Dr. JAMALUDDIN AHMED Currency crises defined as speculative attack on foreign currency value of currency. A speculative attack often found leading to a sharp exchange rate depreciation despite a strong policy response to defend currency value. The exchange rate is often considered to be the most critical price for any economy, for its effects all […]Continue Reading
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Dr AK ABDUL MOMEN Bangladesh is probably unparallel in the world in a sense that very birth of Bangladesh was aimed for upholding democracy, human rights and justice. In 1970, when Bangladesh Awami League (AL) won majority votes to form the new government (out of 299 seat election AL got 167 plus 32 =199, PPP […]Continue Reading
As sectarian tensions flared over the rape and killing of a Rakhine ethnic woman in May 2012, three reports from the Information Ministry arrived in the newsroom of the state-run Myanma Alin newspaper with orders to publish them without fail, The Irrawaddy writes. Two stories published by the state-run Myanma Alin Daily on June 5, […]Continue Reading
Rear Admiral Md. KHURSHED ALAM (Retd.) The planet has already started absorbing increasing anthropogenic impacts and accelerating change to social-ecological systems, with local to global implications for human well-being (Steffen et al. 2015a). In response, there has been considerable international focus on conserving ecosystems and enabling sustainable development like Continue Reading
RABB MAJUMDER Robert Chatterton Dickson, a seasoned diplomat, has been the British High Commissioner in Dhaka since March 2019. According to UK website report, Robert served as the Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s Additional Director for the Western Balkans Program from September 2018 until January 2019. He headed the Secretariat team that supported the National Continue Reading
MAJOR GENERAL M ASHAB UDDIN (Retd) The tribal leaders voiced for their rights to have a separate entity in Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) after the emergence of Bangladesh as an Independent state in 1971. Genesis of these problems dates back to the mid-fifties with the construction of the Kaptai Dam. This resulted in a large-scale […]Continue Reading
AIR CHIEF MARSHAL MASIHUZZAMAN SERNIABAT (Retd.) Introduction Ever since the perception of security has taken a bigger dimension encompassing much more than the traditional security, the possibility of security enhancement through other means has diversified. Today security means a whole lot of things. To name a few, Human Security, Economic Security, Energy Security, Food Continue Reading
COMMODORE KAZI EMDADUL HAQ (Retd) Introduction Bangladesh has become the seat of discourse amidst the great powers’ competition in the Indo-Pacific. Visits by the newly appointed Chinese foreign minister at midnight and high-level US delegations created curiosity among journalists and interlocutors. Social media, Twitter, television, and interlocutors have built up Continue Reading
AIR VICE MARSHAL MAHMUD HUSSAIN (Retd) The post-Cold War era has been the most interesting phase in international politics in recent history. No other period has held the balance of power system in so much of ambivalence. The period has two distinct phases. The first phase started with the collapse of the former Soviet Union. […]Continue Reading
Maj Gen Dr. Md. NAYEEM ASHFAQUE CHOWDHURY (Retd.) After a lot of efforts, the Rohingya community around the world could come to a sole political platform named Arakan Rohingya National Alliance (ARNA) on November 20. It was a much-awaited requirement and decision, which is needed to establish Rohingya’s right of self-determination, to be able to […]Continue Reading