A total of 16 amendments have been brought to our constitution over the past four decades. But it is difficult to find any amendment which was actually aimed at improving the constitution's quality, enhancing people's rights and paving the way for flourishing democracy.

Another twist in the tale is that where previously Sheikh Hasina wanted to draw Khaleda Zia into elections on her terms, now it is the latter who is trying to draw the Prime Minister into calling a snap election.

It is high time for all of us to accept our own mistakes that led us to the present state of play. Rather than transferring blame onto others, all the stakeholders must talk among themselves first, and then reinvigorate from within. Once we have done that, we can then take the next step to put a common agenda together and place it before the citizens for national consideration.

A political party cannot be merely reactive to political events and even much less suffer from duality of command exacerbated by string pulling by the absentee landlord.

Syed Ashraf has been removed from LGRD ministry, cabinet secretary confirms. Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain replaces him as LGRD minister.

BNP's spokesperson Asaduzzaman Ripon's claim that their party has never done anti- Indian politics in the past is a complete denial of the truth. The party's anti-Indian politics has been evident in numerous ways.

Video of an Awami League activist protesting against Dr Zafar Iqbal goes viral as he admits before camera that he doesn’t know what he is complaining about.

BNP’s assistant office secretary Abdul Latif Jony visits Salahuddin Ahmed at a Shillong hospital in the Meghalaya state of India.

It's a government-made drama

BNP urges the government to show a “humane attitude” towards Salahuddin Ahmed by assisting his family to bring him back home safely from India.

Interpol’s Dhaka office has sent a “letter of request” to its New Delhi office to arrest BNP leader Salahuddin Ahmed, who was found in Shillong, the capital of Meghalaya, two months after his missing from Dhaka.

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

To make the future even bleaker, the Communist movement in Bangladesh lacks a visionary leadership. The weakening strength of the left is also directly proportional to the rise of rightwing politics.

Indian police arrests BNP leader Salahuddin Ahmed, who was missing for the last two months, in Shillong district of Meghalaya on charge of entering the country without travel documents.

Alleging that the missing BNP leader Salahuddin Ahmed is “in the hands” of Rapid Action Battalion, Khaleda Zia warns of dire consequences if the elite force do not return back her party’s joint secretary general safe.

SALAHUDDIN is not the first politician who has gone missing in Bangladesh and I think I echo the feelings of most of my fellow beings in this country that he is the last of any politician or any citizen to vanish.

THE ongoing blockade and shutdowns are crippling the economy, with the garment sector seemingly set to receive the hardest blow.

THERE is something manifestly unusual in the media report that says that the police have sought cancellation of a legal provision that bars them from justifying torture and inhuman treatment of anyone in custody even in circumstances like war and political unrest.

Pickets torch five buses in Dhaka and Rajshahi as the BNP-led 20-party alliance is observing the first day of the 72-hour nationwide hartal

Miscreants torched at least eight vehicles at different parts of Dhaka and Narayanganj today