Bangladesh has seen a significant increase in the value of inward remittances over the last year with over US$8 billion flowing into the country between July 2009 and March 2010. This represents an increase of nearly 18% over the corresponding 2008-9 period, a sign that the global economy is gradually beginning to recover turmoil....
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- Dr. Habib Siddiqui Indian foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee (R) met Awami league chief Sheik Hasina in her resident on February 19 2007. Image by: Munir uz Zaman, Drik News. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wazed is scheduled to leave for New Delhi within the next few days. If I were in her shoes, here...
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There has been a long walk from freedom for Bangladesh as she is approaching a rather mature age of forty. And talking about maturity, we always expect our people to be more mature politically and our political parties now showing far more maturity in terms of bureaucratic enterprises, to our greater benefit, to say...
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“Article 31 and Article 12 of the constitution of 1972 contained some provisions which strictly prohibited floating of political party based on religion and the use of religion for materisalising any political interest was banned. Unfortunately, these provisions were omitted from the constitution during the post 1975 period and the religion based politics started...
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To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;” What can I say more than that? Far from my mother...
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Part -I: Aresenic mitigation or commercial ventures Photo: Arsenic poisoning in Bangladesh. Latifa Begum of Alipur, Faridpur is counting her final days lying on the floor of Faridpur Sadar Hospital. She comes from a very poor family. Her husband died years ago, and her eldest son sells newspapers to barely survive in these difficult...
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Part-I: Posted Earlier. Part -II: Its a catastrophe waiting. The Daily Ittefaq published an article on July 26, 2008 that 80 million people of Bangladesh have high risk of arsenic poisoning. Specialists from Dhaka Medical College, Mitford Hospital, and Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University reported a rapid increase in different cancers, liver cirrhosis, kidney,...
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Part -I: Aresenic mitigation or commercial ventures Photo: Arsenic poisoning in Bangladesh. Latifa Begum of Alipur, Faridpur is counting her final days lying on the floor of Faridpur Sadar Hospital. She comes from a very poor family. Her husband died years ago, and her eldest son sells newspapers to barely survive in these difficult...
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The news is very eye-catching and commensurate in terms of ‘positive Bangladesh’: recently the ministry of Industry has sent a proposal to the cabinet division for the decision to reopen three state-owned mills. The National Coordination Committee (NCC) to combat serious crimes has recommended positively on the proposal. But the outcome is not so...
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Almost a year ago, a middle-aged Bhutanese woman trader in the Indian border town of Phuentsholing sounded an ominous note for Bhutanese democracy. "We have heard about the polls on the Indian side," she told this correspondent. "Sometimes, unexpected incidents also come out with the elections. We do not want those here in Bhutan....
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