Bangladeshis most active in politics
Bangladesh has ranked the highest in terms of people’s political participation among 33 developing and emerging nations, says a global survey.
The country, however, has a very low political efficacy with over two-thirds of the respondents saying government officials do not care about what the people think, it says.
The survey, titled “Spring 2014 Global Attitudes Survey” by the US-based Pew Research Centre, shows 65 percent Bangladeshis have higher level of involvement in political affairs and 29 percent medium level, though the Asia region ranks the lowest in this field with an overall median of 24 percent. As regions, the Middle East and Africa have relatively high rates of participation in political affairs.
Dysfunctional governance remains serious problem
Bangladesh has the image of a developmental welfare state, as reflected in the country's Constitution and in numerous other official documents, but the country has to contend with a serious problem of dysfunctional governance, former caretaker government adviser Prof Wahiduddin Mahmud has said.
The country is rated very poorly according to most global indicators of political and economic governance, said the economist while addressing a session of the international conference on 'Political Economy, Accountability and Governance' at a local hotel on Thursday.
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Election commissions of Bhutan, Bangladesh, India and Malaysia
Have you thought about how Malaysia’s election commission compares with its counterparts in Bhutan, Bangladesh and India? And about how it compares with two Malaysian NGOs who are working on improving the election process in Malaysia?
Bhutan is home to fewer than one million people. Bhutan transitioned from an absolute to a constitutional monarchy in 2008 when the first general election was held. Bhutan is a member of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC), together with Malaysia.
Politics and the past in Bangladesh: Dialling down
A series of trials for war crimes still matter politically, but less than before
IT IS rare to be sentenced to death twice over. On October 29th Bangladesh’s self-styled International Crimes Tribunal told Motiur Rahman Nizami (pictured), leader of the country’s main Islamic party, Jamaat-e-Islami, that he would hang. The tribunal convicted the 71-year-old of murder, rape and looting as a pro-Pakistani militia leader during the country’s war of secession from Pakistan in 1971. Mr Nizami’s sentence came on top of a separate one from a criminal court in January, ordering his execution after he was convicted over a big haul of arms, destined for insurgents in India’s north-east, that was discovered in 2004, when he was in government.How bombs supplied from India to Bangladesh
As the investigating agencies continue their questioning of several suspects in the Burdhwan blast including Shaikh Yusuf, it has found that in the Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) had moved four consignments of bombs to Bangladesh in the years 2013 and 2014.
Officers privy to the investigation informed that the bombs prepared in West Bengal in the past two years had moved in five separate consignments across the border and have reached Bangladesh. Terrorists suspected to have bribed guards at India-Bangladesh bord...
Officers privy to the investigation informed that the bombs prepared in West Bengal in the past two years had moved in five separate consignments across the border and have reached Bangladesh. Terrorists suspected to have bribed guards at India-Bangladesh bord...
Politics in Bangladesh: One and only one
As the opposition takes a break from politics, the government tightens its grip
THE Supreme Court of Bangladesh has just rejected appeals by a former prime minister, Khaleda Zia, over the appointment of a judge in a corruption case against her. The ruling clears the way for Mrs Zia to stand trial. Prosecutors accuse her of having siphoned off cash from charitable trusts set up in memory of her late husband, Ziaur Rahman, who was an army leader at independence and was later assassinated as president. If found guilty, the country’s second-most-powerful woman could face time in jail.
