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● Child abuse in edu instts is unacceptable: Hefazat-e-Islam ● 'Govt to crack down on sexual abuse in madrasas' ● Low-pressure in Bay; may turn into cyclone within 48hrs ● 2 Durga Pujas in 2028! ● 3 killed as bus plunges into ditch on expressway ● Saudi Arabia holds 7,500 Bangladeshis in prisons ● Measles symptoms claim 7 more lives

Ahasan Uddin Bhuiyan

Staff Reporter and in-charge, Rights and Justice

Ahasan is the Staff Reporter focused on politics, human rights, law and crime issues at the Daily Observer since February ’2018. He is also a practicing lawyer and film researcher.
Ahasan can be reached at [email protected]

Police fall short of finding missing disabled people

Ahasan Uddin Bhuiyan

When Rajan Chandra Das, 42, went missing from Narinda Rishipara in Dhaka on September 14, his family began searching for him. Rajan has an intellectual disability and cannot speak. Unable to find him, the family lodged a General Diary (GD)

Foreign Counsel at ICT: A Test of Credibility, a Chance to Set a New Precedent

Ahasan Uddin Bhuiyan

When a state puts its own citizens on trial for the gravest crimes known to law, the legitimacy of the verdict rests not on the severity of the sentence but on the fairness of the path to it. Bangladesh’s International

A ledger of missing children

Ahasan Uddin Bhuiyan

Thirteen-year-old Ishayat Shahriar Apratim, the only child of a Cumilla University associate professor, went missing after leaving home on 18 September to take photographs with friends. His body was recovered from woodland near the Lalmai hills about 21 hours later.

Who will save Dhaka's roads? (Last Part)

Ahasan Uddin Bhuiyan

Ask who is responsible for a road in Dhaka, and the answer depends on whom you ask. City corporations, development authorities and utility agencies share responsibilities, but their lack of coordination leaves residents struggling with broken roads, stagnant water and

Who will save Dhaka's roads? (Part-III)

Ahasan Uddin Bhuiyan

The monsoon does not create Dhaka’s road problems; it exposes them. The real danger lies not only in the rain but also in how long the water remains, weakening roads, hiding potholes and putting lives at risk.After the latest downpour,

Merit In, Ageism Out

Ahasan Uddin Bhuiyan

A right that expires with a birthday is no right at all. On 13 October 2026, Law Minister Md. Asaduzzaman proposed to make that courage a crime of the calendar, announcing plans to bar anyone over 35 from entering the

Who will save Dhaka’s roads? (Part-II)

Ahasan Uddin Bhuiyan

Waterlogging hides Dhaka’s potholes like open wounds beneath a sheet of water. Rickshaws plunge, buses lurch and lives are put at risk. Every year, hundreds of crores are spent on the capital’s roads, yet broken asphalt, abandoned trenches and stagnant

Anti-Indian Politics of NCP and Post-Uprising Parties: Facts, Reasons and Process

Ahasan Uddin Bhuiyan

Since the July-August 2024 uprising, one question has followed Bangladesh’s new political formations: Delhi or Dhaka? The slogan, however, is not a policy. The real task is to separate sentiment from strategy, and grievance from political instrument. The National Citizen

Who will save Dhaka’s roads? (Part I)

Ahasan Uddin Bhuiyan

A tour of roads across the Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) area after the September 20 downpour found stretches where commuters were forced to negotiate deep potholes, broken surfaces, muddy lanes and waterlogged carriageways. In several places, roads cut for

The Mob in the Online Landscape

Ahasan Uddin Bhuiyan

A person can now be surrounded without anyone entering the room. She sits alone at home, yet within minutes hundreds of hostile voices reach the same screen, the same inbox, the same private life. A photograph is doctored, a rumour