Abrar Hussain: UN High Commis-sioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein yesterday urged Bangladesh for greater engagement with respect to human rights, reports The Daily Star. “I encourage greater engagement, particularly with respect to concerns about the shrinking space for civil society, and allegations of extrajudicial actions by the security forces,” he said during…
Syed Ishtiaque Reza, Editor-in-Chief of GTV & sarabangla.net: “And something inside me just…broke…That’s the only way I could describe it.” Ranata Suzuki defined frustration in this way. We have just celebrated Eid and are now enjoying the excitement of the FIFA World Cup amidst weather in which our sky seems to be too gloomy. Through…
Dr. Kamal Hossain, Politician and one of the key authors of the Constitution: Our struggle for freedom began through a non-cooperative movement. Everyone had worked together to cripple the Pakistani government. Through that power of the people, we declared our independence. In 9 months we achieved our historic victory. We were unified in our goals,…
Abdul Aziz Khan, Member, BERC: The demand-supply imbalance is the main reason for gas crisis in the domestic sector. There is no scope of gas supply rationing here like industry, CNG and other sectors. Diminishing, Mohammadpur and Mirpur areas have huge crisis. The problem is very acute in Manikganj.Under ADB supported Clean Fuel Project, 16-Inch…
Afsan Chowdhury, Journalist and Researcher: Civil society is the force outside the government. It is comprised of the people who are not directly involved in party politics. It is not that they can contribute a lot politically, but they can influence politics to some extent. Given the wide sphere of the government now, civil society…
SALEQUE SUFI, An expert in energy sector infrastructure development, planning, construction management and operation in Central and South Asia and Australia: There has been a veryfrustratingdevelopment in RLNG evacuation program recently. The 42 inches OD about 1Km-long Karnaphuli River Horizontal Directional Drilling (HDD) has been abandoned as the drill strings got broken while reaming the…