June 2018

Abrar Hussain: The government has approved an additional Tk 1,400 core funding for the Padma Bridge project, taking the total project cost to Tk 30,193 crore. The Bridges Division, the implementing authority of the project, had sent a proposal to the planning ministry before a meeting of the Executive Committee of National Economic Council (ECNEC)…

Abrar Hussain: Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader has claimed that yoga is a possible way to bring back the ‘misguided youth’ back to normal life from drug addiction. “Yoga can be a powerful and effective way to protect the young generation distracted by the vicious claws of drug addiction,” said Quader as the minister…

Sejuti Mourin: Two separate courts in Dhaka yesterday fixed July 5 for passing order on the bail petitions of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in connection with the cases filed for “undermining the national flag” and celebrating “fake” birthday on August 15. After the hearing, Metropolitan Magistrate Md Khurshid Alam fixed the in the case over celebrating…

Afrida Ahmed: Since the contractor couldn’t arrange sufficient fund, the project of Khulna 330 MW dual-fuel combined cycle power plant is going to get closed, reports UNB. On November 17, 2016 the government signed a contract with the Chinese Consortium of Harbin Electric International Co Ltd (HEI), and Jiangsu Etern Co Ltd to construct the plant’s…

Abrar Hussain: The Moulvibazar administration has recently been able to ramp up measures to distribute relief among the victims thanks to the flood receding for the last three days. However, there have been allegations of irregularities and thorough complains, which the authorities have acknowledged to be true. The Daily Star reported that most of the…

Syed Mahfujul Haque Marjan, Faculty Member of Criminology, University of Dhaka  : Police, as an organization, is one of the less understood bodies of any society. As a service delivery organization, Bangladesh Police is also criticized. Apart from all the negative notions, Bangladesh Police has made significant success in recent years in introducing community and…

Masuda Bhatti, Senior Executive Editor, The Daily Amader Orthoneeti : Bangladesh Nationalists Party (BNP) is said to be an anti-Indian political platform in Bangladesh since its birth. Although many will argue that it is anti-Indian in its speech only, in reality it is the one who always `forget’ Bangladesh’s interests while negotiating bilaterally with India….

Mohammad Zamir, Former Ambassador and Expert on International Relations : Bangladesh has provided shelter to lakhs of Rohingya refugees without question because of its humanitarian, thoughtful heart. However, sometimes we are naive as well. This is the reason why we give shelter to them. The world is gradually shutting its doors to refugees. Thus, there…

Alamgir Shamsul Alamin , President, REHAB : There exists double standard of pipeline gas supply to the gas franchise areas. Energy supply to domestic sector is in a crisis-like in situation as some end-users are getting the supply while others are being deprived of it. Like a particular property had one or two connections from early…