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Khaleda, Hasina will get scope to contest in polls?
M. Shahidul Islam
Since 1/11, a sea change occurred in the nation's politics, economy and in other fields without much thought spared for the impact it could create. As the clock seems to be ticking backward now, many wonder what happens next...[ FULL STORY ]
Pakistan-Israel ties taking root?
Jonaid Iqbal in Islamabad
Unbelievable extensive Pakistan-Israel contacts at various levels are being alleged these days by diplomatic sources. It began about a decade ago between a lady correspondent of the leading Israeli English newspaper Haeretz and a senior Pakistani functionary. The alleged meeting was arranged by courtesy of Pakistan's representative in Geneva who faxed a request from the lady correspondent that she wanted a newspaper interview from the state functionary in Pakistan...[ FULL STORY ]
'DOLLAR EMPIRE' HEADS TOWARDS BREAKDOWN?
Universal need of turnaround in growth strategy
Sadeq Khan
Is the 'dollar empire' headed towards a 'breakdown' as the 'ruble empire' did at the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Iron Curtain? Has the 'theatrical micro-militarism' of the Bush administration turned the American dream with bewildering rapidity into a nightmare, and is 'calling on its doom almost as rapid and every bit as fulfilling'? If suicide-bombing is a phenomenon of hateful death-wish of the powerless, is the 'arsonist-fireman behaviour' of aerial bombing of the defenceless by the U.S. and its protégé Israel a phenomenon of more virulent institutional death-wish of the super-power?...[ FULL STORY ]
GLOBAL MILITARY EXPERT COYLE'S APPREHENSION
Will US missiles restart Cold War?
Zoltán Dujisin in Prague
The US project to enlarge its missile defence system to Eastern Europe is a wasteful enterprise that will make the world unstable, says Philip Coyle, an expert on worldwide military research, defence security policy and senior adviser to the Centre for Defence Information in Washington. Coyle also served at Pentagon as director of defence operational test during president Clinton's tenure...[ FULL STORY ]
BBF, RRC may produce zero result
Faruque Ahmed
The chair at a roundtable discussion last week zestfully told a speaker as he offered him the microphone saying, "Now you may assume the seat as the chief adviser to the house." The new speaker laughed and shot back, "Yea, I can only advise...[ FULL STORY ]
Disbursement of farm credit adequate but irrigation and fertiliser supply uncertain
Asjadul Kibria
Disbursement of agricultural credit by the banks has gained significant momentum at the end of first half of the current fiscal year mainly due to consistent pressure from the central bank to channel more fund on rural economy...[ FULL STORY ]
RMG sector: Rational approach needed
Mohammed Ali Sattar
It appears that a long term 'trade conspiracy' (as part of trade diplomacy) is on against our most successful manufacturing and export sector- the readymade garment sector...[ FULL STORY ]
GLIMPSES OF THE GREAT
Niccolò Machiavelli
K. Z. Islam
The word "machiavellian" has passed into most languages including English meaning elaborately cunning; scheming, unscrupulous. Machiavelli (1469-1527) was born in Florence, Italy. During his youth, Florence was ruled by the famous Medici ruler, Lorenzo the Magnificent. But Lorenzo died in 1492 and a few years later, the Medici were driven from Florence which became a republic in 1498. The 29 year old Machiavelli obtained a high position in the Florentine Civil Service. For the next 14 years he served the Republic and engaged in various diplomatic missions on its behalf, travelling to France, Germany and within Italy. In 1912 the Medici returned to power when Machiavelli was dismissed from service and retired after serving a brief prison sentence. During the next 14 years, he wrote several books among which The Prince may be considered his brilliantly written and certainly the most easily readable of all his philosophical writings...[ FULL STORY ]
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