Joy Bangla Artist

From bdnews24.com

"I am a Joy Bangla artist," says internationally-acclaimed painter Shahabuddin, recalling the war cry of the Bengalee nation during the 1971 Liberation War.

The Liberation War, he says, is his creative inspiration.

Speaking at the Bakultala of the Faculty of Fine Arts on Sunday, Shahabuddin asked his countrymen never to betray the spirit of the Liberation War or deviate from it.

"Do that and you go into a free fall," he warned at the function organised to honour Shahbuddin for being bestowed the Knight in the Order of the Arts and Literature by the French government.

An expatriate in France for four decades, Shahabuddin has endeared himself to art lovers in Europe by his unique style that draws on the best art forms of the East and the West. 

"I don’t have a passport other than my Bangladesh passport. Yes I have a French resident card. I am a Bangladeshi and proud of that. And I always knew they (Europeans) will recognise me," Shahabuddin said.

He reminded the audience that none can 'cheat his way up'.

"An artist has no barrier or boundaries wherever he is. Talent counts but effort is more important," he said.

His friend Jamaluddin recalled how Shahabuddin once chased him away during his painting exhibition attended by the French envoy because he was busy chatting with a baby-taxi driver.

"Later I came to know Shahabuddin had stayed in the driver's house with his weapons as a freedom fighter one night and his wife had cooked for him," said Jamaluddin.

Shahabuddin said he was profoundly demoralised by the 1975 coup, referring to the assassination of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and much of his family.

 

There is no international standard for war crimes trials

From bdnews24.com

Delivering a lecture at the Liberation War Museum on Thursday, Rafiqul Islam, who teaches at Australia's Macquarie University, said there was 'nothing like one universally accepted international standard for war crimes trials'.
"Where is the international standard in war crimes trials? These are all case-specific," Islam said while delivering the lecture, titled 'Importance of the national trials of international crimes in Bangladesh: A legal response to critics'.
"It is like stitching your coat to fit your size. Local realities determine how the laws to conduct the trials are made and how the trials are conducted," Islam said. "That is the global reality."
Islam said the Nuremberg and Tokyo charters after the Second World War differed greatly, though both were meant to try German and Japanese offenders responsible for war crimes.
"Germany's consent for the Nuremberg charter was not sought, but Japan's consent was sought for the Tokyo charter," he reminded his audience. "Hitler was not alive for the trials, Japanese emperor Hirohito was, and that partly explained the difference."
Islam said that the UN had organised the war crimes trials for offenders in Rwanda and erstwhile Yugoslavia.
"But were the trials conducted in similar manner? No, they were not. Local differences explain that," he said.

The East Timor example
Rafiqul Islam, who has taught law and researched on legal issues for 40 years, raised the East Timor example as a case to debunk the criticism that Bangladesh should have involved the UN in its war crimes trials.
"For those in the West who feel Bangladesh has not met international standards in its war crimes trials because it did not involve the UN, let us look at what the UN did in East Timor," Islam said.
He said that the UN and the East Timor government jointly organised the war crimes trials in the newly-liberated country in 2000.
"But the courts could try only 88 of the 400 accused before the war crimes trials were suspended in 2006," Islam said.
The funds for the trials were made available by the UN, but when the global body stopped its funding, the western judges left and the entire process fell flat on its face, Islam said.
The professor quipped: "In the west, the desire for justice subsides when funds dry up."
Islam pointed out that in ten years, there has been one judgement on the Cambodian war crimes trials. "The ICC has come up with only one verdict in 12 years and the trial has cost one billion US dollars. Is this what we want?"
"In erstwhile Yugoslavia, one accused has been waiting to be tried for the last 13 years. He has been in prison all this while. This is the kind of efficiency that we get, these are the so-called international standards that are being flaunted at us."
Islam said the war crimes trials in Bangladesh would create a 'global standard' by itself and that model can prove useful in the years to come.
"No other country has dared to conduct the war crimes trials on its own. Bangladesh did and set an example. Now countries like Guatemala and Senegal which are going to start war crimes trials soon can learn from Bangladesh."

Professional judges
Rafiqul Islam said that those who are criticising Bangladesh for failing to meet international standards should read the verdicts given by its war crimes tribunals.
"Please read the verdicts that the judges in Bangladesh have given and those given in war crimes tribunals in other countries. There is no drop in standards, the Bangladesh verdicts are detailed and comprehensive and have been arrived at through due process of law," said Islam.
"Except ICC, it is only in Bangladesh where professional judges who are thorough with local criminal law and jurisprudence have conducted the trials. So the verdicts are comprehensive," he said.

'Due process of law'
Rafiqul Islam noted that critics of the Bangladesh war crimes trials are raising the issue of 'due process of law'.
"The due process is not a monopoly of the defence. The prosecution can also take advantage of it."
Islam said the defence of the war criminals has been 'weak'.
"The defence lawyers have raised the same kind of issues again and again. Even when they were rejected in one trial, the same kind of argument was raised again to defend other war crimes accused," Islam said.
"Trials after 40 years, the Simla agreement, the 1972 trials and the definition of crimes against humanity were some of the familiar themes in the defence argument raised again and again after they were rejected in the first verdict."
The welcome speech at the Liberation War Museum event was delivered by the Museum's trustee Dr Sarowar Ali.
The lecture was part of the seven-day celebrations of Bangladesh’s liberation from Pakistan in December 1971.

Shame Trump, Shame!

The leading Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has said Muslims should be banned from entering the US, in the wake of the deadly California attacks.


He basically wants to save arms/weapons business and relating to that economy. In America, we have found that everyday arms/guns have been used by some people - arrogant - somehow, everyday someone is shooting general people, but no words relating to religion were got from Trump. When shooter found as Muslim, then he is shouting.


