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BORDER SHOOTOUT LINKED TO 'TRANSIT' ISSUE?
Time to bring 'boundary violation'
before UN
M. Shahidul Islam
The Indian adventurism is climaxing to an unacceptable height and there seems hatred for innocent lives. The killing of two BDR personnel by the BSF on July 17 inside 1.5 km of Bangladesh territory is a grisly act of provocation and an intentional violation of Bangladesh's territorial integrity and national sovereignty...[ FULL STORY ]
SECURITY VULNERABILITY OF CORRIDOR
Politics & economics of
Indian transit demand
Sadeq Khan
Between His Excellency Pinak Ranjan Charkabarty, the Indian High Commissioner in Bangladesh talking to the press on July 10, and the 108 BSF battalion of Nimtita border post of India crossing into Bangladesh avowedly in hot pursuit of smugglers but actually killing two members of BDR patrol on July 17, the Indian demand for land route transit facility through Bangladesh to connect its north-eastern parts has been struck dumb. "We are interested in transit and we will remain so," H.E. Pinak Ranjan Chakravarty said after meeting foreign adviser Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury on July 10...[ FULL STORY ]
Release of Khaleda, Tarique delayed on
procedural wrangling
Abdur Rahman Khan
It is nice to hear from the government after frequent intervals that it was trying to accommodate the legal formalities and the humanitarian issues to strike a deal for the release of former Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia and her elder son Tarique Rahman from the prison...[ FULL STORY ]
CHANGING PUBLIC PERCEPTION
BNP regaining image, AL-CG entente>br
Md. Mahtabuddin
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) is getting back its political image, because the army backed Caretaker Government (CG) with zero popularity is perceived to have set off on a journey aboard Sheikh Hasina's boat in an uncertain cruise. The behind-the-scene entente between 'unpredictable' AL and the CG has changed the total political scenario...[ FULL STORY ]
India's UPA govt. survives: Bribery
allegation smears victory
Mohammad Ali Sattar
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has succeeded in salvaging his government from sinking. His regime won a crucial trust vote in parliament, but not without bruises. The air in the Indian political corridor was heavy even before the showdown. The Indian democracy was shaken...[ FULL STORY ]
FORUM AIMS FOR NEW SOUTH ASIA
Food bank, strong democracy, power grid,
basin-wise water sharing stressed
Faruque Ahmed in Kandy, Sri Lanka
Creating a new South Asia based on people-to-people contact to ultimately lead to the formation of a People's Union of South Asia is the goal of the South Asia Policy Forum (SAPF). It stressed development of food bank, people-centric politics, institutionalisation of democracy, removal of the military and bureaucratic intervention in governance, development of power grid and regional water sharing on basin-wise basis with a goal to form a People's Union of South Asia. The meeting of the SAPF is taking place here under the title 'Imagine a New South Asia' organised jointly by University of Peradeniya and Action Aid International...[ FULL STORY ]
NEPAL IS IN GRAVE CRISIS
India blamed for engineering
Maoists' defeat
Shamsuddin Ahmed
A new and grave crisis has hit Nepal. Communist Party of Nepal (CPN-Maoist) that won majority seats in the constituent assembly in April 10 elections has declined to form the government or join it...[ FULL STORY ]
Political parties want an end to emergency
Special Correspondent
The major political parties expressed dismay about the Chief Adviser Dr. Fakhruddin Ahmed's declaration last Monday that the time was not ripe for full lifting of the emergency. The statement came as a surprise because the Caretaker Government (CG) is talking about holding polls and plans faster return to democracy. The displeasure comes because the political parties were demanding end to the emergency to have a favourable ambiance before the polls billed for December...[ FULL STORY ]
GLIMPSES OF GREAT
Bill Clinton
K. Z. Islam
William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton (1946), a brilliant student Rhodes Scholar University College, Oxford, Juris Doctor degree Yale Law School. Other achievements, accomplished musician and sportsman...[ FULL STORY ]
UN to issue individual ID cards for
Myanmar refugees in Bangladesh
Moinuddin Naser in New York
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) will issue identity cards to the refugees from Myanamar in Bangladesh so that they can be better managed. "New individual identification cards will improve conditions for 22,500 refugees in Bangladesh", the UN media center here said Wednesday, quoting the UNHCR Bangladesh country representative. ..[ FULL STORY ]
NY Bangla weekly honours
expatriate students
Fazle Rashid in New York
The weekly Bangladesh, a local Bangla newspaper did something saintly to mark the tenth year of its publication, a rarity in these days of shrinking revenue earnings and declining circulation, presented 22 budding and full of promises Bangladesh-American students pride of performance awards in various branches of education for their academic excellence...[ FULL STORY ]
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