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HIGH COURT REJECTS BNP'S WRIT AGAINST EC
Dialogue plan with politicians hits a snag
Abdur Rahman Khan
With the country reeling under soaring prices of essentials and people's dissatisfaction continuing to mount for food and jobs, the military-backed interim government of Bangladesh has come up with a dialogue proposal to which the political parties responding with conditions...[ FULL STORY ]
A DICTATOR'S BID FOR REINSTITUTION
CG should beware of Ershad's game plan
M. Shahidul Islam
Unlike other games, much of the successes in political games depend on fulfilling commitments. The CG must not lose sight of what it promised to the nation and what people had endured so far based on such promises. All the good deeds of the CG will come to a naught if the promised election is not held in time and the country's governance is not reverted to the constitutional rail in order to allow the rule of law to have a firm grip on all affairs of the nation...[ FULL STORY ]
MYANMAR IS SECOND GATEWAY
Iftekhar mum about accord on giving corridor to India
Moinuddin Naser in New York
Replying to a question regarding the report about agreement on providing corridor to India for movement of soldiers to the eastern provinces of India, Dr Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury said that he did not see the news, but at the same time he did not deny the report and avoided the question...[ FULL STORY ]
FOOD DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM IS FAULTY
Boosting supply alone won't bring down skyrocketing rice price
Faruque Ahmed
There is an apprehension that the country is passing through a famine like situation as the prices of food items have gone beyond the purchasing power of the common people. Explaining the situation, some experts say we are having a silent famine situation; others say here we have an open famine. Some say it is a famine like situation close to the one the country witnessed in 1974; but the food adviser will not agree to the suggestion, he would rather say it is a hidden hunger situation...[ FULL STORY ]
BIOFUEL: THE ORIGIN OF FOOD PROBLEM
Developing world hit by rising food price
Moinuddin Naser in New York
Shortage of staple food particularly rice has become a worldwide concern. Not only the developing countries even many developed countries where rice is considered as staple food are worried about the future food stocks. The Wsahington Post in a story published recently has depicted a grim picture about rice and rice markets worldwide. The daily also published a well researched story on global rice shortage. It is said that the production of rice has not increased compared to the increase in the number of its consumers particularly in the developing countries...[ FULL STORY ]
DUTCH PM REJECTS INTERPRETATION
Dutch lawmaker's Anti-Islam film made public
Irene de Vette in Rotterdam
Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders finally posted his 16-minute film against Islam on the web Thursday evening. The film 'Fitna', long controversial ahead of its release, appears less incendiary than expected, commentators say, but can be seen as provocation nonetheless...[ FULL STORY ]
UN: Talking shop changing its stance?
Fazle Rashid
United Nations, which was ineffective and a harmless body and rightly earned the epithet of being merely a talking shop is now increasingly asserting itself particularly in the area of peace by ending bloody internal conflicts...[ FULL STORY ]
MOST US JEWS OPPOSE BUSH'S NEWCON AGENDA
US media ignores reality in occupied Palestine
James G. Abourezk in Washington
There have been rumblings of late about American Jewish organizations not representing the views of the American Jewish community. In a Jan. 7 Nation magazine column entitled "Bad for the Jews," Eric Alterman cites poll figures that bear out this concept. A majority of American Jews oppose almost every aspect of the Bush administration's agenda, as advanced by Bush's neocon advisers...[ FULL STORY ]
GLIMPSES OF GREAT
Jean-Paul Sartre
K. Z. Islam
Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) was French novelist, existentialist philosopher and literary critic. Sartre was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1964, but he declined the honour in protest of the values of bourgeois society...[ FULL STORY ]
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