Hartal by 20 party alliance has been extended till 6:00am Friday demanding fresh election under a non-party administration

FARIA was only sixteen and like any other teenager, had dreams, innocent aspirations and hopes. On Facebook, she shared her moments of happiness, optimism and confusion, but rarely her despair. Her father's world revolved around her happiness and he had a promise to keep -- a trip to Cox's Bazaar after Faria turns sixteen. Seemingly oblivious of any hazard, he decided to take the long journey with his wife and daughter from Jessore to the sea resort by bus, the only means of transport he could afford.

At least four people, including a journalist, are burnt in a firebomb attack on a bus at Banasree in Dhaka

Miscreants exploded six crude bombs in front of the New Market in Dhaka injuring at least three people

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.

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.

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

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

Miscreants set fire to a land office in Chhagalnaiya upazila of Feni

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

Police detain a leader and an activist of Jatiyatabadi Jubo Dal, youth front of BNP, from Wari in Dhaka.

Miscreants set fire to a passenger bus in Shamibag area of Gendaria in Dhaka

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says that the country has incurred a loss of over Tk 1.20 lakh crore in the hartals and nonstop blockade since January 6.

Amnesty International urges the five permanent members of the UN Security Council to give up their power of veto in situations of mass atrocities

Mahmudur Rahman Manna’s family files a general diary with Banani Police Station after detectives denied his detention.

BNP-led 20-party alliance extend its countrywide ongoing hartal till 6:00am Friday protesting what it said the killings of opposition leaders and activists in the name of crossfire and for the filing of false cases against the alliance leaders

Plainclothes men introducing themselves as detectives allegedly pick up Nagorik Oikya convener Manna from a house in Dhaka

THE statistics are staggering. And we cannot feel proud at what we are witnessing in the form of political movement that has seen lethal violence of an unprecedented scale.

With the BNP-Jamaat allies continuing to enforce blockade and hartal for the 44th day on February 18, the country has descended into deep chaos, uncertainty and unimaginable distress. We have got to be worried and perturbed after witnessing the scale of tragedies, lives lost by burning, destruction and losses inflicted on the economy in a free Bangladesh that we liberated at the cost 3 million lives. Since January 6, the country, from Teknaf to Tetulia, has turned into a theatre of unabated violence and destruction.

THE number one priority for any human being is safety of life and property. People live in a society and even form a state basically from that desire. Formation of government and financing of the same are borne by the people with the expectation that they would receive protection.