report in bdnews24.com, Nov 27, 2017 at 21.07:32.0BdST Palli Karma-Sahayak Foundation or PKSF Chairman Qazi Kholiquzzaman Ahmad has said like land grabbing and river encroachment, ‘bank grabbing’ is now on in Bangladesh’s financial sector. He was speaking on the second day of a two-day annual banking conference organised by Bangladesh Institute of Bank Management or BIBM in Dhaka on Monday. Kholiquzzaman, who teaches economics at Dhaka University, said, “Grabbing is under way in the banking…
Posts published in November 2017
by Rajshahi Correspondent in bdnews24.com, Nov 28, 2017 Explosions and gunfire rang out after RAB began a raid on a suspected militant hideout on a sandbar on the Padma River in Chapainawabganj, a commanding officer has said. The tin building caught fire early on Tuesday amid the gunfire and explosion, said Rajshahi RAB Commanding Officer Mahabub Alam. Though the fire was put out, RAB personnel have been unable to get inside. They are waiting for…
by Kristin Huang in South China Morning Post, Nov 28, 2017 India’s entry into the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation will diminish China’s dominance in the regional economic and security bloc, analysts said, potentially posing an unfamiliar set of challenges for Premier Li Keqiang when he attends an SCO summit this week – the first to have India and Pakistan on hand as full-fledged members. “China’s role would definitely be weakened after India joined the SCO since…
edit in The Washington Post, Nov 24, 2017 CHINESE PRESIDENT Xi Jinping offered 14 “fundamental principles” behind the new doctrine of “Xi Jinping Thought” unveiled at the recent 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. Among them, according to the official Xinhua news service, was “ensuring every dimension of governance is law-based.” In a democratic society, rule of law is essential and means no one is above the law. In the Chinese approach,…
by Mandy Zuo in South China Morning Post, Nov 26, 2017, at 11:31pm At least two people were killed after an explosion rocked the port city of Ningbo in eastern China’s Zhejiang province on Sunday, causing buildings to collapse. The explosion, which occurred at about 8.50am, shattered windows up to a kilometre from the blast site. The cause of the explosion was still unknown around 10 hours after it took place. In addition to the…
by Stephen Chen in South China Morning Post, Nov 27, 2017 China is developing a new type of spy satellite using ghost imaging technology that could change the game of military cat and mouse within a decade, according to scientists involved in the project. Existing camouflage techniques – from simple smoke bombs used to hide tanks or soldiers on battlefields to the hi-tech radar absorption materials on a stealth aircraft or warship – would be…
by Ashutosh Sarkar & Wasim Bin Habib in The Daily Star, Nov 27, 2017 The 2009 BDR mutiny had posed a serious challenge to the 48-day-old government and a grave threat to democracy and the rule of law, a High Court judge observed yesterday while delivering the verdict in the sensational BDR carnage case. Showing disregard for the rule of law, the mutineers had engaged themselves in a conspiracy to destabilise the country by killing…
report in The daily star, Nov 27, 2017 Experts yesterday called upon the government to ensure trial of Jamaat-e-Islami as an organisation for committing war crimes during the Liberation War. Academics and researchers, also witnesses to the 1971 war, from home and abroad, urged the international community to build a coalition to try former Pakistani military men for being instrumental in carrying out gruesome genocide. The call was made on the concluding day of the…
By SUI-LEE WEE in The New York Times, Nov 24, 2017 BEIJING — The money came from all over China — its wealthy southern and eastern coasts as well as the arid northwest — as thousands of people scrambled to circumvent the country’s strict controls on wealth. In the end, more than 10,000 people had used an underground bank to effectively funnel $3 billion out of the country before the authorities put a stop to…
edit in The Washington Post, Nov 23, 2017 at 8.20PM ALONG WITH the news media, social media, nongovernmental organizations and business, the contest over freedom in China also plays out at its universities. China aspires to be a superpower of higher education, but its authoritarian rulers don’t like to allow the unfettered openness and inquiry that are at the core of academic freedom. President Xi Jinping, whose thinking has now been enshrined in Communist Party…
report in Dhaka Tribune, Nov 24, 2017 Two Bangladeshi militants recently apprehended in Kolkata had plans to murder bloggers in Bangladesh, the Indian Special Task force (STF) has said. On Tuesday, Kolkata police arrested three people including two Bangladeshi nationals – Samsad Mian alias Tanvir (26), along with Rizaul Islam alias Riyaz – from near Kolkata railway station. A 32mm pistol, a flash drive, al-Qaeda documents on how to make explosives, and religious documents in…