Shakhawat Liton

At the end of his ruthless massacre and war against an unarmed people, General Amir Abdullah Khan Niazi who led the Pakistan army in the killings, described the genocide of Bangalis in his book “Betrayal of East Pakistan” as “a display of stark cruelty more merciless than the massacres at Bukhara and Baghdad by Chengis Khan and Halaku khan or Jallianwala Bagh by the British General Dyer.”

An unhappy Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha on Tuesday said that the judiciary was being held hostage by the government's non-issuance of a gazette notification regarding disciplines and conducts of lower court judges.

The government has to return Tk 615 crore to 17 companies and several businesspeople that were forced to deposit the amount with Bangladesh Bank as tax on their alleged hidden money during the last caretaker government's tenure. The companies and businesspeople yesterday won a legal battle at the Supreme Court, which rejected the BB's appeals against 11 High Court verdicts ordering the government to return the money.

No plea, no criticism, no opposition worked. The controversial provision allowing child marriages under “special circumstances” has

New Zealand was the first country to give women the legal right to vote in political elections in 1893. Saudi Arabia has become the last one to grant women the right to vote in 2011.

Our MPs congratulated Tulip on her election as MP by passing a thanksgiving motion in Parliament in 2015. In the discussion on the motion, they said that they were proud of her. We can only wish that they would all follow her example of how to stand by the people.

Renowned psychotherapists, intellectuals and media outlets are now unequivocally questioning mental fitness of President Donald Trump for his arrogant behaviour and activities.

While speaking about the sorry state of public prosecution, Chief Justice SK Sinha has once again decried the present pervasive system of appointing lawyers loyal to the ruling party as public prosecutors.

It seems that the Supreme Court's (SC) immensely significant opinion on the anti-torture law did not go down well with the police.

Media was the recipient of severe criticism of some ruling Awami League MPs including Leader of the House Shiekh Hasina during a discussion in parliament on Sunday, January 22.

The ruling Awami League's recent proposal for empowering the Election Commission with supervising authority over the administration during the parliamentary polls echoes with the ideas floated by the past EC led by ATM Shamsul Huda.

The ruling Awami League's proposals for limiting the jurisdiction of the election-time government to carrying out only a routine job

The Awami League promised democracy and good governance. However, the present state of democracy and governance tells a story of how the promises remained largely ignored.

The ruling Awami League enters 2017 with an absolute grip on all elected institutions from the lowest tier of local government system--the Union Parishad-to the highest political institution-- the Jatiya Sangsad.

It was an exceptional year in politics. No major street agitation was waged by either BNP or any other opposition parties against the

Two local government bodies' elections held within seven days offered starkly distinctive features. One raised high hopes for good

The history of our Election Commission may be likened to a large extent to the popular story of a monkey and a greased pole.

The Narayanganj City Corporation (NCC) election is undoubtedly a stellar example of free and fair polls. The way people are

The dialogue led by the president seems to have offered an opportunity to bring a qualitative change in the confrontational culture of politics. Politics returned to the discussion table after a long time.

The biggest mass poisoning by toxic medicine in the world in the last one hundred years perhaps occurred in Bangladesh as more than 2,700 children died in a decade since 1982.