Bangadesh politics
Anti-drug crackdown: Govt targets BNP men, says Rizvi
Terming the ongoing anti-drug crackdown across the country as politically motivated, BNP today says that the motive behind such spree is nothing but targeted killing of its party men.
BNP men end hunger strike on police request
Upon request from police, BNP leaders, activists and supporters end their hunger strike one and a half hours after they began it in Dhaka demanding release of their chief Khaleda Zia
No AL membership to any communal element: Quader
Awami League (AL) General Secretary Obaidul Quader asks the party leaders and workers to remain alert so that no communal evil force can intrude into the party during the member collection campaign of AL.
BNP leader Rafiqul freed on bail
BNP Standing Committee member Barrister Rafiqul Islam Mia is released from Dhaka Central Jail on bail this evening.
PLEASURE IS ALL MINE / Missiles, politics and cascading effects
If there is a generic confusion at the top in terms of decision-making to fight fundamentalism of all hues and stripes this will have a cascading effect on to the bottom.
KNOT SO TRUE / NO TEARS
Whether you question the trial, the proceedings, or the witnesses is for you to judge, but it is also upon us to share with you tales of our nights of watching shells killing our neighbours, of our homes turning into ashes.
Does our constitution need reform?
A total of 16 amendments have been brought to our constitution over the past four decades. But it is difficult to find any amendment which was actually aimed at improving the constitution's quality, enhancing people's rights and paving the way for flourishing democracy.
PLEASURE IS ALL MINE / A ceasefire between the battling Begums!
Another twist in the tale is that where previously Sheikh Hasina wanted to draw Khaleda Zia into elections on her terms, now it is the latter who is trying to draw the Prime Minister into calling a snap election.
STRATEGICALLY SPEAKING / To 'kill' a political party!
A political party cannot be merely reactive to political events and even much less suffer from duality of command exacerbated by string pulling by the absentee landlord.
MP’s son Rony on 2-day fresh remand
A Dhaka court places Bakhtiar Alam Rony, son of Awami League lawmaker Pinu Khan, on a two-day fresh remand in a case filed against him in connection with the shooting and killing of two people in Dhaka’s New Eskaton area on April 14.
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It's a government-made drama
Dhaka's Primacy: Rome without Empire?
The removal of elected mayors and councillors does not bode well for Bangladesh's local governance system.
Does political unrest have a positive side?
I won't be surprised if the title of the article raises many eyebrows.
Bangladesh's Intractable Political Woes
IN his book The Art of Positive Leadership: Becoming a Person Worth Following, leadership expert Retired Air Force General John E. Michel states that...
PM acted against creating level-playing field, alleges mayor aspirant
A mayor aspirant in Dhaka alleges that PM Sheikh Hasina acted against level-playing field in the upcoming city corporation polls by introducing ruling Awami League-backed mayor aspirants
Govt using law enforcers to crush movement: BNP
BNP accuses government of carrying out killings, abductions and repression on the 20-party alliance men using law enforcement agencies and its political cadres
Why aren't you talking?
BANGLADESH cricket team's victory against the much-fancied English side in the ICC Cricket World Cup has given the nation an opportunity to unite behind the national team. It is indeed a rare occasion, the kind that is capable of uniting the country behind a single event.
Last call before things get out of hand
US president Abraham Lincoln once elaborated on the dangers facing the Americans. He said some trans-Atlantic military wasn't going to crush them with a blow. Nor all the armies of Europe and Asia “could by force take a drink from the Ohio River or make a track on the Blue Ridge in the trial of a thousand years.” He then said if destruction was the lot of the Americans, it must be them who will be its author and finisher. As a nation, he concluded, the Americans will either live as free men forever or die by suicide.
'One of the best ways to tackle extremists is to ensure space for non-violent and democratic opposition'
Democracy has never functioned very well in Bangladesh.