It has been more than a month since the anti-government blockade started. With it came continuous spells of hartal, and while Molotov cocktails have become part-and-parcel of the 20-party alliance strategy, it appears that firearms are about to join the fray. The police have recently unearthed an illegal racket of arms whereby dealers are using children as arms carriers.

It is disquieting to see that three years after the ghastly murder of journalist couple Sagar and Runi, the government has not yet been able to even “identify” the alleged killers, let alone arrest them and put them on trial. Sagor Sarowar, news editor of Maasranga TV, and his wife Meherun Runi, senior reporter of ATN Bangla, were murdered in their apartment in the capital on February 11, 2012.

“When we lose, they [Bangladesh cricket fans] cry and sink in frustration. So we'll have to perform at least for their sake.”

"If she wants to go to eat noodles then she can go but if we prohibit her then she cannot go”.

With Pahela Falgun, the much-awaited Basanta or spring arrives in a display of colours. Dhaka is set to celebrate the day with flowers, poems and songs as the seasonal cycle is in transition from a bone-chilling, gloomy winter to the festivity of colours and love.

AS published in a leading Bangla daily, a study brought out by the General Economic Division of Planning Commission, poverty has reduced to 24.47 per cent.

THERE has been a surge in the number of prison inmates in the recent time, with the escalation of political violence and intensification of law and order operations. In the last 37 days alone, 13,000 people have been arrested in 700 cases, with 8 percent of cases being of a political nature.

“I don't care whether the wage is good or not. I don't have any work here. What I need the most is a job right now.”

Eminent citizens have slammed the recent government order banning Bangladeshi or foreign individuals or organisations meeting and talking unsupervised with indigenous people of the hill districts.

WE are appalled that 32 persons, including 10 babies, have died in less than 24 hours at MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital in Sylhet, allegedly due to negligence of doctors and hospital staff.

WITH a former HSBC banker blowing the top off the bank's scandal and the French authorities launching a full blown investigation in 2008, evidence has emerged that nationals of Bangladeshi origin are among those suspected of money laundering between the years 1985 and 2006.

IN what can only be termed as nothing short of phenomenal, Arvind Kejriwal's Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has stemmed the blitzkrieg of the ruling BJP's attempt