United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein says he was deeply concerned at “measures that restrict freedom of expression and democratic space” in numerous countries including Bangladesh.

The High Court will deliver its verdict on March 10 on a petition for quashing the proceedings of Barapukuria coalmine corruption case against BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia.

Five activists of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal are held on Dhaka University campus this morning for their alleged attempt to bring out a procession in support of the ongoing hartal.

Detectives detained five activists of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) on Dhaka University campus for their alleged attempt to bring out a procession supporting the ongoing hartal and blockade .

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader today donated the royalty he got for his two books to arson victims of the current political unrest.

The BNP-led 20-party alliance has once again threatened to enforce a fresh shutdown from Sunday if its demands including holding elections under a nonparty administration are not fulfilled.

A four-member team of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has arrived in Dhaka to help in investigation into the murder of writer-blogger Avijit Roy.

Rail communication of Dhaka with Chittagong and Sylhet has been disrupted following a train derailment in Brahmanbaria.

Chroniclers will record December 17, 1971[ December 16, 1971], as the day of the dismemberment of Pakistan. Historians will say that the destruction of the country, as conceived and constituted by its founding fathers, began on the night of March 25. From that moment, the movement toward disaster was inexorable, for the men who held our destiny were oblivious to reason of politics, diplomacy, morality, and military strategy.

As West Pakistanis, we are shocked and shamed by the recent developments in our country. We decry the denial by West Pakistani leaders of East Pakistan's right to self-determination. We condemn the current policy of brutally suppressing the home-rule movement in Bengal.

THE Government of Bangladesh, the Ministry of Home in particular, has come up with a set of directives concerning the indigenous people of Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) that are contradictory to the 1997 Peace Accord and detrimental to the core values and spirit of the country's Liberation War and independence.

THE brutal killing of Avijit brings into sharp relief the question posited in the heading of this article. He is the latest in a long list of victims who had to forfeit his life to an extremist group who found his views to be in discord with theirs. And the killers claim to belong to a faith that considers killing of even one innocent person as killing of entire humanity.

POWER makes strange bedfellows. Mufti Mohmmad Sayeed, who heads the Jammu and Kashmir government, has joined hands with the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP). Yet his victory in the state assembly elections primarily has been on the plank that he will not allow the BJP to enter the valley. That he has gone back on the electoral promise is not any different from what leaders of other political parties do.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today categorically said the government will take actions as per court directives against BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia.

Miscreants set fire to at least five vehicles in Dhaka, Panchagarh and Moulvibazar, the fourth consecutive day of the 120-hour countrywide hartal enforced by the BNP-led 20-party alliance.

Two people were injured in crude bomb explosions during a rally of the ruling Awami League-led 14-party alliance at Hazaribaghin Dhaka.

A Dhaka court granted a fresh two-day remand for BNP Joint Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi Ahmed in an arson case filed with Mirpur Police Station

Here is Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's interview with Ramesh Chandra, Secretary-General, World Peace Council, published on August 30, 1971.

IN the early 1960s, John F Kennedy said, "Anyone who can solve the problems of water, will be worthy of two Nobel prizes: one for peace and one for sciences" (cited in Likhotal 2013: 86). This statement of Kennedy implies the significance as well as challenges of resolving water problems. In South Asia, water has been constructed as a scarce resource and hence, is considered a source of conflict rather than cooperation.

Detectives detain former Ekushey Television (ETV) reporter Kanak Sarwar in Dhaka’s Shahbagh area on charge of sedition.