Kamal Ahmed

Violence against journalists have been on the rise in Bangladesh and elsewhere.

Despite the hype created by Boris Johnson's loyalists and the campaign team, others have raised a number of critical questions.

British tabloids are having a field day due to the UK's tumultuous politics.

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.

Did you know that mind-reading was an essential trait for the job of an election commissioner? I did not.

In the current environment, it is the ruling party that has been seen in the offensive.

It is particularly disheartening and a cause for grave concern as the standard of our diplomacy has been questioned by domestic as well as foreign media.

Given the enormity of the UK’s economic woes, the challenges she faces are multilayered and daunting.

Our police are supposed to be neutral and sincere in maintaining peace and order, but their actions and inactions these days could not be more partisan.

The Bangladesh Press Council is fully dependent on government funding. As a result, its independence to act as a self-regulatory body remains susceptible to government interference.

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

While the government in India has listened to opposition, in Bangladesh, the government has brushed aside the civil society’s concerns.

The Gambia’s case against Myanmar for the genocide of Rohingyas is now all set to be heard and judged by the International Court of Justice (ICJ).

One of the most important but undervalued events of India’s independence movement was the naval revolt of 1946, about which Indian historian Sumit Sarker wrote,

The whole episode raises some serious questions regarding the roles of both the lawmaker and the college principals.

According to the Global Emotions Report 2022, Bangladesh is the seventh saddest nation in the world. And we became miserable well before the onset of high inflation and cost of living crisis.

Two verdicts in two different countries, located thousands of miles apart, by their respective supreme courts last week have stoked a serious debate about the role of judges and politicisation of the judiciary.

Well-known civic rights activist Mizanur Rahman’s narration of his harrowing experience of being picked up by police and tortured under custody, published in this newspaper’s online version on June 15, gives us some disturbing snapshots of the unlawful actions of our law enforcement agencies.

When Bangladesh needs to show that it has been listening to the concerns about respecting human rights and upholding the rule of law, it has done quite the opposite.

The questions suggested by Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen for the US ambassador to Bangladesh were a repetition of unverified claims made by some politicians in their public speeches.