The Bangladesh Students鈥� Federation on Tuesday left the Democratic Students鈥� Alliance, a combine of seven left student organisations, formed in 2022 to uphold their 13-point charter including the resignation of the then Awami League government and to establish a people鈥檚 government...
COLLEGES and universities are caught in a moral and political dilemma. Students are encouraged, on the one hand, to engage in party-affiliated or factional campus politics. And, on the other hand, that very political involvement becomes a black mark when they apply for government jobs. Many of us advocate student politics on campus, yet the same political affiliations...
OVER the past year, an unsettling pattern has emerged in the landscape of justice. Serious criminal charges, particularly murder, assault, extortion and sedition, are filed not solely in pursuit of justice but, increasingly, as instruments of coercion, retaliation and harassment. The right to legal recourse, a fundamental pillar of any democratic society, is now at the risk of...
Politicians, academics and professionals at a discussion in Dhaka on Saturday said that the proposed budget for the fiscal year 2025鈥�26 was traditional and failed to take projects for the welfare of the people in the country...
DEMOCRACY is not merely a system of governance 鈥� it is the heartbeat of a free society, the framework upon which freedom of expression, individual rights and public participation are built. At its core, democracy thrives not in institutions alone, but in the active participation of its people 鈥� especially the youth. With their energy, idealism and innovation, young people...
Nursing and empowering organisations of poorly-focused farmers, workers, small businesses and students are crucial for reforming the democratic institutions severely affected by the ousted Awami League regime, said discussants at a seminar held on Friday...
An activist of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami has been expelled for his involvement in an attack on left students鈥� protest that left at least 15 injured in Chattogram on May 28.
Leaders from different political parties on Monday urged the interim government to hold the next general election by December this year for the sake of a democratic transition in the country...
THE local government elections that took place last week saw a consolidation of the democratic system in the country. The government followed the rules of elections to a greater extent than its recent predecessors some of whom continue to be active on the political stage. Particularly noteworthy was the absence of the abuse of state resources, both media and financial...
Leaders of the Left Democratic Alliance, a combine of six political parties, on Wednesday at a rally in Dhaka called on the interim government to take immediate steps to stop opposing women affairs commission report by some quarters...
HEFAZAT-E-ISLAM and similar right-wing groups have always appeared against the democratic freedom of women. Their opposition became more expressed after the 2024 political changeover. Their emboldened position on the issue became disturbingly apparent on May 3, when a group of men, reportedly gathered to attend a Hefazat-e-Islam rally demanding the...
The UN condemned on Friday the widespread rape of children in conflict-torn eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where thousands were reportedly subjected to sexual violence in the first two months of 2025.
The Democratic Party has sued the Trump administration over an attempt to impose sweeping changes on the election systems, including requiring citizenship proof to register to vote and limiting mail-in ballot counting....
ANGLADESH is in urgent need of a democratic transition. It is pertinent to commence this discussion by examining global examples of democratic transitions in previously undemocratic states. Such transitions have typically been made possible through four key measures: prioritising national interests above political considerations, eliminating hegemonic influences from...
NINETEEN seventy-one arrived, not as a year, but as a violation, a savage tear in the thin skin of what we dared call life. I was a child, a splinter of a being, four years old, yet the tremors of that brutal rending still reverberate in the hollow spaces of my bones. They call it the Liberation War, a tidy phrase for a messy, monstrous thing. It was the air we choked on, thick with...
The Liberal Democratic Party on Thursday said that the reform proposals related to the Election Commission were weak.
The National Consensus Commission opened its dialogues with political parties, starting with the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) on Thursday, aiming to build a national consensus on the reform initiatives undertaken by the interim government.
The Left Democratic Alliance, a combine of six left political parties, and Rights activists on Wednesday urged the government to improve law and order situation and stop repression on the children and women across the country...
Leaders of the Left Democratic Alliance on Wednesday at a rally in Dhaka called on the interim government to hold the next general election as early as possible...
THE way the police have relied on violence to disperse an anti-rape march towards the residence of the chief adviser demanding a more decisive role in ending violence against women is a shocking reminder of the role that the police played during the July uprising. The anti-rape march was one of many protests taking place over the rape of a child in Magura, fighting for life...
Bangladesh Nationalist Party acting chairman Tarique Rahman on Tuesday urged political parties to present proposals to the nation to address public issues, rather than focusing only on reforms to the state structure and institutions...
The Bangladesh Democratic Students Council on Friday held a protest rally at Dhaka University in protest at operations of the banned organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir.
The Ganatantrik Odhikar Committee, a platform working for democratic rights and freedom of expression, on Sunday expressed its concern over failure of the interim government to control the law and order situation in the country...
Violence raging in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has killed 鈥榤ore than 7,000 compatriots鈥�, many of them civilians, since last month, the Congolese premier said Monday.
Around 42,000 people have fled the conflict raging in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo and crossed into Burundi in the past two weeks, the United Nations said Friday....
THE decision of the Khulna University of Science and Technology to uphold the ban on student politics amid clashes allegedly between Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal, the student wing of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, and the Students Against Discrimination appears shortsighted and it carries the risk of curtailing students鈥� right to organise on campus. The clashes took place...
The Rwanda-backed M23 armed group has committed 鈥榮ummary executions鈥� of children in Bukavu in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the United Nations said Tuesday.
Leaders of the Left Democratic Alliance on Monday at a protest rally in Dhaka called on the interim government to hold the next general election as early as possible...
The UK government on Sunday warned that a growing offensive by Rwandan-backed fighters in the Democratic Republic of Congo risked sparking 鈥榓 wider regional conflict鈥�.
EDUCATION is often regarded as the great equaliser, a means of empowering individuals and driving societal progress. In Bangladesh, the democratisation of education has been central to national development policies, reflecting the broader ambition of transforming a developing nation into a knowledge-based society. While significant strides have been made...
