A total of 267 arson attacks, over 15 incidents of attack on trains, let alone over 220 incidents of vandalism of buses trucks and other vehicles, have been recorded till 6 am on Friday during the blockades and hartals called by BNP, Jamaat, and like-minded opposition parties since the end of October. This spate of blockade resulted in the loss...
A series of chilling accounts of those caught red-handed during arson attacks, let alone video footages of gruesome attacks, exposed BNP’s official cover-up of party leaders and activists’ involvement in countrywide torching of buses, trucks and trains, alongside street violence under the pretext of ongoing spate of blockade and hartals. The ...
She gave the nation a new vision – Vision 2021, transforming Bangladesh into a middle-income country. She gave Bangladeshis the dream of Digital Bangladesh- an IT-based country. Four decades into independence, she has brought solace to 3 million martyrs and their families by initiating the much-awaited war crimes trial. Prime Minister Sheikh ...
Seventeen years ago on 21st August, the nation was about to burst against the state-sponsored militancy, in the capital. Ironically, shortly after, the anti-militancy protesters themselves became victims of the country’s most gruesome militant attack masterminded by then BNP-Jamaat government. The anti-militancy campaigners in their hundreds ...
It was a long, dark plot. A chilling conspiracy was getting final touches in an eerie August of 2004, a month that brings to mind the memories of a past bloodbath. The plot for a high-profile assassination was awaiting approval, again. On August 14: At Hawa Bhaban -- the alternative powerhouse of the BNP-led coalition government. At least nin...