President’s brother wins Thakurgaon-1 by-election as Jamaat alleges vote rigging
BNP candidate Mirza Faisal Amin, the younger brother of President Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, has won the Thakurgaon-1 by-election with…
Sajeeb Wazed calls for fair probe into Tahsif Souri’s death, slams propaganda campaign
Sajeeb Wazed, son of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and former ICT advisor, has publicly questioned the circumstances surrounding the…
Jamaat leader seizes Hindu temple land amid ongoing wave of minority attacks
In Nesharabad, Pirojpur, a local Jamaat-e-Islami leader stands accused of occupying the land of a decades-old Hindu temple in a…
ICT-BD Under Scrutiny: Detention without bail and unchallenged charges
Two years after its reconstitution under the army-backed Yunus-led interim government, the Jamaat-controlled International Crimes Tribunals (ICT-BD) have delivered verdicts…
Write For Rights concerned over assaults, arrests, shrinking space for freedom of expression
Human rights organisation Write For Rights has expressed deep concern over what it describes as a shrinking space for freedom…
MP’s son expelled from Jubo Dal after arrest in Chhatra Dal leader’s murder case
Jubo Dal has expelled Nuruzzaman Mintu, son of Member of Parliament Abdul Aziz, from the party after his arrest in…
Woman entrepreneur arrested as she regretted voting for BNP gets bail
A Mymensingh court on Wednesday granted bail to Sathi Akter, a woman entrepreneur from Bhaluka, who had been sent to…
Sheikh Hasina appeals to UN Special Rapporteurs over Awami League Ban
Awami League President and five-time prime minister Sheikh Hasina has submitted a formal communication to United Nations Special Rapporteurs challenging…
Bangladesh unbans Muslim Aid-UK, linked to convicted war criminal Chowdhury Mueen Uddin
The NGO Affairs Bureau has withdrawn the order cancelling the registration of Muslim Aid-UK’s Bangladesh Field Office and reinstated the…
PM’s aide releases video showing Jamaat leaders after meeting Indian officials
Prime Minister’s Political Assistant Rashed Khan has alleged a secret meeting between a high-ranking Indian intelligence official and Jamaat-e-Islami Secretary…
Sheikh Hasina slams BNP government for mass arrests, raids and torture
Bangladesh Awami League President and Bangabandhu’s daughter Sheikh Hasina has strongly condemned and protested the ongoing mass arrests, mass raids…
JMBF condemns mass arrest of 2,774 children in one month
JusticeMakers Bangladesh in France (JMBF) has released a monitoring report documenting the arrest or detention of 2,774 children and adolescents…
US-trained police chief in hot water after ‘crossfire’ threat, slandering journalists
Bangladesh’s Inspector General of Police (IGP), Md Ali Hossain Fakir, has come under fire after suggesting that police could resort…
Bishwa Ijtema: Saad followers blame Hefazat for incitement
Saad-aligned Tablighi Jamaat followers accuse a faction of Hefazat-e-Islam of politicizing the dispute over the Bishwa Ijtema, as they demand…
Are we to be deprived of our right to die and be buried peacefully?
By Anis Alamgir In an independent, sovereign country, why must a man’s wife, daughter, and sister dig his grave by…