In a post on Facebook, Muhammad Yunus's office claims that the US National Intelligence Director's comments 'paint an entire nation with a broad and unjustified brush'.
General Waker-Uz-Zaman was speaking at an army memorial event. This comes after student unions of BNP & Jamaat blamed each other for violence gripping the country.
Nahid Islam was spokesperson of Students Against Discrimination which spearheaded movement that led to Hasina's ouster. He was I&B adviser to Yunus-led interim govt in Bangladesh.
The two leaders are yet to come face to face, while Jaishankar has twice met his Bangladesh counterpart amid fraying ties; other mechanisms like border talks have continued.
Bangladesh saw what Hasina’s ‘Aynaghars’ – torture and detention dens – looked like after Yunus visited them with media personnel and victims’ family members.
In a virtual meet with widows of 4 policemen killed in July uprising, the ex-Bangladesh PM said that Yunus & others responsible for the killings would be brought to justice ‘on Bangla soil’.
The operation involves participation by multiple security forces of Bangladesh. Over 1,300 detained in 2 days after launch. Experts hope Yunus doesn’t set precedent of legal overreach.
The underlying issue is that there hasn’t been enough of a structural change in the economy since the launch of reforms in 1990-91, despite per capita incomes multiplying nearly five-fold.
As Visakhapatnam readies a mega airport, the Andhra Pradesh government has revived its shelved Dagadarthi project, aiming to boost cargo and connectivity on the south coast.
Both the Russian and Ukrainian militaries are leaning on drones, but they’re also firing cruise and ballistic missiles, some of them relatively new and experimental.
UK, EFTA already in the bag and EU on the way, many members of RCEP except China signed up, and even restrictions on China being lifted, India has changed its mind on trade.
Academics like Amartya’s ego blinds them as much as the fundamentalists. The only difference is that Amartya enjoys an elite network that cushions his privilege of intellectual dishonesty.
This has been a chronic ailment of the “left leaning” liberal intelligentsia. Conflating certain strains of Islamic orthodoxy with a proto-communist egalitarian society and living in perpetual fear of being branded “Islamophobic” has turned them blind to the grave portents of radicalism. While no rebuke can be harsh enough for Hindu irredentism, Mr Sen and his ilk is loathe to do anything but mollycoddle Islamist fundamentalist. This blindspot renders them ineffectual in Bangladesh and the mendacity renders them vulnerable to charges of hypocrisy in India. If the left is regain any semblance of moral authority, they need to call a spade a spade irrespective of the faith it claims to profess.
Academics like Amartya’s ego blinds them as much as the fundamentalists. The only difference is that Amartya enjoys an elite network that cushions his privilege of intellectual dishonesty.
When an economist chooses leftism over free market, that means he learnt wrong economics. So such persons usually do wrong things.
Amartya Is not Sane
This has been a chronic ailment of the “left leaning” liberal intelligentsia. Conflating certain strains of Islamic orthodoxy with a proto-communist egalitarian society and living in perpetual fear of being branded “Islamophobic” has turned them blind to the grave portents of radicalism. While no rebuke can be harsh enough for Hindu irredentism, Mr Sen and his ilk is loathe to do anything but mollycoddle Islamist fundamentalist. This blindspot renders them ineffectual in Bangladesh and the mendacity renders them vulnerable to charges of hypocrisy in India. If the left is regain any semblance of moral authority, they need to call a spade a spade irrespective of the faith it claims to profess.