What a mentality!
He doesn't know Islam, Muslim and IS are not the same thing.


Shame Trump, Shame! You are not efficient to be the Leader and also to be the President!   

Pakistan Lying

From Daily Star, on 06.12.2015:


“In the name of God and a united Pakistan, Dacca is today a crushed and frightened city. After 24 hours of ruthless, cold-blooded shelling by the Pakistan Army, as many as 7,000 people are dead, large areas have been levelled and East Pakistan's fight for independence has been brutally put to an end."
This was the famous intro of the story written by Simon Dring, the 27-year-old reporter of The Daily Telegraph of London that appeared on the March 30, 1971 issue.
Simon and 34 other journalists from the US, Australia, Britain, Canada,, France, Japan and Russia had converged on Dhaka in March 1971, staying at Hotel Intercontinental (now Ruposhi Bangla) to report on the exciting event of a Bangali leader Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman taking over power from the repressing West Pakistanis. The world interest was not so much for the Bangalis as for Pakistan, a strong ally of the US in the global politics of Cold War. The US was pouring in huge military aid to Pakistan in its fight against the spread of communism.
They got more than they had expected as the Pakistan army cracked down on the unarmed civilians on March 25 midnight in history's most horrendous civilian annihilation nicknamed “Operation Searchlight”.

There is no place for terrorist

The Islamic State has claimed responsibility for Friday's coordinated suicide bombings and shootings, which have re-ignited a row over Europe's refugee crisis and drawn calls for a halt to the ongoing influx of Muslim asylum-seekers.

Paris prosecutor Francois Molins told that three jihadist cells staged co-ordinated hits on Friday night (13.11.15) at bars, a concert hall and soccer stadium, killing 129 people and injuring 352, including 99 who were in a serious condition.

France has said it is in a state of war and has vowed to defeat the Islamic State in its bases in Iraq and Syria, which French warplanes have been targeting for months as part of a US-led campaign against the self-declared caliphate.

President of France said no mercy would be shown. 

An angry President Francois Hollande on Saturday promised a "merciless" response to a wave of attacks by gunmen and bombers that killed 127 people across Paris, describing the assault claimed by Islamic State as an act of war against France. - News of  world famous newspapers.

 "Faced with war, the country must take appropriate action," Hollande said after an emergency meeting of security chiefs.

Former president Nicolas Sarkozy said in a statement: “The war we must wage should be total.”
 
"I do not want any preachers of hatred on Belgian soil! There is no place for them in Belgium," Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel said on Twitter.

We should remember above speech on the related issue of our country. Every so called democrat country and human right activist should memorize above speech. 


 

Grassroots women getting tiles-fitting training in Rajshahi

The Bangladesh Today news:

RAJSHAHI: For the first time in the region, grassroots women have started getting different vocational training including the tiles-fitting one in the region for their self-reliance and empowerment, reports BSS.
In the preliminary stage, more than 50 women including some young girls from the poor and marginalized families have come together towards the venture in Tanore, Godagari and Nachole Upazilas with commitment of becoming economically solvent through daily incomes side by side with men. Agriculture Sustainable and Socio-Economic Development Organization (ASSEDO) initiated the 15-day training on wall painting and tiles fitting for the women in order to make them worthy citizens.
Promoting Food Security and Livelihoods of Marginalized People of Barind Tract (PFLMB) Project supported the training with financial support from Oxfam. The initiative has been taken to boosting skilled human resources and income of marginalised and vulnerable families of the Barind tract by adapting climate adaptive sustainable agricultural technologies, diversifying income generating activities and skill development.
To promote and encourage the training course, a discussion meeting was organized at Gainpara village under Tanore Upazila of the district yesterday where large number of enthusiastic people both male and female attended. Tanore Upazila Nirbahi Officer Muniruzzaman Bhuiyan addressed the discussion as chief guest while Upazila Youth Development Officer Anisuzzaman and ASSEDO Executive Director Agriculturist Rabiul Alam spoke as special guests with PFLMB Project Manager Mahbub Jaman Tapan in the chair. Wall Painting Trainer Sazzad Ahmed, Tiles Fitting Trainer Abu Bakkar and PFLMB Project Technical Officer (Monitoring) Muktar Hossain and Field Facilitators Kismat Ara and Sagar Ali also spoke. Terming the training as effective means of women empowerment and gender balance in working fields the speakers said there should be adequate measures of imparting training to the rural women.
They underscored the need for adequate income-generating training for the unemployed youths of the poor and marginzalised faming families for their self-reliance besides transforming them in to social contributors.
They viewed despite of their strong will many of the youths in the drought-prone barind areas comprising Rajshahi and Chapainawabgonj districts couldn’t become income-generators due to lack of proper and time-fitting vocational training.
In phases, more than 150 interested youths both boys and girls age group between 18 to 24 coming from poor and most vulnerable target families will be brought under the training course on different vocations for their self-employment, the opening session mentioned. After successful completion of the course, each of the trainees will get income-generating devices valued at around Taka 5,000
This project will also provide and develop vocational and trade-based skill training to the youths and also extend financial supports for generating income from alternative .
income sources. Rabiul Alam said around 1600 people from poor and small farming families will be benefited directly while another 600 families indirectly from the project.
Besides, the scheme has provision of establishing linkage between different vocational training institutes and searching opportunity for support services for skills development training to the youths.

Bomb attack on the Mosjid!

A suicide bomb attack on a mosque in Saudi Arabia has left 15 people dead, 4 of them are Bangladeshi. The Islamic State (IS) group says it carried out the attack. The group has already claimed two deadly attacks on Shia mosques in May.


