Media bashing is nothing new in our democracy. Whenever media focus corruption in the government administration or wrongdoings of ministers, MPs or any politicians, media is blamed for tarnishing their images. But little corrective measure is taken following the media reports.

Selina Hayat Ivy won the initial battle in her own house-Awami League. She obtained party ticket in the Naryanganj City Corporation election by defeating Shamim Osman, local AL leader and infamous for many controversies in Narayanganj power politics.

Khaleda Zia's proposal for forming new Election Commission on the basis of consensus among political parties sounds good, but seems unrealistic in the current confrontational culture in politics. The BNP chief took a few weeks to come up with a set of proposals including some for strengthening the EC. But ruling Awami League took no time to reject the proposals as a whole.

Seventy six people in India died last year while taking selfies, putting the country at the top of the ranking for selfie related deaths, according to a study by Carnegie Mellon University, USA and Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, India. Pakistan comes a distant second with the number of deaths at nine. The authors of the study blamed people’s desire for more “likes” and comments on social media for driving increasingly risky selfie-taking.

Illegal migration has been an election issue and has been cleverly exploited by some political parties in India particularly to seek votes in the Northeastern States. And predictably this was also used by the BJP in the 2014 Indian elections when Modi had threatened to pack off all illegal Bangladeshis.

In what can only be described as an absurd, uninformed, and demeaning move, the federal government of Pakistan has decided to demand its “outstanding amount” of Rs 15.25 billion from Bangladesh and India.

Whenever an attack was carried out on a minority community people in past there was no short of sympathetic words to victims and promises by the government policymakers: stern action would be taken against perpetrators regardless of the political affiliation. But no exemplary action was finally taken in almost cases. All the words turned into mere rhetoric. Promises were made to be broken.

People with disabilities can travel the world. All it takes is some smart planning.

“We were told by police that we are terrorists and were accused in two cases… This is very unfortunate that the Santals who tried to save their belongings have now become terrorists,” said Choron Soren, undergoing treatment at Rangpur Medical College Hospital, handcuffed. Terrorist! What a horrible, scary word, with all its connotations of suicide bombings and extremist attacks.

By refusing the government's aid on Monday Santals give the message: they want their rights as citizens, not mere sympathy. Shouldn’t we collectively be ashamed for what we did with them?

How could Rafsan Hossain Rubel, accused of raping an indigenous girl aged, 18, flee while in police custody? The man the authorities let flee was not only an alleged rapist, but according to them, had confessed to his involved in extortion, robbery and abduction – seemingly a seasoned criminal. With his laundry list of crimes, the man is a clear menace to society and danger to public safety. His craftiness in escaping from police custody is only further proof of this.

Prime Minister Modi’s ban on Rs 500 and Rs 1000 notes as a way to detect black money may, in the long run, work out but for now, it has turned life for many in total turmoil.

British online newspaper, The Independent, publishes article titled “The Muslim country congratulating ‘His Excellency’ Donald Trump” on November 10, 2016 referring to the letter from the Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to the US President-elect Donald Trump. This is a prime example of clickbait gone wrong. The main purpose was – in all likelihood – to come up with a sensational title that draws in readers who don’t know any better [which sadly is often the case on the internet].

It is the underlying message that the anti-Trump protesters are trying to convey – and that is the fear of uncertainty, particularly about the immigration policy and what Trump has said about doing with the illegal immigrants within the first 100 days of his presidency.

To say that the US elections this year has been the most dramatic would be an understatement.

This presidential election is already labeled as ugly for negative and nasty campaign by the presidential contenders. But it may not be described as the dirtiest election in the history of American democracy.

A court acquits Shahadat Hossain and his wife on charges of torturing a minor girl employed at his house as a maid.

Hillary Clinton’s and Donald Trump’s campaigns are pulling out the big guns with just a day left for the election.

It is a mindboggling mystery how, after such a hue and cry over the vicious attacks on homes, property and temples of Hindus in Brahmanbaria’s Nasirnagar, unknown miscreants have had the audacity to carry out another arson attack – this time the target was on Nasirnagar’s Upazila Parishad’s Vice Chairman who is Hindu and who protested against the October 30 mayhem.

Can we imagine the extent to which we are magnifying the consequences of allowing uninterrupted faulty placements of power and cable lines?