Day: January 12, 2014
Reiterating US’ position on the January 5 polls, US Ambassador in Dhaka Dan Mozena on Sunday said his country’s commitment to work with Bangladesh and its people remains ‘undamaged’.“As US Ambassador here, I’ll do everything I can do to support Bangladesh to move forward,” he said mentioning that his vision is to see Bangladesh as the next Asian Tiger.The US diplomat came up with the remark while talking to reporters emerging from the Bangabhaban ceremony.Expressing US’ disappointment on the results...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina formed her 49-member new Cabinet taking the oath of office on Sunday. The new Cabinet has 29 full ministers, 17 state ministers and two deputy ministers. Among the council of ministers, a total of 33 new faces are in the Cabinet while the rest are from her previous Cabinet.Sheikh Hasina has dropped 35 ministers of her previous cabinet for their poor performance or involvement in corruption. But this time she has included some seasoned politicians with...
Tony Edson :The recent arrest of Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade has unleashed two kinds of outrage: protests by Indians upset over her treatment by New York police, and, mostly outside of India, anger over Khobragade’s alleged crime of forcing a domestic employee to work long hours for a fraction of the prevailing wage after having pledged in a visa application to follow U.S. labor and wage laws.Less attention has been paid, however, to a more insidious problem: how international diplomatic...
Nicholas Crafts :Recent growth in the euro area has tracked the experience of much of Europe in the 1930s all too closely. Unless policies change, this stagnation is likely to persist. In some ways, the euro area’s prospects are more challenging than the parallel with the Great Depression suggests. If only things were as bad as in the 1930s-how’s that for a thought to put matters in perspective?The aftermath of the Depression in Europe gives a vivid demonstration of the...
Sir Frank Peters :December 13 is Pupil’s Liberation Day- a memorable and auspicious occasion for many Bangladeshi school pupils, regrettably not all.It was on this date in 2011 that eminent Bangladesh High Court justices Md. Imman Ali and Sheikh Hassan Arif outlawed the barbaric practice of corporal punishment in schools declaring it:”cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment and a clear violation of a child’s fundamental right to life, liberty and freedom”.While some children have reason to celebrate their “Liberation Day” from...
S.A Shofiee, Sylhet :Some local influentials are lifting sand mindlessly from the Surma River in Sadar and Dakshin Surma upazilas under Sylhet district defying restriction by the authorities concerned.Illegal sand lifting from the river is going on unabated, leaving the bridges and cropland along the river at risk.As a result, the concrete blocks of the local embankment are being displaced everyday.The embankment has also been damaged at several points as sand-laden tractors are frequently moving along the bank.According to sources,...
Body of medical representative recovered in KurigramKurigram Correspondent Body of a Sales Medical Representative of IBN-Sina Pharmaceutical Ltd. was recovered from tank of a latrine at Roumari upazila of Kurigram district on Friday morning.Police arrested both Abdul Kaium and his father Abdul Latif of Baghmara village under the upazila alleging murder.The deceased was identified as Omar Faruk, 28, son of Taslim Uddin of Diarchar village under Roumari upazila of the district and a sales representative of the medical pharmaceutical.Officer-in-charge (OC)...
BSS, Rajshahi :Farmers and other officials concerned are very much hopeful about cherished potato production in the region as overall climatic condition remains favorable towards the farming since its initial stage.To recoup the loss incurred in the previous year caused by low market price, the farmers in the current season have cultivated potato on more lands than the target fixed by the Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) everywhere in eight districts under Rajshahi division.Saleh Ahemd, Upazila Agriculture Officer, said the...
Department of Environment (DoE) on Sunday fined a power generation company under Orion Group Tk 50 lakh for building its infrastructure without the environment clearance. The authorities of the power generation unit, ‘Digital Power and Associates Ltd’, have already built 95 percent of the infrastructure without any location clearance or environment impact assessment (EIA). Power generation plants as ‘red listed’ by DoE and require to conduct and EIA for getting the environment clearance from DoE before their installation.After a hearing...
Born in Murshidabad on 3 December in 1928, Habibur Rahman obtained his BA Honours (1949) and MA (1951) in History...