They have killed muslims who were in praying in Mosjid. And they are saying they are doing it for Islam! What a brain and mind of them! Wont they want to people go to Mosjid for praying? What is the difference between them and those non-muslim against whom they have claim for throwing bomb to the mosjid?

Bangladesh economy moves up 14 places on World Bank, IMF scale in two years

Abdur Rahim Harmachi and Sumon Mahbub,  bdnews24.com

Published: 2015-06-09 20:23:23.0

According to WB’s World Development Indicators Database and IMF’s World Economic Outlook, Bangladesh advanced 14 steps from the 58th position to 44th in the world economy in the last two years.

Planning Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal presented the reports of the two global lending agencies at a meeting of the Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC) on Tuesday.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina presided over the meeting.
According to the WB and IMF reports, Bangladesh economy ranked 58th in the world with a GDP of $149.99 billion based on current price in 2013.

In 2015, the GDP grew to $205.3 billion taking Bangladesh to the 44th position in the world economy.

The WB and IMF published the reports in April.

After the reports were presented at the ECNEC meeting, the prime minister said: “We maintained over 6 percent GDP growth in the last six years. It’s really an outstanding achievement for us.”

The planning ministry in a media statement quoted her as telling the meeting: “Everybody has contributed to this achievement. I hope the economy will continue to surge ahead.”

Hasina stressed structural changes with ‘proper management’ of the resources the nation had.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his recent Dhaka visit also described over 6 percent growth for last several years as ‘outstanding’.

After the ECNEC meeting, the planning minister said: “Our position in the global economy is improving by the day. We’re benefiting from the over 6 percent GDP growth for six years on a row.”
Bangladesh’s economic advance has pleased the World Bank’s Dhaka office Chief Economist Zahid Hossain.

He told bdnews24.com the progress had brightened Bangladesh’s image in the international arena.

“Foreign investors will now show their interest to bring funds into Bangladesh. It will play a positive role in securing foreign loan and aid,” he added.

The US economy maintained its top position in the world in 2015 with a GDP of $18.12 trillion. It was followed by China ($11.21 trillion), Japan ($4.92 trillion) and Germany ($3.41 trillion).

In 2013, the GDP of the four countries was $16.77 trillion, $9.24 trillion, $4.21 trillion and $3.73 trillion respectively.

The United Kingdom now ranks fifth and France sixth.

According to the reports, India moved three places to seventh position from 10th. The South Asian country’s GDP stood at $2.31 trillion in 2015.

The reports suggest Bangladesh surpassed Vietnam, Tajikistan, Portugal, Qatar, New Zealand and Peru.

Executive powers to president

Law commission chief blasts proposal to give executive powers to president

Prakash Biswas, bdnews24.com

Published: 2015-03-10 10:41:22.0

The suggestion had been made by Centre for Policy Dialogue chief Rehman Sobhan and a few other members of the civil society at a discussion on ways to avert repeated spikes in confrontational politics ahead of national polls.

The former chief justice pointed out that people were the source of all power in a democracy. “You cannot just handover state power to someone.”

He maintained that the present Constitution assigned powers to each and everyone and any increase in the president’s power would amount to a constitutional violation.

“Nobody except the people’s representatives should exercise state power - not even the first citizen, the president.”

He said the power should remain with those accountable to the people. “Since parliament is a representation of the people, we show our accountability through them.

“We tend to forget that the people own the country and that the Constitution is their directive.”

In this context, Khairul pointed out, the president would have to be elected by the people if the post is to be given executive powers.

Only a constitutional amendment could make that possible but the change itself would run counter to the very basis of the Constitution, the former chief justice said.

The Law Commission chief cited the rule of two military strongmen Ziaur Rahman and HM Ershad.

“That was seditious and cannot be welcome,” he said, adding that such provisions fan tendencies to usurp power, and that people would do well to learn from past experience.

He offered a different perspective to highlight the flip side of such changes.

“An MP election contestant spends crores (10 million) of Taka in a constituency. In this context, a presidential contender will have to spend a few hundred crores. Who will provide that money?

“…It is easy to say something, but this system will be totally ineffective for our country.”

Khairul pointed to the world’s biggest presidential democracy, the US. “Thousands of companies donate to the presidential election fund. The big ones then influence the president’s policies, something that is completely undesirable.”

The chief justice said the Westminster system of democracy currently in place in Bangladesh had worked well for India with a population of 1.5 billion for 70 years. “There is no reason why it should not work for us.”

He called for a smoothening of the glitches through proper practice. “There will be problems at the start. There is nothing to panic.

“We should think about how we can make parliament more effective,” he said and urged the civil society to come up with meaningful suggestions.

What a structure of their mind!

From the start of the world, in any type of the fight, no one hit his opposition from the back. In Bangladesh, from the birth of the country to just now, some people strike the defenseless people from back and they enjoy this. What a structure of their mind!

Just check these:

1. 1971 - From 25 January 1971 – JENOCIDE in allover Bangladesh
2. 15 August 1975 tragedy
3. 21 August 2004 grenade attack
4. 1999- bombs were exploded at Udichi Concert in Jessore in March
5. Bombing at Kadiani Mosque in 1999
6. Killing of Ahsanullah Master
7. Killing of SAMS Kibria
8. Killing of Blogger Razib, Dip, Alam
9. Killing of Professor Humayun Azad, Professor Md. Yunus, Professor M Taher, Professor AKM Shafiul Islam, Lecturer Ziauddin Zakaria
10. Killing of Maolana Nurul Islam Faruque
11. Series of petrol bombing
12. Killing of Abhijit in 2015
13. Some other killing and Bombing: Data is collected from the report - An Evil Power of Political Violence in Bangladesh
    - a report of Kamrun Nahar
    
    

2001
Bomb-blasts occurred in/at
*CPB Rally at Paltan Maydan in January. (Several people were killed.)
*Ramna Batamul in Pahela Baishakh. (10 innocents were killed.)
*Baniachar Mission in Gopalganj.
*Narayanganj Awami League Office (19 died in June.)
*AL Rally at Mollarhat in Bagerhat in September.
*An Election Rally of AL Leader Suranjit Sengupta.

