Bangladesh needs massive investments in almost all sectors and the sad fact is that the country is now experiencing serious investment crunch. 35 Thousand crore taka in country’s commercial banks is lying idle. potential investors are not feeling confident to infuse money in business mainly due to lack of...
Read more »

You are not Ershad’s home minister. You are not the head of some thuggish student movement. You are not the caretaker government that sent the Army to Dhaka University and faught with the students. You are the home minister of a democratically elected government. You have personally faced the business...
Read more »

The gas crisis in Bangladesh is shifting to an alarming stage. Electricity load shedding is now a chronic malaise in the power system. The gas shortage has already caused shutting down of several industries, many CNG stations cannot operate most of the time of the day due to low...
Read more »

When we were being silenced, he lent us his voice. When we found freedom, he came to us. A generation later I want to say thank you. Today Senator Edward Kennedy took a courageous stand against the...
Read more »

For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die. Like a childhood friend and mentor who has drifted apart but always held a special place in your heard, Senator Kennedy is being remembered in Bangladesh,...
Read more »

Dear Mrs. Zia: We hailed your kind gesture when you paid your respects to Dr. Wazed Miah by visiting Sheikh Hasina’s residence. Even though you enabled and encouraged the criminal acts of your sons, we could live with that. There are charges of corruption against yourself, and given what the other...
Read more »

Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh has grown into a busy city of near about 11 million people and the city covers almost 816 square kilometers. The city is one of cities of highest population growth in the world. Photo by Amdadul Huq, DRIK News Bangladesh capital Dhaka is fast turning...
Read more »

A trawler carrying sand down the River Turag hit the underwater gas pipe line of Titas Gas causing a huge fire in the river. For this reason many areas in Dhaka suffered from insufficient supply gas for some days. Image by Munir uz Zaman, DRIK News Our natural gas reserves...
Read more »

Image courtesy Subir Bhowmik Our previous report on the damaging aspects of the Tipaimukh Hydroelectric Project and protests against it generated much reader response. This post has updates on the situation. Asadul Haque at Haque’s Talking describes how this has been a hot debate in Bangladesh recently: The Tipaimukh dam issue currently...
Read more »

The Shikalbaha Power Plant was shut down on 17th July, just after 20 days it started generating electricity. The productivity of two barge-mounted plants of the three plants totaling 116 MW power generation has already expired. One of them went out of order earlier while the other can produce...
Read more »

Some Bangladeshi media reports indicate that some areas of Dhaka metropolis are experiencing natural gas draught. Small & medium scale industries, CNG filling stations in Dhaka suburbs and adjoining areas were complaining of low gas pressure for a while but now even domestic consumers are complaining about poor gas...
Read more »

Photo: Thousands of Awami League supporters attended the pre-election AL meeting at Paltan ground today in order to meet their leader Sheikh Hasina who delivered her speech from behind a bulletproof glass screen. AL President Sheikh Hasina is scheduled to address public meetings at Comilla and Feni on Saturday...
Read more »

Roaring Royal Bengals put Bangladesh brightly in the world map once again. White washing a country with rich Cricket tradition -West Indies in their own backyard by young enterprising Bengal tigers is definitely one of the greatest achievements that happened in our sporting history. Victory in two consecutive tests,...
Read more »

General Moeen U Ahmed, then chief of Bangladesh Army handed over formal papers to a poor man of the dairy firm project at Gaibandha Ansar Institute. Gaibandha, Bangladesh. November 27 2007 Image by: Quddus Alam, DRIK News. By all means, after General Zia and General Ershad, General Moeen U Ahmed (MUA),...
Read more »

Amader Shomoy reported this two days ago, but it was strangely absent from any other newspaper in Bangladesh. As a result, we were waiting for some confirmation before reporting it. If you heard the audio of the Shenakunjo meeting, you know that some officers behave like rowdy school children. We...
Read more »