Shakhawat Liton

The historic CHT Peace Treaty has been experiencing the brunt of the negative aspects of our national political characteristic.

The history of districts tells both sides of the stories – underlining the important role played by the district administration and how district councils have been abused by successive governments for their narrow political interests.

Championed as an icon for human rights, she languished in house arrest. World leaders and people all over called for her

Nigel Farage, a right wing UK politician, who was much jubilant of the win of Donald Trump in the presidential election, made a forecast immediately after Trump's victory: "Prepare for further political shocks in the years to come."

Media bashing is nothing new in our democracy. Whenever media focus corruption in the government administration or wrongdoings of ministers, MPs or any politicians, media is blamed for tarnishing their images. But little corrective measure is taken following the media reports.

Selina Hayat Ivy won the initial battle in her own house-Awami League. She obtained party ticket in the Naryanganj City Corporation election by defeating Shamim Osman, local AL leader and infamous for many controversies in Narayanganj power politics.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia's proposed process for forming a new Election Commission appears almost impossible to complete as it requires 40

Khaleda Zia's proposal for deployment of armed forces with magisterial power in parliamentary election duty is outrageous.

Khaleda Zia's proposal for forming new Election Commission on the basis of consensus among political parties sounds good, but seems unrealistic in the current confrontational culture in politics. The BNP chief took a few weeks to come up with a set of proposals including some for strengthening the EC. But ruling Awami League took no time to reject the proposals as a whole.

Santals are infinitely more respectable than UK's civilised enemy, the Russians, wrote English writer and social critic Charles Dickens around 160 years ago.

Donald Trump keeps stunning the world.

Amidst protests and shock waves around the world over the US president-elect, Trump, in a week, sent another big blow to the forces worried over his election by picking right-wing firebrand Stephen Bannon as chief strategist in his administration in White House.

Whenever an attack was carried out on a minority community people in past there was no short of sympathetic words to victims and promises by the government policymakers: stern action would be taken against perpetrators regardless of the political affiliation. But no exemplary action was finally taken in almost cases. All the words turned into mere rhetoric. Promises were made to be broken.

By refusing the government's aid on Monday Santals give the message: they want their rights as citizens, not mere sympathy. Shouldn’t we collectively be ashamed for what we did with them?

He “walks” on his hands as he had lost both the legs at some point of time.

Millions of Americans are now wondering can Hillary Clinton still win the presidency. The only way is: a stunning surprise on December 19 and if more than two dozens presidential electors on that day do not cast their votes to formally elect Trump as the next president and vote for Clinton.

Misfortune has been haunting Democratic Party's presidential candidates for the last 200 years. The latest one, Hillary Clinton, has become victim to it as she won four hundred thousand more popular votes than Donald Trump, but could not win the presidency.

The Supreme Court has directed magistrates to take action against errant police officers whenever they find infringement of the law against torture and death in police custody.

Gripped by panic and anger at Donald Trump's win in the presidential election, Americans now want to know "how to impeach a president".

The bafflement and bewilderment among the saner heads are now widespread as the US election results show Trump has triumphed.