2002
The major explosions occurred in/at
* Roxy Cinema Hall and a circus party in Satkhira. (3 persons died)
* Cinema Halls in Mymensingh in December (19 innocent people were killed)

2003
Bomb-blasts occurred at-
*The Pagla Pir Mazar at Sakhipur in Tangail.
*A Madrasa Mess in Dinajpur in February.

2004
*The Shrine of Hazrat Shahjalal (R): Two deadly blasts occurred – one on January 12 and the other on May 21.
*Oros (A Muslim Ceremony): There was a Muslim ceremony in the shrine of Hazrat Shahjalal (R) on January 12. Powerful bombs were kept secretly under the ground where lying about 200 camps of people. At night, explosions started, which took 3 lives (another 1 wounded person died later) and the number of the injured was more than 50.
*British High Commissioner: British High Commissioner Anwar Choudhury, newly appointed in Bangladesh, whose origin is from Sylhet, came to the shame shrine on May 21 to take part in the Friday prayer. After his prayer, when he came out of the Mosque of the Mazar, someone threw a grenade towards him. It dashed against his belly, rebounded and exploded. By chance, he saved his life. But 8 people died and more than 100 including British High Commissioner were wounded.
*Mass-Meeting of Suranjit Sengupta: There went on a meeting of Suranjit Sengupta, a central leader of Awami League in Dhirai of Sunamganj on June 21. Grenade attacks on that meeting caused 1 person dead and more than 50 people injured.
*Cinema Halls: Another incidents of bombing occurred in two cinema-halls in Sylhet named Manika and Rang-mahal on August 5.
*Gulshan Hotel: In the night of August 7, a strong bomb-attack (though later diagnosed as grenade attack) was staged in front of the Gulshan Hotel in Taltala in Sylhet, targeting the city mayor named Badar Uddin Ahmed Kamran. Though he could save his life by chance, about 30 persons were wounded. The severely injured leader of Awami League―Ibrahim Ali died later.
*The Anti-Terrorism Mass-Meeting of Awami League: On August 21, an anti-terrorism meeting of Awami League was going on in front of the Awami League Office standing on the Banga-Bandhu Avenue in Dhaka. A series of Grenades, measured up to 13, was thrown targeting Sheikh Hasina, former Prime Minister, from the top of the near building. 20 people including some central leaders of Awami League died and over 200 were injured.

2005
459 blasts in 63 districts in 30 minutes

It was the largest blast-incident in the history of Bangladesh, which simultaneously broke out in 63 districts out of total 64 at a time in the 17th August. Different newspapers published different number of bomb-blasts and of the injured. According to four largest national newspapers, these incidents of 300-500 blasts resulted in 2 killings and 100-200 injured. All bombs were targeted to intimidate government and people, and placed in places of importance like the stair of Zia International Airport, Hotel Sheratan, the Supreme Court (Dhaka) etc, but mainly aiming at courts and government establishments. With all bombs, leaflets were left in the name of a government banned Islamic militant group named Jama’atul Mujahidin Bangladesh (JMB) demanding to the government for the replace of country’s democratic judiciary with the Islamic Law.

Bomb-Attack on two judges: A deadly bomb-attack took two valuable lives of two judges cruelly on November 14. They were Senior Assistant Judges of the District Judge Court of Jhalakati one named Sohel Ahmed Chowdhuri (35) and the other named Jagannath Pare (32). On that day at 9 am, they were waiting for another judge by sitting in a microbus in front of the Judges’ Quarters located in Officers’ Para of Jhalakati District City for going to the court. The attacker Mamun, later arrested, threw a strong bomb inside the vehicle from a very close distance. He was later identified as a member of the suicide-squad of a banned Islamic
militant organization named Jama’atul Mujahidin Bangladesh (JMB).

Suicide Bomb-Attack in the Court-Areas of Chittagong and Gajipur: Members of the suicide-squad of JMB attacked on lawyers, police, and ordinary people in the court areas of Chittagong and Gajipur at the same time on November 29. 10 persons including policemen, lawyers and attackers died. The number of the injured was over 150.
Suicide Bomb-Attack at the Office of District Administrator: The Islamic militants piloted suicide-bomb attack at the entrance of the office of District Administrator called Deputy Commissioner (DC) in Gajipur on December 1. This incident took 1 human life and injured 30 including 3 journalists, 7 policemen and 8 lawyers. The young attacker was in the disguise of a traveling tea-seller with a tea-flask, inside of which he was bearing deadly bombs.
Blast in front of Udichi and Shatadal: A blast occurred in front of the offices of two cultural organizations named Udichi and Shatadal in Netrakona district at 10:30 am on December 8. In this incident, 7 persons died and 50 were injured. A Letter of JMB was recovered from the spot of blast in which JMB demanded to replace Islamic Law with Democratic judiciary in Bangladesh.

