Xasir Youssaf: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina made urges to the international community yesterday for continuous pressure on Myanmar to take back the Rohingya minorities from the country. The PM during a courtesy call by International Rescue Committee (IRC) President and CEO David Miliband said, “The global community will have to continue their pressure on the…
Wali-ur Rahman, Former Ambassador : Prime minister has travelled to India to inaugurate Bangladesh Bhaban and receive D Lit degree. These were the reason for her making the short trip to India. Despite visit being short and the two special reasons, the people of Bangladesh had enough expectation. They wanted the unsettled issues to be…
Sofian Khan: Four children who were reported missing on Monday have been found dead in a pond in Hajiganj, Chandpur. According to Jabedul Islam, Officer-in-charge (OC), the bodies were discovered floating in the pond yesterday morning. The deceased were identified as Rahul (13), Shamim (11), sons of Wasim, Arafat Hossain Raihan (11), son of Ahsan Habib…
Sofian Khan: Myanmar’s military and local Buddhists responded to a Rohingya Muslim separatist attacks on military outposts with a campaign of rape, massacre and arson driving about 700,000 Rohingya into Bangladesh. According to over a dozen of teachers, elders and religious, educated Rohingyas are subject to the systematic and widespread harassment, arrests and torture were…
Sofian Khan: The European Union (EU) missions in Dhaka have come in with demand for complete investigation into all the anti-drug drive deaths countrywide. “We expect the authorities to ensure that all incidents involving the deaths of alleged criminal suspects are investigated fully and in accordance with due processes,” reads a statement by the EU…
Dr. Mahbub Ullah, Former Chairman and Professor, Department of Development Studies, University of Dhaka : The budget for the fiscal year 2018-19 is going be of a mega Tk 460,200cr size, according to media reports. However, considering the needs of the country, there could have been a much bigger budget. But the problem with a big…
Tasmiah Nuhiya Ahmed, Law Research Officer, BILIA. Advocate, Supreme Court. : Urban Housing Markets are increasingly significant in shaping the economic and social well-being of many citizens. A substantial variation exists across neighborhoods in the type of housing available, the quality of public services, the level of tax burdens, and the quality of life generally….
Dr. Forqan Uddin Ahmed, Former Deputy General and Commandant, Ansar VDP Academy : From the prehistory of mankind there were drugs, but their uncontrolled use has become a threat to the society these days. It is dangerous and it deteriorates a man and the society in a very cruel way. It is as alarming as diseases…
Afrida Ahmed: Hab-iganj journalists promised yesterday to boycott police and demanded suspension of an officer who assaulted a reporter last month, reports The Daily Star. General Secretary of the club, Rasel Chowdhury informed that this announcement was made at Habiganj Press Club yesterday, according to Moulvibazar correspondent reports. Some policemen forcefully picked up a reporter of…
Syed Badrul Ahsan, Editor-in-Charge, The Asian Age: In this past week, lawmakers in Spain voted out Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy over the issue of corruption in his People’s Party. It was a clean surgical operation that saw power swiftly pass into the hands of the Socialist leader Pedro Sanchez. Governance, in line with traditions of…