Golam Mortoza

Seeing what happened during the SCBA election, one cannot help but wonder about what might happen in the upcoming general election.

Noted Supreme Court Lawyer ZI Khan Panna today said he was ashamed of the scenes that unfolded during the Supreme Court Bar Association elections yesterday, when police assaulted journalists and pro-BNP lawyers inside the premises of the country's apex judicial body.

What’s causing the slow enrolment into hajj packages this year?

Despite his limited authority, President Hamid had the opportunities to do certain things and say certain things, but he did not.

The main purpose of various ministers’ conflicting statements about whether BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia could engage in politics was to divert attention from BNP’s ongoing movement, the party’s Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said today.

When will BCL’s torture of common students stop?

A mere “questioning” sent two of those students to the ICU. The ordeal didn’t end there. BCL leaders and activists forcibly entered the ICU and threatened the two ailing students. They said, “You are comfortable here [in the ICU]. We didn’t beat you much, and yet you are creating drama out of it. Don’t you dare name any names”

This shouldn’t have been a mere political statement; it should have been the reality. But the current government policies are not in line with that goal.

Why should two political parties of the same nation receive polar opposite treatments?

We are told that taka is available, and then it’s not there anymore.

Information about S Alam Group has bought a bank with money from another lender and taken controlling stakes in other banks is surfacing now, but people in the banking sector and involved in economic policy-making knew about the developments, said Ahsan H Mansur, executive director of the Policy Research Institute of Bangladesh.

The government should narrow the gap between informal and formal rates of the US dollar against the taka with a view to attracting remittances through official channels and augmenting foreign currency reserves, a noted economist said recently.   

Tamanna Jasmine Riva and Razia Sultana, president and general secretary of the BCL's Eden Mohila College unit, were accused of hall seat trading, extortion, "blackmailing students into carrying out unethical activities," and torture. There were also issues regarding the other faction of BCL.

ECs in Bangladesh have historically faced controversies

Government decision to engage in expatriate diplomacy to tackle negative propaganda raises a lot of questions.

When Mahbub joined the Election Commission, he knew his days were numbered.

The government does not want to take responsibility for his public statements. Nor does the ruling party.

The record fuel price hike yesterday would put Bangladesh in a favourable position as the country enters into negotiations next month with the International Monetary Fund for financial assistance to ease the pressure on the precarious balance of payment and foreign currency reserves.

In the wake of fuel price hike in the country, The Daily Star spoke to Nasrul Hamid, state minister for power, energy and mineral resources, to discuss the situation.

They were never part of the political elite. Neither were they among the wealthy. Yet they were always considered the most revered and respected members of society because they were teachers -- high school teachers in particular.