Now check their mentality. They are ready to kill all of them whom they don’t like for their science-minded thinking. Killers think it is their right. If it is their right, opposite can have same right. But they don’t think that. In this case they don’t want to face trial also. Struggle for justice is also facing ‘brush firing’ by them and also by their white lobbyists. In this case they are trying to say they did not kill anyone.....they want international standard...they want white lawyer...they want various facilities, but no justification is explained; they want and they force for that, they want to destroy all things i.e. infrastrucure, Moshjid, Books, even Holly Quran, all animals, trees and also general public - all are going to destroy or burn, if no one fulfill their demand. They never say sorry for their acts of genocide and crimes against humanity and never want to face trial. They believe on what they cant say in front of the court. They do all of things in the name of Islam. Of whom agenda mainly they are fulfilling by selling the name of Islam?

'Civilians' dress for some other hidden interest

South Asia researcher for Human Rights organization, Faiz Abbas said bdnews24.com that fire bombing is the criminal act and it is for political purposes. They are who are doing these once are the criminal and will be brought to justice.
Over the last two months, the BNP-Jamaat alliance siege casualties condemned the violence, he said during releasing Amnesty International's annual report on Tuesday, February 24, 2015 in London.
He said, "We think these attacks or provocation to attacks are done and influenced by politicians under political leaders. We consider that to be really evil.”
During the act of sabotage of the arrestees got as BNP activists', so party leaders have to prevent workers from the petrol bombing.
BNP should have returned their supporters from throwing petrol bombs and set fire to vehicles, if any engagement is found, they have to assist law enforcement to prosecute him.
Secretary of State, USA John Kerry and UN President’s statement are the same. Arsons in the name of politics should be avoided. Criminal acts for political purpose will never get acceptance.
Ha, selukas! What is said by our so called ‘Civil Society’/talk-show talker? Even our dear Dr. Akber Ali Khan said in a talk-show – “I don’t know who are doing that? To find them is the job of police!” – So intelligent comment!
Ill/criminal movement for political purpose should not be supported by the person who wears ‘Civil/Society workers’ typed dress.

Implementation of the performance management system: turning point of the administrative system

Result-oriented performance management system are in place in the Bangladesh Secretariat. It is a good news. It will increase the efficiency of all ministries as well as government. It will also prepare environment for increasing efficiency of the ministries and boosting their activities to serve people more inclusively.


Read the following news:


Annual performance agreements inked to improve public servants performance


Observer Online Desk

Published : Monday, 23 February, 2015,  Time : 6:32 PM

Ten annual performance agreements (APAs) were signed on Monday between the Cabinet Secretary and the Secretaries and Senior Secretaries of 10 ministries and divisions concerned, aiming to improve the performance and accountability of public servants.

As part of the ongoing Government Performance Management System (GPMS), the agreements were signed during the regular weekly meeting of the Cabinet held at Bangladesh Secretariat with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair.

Countries like Australia, Bhutan, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, France, India, New Zealand, the USA and the UK have their own APAs. 

The Cabinet Secretary signed the APAs as the Prime Minister’s representatives and President of the national committee on GPMS, while the Secretaries as representatives of the Ministries and Divisions concerned.

Briefing reporters after the meeting, Cabinet Secretary M Musharraf Hossain Bhuiyan said result-oriented performance management system are in place in various countries of the world in a bid to attain desired goals through enhancing the efficiency and accountability of the government officials.

He said the national committee on GPMS suggested signing the APAs of the 10 ministries and divisions after reviewing those on February 18.

The 10 ministries and divisions which signed the APA are Road Transport and Highways Division, Ministry of Home Affairs, Ministry of Textiles and Jute, Energy and Mineral Resources Division, Ministry of Industries, Ministry of Commerce, Ministry of Housing and Public Works, Bridges Division, Ministry of Social Welfare and Economic Relations Division.

He said this APA is a turning point of the administrative system and would usher in a new era.

With the implementation of the performance management system, it is expected that the efficiency and accountability of the government offices would enhance while the implementation pace of government policies and programmes through intense monitoring would be expedited.

Musharraf Hossain said APA is the major component of the GPMS, undergoing in light with the demand, experience and reality of the country.

The Cabinet Secretary said the meeting was apprised about the steps taken towards implementation of the GPMS.

He said that 38 more APAs are in the pipeline for signing.

The Prime Minister at the meeting directed the officials concerned to discharge their duties with utmost integrity in implementing the working plan of each and every ministry and division to achieve the government’s desired goal.

The Cabinet Secretary said this APA is very important for the government as it would help ensure the accountability of government officials in addition to implementing the government vision.

He said the progress of implementing the APA would be evaluated in every six months while there would be evaluation and monitoring at the end of the year.

Answering to a question, the Cabinet Secretary said the APA would indirectly help curb corruption since this system would make the government officials accountable.

He said the Cabinet at the meeting also put forward some valuable suggestions which would be considered while the GPMS would be improved further in light of the experiences.

The Cabinet meeting was also apprised about the visits of Civil Aviation and Tourism Minister to Japan on September 22-26, 2014 and to the UK on November 3-6, 2014.

Ministers, State Ministers and Secretaries concerned were present at then meeting.

Why people will lose their lives on the rivers

It is not acceptable that the disaster on waterway will continue and Ministers will be shocked for tragic incident on the river, in which so many people will lose their lives.


When the rescue operation has been called off in the morning on February 23, 2015 on Padma after passenger ferry MV Mostofa-3 was pulled out and turned around near the banks of the river, 69 bodies were fished out of the river, more than 20 hours after the disaster.


Last year, a similar accident killed dozens in Munshiganj. In 2012, over 100 people died when a ferry sank on the Meghna after colliding with a cargo vessel.


Accidents on Bangladesh’s vast waterways are badly common that are often blamed on overcrowding,  poor vessel quality, lack of skill of captains etc. Probe committee is also a hopeless practice from which no result is found.


Why it will be happened regularly? Why people will die by this type of accident regularly?

