Current Affairs

Muyeedul Hasan writes:

On the surface, the progress towards ending authoritarian political order appears to be slow, sometimes halting. But, in my view, there has been some real progress, which may continue till the general election, and perhaps beyond. The substance of authority, both de jure and de facto, of the top political leadership, stopped functioning since January ‘07, their images now are in peril, the overt apparatus of their goons are severely damaged, their covert support base within the administration badly disarrayed, and their money machines seriously disrupted.

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Moshahida Sultana Ritu

Silence! Another magic spell in Fakhruddin’s basket. Land phone subscribers are happy. They used to pay Tk 1.5 per five minutes before. Now they have to pay only Tk 0.15 per minute. It is a magic. Let us check why some people are so happy when some people are so powerlessly lost in the magic spell.

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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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- 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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Organized by:
Profile of Bengal & Dhaka university management club

1.Poverty
2.Energy and Power Supply
3.Health
4.Budget Deficit
5.Climate Change
6.Employment

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- 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.

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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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