Sheikh Hasina is a Bangladeshi politician who served as the tenth prime minister of Bangladesh from June 1996 to July 2001 and again from January 2009 to August 2024. She is the daughter of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman,the first president of Bangladesh. She served in the position of prime minister for over 20 years,making her the longest-serving prime minister in history of Bangladesh. Thus,she became the world's longest-serving female head of government. Her authoritarian regime ended in self-imposed exile following a series of violent protests in 2024.
The Daily Ittefaq is a Bengali-language daily newspaper. Founded in 1949 by Maulana Bhashani and Yar Mohammad Khan,it is the oldest newspaper,and one of the most circulated newspapers in Bangladesh. The newspaper format is Broadsheet and it is printed by Ittefaq Group of Publications Limited.
Mainul Hosein was a Bangladeshi lawyer and the publisher of the daily newspaper The New Nation. He was chairman of the editorial board of The Daily Ittefaq,whose building was shelled and completely demolished on 25 March 1971 by the Pakistan Army. He served as the law,information and land adviser to the immediate past interim Government of Bangladesh during January 2007 –January 2008.
Daily Janakantha is a Bengali daily newspaper published from Dhaka,Bangladesh. It is owned by Janakantha Shilpa Paribar (GJSP).
The history of Bangladesh (1971–present) refers to the period after the independence of Bangladesh from Pakistan.
Hasan Mahmud is a member of the Awami League and is alleged to be one of the key perpetrators of the July massacre orchestrated and executed by Sheikh Hasina's toppled regime. He is currently under detention of Bangladesh Police for his alleged involvement in crimes against humanity during the Student–People's uprising of 2024.
Nadia Sharmeen is a Bangladeshi journalist. In 2015,she won the US State Department's International Women of Courage Award.
Ekattor TV is a Bangladeshi Bengali-language satellite and cable news television channel owned by the Meghna Group of Industries,commencing transmissions on 21 June 2012,as Bangladesh's first news-oriented television channel broadcasting in full HD. Ekattor is among the most popular news-oriented television channels in the country. The channel broadcasts from its headquarters in the Sohrawardi Avenue of Baridhara.
The Bangladesh Secretariat,also known as Bangladesh Sachibalaya or Old Secretariat,is the administrative headquarters of the Government of Bangladesh,and houses the majority of ministries and government agencies and bodies,located in Segunbagicha,Dhaka. The secretariat can refer to the complex of ministries,or refer to the Bangladesh Civil Service central administration. Its political heads are the ministers while the administrative heads are the Secretaries to the Government. The Secretariat complex was originally constructed as the Secretariat of East Pakistan.
Freedom of the press in Bangladesh refers to the censorship and endorsement on public opinions,fundamental rights,freedom of expression,human rights,explicitly mass media such as the print,broadcast and online media as described or mentioned in the constitution of Bangladesh. The country's press is legally regulated by the certain amendments,while the sovereignty,national integrity and sentiments are generally protected by the law of Bangladesh to maintain a hybrid legal system for independent journalism and to protect fundamental rights of the citizens in accordance with secularism and media law. In Bangladesh,media bias and disinformation is restricted under the certain constitutional amendments as described by the country's post-independence constitution.
Munni Saha is a Bangladeshi journalist and television host who mainly worked at ATN News. She was the news head of ATN News,a leading news broadcasting of Bangladesh.
Mohi Uddin Shamim is a Justice of the High Court Division of the Bangladesh Supreme Court.
Masuda Bhatti is a Bangladeshi journalist who is currently a Commissioner of the Information Commission. Bhatti was known for filing a defamation lawsuit against Barrister Mainul Hosein who is connected with the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party and editor of New Nation daily and Daily Ittefaq.
The following is a list of scheduled and expected events for the year 2024 in Bangladesh. 2024 (MMXXIV) is the current year,and is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar,the 2024th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations,the 24th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century,and the 5th year of the 2020s decade.
The non-cooperation movement,also known as the one-point movement,was a pro-democratic disinvestment movement and a mass uprising against the Awami League-led government of Bangladesh,initiated within the framework of 2024 Bangladesh quota reform movement. The sole demand of this movement was the resignation of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her cabinet. It was the final stage of the wider movement known as the Student–People's uprising.
Gazi MH Tamim is a Bangladeshi lawyer on the Supreme Court of Bangladesh. He is a defense lawyer at the International Crimes Tribunal. He has filed genocide charges against members of the former Awami League government and media personnel at the International Crimes Tribunal after the resignation of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
Mozammel Haque Babu is a Bangladeshi journalist and former CEO and chief editor of Ekattor TV. He was the president of Editors Guild. He was also the vice-president of Association of Television Channel Owners.
Farzana Rupa is a Bangladeshi journalist and former principal correspondent of Ekattor TV.
Nobonita Chowdhury is a Bangladeshi journalist,singer and director of the Preventing Violence Against Women Initiative at BRAC,the largest non-governmental organization in Bangladesh. She was an editor of DBC News and a famous television host.
The Students–People's uprising,also known as the July Revolution,was a pro-democratic mass uprising in Bangladesh. It began as a quota reform movement in early June 2024,led by the Anti-discrimination Students Movement,after the Bangladesh Supreme Court invalidated the government's 2018 circular regarding job quotas in the public sector. The movement escalated into a full-fledged mass uprising after the government carried out mass killings of protesters,known as July massacre,by the late of July. By early August,the movement evolved into a non-cooperation movement,ultimately leading to the ouster of the then-Prime Minister,Sheikh Hasina,who fled Bangladesh to India. Hasina's ouster triggered a constitutional crisis,leading to the formation of an interim government led by the country's only Nobel laureate,Muhammad Yunus,as the chief adviser.
