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KHALEDA, SONS MAY BE FREED
Will govt. succeed in reforming politics?
Shamsuddin Ahmed
The nation has witnessed a high drama that culminated into leaving of Sheikh Hasina from the country Thursday morning in less than 24 hours she was set free from prison. Undergoing trial in four corruption cases she was set free for eight weeks for treatment abroad on an executive order of the Chief Adviser Fakhruddin Ahmed. She is destined to Canada. Hasina was earlier exempted from personal appearance in the court during the trial of the cases against her and accomplices...[ FULL STORY ]
SHEIKH HASINA RELEASED ON PAROLE
Minus-two formula in devious application
Sadeq Khan
A lot of hullabaloo has accompanied Sheikh Hasina's release, on parole for eight weeks to undergo treatment abroad, from detention in exclusive subjail in the National Assembly complex. Her party colleagues and ardent supporters are tremendously enthused. They sang, "we have broken the shackles of jail, we have brought back Sheikh Hasina...[ FULL STORY ]
Splitting politics will spur disunity, destabilisation
Amanullah Kabir
With the release of Awami League chief Shiekh Hasina on Wednesday, her dialogue with CG's Advisers and extremely hasty departure on Thursday morning for medical treatment abroad the country's volatile political scenario has taken an abrupt twist...[ FULL STORY ]
Hasina's release could usher in genial political ambiance
Mohammad Ali Sattar
Awami League chief Sheikh Hasina has finally flown out of the country. After eleven months of detention (although allowed to reach her messages to the press through her lawyers), she found herself in the midst of the same hysterics that she lived with her entire life. She was released on parole, the government retaining the power and legal right to rescind the order...[ FULL STORY ]
BUDGET FOR FY2008-09
It seeks short-term solutions to deeper malaise
Prof Wahiduddin Mahmud
The proposed budget for fiscal 2009 seeks short-term solutions to the economic malaise arising from adverse developments on many fronts. It represents the expected response of an interim government to a situation of widespread food insecurity and an environment of political and economic uncertainty. Moreover, many issues of budgetary policy remain unaddressed, or are only tentatively addressed, in the context of uncertainty regarding international fuel and food prices and domestic inflation and food supply situation...[ FULL STORY ]
RESPITE FROM INFLATION UNLIKELY
Fiscal authority to override monetary management
Asjadul Kibria
The Bangladesh Bank governor appears to be in an uncomfortable position and he is unlikely to admit is as such. His uneasiness has actually originated in the national budget for FY2008-09, officially announced by the finance adviser last week...[ FULL STORY ]
INTERVIEW WITH AMBASSADOR HUMAYUN KABIR IN WASHINGTON
US wants sustainable democracy in Bangladesh
Moinuddin Naser in New York
Bangladesh Ambassador to the United States Humayun Kabir said that the US administration is convinced of the policy and institutional reforms in Bangladesh to give democracy a sustainable foundation. In an exclusive interview recently with the Holiday correspondent in the USA, Ambassador Humayun Kabir had dealt with a wide range of bilateral issues...[ FULL STORY ]
TRILLION TAKA BUDGET SEEKS TO BRING RELIEF
No measure in new budget to bring market under discipline
Faruque Ahmed
The adviser for finance and planning Dr AB Mirza Azizul Islam last week unveiled the national budget for 2008-09 with an expenditure outlay of Taka almost one trillion (99,962 crore) focused to bring relief to market hardened nation...[ FULL STORY ]
GLIMPSES OF THE GREAT
T. S. Eliot
K. Z. Islam
The case of Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965) the Anglo-American wizard, who launched modern poetry in the English-speaking world in 1922 with the publication of The Waste Land . Eliot was born in US and lived there till the age of 25 when he migrated to London to spend the rest of his life there...[ FULL STORY ]
Bangladesh vis-à-vis global food crisis
Fazle Rashid in New York
It was good to hear finance adviser Dr. A B Mirza Azizul Islam admitting in his post-budget press conference that the global food crisis will have serious consequences for Bangladesh...[ FULL STORY ]
SIGN OF CULTURAL COOPERATION BETWEEN DHAKA AND PARIS
Third branch of Alliance Française opens at Uttara
Shakhawat Hossain
Alliance Française (AF) de Dacca, which is one of the links of a vast network of 1071 AFs across the world, has opened another branch at Uttara on Thursday...[ FULL STORY ]
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