BD Politics
The Three Thousand Stooges
Manufacturing king China decides to double its production capacity by upgrading to a Two Child policy. And when it comes to production efficiency...
5 November 2015
BNP is getting peeled like an onion
Famous American poet, writer and editor, Carl Sandburg, once said that life is like an onion which you peel off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.
5 November 2015
Khaleda to return to Dhaka by Nov 7
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia will return home from London before November 7, her lawyers said during a graft case hearing.
29 October 2015
Don’t blame BNP for foreigner killings: Fakhrul
BNP acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir urges the government not to put the blame on BNP for the killings of two foreigners in Bangladesh.
22 October 2015
Cabinet okays law for partisan local polls
The cabinet has approved the drafts of the law that will allow registered political parties to nominate candidates in the local body elections.
12 October 2015
Travel alert ‘shameful’: Ershad
Jatiya Party President HM Ershad says it is “shameful” for Bangladesh to be on the alert list of foreign countries after the foreigners’ killings.
11 October 2015
MP Liton won’t be spared: Home minister
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan speaks of not sparing ruling party lawmaker Manzurul Islam Liton who shot a kid in Gaibandha for “no reason”.
7 October 2015
Bogra medical college shut after BCL infighting
Authorities have shut Ziaur Rahman Medical College in Bogra for an indefinite period after an infighting of the college’s BCL.
7 October 2015
Bangladesh gets 30 mobile desalination units from Japan
Japan has handed over 30 mobile desalination units to Bangladesh that can turn river water safe for drinking during times of emergency.
21 September 2015
Arrested Rajshahi ex-mayor Minu at ICU
Rajshahi city’s former mayor Mizanur Rahman Minu has been taken to the intensive care unit (ICU) of Rajshahi Medical College and Hospital.
9 September 2015
Khaleda to appear before court tomorrow
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia will appear before a Dhaka court tomorrow in Zia Charitable Trust and Zia Orphanage Trust graft cases.
9 September 2015
Gatco graft case: Mosharraf’s bail scrapped
High Court cancels its earlier order that granted bail to former BNP minister of state for energy AKM Mosharraf Hossain in the Gatco graft case.
1 September 2015
Zafar Iqbal won’t press for BCL men’s punishment
Prof Zafar Iqbal says he will not press for punishment of the Bangladesh Chhatra League activists over attack on SUST teachers.
31 August 2015
'BCL men' attack Sust teachers’ demo
Bangladesh Chhatra League attack a teachers’ demonstration demanding vice-chancellor’s resignation at Shahjalal University in Sylhet.
30 August 2015
MPs’ motorcade attacked in Faridpur
Motorcade of Rajbari lawmaker Kazi Keramat Ali and researved seat MP Kamrunnahar Chowdhury comes under attack in Faridpur.
22 August 2015
Does our constitution need reform?
A total of 16 amendments have been brought to our constitution over the past four decades. But it is difficult to find any amendment which was actually aimed at improving the constitution's quality, enhancing people's rights and paving the way for flourishing democracy.
17 August 2015
Khaleda’s passport scans are fake!
Two curious images of what appears to be BNP chief Khaleda Zia’s passport have been recently floating around facebook.
13 August 2015
Amu blames ‘violence perpetrators’ for blogger killings
Industries Minister Amir Hossain Amu dubs blogger killings “planned” and blamed the “perpetrators of violence” for the murders.
9 August 2015
A ceasefire between the battling Begums!
Another twist in the tale is that where previously Sheikh Hasina wanted to draw Khaleda Zia into elections on her terms, now it is the latter who is trying to draw the Prime Minister into calling a snap election.
30 July 2015
Reflection on Bangladesh's democratic governance
It is high time for all of us to accept our own mistakes that led us to the present state of play. Rather than transferring blame onto others, all the stakeholders must talk among themselves first, and then reinvigorate from within. Once we have done that, we can then take the next step to put a common agenda together and place it before the citizens for national consideration.
29 July 2015