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Ameer Shafiqur Rahman makes sense

Sir Frank Peters

It’s been a most refreshing experience to read Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami’s Ameer Shafiqur Rahman’s call for patience and restraint above the shouts and screams that permeates Dhaka’s polluted air seeking premature fresh elections.

It’s only been a couple of weeks since President Mohammed Shahabuddin Chuppu swore in Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus as Chief Adviser to the Interim ...

Needs to Make Education Right

Sir Frank Peters


There’s something diabolically wrong and hypocritical about praying at a Christian church, Muslim mosque, Hindu temple or, indeed, at any sacred place of worship by alleged faithful adherents to their faith; seeking blessings from Allah, then re-joining the world outside, and beating His children.

Where’s the logic? Where’s the justice? Where’s t...

From ‘Bloody July’ to ‘Floody August’

Flash floods, which can also be considered political floods, caused by  the sudden opening of the Dumbur dam upstream of the Gomti river in India's Tripura have devoured some zillas in the eastern and southeastern regions of Bangladesh. It is true that there was heavy rainfall in those eastern zillas and flood conditions in Tripura were dire, but India has shown inhumanity by opening dams without any prior notice. How friendly is it for a neighbouring country that claims to be a'reliable friend’ of Bangladesh? According to the press secretary of the chief adviser of the interim government, flash floods have marooned at least 36 lakh people in 10

Impose moratorium on debt repayments leveraging UNSC 1483

Farrukh Khosru

Bangladesh’s external debt dramatically increased under the oligarchic kleptocracy of the Sheikh Hasina regime from 2009 to 2024, with the average external debt stock rising from $10.7 billion between 1972 and 2008 to $52.6 billion from 2009 to 2023. The country has seen a significant increase in external debt since 2009, with the debt stock rising from $23.3 billion in 2008 to $100.6 billion by December 2023. This increase is largely at...

Ctg DC posted as IDRA director

Deputy Commissioner (DC) Dr. Abul Basar Mohammad Fakhruzzaman has been posted as Director of Insurance Development and Regulatory Authority. Recently, this information was revealed in a notification signed by Deputy Secretary Abdullah Arif Mohammad of Public Administration Ministry. Besides along with Dr. Fakhruzzaman, 24 more Deputy Commissioners have been removed. Last Saturday (August 17) at noon, a law and order meeting was held in Chattagram Circuit House in the presence of Farooq-e Azam, Advisor to the Liberation War Ministry. The loc...

Accidental revolutionaries topple Hasina — What’s Next?

Bangladesh has experienced its most consequential political event in at least two decades. On June 6, one day after Bangladesh’s high court reinstated the country’s job quota system that favored descendants of the 1971 liberation war, about 500 students gathered at Dhaka University to demand its repeal. Two months later, on August 5, Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who had governed  for 15 years, abdicated power and fled the country as a coalition of Bangladeshi students, political opponents and ordinary citizens marched...
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