Current Affairs

Corruption in Bangladesh: An Analytical Framework.
- Munir Zaman

Corruption occurs at the interface of public and private sector relations and is understood to mean an abuse of public authority for private benefit, be it acquisition of power or of profit. State authority thus plays a decisive role in the presence or absence of corruption.
It is a common knowledge among the members of the older generation in Bangladesh that corruption at high levels of political authorities as well as bureaucracy was limited or virtually inexistent. What went wrong with the exercise of state authority since then?
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“Bangladesh The Untapped Energy Mine”
The Revolutionary Scope of Renewable Energy Technologies for Bangladesh.

Think Globally, Act Locally

Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931), “the father of the electrical age”, said: “We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fences around our house for fuel when we should be using nature’s inexhaustible sources of energy—sun, wind and tide. I’d put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don’t have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that.”

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Corruption & Power Politics
- Munir Zaman

During the Awami League rule in the nineties there was pervasive corruption at different levels of government coupled with routine acts of terror and extortion by politically supported god-fathers. These had become one of the major areas of social concerns. The October 2001 general election returned BNP to the parliament with an overwhelming majority of the seats.

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Governance Matters: The State of Governance in Bangladesh 2007

Sanjan Haque

In 2007, the confrontational politics traditionally followed by the leading political parties, the constant need to secure power by means of politicization of state institutions, continuous corruption within the public sector and weak mechanisms of accountability, led to a political impasse which almost brought the country to the brink of civil war. The chain of events that led to ‘1/11’ and the imposition of the State of Emergency by the President, exemplified the state of governance in Bangladesh.

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Upcoming Bangladesh Election

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Profile of bengal & Dhaka university management club

Poverty
Energy and power supply
Health
Budget deficit
Climate change
Employment

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Political Trends in Bangladesh