July 7, 2018
Bangladesh gets $100m ADB grant for Rohingya crisis
Abrar Hussain: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) approved a grant of $100 million to Bangladesh yesterday, the first half of an assistance package to develop basic infrastructure and services for refugees fleeing from neighboring Myanmar. Bangladesh is currently facing an uphill challenge in managing the refugee camps in the southern district of Cox’s Bazar, where…
BNP to protest at denial of rally permission
Sejuti Mourin: BNP will stage demonstrations in the capital on Sunday protesting what the party claimed to be was the denial of police permission for holding its Saturday’s rescheduled rally in the city. Party’s senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi announced the initiative at a press conference at its Naya Paltan central office yesterday,…
Nawaz Sharif gets 10-year jail term over graft charges
Sayeed Muhammad: Former prime minister of Pakistan, Nawaz Sharif, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison by over his family’s purchase of upscale London flats. The verdict comes as a major blow to his party ahead of a general election in July, reports Reuters, adding that the 68-year-old was tried in absentia. The National…
Televised Football and Nationalism
Dr. A J M Shafiul Alam Bhuiya, Professor and Founder Chair of the Department of Television, Film and Photography at Dhaka University : We all have been under the spell of football, which the Americans call soccer, for the last three weeks. The dazzling displays of football techniques and tactics have mesmerized and absorbed us. We…
Militancy, Rohingya crisis and the country’s public safety
Maj Gen (retd.) A K Mohammad Ali Shikder, Columnist and security analyst : Militancy is a problem for the world at whole. Everyone is working toward its cure. Militants do not belong to any country, nor have they any religion. They are enemies to the humanity who are must to eliminate. Which is why, allying with…
Quota is needed and it is unwanted as well!
Dr. Zafrullah Chowdhury, Founder, Gonoshasthaya Kendra : We could keep appropriate arrangement of 10% Freedom Fighters’ Quota for our injured and disabled freedom fighters. There is also an under-privileged group for whom a 2% quota can be kept. However, taking everything into account, the quota cannot exceed 20%; no matter what. The government is preventing anyone…
Rohingya crisis: Where regional & intl. interest is greater
Mohiuddin Ahmad, Author and researcher : There are many equations in case of international relations. Till now, many including the heads of different international organizations have paid tours to our country regarding the Rohingya crisis. But only the UNSC has the capability to pose the pressure needed to solve the issue. Since two influential members…