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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Desk Report: Bangladesh is set to receive a$20million loan from an Asian Development Bank (ADB) Power System Efficiency Improvement Project together with an additional$25.44million in grant financing to spur off-grid solar photovoltaic (SPV) pumping for agricultural irrigation, reports UNB. The grant financing comprises$22.44million from the Scaling up Renewable Energy in Low Income Countries Program under…
Mir Nasir Hossain, Former President, FBCCI: If interest rates on bank loans are utilized at 9%, business expenses will fall and non-perfuming loan portfolios would probably as well. But we need the help of the government to implement it, because there are two types of banks at work here – state-run banks and private banks….
Waliur Rahman, Former Diplomat and International Relations Analyst: The UN chief’s call for the entire world to work together in order to resolve the Rohingya crisis is extremely significant. The UN has been very vocal about the Rohingya issue. They have mounted pressure on Myanmar to take back the refugees. Even though its actions in…
Dr. Forqan Uddin Ahmed, Former Deputy General and Commandant, Ansar VDP Academy: Kazi Nazrul Islam is known as the national poet of Bangladesh. He has brought about revolutionary changes in the spirit and style of Bengali literature and music. Nazrul belonged to the 19th century as a poet and musician. Eventually, he became the national…