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BB TO PROCESS FDI PROPOSALS DIRECTLY
BOI may be useless, but Akbar says no
Faruque Ahmed
The Board of Investment (BOI) may face severe demoralisation to slow extinction if a recommendation of the Regulatory Reform Commission (RRC) it adopted last week is implemented by the Government. On the other hand, the Bangladesh Bank (BB) may also face the growing credibility question and become overstressed if it takes over the major BOI function of receiving foreign investment proposals directly from parties as the RRC has suggested. Thus a single decision may seriously affect the country's two major institutions instead of bolstering any one of them, as critics say...[ FULL STORY ]
JUDICIARY BEING PUSHED TO THE BRINK?
Restoration of constitutional piety a must before polls
M. Shahidul Islam
Learning from crises is an indispensable political therapy. The CG is still in the process of learning and some recent moves of the government look pragmatic, positive and, pre-emptive too...[ FULL STORY ]
D.U. INCIDENT
Maturity shown in averting greater crisis
Abdur Rahman Khan
The government at last has taken a clear course of retreat in the face of growing dissatisfaction and agitation on the campus. It shows some sort of maturity in averting a serious crisis. But at the same time, it has demonstrated a serious weakness of a government functioning under the Emergency Power Rules (EPR)...[ FULL STORY ]
US WON'T OCCUPY GLOBAL SUPREMACY AGAIN
Bush legacy and battle for oil
Sadeq Khan
The Independent online of UK in an article in its January 20 issue mocked US President Bush in the following words: "Today (January 20) is a sombre milestone, marking the start of the last of Bush's eight years in the White House. This being a leap year, exactly 366 days remain until 20 January 2009, when his successor will be sworn into office. It is a time when incumbents look to their legacies...[ FULL STORY ]
NUCLEAR-FREE M.E. PROPOSAL WENT UNHEEDED
How real is Bush's fear of nuclear weapons?
James G. Abourezk in Washington
In an effort to start another war in the Middle East, President George W. Bush apparently tired of accusing Iran of having nuclear weapons. He is now focusing on Iran's Revolutionary Guards, who, the president says, are furnishing weapons to insurgents in Iraq that are killing American soldiers...[ FULL STORY ]
Increasing corruption in WB's $30b annual lending: NYT
Fazle Rashid in New York
The World Bank (WB) which was enmeshed in deep troubles during the presidency of Paul Wolfowitz and was able to steer clear of a storm has again run into a rough weather over the question of combating ever expanding corruption in its $30 billion annual lending to the poor countries. An outside report had said that 40 per cent of bank's lending is dotted with corruption...[ FULL STORY ]
Mainul grabbing my property: Manju
Moinuddin Naser in New York
Anwar Hossain Manju, the Editor of largely circulated Bengali daily Ittefaq and former minister in Sheikh Hasina's cabinet, said that he is victim of a family feud and his brother Mainul Husein wants to deprive him of his paternal properties. Taking the advantage of the emergency rule in the country, Mainul Hosein ensured his ouster from the country...[ FULL STORY ]
GLIMPSES OF THE GREAT
Edward Kennedy
K. Z. Islam
Edward Moore Kennedy carried the hopes and dreams of millions of Americans who yearned for him to become the President of their country. They saw in him the same qualities with which they imbued his older brothers. The public viewed them as men of honesty and integrity, men who were brave, fearless and ferociously loyal to those close to them. It was a vision history was to question...[ FULL STORY ]
THE BOTOM LINE
Taher Quddus
People think I am privy to all hot political events because of my former military back ground...[ FULL STORY ]
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