by Partha Pratim Bhattacharjee in The Daily Star, Jul 20, 2023Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has hinted that there will soon be a new political alliance and it will take to the streets in support of the government, according to sources familiar with the development. Certain parties that believe in the spirit of the Liberation War and have shown interest in joining the Awami League-led 14-party alliance, will be in the new alliance. But the current…
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By Damith Wickremasekara in The Sunday Times, July 9, 2023President Ranil Wickremesinghe is set to make an official visit to China in October, his first to that country since becoming the Head of State last year. According to Government sources his main role will be to look for new investments, reach trade agreements and resume funding for stalled projects. Expediting investments for the Colombo Port Financial City and discussions with the Exim Bank on resuming…
by Zyma Islam/Shahriar Rahman/Zarif Faiaz in The Daily Star, Jul 9, 2023With the general election around the corner, data leaks and cyberattacks have intensified alarmingly, with the latest being a suspected leak of five crore citizens’ data from the Office of the Registrar General, Birth & Death Registration (BDRIS). The exposed data was first found out on June 27 by Viktor Markopoulos, a researcher from Bitcrack Cyber Security, a computer security solutions firm based in…
report in Prothom Alo, Jun 18, 2023Jatiya Party Chairman GM Quader on Saturday reiterated that free, fair and neutral elections are not possible under the incumbent government, reports UNB. “It has repeatedly been proved and the notion of common people that the elections to the city corporations were not held properly and accuracy of the elections were deliberately spoiled using the electronic voting machines (EVM),” he said. He came up with the remarks while exchanging…
By Nishan Khatiwada in The Kathmandu Post, June 17, 2023Earlier, the Koshi province was facing two problems—one related to its nomenclature and the other being the UML-led government falling into minority. And now, there is one more. The Koshi provincial government on Thursday unveiled a Rs36.24 billion budget for the fiscal year 2023-2024 through an ordinance. Opposition parties that had earlier warned the chief minister against governing through ordinances, say they will not support the…
By Mohammad Farshad Daryosh in TOLOnews, June 15, 2023 at 9:21 PMActing Minister of Defense Mawlawi Mohammad Yaqoob Mujahid denied claims of disputes within the Islamic Emirate and said that any disputes that harm the system do not exist in the Islamic Emirate government. In an interview with TOLOnews, Yaqoob Mujahid emphasized that reports made by international organizations concerning violations of human rights in Panjshir are untrue. “I have worked and served for a very…
by Krishana Prasain in The Kathmandu Post, June 12, 2023Nepali kitchens may have to do without potatoes and onions as traders have stopped importing these indispensable vegetables after the government slapped value-added tax (VAT) on them. Consumer rights activists say a revenue-hungry government is taxing everything, and now it has even invaded the kitchen, making life harder for inflation-stricken Nepalis. Finance Minister Prakash Sharan Mahat defended the move telling Parliament recently that imposing taxes on…
report in PROTHOM ALO, June 10, 2023Alleging that the government has once again initiated an election game, BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has said there will be no election in the country unless it is conducted under a non-partisan caretaker government. He made the remarks while addressing a rally in front of the BNP headquarters in the capital’s Nayapaltan area on Friday. Jatiyatabadi Sramik Dal, the labour wing of the BNP, called the…
By Binod Ghimire in The Kathmandu Post, June 09, 2023The government has ignored the National Human Rights Commission’s recommendation to investigate Janata Samajbadi Party chair Upendra Yadav among 129 others in connection with the 2007 Gaur massacre. The constitutional human rights watchdog on January 7 had asked government agencies through the Prime Minister’s Office to probe the heinous crime and take action against Yadav and others, if found guilty. The commission also demanded the progress…
By Amal Jayasingher in The Island, June 4, 20223 When social media was inundated with rumours that Sri Lanka’s holiest tree was being harmed by 5G mobile signals, Colombo’s cash-strapped government pulled out all the stops.President Ranil Wickremesinghe dispatched a high-powered team of experts to the 2,300-year-old Sri Maha Bodhi tree in the sacred city of Anuradhapura, an ancient capital of the South Asian nation. It included the head of the telecom regulator, his technical…
by Rejaul Karim Byron in The Daily Star, Jun 1, 2023The government’s foreign debt servicing burden may rise by as much as 45 percent in the next fiscal year due to the devaluation of taka and higher utilisation of foreign loans in recent years. About Tk 24,700 crore would be set aside in fiscal 2023-24’s budget for foreign loan repayment, according to finance ministry officials. It is about $2.42 billion considering the current exchange rate…