political violence
Election violence, minorities, and erasure of data
Reports of violence against minorities during and after the boycott-ridden, controversial election have raised questions against Awami League’s claimed commitment to protecting the minorities.
A prelude to tomorrow
Sometimes, our lust for power brings hell to earth. We let the fire burn and kill humanity.
Political Violence: Another 22 BNP-Jamaat activists jailed
Twenty-two more leaders and activists of BNP and Jamaat yesterday were given different jail terms in four cases filed between December 2012 and September 2018 over political violence in the capital.
Crackdown, groupthink, and the dialogue that didn’t happen
How many of us really believe that the current laws and institutions in Bangladesh lend the capacity to hold free and fair elections?
Reading Donald Lu’s letter, intently
Is there a connection between India’s clarification of its policy and Lu’s letter?
Dialogue must be on equal footing
Ongoing hostilities to BNP make any success a distant possibility
Spare the economy more shocks
Political instability is hurting our already fragile economy.
Govt won’t allow sit-ins, blockades
Law enforcers will conduct special drives to apprehend "troublemakers" and will not allow any illegal gathering on the streets, said officials
Post sit-ins, BNP weighing up options
As long as it faced no street confrontation, BNP saw a huge success in its recent anti-government demonstrations. But because of the way Saturday’s sit-ins played out, the party high-ups are considering taking a step back from capital-centric anti-government programmes for now.
1 killed in Mathbaria AL factional clash
A man is killed and five others are injured as two factions of local Awami League locked into clashes over establishing supremacy in Mathbaria upazila of Pirojpur.
Quiz Aslam at jail gate: Court orders police
A Chittagong court orders police to quiz BNP Joint Secretary General Aslam Chowdhury at the jail gate in an explosive case.
Law enforcers behind disappearances: Khaleda
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia says the law enforcers including Rab and police members, who were involved in the incidents of forced disappearances and killings, will be brought to justice.
Journalist Shawkat Mahmud freed on bail
Journalist Shawkat Mahmud is released on bail from Kashimpur Jail in Gazipur.
Fakhrul gets bail in Paltan arson case
A Dhaka court grants bail to BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir in an arson case filed with Paltan Police Station.
Charges pressed against Fakhrul, 42 others in arson case
Police presses charges against BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and 42 others in an arson case filed with Paltan Police Station.
AL men rampage at Ctg party office over UP nomination
Supporters of nomination hopefuls go on rampage and vandalised local Awami League office in Chittagong ahead of the upcoming union parishad elections.
Trends and patterns
Political violence remains inseparable from Bangladeshi politics and election violence is an integral part of that violence.
Charges against Fakhrul, Moudud, 34 other BNP men accepted
A Dhaka court takes cognisance of charges against BNP’s senior leaders Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, Moudud Ahmed and 34 other party men for hurling crude bombs at policemen in March 2013.
Workers Party leader shot dead in Pabna
A local leader of Workers Party of Bangladesh is shot dead allegedly by outlaws in Atghoria upazila of Pabna this evening.
