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2024 uprising martyrs to be honored as 'July Martyrs' and injured as 'July Warriors'
Farooq-E-Azam, adviser to the Ministry of Liberation War Affairs on stated that the July Directorate will be launched either this week or soon, and the martyrs of 2024 July uprising will be honored as July Martyrs, while the injured will be recognized as July Warriors, with their names officially...
Menon, Inu remanded in mass uprising killing case
A court in Dhaka on Monday placed former minister Rashed Khan Menon, Hasanul Haque Inu, and journalist couple Shakil Ahmed and Farzana Rupa on different terms of remand in a case lodged over the murder of Anwar Hossain Patwari in the citys Mirpur area during the student-led July-August mass...
Tarique Rahman's view exchange with injured photojournalists Monday
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP)s Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman will exchange views with the photojournalists, injured during the July-August uprising, on Monday. He will also provide financial assistance to them and their family members as the chief guest at a function in Dhaka organised by...
Coffin procession demands ban on AL
The namaz-e-janaza for Md Hasan, 19, who was shot and killed in Jatrabari during the July uprising, has been held. Following the prayer, the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement handed over Hasans body to his family, reports Dhaka Tribune. During this time, movement members staged a protest...
UN Human Rights Office to hold press conf on July uprising today
The UN Human Rights Office will hold a news conference on the OHCHR Fact-Finding Report: Human Rights Violations and Abuses related to the Protests of July and August 2024 in Bangladesh. The press conference will be held at the Palais des Nations in Geneva today (Wednesday) at 09:30 local time...
UN to launch July uprising human rights report on Wednesday instead of Thursday
The UN Human Rights Office will launch its fact-finding report on human rights violations during the student-led July uprising in Bangladesh on Wednesday, instead of the previously scheduled Thursday. The UN Human Rights Office will hold a news conference at the Palais des Nations in Geneva on...
Police headquarters calls all to upload uprising photos, footage on official site
The Police Headquarters on Sunday called upon all to upload still images and video footages of the July-August movement on the website andolonerchobi.police.gov.bd. Still images and video footage can be uploaded on the website from February 11 to February 25, 2025, said a press release of the...
Major conspiracy against Yunus underway, Indian media involved: Press Secretary
Press Secretary to the Chief Adviser Shafiqul Alam has alleged a large-scale conspiracy involving substantial financial transactions to tarnish the image of the 24th mass uprising and Professor Dr. Muhammad Yunus on the global stage. He claimed that Indian media is playing a role in this effort....
Artists failed to fulfill their role in last 15 years: cultural affairs adviser
For the past 15 years, freedom of speech was suppressed, and artists failed to play their rightful role, said cultural affairs adviser Mostofa Sarwar Farooki. Speaking at the opening ceremony of the National Street Theater Festival at Central Shaheed Minar on Sunday afternoon, he emphasized the...
Singaporean eye specia0lists begin treating July uprising injured
A team of five renowned ophthalmologists from Singapore has begun treating the patients who suffered eye injuries during the July uprising in the country, report BSS. On Saturday, the first day of their two-day visit, the doctors examined eyes of over a hundred patients at the National Institute...
Questions over unidentified bodies
Sohail Sheikh, the resident of Topngi adjacent to the capital, used to run autorickshaw in Uttara. Amid his working schedule, he participated in mass uprising in July-August. However, hes been out of trace sine August 5. Sohail has two children 2 years old Saimon Sheikh and 7 years oild Sumaiya....
Salman, Anisul, Palak, among 12 shown arrested in fresh uprising cases
A court in Dhaka on Monday showed 12 people, including Salman F Rahman, Anisul Huq and Zunaid Ahmed Palak, arrested in fresh cases lodged over crimes committed during student-led July-August mass-uprising. The other people, who were shown arrested are former inspector general of police (IGP)...
Significance of the 1969 mass uprising in national life is immense: Tarique Rahman
BNP Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman said the main goal of the mass uprising was to return from dictatorship to democracy, multi-party political activities, pluralism and the practice of thought, along with regaining the civil liberties of the people. So, the significance of the 1969 mass uprising in...
UN fact-finding report on July atrocities by mid-Feb: Türk
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk has said that the UN fact-finding report on the atrocities committed during the July-August uprising is in its final stages and will be released by mid-February. The UN High Commissioner made the comments during a meeting with Bangladesh Chief...
