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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...

Mahbub Morshed new BSS chief editor

The government today appointed Mahbub Morshed as the new Managing Director and Chief Editor of the state-run national news agency Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS) on a two-year contract. Public Administration Ministry issued a gazette notification in this regard this afternoon. It said other conditions of this appointment will be fixed on the basis of the contract. "The notification will come into immediate effect," the notification read.

34+ years later, but still much the same

It must be so confusing for a child to be told by his or her Prime Minister in national news broadcasts that they are “remarkably special”... “the future of Bangladesh”... and then attends school the following day and gets beaten by an ignorant ‘teacher’ or Imam as if they were worthless


 ----- write Sir Frank Peters


If the child...

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