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Climate of fear and intimidation
Sadeq Khan
Some eminent members of the Bar appeared as special counsels for the state before the Special Bench of the Supreme Court in the hearing of the appeal against conviction of prisoners in the death row for the murder of late President Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. The appellants have been arguing that a mistrial took place, since their acknowledged involvement in what was essentially a coup leading to the assassination of the-then President could not be tried as an act of murder (One appellant pleaded innocence of any direct part in the act of assassination and prayed for mitigation of sentence for presence and involvement in the scene of the crime). ..[ FULL STORY ]
Series of political violence,
sabotage feared
M. Shahidul Islam
Two particular strands of people make the present time much more different than the years by-gone. As the nation passes through an unprecedented catharsis, there are those who are braving all odds to take a stand against what is going wrong while there are others who stand by as mere bystanders.
Amidst this internal cleavage, the ultimate gainers will be those who are determined to bring Bangladesh to its knee in order to fulfil their geopolitical and economic agenda. Unfortunately, this unexpected dichotomy re-surfaces at a time when a series of destructive activities are slated and aimed to destabilise the nation to facilitate pretexts for foreign intervention, according to experts and reliable sources...[ FULL STORY ]
Biman can't fly to NY owing to
pilots' degradation
Holiday Report
In the absence of proper coordination, Bangladesh's skilled and talented pilots' status have unexpectedly degraded to B-category, regretted the Bangladesh Airlines Pilots' Association (BAPA) General Secretary Captain Mahabubur Rahman.
At present, Bangladesh's pilots face unusual trouble particularly due to frequent checking of the fitness of aircraft and qualification of the pilots, he said adding pilots from other regional countries do not face such unnecessary harassment at foreign airports...[ FULL STORY ]
Hasina visits India in December
Special Correspondent
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is planning a visit to India next month. This is going to be her first visit to India after she assumed power in January.
Sheikh Hasina, who is very much committed to materialise the dreams of her late father Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, should not miss this opportunity to raise the fate of Mujib-Indira agreement that India did not endorse in her parliament in last three decades.
Definitely Sheikh Hasina must not forget the issue of handing over Tinbigha corroder to Bangladesh and surely ask India to stop killing along the border and abandon plans to construct dam or barrage and divert the waters from common rivers ignoring Bangladesh interest...[ FULL STORY ]
LABOUR POLICIES, IPR ARE HURDLES
Dhaka will sign TIFA
Moinudin Naser in New York
Bangladesh ambassador in Washington Akramul Qader said the process of signing the Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA) with the United States is continuing, while the Bangladesh government is now scrutinising the labour policies and the Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) under TIFA, to see whether they would infringe the rights and privileges of the country. The ambassador said that several meetings have taken place with the US State Department officials in this regard and he himself is involved in this process of signing of the TIFA, which is now effective with 35 countries...[ FULL STORY ]
Indian policy harms ties with neighbours: Peoples Daily
In a recent commentary, the Chinese Communist Party's official mouthpiece Peoples Daily (on line edition) observed: "Nobody can deny that today's India is a power. In recent years, Indians have become more narrow-minded and intolerable of outside criticism as nationalism sentiment rises, with some of them even turning to hegemony. It can be proved by India's recent provocation on border issues with China...[ FULL STORY ]
Will Bangladesh become a victim of
third party war?
Faisal Rahim
None can now possibly rule out that the country may be gradually slipping into a quagmire of conflict of a neighbouring country's proxy war making her vulnerable to attacks of militant forces from across the Indian northeast in the one hand with growing activities of Indian security apparatus chasing its rebel fugitives in Bangladesh.
The danger is also looming over the horizon ranging from many secular underground groups to Islamist militant forces as the government is pushing such forces to become desperate under frame up charges for having link to various alleged plots and conspiracies...[ FULL STORY ]
Chinese jets to bolster Pak
defence capability
Fazle Rashid in New York
China and India, each aspiring to be the Czar of Asia, have taken recourse to conflagration posture on variety of reasons, mainly on territorial claim. China, of course, is miles ahead of India in all respects, economy, military, diplomacy, space superiority and sphere of political influence. China has undertaken a number of projects dealing severe blows to Indian pride. China has just ignored India's protest over Beijing's building of dams, one on the Indus River in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and another on the Brahmaputra in Tibet, to control the flows of the rivers in the region. India too, has paid back China in its own coin allowing Dalai Lama to visit a disputed territory in Arunachal Pradesh. New Delhi lent Dalai Lama a helicopter to fly to the area...[ FULL STORY ]
Breastfeeding cuts childhood cancer risk
Abdur Rahman Khan
Breastfeeding reduces the risk of childhood cancer while artificial food having chemical colours and preservatives props up cancer among children, says experts.
Research findings showed that the children growing up with breastfeeding has least chance to get infected while it is widely prevalent among those growing without breast feeding, said Professor M A Mannan, founder president of Bangladesh Childhood Cancer Society...[ FULL STORY ]
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