The judge also handed down two-year jail terms to 17 other accused in the same case

The agreement was signed at the BEPZA Complex in Dhaka by Md Ashraful Kabir, Member (Investment Promotion) of BEPZA, and Heng Zeli, Chairman of Handa (Bangladesh) Garments Co Ltd, representing their respective organisations

At least 70 extortion cases were filed on average every month in the capital in the first six months this year, according to crime statistics shared by the Dhaka Metropolitan Police.

Former inspector general of police Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun has said that most of the decisions made to suppress the July uprising came from political high-ups, including the prime minister herself.

'This administration exists because of us. If you fail to meet our demands, we'll send you home ourselves,' says a protester

The government is oppressing the very groups it relied upon to come to power, including the labourers, women and other minority groups, said former Jahangirnagar professor Anu Muhammad.

Economist Debapriya Bhattacharya yesterday said the time has come for the interim government to announce its exit strategy, clearly outlining what it hopes to achieve before leaving office and what it will leave behind for the next administration.

A clash erupted between supporters of NCP and BNP during a rally protesting an alleged conspiracy targeting LGRD Adviser Asif Mahmud in Cumilla’s Muradnagar yesterday.

The Election Commission yesterday published a draft list of 39 constituencies in 14 districts, including Dhaka, for delimitation.

The deadline set by the consensus commission for finalising the July National Charter expires today, yet several crucial issues remain unresolved.

Any wrong decision by the government could allow fascist forces to be rehabilitated into politics and put the country’s democratic journey at serious risk, said BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman.

At the height of the July uprising, many hospitals turned their backs -- some out of fear, others silenced or forced into complicity. State forces roamed halls of healing, seizing CCTV footage, erasing patient records, and threatening doctors not to treat the wounded.

A Dhaka court yesterday placed former chief justice ABM Khairul Haque on a seven-day remand in a case filed over manipulating the Supreme Court verdict on the caretaker government system.

As the sun rose on July 31, 2024, thousands of students, teachers, and citizens across Bangladesh prepared to join the March for Justice, a countrywide programme organised by Students Against Discrimination.

A landlord was beaten to death allegedly by local BNP activists in Narayanganj’s Araihazar yesterday, following a dispute over unpaid rent for a local party office set up on his property.

On July 18, 2024, tensions flared outside the home of Aklima Akter, an assistant professor at Kabi Nazrul Government College.

The International Crimes Tribunal-2 yesterday set August 6 for delivering its decision on whether to frame charges or discharge 30 accused in connection with the killing of Abu Sayed, a student of Begum Rokeya University, Rangpur, and one of the martyrs of the July 2024 uprising.

Two schoolgirls drowned while bathing in the Narsunda river at Karimganj in Kishoreganj yesterday afternoon.

Another case has been filed over the July 16 attack on the Gopalganj deputy commissioner’s residence, bringing the total number of cases to 14 and the number of accused to 15,735.

Once a proud landowner and hardworking farmer in Daldaha village of Bagethat’s Rampal upazila, Sunil Kumar Mondal now lives on the edge of survival, clinging to the memory of a life that once revolved around his fields and harvests.