Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer and parliamentary opposition leader Dr Shafiqur Rahman said betrayal of July fighters would not be forgiven by Allah. He made the remarks at a discussion meeting with families of martyrs of the July mass uprising and injured July fighters at about 1 pm on Thursday. He said the referendum verdict would be implemented on Bangladesh’s soil and that his side would never bow before injustice.

Rahman said the July revolution was not intended to remove one party and install another in power. He also said Jamaat had not compromised with autocrats at night while protesting during the day. His remarks linked the party’s stated position to responsibility toward families of those killed and people injured in the uprising.

According to the report, the meeting brought together martyr families and injured July fighters. Rahman reiterated a commitment to implementing the referendum result and maintaining a stance against injustice. No further details about the venue, the referendum, or specific implementation steps were provided in the source.

A report published by Amar Desh on July 30, 2026 recounts how quota reform protests in Chattogram during July and August 2024 developed into a student-public mass uprising. Students from Chittagong University, Chittagong College and other institutions joined the programmes, followed by workers, parents, professionals, businesspeople and activists from political parties. The report says the movement culminated on August 5, when news spread that then-prime minister Sheikh Hasina had resigned and left the country.

According to the report, police operations, attacks and gunfire in Muradpur on July 16 left three people dead and more than 100 injured. Chittagong University student Hriday Chandra Tarua, injured in clashes on July 18, later died while receiving treatment. A curfew was imposed from July 19, mobile internet was shut down, and the army and Border Guard Bangladesh were deployed, but small marches and organisational activities continued.

Large marches and rallies in early August included a one-point demand for the government’s resignation. Preliminary draft data from the Health Ministry and local district administration put the death toll in Chattogram division at 43, with more than 1,738 people injured.

National Citizen Party, or NCP, chief organiser for the northern region Sarjis Alam accused BNP activists of attacking his vehicle in Golapganj, Sylhet, on Thursday. In social-media posts, he alleged that BNP “terrorists” carried out a bloody attack and vandalised the vehicle. He later alleged a second attack at Five Mile Bazar in Sylhet and asked whether Tarique Rahman wanted to become Sheikh Hasina.

Police said stones were thrown at Alam’s vehicle as he travelled toward Kanaighat after completing a programme in Golapganj. The vehicle’s glass was broken, but no one was injured. The police account did not identify the people involved or attribute responsibility to any political party.

The report also refers to an attack on an NCP march in Habiganj on Tuesday. NCP had accused local BNP and Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal leaders and activists in that incident. BNP leaders, however, denied the allegations related to the Habiganj attack.

Khulna University Vice-Chancellor Professor Dr. Md. Rezaul Karim said in an article that the university played a peaceful and disciplined role in Bangladesh’s 2024 July mass uprising. Students used human chains, protest gatherings, marches and awareness programmes to voice support for democratic rights. The article says coordinated programmes with Khulna University of Engineering and Technology, Government BL College, Khulna Medical College and other institutions built wider unity in the south-western region.

The account identifies the death of mathematics student Mir Mahfuzur Rahman Mughdha as a defining sacrifice for the university. It says he was shot while distributing water among people involved in the movement. After his death, students sought an absentee funeral prayer on campus. The article says the then university administration initially hesitated over a positive decision, but the prayer was ultimately held following students’ firm stance and moral support from some teachers.

The university has moved to observe 18 July as Shaheed Mir Mughdha Day, rename its main gate Shaheed Mir Mughdha Toron, and establish a July ’24 Mass Uprising Memory Corner. It also plans to name an inter-discipline football tournament after Mughdha and install Mughdha Water Corners in university buildings.

Hundreds of people in Rampur, Uttar Pradesh, are holding a sit-in demanding withdrawal of an order to demolish 38 buildings at Mohammad Ali Jauhar University. On July 15, the Rampur district administration declared 38 of the 40 buildings on the 250-acre campus illegal and instructed the university to demolish them at its own expense by August 5. It warned that government bulldozers would be used if the deadline was not met.

The state administration has issued an interim stay on the Rampur Development Authority order, but Vice-Chancellor Zahiruddin said it only extended time and did not cancel the order. Samajwadi Party legislator Javed Ali Khan described the move as political retaliation. BJP state spokesperson Rakesh Tripathi rejected that allegation, saying the action was a normal legal process against construction on illegal land and outside approved plans.

The university was founded in 2006 through the efforts of Azam Khan and has about 3,000 students. Nearly half are women, while more than one-third are from the Hindu community. Students and local residents continue their protest, and students say they will pursue legal and social efforts to protect the campus.

