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MEDIA UNDER UNWRITTEN PRESSURES
President may be from army?
Fazle Rashid
Dr. Fakhruddin Ahmed, Chief Adviser (CA), delivered his long awaited and much vaunted address to the nation on Monday. Coming close on the heels of series of appeals by the visiting US State Department official Richard Boucher, British High Commissioner Anwar Chowdhury and the EU Ambassador, the speech was a welcome distraction...[ FULL STORY ]
DRIFT OF THE NATION STATE-III
Ship of the state yet to moor a political anchor
Sadeq Khan
Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), of the London-based magazine The Economist in its country report of Bangladesh for May, said that public discontent would "test the caretaker government's ability to govern and could prolong the state of emergency...[ FULL STORY ]
Newsmen demand emergency withdrawal
Holiday Report
The country's editors of print and electronic media, senior journalists, leaders of journalist unions, National Press Club and Dhaka Reporters Unity in a joint statement on Tuesday strongly protested against interference by different military and non-military agencies of the CG in the functioning of the media...[ FULL STORY ]
MEGHNA EPZ ISSUE
BEPZA will consider local people's sentiment
Faruque Ahmed
From the socio-economic point of view the site selection of the proposed Meghna Export Processing Zone in Munshigonj is justified. The 500-acre area in which the initial site selection has been made is a prime farmland from agricultural point of view. Farmers say, it will be wise to relocate it to a land nearby which is not equally valuable from agricultural point of view...[ FULL STORY ]
Fakhruddin's speech belies political expectations
Abdur Rahman Khan
The Chief of the caretaker government, Dr Fakhruddin Ahmed, in his nationwide address last week presented two new ideas regarding "national charter" and "balance of power" apparently indicating the hidden agenda of the present regime that came to power legitimately to conduct a free and fair election and hand over power to an elected government in a limited timeframe...[ FULL STORY ]
UNWANTED SERMONS OF BOUCHER, ANWAR CHOUDHURY
Our problems with talkative foreign diplomats
Golam Tahaboor
It seems that some visiting foreign dignitaries and ministers as well as some resident diplomats of the US and UK, often forget normal diplomatic norms and etiquette. At the slightest provocation or opportunity, they make frequent public comments, issue statements and even gives sermons on the country's domestic matters. Of course, part of the credit goes to our new generation of mostly electronic media journalists. These media personnel under pressure of intense competition hardly care about the contents and quality of their questions they keep asking the visiting and Dhaka-based diplomats...[ FULL STORY ]
Two Taiwanese co's to invest Tk 697cr at KEPZ
Holiday Desk
Two Taiwanese shoe manufacturing companies are going to set up two factories with an investment of about Tk 697cr at the Karnaphuli Export Processing Zone (KEPZ), a BEPZA press release says...[ FULL STORY ]
SEQUEL TO U.S. INVASION
Violence against women escalating in Iraq
Zeina Zaatari
Iraqi women's organisations and international observers point to an escalating war against women in Iraq, aided by the widespread chaos and lawlessness under the US occupation. In addition to violence by US troops inside and outside of prisons, women in Iraq face daily violence from militants under the guise of religion and "liberation"...[ FULL STORY ]
GLIMPSES OF THE GREAT
Pablo Picasso
K. Z. Islam
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) was perhaps the most restless, experimental, and productive artist who has ever lived. But everything had to be done at top speed. He was incapable of lavishing care, time, or sustained effort on a work of art. By 1900 he was turning out a painting every morning, and doing other things in the afternoon. He tried sculpture, facial masks, and symbolism, among other forms of expression, and from then until his death, at age ninety-two, he remained a master of spectacular output, working on paper and canvas; in stone, ceramics, and metal; in every possible variety of mixed media. He also designed posters, advertisements, theatre sets and costumes, dresses, logos, and almost every kind of object from ashtrays to headdresses. The number of his creations exceeds 30,000, and although there is a thirty-three-volume catalogue raisonne (1932-1978), it is far from complete and has to be supplemented by ten other catalogues...[ FULL STORY ]
SEMINAR ON VECTOR-BORNE DISEASE
AL to benefit from BNP rift
Holiday Desk
Specialists at a seminar on vector-borne diseases in Dhaka on Thursday said that in recent years, dengue and dengue hemorrhagic fever have become serious problem in urban areas of Bangladesh. The first serious outbreak of dengue in Bangladesh occurred during 2000...[ FULL STORY ]
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