Politics of confrontation must end

Positions of power acquired through various means have long been allowed to be treated as a licence for self-enrichment through various illicit means.

Business-as-usual approach to dealing with the opposition will not create the right condition for free polls

The foreign diplomats appear to have become more active with the 12th parliamentary election less than a year away.

The recent by-polls represent the state of democracy in our country fairly accurately.

But will the EC live up to its obligation?

There was a lot of interest in US Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asia Donald Lu's visit to Dhaka. Before leaving early yesterday, he held a series of meetings with the top ministers, labour rights, and civil society leaders. What were the discussions and outcomes? Lu shared with Porimol Palma in detail.

Former LGRD minister and Awami League MP Khandker Mosharraf Hossain’s fall from grace continued yesterday as he was removed from the post of chief of the parliamentary standing committee on the LGRD ministry.

The BNP wants to make a final push to realise its demand for holding the next general election under a neutral caretaker administration only after the top brass finds the party’s Dhaka city units fully prepared for an all-out movement.

It is imperative to bring voters to conversations pertaining to the 2023 general elections.

An embarrassing stage collapse could well be an ominous sign of the party’s bedrock caving in.

The Awami League envisions a “Smart Bangladesh” by 2041, seeking to build a country that would be cost-effective, sustainable, innovative and knowledge-based.

The High Court today granted six-month bail to BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and standing committee member Mirza Abbas in a case filed over the December 7 clashes between police and BNP men in the capital's Nayapaltan area.

Awami League's decision to not compete for two of the recently vacated seats, rather letting its allies vie for them, is aimed at strengthening its relations with partners ahead of the 12th national election, slated for January 2024.

Looking back at 2022, experts on the South Asian political and economic landscape would highlight the ongoing economic crisis for understandable reasons.

Activists and leaders of the ruling Awami League and its associate bodies yesterday took position in different places of the city “to prevent any untoward incident” centring the BNP’s procession.

Political activities of the ruling Awami League in 2022 began slowly, after a quiet pandemic, and gathered significant momentum towards the end of the year.

The year 2022 marked a major turnaround for the BNP as the party seemed to have overcome the organisational weaknesses and political inertia that had been plaguing it since the disappointing results of the 2018 national polls.

With the BNP out of the equation, the competition was supposed to be between the ruling Awami League and main opposition Jatiya Party.

Among the ruling Awami League rank and file, confusion reigned about who actually tops the list of joint general secretaries.