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60 MORE POLITICIANS GRANTED BAIL
Tarique Rahman's release on bail upsets Awami League
Abdur Rahman Khan
The release of BNP's Senior Joint Secretary General Tarique Rahman, after 18 months in detention, has generated a fresh enthusiasm among the young supporters but raised concern among Awami League allies and other opponents...[ FULL STORY ]
INDIA'S SECURITY CONCERNS
Which is more perilous: ISI, communalism or Maoism?
Shamsuddin Ahmed
Which poses the greatest security threat to India? Maoism, Pakistan's secret agency ISI or communalism? BBC on August 30 quoted Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as saying that "the Maoist insurgency is the single biggest threat to India's security." Chief of Indian Army Gen Joginder sharing the concern of the Prime Minister had said, "Indian Army is keeping a close watch on Maoist rebels operating in the country's eastern, central and southern states," in the wake of rising attacks and violence that posed a serious security threat...[ FULL STORY ]
BANGLADESH SCENE
Who's plotting to torpedo election roadmap?
M. Shahidul Islam
"If something can go wrong, it will," so posits the Murphy's Law. As many things are going the wrong way to derail the scheduled polling in December, people smells the existence of a thickening plot which can endanger the nation's resilience to thrust ahead as an aspiring democracy...[ FULL STORY ]
Five lessons on US elections after
super Tuesday
Moinuddin Naser in New York
Belying all predictions about the Super Tuesday (February 5) primary elections in 22 states that the day will be a decisive day for next president of the United States the voters have chosen to give a hard run to the candidates. This is true at least in case of the democratic primary, when neither Hillary Clinton nor Barack Obama got clear majority of the delegates to cease the campaign...[ FULL STORY ]
PARADIGM SHIFTS IN SOUTH ASIAN GEO-POLITICS-2
US grip over South Asia firm but faltering
Sadeq Khan
Vicissitudes of Bush doctrine application and Indo-US convergence notwithstanding, post-Cold War South Asia as a whole has steadily moved into the galaxy of United States and continues to orbit its star-studded banner. There are of course marginal tendencies growing in new Nepal and Sri Lanka to cosy up to China, mainly in reaction to the old noose of overbearing Indian hegemony around their necks. But then, China at the moment is disinclined to step on the toes of the sole superpower agenda in South Asia or South East Asia or even in the Far East, so long as USA does not touch the intricate web of regional relationships patiently built-up by China. And China also remains a strategic partner of USA in trade and in war on terror...[ FULL STORY ]
Adm. Mullen, Gen Kayani parley in secret aboard Abraham Lincoln in Arabian Sea
Fazle Rashid in New York
Highest ranking US and Pakistan military commanders parleyed aboard aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln in the mid Arabian Sea last week to redraw the strategies to wrangle with the growing might of the Taleban militants along Pak-Afghan border. The US side was led by Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the US Army while Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, the chief of army staff led the Pakistan army let the Pakistan team...[ FULL STORY ]
TERROR LET LOSE BY RULERS
Kashmir under siege; major towns
under curfew
Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal in New Delhi
Kashmir is under a total curfew; the people are under a siege. Kashmir leaders are under arrest for conducting three peaceful marches. The world is keenly watching Kashmiri mood and the latest development in the militarised and turbulent valley. Major towns in Kashmir have been placed under curfew. Governor Vohra is trying to use axe on the freedom fighters of Kashmir. Tension rules everywhere with the reports of murders and torture of Kashmiris, though most of the media are shut down and people are under a siege...[ FULL STORY ]
Success of US attack on Iran's nuke facilities doubtful
Jim Lobe in Washington
A military attack on Iran's major nuclear facilities by the United States or Israel would likely result only in a delay-and not a particularly significant one at that-in Tehran's ability to produce the fuel necessary to build a nuclear weapon, according to a report released here last week by an influential think tank on nuclear proliferation issues...[ FULL STORY ]
GLIMPSES OF GREAT
Denis Compton
K. Z. Islam
There have been few cricketers as stylish in his appearance and in his batting as Denis Compton (1918-1997) Compton's batting reflected the man; he used the cover drive to go anywhere from between point to extra cover. When he cut, swept or hooked, it was usually late. Punctuality was never Compton's strongest point. A chance conversation with a motorist on Vauxhall Bridge on the last day of Test at the Oval revealed that the game was half an hour into the last day of the Test. And Compton was playing...[ FULL STORY ]
Engineer Quamrul Islam Siddique's
death Condolence
Anisur Rahman in Stockholm
Martin Walshe, Acting Executive Secretary of the Stockholm based international organisation on water issue, the Global Water Partnership (GWP), in a statement on Wednesday condoled the death of Bangladeshi water expert Quamrul Islam Siddique...[ FULL STORY ]
ACC's image, corruption, few bottles
of alcohol
Special Correspondent
Former minister Anwar Hossain Manju has been convicted, in absentia, and sentenced to jail for five years for keeping few cans of bear and bottles of wine. Manju, a non-drinker, is chief of his faction of Jatiya Party, one of the owners of mass circulated daily Ittefaq and owner of a couple industries...[ FULL STORY ]
Prof Moniruzzaman passes away
Professor Dr Muhammad Moniruzzaman, a noted lyricist and former Chairman of the Department of Bangla of Dhaka University (DU), passed away on Wednesday at the Bangladesh Medical College hospital in the city. He was 72...[ FULL STORY ]
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