Zyma Islam

Nearly half of the NCP’s central leaders favour forging an alliance with the BNP ahead of the 13th national election in February.

Named Aviation Guard Bangladesh (AGB), the force would comprise 7,650 personnel

The government has drafted an ordinance to unshackle the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) from a 15-year bar on probing members of the security forces.

From snooping devices carried in backpacks to locate people through their phones to a massive infrastructure that can intercept even end-to-end encryption from a central command centre, the Awami League government had been on an increasingly aggressive trajectory towards building a powerful surveillance state. 

Police arms records show the brutal truth behind the July killings; the force bought 7 times more lethal weapons than non-lethal ones in 2021-23

A desire for power, intolerance for dissent, and failure to see the writing on the wall undid Hasina's iron-fisted rule

Aviation experts and pilots, both military and civilian, yesterday questioned the rationale behind allowing military aircraft to conduct training exercises over a densely populated area like Dhaka.

He was around 15 when he was picked up, a ninth grader.