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HEADLINE

● Govt preparing master plans for every city corporation, district: PM ● UK envoy meets PM, discusses bilateral ties ● Speaker leaves Dhaka for IPU conference ● LPG price rises in market ● BNP and Jamaat-backed lawyers clash at Dhaka CMM court ● Baridhara crash: Court denies bail to teenager ● Govt to push wage board implementation for journos: State Minister

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]

Man at Her Feet, the Law between Them

Ahasan Uddin Bhuiyan

At a Dhaka courthouse, I watched a man collapse at a woman’s feet.He held her legs and pleaded, “I have accepted everything you have done. I have done what you asked. Let me live. Please withdraw the cases.”His wife allegedly

Abets mob terrorism, calls rule of law into question

Ahasan Uddin Bhuiyan

When a uniform begins policing morality rather than crime, where does the law draw the line? Can the police decide what a citizen may wear, where personal freedom ends and their authority begins? These questions have become increasingly urgent as

Girls face growing risks despite protection efforts

Ahasan Uddin Bhuiyan

A girl’s childhood should be shaped by school, family and opportunity-not by fear of violence or pressure to marry. Yet a series of recent cases of rape, sexual abuse and murder involving girl children has renewed concerns over their safety

Political tagging changes vocabulary, not purpose

Ahasan Uddin Bhuiyan

Political tagging and the politics of tagging have recently taken an alarming turn. What begins as disagreement can swiftly become public condemnation, bruising reputations, livelihoods and even personal safety. As accusations outrun facts, political debate is giving way to suspicion,

Patwary’s ‘crude bomb’ remark sparks political backlash

Ahasan Uddin Bhuiyan

National Citizen Party (NCP) Chief Coordinator Nasiruddin Patwary’s remark that “no more crude bombs will explode in Dhaka city” if the government accepts the 11-party alliance’s demands has triggered a political uproar, with BNP leaders demanding his arrest and interrogation

ACC Focuses on Yunus-era graft claims

Ahasan Uddin Bhuiyan

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) is facing a major test as it begins examining a series of corruption and money-laundering allegations against former advisers and people close to the interim administration led byDr Muhammad Yunus.ASIF MAHMUD PROBEThe first major test involves

Road safety vital for liveable Dhaka (Concluding Part)

Ahasan Uddin Bhuiyan

Every year of drift on Bangladesh's roads is a year of measurable national loss - in money, health and time that nobody gets back. International research suggests developing countries lose between 3 and 5 percent of GDP annually to road

Road safety vital for liveable Dhaka [Part-III]

Ahasan Uddin Bhuiyan

Bangladesh’s roads have become a national tragedy, claiming thousands of lives every year amid reckless driving, unfit vehicles, corrupt licensing, footpath encroachment, transport syndicates and weak enforcement. A four-part Daily Observer investigation traces the crisis, the failures that sustain it

Road safety vital for liveable Dhaka [Part-II]

Ahasan Uddin Bhuiyan

Ask any Bangladeshi road-safety researcher what causes a crash and the honest answer is: almost never one thing. A 2024 study by BRAC University’s Centre for Climate Change and Environmental Research, commissioned by the Police Headquarters’ Research, Planning and Innovation

SWOT Analysis of Three New Landmark Rights Laws

Ahasan Uddin Bhuiyan

Bangladesh’s Parliament passed three landmark bills on 6 September 2026, covering human rights, enforced disappearances and property transfer, after rushed committee reviews prompted an opposition walkout.The disappearance law responds to roughly 250 unresolved cases, whilst critics argue that both rights