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● Washington declares emergency over wildfires ● Move underway to bring back Benazir from Dubai: Home Minister ● Green chili prices to ease within 2-5 days ● Adabar murder: Expelled BNP leader sent to jail ● Govt under pressure to raise edible oil prices ● Measles crisis: 4 more deaths reported, national tally reaches 844 ● Clash in Uttarkhan: DNCC Administrator, MP allegedly attacked

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]

Judiciary overburdened with pending cases

Ahasan Uddin Bhuiyan

Justice delayed has become justice denied for millions in Bangladesh. From corruption and money laundering cases, sensational murder investigations stretching over decades to labour disputes unresolved despite legal deadlines, the country's courts are buckling under the weight of an unprecedented

Questions raised over interim govt's agenda

Ahasan Uddin Bhuiyan

Following the fall of the Sheikh Hasina-led government on August 5 2024, the unelected interim government headed by Dr Muhammad Yunus assumed office on August 8 and constituted 11 Reform Commissions during its 18-month tenure.The Commissions submitted reports containing thousands

It's time to wean children off social media addiction

Ahasan Uddin Bhuiyan

Behind the seductive glow of smartphone screens, today's children are growing up in an unregulated digital world where addiction, cyberbullying, pornography, misinformation and psychological manipulation spread with alarming ease. At the same time, millions of irresponsible users circulate hate, violence,

Political backing, legal gaps deepen juvenile gang threat

Ahasan Uddin Bhuiyan

The persistence of juvenile gangs in Bangladesh is being driven not only by street-level violence but also by the invisible hands of political patrons, legal loopholes, drug networks and social breakdown.Area-based juvenile gangs, often operating anonymously and under shifting identities,

A growing spate of violence

Ahasan Uddin Bhuiyan

A change in government was expected to stabilise law and order, yet across Bangladesh a different reality has taken hold. Juvenile gangs, often referred to as Kishore Gangs, have evolved into organised, emboldened networks operating with alarming reach.Although once it

ACC faces scrutiny over surge in cases

Ahasan Uddin Bhuiyan

Contradictory case patterns in the Anti-Corruption Commission during the interim government have drawn scrutiny amid an unprecedented rise in prosecutions alongside allegations of selective enforcement, procedural impropriety, political targeting, and failure to conclude major corruption cases.After the fall of the

Humanity cries in silence when the newborn is sent to jail

Ahasan Uddin Bhuiyan

A state reveals its moral character not only in how it punishes the guilty but in how it protects the innocent caught in the machinery of punishment. That test was recently failed.The image should have unsettled the conscience of the

No let-up in mob violence

Ahasan Uddin Bhuiyan

Although government bodies, civil society and political parties consistently oppose mob terrorism, incidents of collective violence continue across Bangladesh. There is no let-up in mob violence even after the national election, an elected government and parliament. Allegations are now being

NCP seeks to broaden base ahead of local govt elections

Ahasan Uddin Bhuiyan

The National Citizen Party (NCP) is pursuing a political outreach strategy aimed at attracting marginalised, sidelined and inactive leaders from major political parties to strengthen its organisational base ahead of the upcoming local government elections, according to party sources.The initiative

Commuters, businesses suffer as fuel crisis deepens

Ahasan Uddin Bhuiyan

Dhaka is grappling with a worsening fuel shortage that has disrupted urban mobility, strained livelihoods, and raised broader concerns over economic stability. Prolonged supply constraints continue to affect transport operations, daily commuting, and the city's supply chains.Across Motijheel, Gabtoli, Tejgaon,