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KOREA PLEDGES INVESTMENT BOOST

Korean PM Lee Nak sees huge investment potentials in BD’s economy Holiday Report South Korean Prime Minister Lee Nak-yon who visited Bangladesh last week said his country sees huge investment potentials in several growing business sector of Bangladesh economy. The list of his interest include investment in infrastructure, power, ICT, deep sea fishing, construction, shipbuilding […]

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India’s brutal torture of Kashmiri prisoners an ‘Instrument of Control’

Special Correspondent The Kashmiri prisoners under Indian occupation are subjected to brutal physical, psychological and sexual abuse, said a report published Monday. The 71 Years of Occupation and Piling Bodies in Indian-Occupied Kashmir The 560-page report provides details on the torture Kashmiri prisoners are made to undergo for resisting Indian occupation. According to the report, […]

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Reminiscing Bangabandhu

Syed Badrul Haque Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s 99th birth anniversary on seventeenth March was the date with asterisk mark in the chronicle of our nation’s calendar. Beyond this day’s significance in our national life, I am much drawn to recall my memories as Bangabandhu’s press officer. Back in 1956, after a stint in journalism behind, […]

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SDF take last ISIS pocket: What next?

Bill Weinberg The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) announced the complete “territorial defeat” of the Islamic State (ISIS) on March 23. The SDF “declare total elimination of so-called caliphate and 100% territorial defeat of ISIS,” Mustafa Bali, head of the force’s press office, announced on Twitter. “On this unique day, we commemorate thousands of martyrs […]