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.

November 22, 2015
November 22, 2015

Mohona TV car attacked, journo shot in Raozan

A microbus of private television channel Mohona TV allegedly attacked and a journalist said to have been shot in Chittagong’s Raozan while returning from the burial of top war criminal Salauddin Quader Chowdhury, the terror of Raozan who was hanged early today.

November 16, 2015
November 16, 2015

Guns, God and grievances: Belgium's Islamist "airbase"

"A breeding ground for violence" the mayor of Molenbeek called her town, speaking of unemployment and overcrowding among Arab immigrant families, of youthful despair finding refuge in radical Islam.

November 3, 2015
November 3, 2015

DU students torch bus on campus, beat up 3 transport workers

A group of Dhaka University students set fire to a public bus on the campus over an altercation with its supervisor yesterday.

October 29, 2015
October 29, 2015

Mahmudur among 9 indicted over Tejgaon arson

A Dhaka court frames charges against Amar Desh acting editor Mahmudur Rahman and 8 others in an arson case of March 2013.

October 22, 2015
October 22, 2015

1 killed in Natore AL infighting

A local activist of the ruling Awami League has been killed and five others injured during infighting at Natore’s Singra upazila.

October 19, 2015
October 19, 2015

Indonesia's Aceh province tears down churches after religious violence

Authorities in Indonesia's conservative Aceh province on Monday began tearing down several small Christian churches after hardline Muslims demanded their closure.

October 19, 2015
October 19, 2015

Gunman kills Israeli soldier as diplomats seek calm

In the latest unrest, an Israeli soldier is killed in a shooting at a bus station in the southern city of Beersheba, the first such attack after a day in which violence seemed to somewhat ebb.

October 7, 2015
October 7, 2015

Bogra medical college shut after BCL infighting

Authorities have shut Ziaur Rahman Medical College in Bogra for an indefinite period after an infighting of the college’s BCL.

October 2, 2015
October 2, 2015

New kind of violence undid BCB plans

Ultimately it was the killing of an Italian national in Dhaka by unknown perpetrators that is believed, within the BCB, to have led to Australia calling off their tour of Bangladesh.

September 23, 2015
September 23, 2015

Army Ranger uses GoPro to document domestic abuse claim

An army ranger straps a GoPro to his waist and records footage which proved his claims of domestic violence, reports Fox News.