With crumbling institutions built on fragile principles, power has been co-opted.
It feels wrong in myriad ways to say that hope isn’t there when an autocrat fell
The focus of local governments should be ensuring that child protection protection services are prioritised.
To be a girl means being silent while our world is burning.
The face of the minority keeps changing depending on national borders.
The disinformation game is now increasingly a part of our political makeup.
the bullet hole/ in my brother's chest/ unfolds like a pandora's box
The government wasted time while the violence continued.
To look away from Sudan, at this time, is tantamount to complicity.
Two more people who were injured in clashes during Wednesday's municipal election in Barguna and Kishoreganj died from their wounds yesterday.
A number of 752 women were raped and 94 others became victims of rape attempts in 2015, according to a report of Ain o Salish Kendra.
An elderly man who is injured in a clash during yesterday’s municipality elections in Barguna succumbs to his wounds.
Mayoral candidates of the ruling Awami League clinched a landslide victory in yesterday's election to 234 municipalities amid allegations of widespread electoral irregularities. AL candidates secured 179 mayoral posts while their rivals from the BNP got 21. And AL rebels obtained 19 posts. Ruling party men resorted to electoral irregularities in at least 80 municipalities with the local administration looking on. They stuffed ballot boxes and drove BNP candidates' agents out of polling centres, according to reports from The Daily Star correspondents.
BNP Chief Khaleda Zia’s Adviser Khandker Mahbub Hossain says the party has been disappointed by irregularities and violence over today’s municipality polls.
As the three-week electioneering ended yesterday midnight, the Election Commission imposed a restriction on outsiders staying in electoral areas.
Sushasoner Jonno Nagarik expresses concern over holding a free and fair municipal election with the increasing number violence.
As violence continues centring the municipality polls, additional law enforcers and Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) personnel have been deployed from this morning to maintain law and order in the areas going to polls.
Each form of violence is a stain on our collective humanity, a barrier to peace and stability, and a call to action for all of us. Violence is not inevitable – and each of us can do something to stop it.
Ten Australians have been arrested in nationwide protests involving both anti-Islam and anti-racism groups.
