Govt needs to create condition for WB decision review
Bangladesh needs to assess long-term Tipaimukh impact on its own
Shahnaz shares her experiences with Mehdi Hassan
$7.95b trade deficit in 11 months
From Bangladesh in Olympics through Michigan
Punishment of people behind Ctg landslides demanded
US says sorry to Pakistan
PM asks who’ll look into WB corruption
Lokman’s family term chargesheet ‘false’, ‘fabricated’
Health minister under fire, again
Egypt at a crossroads
Tom tops highest paid actors
WB suggests addressing bottlenecks to accelerate export growth
Foreigners make merry yet again
2 Ctg railway employees suspended
Malians hold sit-in in protest at Islamists
HRW tells govt to disband RAB
ACC quizzes three high officials of BBA
Encounter with an advanced capitalist economy
Fresh flooding affects several lakh people
Human haulers still on highways flouting govt directive

Bangladesh needs to assess long-term Tipaimukh impact on its own

BANGLADESH needs to conduct an independent study on its own to assess the long-term impacts of the Tipaimukh Dam that India plans to construct on the river Barak, which provides water to the Meghna, a major river system here, says Professor M Munsur... Full story

Egypt at a crossroads

In this handout picture made available by the Egyptian presidency, Egypt’s Islamist president-elect Mohamed Morsi arrives to address tens of thousands of Egyptians in Cairo’s iconic Tahrir Square on June 29.— AFP photo

EGYPT now has an elected president. This is the first time in the known history of Egypt that a president has been elected by the people. Over 52 per cent of the electorates voted for Mohamed Morsi as against 48 percent voted in favour of Ahmed Shafiq, a former... Full story

Power doesn’t just attract mean and stupid people – it makes them that way

IN Empire of the Rising Scum, Robert Shea observed that, regardless of their ostensible mission, hierarchical institutions tend to be headed by people whose primary skills are careerist climbing and bureaucratic in-fighting. Full story

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