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Gaza: The role of Bangladesh as UNPO leader

Breaking all international laws, Israel continues to carry out its genocide against the civilian Palestinian population in Gaza. As the world watches with shock and horror, the United Nations has merely condemned the Israeli assault and questioned the disproportionate use of lethal weaponry on an unarmed population which cannot leave Gaza as it is sealed off from the rest of the world and, according to BBC, “there is no safe place in Gaza.” The international community seems to be powerless to stop this Israeli massacre. gazaSadly enough, the world community exp...

Good governance must for high growth

Adequate infrastructure, energy, skilled manpower, political stability and investment-friendly climate are the key factors for higher economic growth. However, good governance is the key to ensure all these issues, according to the editorial of the current ICCB News Bulletin (April-June 2014) of International Chamber of Commerce-Bangladesh released on Sunday. Bangladesh is targeting to become at the lower end of middle income country by 2021. The per capita income of the country, according to 2005-06 base years, has reached to $1,190 in 2014. ICC Bulletin

Inside Bangladesh’s cheap cigarette factories

About a year after Sayed Asif Mahmud began hanging around Bangladesh’s bidi factories to document those who make the hand-rolled cigarettes with low-grade tobacco, a cheap and popular alternative for pre-packaged ones across southeast Asia, he stopped. “I’m always in a dilemma with whether I’m the right person to tell someone else’s story,” he tells TIME. “Why am I doing this? For me or for them?” [caption id="attachment_8250" align="alignleft" width="300"]Tobacco Tale Two women remove dust from thrashed tobacco in a factory. Rangpur, February 2008.[/caption] That was in late 2008, as he was finishing h...

India-Bangladesh need to harmonise rice-seed trade

India and Bangladesh need to harmonise their processes for seed certification – a move that can help galvanize bilateral trade and cooperation, boost the production of quality seeds of high-yielding rice varieties in both countries and lay a firm foundation to achieve food security and end hunger, says a paper by CUTS International. bd-indiaRice is the staple in large parts of India and all of Bangladesh, and an increase in productivity will be the key to poverty alleviation efforts. Already, there is widespread informal exchange and smuggling of seeds, ...

China’s favourability highest in Pakistan, Bangladesh

Dr. Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan

A new Pew Research Survey indicates that the US still continues to be perceived in positive light; that a conflict between China and its neighbours over territorial disputes is likely; and that despite contentions over territorial issues, China’s economic standing is considered good even among Asian countries. Asia thus presents interesting pointers about the attitude towards the US and China amidst efforts to find a balance between strategic and economic compulsions. China-flag

Will Bangladeshis Ever Learn?  

Prof Mahfuz R Chowdhury

Robindra Nath Togore, the great poet-philosopher and Nobel laureate of Bengal once said 'Hey mother Bengal, you gave birth to your 70 million children but forgot to educate or teach them dignity'. Are Bangladeshis victim of this curse? At the time Tagore made the above comment, Bengal was a united province of British India. Besides multiplying the population more than three folds, Bengal is now divided on religious lines. The Hindu dominated western third remained a part of India, and the Muslim dominated two thirds came to form the independent state of Bangladesh in 1971 after twenty four years of bizarre rendezvous with Pakistan. Today Bangladesh is the eighth largest country in population.
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