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UN fraught with scams, grafts and sexual harassments
Fazle Rashid in Sydney
A moral rearmament campaign is being vigorously pursued in Bangladesh at a time when the world is witnessing scams, grafts and sexual improprieties sweeping through nations that in their inexorable run are not even sparing venerable institutions like the World Bank, International Monetary Fund (IMF) and even the United Nations....[ FULL STORY ]
EXCLUSIVE
Politicians can expect any 'damn thing' if they play with polls: Gen. Moeen
M. Shahidul Islam in New York
Army Chief General Moeen U Ahmed is a good communicator and media-friendly. Many among the expatriates appreciate the General for the army's backing which has enabled the caretaker government (CG) to take stern action against the corrupt political and economic mandarins. That intent to cleanse the nation's heaped-up mess has also generated wild speculations about his political ambitions. But the urbane General snatched headlines in the London newspapers by reassuring that the speculations about him becoming the next President of Bangladesh were imaginary. In New York and Florida, Gen. Moeen found himself swarmed by media persons who kept his aides constantly busy to have an exclusive interview...[ FULL STORY ]
Is it legal to keep Mufti Hannan in police custody for 120 days?
Special Correspondent
It sounds incredible. An accused in criminal cases has been in police custody for 120 days!...[ FULL STORY ]
BANGLADESH LACKS DEVELOPMENT PLANNING OF ITS OWN
It entirely depends on donor-tailored plans, but why?
Faruque Ahmed
What sort of planning Bangladesh is having for its development? The question figures prominently at the moment again as the World Bank-dominated PRSP forum meeting is going to take place in Dhaka later next month to facilitate review of Bangladesh's economy by the donors. Finance Adviser Dr AB Mirza Azizul Islam, meanwhile, visited the World Bank (WB) head office in Washington last week, apparently to take briefing how to go along with the current development programming...[ FULL STORY ]
Was Benazir punished for deviating from the script?
Afzal Khan in Islamabd
It may never be known who caused the horrific blasts in Karachi. What is unmistakably clear is its impact, intended or coincidental. The PPP behemoth had suddenly awakened and begun moving menacingly to threaten stability of the system and its pillars in Karachi and Lahore. The grisly slaughter on October 18 has effectively played into the larger design and thrown spanners in the PPP juggernaut...[ FULL STORY ]
Veteran editor Obaidul Huq: A tribute
Dr. A. Majeed Khan
There was a signboard on the second or the third floor of a building on Dharmatala Street, Kolkata; perhaps the building number was 43. The sign read 'Standard Films Ltd.' It was 1944 and I was a school student. I went to the building in the office of the 'Friends of Soviet Union' to buy some tickets for a matinee show of a Russian film 'Stone Flower' or such name. Quazi Shamsul Huda, a close friend of my eldest brother, sent me to buy the tickets that he booked earlier. In those days Soviet films used to be exhibited in the category of art films through clubs and societies. While climbing the stairs, I saw the office of the Standard Films and heard about one Obaidul Huq, a Muslim name associated with Bengali motion picture industry...[ FULL STORY ]
Dhaka urges Delhi to remove investment restrictions, non-tariff barriers
Asjadul Kibria
When a high-level Indian business delegation during a two-day trip to Bangladesh expressed interests to invest in power transmission, engineering consultancy, glass manufacturing, health and cosmetics sectors here, Bangladeshi businessmen reacted by urging the New Delhi to withdraw restrictions to invest in India...[ FULL STORY ]
WATER-LOGGING IN THE SOUTH
Tidal river management concept may solve the problem
Abdur Rahman Khan
Water logging in the southwestern region of Bangladesh is a wide-ranging disaster affecting the life and livelihood of about 500,000 people in Khulna, Jessore and Satkhira districts for the last three decades...[ FULL STORY ]
Dhaka Club protests Pak diplomat's mannerism
A Staff Reporter
The Dhaka Club management has sent a note of dissent to the High Commissioner of Pakistan protesting the undiplomatic behaviour of Syeda Sajeda Iqbal, Press Minister of the Embassy, when as an invited guest she tried to enter the club along with her husband to attend an Iftar party of Commonwealth Journalists Association on September 27 violating the dress code of the club...[ FULL STORY ]
Murtaza murder: Where are those policemen?
Fatima Bhutto in Karachi
On September 20, 11 years ago, Mir Murtaza Bhutto, my father and an elected member of the parliament, was returning home from a public meeting on the outskirts of Karachi. He was accompanied by Ashiq Jatoi, Sattar Rajpar, Shajad Haider Ghakro, Rahim Brohi, Yar Mohammad Baloch, and Wajahat Jokhio...[ FULL STORY ]
GLIMPSES OF THE GREAT
Sir Winston Churchill
K. Z. Islam
In the spring of 1940 all of Western Europe lay helpless in the iron grip of the German dictator, Adolf Hitler. Only Great Britain stood in the way of total victory for the Nazi warlord. English-men momentarily awaited the peal of church bells, signaling the start of an invasion by the seemingly invincible German army...[ FULL STORY ]
Rokon's remarks against separation of judiciary tantamount to rebellion
Shamsuddin Ahmed
It is sheer audacity for a government official to publicly oppose a government decision. Rokon Uddoulah, an assistant secretary of the administrative cadre, had been working as a Dhaka metropolitan magistrate. He was withdrawn from the post of magistrate last Tuesday and made an officer on special duty at the establishment ministry for trying to create obstruction to the separation of the judiciary from the executive slated for November 1...[ FULL STORY ]
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