The morale issues of Bangladesh Police
There is no denying that for a long time, the police have been used as a tool of repression in the subcontinent
2m ago
The need for a clear charter for the intelligence agencies
The catch-all definition of national security must not be used as a cloak to hide abuses.
2m ago
The necessity for substantive police reform
For police reform to be substantive, the first order of business should be the enactment of a new Police Act
2m ago
Tackling the bad apples of police
The onus of ensuring malpractice-free management of the police force squarely rests with the police hierarchy.
10m ago
Remembering the Patriarch
Bangabandhu, through an intense process of national consciousness-building, equipped a people to defend their sovereignty.
1y ago
Behind the pre-eminence of bureaucrats
The question is one of making the bureaucracy more responsible and responsive.
1y ago
Mechanisms to hold the police accountable do exist; why aren't we using them?
It is imperative to bring the police under a system of accountability that earns public confidence.
2y ago
August 10, 2017
16th amendment verdict and the judiciary-executive dissonance
At the crux of the debate is the concept of separation of powers and specifically the independence of the judicial organ of the state. It also brings to the fore the aspect of immutability of some features of the Constitution.
August 1, 2017
For a desirable prosecution service
This newspaper has very rightly commented that the government's decision to start a permanent prosecution service by employing professional lawyers is a welcome move. In every criminal prosecution, the State is the complainant on behalf of the aggrieved people and it is thus only proper that public interests do not go by default on account of extraneous factors.
July 21, 2017
Honouring a young hero
Without delving into the mystery of the virtue we call courage, we may perhaps say that courage is ubiquitous and is widely talked about and universally held in high regard.
July 13, 2017
For an inclusive national election
Very recently, a think tank in association with electronic media arranged an animated discussion under the title “Political process and participatory election”, in a roundtable format at a local hotel.
July 6, 2017
The long battle against militancy
The actual and potential damage caused by religious militancy or the so-called 'Islamist violence' can no longer be brushed aside in our parlance. Owing to factors both internal and external, this writer believes that even the pragmatic objective of marginalising religious militancy would actually be an awesome task, not to speak of eliminating religiously motivated violence. The reasons for such a view are grounded in reality.
May 23, 2017
Only social media cannot influence law enforcement
The heightened media response and public outcry prompted by the rape of two girls at a Banani hotel in Dhaka city deserves
April 11, 2017
The unresolved Taqi-Tonu-Mitu cases
Urder has always been the most grievous and heinous of all criminal offences in any society. Every civilised society intends to inflict
March 27, 2017
Independent judiciary a must for democracy
Wise politicians and erudite jurists have time and again observed that an independent judiciary is the very heart of a republic.
February 26, 2017
Babul's ordeal and our faltering institutions
The heart-rending episode of Mohammad Babul's 25-years-long imprisonment and acquittal thereafter without the charge being proved as reported in the media is by all means an indelible slur on our civilised existence.
February 2, 2017
The cost of honesty
The humiliating spectacle of the uprooting of the nameplate of an Assistant Commissioner of Customs at his Chittagong office, allegedly by enraged clearing and forwarding agents, along with the transfer of the said official in indecent haste, has unfortunately not evoked the desired reaction.
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