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.
2 ‘BNP men’ shot dead in Jhenidah
Two bullet-hit bodies of alleged BNP men is found in Jhenidah Sadar upazila this morning.