The young leaders behind the successful mass uprising against Sheikh Hasina officially launched the National Citizen Party (NCP) yesterday, declaring their vision for a “second republic”.
The state is sending them from one office to another, from one city to another
Crippled and blinded, many July uprising protesters continue to suffer. The one-time assistance -- Tk 5 lakh for martyrs’ families and Tk 1 lakh for the wounded -- that was promised to them soon after the incumbent took over remains entangled in an utterly bureaucratic procedure.
Air pollution has become the biggest killer in Bangladesh, and it's not just some far-off statistic
At least 20 persons were injured yesterday in an attack on an indigenous group and its supporters protesting the removal of a graffiti from textbooks featuring the word “indigenous” (adivasi, in Bangla).
After the Awami League’s fall and the ban on Chhatra League, improvement in the overall atmosphere is quite visible at Dhaka University.
The Students Against Discrimination is set to proclaim on December 31 the July mass uprising as a revolution.
“Sonar Banglay Manob Itihasher Nrishongshotomo Hottakando” (The most brutal massacre in human history of Bengal), read the lead headline in an issue of The Daily Ittefaq published in December 1971.
The young leaders behind the successful mass uprising against Sheikh Hasina officially launched the National Citizen Party (NCP) yesterday, declaring their vision for a “second republic”.
The state is sending them from one office to another, from one city to another
Crippled and blinded, many July uprising protesters continue to suffer. The one-time assistance -- Tk 5 lakh for martyrs’ families and Tk 1 lakh for the wounded -- that was promised to them soon after the incumbent took over remains entangled in an utterly bureaucratic procedure.
Air pollution has become the biggest killer in Bangladesh, and it's not just some far-off statistic
At least 20 persons were injured yesterday in an attack on an indigenous group and its supporters protesting the removal of a graffiti from textbooks featuring the word “indigenous” (adivasi, in Bangla).
After the Awami League’s fall and the ban on Chhatra League, improvement in the overall atmosphere is quite visible at Dhaka University.
The Students Against Discrimination is set to proclaim on December 31 the July mass uprising as a revolution.
“Sonar Banglay Manob Itihasher Nrishongshotomo Hottakando” (The most brutal massacre in human history of Bengal), read the lead headline in an issue of The Daily Ittefaq published in December 1971.
A child steps onto the street from an alley -- only to be shot dead in an instant. A college student lies lifeless in a pool of blood at a city hospital, his phone vibrating with calls from “Maa”. And a “laasher michhil” (procession of bodies) on the streets of Dhaka.
Eighteen-year-old Alif Hassan Rahat, a student from Milestone College in Uttara, dreamed of becoming a rocket engineer.
