Mohammad Badrul Ahsan

One thing constant in the varying nature of killing children is how ruthlessly a life is nipped in the bud. Be it infanticide, prolicide or paedocide, that nipping is shocking no matter who does it and how it's done.

Sixty-nine lawsuits to date have been filed against one man that makes this great country look like a giant incubator for witch hunters. All the war criminals are being tried by two tribunals, whereas courts after courts are being engaged to drag a decent man from pillar to post.

We need to understand who is right and who is wrong as well as how to go about it in the future. Law can't be an ad hoc thing, and it shouldn't be a coat one has to cut according to one's cloth.

If the dawn of democracy arrived in Athens 2,500 years ago, how has its day progressed in as many years?

Hussain Muhammad Ershad never retired from politics because he never got tired of it.

From the look of things, it appears that the policemen in Bangladesh are drawing inspiration from the homeopath's guide to potency and dosage.

Scientists have claimed that in next five to ten years they are going to invent the cloak of invisibility.

In his farewell address in 1796, the first US president George Washington warned against the influence of attachment of one nation for another.

God knows why BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia chose to make her case at this point in time. Whether it was some divine revelation or a

During the Meiji Restoration of 1868, the ruling oligarchy in Japan set out to "gather wisdom from all over the world". It sent "learning

A holiday commercial for a supermarket chain has triggered an emotional rollercoaster in Germany. It opens to a scene of an elderly...

Human civilisation is a contradiction in terms, because humans may not always be “civilised” and the “civilised” may not always be humans.

Donald Trump is full of ideas, but all his ideas are sadly full of it. This billionaire-turned-US politician has called China “the number one abuser...

The series of coordinated terrorist attacks in Paris last Friday killed 129 people, and some of those wounded remain in critical conditions.

Never before in our history have we lived in so much fear. Never before have we suffered from so much anxiety to find our enemies hiding in the crowd.

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.

Muscle flexing is dishonesty because it's coercion. Nepotism is dishonesty because it's discrimination. Election rigging is dishonesty because it's manipulation. Bribery is dishonesty because it's perversion. When all of these phenomena persist in a society or a country, how can its citizens be honest?

A single-party rule has its benefits, such as quick decision making and ready implementation. Then it has its inherent risks in the rise of tyranny and subjugation of people.

India under Narendra Modi is working like the recoil of a gun, when forward thrust is producing backward momentum. In most small

The nature of the crimes tells us one thing for sure, that these are the work of professional men. Whether those men acted on their own, or on behalf of an extremist group, or a political cartel is critical because that can give us an idea at what rate the fuse is burning to set off explosion.