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BANGLADESH JOINS TARN
Dhaka likely to propose alternative Asian Highway route
Sadeq Khan
A virtual campaign of disinformation, prejudicial opinion-peddling and persuasion is going on over the refusal of Bangladesh to join the Asian Highway Network in its current formation. Bangladesh has recently signed the Intergovernmental Agreement on the Trans-Asian Railway Network (TARN) after completion of due process...[ FULL STORY ]
Country braces for Sidr strike
Special Correspondent
Bagerhat and Khulna are likely to be the areas worst affected by the severe cyclonic storm that was poised to lash at the coastal belt and offshore islands by 8:00pm Thursday...[ FULL STORY ]
HAFIZ LACKS MANOEUVRING CAPACITY
BNP reformists win this round with outside help
Shamsuddin Ahmed
BNP reformist group has won the second round, but not without the backing of the administration. Saifur Rahman and Hafizuddin Ahmed along with their followers on Wednesday entered the party's central office at Naya Paltan in the city that was closed since the emergency declared on January 11...[ FULL STORY ]
WORST CRISIS SINCE 1971?
Pakistan: What went wrong? What's next?
M. Shahidul Islam
Faced with another 'tryst with destiny', Pakistan must realise that it is in the throes of turning into a failed state. This was predictable, however...[ FULL STORY ]
POLICE INVESTIGATION
Efficiency test sans change in mindset will prove futile
Special Correspondent
The efficiency test of police sub-inspectors aimed at improving the quality of investigation of criminal cases is unlikely to achieve the objective. The crux of the problem is low salary but high standard of living of the police officers. Most of them are used to manipulating investigation reports under influence of both money and political parties in power, resulting in punishment of many innocent people...[ FULL STORY ]
Prosperity makes Malaysians indifferent to politics
Mohammad A. Sattar in Kuala Lumpur
The people of Malaysia have lost interest in politics. The amazing economic advancement and busy lifestyle have kept them conveniently away from getting involved in petty politics or, for that matter, politics at any level...[ FULL STORY ]
AL GORE'S CLIMATE FILM
UK court finds 9 errors with 1 on Bangladesh
Moinuddin Naser in New York
A British judge has ruled that Al Gore's Oscar-winning film on global warming, An Inconvenient Truth, contains nine errors, including one regarding Bangladesh...[ FULL STORY ]
GLIMPSES OF THE GREAT
Bertrand Russell
K. Z. Islam
No intellectual in history offered advice to humanity over so long a period as Bertrand Russell, third Earl Russell (1872-1970). He was born in the year General Ulysses S. Grant was re-elected to the US Presidency and he died on the eve of Watergate. All this time he put forth a steady stream of counsel, exhortation, information and warnings on an astonishing variety of subjects. One bibliography (almost certainly incomplete) lists sixty-eight books...[ FULL STORY ]
Country grapples with arsenic water contamination
Abdur Rahman Khan
The arsenic contamination of water in the country has posed a serious public health hazard with significant adverse impacts on people's life and livelihood. It has caused an additional burden on the rural water supply management, demanding water treatment and quality surveillance...[ FULL STORY ]
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