Both sides must exercise restraint before wider war erupts
It shows why aerospace safety can never be compromised
Bangladesh health authorities must prepare accordingly
HOPES have been generated for a new vista opening on Indo-Bangla relations in the sequel to the meet between Indian foreign secretary Nirupoma Rao and her Bangladesh counterpart Mijarul Quayes in Dhaka centring around the forthcoming visit of Bangladesh Prime Minister to India.
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THE resumption of Bangladeshi labour migration to Iraq after a break of six years should be seen as a positive development. The disruption that occurred in the presence and working of migrant labour in Iraq when it was invaded by US and British forces in 2003 was in turn to lead to misery for foreign workers, some of the worst affected among whom were those from Bangladesh. When the move is seen against the backdrop of the large numbers of Bangladeshi workers sent back home by some countries in the Middle East as well as Malaysia, we cannot but feel a little cheered by the news that job opportunities have opened for 2000 Bangladeshis in Iraq .
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IT has been about four and a half months since the Information Commission started its work from a temporary office in Dhaka.
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THE Washington-based Centre for Strategic and International Studies, before the 1/11 change in its Transnational Threat Update, stated: "The current security climate in Bangladesh may allow terrorist groups to organise attacks using a radiological dispersal device. Concerns over this possibility are plausible given that radio substance have proven accessible to terror groups within the country." The recent arrests of militants from Pakistan and India, activists of banned Lashkar-e-Toiba, some of whom were educated in engineering in Bangladesh while recruiting prospective terrorists, confirm anew Eliza Griswold's report in the New York Times (January 2005), raising the possibility of Bangladesh giving birth to the next Islamist revolution. Travelling through Bangladesh, she concluded ...
NOW that the legal process of the Bangabandhu murder trial has run its due course and the verdict is as it should be, the government must get the six other killers, who are presently residing in various countries, extradited to Bangladesh to face justice.
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THE central bank cast in the traditional mould of being the bankers' bank, lender of the last resort, the powerhouse of money issue and monetary policy and the regulator of inflation and the banking system, always held an inherent potential for taking on a fuller development financing role. But there are growing signs now that it is coming out of the confines of agricultural credit operations and stepping into the realm of financing small and medium enterprises.
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The Supreme Court's upholding of the convictions of the killers of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and his family should now bring a long national agony to an end. The pains the nation has gone through since the Father of the Nation and most members of his family were cut down on 15 August 1975 have also been for it a living shame. The shame stems from the fact that for twenty-one years from 1975 to 1996, the course of justice was obstructed by the infamous indemnity ordinance protecting the assassins. The ordinance, decreed by the usurper regime of Khondokar Moshtaq in September 1975, was incorporated in the constitution through the Fifth Amendment by the Ziaur Rahman regime in 1979. Nowhere in the world has there been such an instance of a deliberate closing of all avenues to...
The frustration of the Upazila Parishad chairmen has again come to the open. Their complaints are against the Members of Parliament (MPs) and bureaucrats, whose interference, they say, has rendered them completely non-functional. So, they have urged the government to empower them financially for the sake of a strong local government.
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