Mohiuddin Alamgir

The special parliamentary committee on constitutional amendment would sit with all political parties that signed the July National Charter, with the dates for the meetings likely to be finalised at its second meeting tomorrow.

The university's historical memory belongs to all of Bangladesh and must be preserved.

A section of Jamaat-e-Islami leaders made repeated efforts to persuade the party’s top leadership to issue a formal, unqualified apology for opposing Bangladesh’s independence in 1971.

Bangladesh has seen changes of government and repeated promises of democratic renewal, yet one weakness has remained constant: the country has hardly built institutions strong enough to sustain democracy.

All political parties that took part in the National Consensus Commission process agreed on one important issue: no individual should serve as prime minister for more than 10 years in total, regardless of the number of terms.

The third session of the 13th Jatiya Sangsad, although shorter than the first two, offered several indications of the difficulties ahead.

When protests, political programmes or sudden changes shut down a factory, workers are usually among the first to feel the shock

Justified and equitable are two very different bars to clear and the cabinet’s approval of the ninth pay scale clears only the first.