The recent by-polls represent the state of democracy in our country fairly accurately.
It is unfortunate that security agencies have been used in a manner that has generated more fear in people’s mind than confidence and faith in them.
We do not know what exactly the Awami League general secretary means when he warns the BNP and advises his cadres to gird for khela on December 10.
It is apparent, from what has transpired in the last fortnight, that any attempt to exercise political rights, and to seek space, will be curbed by force.
Strategic assets are those that demand attention from the highest levels of the state.
Unfortunately, winning an election has become the synonym for achieving power.
Is not the media already under duress, and its function heavily encumbered by the Digital Security Act (DSA), without needing a new law which is now on the anvil of the Bangladesh Press Council (BPC)?
Time and again, it has been proven that, when it comes to justice in Bangladesh, some are more equal than others.
More than a decade ago in July 2010, I wrote an article titled “When state is the cause of its own insecurity”.
There were two senior-level meetings between Bangladesh and India so far in 2021.
On February 25, the most reviled and draconian Digital Security Act (DSA) claimed its first victim, and gave the nation its first Digital Security Act “martyr”.
It has been twelve years since the day 57 brilliant army officers were brutally killed by the BDR mutineers.
I believe that every statement of a prime minister contains substance and carries weight, more so when it has to do with politics and the opposition.
The five-year ride on the tiger by Aung San Suu Kyi is over. She is back to where she had been used to living during the greater part of her political career (except for a brief interregnum of pseudo-democracy): behind bars.
Finally President Trump has accepted the inevitable, but not before wreaking havoc, as we had predicted he would four years ago, both at home and abroad.
Two important Bangladesh-India meetings at the national level took place in the last month of 2020.
We are on the cusp of our 50th anniversary. Come March 26, 2021, it will be 50 years since Bangladesh had declared its Independence.
The Department of Social Welfare (DSW) vide their letter of December 14, 2020, “temporarily dismissed” the Executive Committee (EC) of the Retired Armed Forces Officers’ Welfare Association (RAOWA) and replaced it with a five member committee consisting of two serving army officers—a Brigadier and Major respectively, a retired member of RAOWA of the rank of Major, and two civil cadre officers of the rank of Deputy Secretary.