Pranab Kumar Pandey: A rich mix of opposition politicians, members of the civil society and unabashed Islamist radicals — has taken heart at the huge economic crisis that is bedevilling Sri Lanka. I call them the Doomsday Brigade of Bangladesh as they seem to be praying for divine intervention for such a crisis to fall on Bangladesh becau...
Agriculture, remittances, and export (including of RMGs) have been the main pillars of Bangladesh's economy. Despite some recent pressure on Bangladesh Taka arising from the growing trade deficit, Bangladesh has managed its external economy well as reflected in rising foreign exchange reserves now exceeding 45 billion US dollars. The Taka to USD...
Hiren Pandit: Bangladesh's economy has reached many promising milestones. The country is moving forward by overcoming various obstacles. The government has undertaken several mega projects. Work on the Padma Multipurpose Bridge is nearing completion. The bridge will be opened to traffic in June. This will revolutionize the communication sys...
The facts Zayadul Ahsan presents are set off in an eerie pattern from the moment Zia loyalists, Mir Shawkat Ali for instance, move resolutely against the mutineers. Over the next twenty days or so, it would be an operation of relentless cruelty as the Zia regime, guided by vindictiveness and palpably oblivious to all norms of civilized behavior,...
The genocide of 1971 is well documented in various forms. The first detailed report of the atrocities was published by a well-known Pakistani journalist Anthony Mascarenhas in the UK's The Sunday Times, on June 13, 1971. Mascarenhas, who was among a group of journalists from West Pakistan invited by the government to write in support of the mili...
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