violence
INTERNATIONAL DAY OF THE GIRL CHILD 2024 / What it means to be a girl
To be a girl means being silent while our world is burning.
I reject the minority tag. Here is why
The face of the minority keeps changing depending on national borders.
Whom is the propaganda on X for?
The disinformation game is now increasingly a part of our political makeup.
POETRY / The song of freedom
the bullet hole/ in my brother's chest/ unfolds like a pandora's box
Quota reform protests / The government should take responsibility for its mistakes
The government wasted time while the violence continued.
Sudan crisis explained: Why wars are not a matter of the past
To look away from Sudan, at this time, is tantamount to complicity.
A monologue on the beasts among us
As I stand before the heap of fresh meat, my thoughts turn to the slain politician who was hacked to death
Checking Violence Against Women: Govt app sees only six rescue pleas in about six years
The government’s “Joy” app, developed with a budget of Tk 45 lakh to tackle violence against women and children during emergencies, received only six rescue requests in five years and nine months.
Don’t let Dhaka turn into a battlefield
Let good sense—and constitutional obligations—prevail
Number of deaths mounting
THE statistics are staggering. And we cannot feel proud at what we are witnessing in the form of political movement that has seen lethal violence of an unprecedented scale.
Militancy is creeping in ominously
With the BNP-Jamaat allies continuing to enforce blockade and hartal for the 44th day on February 18, the country has descended into deep chaos, uncertainty and unimaginable distress. We have got to be worried and perturbed after witnessing the scale of tragedies, lives lost by burning, destruction and losses inflicted on the economy in a free Bangladesh that we liberated at the cost 3 million lives. Since January 6, the country, from Teknaf to Tetulia, has turned into a theatre of unabated violence and destruction.
Politics of violence: Probable remedy
THE number one priority for any human being is safety of life and property. People live in a society and even form a state basically from that desire. Formation of government and financing of the same are borne by the people with the expectation that they would receive protection.
72-hr nationwide hartal from Sunday
BNP-led alliance calls for another spell of 72-hour countrywide hartal from Sunday morning demanding fresh elections under a nonparty administration
Arson in Munshiganj, 31 held in Dhaka-Ctg
Miscreants set fire to a bus in Louhajang upazila of Munshiganj, in the last hours of the 120hr hartal by BNP-led 20-party alliance.
Feni arson victim dies at DMCH
A pickup van driver, burnt in an arson attack by blockaders recently, dies at Dhaka Medical College and Hospital this morning.
PM warns Daily Star
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina warns the country's leading English daily, The Daily Star, for “patronising banned militant organisation Hizb-ut Tahrir by publishing its poster”.
‘EU team not concerned about HR situation’
The visiting EU parliamentary delegation did not express any concerns about the human rights situation in Bangladesh, claimed State Minister for Foreign Affairs Shahriar Alam.
Ashraf links ongoing violence to global terrorism
Awami League General Secretary Syed Ashraful Islam says country's ongoing violence is part of global terrorist activities by religious fundamentalists.
Bangladesh's PM Sheikh Hasina seeks cooperation to contain violence
Bangladesh's Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina seeks all-out cooperation from all in rooting out militancy, terrorism from the country