Syed Badrul Ahsan, Editor-in-Charge, The Asian Age: On the way to my village last week, it was a Brazil-Argentina festival of colors I sped through. All around me, on the tops of jackfruit and mango trees and perched on sky-caressing coconut and date palms, fluttered the flags of the two countries that are thousands of…
Engr. Mashiur Rahman, Managing Director, TGTDCL: The capacity constraint of Titas Gas Transmission and Distribution Company Limited (TGTDCL) is not responsible for the ongoing gas crisis. Though no expansion of network is done, maintenance and upgrading of pipelines and network is ongoing. But failure in supplying gas as per demand is the main reason for…
Dr Anupam Sen, Vice-Chancellor, Premier University: We had considered an evil act and force the August 15 incident. A vested quarter carried out the brutal killing mission. But the 2004 murder attempt on Sheikh Hasina implied that the state was behind the August 21 incident. Some people used the state power, to destroy the opposition….
Dr. Forqan Uddin Ahmed, Former Deputy General and Commandant, Ansar VDP Academy: In our country we often find dishonest traders who always want to cheat people and adopt unfair means. As disbelievers in any ethical principles, they are only inclined to dodge their customers and consumers. With such a malign intention in mind, they do…
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…