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.

March 21, 2016
March 21, 2016

One killed in UP polls violence

With elections due in 732 union parishads tomorrow, one man was killed and scores others were injured in pre-polls violence in different places of the country yesterday.

March 4, 2016
March 4, 2016

Why such cruelty against children?

Weakening familial bonds and poor social interactions could be the main reasons for the spike in violence and cruelty against children, even within the supposedly safe protection of their homes.

February 8, 2016
February 8, 2016

The Education Antidote to Violence

In an article titled “The Education Antidote to Radicalisation,” published on December 30, 2015 in The Daily Star, former British Prime Minister...

February 3, 2016
February 3, 2016

VC smells plot to create violence at DU

Dhaka University Vice-Chancellor Prof AAMS Arefin Siddique alleges that a certain political quarter is conspiring to create deadly violence at the university campus.

February 2, 2016
February 2, 2016

15 Rajshahi BNP-Jamaat men jailed for life

A speedy trial tribunal of Rajshahi hands life term prison to 15 activists of Islami Chhatra Shibir, Jamaat-e-Islami and the BNP over a violence case of December 2013 during a blockade sponsored by BNP-Jamaat.

January 29, 2016
January 29, 2016

Shibir 'planned riot in Ctg'

The police claim to have thwarted an Islami Chhatra Shibir bid to create communal violence in Chittagong.

January 20, 2016
January 20, 2016

21 killed in Pakistan university attack

21 people die in a Taliban assault on a university in Pakistan Wednesday, where witnesses report two large explosions as security forces move in under dense fog to halt the bloodshed.

January 18, 2016
January 18, 2016

4 held over Brahmanbaria violence

Four people, including a Jubo Dal leader, are so far arrested in connection with violence over the death of a madrasa student in a clash of Brahmanbaria a week ago.

January 16, 2016
January 16, 2016

Torturer cops Masud, Akash suspended

Dhaka police suspends two sub-inspectors (SI) for torturing two officials in Mohammadpur and Jatrabari. SI Masud Shikder of Mohammadpur Police Station and SI Arshadul Islam Akash of Jatrabari Police Station were suspended for beating up and allegedly threatening central bank official Golam Rabbi on January 9 and DSCC Conservancy Officer Bikash Chandra Das yesterday respectively.

January 16, 2016
January 16, 2016

Another case filed over Brahmanbaria mayhem

Another case has been filed in connection with the violence in Brahmanbaria district town over the death of a madrasah student in a triangular clash on January 12.