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AFTER DELUGE AND SIDR
'It's the economy, stupid'
M. Shahidul Islam
Reasons and logic are mere fantasies to a hungry man. That is why politics has become more about economic management than the authoritative distribution of power to people close to the government...[ FULL STORY ]
CHANGING WORLD FOOD PATTERN
Bangladesh needs new food
security strategy
Sadeq Khan
The urbanising trend and consumer society encouraged by the growth pattern of Bangladesh and its globalising stewards, like in other emerging economies, may be in for a shock. A late realisation has dawned on global development thinkers and market-watchers that a multiplicity of factors affecting supply and demand of human and animal food arising in 2007 may continue to exist in varying combinations for a long time to come, notwithstanding promises of genetic engineering in the food chain...[ FULL STORY ]
BALI MEET GOES HONGKONG WTO WAY
Promote technology at affordable
cost, demand LDCs
Faruque Ahmed
The Bali conference on climate change, ended on December 15 failed to bring about credible relief to Bangladesh and the poor vulnerable nations about how to live with and tackle the climatic challenges. Bangladesh went to the Bali leaving behind the huge devastations of life, property and nature caused by cyclone Sidr following two successive floods earlier in the year. The country is also having crops failures very often. There was a big expectation that the world leaders, particularly the developed nations like the US will take it as a stark reminder about how to save the humanity from the growing global warming and disasters resulting from the effects of green house gases...[ FULL STORY ]
Benazir killed in Rawalpindi
Holiday Desk
Pakistan's opposition leader Ms. Benazir Bhutto died in Rawalpindi Thursday evening from bullet injuries. As she was leaving the meeting venue in a car minutes after addressing a rally in Rawalpindi, her killer shot her in the neck and chest and blew himself up killing about 20 others...[ FULL STORY ]
BRING BACK ARTEFACTS, PROBE SHADY DEAL
Quadri quits, Govt won't send
antiques to Paris
Anisur Rahman
Education and Cultural Affairs Adviser Ayub Quadri resigned on Wednesday. The resignation came five days after two statues of Lord Vishnu had been stolen from a French aircraft before its departure from Zia International Airport on December 22. There were widespread criticisms from different quarters for not sending the museum pieces to Paris...[ FULL STORY ]
MYSTRY SURROUNDS 'SCHOLARS BANGLADESH'
Dhaka NRB meet alienates
Bangladeshis in US
Moinuddin Naser in New York
A number of New York-based expatriates' organisations at a meeting, attended by 50 leaders of different organisations, condemned the arrangement of a conference in the name of Bangladeshi expatriates in Dhaka called Scholars Bangladesh, a website-based organisation...[ FULL STORY ]
BALI CLIMATE CONFERENCE
Bangladesh misses a golden opportunity
Moinuddin Naser in New York
The Bangladesh delegation to Indonesia has miserably failed to present the country's case in a cohesive manner at the Bali climate change conference held earlier in December but it has also been unsuccessful to be the host of the proposed "Centre for Adaptation." There were inconsistency in leadership required for complicated negotiations, lack of adequate knowledge and dearth of research materials at Bali that ended on December 15. Bangladesh was represented by a large delegation of 28 persons, but they were ill-equipped in presenting the country as a victim of climate change...[ FULL STORY ]
Three-day NRB meet begins in Dhaka
Shamsuddin Ahmed
A three-day conference of the non-resident Bangladesh formally opened in Dhaka at the Dhaka Sheraton Thursday afternoon. Brac University Vice Chancellor Dr Jamilur Reza Chowdhury presided while eminent lawyer Dr. Kamal Hossain formally opened the meeting...[ FULL STORY ]
THE BOTTOM LINE
Taher Quddus
An old man after finishing his afternoon walk was sitting on a bench at Ramna Park. He was pulling his hair and murmuring: "Thank God I am an atheist"...[ FULL STORY ]
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