Syed Badrul Ahsan, Editor-in-Charge, The Asian Age: The world has always been a pretty strange place. Life is quirky and people often do things which surprise and then shock and sometimes amuse us. Think of everything that has been happening in Syria. Some western nations were busy some years ago making the argument for a…
Prabhash Amin, Head of News, ATN News: British lawmaker Lord Alexander Carlile is now a legal consultant to BNP’s imprisoned chairperson Khaleda Zia to help fight her cases. Although he is a lawyer for Khaleda Zia, he is an old foe of Bangladesh. However, I would like to say that there is no connection between…
Dr. Forqan Uddin Ahmed, Former Deputy General and Commandant, Ansar VDP Academy: The government servants are a group of organised public servants employed for handling the overall administration of a government. The first and foremost duty of a government servant is to render services to common people in line with democratic norms and values. The…
M Humayun Kabir: The government allowances to the citizens under the social safety net programmes are not meant to run the whole family or make one reluctant about work, said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. She was speaking at the inaugural function of electronically distribution of allowances to 115,088 beneficiaries under the programme through a videoconference…
Professor Dr Mizanur Rahman, Vice Chancellor of Jagannath University: I do not wish to term it as a quota reform movement. Rather, this movement is to reform freedom fighters’ quota all along. The supporters of this movement erroneously think that the freedom fighters are grabbing all the quotas. Nobody has written anything about reforming any…
Dr. AB Mirza Azizul Islam, Former Finance Adviser to Caretaker Government: Repeated incidents of anomaly at Bangladesh’s central bank will erode people’s confidence. Investigations should be launched and necessary actions should be taken against the persons involved if the allegations of serious irregularities at the central bank’s vault are proved. The central bank has definitely…
Syed Manzoorul Islam, Academic and Writer: omestic awareness has to be raised if drug-addicted students are to be brought back to schools and colleges. Offspring should have sound and healthy relationships with their parents. It is a sad reality that corrupt households will have adverse impact on the growth of its children. When the father…
Md. Habibul Alam : The media landscape in Bangladeshi started changing when the then-Awami League (AL) government in the late 90’s adopted a liberal media policy as well as encouraged the private ownership of media. The terrestrial transmission of ETV in April 2000 had been the unique example of the liberal media policy of government. ETV…
Maj Gen (retd) Abdur Rashid, Security Analyst : Bangladesh is predominantly a Sunni Muslim country. That is why all take it for granted that the country is a fertile breeding ground for militancy. Against this backdrop, one can brand the whole country as a militant state like Pakistan and Afghanistan when one can carry out militant…