William Hague, Former UK foreign secretary and a former leader of the Conservative Party/Gulf News Both the Conservatives and Labour have forgotten an essential skill of politics: how to find common cause Back in 1974, when political consciousness and opinions began to form in my teenage brain, the great question was whether Britain was becoming…
Iqbal Habib, Architect : Without creating any alternative, it is not possible to bring discipline in road traffic by banning a particular mode of transport. That is why, replacement is necessary here instead of removal. While addressing a press conference on September 2, Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner said that human hauliers, known as laguna,…
Sejuti Mourin: Lawyers of Bangladesh Supreme Court Bar Association (BSCBA) have commented that the makeshift court setup inside the old central jail for conducting the trial of Zia Charitable Trust graft case against BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia is not an open court as per constitution and law. THE BSCBA members came up with the remarks…
Tasmiah Nuhiya Ahmed, Executive Editor, The New York Times, Bangladesh National Section: Debate on whether a jail can be used as a court in the Zia Orphanage Trust case The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) filed the Zia Orphanage Trust case on 3 July 2008 with Ramna Police Station accusing the chairperson of BNP, Begum Khaleda Zia,…
Advocate Md. Rayhan Uddin, Supreme Court of Bangladesh : Article 70 of Bangladesh constitution is very important. Another name of this article is called Anti Defection Law. Article 70 is concern about the “Vacation of Seat on registration”. It is said that in article 70 that if a person, elected as a member of parliament…
Sayeed Muhammad: Bang-ladesh Jatri Kalyan Sa-mity Sec-retary Ge-neral Moz-ammel Ha-que Chowdhury was arrested from his Sanarpar residence in Siddhirganj of Dhaka city early yesterday, over extortion charges. He was arrested from his residence around 3 am, in a case filed with Mirpur Model Police Station for allegedly extorting money , said Dadon Fakir, officer-in-charge of…
Peter Apps, Reuters global affairs columnist/Reuters Twelve years ago this week, I woke up in a wrecked vehicle on a front line road in eastern Sri Lanka. My neck was broken, I was paralyzed from the shoulders down and it took a matter of seconds to conclude my life was probably over. Now that –…
Antoine Shalhat/Middle East Monitor In a radio interview this week, one of the ministers of the right-wing Likud party said, “the two-state solution is dead”. This is the latest of a slew of Israeli statements related surrounding the revival of the so-called Confederacy solution with Jordan. This statement also refers somehow to the development of…
Abrar Hussain: Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader said yesterday that only Premier Sheikh Hasina is aware when the polls-time interim government will be formed. He added that since the Election Commission will be deciding the election date, it is unwise for anyone to discuss about these issues. Quader, also Road Transport and Bridges Minister,…
Monjurul Alam Panna, Journalist : The journalists came under attack from the helmet-wearing terrorists while covering the protests by the students for safe roads. Many of us were sure that the attackers would not be tried. The ground for this certainty was not prepared in a day. The journalists routinely came under such attacks during…