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.
No time to rest
Ilias Biswas cannot afford to stay at home.
Living with old memories
For 91 days from January 5 to April 5 last year, there was hardly a single day when innocent people were not burnt to death or injured in arson attacks on public transports. Some lost their loved ones, others their lone bread earners during the longest spell of horror allegedly carried out by the BNP-led coalition, protesting the January 5, 2014, elections.
Opinion: Facebook, Viber, WhatsApp ban: Cutting the head to cure headache?
It’s been a week since the government has blocked public access to several social media and Internet applications...
US deplores violence over Dhaka city polls
The United States today deplored political violence surrounding the city elections in Dhaka, and called on all of those involved in the elections to uphold their responsibility to ensure the polls are free, fair, and non-violent.
Bangladesh political impasse impeding economic progress: US
The United States has said the violent political impasse in Bangladesh unfortunately is impeding the economic progress
Khaleda blames violence on the AL
ON Tuesday, foreign diplomats, including the US and EU ambassadors in Dhaka, met with BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia at her Gulshan office. Reiterating their urgent concerns about violence against innocent citizens of Bangladesh, the diplomats urged Khaleda to ensure that the violence resulting from her movement comes to an end.
The idea of hope in times of despair
FARIA was only sixteen and like any other teenager, had dreams, innocent aspirations and hopes. On Facebook, she shared her moments of happiness, optimism and confusion, but rarely her despair. Her father's world revolved around her happiness and he had a promise to keep -- a trip to Cox's Bazaar after Faria turns sixteen. Seemingly oblivious of any hazard, he decided to take the long journey with his wife and daughter from Jessore to the sea resort by bus, the only means of transport he could afford.
7 vehicles torched; 3 injured
Miscreants torch seven vehicles in Dhaka and elsewhere leaving three injured
The worrisome public order
THE cynics in the current hyper-charged socio-political situation would say that “the banality of evil” has come home to us with a strange poignancy.
Many of us alive have long been dead
THE cultural activists in the country did their bit last Sunday when they accompanied the families of those who had died in political violence and hung a list of 54 victims in front of BNP chairperson's Gulshan office.