Bangladesh Fan! Lovely wave!

With one's ever seen before so bright appearance Bangladeshis Boomer Canberra city? Bob with soul so red and green flags. Bangladesh cricket team wearing the jersey. Like the roar of the tiger boom-Bangladesh Bangladesh. Festival vocal people barnila. It creates a vivid memory was ajidera Bangladesh team.


Read following report of Fazlul Bari published in bdnews24 (Published: 2015-02-18 16:45:32.0):


Sydney Morning Herald journalist Emon Mathews came a trip to Canberra. He went around the cricket festival edikataya myanuka Oval. Want to know, so Bangladeshis came Canberra Where? Sidanisaha moves to bring the city's vehicle fleet Emon hear whispered.
Myanuka Oval on Wednesday 10 thousand 726 people watched the game. Ninety percent of the Bangladeshis. From abroad to visit the country, who love the opportunity to easily scalable. Working day of the week off from work to come up with them.
Bangladeshi expatriates in Australia, mostly young. Most of the thirty-fifth and thirty years Twenties! They were immigrants coming to study here, and some are still reading.
In most cases, there is no money in this country does not work. It just did not work one day remains derasa-shore dollar penalty. What kind of sport that all further costs. No one thought about it. To think about the fact that the country is not love. Families with very young children came. Children have been wearing the jersey. The kids got out of his arms, or to say that mothers do not mean to be entertained, or concerns! It's actually just a habit.
Another reason was the news of the day myanuka Oval. As to the various cities around sidanisaha Bangladeshi family came to see the game in Canberra, many of them did not care about the rules of parking. Two hours into the game at the cars in the parking area that has been absorbed, to find out what was going on and did not! The criminal breaches of the rules of the Council of the car in the car is fine with hanging Ranger tickets. Fined $ 96 per car. Bangladesh batting innings break at the end of the car and went to see the notice on the 'Lightning' so much. But the game does not bemoan the maje they go.
Shakib Al Hasan and Mushfiqur Rahim pair of thrilling innings before many people had been feared. Mashrafe Mortaza and Rubel Hossain wickets bowling beginning meteche delight spectators. Between the wickets fell back somewhat disappointing lack meghao are made. After reading the Prophet took all the worries disappear. Full myanuka Oval again into an 'Bangladesh', 'Bangladesh' slogan.
Myanuka about exactly what the festival has got out of the Oval. Bangladeshis Australia has not seen such a festival.

Myanmar revokes Rohingya voting rights

I thought Buddhists are cold blooded peaceful people. But recently I have understood that all are 'RABON' (Demon) when religion comes first to secure identity.  

Read the following news: 

Myanmar revokes Rohingya voting rights after protests

Rohingya Muslims will not be able to vote in Myanmar’s referendum after the prime minister withdrew temporary voting rights following protests.


Hundreds of Buddhists took to the streets following the passage of a law that would allow temporary residents who hold “white papers” to vote.

More than one million Rohingya live in Myanmar, but they are not regarded as citizens by the government.

In 2012, violence between Muslims and Buddhists left more than 200 dead.

The clashes broke out in Rakhine province and sparked religious attacks across the country.

The so-called white papers were introduced in 2010 by the former military junta to allow the Rohingya and other minorities to vote in a general election.

The move to annul the rights is seen as surprising given that it was Prime Minister Thein Sein who originally persuaded parliament to grant them.

The announcement came just hours after demonstrations in Yangon. Those protesting resent what they see as the integration of non-citizens into the country.

“White card holders are not citizens and those who are non-citizens don’t have the right to vote in other countries,” said Shin Thumana, a Buddhist monk who took part in the protest.

“This is just a ploy by politicians to win votes.”

However, Rohingya MP Shwe Maung, whose constituency is in Rakhine, argued that voting rights had only become an issue following the violence in 2012.

Buddhist monks are at the forefront of protests against Muslims. One high profile leader is monk Ashin Wirathu, who recently used abusive language to describe the UN’s special envoy to Myanmar (formerly known as Burma), Yanghee Lee.

In December, the United Nations passed a resolution urging Myanmar to give access to citizenship for the Rohingya, many of whom are classed as stateless.
(BBC)

Diarrhea! Passes out stools by mouth!

Diarrhea is defined as the passage of three or more loose or liquid stools per day (or more frequent passage than is normal for the individual). Frequent passing of formed stools is not diarrhea, nor is the passing of loose, "pasty" stools by breastfed babies.


Diarrhea is usually a symptom of an infection in the intestinal tract, which can be caused by a variety of bacterial, viral and parasitic organisms. Infection is spread through contaminated food or drinking-water, or from person-to-person as a result of poor hygiene.

Interventions to prevent diarrhea, including safe drinking-water, use of improved sanitation and hand washing with soap can reduce disease risk. Diarrhea can be treated with a solution of clean water, sugar and salt, and with zinc tablets.

There are three clinical types of diarrhea:

• acute watery diarrhea – lasts several hours or days, and includes cholera;
• acute bloody diarrhea – also called dysentery; and
• persistent diarrhea – lasts 14 days or longer.

Some people of our country are now suffering from diarrhea and passes stools by their mouth. They are so called ‘Intelligent’ and OMG!, what a misuse of their mouth! So thin, so liquid typed speeches have been passed from their mouth loudly and regularly and after all openly. It is not bedwetting. Bedwetting (nocturnal enuresis) means a child passes urine in the night when they are asleep. Is it gut? The gut (gastrointestinal tract) is the long tube that starts at the mouth and ends at the back passage (anus). What is this? Why they are abusing the power of mouth? Why their speeches are too weightless! Too talkative are they! Won’t the people be free from their diarrhea? Mask their worst smells.