Tan​zila Akter Tanu recounts her participation in Bangladesh’s July 2024 anti-discrimination student movement, describing street violence and repeated injuries. She writes that students from Dhaka University and educational institutions across the country mobilised to demand merit as the sole measure of qualification. She identifies the July 16 killing of Abu Sayeed by police gunfire at Begum Rokeya University in Rangpur as a turning point that transformed the movement’s atmosphere.

According to the writer, she joined protests in Jatrabari and Shanir Akhra on July 17, where she encountered gunfire, sound grenades and tear gas. She says she was injured in an attack by Chhatra League members on July 18. On July 19, she went out despite warnings that police and Chhatra League controlled the streets, witnessed a man shot in the forehead, and returned home injured again.

She further writes that police fired at women standing at the front of a procession in Jatrabari’s Kutubkhali area on August 4, leaving her with six bullet wounds. The article says an Appellate Division ruling in late July allocated 93 percent of posts on merit, but the movement later became a one-point demand for the government’s resignation. The writer says a historic mass uprising succeeded on August 5.

Chhatra Dal distributed financial assistance and gift items to families of people described as martyrs of the mass uprising in Lakshmipur on Wednesday. The assistance was provided on behalf of Prime Minister Tarique Rahman as part of a month-long July programme announced by the central Chhatra Dal parliament. Leaders visited the homes of the families of Sabbir, Bijoy and others to deliver the gifts.

A special prayer and munajat were held for the forgiveness of those killed in the July-August mass uprising and for the speedy recovery of those injured. Those present included central vice-president Manjurur Alam Riyad, district convener Abul Barakat Saurav and member secretary Hasibur Rahman Abhi, along with leaders from several local units.

Riyad said BNP does not forget people who work for the country, referring to those injured and killed during the movement. He said the gifts had been sent for the families of the martyrs and were being delivered by Chhatra Dal. He added that BNP would remain beside martyr families.

U.S. President Donald Trump has asked the Supreme Court to overturn a jury’s $83.3 million defamation award to writer E. Jean Carroll, according to a report published July 30. The U.S. Justice Department filed a separate, similar request. It remains uncertain whether the Supreme Court will agree to hear the new appeal.

Trump’s lawyers argue that his statements about Carroll while serving as president were part of his official duties and should therefore receive presidential legal immunity. Federal lawyers for the Justice Department said that without Supreme Court intervention, a sitting president could face nearly $100 million in personal financial liability for comments made within the scope of official responsibilities.

The filings cite the Westfall Act, which provides federal officials legal protection in some civil cases involving specified actions taken while performing official duties. Trump’s private lawyers also invoked the Supreme Court’s 2024 Trump v. United States ruling, which expanded presidential criminal immunity, while seeking to apply similar reasoning in civil litigation. The Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York rejected that argument last year. In June, the Supreme Court declined to hear Trump’s appeal of a $5 million penalty, which had grown to about $5.8 million with interest.

The Communist Party of Bangladesh, or CPB, held a human chain demanding a permanent solution to gas problems to protect industrial factories. The programme took place on Thursday afternoon outside the Titas Gas office in Karwan Bazar, Dhaka.

Participants displayed placards calling for the elimination of gas theft and mismanagement. One of the messages shown at the demonstration said, “Eliminate gas theft and mismanagement.”

Another placard demanded gas in quality cylinders with correct weight and fair prices. The report did not provide details of speeches, the number of participants, or any response from the authorities or Titas Gas.

Abhijit Dipke, founder of the Cockroach Janata Party (CJP), criticised Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and said he should become an influencer rather than remain prime minister. Speaking to journalists in his hometown in Maharashtra on July 30, 2026, Dipke also warned of a larger nationwide movement if FIRs filed against students are not withdrawn.

Dipke’s remarks followed several Instagram videos posted by Modi for young people. He said that if Modi is such a good influencer, he should leave the prime minister’s chair and allow someone else to do the country’s work. The report also cited Congress parliamentarian Priyanka Gandhi’s earlier parliamentary comments that changing camera angles would not win Gen Z support and that the prime minister needed to change his perspective.

The CJP founder also spoke against the recently passed anti-question-paper-leak bill in the Lok Sabha. He argued that passing laws alone would not solve the problem unless they were properly implemented. Referring to a fast-track court announced by the prime minister, Dipke alleged that its first hearing was postponed because a CBI lawyer was absent, questioning the value of announcements without effective follow-through.

The government has appointed 86 deputy attorneys general and 179 assistant attorneys general. A notification on the appointments was issued on Thursday by the Solicitor Wing of the Ministry of Law, according to a report published by Amar Desh Online.

