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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]

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,

When 'Amendment' serves, 'Reform' becomes redundant

Ahasan Uddin Bhuiyan

Amendments are not timid marginal notes but the careful illumination of a living constitutional text, refining without rupture and preserving continuity over reckless reinvention. Where sweeping reform risks institutional amnesia, amendment reflects juridical prudence by cultivating endurance, tending roots rather

Pump closures lay bare cracks in fuel distribution system

Ahasan Uddin Bhuiyan

In the wake of US-Israeli war on Iran, the widespread closure and restricted operations of petrol pumps have exposed a complex nexus of retail level supply constraints, regulatory enforcement gaps and demand driven volatility.A field observation across the High Court

Tk4,136cr earmarked for 36 priority interventions in edn

Ahasan Uddin Bhuiyan

The government finalised a 180-day action plan for the education sector combining immediate welfare interventions with medium term structural reforms aimed at modernisation, digital integration and equitable access.The programme, aligned with electoral commitments of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), prioritises