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SADARGHAT INCIDENT
Bureaucracy's anti-people mindset revealed
Faruque Ahmed
Police sued at least 30 thousand unknown people in two cases with Keraniganj police station for violent attacks on Sunday last at Sadarghat launch terminal. The unforeseen eruption of violence on the bank of the river Buriganga saw the burning of two motor launches while six others were set ablaze in protest against closure of a wharf...[ FULL STORY ]
DIALOGUE WITHOUT TWO PARTY CHIEFS?
Politicians haven't learnt from the past
Amanullah Kabir
The Chief Adviser will address the nation, the stage is set for dialogue, but what the beleaguered nation will achieve is still uncertain. The agenda of the political parties, particularly the two big players - though vary on different issues - are known to the public; but what the military-backed Caretaker Government (CG) has up its sleeve are not transparent...[ FULL STORY ]
Drift of the nation-state
Sadeq Khan
An ignominious habit of running to foreign embassies and high commissions, for overt support to partisan positions of political leadership, had developed amongst contenders for power in our mainstream politics. Foreign ministers in office or out of office went out of their way in hobnobbing with some ambassadors and high commissioners posted in Dhaka, compromising the dignity of their rank and status. So did some sitting or former finance ministers, energy ministers, education ministers, a former President, and the Secretary Generals of the two major parties, amongst other high profile actors in power politics...[ FULL STORY ]
GOVT. MADE ALL ARREST ORDERS IN CORRUPTION CASES
ACC isn't interested in arrests
Abdur Rahman Khan
It is a confession from the Government side that the two former prime ministers of the country -- Begum Khaleda Zia and Sheikh Hasina -- were arrested not in connection with corruption cases, rather they were arrested for political or some other reason...[ FULL STORY ]
Aga Khan visits Dhaka May 19
Holiday Desk
Aga Khan, Imam of the Shia Ismaili Muslims, will be visiting Bangladesh from 19th to 22nd this month. The state visit of the Aga Khan has coincided with the celebration of the golden jubilee of his leadership by the Ismailish all over the world, including those in Bangladesh...[ FULL STORY ]
Media gives undue importance to diplomats: British HC
M. I. Ali
Most newspapers have failed to pick up the one statement that a foreign diplomat has said in Dhaka last week. The British High Commissioner in Dhaka said that the media in Bangladeshi attaches undue importance to the foreign diplomatic corps in this country. A Bengali daily quoted him as saying that the Bangladeshi news media are over enthusiastic to hear what the foreign diplomats have to say about our internal issues...[ FULL STORY ]
Move to form a govt. of 'national unity'
Fazle Rashid
Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen's theory that famine does not take place in countries under democratic dispensation will be put to serious test as a "wave of food price inflation is moving through the world, leaving riots and shaken governments in its wake"...[ FULL STORY ]
Obama is clearly ahead of Hillary Clinton
Moinuddin Naser in New York
Senator Barack Obama's chance of Democratic presidential nomination was widened after primaries in North Carolina and Indiana. Obama has decisively won North Carolina by a margin of 14 per cent while Hillary just won narrowly in Indiana by only two per cent. Meanwhile, many insiders in the democratic party are reportedly mounting pressure on Hillary Clinton to quit the race before June 3, so that Obama may have time to get ready to take on the Republican candidate McCain soon, reports different agencies including news channel CNN, MSNBC, CBS and Fox news. ..[ FULL STORY ]
GLIMPSES OF THE GREAT
Raj Kapoor
K. Z. Islam
Who was Raj Kapoor (1924-1988)? Should he be defined through his work? Or his personality? As the man? The actor? Or the filmmaker?..[ FULL STORY ]
KHALEDA, HASINA DETAINED NOT FOR FUN
AL to benefit from BNP rift
Shamsuddin Ahmed
Has the Caretaker Government (CG) deviated from its initial policy? "No," was the firm reply of an adviser close to the policy makers. Despite rhetoric by political leaders often raising demands and rekindling hopes among their followers of returning to the heydays of their party rule, the CG is pursuing its policy to bring about electoral reforms, weeding out corrupt elements from politics before holding the general election pledged to be held by the end of the year. In the process some of the former ministers and MPs have already been convicted by the court for corruption. More are in the process. ..[ FULL STORY ]
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