..: The Bangladesh Today :..

THURSDAY, MAY 17, 2012
JAISHTHA 3, 1419 BS
JAMADIUS SANI 24, 1433 Hijri

 

                       Publisher & Chairman Editorial Board:
                        
Colonel Syed Shahabuddin Ahmed (Retd) 
                          Editor: Barrister Syed Sajjad Ahmed

 
  33 top opposition leaders land in jail » 18-party alliance calls countrywide hartal today » HC asks to form probe body » Pakistan backs quick deal on NATO supplies » UN monitors stranded with Syria activists after blast » World Bank $275 mn loan to tackle Philippines sewage » Radisson® and Radisson blu offer up to 100,000 free nights as part of global big night giveaway event » United efforts for saving villages from river erosion » Female Vice Chairmen’s role vital for strengthening democracy » Salma’s 5-wicket powers Mohammedan to a facile triumph in Women League » Murray celebrates birthday the hard way

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  33 top opposition leaders land in jail
25 injured in clash with cops; 5 vehicles torched

Dhaka, May 16 (UNB) - Thirty-three key leaders of the BNP-led 18-party alliances, including BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir,  ....More

 


  18-party alliance calls countrywide hartal today

Dhaka: The BNP-led 18-party alliance called a countrywide dawn-to-dusk hartal for Thursday demanding unconditional release of the top  ....More
 


 Land grabbing allegation against Aslamul
HC asks to form probe body

Dhaka : The High Court on Wednesday asked the government to constitute a high-powered committee to investigate the allegation brought against ....More
 



 Other Headlines

» Pakistan backs quick deal on NATO supplies
»
UN monitors stranded with Syria activists after blast
» World Bank $275 mn loan to tackle Philippines sewage
»
Radisson® and Radisson blu offer up to 100,000 free nights as part of global big night giveaway event
» United efforts for saving villages from river erosion
» Female Vice Chairmen’s role vital for strengthening democracy
»
Salma’s 5-wicket powers Mohammedan to a facile triumph in Women League
»
Murray celebrates birthday the hard way

 

Analysis

Congress short of ideas

Absence of charismatic leaders and a lack of vision for the country have allowed groupism to proliferate in India's oldest political party. Blaming factionalism for the Congress party's recent electoral setbacks, as Sonia Gandhi has done, can be regarded as a somewhat facile explanation. Internal rifts are in the party's genes and date back a century to the clashes between ....More


Viewpoints

No defence with a weak economy

The country has witnessed a steadily declining economy, a weakening of the conventional defence capability and emergence of a directionless foreign policy during the last several years.
World history is full of evidence that no country has been able to maintain and sustain a deterrent defence and an independent foreign policy with a weak economy that becomes ....
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