M. Shahidul Islam
Like the misguided prediction of heavy rainfall turning into a cyclone, the high profiled visit to Dhaka of the Indian PM Manmohan Singh is turning more dreadful by the day. Massive polarization within the government had already resulted in fading into oblivion of one of the key advisers to the PM while excessive brinkmanship has set apart the decision makers of the two nations further.
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Shamsuddin Ahmed
The government is set to handover United Liberation Force of Assam (ULFA) leader Anup Chetia to India against his will. It may incur rancour of the secessionist groups fighting for independence. ULFA army chief Paresh Baruah and 30 other secessionist groups of Northeast Indian states, so far fighting for independence, have recently forged unity under the aegis of their Chinese and Myanmar friends who have allegedly held out assurance of necessary support.
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Sadeq Khan
The Economist, in its 30 July issue, noted in an article entitled "Embraceable you", noted how "growing geopolitical interests push India to seek better relations nearer home" with Bangladesh. It reads:
   "NOT much noticed by outsiders, long-troubled ties between two neighbours sharing a long border have taken a substantial lurch for the better. Ever since 2008, when the Awami League, helped by bags of Indian cash and advice, triumphed in general elections in Bangladesh, relations with India have blossomed.
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Ataus Samad
The issue of fair dispensation of justice has become a hot issue in Bangladesh in the wake of presidential pardons granted to a good number of murder convicts, and a warning issued to the opposition leader and Chairperson of BNP Khaleda Zia in a case in which she is not a party. The judges said that they were using their power of taking judicial cognizance. The effects of the decisions of the President and of the particular bench of the High Court Division are snowballing.
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Special Correspondent
As the slanderous comments on the Prophet by a handful of Hindu school teachers are on the sporadic rise in the wake of the recent sexual harassment of a young girl student of the city's Viqarunnesa Girls' School and College, people now wonder if any unholy quarter is at work to destabilize the country's social harmony.
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 Abu Hena
 The world's financial markets are in turmoil. Economic growth is slowing down everywhere. Time has come for the policymakers around the globe to cooperate with each other and try to head off a crisis. This they did successfully in 2008-2009.
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Special Correspondent
The crisis in supply of water and electricity turned out to be acute adding more sufferings to the citizens especially during the Ramzan, the holy month of fasting.
   Despite claims made by the authorities on several occasion, it shows no sign of improvement.
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Fazle Rashid in New York
A keen student of global diplomacy will be both baffled and appalled by the current political trends. It is very difficult to understand who is one's friend and who is the foe. Pakistan and India according to public perceptions are sworn enemies. Pakistan and China are the best friends. There have been reverse trends in Islamabad's ties with New Delhi and Beijing.
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Faisal Rahim
Bangladesh is at the crossroads. Here the Awami League-led grand coalition government has reportedly handed over part of the country's border territory to the Indians although the people are yet to know anything about it.
   The land in question covers 261 acres of land at Sylhet-Tamabeel border. The decision to hand over the land was taken last week when Indian Home Minister had talks with Bangladesh Home minister Sahara Khatun and other Bangladesh leaders.
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Special Correspondent
Without any ambiguity, Indian Janata Party President and a former union minister Subramanian Swamy has put forward a strategy to annex from Bangladesh's Sylhet down to Khulna to resettle the illegal migrants from Bangladesh to India.
   In his recent article, Swamiji, who is also a visiting professor of economics at Harvard University, explained a set of strategy to attain five distinct goals towards reforming India into a complete Hindu Rastra.
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Shamsul Huda
Currently more than 75 per cent of the export oriented ready-made knitwear garments are being printed by the local printing companies. Most of the companies are nominated by the buyers, and according to the buyers' preference the exporters provide printing work order to the companies, says Zafar Iqbal Siddique, president of the Bangladesh Garment Printing Association (BGPA) in an interview with the Holiday. He says that once the printing was done by the European importing companies in their countries. As they have stopped to do such work, a huge amount of orders are coming in to Bangladesh for both simple and ornamental printing on the knit garments.
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