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3 weeks ago | 
dhakacourier.com.bd | Enayetullah Khan |Anisul Islam
Conventional wisdom states that interim periods of transition are not the best time to invest in a country. The political turmoil that led to the July Uprising was obviously not the best advertisement to attract FDI into the country. But attracting FDI has never been the strong point of the country. Chronic corruption and weaknesses in the judicial system, particularly when it comes to the enforcement of contracts, have been the leading factors in that.
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3 weeks ago | 
dhakacourier.com.bd | Tara Copp |Anisul Islam
The Atlantic on Wednesday released the entire Signal chat among senior national security officials, showing that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth provided the exact timings of warplane launches and when bombs would drop - before the men and women flying those attacks against Yemen's Houthis this month on behalf of the United States were airborne.
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1 month ago | 
dhakacourier.com.bd | Enayetullah Khan |Anisul Islam
I was in deep sleep in the middle of the night, when the call came with the shocking news of my dear friend Arefin's passing away. A few days earlier I had heard Arefin fell ill while trying to draw some money at an ATM booth at Dhaka Club. He was immediately rushed to the ICU at BIRDEM. His only daughter Propa reached out to me in Singapore and asked if I could help contact some hospitals to see if they would be able to treat her father.
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1 month ago | 
dhakacourier.com.bd | Enayetullah Khan |Anisul Islam
The UN Secretary-General is now in Bangladesh for a high profile visit that will also act as an endorsement of the job the interim government is doing towards steadying the ship in Bangladesh, since the job fell to it in the aftermath of the Uprising last year It is also hoped that the trip can help refocus global attention on the Rohingya crisis, which has been falling off the radar on the international community's list of priorities in the last 2-3 years.
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1 month ago | 
dhakacourier.com.bd | Enayetullah Khan |Anisul Islam
We can no longer afford to ignore the very concerted effort on the part of the powerful students' lobby that is able to exert a great degree of control over the interim government, to deliberately delay the election that is supposed to be its number one priority. This week, we saw two of the prominent student leaders, who have now formed their own political party, try in different ways to put back the possible date of the election.
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1 month ago | 
dhakacourier.com.bd | Enayetullah Khan |Anisul Islam
I was on a flight of Biman from Dhaka to Bangkok on 28 February when BG388 experienced a sudden drop in cabin pressure over the airspace of Myanmar. The pilot decided to bring the aircraft down to 10,000 feet from 30,000 feet in the sky. Unhygienic oxygen masks were deployed from ceiling of the aircraft which made for an uncomfortable breathing experience as the plane went through an emergency diversion. The aircraft turned back to Dhaka where passengers were stranded for four hours.
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1 month ago | 
dhakacourier.com.bd | Enayetullah Khan |Anisul Islam
As one of the two most important persons in the post-Uprising dispensation of Bangladesh, Army chief General Waker-uz-Zaman's words obviously carry a lot of weight during this period of transition to what will hopefully be a democracy via the next election.
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1 month ago | 
dhakacourier.com.bd | Jean-Yves Kamale |Anisul Islam
An unknown illness first discovered in three children who ate a bat has rapidly killed more than 50 people in northwestern Congo over the past five weeks, health experts say. The interval between the onset of symptoms - which include fever, vomiting and internal bleeding - and death has been 48 hours in most cases and "that's what's really worrying," said Serge Ngalebato, medical director of Bikoro Hospital, a regional monitoring center.
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1 month ago | 
dhakacourier.com.bd | Joschka Fischer |Anisul Islam
European leaders knew that Vladimir Putin in the East and Donald Trump in the West would be a strategic nightmare scenario. Yet they did almost nothing to achieve greater political unity and stronger defense capabilities in anticipation of precisely this outcome. When Donald Trump won the US presidential election last November, European elites apparently thought that the United States would become a little more isolationist, a bit more nationalist. But otherwise, continuity would prevail.
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1 month ago | 
dhakacourier.com.bd | José Antonio Ocampo |Anisul Islam
In the face of high public-sector indebtedness, environmental and geopolitical breakdown, and other mounting problems, global consensus-building to support development institutions and developing countries’ growth strategies is more important than ever. The international community must set its priorities accordingly. The United Nations Conferences on Financing for Development have been great occasions for building consensus on global financing issues.
