Dr. Pranab Kumar Panday: The birth of Sheikh Hasina, Bangladesh's current prime minister and the person most responsible for making her country a development model, on September 28, 1947, marks a watershed moment in the country's history. Under her leadership, the right to food for all Bengalis is guaranteed, and the nation heralded as a ...
Dr. Rashid Askari: We may not have a Joe Biden to add a new chapter to American history or a Vladimir Putin to push back the boundaries of Russian territory by military might; we may not have a Xi Jinping to invite the world to his 'Belt and Road Initiative' or a Narendra Modi to shepherd the Indian towards a one-family world (Vasudhaiva Kutumb...
Dr Rashid Askari: The probable use of electronic voting machines (EVM) in the forthcoming parliamentary elections in Bangladesh has excited a controversy as to whether or not this computer-mediated voting system is reliable. In this age of unprecedentedly high technological advancement, the very thought of the unreliability of the electronic vo...
Pranab Kumar Panday: There is continual criticism and counter-criticism between the government and opposition parties in Bangladeshi politics before the 12th National Parliament elections to be held in 2023. The ruling party is trying to win the election campaign by touting the successes of the Awami League (AL) during Sheikh Hasina's ten...
Dr. Rashid Askari: There is no scarcity of people who suffer from inverted snobbery or tall poppy syndrome. There is never the dearth of people who fancy denouncing the power that be without rhyme or reason. What good is it criticising for the sake of criticism itself? When it comes to evaluating Sheikh Hasina’s achievement as the pr...
Awami League (AL) General Secretary and Road Transports and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader today said that the BNP wants to obstruct the country’s development progress. “BNP-Jamaat does not want to see Bangladesh’s advancement. They always hatch conspiracy (against the country,” he said while virtually addressing the tr...
BNP-Jamaat leaders and activists started repressing the ordinary people and looting their properties immediately after they formed the government in October 2001. At the beginning of 2002, Jamaat MP Maulana Abdus Sobhan ordered the distribution of 2,100 VGF cards among the leaders and workers of Jamaat-Shibir though it was allocated to the poor ...
Soon after the victory of the BNP-Jamaat alliance in the 8th National Parliamentary Elections on October 1, 2001, Chhatra Dal and Shibir terrorists started brutal atrocities across the country. They even looted the sweetmeats to celebrate their victory in the shops and ransacked those. Even from the night of the elections, they started persecuti...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged UK businesses to seize the moment by taking advantage of the opportunities her government offers to invest in Bangladesh. The prime minister made the remarks during her meeting with Lord Karan Bilimoria of Chelsea, president of the UK Confederation of British Industry, according to a press release from the...
Pranab Kumar Panday: The visit of Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to India has been the subject of many conversations over the last few days. While the ruling party takes the PM's trip seriously, the opposition still seeks to discredit it. Experts agree that the bilateral negotiations between India and Bangladesh's heads of gover...
Professor Mohammad A. Arafat: The world sees Bangladesh as a success story and, indeed, it should. The bustling South Asian nation is frequently cited as a global model for development, economic growth, poverty mitigation, and gender equality. Dhaka has built homes for more than 150,000 destitute families. Its infrastructure has made giga...
Criticising BNP for spreading rumours and propaganda about Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's recent visit to India, Awami League (AL) General Secretary Obaidul Quader asked the BNP leaders to check what Bangladesh achieved from India during their tenure. "BNP leaders should look at their own face in the mirror so that they could see what they had ...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said the government and concerned stakeholders' collective and timely efforts helped avoid possible disasters saving many lives from the Covid-19 pandemic. "Bangladesh has successfully managed the Covid-19 pandemic and has been able to save many lives. Considering the population density, many feared huge numbe...
Sukharanjan Dasgupta: BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has claimed that PM Sheikh Hasina is "unable to deal with India". Bangladesh's Islamist opposition too seems to be on an overdrive to belittle Hasina whenever she is on a visit to India. But these high-pitch allegations ring hollow. Let's ask Mirza Fakhrul what his party ...
Bangladesh and India have agreed to work towards ensuring zero deaths at the border, according to a joint statement. The two nations also expressed satisfaction that the number of incidents at the border has gone down significantly, according to a joint statement released today (September 7, 2022) after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina held compreh...
Bangladesh and India have agreed to further strengthen cooperation in the areas of connectivity, food security, energy, trade, common rivers, water management, cyber-security, and climate change. According to a joint statement issued by the neighbouring countries on Wednesday, Bangladesh sought a "predictable supply" of food items, growth in bi...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said the relationship between Bangladesh and India goes far beyond strategic partnership and has further strengthened during the last decade. "Having forged a strong partnership over the last 50 years, both countries are working on an increasingly wide range of sectoral collaboration," she said. Mentioning th...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has called Bangladesh the most liberal nation for investment, urging Indian investors to invest largely in her country's infrastructure, manufacturing, energy and transport sectors. "I would urge Indian investors to consider possible investments in infrastructure projects, manufacturing, in energy and transport secto...
The Awami League never compromises when it comes to demanding and collecting the country's fair share, despite India's historical debt to the Bengali nation for its role in the Liberation War. The Awami League-led government has managed to maintain friendly relations with neighbouring India while obtaining fair shares. It was once again the Awam...
Bangladesh and India on Tuesday signed seven Memorandum of Understandings (MoU) demonstrating cooperation in a number of areas including water sharing of the Kushiyara River. One of the signed MoUs is the withdrawal of 153 cusec water from the Kushiyara River by Bangladesh under the upper Surma-Kushiyara project, Sylhet via Rahimpur Another Mo...
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