Since 2012, thousands of Rohingyas died in Arakan, and more than 150,000 people have been herded in the so-called Internally Displaced People Camps.

Burdened with antiquated bureaucratic or legal procedure, the decision making process has become an area of preposterously buoyant sycophants and the caucus of the power that be...

One of Soe Win's key priorities will be to make sure the army maintains its prominent role in the country's politics, including protecting the 25 percent quota of seats the army automatically has in the parliament, under the 2008 constitution.

There is an ongoing debate about the "success" rate of digital activism, given that success means different things to different people.

India can be a global power if economic invigoration is injected through building infrastructure on roads, highways and railways and he is eager to follow the Chinese model of progress.

Brendan Whyte, a social scientist, published from University of Melbourne in 2002 a paper titled “Waiting for the Esquimo”.

If one analyses why criminality and corruption are so pervasive in the society, the first and foremost answer would be the impunity enjoyed by the perpetrators.

In order to reduce inequality in Bangladesh, much more needs to be done to improve access to employment, health and education for the bottom half of the population.

The role of the police is guided by the same principle in the case of both a female and a male head of state. The principle is based on class differences.

None of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's foreign visits drew as much attention as his three days visit to China.

This is not common in countries where the law enforcement machinery is handicapped by a serious gap in training and education in professionalism, human rights, and behaviour.

Salman and Jayalalithaa can afford the best of legal brains in the country. But the judges, who heard their cases, too have to see that they deliver justice however weak the prosecution is.

The country had become a “soft” state revealing itself to be completely incapable of fighting the forces of violence and terror. True, the patronage of criminals by politicians in the past and a demoralised police force pushed up the crime graph in the country.

If the perpetrators of the law and order situation are from the camp we do not see eye to eye (not because all politicians wear dark glasses), then we heave a sigh of relief because we will be above blame, realising little that either way our nation is one more step closer to going to the dogs.

One by one elected mayors are being suspended with the urgency of an automobile company recalling its defective cars.

In just over two years, Bangladesh has lost five dynamic, assertive, free thinkers to gruesome acts of deliberate violence.

It's a government-made drama

The removal of elected mayors and councillors does not bode well for Bangladesh's local governance system.

At long last the last impediment to the implementation of the Land Boundary Agreement and the related Protocols has been removed.

WHY should the police brutality on protesters come as a surprise? They felt 'obliged' to act on the behalf of their helpless compatriots who only had a few guns and shells to protect themselves against the onslaught of (defenceless) protesters.