Shakhawat Liton

It was a stunning revelation for many in the world when the education ministry of Saudi Arabia released the statistics two years ago

Abdul Baten is more fortunate than many other people's representatives. The mayor of Pabna's Bera municipality, Baten was charge-sheeted in a corruption case, and the district court sent him to jail in May last year. He was then suspended by the LGRD ministry.

The twilight on April 6 in 1994 appeared darker than the night in Rwanda.

Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) seeks to set up a mechanism to ensure prevention of outside interference and intervention in the internal affairs of sovereign states.

Among the South Asian countries, Nepal tops the index of women in national parliaments with Bangladesh obtaining fourth position, according to data released by Inter-Parliamentary Union.

A mega conference of world parliamentarians kicks off today in Dhaka promising to focus on ways and means to end political and economic inequality for upholding democracy and human rights.

Dateline: Meherpur, May 13, 2005- Some workers of the local municipality were digging drains to improve the sewerage of the town.

The latest World Happiness Index did not get serious attention here. But the index offers food for thought for the policymakers.

At the end of his ruthless massacre and war against an unarmed people, General Amir Abdullah Khan Niazi who led the Pakistan army in the killings, described the genocide of Bangalis in his book “Betrayal of East Pakistan” as “a display of stark cruelty more merciless than the massacres at Bukhara and Baghdad by Chengis Khan and Halaku khan or Jallianwala Bagh by the British General Dyer.”

An unhappy Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha on Tuesday said that the judiciary was being held hostage by the government's non-issuance of a gazette notification regarding disciplines and conducts of lower court judges.

The government has to return Tk 615 crore to 17 companies and several businesspeople that were forced to deposit the amount with Bangladesh Bank as tax on their alleged hidden money during the last caretaker government's tenure. The companies and businesspeople yesterday won a legal battle at the Supreme Court, which rejected the BB's appeals against 11 High Court verdicts ordering the government to return the money.

No plea, no criticism, no opposition worked. The controversial provision allowing child marriages under “special circumstances” has

New Zealand was the first country to give women the legal right to vote in political elections in 1893. Saudi Arabia has become the last one to grant women the right to vote in 2011.

Our MPs congratulated Tulip on her election as MP by passing a thanksgiving motion in Parliament in 2015. In the discussion on the motion, they said that they were proud of her. We can only wish that they would all follow her example of how to stand by the people.

Renowned psychotherapists, intellectuals and media outlets are now unequivocally questioning mental fitness of President Donald Trump for his arrogant behaviour and activities.

While speaking about the sorry state of public prosecution, Chief Justice SK Sinha has once again decried the present pervasive system of appointing lawyers loyal to the ruling party as public prosecutors.

It seems that the Supreme Court's (SC) immensely significant opinion on the anti-torture law did not go down well with the police.

Media was the recipient of severe criticism of some ruling Awami League MPs including Leader of the House Shiekh Hasina during a discussion in parliament on Sunday, January 22.

The ruling Awami League's recent proposal for empowering the Election Commission with supervising authority over the administration during the parliamentary polls echoes with the ideas floated by the past EC led by ATM Shamsul Huda.

The ruling Awami League's proposals for limiting the jurisdiction of the election-time government to carrying out only a routine job