Category: History
By Probir Kumar Sarker It was the evening of May 13, 1974. Major (later sacked) Syed Farooq Rahman of the first Bengal Lancers and second-in-command of the armored corps met with a senior US embassy…
বাংলাদেশ জামায়াতে ইসলামীর রাজনীতি প্রসঙ্গে সহকারী সেক্রেটারি জেনারেল ব্যারিস্টার আবদুর রাজ্জাক মার্কিন কর্মকর্তাদের জানিয়েছিলেন, জামায়াতের লক্ষ্য পরবর্তী জাতীয় নির্বাচনে জয়লাভ করা কিংবা সংসদে আসনসংখ্যা বাড়ানোর মতো স্বল্পমেয়াদি রাজনৈতিক সাফল্য নয়। দলটির প্রকৃত লক্ষ্য বাংলাদেশকে একটি…
দুর্নীতির মামলায় জামিন নিয়ে যুক্তরাজ্যে যাওয়ার পর বিএনপি নেতা তারেক রহমানকে যুক্তরাষ্ট্রে প্রবেশে নিষেধাজ্ঞা দেওয়ার সুপারিশ করে ২০০৮ সালের নভেম্বরে তৎকালীন মার্কিন রাষ্ট্রদূত জেমস এফ. মরিয়ার্টি পররাষ্ট্র দপ্তরে একটি গোপন তারবার্তা পাঠিয়েছিলেন। সিনিয়র সাংবাদিক ও…
Al-Qaeda was formed in 1988 by Saudi-origin Osama bin Laden, along with key figures like Muhammad Atef and Abu Ubaidah al-Banshiri, in Peshawar, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. It originated from a network of Arab fighters who…
A couple of months into the inception of his “second revolution,” prior to his assassination on August 15, 1975, President Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was working tirelessly to implement his philosophy for combating corruption, bureaucratic ineptitude,…
In the first couple of years of a newly independent Bangladesh, the Father of the Nation was very optimistic about rebuilding the country with the help of the pro-independence people in his party and others,…
The United Nations (UN) has failed to act to ensure justice for violence since the regime change in Bangladesh on August 5, 2024, and instead it sided with the interim regime to allow impunity for…
Former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said that she did not allow the US to set up a base in Bangladesh to uphold the country’s sovereignty amid geopolitical tensions, like the Iran war. “Today, just…
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…
The inclusion of names of convicted war criminals in the condolence motion and the disrespect for the national anthem during the inaugural session of the 13th Jatiya Sangsad on March 12 have provoked widespread outrage…
Mohammad Ali Arafat, a former State Minister in the Awami League government, has strongly criticized the newly convened 13th Jatiya Sangsad as a “one-sided parliament” dominated by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and Jamaat-e-Islami, following…
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…
Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal (ICT-BD), established in 2010 under the International Crimes (Tribunals) Act of 1973, was originally intended to prosecute local collaborators of the Pakistani army for atrocities committed during the 1971 Liberation War.…
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…
In a brazen display of political opportunism, the BNP-led government under Prime Minister Tarique Rahman has relaunched a welfare program for the poor, shamelessly rebranding it as their own initiative while undermining the very foundations…
The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT-BD) continues to hear high-profile cases involving alleged enforced disappearances under the former Awami League (AL) government, but defense arguments and survivor reappearances have raised serious doubts about whether these qualify…
In his latest video, senior journalist Masood Kamal offered a sharp analysis of Nepal’s freshly concluded parliamentary elections, contrasting them with Bangladesh’s recent political transitions. Highlighting the success of Nepal’s youth-led movement in steering a…
Pakistan loyalist, greedy and treacherous Ziaur Rahman captured power by assassinating the founding father of Bangladesh and then indemnified the killers. He became the first military dictator of independent Bangladesh, killing thousands of armed forces…
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…
The future government of Nepal will be an extraordinary success only if RSP chief Rabi Lamichhane and would-be prime minister Balen Shah get rid of their habitual arrogance, treachery, abuse of power, corruption, and nepotism—allegations…
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.…
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…
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…
A former National Security Intelligence (NSI) officer, who was first temporarily and then permanently dismissed from service, has publicly defended his actions and pledged to disclose further details about alleged irregularities and corruption involving former…