violence

Our propensity for violence and the elements that foster it

With crumbling institutions built on fragile principles, power has been co-opted.

The hope is not there

It feels wrong in myriad ways to say that hope isn’t there when an autocrat fell

World Children’s Day / Helping street children requires a holistic, evidence-based approach

The focus of local governments should be ensuring that child protection protection services are prioritised.

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.

April 25, 2016
April 25, 2016

UP polls violence kills 2, injures 60

At least two people were killed and 60 others injured in violence over Union Parishad polls in the last two days.

April 24, 2016
April 24, 2016

Violence lessens, not irregularities

The election to 614 union parishads in the third phase of UP polls yesterday saw some stray incidents of violence and electoral

April 23, 2016
April 23, 2016

10 killed in 3 months

Ten religious minority people were killed, 366 injured and eight women raped in the country in the first three months of this year, a

April 21, 2016
April 21, 2016

EC asks AL leaders to keep grassroots men from violence

The Election Commission asks some central leaders of ruling Awami League (AL) to issue directives to the party’s grassroots leaders and activists to refrain from committing violence and irregularities during the next phases of union parishad (UP) polls.

April 21, 2016
April 21, 2016

Breaching of polls rules, violence on

Breaching of electoral code of conduct and spates of violence continue in different districts, leaving one person dead, as the third phase of Union Parishad (UP) polls starts on day after tomorrow.

April 14, 2016
April 14, 2016

In Banshkhali, despair and panic is all

Md Shafiq, a 14-year-old boy from Pashchim Gondamara, somehow escaped from the police vehicle after being picked up from his house, but his elder brother Rafiq, also a teenager, could not.

April 14, 2016
April 14, 2016

EC, law enforcers praise each other

Though widespread violence and loss of dozens of lives marked the first two phases of union parishad polls, the Election Commission and the law enforcement agencies have praised each other for their respective roles.

April 11, 2016
April 11, 2016

Govt tries to dispel Banshkhali fear

The government has extended its full support for the coal-fired power plant to be set up in Banshkhali of Chittagong amid growing protests over the project and last week's clashes that left at least four people killed and scores more injured.

April 2, 2016
April 2, 2016

Scores injured in post-polls violence

At least 58 people, including six women, were injured and 45 houses and shops, some of them belonging to Hindus, were vandalised

April 1, 2016
April 1, 2016

All he wanted to see polls in his school

All he wanted was to see and enjoy the festivity of voting.