July uprising: 3 cops sent to jail for ‘crimes against humanity’
The International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) on Monday sent Assistant Commissioner (AC) of Police Tanjil Ahmed and two constables in cases for involvement in crimes against humanity during the July uprising. A three member bench, led by ICT Chairman Md Golam Mortuza Majumdar, passed the order after...
First gazette of “martyrs” of July 2024 uprising published
The Ministry of Liberation War Affairs has published the first gazette listing the martyrs of the July 2024 uprising on Wednesday which changed the course of Bangladeshs history. A total of 834 names from across the country have been listed in the first gazette. The gazette signed by Deputy...
Ex-president Abdul Hamid sued over July uprising killings
Former president and Awami League politician Abdul Hamid has been accused for the first time in a lawsuit over July-August 2024 uprising killings. The defendant Tahmul Islam, 27, is a BNP activist in Kishoreganj and claims to be officially recognised as an injured in the student-led anti-fascist...
July uprising: 8 Khulna lawyers sent to jail
A Khulna court on Monday sent eight members of Khulna Bar Association to prison in a case filed during the July mass uprising. Khulna Metropolitan Sessions Judge Md Sharif Hossain Haidar passed the order after rejecting their bail petitions. Those sent to jail are -- Al-Amin Ukil, former...
It is vital to ensure corruption-free, fair atmosphere
Ensuring reform was one of the key demands of the July-August uprising. If we look at the post-independence reform initiatives, the record is not bright with regime changes occurring repeatedly in an unstable manner, including in 1991, 1996. The goals of each of these violent political shakeups...
Youth can show Bangladesh the path to freedom
Last years July-August mass uprising is conspicuously different from all the previous forcible regime changes in the countrys history for one particular reason: the spontaneous involvement of people from all walks of life. The July-August mass upsurge saw not only students but also workers and...
Bashundhara Foundation stands by mass uprising martyr Nazmul’s family
The July mass uprising of 2024 is the name of a new phenomenon in the history of Bangladesh. Thousands of people lost their lives in this victory of students and mass people that was achieved through a river of blood. Nazmul Kazi is one of those shiny stars who saved the country by sacrificing...
Eight directors selected to make films on July uprising
The cultural ministry has selected eight directors to make films on the July uprising under its Remembering Monsoon Revolution program, reports UNB. These directors will lead workshops in eight divisions of the country and produce medium-length films with the trained personnel. Suman Rahman,...
Home Affairs Adviser proposes jobs for 100 injured
Home Affairs Adviser Lt Gen (retd) Md Jahangir Alam Chowdhury has proposed offering employment opportunities to 100 individuals injured during the July uprising. This initiative aims to help the injured regain financial stability. While we cannot offer help everywhere to all those injured, we...
July uprising creates scope to work selflessly
Disaster Management and Relief Adviser Faruk E Azam Bir Protik on Sunday said the mass uprising in July 2024 has created an unprecedented opportunity to work selflessly for the country which doesnt come time and again, reports BSS. The martyrs through their sacrifices has entrusted a...
Injured in mass uprising withdraw blockade upon Sarjis’s assurance
Those injured in the student uprising against the autocrat Sheikh Hasina and undergoing treatment at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University Hospital (BSMMU) on Thursday blocked the Shahbagh intersection in the capital demanding better treatment and better quality food in the hospital. Later,...
BB relax forex for July uprising victims
Bangladesh Bank (BB) has announced a relaxation in the foreign exchange release limit for those requiring medical treatment abroad due to injuries they suffered during the July uprising. The Foreign Exchange Policy Department of the central bank issued a circular in this regard on Tuesday,...
What to expect from Tuesday's historic July Revolution Proclamation
The highly anticipated Proclamation of the July Revolution will be unveiled at Dhakas Central Shaheed Minar on Tuesday at 3 PM, marking a pivotal moment in Bangladeshs history. This proclamation aims to articulate the aspirations, goals, and proclamation for the nations future while formally...
July uprising to be declared as ‘July Revolution’ on Tuesday
The Anti-Discrimination Student Movement will formally declare the student-led uprising ofJuly-August 2024, which ousted the fascist Sheikh Hasina regime, as the July Revolution on 31 December at 3pm from the premises of the Central Shaheed Minar in Dhaka. Confirming the news on Saturday night,...