United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk has expressed concern over recent legal amendments that allow “banning political parties, organisations and their activities” in Bangladesh.
Grażyna Baranowska, vice chairperson of the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID), paid a courtesy call on Chief of Army Staff General Waker-Uz-Zaman at the army headquarters
Human chain held in front of PSC over bar on applying to Grade-10 jobs
Workers from a footwear factory staged a demonstration in Gazipur’s Sreepur upazila yesterday, demanding payment of their unpaid salaries for April and May.
Chamber judge of the Appellate Division of SC sent the petition to its full bench for hearing
Standoff over Ishraque Hossain’s mayoral post halts civic services in half of Dhaka
Services resume after halt over mayoral appointment demand
The Chattogram Port unit of the Jatiyatabadi Sramik Dal staged a sit-in in Chattogram today, protesting the government's move to hand over the New Mooring Container Terminal (NCT) of Chattogram Port to a foreign company
Farmers in Kalmakanda upazila of Netrokona staged a demonstration today, demanding the immediate restoration of an electricity connection needed to operate an irrigation pump during the ongoing Boro cultivation season.
Protesters burned an effigy of Home Affairs Adviser Jahangir Alam Chowdhury yesterday, demanding his removal from office over his failure to curb the worsening security situation.
Students and locals block highway in demonstration
Labour sending by Bangladesh Overseas Employment and Services Ltd (Boesl) remained limited mainly to two countries although it has explored more than 20 countries in past 14 years
Local traders in Tongi, Gazipur, staged a demonstration today, demanding the reconstruction of a Bailey bridge over the Turag river on the Dhaka-Mymensingh highway.
Teachers and students from Qawmi madrasas briefly blocked the Cumilla-Sylhet highway in Brahmanbaria today, demanding withdrawal of cases filed against Islamic scholars (Alems) and madrasa students in 2016, 2020, and 2021
One hundred complaints have been lodged with the office of the chief prosecutor of the International Crimes Tribunal over alleged enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings during the 15 years of Awami League rule.
Local residents and members of the Hindu community in Dinajpur’s Fulbari upazila staged a demonstration today, protesting the alleged land grabbing of a Kali Temple in the area
Specialised doctors across the country will observe a two-hour work abstention, termed "Kalam Biroti," for three days from March 8 if the government does not grant their due promotions
