The jihadist- and army-backed Yunus regime’s crumbling house of lies falls apart with another batch of 12 fake “July warriors” unceremoniously stripped from the government’s fraudulent lists, exposing the depths of deceit peddled by these…
In a powerful audio address delivered on Thursday evening, five-time Prime Minister and Awami League President Sheikh Hasina launched a scathing condemnation of the vicious assault on Dhaka University teachers, including female faculty members, by DUCSU Social…
Even as the Yunus-led puppet regime unleashes a flood of politicised “investigations” to whitewash its own failures and shield Islamist agitators like Hefazat-e-Islam—the very mob that torched buildings, vandalised vehicles, and terrorised Dhaka in 2013—the…
Awami League President, five-time Prime Minister, and Bangabandhu’s daughter Sheikh Hasina has expressed grief and sympathy for those killed, injured, and affected by the most devastating earthquake in recent memory on Friday. In a statement issued on…
Retired military officer Brig Gen (Retd) Md. Sayeedur Rahman has exposed various crimes and misconduct of the RAOWA Club Chairman and Jamaat-e-Islami leader Col (Retd) Mohammad Abdul Hoque and his gang, raising serious concerns about…
Retired military official and interim government Adviser Brigadier (Retd) M Sakhawat Hossain has again raised the issue of 7.62-grade arms and sniper rifles being used during the anti-government movement last year. At a program of…
Dangerous militant leaders linked to al-Qaeda and the Islamic State (ISIS) made history on Friday by chanting slogans boasting their role in spreading jihad after the Juma prayers in Dhaka’s Paltan area. They brought out…
The Jamaat-controlled International Crimes Tribunal (ICT-BD) has received the five formal charges pressed against former prime minister and Awami League President Sheikh Hasina, her home minister and the police chief for mass killings of the…
The alarming rise in the incidents of child rape, gang rape, and even rape of daughters by their fathers in Bangladesh and many other countries will shock any conscious person in any part of the…
Bangabandhu’s 7th March speech, considered to be his unofficial proclamation of independence, came as a response to President Yahya Khan’s announcement on March 6 of a new date of the national assembly. Awami League supremo…
June 5: After a High Court bench ordered the reinstatement of the freedom fighter quota in government jobs, Nurul Haque Nur, the founder of the Chhatra Odhikar Parishad, which launched the quota reform movement in…
As discussions over the alleged role of the US deep state in overthrowing the Awami League government keep growing, many of the mysterious activities that took place during the July-August movement are unfolding every day.…
On February 17, SM Shahed Emon, a student coordinator of the July Uprising, posted a detailed post on Facebook about the role of Jamaat-e-Islami’s student organization Islami Chhatra Shibir and Nobel laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus,…
আজব এক দেশ বাংলাদেশ। ২০০৯ সালে ক্ষমতায় এসে আওয়ামী লীগ সরকার আগের আমলের মতোই অনিয়ম ও দুর্নীতিকে উৎসাহিত করেছিল। চালকদের মাস্তানির কারনে মিটারে ভাড়া নির্ধারণ করা বন্ধ আছে বহু বছর ধরে। মিটার অনুসরণ করা নিয়ে…
রবিবার সারাদিন দেশের সবচেয়ে আলোচিত ঘটনা ছিল শাহবাগ এলাকায় এবতেদায়ী মাদ্রাসার শিক্ষক ও শিক্ষিকাদের উপর পুলিশ কর্তৃক অমানবিক লাঠিচার্জ, জলকামান ও টিয়ারগ্যাস। এত নির্যাতনের পরেও মাদ্রাসা শিক্ষকরা শাহবাগে তাদের অবস্থান জারি রাখেন। সোমবার ভোর ৪টায়…
অন্তর্বর্তীকালীন সরকার দিনকে দিন অসহিষ্ণু হয়ে উঠছে। ব্যক্তি বা গোষ্ঠী বা সংগঠন থেকে সরকারের কাছে দাবী জানালে সেটিকে গুরুত্ব সহকারে না দেখে সরকার বিরোধী বা ফ্যাসিবাদের দোসর ট্যাগ দেয়া এবং পুলিশ বা সরকার সমর্থক সংগঠনের…
ছাত্রদের কোটা আন্দোলনের এক পর্যায়ে ৪ঠা আগস্ট যে জটিল বাস্তবতা তৈরি হয়েছিল এবং দেশের একটি অংশ তাকে টার্গেট করে যেভাবে সমালোচনা করছিল, তখন গণভবনে অবস্থানকারী তৎকালীন প্রধানমন্ত্রী শেখ হাসিনা হতাশা থেকে বার বার বলেছিলেন যে,…
This op-ed was published on September 28, 2024. For decades, Bangladeshi media has played a vital role in upholding the spirit of democracy, human rights, and the fight against corruption as the fourth pillar of…
In an educated, civilized society, we expect every employer and their family members to treat their house help as respectable people because of their hard work — from cleaning to cooking to raising kids, they…
Over the past four decades, Bangladesh has been alarmed by the rise of new synthetic drugs, the number of drug addicts among adolescents and young women, drug smuggling, drug-related crimes, substandard rehabilitation centres, and lax…