High Court bench denies bail to Ekushey TV Chairman Abdus Salam in a sedition case.

The BNP-led 20-party alliance calls for UN supervised international investigation into what it said extra-judicial killings, human rights violations and firebomb attacks in the country.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina asked the armed forces to always remain alert like other forces of the country to protect the sacred constitution and maintain the continuation of democracy braving any threat.

THE cynics in the current hyper-charged socio-political situation would say that “the banality of evil” has come home to us with a strange poignancy.

It was with devastating shock and disbelief that I received the news of the brutal killing of our very well-known blogger and writer Avijit Roy and the severe injury to his wife, blogger Rafida Ahmed Bonna.

ON February 24 morning, the nation woke up to the news that bullet-ridden bodies of three boys were found in the city's Shewrapara area of Mirpur.

FOR the last 50 days, pessimism has gripped the citizenry because of the hartal and oborodh enforced by BNP-led alliance.

THE cultural activists in the country did their bit last Sunday when they accompanied the families of those who had died in political violence and hung a list of 54 victims in front of BNP chairperson's Gulshan office.

WHER-EVER autocracy exists resistance does too. History teaches us that. February 23 is a day that is remembered in Germany for events that took place at the height of Nazi power in a place called Munich.

OF late, we were startled by two falsehoods -- one, a deliberate gaffe corrected post-haste; and the other a mischievous attempt at populism after an anti-people act.

THE Chief Minister of Paschimbanga, Mamata Banerjee, paid a visit to Bangladesh from February 19 to 21. It is known from the media that her visit was made as per invitation of the Foreign Ministry of Bangladesh.

CAPTAIN'S log, star date 4698.3. Hartal -- the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Bangladesh. Its continuing mission -- to seek out new strifes and new abominations, to explore strange new ways of self destruction, to boldly go where no (sane) man has gone before.”

Two crude bombs leaves A pedestrian injured in Topkhana Road of Dhaka.

BNP-led 20-party alliance threatens that it would enforce a tougher programmes including countrywide hartal from Sunday if the government does not realise its demand for holding a fresh inclusive national election

Ban Ki-moon express concerned over the rising tensions and continuing violence in Bangladesh and calls for a peaceful resolution to the crisis.

SHOW the world the power of peaceful communities, and tackle bad governance that breeds frustration.

LAST Sunday, training materials and sophisticated arms were recovered at militants' training centre in Banshkhali, Chittagong.

WITH the extension of hartal until Friday morning, the country has reached a new record for enforcement of strikes for all working days in a month.

YES, that very mouth watering aquatic creature, which every affluent Bengali will do anything to have a piece on his or her plate as often as possible, finds the Padma a more suitable ground to breed.

A pedestrian died in a crude bomb explosion in the port city of Chittagong.