The report refers to two separate lists of appointees, identified as List 1 and List 2. It directs readers to links for viewing those lists, but does not provide the names of the appointees or further details about them in the text.

The report was published on July 30, 2026, at 17:41 and updated at 17:49. It states that further details are forthcoming. No information was provided on when the appointees would assume their duties, the terms of their appointments, or any additional administrative steps beyond the issuance of the notification.

Bangladesh’s Public Works Department has transferred and assigned 767 civil sub-assistant engineers through a lottery for the first time, aiming to ensure transparency, accountability, dynamism in government development work and orderly human-resource management. The lottery was held Thursday at the conference room of Purta Bhaban in Segunbagicha, Dhaka, to determine work locations and branches for engineers across the country’s eight divisions. Housing and Public Works Ministry Additional Secretary Md Sarwar Alam supervised and coordinated the process.

Under the results, 317 engineers were assigned to offices in Dhaka division, 73 to Rajshahi, 133 to Chattogram, 74 to Khulna, 44 to Barishal, 33 to Sylhet, 29 to Mymensingh and 64 to Rangpur. The engineers were posted to different branches at the department’s headquarters, divisional offices and executive engineers’ offices at district level.

Sarwar Alam said the lottery-based process would ensure transparency, neutrality and accountability while introducing an effective, modern and acceptable method of human-resource management. Additional Chief Engineer Kazi Md Firoz Hasan said the first such initiative would help build trust, equality and transparency among engineers. The department plans to complete lottery-based transfers for sub-assistant engineers in its electromechanical branch next week.

Information and Broadcasting Minister Zahir Uddin Swapan urged people to prevent anyone from using the spirit and achievements of the July mass uprising for personal or political gain. He made the appeal on Thursday while chairing a publication launch, photography exhibition and discussion marking July Martyrs’ Day 2026 at the DFP auditorium.

Swapan said people have historically been inspired by the spirit of independence to resist injustice and oppression when those forces have increased in society. He called for collective work to establish justice, democracy and human values while carrying the ideals of July. He also urged that the July spirit not be “sold” in the way he alleged the Awami League had sold the spirit of the Liberation War.

The minister said the enduring spirit of the independence war lies within the spirit of sacrifice of July, and that the Liberation War’s contribution to Bangladesh’s political process cannot be forgotten. He said the public had succeeded in an anti-fascist movement with the anti-discrimination student movement at its forefront and that work to build the country was now under way. Guests inaugurated a July Martyrs’ Day publication and visited the photography exhibition.

National Citizen Party (NCP) northern region chief organiser Sarzis Alam alleged that the Bangladesh Nationalist Party’s silence over repeated attacks on NCP demonstrates its direct or indirect support for those incidents. He made the allegation at a discussion with family members of July uprising martyrs at Golapganj municipality auditorium in Sylhet on July 30. Alam said BNP wanted to silence NCP and called on BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman to clearly state whether NCP would be allowed to speak politically.

Alam said NCP would determine its political strategy if no clear position was given. He urged an end to what he described as a political culture of attacking from behind, saying NCP would strongly resist BNP if it followed the authoritarian political culture he attributed to the Awami League in the past. Referring to a past remark by former prime minister Begum Khaleda Zia, he also warned against creating militants through Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal.

Alam called for ensuring the rights, dignity and government benefits of families of seven July uprising martyrs from Golapganj. He alleged that such families were not properly included in government martyr day events and often failed to receive effective solutions when approaching district commissioners or superintendents of police.

Authorities tightened security in six upazilas of Sylhet over the National Citizen Party’s pre-announced “July March” programme on July 30. District Commissioner Abdullah Al Mamun said five platoons of Border Guard Bangladesh personnel had been deployed, while additional police were also on duty to maintain control of the situation.

Security was reinforced in Kanaighat, Golapganj, Osmaninagar, Companiganj, Gowainghat and Jaintapur, six of Sylhet’s 13 upazilas. The measures follow allegations that Chhatra Dal activists attacked an NCP march in Habiganj on Tuesday. NCP chief coordinator Nasiruddin Patwary, northern region chief organiser Sarjis Alam and several other party activists were injured, according to the report.

After NCP called a protest rally on Wednesday, Chhatra Dal announced a rally at the same venue. The administration imposed Section 144 over concerns of deteriorating law and order, and police stopped NCP convener Nahid Islam and central leaders from travelling to Habiganj; they later returned from Bahubal to Moulvibazar. NCP filed a complaint naming 11 people and accusing another 100 unidentified individuals. It plans marches in three more upazilas on Friday.