Eresh Omar Jamal The events of last week have jolted the nation. What started off with students of public universities peacefully protesting for the reformation of the quota system in public jobs, ended up with hundreds of people getting killed, thousands severely injured, and immeasurable damage being done to public properties. When public university students […]
Farid Erkizia Bakht Bangladesh is not a member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO). Nor is it a member of BRICS+. It is not ensconced within ASEAN either. By extension, Dhaka feels it can remain outside the planet’s largest trading area, Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP). I have lost count of the times I mentioned […]
ROHINGYA REPATRIATION MORE than a million Rohingyas who escaped from the persecution of Myanmar forces in 2017, after and before have stayed in 33 camps at Ukhia and Teknaf in Cox’s Bazar and on Bhasan Char in Noakhali. It has not been possible to send even one Rohingya back to Myanmar in the past six […]
Referring China is always a trusted strategic partner of Bangladesh and they are maintaining continuity in their policy towards the country Chinese ambassador to Bangladesh, Yao Wen, has said, “China supports the stance Bangladesh has taken in refusing foreign interference in the internal affairs.” The Chinese envoy said this stance of his country at a […]
The chief election commissioner, Kazi Habibul Awal, indicated on Monday that the commission would control the media in some cases during the next general election, likely to be held between December 2023 and January 2024. ‘Our position is never against the mass media. We will see if media activities, in the general interest, in the […]
Bangladesh became 25th among the top arms-importing countries for the 2018-2022 period. The country imported 0.9 per cent of arms traded globally during the period, according to a report released by Stockholm International Peace Research Institute on March 12. The report also showed that the country’s arms imports decreased by 48 per cent, compared to […]
Speakers in a discussion on Monday said that the growing inequality in major Asian countries was not highlighted in the book titled ‘Asia’s Journey to Prosperity: Policy, Market, and Technology over 50 Years’. They came up with the view while discussing a lecture on the book by Dr Yasuyuki Sawada, a professor of economics, University […]
THE United States, the European Union and the United Nations remained passive about Bangladesh’s controversial national elections held in 2014 and 2018 while India fully supported the retention of power by the Awami League through those polls. The west remained passive understandably because they did not want the Bangladesh Nationalist Party-Jamaat alliance to win because […]
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina left Dhaka for Doha this morning to attend the 5th United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries (LDC5) from March 5 to 9. A VVIP flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines, carrying the prime minister and her entourage, departed Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at 11:15am. The flight is scheduled to land […]
(BSS) – Agriculture Minister and Awami League (AL) Presidium Member Dr Md Abdur Razzaque today said there will be no shortage of essential commodities in the country during the upcoming holy month of Ramadan. “The holy month of Ramadan is approaching. The government is taking all-out preparations. There will be no shortage of daily essentials […]
