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Research on Ctg. landslides
I would like to bring to the notice of all the environmental groups, engineers and policymakers of our country a recent research on statistical analysis of rainfall-induced landslides in Chittagong.
This research is being conducted at the University of Regina, Canada. I am a graduate student of the university. I studied several case histories of landslides and collected various data of rainfall from different published sources. It is very important for every citizen of our country to know the statistical trend of landslide events over time, how these landslides are triggered and what consequences they have. Rainfall-induced landslides are for the most part a manageable hazard. A coordinated effort to reduce landslide could be highly effective in Bangladesh. I think the government should consider this issue, take it as a priority and conduct research on it so that the result might be beneficial for the residents of Chittagong hilly areas and save their lives and properties.
Imteaz Bhuiyan
Graduate student, Environmental Systems Engineering, University of Regina
Regina, Canada
Time to look for a political alternative Experiments with our fledgling democracy have been botched up now for over 23 years and Bangladesh's condition now is akin to that of a small kitchen with 2 headstrong women in charge. The whole place is in a stinking mess because they both insist on preparing and serving what they think best to the rest of the household, like it or not!
I am amused and irritated as well to read in hundreds of articles day after day, servile incantations of pious hopes for sanity to return to the proceedings and patience, tolerance and a compromising spirit to be ignited. On what premise do the intellectuals of our society base their appeals, when there has been nothing but deafening silence to their entreaties for over two decades?
Is it not time now to look at other alternatives?
Sikander Ahmed
Gulshan-1, Dhaka
ACC in death throes on opposition's watch
It is not surprising that the AL government has turned the ACC into a show-piece just like the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC). Such shenanigans are to be expected from a party whose antecedents and acolytes speak loud of democratic pluralism but whose record in government is marred by the creation of a one-party state where only four newspapers were allowed. The surprise is the fact that none of the opposition parties has told us bluntly that, should they go to power, this wanton destruction of the ACC will be reversed. Perhaps the silence of the opposition should not be a surprise either. After all, most Bangladeshis know that the only time there is a check on unrestrained, unaccountable, and untrammeled state bureaucratic power is when there are non-partisan, non-political governments in office. No Bangladeshi political parly worth its salt will ever tolerate an independent body that protects the rights of citizens from state abuse: hence the worthless state of ACC and NHRC today.
Esam Sohail
Kansas, USA
Comments on news report, "Ministers make fun of resignation," published on November 13, 2013
Aasfisarwar
The attempt to deceive the nation by false resignations makes two things crystal clear: 1) They are dishonest. 2) They are unfit for becoming public servants. They even don't know how to write a resignation letter!
Molla A. Latif
The intention is to form a smaller election-time cabinet with accommodation of MPs from BNP (open to its wish) and other parties and that is the sin they have committed.
Nds
What a heartrending tragedy! The ministers are making fun when the innocent people who voted them to power are being subjected to brutal killings for no fault of theirs.
Abul Kashem
Does our constitution allow everyone to interpret it in his/her own way? The ministers themselves along with eminent lawyers are divided in explaining provisions of the constitution. Why does this happen frequently in our country?
Shahjahan
Resignation is another drama directed by the prime minister to befool the nation.
Shahin Huq
These ministers have lost all sense of shame. They want to enjoy the privileges of ministers and at the same time submit resignation letters to PM.
Mortuza Huq
The AL government can make fun with people on anything.
The truth
All must be punished for making fun of the nation and of the Constitution of Bangladesh.