AN IRONY points to the gap between what is said and what is implied, or what is expected and what happens in reality. It is a rhetorical technique that is widely used in literature. It creates dramatic effects by presenting contrasts or opposites. What is called dramatic irony is often used in tragedy to illustrate a character鈥檚 ignorance of happenings on one hand and tragic consequences on the other...
THE student-led July mass uprising for a democratic political and economic order, which culminated in the ouster of the brutally authoritarian regime of Sheikh Hasina from power, forcing her to flee the country and take refuge in India, the hegemonic neighbour that patronised Hasina to cling to power without proper people鈥檚 mandate for years, has installed an 鈥榠nterim government鈥�, led by globally known Nobel Peace Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus, to fix the order 鈥� if not fully democratise the state...
Five more cases, including two on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity, two on murder charges and one on attempt to murder, were filed against deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina and her aides...
Ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 energy adviser Tawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury was arrested in the capital鈥檚 Gulshan area on Tuesday night.
Five more cases 鈥� one on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity, three on murder charges and one on attempt to murder charge 鈥� have been filed against...
BANGLADESH has entered a critical phase in its history on August 5. The student-mass uprising of July-August is evidence that Bangladeshis will not tolerate fascism. What started off from Dhaka University on July 1 as an innocuous demand for reforms of the quota system for government jobs turned into a massive revolution and ousted 16-year-old Sheikh Hasina鈥檚 despotic Awami League government...
The Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday launched an investigation into allegations of stock market anomalies by Salman F Rahman, private industries and...
Human rights activists on Sunday called for the establishment of hotlines to support victims of custodial torture during the regime of deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina...
LORD Acton famously said, 鈥楶ower tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.鈥� When citizens fail to hold their government accountable, a regime can accumulate unchecked power, weakening even the strongest checks and balances and leading to autocracy. John Stuart Mill鈥檚 reminder that 鈥楾he price of liberty is eternal vigilance鈥� highlights...
The latest filing of three murder cases takes the total cases to at least 105 brought against deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina, her sister Sheikh Rehana and her cabinet and party colleagues on murder charges...
Newly appointed chief prosecutor to the International Crimes Tribunal, Mohammad Tajul Islam said on Sunday that there were substantial legal hurdles in repatriating deposed...
Newly appointed chief prosecutor of the International Crimes Tribunal Md Tajul Islam on Sunday said that necessary steps would be taken to bring ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina back to the country to stand trial over alleged crimes against humanity and genocide during the recent anti-discrimination student movement in Bangladesh...
Mohammad Tajul Islam, known for his role in defending leaders of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami in war crimes cases during the rule of Sheikh Hasina-led Awami League governments, has been appointed as the chief prosecutor of the International Crimes Tribunal....
THE interim government has decided to try the deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina in the international crimes tribunal, accusing her of genocide and crimes against humanity during the student-led mass uprising in July 1鈥揂ugust 5, along with all those involved in these crimes. The first complaint against her was made with the probe agency of the...
Two more cases were filed on Thursday and Wednesday against 126 including the deposed prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, her cabinet and party colleagues on charges of murder, arson...
The days of shooting was over for journalist Tahir Zaman Priyo鈥檚 camera on July 19 when a bullet pierced its owner鈥檚 head at a demonstration against Sheikh Hasina and her government near the...
No gazette notification has yet been published about the resignation of the former prime minister Sheikh Hasina who resigned on August 5 amid an unprecedented...
Adviser for youth and sports, and labour affairs Asif Mahmud on Thursday said that there was no scope for rehabilitation of the fascists in politics until their trials were fully completed.
Five more cases were filed against the deposed prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, her cabinet and party colleagues and several members of the police on the charges of killing demonstrators during the student-people mass uprising...
Bangladesh鈥檚 ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina should 鈥榢eep quiet鈥� while exiled in India until she is brought home for trial, interim leader Muhammad Yunus told...
The interim government led by professor Muhammad Yunus could not make a complete list of the people killed and injured during the student-led peoples uprising in July and August that ousted the government of Sheikh Hasina on August 5...
Many former ministers and key police officials blamed for the mass killings during the student-people mass uprising remain traceless while many top Awami League leaders have been named in genocide and murder cases since the fall of the AL government...
THE departure of the deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina to India on August 5 against the backdrop of the student protests for civil service quota reform causing the murder of several hundred people has triggered the relations between Bangladesh and India for another paradigm shift. Although Hasina sought and obtained political asylum after the...
The Bangladesh Bank on Wednesday freed IFIC Bank from the control of controversial Salman F Rahman, former adviser to ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina, by dissolving the bank鈥檚 board and appointing independent directors to it...
A group of Bangladeshi expatriates in Europe submitted a memorandum to the European Union, demanding that it should put pressure on the interim government to stop alleged human rights violations and killings in Bangladesh...
Bangladesh Nationalist Party standing committee member major (retired) Hafiz Uddin Ahmed on Tuesday said that the activity of the ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina was...
A writ petition was filed on Tuesday with the High Court, seeking a directive for the Anti-Corruption Commission to investigate allegations against deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina, her family members, and her former defence and security adviser, Tarique Ahmed Siddique, over the alleged embezzlement of $5 billion from the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant Project...
Ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina has been sued in six more cases, including five lodged over murders that took place during the recent anti-discrimination student movement in Dhaka.
Four weeks after ex-premier Sheikh Hasina fled Bangladesh by helicopter during a student-led revolution, analysts say she has become a diplomatic headache for her hosts in India...
The High Court on Sunday directed the interim government authorities to submit a detailed report within 30 days on the costs incurred for assets, security, benefits, and privileges provided to deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina and...