A Dhaka court grants bail to BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir in an arson case filed with Paltan Police Station.

Police presses charges against BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and 42 others in an arson case filed with Paltan Police Station.

Supporters of nomination hopefuls go on rampage and vandalised local Awami League office in Chittagong ahead of the upcoming union parishad elections.

Political violence remains inseparable from Bangladeshi politics and election violence is an integral part of that violence.

A Dhaka court takes cognisance of charges against BNP’s senior leaders Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, Moudud Ahmed and 34 other party men for hurling crude bombs at policemen in March 2013.

A local leader of Workers Party of Bangladesh is shot dead allegedly by outlaws in Atghoria upazila of Pabna this evening.

Ilias Biswas cannot afford to stay at home.

For 91 days from January 5 to April 5 last year, there was hardly a single day when innocent people were not burnt to death or injured in arson attacks on public transports. Some lost their loved ones, others their lone bread earners during the longest spell of horror allegedly carried out by the BNP-led coalition, protesting the January 5, 2014, elections.

It’s been a week since the government has blocked public access to several social media and Internet applications...

The United States today deplored political violence surrounding the city elections in Dhaka, and called on all of those involved in the elections to uphold their responsibility to ensure the polls are free, fair, and non-violent.

The United States has said the violent political impasse in Bangladesh unfortunately is impeding the economic progress

ON Tuesday, foreign diplomats, including the US and EU ambassadors in Dhaka, met with BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia at her Gulshan office. Reiterating their urgent concerns about violence against innocent citizens of Bangladesh, the diplomats urged Khaleda to ensure that the violence resulting from her movement comes to an end.

FARIA was only sixteen and like any other teenager, had dreams, innocent aspirations and hopes. On Facebook, she shared her moments of happiness, optimism and confusion, but rarely her despair. Her father's world revolved around her happiness and he had a promise to keep -- a trip to Cox's Bazaar after Faria turns sixteen. Seemingly oblivious of any hazard, he decided to take the long journey with his wife and daughter from Jessore to the sea resort by bus, the only means of transport he could afford.

Miscreants torch seven vehicles in Dhaka and elsewhere leaving three injured

THE cynics in the current hyper-charged socio-political situation would say that “the banality of evil” has come home to us with a strange poignancy.

THE cultural activists in the country did their bit last Sunday when they accompanied the families of those who had died in political violence and hung a list of 54 victims in front of BNP chairperson's Gulshan office.

Miscreants set fire to a land office in Chhagalnaiya upazila of Feni

With the BNP-Jamaat allies continuing to enforce blockade and hartal for the 44th day on February 18, the country has descended into deep chaos, uncertainty and unimaginable distress. We have got to be worried and perturbed after witnessing the scale of tragedies, lives lost by burning, destruction and losses inflicted on the economy in a free Bangladesh that we liberated at the cost 3 million lives. Since January 6, the country, from Teknaf to Tetulia, has turned into a theatre of unabated violence and destruction.

THE number one priority for any human being is safety of life and property. People live in a society and even form a state basically from that desire. Formation of government and financing of the same are borne by the people with the expectation that they would receive protection.

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon today urged Bangladesh to find a tangible way for de-escalating the ongoing political situation