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Hasina-Singh summit ends
with zero-sum outcome
M. Shahidul Islam
With all the grandiose designs that India harbours to re-shape the geopolitical destiny of the continent of Asia, any Bangladeshi leader is bound to have a heart- sinking feeling of imminent danger while meeting its counterpart in Delhi. That is what has made the just concluded visit to India of PM Sheikh Hasina a sensitive and dreadful one...[ FULL STORY ]
HASINA'S WEAKNESS EXPLOITED?
Only lip-service: Dhaka's security concerns unaddressed
Sadeq Khan
The Indo-Bangladesh joint communique signed by Dr. Manmohan Singh and Dr. Sheikh Hasina, prime ministers of India and Bangladesh respectively, was received by the intelligentia in Bangladesh as a bombsell, not as a framework of deliverance as hoped for by Delhi. The three agreements relating to regional security and crime prevention were innocent enough. So were the two memoranda of understanding, one relating to power transmission infrastructure and the other on upgrading cultural exchanges in 2010-2012 period...[ FULL STORY ]
Hasina's India visit: Total failure
Holiday Report
Opposition BNP has declared the prime minister's India tour "a total failure", saying New Delhi benefited from deals signed and other agreements while Dhaka gained nothing. Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on her return from India on Wednesday said the trip was "a hundred percent successful" and termed it the start of "a new era of cooperation" between the two neighbours. The main opposition party BNP, however, has termed the trip the exact opposite...[ FULL STORY ]
Dhaka gets empty basket, Delhi
allowed all it wanted
Faisal Rahim
After the much-hyped Sheikh Hasina - Manmohan Singh summit in India last week, the question which agitates the public mind is: What does the balance-sheet of bilateral ties between the two friendly neighbours now look like? Hasina's Government has agreed to give a significant number of real concessions and benefits to India -- but what has Dhaka received? There are quite cogent reasons for the Bangladeshis to scrutinise what economic weakling Dhaka gained from Delhi, the third strongest economic powerhouse of the world. The people want to know how business will benefit from the "opening of a new era of political relations with India" is a new question the country's business community is now thinking about following the Prime Minister's visit to Delhi...[ FULL STORY ]
Some accords may cause
trouble in Bangladesh
Shamsuddin Ahmed
Three agreements, all relating to combating terrorism, signed with India during Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's just concluded visit to New Delhi, have little relevance to Bangladesh. The agreements are 1) mutual legal assistance in criminal matters, 2) transfer of sentenced persons and combating international terrorism and 3) combat organized crimes and illicit drug trafficking. India was keen for extradition treaty apparently for an early return of ULFA leader Anup Chetia, now in Bangladesh prison. Replying to an anxious query at the Sheikh Hasina's press conference in New Delhi, Foreign Minister Dr Dipu Moni who accompanied her said "extradition treaty could be concluded shortly given the friendly relations. Three pacts signed on Monday are enough to work together in combating terrorism...[ FULL STORY ]
Hasina says India visit a
'hundred percent successful'
Abdur Rahman Khan
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on her return from India on Wednesday said her three-day trip was hundred percent successful. She said her trip to India was aimed at establishing peace in South Asia and strengthening relationship between neighbours. Hasina said the treaties signed between Bangladesh and India would not only benefit the people of the two countries. It would benefit the peoples of entire South Asia. Bangladesh agreed to allow the use of Mongla and Chittagong seaports for movement of goods to and from India on both road and rail routes in a swap for transshipment of commodity consignments from Bhutan and Nepal through Bangladesh's frontier...[ FULL STORY ]
INDIAN MEDIA REPORT
Was ULFA involved with
BDR revolt in Feb?
Moinuddin Naser in New York
Is it true that the members of the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) living in Bangladesh were involved in the revolt by the Bangladesh Rifles in February 2009? Whether they were involved in anti-Awami League propaganda during last general election? An Indian influential weekly magazine reported about the ULFA's involvement in such activities. The most influential weekly news magazine for researchers and academics the Economic and Political Weekly in an article in it's recent 52nd issue elaborately stated about the debacles in the structure and politics of the ULFA...[ FULL STORY ]
Strong action against sexual
harassment needed
Abdur Rahman Khan
The matter is not to be discussed in public-- it is a taboo. Victims, particularly girls or women, prefer to keep it secret considering social embarrassment. Sexual harassment at workplace is a social crime that should be made public and the offender should be exposed so that others do not fall pray to the same perpetrator and become victims of similar circumstances...[ FULL STORY ]
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