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PM Sheikh Hasina’s recent visit to India and aftermath

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s New Delhi visit following the general election in both the countries has taken place at a time when the two countries have been trying to resolve some pending issues including sharing of water of some common rivers like Teesta. The issue of NRC is also a concern ...

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Sheikh Hasina’s address to the UN and the Rohingya issue

Sheikh Hasina, Prime Minister of Bangladesh addressed the UN General assembly on 29 September at about 3am Bangladesh time, she was supposed to be one of the most important speakers who had to deal with one of the most crucial issues of the globe the Rohingya. She spoke in Bangla just like her great...

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Sheikh Hasina’s unequivocal move to build a corruption-free society

One attribute of Sheikh Hasina, the prime minister of Bangladesh, is that she never fails to recognise a person in his or her true character. Since she is a great public leader and has been exercising sate power for a long time, she has to work even with those whom she dislikes and probably does not...

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BAKSAL and PM’s call to follow philosophy of Bangabandhu

Recently, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in a grand conference of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) at Ganabhaban neatly explained the philosophy behind the formation of Bangladesh Krishak Sramik Awami League (BAKSAL). Bangabandhu declared his second revolution programme and amended the constitution inc...

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China should play prudent role to resolve Rohingya crisis

The Rohingya crisis seems to be deepened further. The problem may turn bad to worse if it continues for long and Rohingya citizens of the Rakhine states are not allowed to go back to their country. The United Nations (UN) and almost all the important leaders of the globe supported return of the Rohi...

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Can Begum Zia evade the responsibility of 21 August grenade attack?

The 21 August grenade attack on Sheikh Hasina in 2004, 29 years after the brutal killing of Bangabandhu with almost all the members of his family on 15th August 1975, was planned to annihilate Sheikh Hasina along with all members of her party with a view to perpetuating the rule of Begum Zia. Tareq ...

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The conspiracy behind the assassination of Bangabandhu

The month that snatched away the greatest wealth of Bangladesh is the month of August. It was the month of August 1975, on 15th that the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman got killed at the hands of those who did not support the Independence of Bangladesh. We were all in Pakistan...

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Begum Mujib’s contribution to nation building

If by Father of the Nation we mean Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib, then Begum Fazilatunnessa Mujib is obviously the mother.  It is not because that she is Begum Mujib, not because she became the first lady, but because of her personal contribution to the nation and love for the people that made her B...

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Foreign criminals active in Bangladesh

There is a report that 5000 foreign criminals are operating in Bangladesh, committing dangerous crimes to destablise our economy as well as the law and order situation. It is strange how such foreign citizens could get entry into Bangladesh. Surely there must be untraceable dens within the country. ...

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The very concept of Bangladesh was attacked on 15 August 1975

15th of Au­gust 1975 was a day when the very concept and fundamentals of Bangla­desh was attacked. It was a day when the enemies of the country wanted wash away everything that was earned through the war of liberation. It was just four-year after Bangladesh got liberated, the Father of the N...

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Are we living in a civilized society?

Are we living in a civilized society? The society that fails to ensure security to its citizens and preserve the most required value for living cannot be considered to be as civilized one. What exactly is the reality now? We have certainly made enormous socio-economic progress, our standard of livin...

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UN should raise voice against greenhouse gas emission

In a recent seminar on climate change UN ex-Secretary General Ban Ki Moon has suggested setting up a global center for management of the climate change in Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh just to make it a demonstrative country, to educate others on how to combat climate change. Moon in his opi...

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PM’s China visit shows light to end Rohingya crisis

China is invariably a great friend to us, if we consider the vast amount of investment that China has already made in our development project and forget the past. If economic ties between two countries determine their bilateral relations, both China and Bangladesh have done it successfully. Prime Mi...

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Hasina -Mujib fought for identical cause

During 1981-1996, Sheikh Hasina not only had to fight against Pak military rule but also against the Bangladesh general who captured power only three and half years after the country was made free, killing the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and ousting Awami League, the party...

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Why did I choose AL?

If somebody asks me why did I choose Awami League (AL) as the political party to join as early as in 1953 when I was a student of class IX, the answer would be --- it was because of attraction for a person known as Mujib bhai. When I listened to him first he was delivering a speech at Fakirhat, an u...

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Proposed national budget 2019-20: A document of development

By budget we mean an annual account of the earning and expenses of the country placed by its government to the parliament. Since earning of the government is provided by its people in the form of tax, the parliament has to give sanctions as to how the money is to be spent. So, the budget being place...

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Six-point: The magna carta of the Bangalees

The six-point programme was announced by Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in a historic conference arranged by the then opposition parties in Pakistan in order to stage an all-out movement against the military dictator Ayub Khan. Ayub Khan had been ruling the country ruthlessly for 10 years. By dec...

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Hasina’s return saves Bangladesh

In an article written in the daily Jana­kantha by Mr Tofail Ahmed, MP, he mentions the return of Sheikh Hasina to Bangladesh from India where she had been living for over five years after the assassination of Bangabandhu, the Father of the Nation. However, in the article he has given his own ana...

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Reforms of legal system a must to check incidence of rape

When newspaper reaches in the morning to a reader who has been anxiously waiting for it just to know what happened around him during the previous 24 hours. He has to be horrified when he finds at least half a dozen of rapes have been committed by the criminals. These ugly incidents expose to us what...

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Bangladesh once again shows efficiency in disaster management

Bangladesh has once again proved that it knows how to deal with national calamities like cyclone, flood and draught. Henceforth the world would look at Bangladesh to learn the art of management of natural calamities. If we recall the days during Pakistan when lakhs of people had to die of tidal surg...