Why should not have any rules for journalism?

Police have arrested the Mithapukur correspondent of Daily Sangram, the Jamaat-e-Islami mouthpiece, for his alleged involvement in an arson attack on a bus at the Upazila in Rangpur.

Why should not have any rules for journalism?
Last few years, Journalist has encouraged terrorists and they continue it. Electronic media is airing terrorism in the sense of encouraging that. Some 'famous/clever' media is guiding terrors in the name of political movement. They 'discover' 'tiredness policy' of police/RAB and has given message to terrors for running with the 'policy' and continue petrol bombing. They are always trying to take some words from EU, USA government against Bangladesh Government.


Police said Hafizur Rahman was present at the scene four hours prior to incident on the Rangpur-Dhaka Highway in the wee hours of Jan 14.

Rahman was detained and questioned on Sunday, said the district’s Superintendent of Police (SP) Abdur Razzak.

He said, “Right after petrol bombs were hurled at the bus in the early hours, Rahman took photos of the burning vehicle and supplied them to some journalists.”

Those journalists were also under police’s observation, he added.

The SP said Rahman also gave confessional statement at a Rangpur court on Monday.

The Sangram correspondent admitted that he was a former member of Islami Chhatra Shibir, Jamaat’s student wing, said Razzak.

“He also confessed to everything he was involved in and who had carried out the arson attack and how much money he got from several journalists for supplying the photos.”

After the Dhaka-bound bus was set ablaze by suspected blockade supporters early on Jan 14, four people were burned alive on the spot and two others died of severe burns later.

Thirty more passengers were also burnt in that petrol bomb attack at Mithapukur’s Batason Fatehpur.

Mithapukur Police Station’s Sub-Inspector Abdur Razzak had filed a case over the incident accusing 120 leaders and activists of Jamaat and Shibir.

Police have already arrested 37 people for their suspected involvement in the attack.
Rangpur Correspondent,  bdnews24.com

Published: 2015-02-10 00:42:48.0 BdST

Let the nightmare for people begin!

The ISIS video opens with a black slate that reads, "A Message to Japan." It then shows a kneeling Goto. The man known as "Jihadi John" is standing behind him.
The terrorist speaks in English while holding a knife in his left hand.
"Abe, because of your reckless decision to take part in an unwinnable war, this knife will not only slaughter Kenji, but will also carry on and cause carnage wherever your people are found," the man says. "So let the nightmare for Japan begin."
The video cuts to black as the militant puts the knife to Goto's throat. It then shows the apparent result of the decapitation. It's not clear who conducted the apparent killing.
The knife-wielding masked man with a London accent has been nicknamed "Jihadi John." He has appeared in at least six videos with hostages and has overseen the beheadings of other captives.

This is video of ISIS. They said - 'Let the nightmare for Japan begin'. They have opened burning chamber for burning innocent people.

Over 50 ordinary people have died in arson and petrol bomb attack at vehicles across Bangladesh since Jan 5, when BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia called an indefinite transport blockade.
Near about 20 general people were burnt alive when petrol bombs were hurled at a bus on the road. Bus, Truck, Rickshaw, Driver, Helper, PSC-JSC-SSC Examinees, ordinary peoples are captured/attacked/kidnapped/blocked/burned. No peoples are supporting these except some intellegent talk-show talkers. Those talkers feel happy inside when a petrol bomb has been thrown to bus/truck/tempu and burnt ordinary people and make these criminal functions as political functions by their thin speech. Almighty Allah give us a mouth and they are making with that mouth weightless, thin, dirty sentences through beautiful words and inform that how the burning can be stopped!! And lastly they inform us - Let the nightmare for people begin!   Shameless!! 

14 citizens unconditionally apologise to Bangladesh war crimes tribunal

Fourteen of the 50 citizens who had issued a statement expressing concern over the conviction of British journalist David Bergman for contempt, have tendered unconditional apology at the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT).
(What was your intention in that time while you will tender unconditional apology! Is it habit to down and bow your head and knee in front of british blood! Is it habit to up yourself through criticizing ICT? Is it habit to criticize everything ICT does?)


They were asked to appear before the war crimes tribunal or to explain their stand through lawyers before Jan 27, 2015.
Accordingly, 14 persons, including Supreme Court lawyer Shahdeen Malik, tendered apology on Tuesday.
Ten people, including health activist Zafrullah Chowdhury, have, however, submitted a statement in the tribunal stating that they would argue their case themselves.
The other 25 sought time through their lawyer Anisul Hasan to explain their position.
The court, however, accepted the time extension plea of 14 people who are now staying in Bangladesh. But the plea of 11 others, who are residing abroad, was rejected because they made it through e-mails. They have been asked to make fresh plea following proper procedure.

ICT-2 headed by Justice Obaidul Hasan fixed Feb 8 for the next order.

Those who filed pleas for unconditional forgiveness are Lawyer Shahdeen Malik, M Hafiz Uddin, General Secretary of citizens' platform 'Sujon' Badiul Alam Majumder, former caretaker government advisor Rasheda K Chowdhury, Dhaka University teachers Imtiaz Ahmed, Amena Mohsin and Asif Nazrul, National Coordinator of 'Bangladesh Shishu Bikash Kendra' Nayla Jaman Khan, Shahnaz Huda, environmental lawyer Rizwana Hasan, human rights activist Zakir Hossain, singer Arup Rahi, writer Shahin Akhter and rights activist Ilora Dewan.

ICT-2 convicted Bergman on Dec 2, 2014 for trying to ‘challenge' the tribunal through the ‘irresponsible’ views he expressed about sub-judice matters in his blog.

