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HEADLINE

● Wing Commander Saifur sent to jail over BNP leader Iliyas Ali disappearance ● Cox’s Bazar airport to begin int'l operations by Oct: Aviation Minister ● Fake group emailed extortion threats to embassies: DB chief ● Police detain 2 over murder of 4 in Rangpur ● Gas shortage triggers frequent power cuts across Dhaka ● PM asks giving priority to merit in promotion of forces ● ‘Ghost’ sighted at Adamjee EPZ, mass illness hits factory

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]

Let all flowers be blossomed

Ahasan Uddin Bhuiyan

More than six decades ago, Pete Seeger's song 'Where Have All the Flowers Gone' asked a question that still echoes: when will humanity ever learn? A child's smile, the purest symbol of hope, is fading in bombed homes, dormitories, migration

Moral policing on the rise

Ahasan Uddin Bhuiyan

An Ansar member's reported admission on June 24 this year to taking part in ‘policing’ at Dhaka's Ramna Park has thrown fresh light on Bangladesh's expanding culture of moral policing, where individuals and groups enforce self-defined codes of morality outside

Custodial, prison deaths: A prism to evaluate

Ahasan Uddin Bhuiyan

On 21 June, Mirza Ishtiaq Ahmed Prant, a former Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) leader and law student from Faridpur, left home and never returned. Hours later, he was found dead in custody. His family's torture allegations and the authorities' denial

Major curriculum overhaul on the cards

Ahasan Uddin Bhuiyan

As Bangladesh prepares for one of the most significant overhauls of its education system, the government is planning a curriculum that aims to shift learning beyond examinations and memorisation. Scheduled for full implementation in 2028, the proposed framework seeks to

Once an Icon, NSU now a sanctuary for corruption, sex scandals, militancy [Part 3]

Ahasan Uddin Bhuiyan

North South University (NSU), the country’s first private university, ought to be a symbol of academic ambition and institutional integrity. Founded in 1992 with 137 students under a mandate rooted in “philanthropic, charitable, non-political, non-profit and non-commercial purposes,” NSU today

Once an icon, NSU now a sanctuary for corruption, sex scandals, militancy [Part 2]

Ahasan Uddin Bhuiyan

Once an icon NSU now a sanctuary for corruption, sex scandals, militancy [Part-1]

Ahasan Uddin Bhuiyan

North South University (NSU), the country’s first private university, ought to be a symbol of academic excellence and institutional integrity.Founded in 1992, country’s first private university, with 137 students under a mandate and vision of “philanthropic, charitable, non-political, non-profit and

Once an Icon, NSU now a sanctuary for corruption, sex scandals, militancy-Part 3

Ahasan Uddin Bhuiyan

North South University (NSU), the country's first private university, ought to be a symbol of academic ambition and institutional integrity. Founded in 1992 with 137 students under a mandate rooted in philanthropic, charitable, non-political, non-profit and non-commercial purposes, NSU today

Once an icon, NSU now a sanctuary for corruption, sex scandals, militancy [Part 2]

Ahasan Uddin Bhuiyan

Once an icon NSU now a sanctuary for corruption, sex scandals, militancy [Part-1]

Ahasan Uddin Bhuiyan

North South University (NSU), the country's first private university, ought to be a symbol of academic excellence and institutional integrity.Founded in 1992, country’s first private university, with 137 students under a mandate and vision of philanthropic, charitable, non-political, non-profit and