As new finance minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali gears up to place his first budget for FY25, the lack of good governance in the banking sector remains a widely discussed issue.
Although the number of total factories is debatable, even if there are 4,500 factories, both Accord and Alliance combined only reaches out to less than half of the existing factories.
Fury was in the air. The report of the Basic Principles Committee in 1952 in the new state of Pakistan, in consequence, seemed to inject fresh new energy into the movement for Bangla. The progressive political classes clearly felt the need to sustain the struggle.
Old, often grainy images of Bangladesh’s War of Liberation show carrion feeding on the bloated bodies of murdered Bangali civilians along the rivers and marshes of the country. And among these pictures is the odd spectacle of grinning Bangali villagers holding up the severed head of a Pakistani soldier killed by the Mukti Bahini.