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DIPLOMATS RAISED MORE DUST THAN HELPED SETTLE ISSUES
Lacunae in bilateral diplomatic engagements
Sadeq Khan
Vigorous public debate in the print media, in various forums of the civil society, in political party positions, and by explicit or implicit arguments in round-table discussions and TV talk-shows preceded the Dhaka visits of US Senior Assistant Secretary of state Richard A Boucher and Indian External Affairs Minister, Pranab Mukherjee last week...[ FULL STORY ]
Foreign and defence policies lose traction
M. Shahidul Islam
The most painful issue in Indo-Bangladesh relations has been not how India tried to get from Bangladesh everything it wanted, but why Bangladesh has had to behave in the manner it did so far...[ FULL STORY ]
Can Bangladesh dance to big
powers' tune?
Abdur Rahman Khan
The question is being focused after either coincidental or coordinated visits of the Indian Foreign Minister Pranab Mukharjee and the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for South Asia Richard Boucher...[ FULL STORY ]
BROADER VISION NEEDED
Transit should be widened in
SAARC region
Faruque Ahmed
Indian foreign minister Pranab Mukherji's short but very crucial visit to Dhaka last week left behind a long debate on transit issue and several other sensitive subjects that could create a new environment in relations between the two countries...[ FULL STORY ]
Zillur Rahman sworn in President
of Bangladesh
Holiday Report
Veteran Awami League leader Zillur Rahman was sworn in as the 19th President of the country in a ceremony held at the Bangabhaban Darbar hall on Thursday evening...[ FULL STORY ]
Torture under watch of
Caretaker Government?
Abdul Hannan
The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) of late has been an object of controversy by serious of allegations of wrong doing and illegal activities, harassment and torture in course of its anti corruption campaign during the emergency rule under the caretaker government...[ FULL STORY ]
Global syndicated loans down, bonds up
Fazle Rashid in New York
The quantum of syndicated loan globally has fallen to their lowest depth in the past decade. Companies shorn of fund are now turning to capital markets to raise money as banks have been rather reluctant to lend. The health of the capital markets is also far from robust...[ FULL STORY ]
What are Govt. primary school
students learning?
Special Correspondent
After spending five years in government primary schools if some seven out of 10 students fail to read a news headline in Bangla and over eight out of 10 boys and girls are unable to do simple arithmetic one term it sheer wastage of money and resources. This frustrating outcome is attributable to the disproportionate teacher-taught ratio as one teacher has to impart lessons to over 92 students...[ FULL STORY ]
GLIMPSES OF THE GREAT
Rabindranath Tagore
To write about Rabindranath is the most pleasant and again the greatest difficult biographical work one has to encounter. By pleasant is meant no writer or poet in this subcontinent has given so much pleasure, imparted so much of intellectual depth and beauties as Tagore was gifted to do and has very successfully done to literature. In writing poetry undoubtedly he is unparalleled. In writing songs he was no comparison. In all other fields of literature he was superb. But all combining I think no one would doubt or dispute that he was by far the best literary genius this subcontinent has so far produced...[ FULL STORY ]
Language Movement gave us
national identity: Umar
Abdur Rahman Khan
The Language Movement of 1952 had consolidated our concept of linguistic nationalism giving a new identity to the Muslims of the then East Bengal, which is now Bangladesh...[ FULL STORY ]
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