A consensus among political parties is essential for holding a good election.

The political culture that has been bred in the country by the ruling party is one of impunity, where party members are, directly or indirectly, encouraged to violently suppress dissenting voices. The slapping of Inamul Haque is merely a result of that attitude.

It is imperative that we pay respect to him but what we need to recall is what was written on his bare chest and back, writes Ali Riaz.

Probably on account of my last two articles on Covid and dengue, someone thought I was a doctor.

All our institutions are crumbling because of politicisation, inefficiencies, and corruption.

Recent mass gatherings mobilised by BNP signal a change in their strategy

The rude disobedience shown by the field-level administrators – deputy commissioners (DCs) and superintendents of police (SPs) – to the current Election Commission (EC) has once again shown us what’s wrong at the core of our election management mechanism.

While these regimes have no real future, there is no clear and institutionally viable alternative to replace them.

Akbar Ali Khan is no more. His passing leaves a deep chasm in the intellectual firmament of Bangladesh.

His death is a loss for the nation.

The national energy crisis is a direct result of the corruption and nepotism encouraged by the indemnity law.

UN human rights chief's visit to Dhaka revealed contrasting expectations on the part of the government and rights groups.

Two university students have made Bangladesh the first Asian country to win the World Universities Debating Championships. Will this stunning rhetorical feat spark the spirit of debate in our society?

The political division regarding how to deal with the attack on the US Capitol Building does not augur well for democracy in the US. What does this tell us about the fate of democracy in the world?

The prime minister had made a very profound and significant remark at the beginning of this month on the state of the opposition in the country.

The League of Nations -- the body which pretends to have a mighty, big say in global affairs -- yesterday removed Chapasthan from the world map following a really funny cartoon drawn about it.

Expressing frustration over the poor voters' presence in many places during the upazila polls, Juktafront Chairman Prof AQM Badruddoza Chowdhury yesterday warned that the voters' apathy might put democracy in grave danger.

In recent times, the socio-political scenes in scores of countries around the world have been turning toxic. A creeping polarisation among political forces is taking hold, accompanied by a culture of demonising the adversaries, use of vitriolic and bareknuckle hate rhetoric.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the 20th century's ideological contest seemed over. Capitalism had won and socialism

Bangladesh has advanced four notches on the latest Democracy Index 2018 of the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), the research and analysis division of The Economist Group.