Shakhawat Liton

The punitive measures introduce by Bangladesh government are harsher than the ones made by the colonial rulers. The controversial section 57 got embedded into the proposed digital security law which seems to have offered police much more powers to make arrest. Which one is more repressive law: the one made by the colonial ruler or our government, asks Shakhawat Liton.

Nepal is now following the suit of Sri Lanka by initiating a move to impeach the chief justice.

The two major political parties that have run France for nearly 60 years lose power in the presidential election. Emmanuel Macron is the superman who led the ballot revolution with pro-people reform agenda. He entered the electoral race without the support of either of the two major political parties.

Transport owners in Bangladesh seem to have established supremacy over the laws as the British kings used to enjoy 800 years ago. They are now so powerful that they can do almost anything whatever they wish to do. Laws of the land matter little to them.

Tara Banu, a farmer of Habiganj's Baniachang upazila, gives in to the vagaries of nature when she meets a tragic end of her life aged 45. Being unable to bear the shock of this year's unusually early flash flood destroying standing crops in two-and-half acres of her land, she dies having suffered a cardiac arrest.

Mufti Abdul Hannan, one of the country's most dreaded militants, was involved in plotting and carrying out all the terror attacks by Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami Bangladesh. The Huji chief was responsible for the killing of more than a hundred people in 13 militant attacks between 1999 and 2005.

It was none, but Sheikh Hasina who introduced this diplomacy twenty years ago known as Hilsa diplomacy. How much did she achieve through it during her visit to India that just concluded?

Transparency International Bangladesh hits the nail on the head by raising the demand for placing in parliament all the treaties signed with India during Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's visit to Delhi to let people know about them. However, the current situation tells a story in which it seems people have no right to know.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is right in proclaiming that the Teesta does not have much water to share with Bangladesh. And she explained why -- many a dam and hydropower plant has been built in the upstream state of Sikkim where the river originates.

The way Mamata Banarjee speaks to Sheikh Hasina about resolving Teesta issue exposes a wide gap between her assurance and actions.

This may sound contrary to what you know about women's rights in the United Arab Emirates. With some global human rights bodies voicing concern over the lack of women's rights in the UAE, the country has topped a global ranking in terms of treating women with respect.

The Inter-Parliamentary Union has made a clarion call to parliaments across the globe to take measures to protect the political system from influence of money and organised lobbies.

It was a stunning revelation for many in the world when the education ministry of Saudi Arabia released the statistics two years ago

Abdul Baten is more fortunate than many other people's representatives. The mayor of Pabna's Bera municipality, Baten was charge-sheeted in a corruption case, and the district court sent him to jail in May last year. He was then suspended by the LGRD ministry.

The twilight on April 6 in 1994 appeared darker than the night in Rwanda.

Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) seeks to set up a mechanism to ensure prevention of outside interference and intervention in the internal affairs of sovereign states.

Among the South Asian countries, Nepal tops the index of women in national parliaments with Bangladesh obtaining fourth position, according to data released by Inter-Parliamentary Union.

A mega conference of world parliamentarians kicks off today in Dhaka promising to focus on ways and means to end political and economic inequality for upholding democracy and human rights.

Dateline: Meherpur, May 13, 2005- Some workers of the local municipality were digging drains to improve the sewerage of the town.

The latest World Happiness Index did not get serious attention here. But the index offers food for thought for the policymakers.