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DIALOGUE TURNS SOUR
Parties searching for a bail out?
Abdur Rahman Khan
The issue of bringing the war criminals to justice has always been very dicey. The first post-Liberation government of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman did not initiate any tangible move to bring them to justice, instead he gave them sufficient leeway to establish themselves in the society. This was the time when the leftists had launched a 'not unpopular' movement against the then increasingly unpopular government and all resources of the government were directed towards eliminating these leftists...[ FULL STORY ]
DIALOGUE TURNS SOUR
Parties searching for a bail out?
Abdur Rahman Khan
The fate of the government sponsored dialogue appears totally uncertain with the mainstream political parties refusing to sit in a dialogue with the government keeping their top leaders in prison...[ FULL STORY ]
BJP to form first Hindutwabadi govt. in South India
Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal in New Delhi
India's Hindutvabadi political party BJP has won a simple majority of 115 MLAs in 224-member Karnataka assembly in the recently held poll and is all set to form government. During its campaign it spoke at great lengths about wiping out corruption, clean governance and strict implementation of the law. However, it would be interesting to see how the party will put them into practice as 18 of its elected legislators with criminal records are likely to become ministers once the BJP government in South India is sworn in...[ FULL STORY ]
VOLTE-FACE, PLOT OF WEAK PARTIES
Why national govt., in whose interests?
Amanullah Kabir
Politicians of this country have so many faces and facades. Since the birth of Bangladesh, its democratic process has gone through intervention in different ways. Sometimes politicians did it while the extra-constitutional forces did not sit idle either...[ FULL STORY ]
FISCAL ISSUES REMAIN UNRESOLVED
Economic snags are paradoxical, insurmountable
Faruque Ahmed
Business leaders at a pre-budget meeting with the finance adviser A B Mirza Azizul Islam last week sharply reacted to some of his comments on certain business aspects. They shouted 'shame' at the finance adviser when he said that as businessmen earn 35 to 40 per cent profits so they should not stay back from paying import duty or bank rates at the existing rates...[ FULL STORY ]
SUU KYI'S DETENTION EXTENDED
Woes of cyclone-affected Irrawaddy delta
Nava Thakuria at Bloomington
The international media highlighted the plight of the Burmese people hit by cyclone Nargis. After visiting the country and meeting cyclone victims, the UN Secretary-General Ban ki-Moon, who also met Than Shwe at the capital Nay Pi Taw on May 23, disclosed that more than one hundred thousand people were killed or made homeless by the disaster. The UN chief left for New York on Monday after attending a fund raising meeting at Rangoon, where donors representing various nations pledged for nearly $100 million to support the victims...[ FULL STORY ]
'EU COLLUDING IN A HUMAN RIGHTS CRIME'
Carter urges 'supine' Europe to break with US over Gaza blockade
Jonathan Steele and
Jonathan Freedland
Britain and other European governments should break from the US over the international embargo on Gaza, former US president Jimmy Carter told the Guardian. Carter, visiting the Welsh border town of Hay for the Guardian literary festival, described the EU's position on the Israeli-Palestinian dispute as "supine" and its failure to criticise the Israeli blockade of Gaza as "embarrassing"...[ FULL STORY ]
NEPAL'S MONARCHY ABOLISHED
King given 15 days to vacate Kathmandu Palace
Holiday Desk
The newly elected constitutional assembly in Nepal overwhelmingly voted on Wednesday to abolish the 240-year old monarchy, and declaring itself a republic...[ FULL STORY ]
GLIMPSES OF THE GREAT
J. R. D. Tata
K. Z. Islam
The extraordinary life of Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata (1904-93) spanned almost the whole of the 20th century. He was born in Paris and died in Geneva. In between, he spent over 70 years of his working life in India. For fifty-two years he was Chairman of the largest industrial group in India -Tata - which produces everything from steel and electric power to chemicals and automobiles. Apart from Air-India (which was nationalized), Tata Chemicals and TELCO, both started under his chairmanship, became two of India's top ten companies in both sales and assets...[ FULL STORY ]
IPO EXPECTED IN JUNE 2010
Agrani Bank offers special facilities to good clients
Abdur Rahman Khan
Agrani Bank in its process of privatization under a new management, has targeted small and medium enterprises (SMEs), agriculture and power sector as the thrust sector for capital mobilisation. ..[ FULL STORY ]
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