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Minority rights conference in Dhaka cancelled, organisers claim 'police obstruction'

Bangladesh, Aug. 22 -- The "National Minority Conference" at the Krishibid Institution Bangladesh auditorium in Dhaka's Khamarbari did not take place, with organisers alleging they faced "police obstr... Read More


Umama Fatema demands change of several polling stations in DUCSU election

Bangladesh, Aug. 22 -- Umama Fatema, vice-president candidate from the Independent Student Unity panel in the Dhaka University Central Students' Union (DUCSU) hall elections, has demanded that some po... Read More


Cox's Bazar man dies in police custody, three policemen withdrawn

Bangladesh, Aug. 22 -- A man has died while in police custody in Cox's Bazar's Chakaria, prompting locals to surround the police station in protest. Three policemen have been withdrawn in the wake of... Read More


Farabi, sentenced to life for writer-blogger Avijit Roy murder, released on bail

Bangladesh, Aug. 22 -- Shafiur Rahman Farabi, who was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of writer and blogger Avijit Roy, has been released on bail. He walked out of Kashimpur High Security ... Read More


BNP leader Mirza Fakhrul, 64 others cleared in 2023 explosives case

Bangladesh, Aug. 21 -- A Dhaka court has discharged 65 people, including senior BNP leaders Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and Mirza Abbas, in a case filed during anti-government protests in 2023. On Th... Read More


CID seizes Tk 5bn in assets of manpower exporter Swapan over Malaysia labour racket

Bangladesh, Aug. 21 -- The Criminal Investigation Department has confiscated assets worth Tk 5 billion from Ruhul Amin Swapon, a controversial manpower exporter and former secretary general of the Ban... Read More


Dumped broken-cut stones in Rangpani 'pose risk, not benefit to nature', say experts

Bangladesh, Aug. 21 -- In Sylhet's Jaintiapur Upazila, along the Sreepur border, authorities have replaced large quarried stones with small and broken-cut stones in the Rangpani River, a naturally for... Read More


Panels 'give up' DUCSU post for July protest face Tonni

Bangladesh, Aug. 21 -- Backpack on her shoulders, stick in hand, bloodied face behind her glasses -- the image of a young woman, hunched over and bruised from a beating, became "the turning point" of ... Read More


From shadows to spotlight: DUCSU election thrusts Shibir back into campus power play

Bangladesh, Aug. 21 -- In Bangladesh's altered political landscape since the July Uprising, campus politics at Dhaka University has taken on a new shape. At the centre of it stands Islami Chhatra Shi... Read More


Public Service Commission expanded to 18 with 3 new members

Bangladesh, Aug. 21 -- The interim government has appointed three new members to the Public Service Commission (PSC). The appointees are former secretary Md Mohiuddin, who is now on post-retirement l... Read More