The nation gets an early taste of the election fever in the week ahead, with Super Saturday on June 15 set to serve as a virtual referendum on the entire political establishment. An establishment that has been choked and pulled
Thursday, June 13th, 2013
Election-year budgets can be notoriously misleading documents. Driven primarily by thoughts of political expediency over considerations of economic necessity, their make-up usually tends to be skewed towards excessive spending and handouts in the form of subsidies or tax cuts. When
Thursday, June 6th, 2013
Judging by the comments aired at a pre-departure press conference, US under-secretary of state for political affairs Wendy Sherman was in no mood to suffer fools during the three days she spent in Dhaka last week. Even as the government’s
Thursday, May 30th, 2013
The continued standoff in the political arena grows more and more disconcerting with each passing week. For a while over the last few weeks, on more than one occasion, good sense seemed to have won the day, and the two
Thursday, May 23rd, 2013
The miraculous survival, and subsequent rescue of Reshma, a 19-year-old garment worker, from the wreckage at Savar last Friday, 17 days after the collapse of the Rana Plaza that disturbed the nation's imagination with regards to the nation's RMG sector,
Thursday, May 16th, 2013
The groundswell of hope inspired by the bare minimum of our prime minister and leader of the opposition acknowledging each other’s existence last week has seemingly fizzled out, with the Awami League jumping on a demand by the BNP to
Thursday, May 9th, 2013
It was good to know that the British high-street clothing outlet, Primark – famous for its long queues leading up to the checkout counter – has agreed to pay compensation to the victims of the deadly building collapse in Savar
Thursday, May 2nd, 2013
As news broke of Md Yunus being conferred with the Congressional Medal of Freedom, it struck me how it's really not surprising anymore when one gets to hear about him, or that other great champion of microfinance, Fazle Hasan Abed,
Thursday, April 25th, 2013
The spate of violence centring issues related to the war crimes tribunal, that has somehow frisbeed into a much larger question regarding the basic character viagra no prescription of the state and the role of Islam within it, has served
Thursday, April 18th, 2013
This has been a telling week in the politics of the nation, one likely to influence the entire course of it in the lead-up to the elections that must be held by January 24, 2014. The attachment of our elites
Thursday, April 11th, 2013
