Shakhawat Liton

By shooting the 10-year old boy, Sourav, who went for a walk with his uncle on last Friday morning, ruling Awami League MP Manzurul Islam Liton has made a place for himself in the club of controversial and unruly MPs who have been in discussion for all the wrong reasons.

The tragic death of around 800 Hajj pilgrims in Makkah may or may not have been caused by the Saudi's faulty management but it has brought the simmering hostility between Saudi Arabia and Iran to a boil.

An unprecedented joint visit by the foreign ministers of France and Germany to Dhaka and the topping off ceremony of the Franco-Germany Embassy in the city has made it evident that their bi-lateral relationship has reached a new height.

When he was a High Court judge in 2012, he had accused then Speaker Abdul Hamid, now the President, of committing an offence tantamount to sedition. He accused Hamid for making a comment in the House on a High Court order. He also said the Speaker was completely ignorant of the apex court and the constitution.

The latest High Court verdict scrapping a law that had indemnified all actions including killing in the Operation Clean Heart by joint forces 12 years ago is a welcome boost for people's right to life and right to protection of law.

The government's pay scale for civil servants and teachers runs counter to ruling Awami League electoral manifesto. In the run up to the last two consecutive general elections, the AL had promised to give separate pay scale for teachers. And in line with the pledges, the prime minister and education minister had also assured teachers on several occasions of a separate pay scale.

It was an “adventure” to Adventure Land!

For Annisul Huq and Sayeed Khokon, two mayors in the capital, a met office forecast that there will be no more heavy downpours in the current rainy season will be more than welcome.

A total of 16 amendments have been brought to our constitution over the past four decades. But it is difficult to find any amendment which was actually aimed at improving the constitution's quality, enhancing people's rights and paving the way for flourishing democracy.

Accompanied by a dozen armed soldiers Major Dalim had stormed into the office of Gen Shafiullah, the then chief of army, in the morning of August 15, 1975.

Being the foreign minister he engaged in a conspiracy to foil Bangladesh's Liberation War in 1971 and wanted to keep Pakistan united. In independent Bangladesh, he joined another conspiracy to overthrow Bangabandhu's government.

Human rights leaders are blaming the long pervasive culture of impunity as one of the major reasons for the gruesome killings of children and bloggers.

The government's latest legislative move has made bureaucrats happy.

The LGRD Minister Khandker Mosharraf Hossain deserves thanks as he has at least said a few words about something seemingly long forgotten--holding election to the zila parishads.

He has built an image of arrogance for himself and remained at the centre of many controversies.

A few days back Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina demonstrated her political sagacity by rethinking her decision of making Syed Ashraful Islam a minister without portfolio.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has demonstrated political sagacity by reversing her decision on making Syed Ashraful Islam a minister without portfolio.

The latest move to provide civil servants with legal shield from criminal cases filed while discharging their official duties has exposed once again the

The unenviable situations that veteran politicians Syed Ashraful Islam and Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir find themselves in is unprecedented in the country's politics since the restoration of parliamentary democracy in 1991.

Instead of holding out hope of a way out of the crisis the BNP is in, a suddenly called meeting has caused fresh resentment in the party