Editorial

AMBASSADOR ’S LEAKED CRITICISM Relations of the United States and Britain hit bottom Chris Marsden INFIGHTING in ruling circles looks set to claim the scalp of Britain’s ambassador to the US, after his scathing criticisms of President Donald Trump were leaked.Sir Kim Darroch’s secret cables and briefing notes to Prime Minister Theresa May were delivered […]

Grotesque murder of Rifat in broad daylight: Let there be justice Beneath the seemingly temperate veneer of our milieu there exists a vast dreadful underworld run by formidable crime lords. It is an incontrovertible fact that society prepares crime, and gangsters commit it. In our case, it is not a hyperbole to say that the […]

Jomo Kwame Sundaram AFTER the failure and abuses of privatization became apparent, public-private partnerships have since been promoted ostensibly to mobilize private finance for the public purpose. In all too many cases, PPPs have socialized costs and losses while ensuring private financial gains. Following the collapse and abuses of privatization and contracting-out services from the […]

70TH ANNIVERSARY OF AWAMI LEAGUE The people are the country’s real masters Shahabuddin Ahmad WHILE travelling from Uttara towards the south in Dhaka city one cannot miss some of the placards fixed to the light posts which have many democratic slogans common to countries which professes democratic principles as the corner stones of an independent […]

UPABAN TRAIN DERAILMENT Railway sector deserves adequate attention Four people were killed and 67 injured on June 23 after five of the Upaban Intercity train’s 17 carriages went off the rails while crossing a culvert over Borochhera canal area of Kulaura upazila in Moulvibazar. Among those hospitalized 15 passengers were in critical condition. The accident, […]

Thalif Deen THE United Nations in a new report has warned “there is no escaping the fact that the global landscape for the implementation of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has generally deteriorated since 2015, hindering the efforts of governments and other partners” And the commitment to multilateral cooperation, so central to implementing major […]

President Trump, Democrats seek anti-immigrant deal Patrick Martin President Trump’s temporary postponement of mass deportation raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents has been hailed as a victory by congressional Democrats. But the two-week delay is intended, as Trump declared in a tweet, to enlist the Democrats as his partners in the ongoing repression […]

Budget FY 2019 – 20: Heed critics’ feedback Taking into consideration the fact that since a national budget is basically an estimation of revenue and expenses for a year or a given period, it affects all the people, Plebeians as well as Patricians, economy and all other aspects, hence the adage can be an apt […]

Desmond Brown EVENTS marking the 25th anniversary of the Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) and the World Day to Combat Desertification opened on Jun 17 in Ankara with a call for urgent action to protect and restore degrading land. Turkey’s Agriculture and Forestry Minister Bekir Pakdemirli and head of the UNCCD Ibrahim Thaw attended the […]

National budget for 2019-20: A citizen’s perspective Shazzad Khan I am pretty shocked to see the size of the budget – it is too meagre given the fact we are claiming a middle-income status. The announced budget is 523,190 crore Taka which is only 18.1% of the GDP. When we are claiming a robust GDP […]