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IMPRISONING THEM INDEFINITELY IS VIOLATION OF H.R.
Khaleda and Hasina gaining
people's support
Abdur Rahman Khan
Despite efforts to implement a 'minus two' formula, the demand for the release of the two top leaders, Begum Khaleda Zia of BNP and Sheikh Hasina of Awami League, appears to be gaining support from the common people who are now in great hardship because of very high prices of rice, wheat, cooking oil and other daily necessities have gone beyond their reach...[ FULL STORY ]
POLITICS OF FOOD
Avert famine before it strikes
M. Shahidul Islam
When it comes to politics of food, the impact could be a killer. In the 1970s, an unsavoury food politics had brought the Mujib regime to its knee by turning living humans into horrific skeletons. The scenario may be worse this time unless the Caretaker Government (CG) moves in full force to forestall the crisis...[ FULL STORY ]
Indecisive govt. losing peoples' support
Sadeq Khan
Public disaffection for Dr. Fakhruddin Ahmed's caretaker administration is growing fast and running deep. Members of that administration in bulk appear to be unwilling horses, resentful of those in the driving seats. To common citizens, they appear to be habitually distant, wilfully inhibited and woefully indecisive. With the best of measures, like in fertiliser procurement and distribution, something has been going wrong somewhere or other, and generating fume of discontent...[ FULL STORY ]
BIG STRIDES IN SOFTWARE INDUSTRY
Local makers facing unfair
competition from foreign firms
Faruque Ahmed
Banks and financial institutions are gradually installing locally developed software for the automation of their operations although several private banks recently automated their services using software from foreign suppliers. "The cost of automation with software from local suppliers seems about one-fifth of the ones supplied by outsiders," said former president of Bangladesh Software Exporters Association (BSEA) Habibullah. He said local software is as good and suitable as anyone from a foreign supplier...[ FULL STORY ]
Vandals plunder BSS under
police protection
A Special Correspondent
It was plain and simple a robbery in broad daylight. Equipped with machetes, spikes and handguns a group of land grabbers and vandals seized 17 kathas of land on Purana Paltan main road worth 200 million Taka real-estate and pillaged half a dozen shops with all their goods and mercahdise worth millions of Taka last Sunday. They also damaged some equipment and property of the Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS), the national news agency, a statutory body under the Ministry of Information. They hurt some of the newsmen on duty during their Mafia style terror operation...[ FULL STORY ]
ISLAMABAD'S PENTAGON CONNECTION
Pakistani generals served as
foot soldiers of US
M. Ziauddin
The results of the February 18 elections have given a new hope to Pakistan, especially to its youth who had not seen the heady days immediately following the fall of the first military dictator Ayub or the emergence of the Z A Bhutto as the saviour of the residual Pakistan after the ouster of the second military dictator Yahya and. Neither have had the experience of waking up with a new hope on the day Benazir Bhutto was sworn in as the first woman prime minister of a Muslim country following the 1988 elections held after the third military dictator, Zia-ul-Huq had vanished virtually into thin air. Pakistan has had dictatorship as many as four times in the last 61 years; and US lost interest in Pakistan whenever there was an elected government...[ FULL STORY ]
GLIMPSES OF THE GREAT
Sir Isaac Newton
K. Z. Islam
Few men had lived for whom less need exists to justify a biography. Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) was one of the greatest scientists of all times - and in the opinion of many, not one of the greatest but the greatest...[ FULL STORY ]
Cash crunch may impede Clinton
hustings against Obama
Moinuddin Naser in New York
Barack Obama raised more than $30 million in the month of March, report agencies quoting Obama campaign official. On the other hand Clinton's campaign source said that during the month of March the total raise will be closed to 20 million dollar...[ FULL STORY ]
HOW MUCH RICE DO WE NEED?
Statistics don't match realities
Shamsuddin Ahmed
How much rice do we need annually? The government estimates the country's annual food requirement at around 25 million tons. Agriculture officials estimate that around two million tons of food crops were damaged this year because of natural calamities. Even assuming total food requirements for the country at 26 million tons, the deficit should not be more than 2 million tons for the year...[ FULL STORY ]
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