Can Bangladesh be rid of the recurring cycle of violence?

The ruling Awami League is desperately trying to showcase the polls as inclusive and competitive.

As the country is heading towards an exercise that the incumbent is calling an election, it is imperative that we understand what is in the making.

The BNP failed to reap anything effective from the huge public support that it was able to garner late last year.

Prisoners, migrants, even the deceased get implicated in cases

Bangladesh is now in the depths of both economic and political crises.

Awami League will not accept any change to the election schedule if it crosses the deadline set by the constitution, the party's General Secretary Obaidul Quader said today. Alleging that BNP wants to obstruct the polls, Quader said, "They want to question the election. Now they are openly obstructing, openly taking a stand against the election.

The youths have turned away from politics out of frustration.

With the deadline for submitting nomination papers to the Election Commission only a week away, the BNP now faces two challenges: preventing defection from the party and drawing up fresh programmes to keep the anti-government movement going.

Political parties must find a constructive way to end this impasse

The EC has repeatedly said one thing and did something other than that, if not the opposite.

Without political reconciliations, we're headed for another violent, one-sided election

Bangladesh’s political climate appears to be in a perpetual stalemate considering how things stand in 2023 and how they were 10 years ago.

While the prime minister is unofficially on her campaign trail, the opposition camp is on the run.

Arresting people on false charges is gross human rights violation

Let the truth be known: no one has any idea what’s going to happen to Bangladeshi politics.

istomorrowhartal.com, a 2015 website that offers timely information on hartals (strikes) and blockades in Bangladesh, has resurfaced again in 2023 in midst of the ongoing blockades. The service was initially set up during a period of frequent hartals by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and has recently updated its offerings to include information on the latest blockades by the same party.

There is no doubt that the country is heading towards a long-drawn confrontational politics ahead of the election.

The BNP has alleged that the government has become desperate to eliminate it and other parties by indiscriminately arresting the opposition leaders and activists across the country.

In Dhaka, the designated streets occupied by BNP looked like a battlefield.