THOSE who are currently students at universities in Bangladesh came of age during the autocratic rule of the now fallen prime minister Sheikh Hasina (2009鈥�2024). They never had a taste of democracy; they never saw any credible election in their country. All they saw was political repression and corruption at every tier of the government and at every level...
Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Thursday said that their party would continue to support the interim government, led by Professor Muhammad Yunus, as long as it remained committed to democracy....
BANGLADESH has been transformed into a mausoleum of democracy under the iron fist of Sheikh Hasina. Her reign, a protracted nightmare for the Bangladeshi people, has been marked by a relentless erosion of institutional integrity, a cancer that has metastasised through body politic. With each passing year, the democratic fabric of this young nation...
THIS is not the piece I intended to write just 24 hours ago (August 4). As Dinah Washington once famously sang, lyrics taken from the 1934 original 鈥楥uando vuelva a tu lado鈥� by the Mexican songwriter Maria Grever, 鈥榳hat a difference a day makes鈥�...
Awami League president and former prime minister Sheikh Hasina will return to the country once democracy is restored, said her son Sajeeb Wazed, according to a report of the Press Trust of India...
THE International Monetary Fund, World Bank and Asian Development Bank are complicit in the gross human rights violations and death of democracy in Bangladesh. They continued to supply financial blood line to the regime, well-documented for its corruptions, human rights violations 鈥� such as forced disappearances and tortures...
The fall of a dictator is always destined. So it was with Sheikh Hasina, who ruled the country for the last 16 years, destroyed all public institutions, and became an absolute authoritarian...
THE inspector general of police Deshabandu Tennakoon finds himself at the centre of a controversy that goes to the heart of Sri Lanka鈥檚 democracy. The Supreme Court has directed that he should be restrained from acting in the position of head of police until the court has fully considered all the petitions submitted against his appointment...
Cultural activists on Monday demanded restoration democratic environment and justice for students while the government imposed countrywide curfew and seized the rights to organise meetings and practise democracy during quota protests...
Donald Trump, holding his first camp, surviving an assassination attempt, rejected concerns that he is a threat to America鈥檚 democratic system, triumphantly telling the crowd, 鈥業 took a bullet for democracy.鈥�...
ARE elections overplayed as a tool of representative democracy, as some claim? Or they are about getting past the post in each seat making the issue of public representation fluid but keeping a system going which many are used to and comfortable...
Pope Francis decried the state of democracy and warned against 鈥榩opulists鈥� during a short visit to Trieste in Italy鈥檚 northeast on Sunday ahead of a 12-day trip to...
THE underplayed defeat for his government by 32 seats in the parliamentary elections, with a whopping loss of 63 BJP MPs from the previous tally, may have reined in prime minister Modi鈥檚 self-obsessed march on Indian democracy for now. His new and untested experiment with a coalition government has just begun, with the opening of the 18th Lok Sabha on June 24...
The Revolutionary Workers Party of Bangladesh, a partner of Ganatantra Mancha, observed 20th founding anniversary with the vow to restore democracy on Friday...
HALF of the world鈥檚 population will have the opportunity to vote by the end of this year as 64 countries and the European Union are scheduled to open their ballot boxes. No previous year has been so flush with elections. Among these countries is India, where a remarkable 969 million voting papers had to be printed ahead of the elections...
THERE is no doubt that the 2024 general elections in India, concluded over a week ago, will be long remembered for bringing back Indian politics to normal, thanks to the tested electorates of the largest democracy in the world. Undoubtedly, this election delivered a shocking blow to Modi鈥檚 dominance and will likely curb his autocratic tendencies...
THE Democracy Perception Index issued its 2024 report on May 8, revealing important and interesting shifts in global perceptions about democracy, geopolitics and international relations...
Taiwan鈥檚 parliament passed a package of controversial bills on Tuesday to expand its power as聽thousands of disapproving protesters rallied outside and chanted 鈥榙efend democracy鈥�....
Left-leaning leaders on Sunday at a discussion in Dhaka said that the movement for the establishment of a democratic and non-sectarian Bangladesh would continue...
Donald Trump launched another expletive-laced attack on Joe Biden as he addressed an influential gun group Saturday, while the incumbent president warned in the crucial swing state of Georgia that his 鈥榰nhinged鈥� challenger is a threat to US democracy.
Liberal Democratic Party president Oli Ahmad on Saturday alleged that the Indian government was directly and indirectly responsible for the damage of democracy and...
Leaders of Rastra Sanskar Andolan, on Friday at a joining programme in Dhaka, said that their party would work for restoration of democratic rule in the country...
Speakers, at a discussion on Thursday, said that priority should be given to the freedom of press and expression to face the challenges of natural disasters and climate crisis...
THE impressive logistics of India鈥檚 nat颅io颅nal elections inspire considerable internati颅onal coverage. This year, the process initiated last Friday will culminate at the start of June, and the potential electorate inclu颅des...
Nineteen district-level leaders, including presidents and general secretaries from the Bangladesh Awami League, the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party, and Jatiya Party, have recently completed Democracy International's Senior Leaders Fellowship Programme....
THE stand that the ruling Awami League and the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, the largest in the opposition camp, have taken on participation in the staggered upazila council elections, the first phase of which involving...
Speakers, at a programme in Dhaka, on Sunday said that lack of democratic values lead to the spread of misinformation, resulting violent attacks or even death...
Leaders of the Rastra Sanskar Andolan, a partner of the Ganatantra Mancha, on Friday at a discussion in Dhaka called on all opposition political parties to wage movements to restore democratic rule in the country...
