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THIS YEAR'S FOOD GAP IS 3.4 MILLION TONS
Advanced tech being applied
to boost food production
Faruque Ahmed
Whether the food security should be a local or a regional and global concern is increasingly drawing public attention in recent time. The debate has assumed a new dimension in the country as it is facing a severe crisis both in terms of supply shortage and surging prices of food items, raising the question how the nation should ensure adequate food supply at an affordable cost for all. Experts say that it is essentially a domestic phenomenon and the solution must come through increased crop production annually...[ FULL STORY ]
SEVEN-YEAR ITCH OF NEW AMERICAN CENTURY
Bush's Pakistan policy,
diplomacy prove futile
Sadeq Khan
The Bush administration, as a sequel to 9/11 attack on America, has certainly earned the credit of establishing a superpower legacy, a 21st century version of the Monroe doctrine. Notwithstanding the UN charter securing the sovereignty and inviolability of member nation-states, the White House in Washington has expressly usurped a prerogative as the first amongst equals. US politicians now feely talk about intended interventions - diplomatic, economic and/or military - to effect regime changes, and/or to exercise coercive influences in the internal affairs of lesser nation-states, to ensure conformity with US interests and security concerns...[ FULL STORY ]
TRADE CONSPIRACY AT WORK?
RMG sector needs rational
approach to survive
Mohammed Ali Sattar
It appears that a long term 'trade conspiracy' (as part of trade diplomacy) is on against our most successful manufacturing and export sector- the readymade garment sector...[ FULL STORY ]
DHAKA TO BRACE FOR US POLICY CHANGE IN SOUTH ASIA
Musharraf woos Islamists
amid fear of US attack
M. Shahidul Islam in Toronto
Much like the impact of the greenhouse effect, the US policy in South Asia is undergoing a tectonic change, thanks to Washington's failure to put into power its trusted ally, Benazir Bhutto, who had succumbed to assassins' attack on December 27...[ FULL STORY ]
Dialogue has to be congenial
and meaningful
Abdur Rahman Khan
The Government's offer for dialogue with political parties has been welcomed by the political leaders but they want it to be meaningful and congenial...[ FULL STORY ]
CA'S ADDRESS FAILS TO LIFT PESSIMISM
AL politics and new concept of democracy
Fazle Rashid in New York
The huge success of the garments industry in Bangladesh has become an eye sore for some exogenous forces obviously inimical to the country. This has become quite evident from renewed attack against RMG in recent days. It is reminiscent of the days immediately preceding what is now popularly known as 1/11 when the garment sector was made target of attack. It is widely acknowledged now even by the Western media like the Economist, New York Times and Wall Street Journal that Bangladesh occupies a very significant place in the global apparel industry. It is now placed just behind Vietnam. Two things micro-credit and readymade garments have brought Bangladesh into international focus which Dhaka's foreign policy failed to achieve...[ FULL STORY ]
THE INDIA DOSSIER
Will India surrender its
Gandhian principle?
Rakesh Saxena
Worried about Iran? Well, as shocking as it may sound, you may be talking about India in the same breath within two short years. The world's largest electoral process will enable a conglomerate of 21st century fascists to take control of the Indian parliament, if the existing government persists with its fatally flawed anti-terrorist policy...[ FULL STORY ]
Dramatist Selim Al-Deen passes away
Anisur Rahman
Eminent playwright Selim Al-Deen, playwright and a teacher of drama and dramatics at Jahangirnagar University, passed away at LabAid Cardiac Hospital in Dhaka on Monday afternoon. He was buried after the asr prayers on Wednesday in the graveyard near the mosque at Jahangirnagar University where he had taught drama and dramatics for 30 years...[ FULL STORY ]
GLIMPSES OF THE GREAT
Bob Hope
K. Z. Islam
Bob Hope (1903-2003) with a career spanning nearly 70 years is an icon of the movie industry. Hope lived so long that he suffered premature obituaries on two separate occasions. In 1998 a prepared obituary by the Associated Press was inadvertently released on the internet, prompting Hope's death to be announced in the US House of Representatives...[ FULL STORY ]
Bangladeshi Americans focus
on domestic crisis
Moinuddin Naser from New York
The mistreatment of women, "banning them from working, denying their freedom of speech, preventing them from visiting their relatives, withholding their wages and not giving them money, physical abuse, sexual repression and dealing with a husband's extra marital relationships" are growing problems in Bangladeshi community...[ FULL STORY ]
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