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Look East policy revived
Foreign office wakes up to face reality
M. Shahidul Islam
The foreign office in Dhaka has wasted much time since January in rubbing wrong ointment oin wrong spots. The Indian north-east ought not to have deserved as much priority from Dhaka as Myanmar and its Arakan region. Yet, for obscure reason, there was a fixation of focus to India's north-east... [ FULL STORY ]
May Day blasts pose new
challenges for law enforcers
Sadeq Khan
Is the emergency caretaker regime beginning to experience some pinpricks of covert subversion by vested interests sorely affected by its tough actions and task forces? The question has come up in course of analyzing the slimy manner by which a child was trapped by two saboteurs to trigger two crude time bombs hidden in a box... [ FULL STORY ]
Govt. should ban it and punish importers
Piranha: A threat to Bangladesh's
fish resources
Abdus Salam
Some greedy businessmen have imported a dangerous species of fish called Piranha which can spell doom to the country's aquatic life. As the frightening fish is likely to affect the country's ecology so the Government should immediately take the concerned persons to task, punish them and ban its culture... [ FULL STORY ]
Rice output declines, agri-credit flow drops
Rural economy faces recession
Asjadul Kibria
The economic activities in the rural area of the country have declined for the last couple of months mainly due to some flawed administrative measures. The reflection of recessionary trend can be deciphered through some proxy indicators like credit flow to rural economy... [ FULL STORY ]
Dhaka - Kolkata train service unlikely
to begin before early 2008
Shamsuddin Ahmed
Is the proposed Kolkata-Dhaka train service prelude to transit facility to Tripura and Agartala? That will fulfill the long-drawn plan of New Delhi to have an easy access to her seven sisters in the east, which are fighting for greater autonomy on independence... [ FULL STORY ]
Ties with Iran will annoy US
Venezuela's Chavez severs
ties with WB, IMF
Fazle Rashid in New York
Hugo Chavez, President of Venezuela, a fierce nationalist, recently announced the nationalisation of the oil industry saying "today is the end of that era when our national riches ended up in the hands of anyone but the Venezuelan people". Hugo made the announcement at a May Day rally...
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First Democratic presidential
debate in South Carolina
Khwaja Moinul Hassan, US Correspondent
The front-runners for the Democratic nomination predominately played it safe during the first presidential debate at South Carolina State University in Orangeburg, South Carolina on April 26. Thursday night was the first time the eight candidates had appeared together on stage. It needs to be noted that inside the debate the crowd was quiet and the mood was obviously festive with the U.S. Congress and Senate in Democrats' control. The war in Iraq and gun control dominated the evening... [ FULL STORY ]
Glimpses of the Great
Nehru's literary output in prison
K. Z. Islam
Since many of our famous leaders are currently behind bars they might gather some inspiration from an excerpt from Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru's An Autobiography (page 351)... [ FULL STORY ]
Double-digit inflation likely?
Shamsuddin Ahmed
Ominous signs suggest that a double-digit inflation by the end of current fiscal year in June may not be totally unfounded. Rice price has increased by around 20 per cent since January. This correspondent has purchased Nazir Shail variety of rice from Sutrapur wholesale shop at Tk 21.97 per kg on January 30 and Tk 26.80 kg on April 23 showing an increase of 22 per cent. The price rise in coarse variety of rice is around Tk 4 per kg... [ FULL STORY ]
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