The judges ordered the British citizen to remain standing in the court for the whole day and fined him Tk 5,000.

The judges had told Bergman to refrain from writing on 'historically settled issue'.

On Dec 20, Bengali daily 'Prothom Alo' published a report on the apprehensions expressed by the 50 citizens. The New York Times, too, carried an editorial along the same lines on Dec 23.

The tribunal, which felt the reports cast aspersions on the judicial system of Bangladesh, had summoned the ‘full versions’ of the statement from the daily.

The daily, then, gave the tribunal a detailed resumé and the address of Hana Shams Ahmed, who had emailed the statement on behalf of the 50 citizens on Dec 18.

Supreme Court lawyer Shahdeen Malik submitted to the tribunal the names and addresses of 49 of the 50 citizens on Jan 14.

On Tuesday lawyer M Shamsul Haque pleaded for unconditional forgiveness on behalf of Malik and M Hafiz Uddin.

Human-rights activist and women’s leader Khushi Kabir had, in the mean time, dissociated herself from those ‘concerned citizens’, saying she did not subscribe to the views expressed in the statement.


Staff Correspondent,  bdnews24.com

Published: 2015-01-27 17:42:54.0 BdST Updated: 2015-01-27 21:39:16.0 BdST

Petrol Bomb Politics

Toddler Safir, 2.5, who suffered burn injuries from an attack on a bus during a nationwide strike called by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP)-led alliance, recuperates at a hospital in Dhaka on January 21, 2015. ......Staff Reporter......
Nine people, including two children, have suffered burn injuries when miscreants set fire to a bus at Mohammadpur in Dhaka amid the ongoing the BNP-led blockade.........Staff Corr......
JnU teachers' bus torched.......JnU Repo......

JCD leader wounded as bomb he ‘was making’ goes off in Dhaka house....... tv news.....

A leading student activist of the Jamaat-e-Islami was among five caught with 130 hand-made bombs and raw materials early Wednesday morning from a house in Dhaka’s Mohakhali.......
One kilogram of gunpowder, 10 kilograms of stone chips, three kilograms of nails and two litres of petrol have also been recovered.....corress.....

Four die as bus torched in Rangpur...............
Four passengers including a child have been burnt alive in a bus set on fire at Mitthapukur.......Repor......

... national news agency...... that four passengers of the bus, including a minor child, were burnt to death on the spot and ten others ...

pro-BNP professionals and leaders of Mohila Dal, the BNP's women wing, ..... entering the building to provide her cooked foods..fish, dal, polao...beaf(of whom!!)..Gul...Repo...

Another blockade violence casualty.....Hospi....Corr....

After more than a week's battle, the youth finally succumbed to injuries in his left eye and head early on Thursday.

He died around 3am at Dhaka Medical College and Hospital, said

4 children burnt..........

Death toll rises to 17 in blockade violence in northern Bangladesh ...

... suffered injuries in a petrol bomb attack by pickets in............Vio.....Repor....

---Those are regular report of Bangladesh from starting of 2015. And these are called politics....blockade!!!!!

Luc Besson writes open letter to young Muslims after Charlie Hebdo killings

Director Luc Besson has written a heartfelt open letter to young French Muslims, calling on them to reject extremism in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo killings, reports Deadline.
Besson, director of films such as The Fifth Element, Leon: The Professional and Lucy, blamed economic deprivation for the radicalisation of terrorists and promised to work with them for a fairer society.
“My brother, if you knew how badly I hurt for you today, you and your beautiful religion that has been so sullied, humiliated, and singled out,” he wrote. “Forgotten are your strength, your energy, your humour, your heart, your fraternity. It’s unfair and together we will repair this injustice. We are millions who love you and who are going to help you.”
The film-maker, co-writer of current action sequel Taken 3 and founder of France’s hugely successful Eurocorp studio, said French society was based on “money, profit, segregation and racism”.
He wrote: “In some suburbs, unemployment for people under 25 is 50%. You are marginalised because of your colour or your first name. You’re questioned 10 times a day, you’re crowded into apartment blocks and no one represents you. Who could live and thrive under such conditions?”
Besson called on French businessmen and political leaders to help young Muslims escape the economic trap, but also said his “brothers” must take responsibility and find a way forward unconnected to radicalism.
“It costs 250 euros to buy a Kalashnikov but not even three euros to buy a pen – and your response can have a thousand times more impact,” he wrote. “Take power democratically, helped by all your brothers. Terrorism will never win. History is there to prove it.”
Here is the full text of Besson’s letter, as translated by Deadline:
My brother, if you knew how badly I hurt for you today, you and your beautiful religion that has been so sullied, humiliated, and singled out. Forgotten are your strength, your energy, your humour, your heart, your fraternity. It’s unfair and together we will repair this injustice. We are millions who love you and who are going to help you. Let’s start at the beginning. What is the society we’re offering you today?
It’s based on money, profit, segregation and racism. In some suburbs, unemployment for people under 25 is 50%. You are marginalised because of your colour or your first name. You’re questioned 10 times a day, you’re crowded into apartment blocks and no one represents you. Who could live and thrive under such conditions?
Profit comes before all else. We cut and sell the apple tree’s branches and then are shocked there’s no fruit. The real problem is there, and that’s for all of us to resolve.
I call on the powerful, the big bosses and all leaders. Help this youth that has been humiliated and which asks only to be part of society. The economy is in the service of man and not the reverse. To do good is the greatest of profits. Dear powerful, do you have children? Do you love them? What do you want to leave them? Money? Why not a world that’s more fair? That would make your children the most proud of you.
We cannot build our happiness on the misfortune of others. It is neither Christian, nor Jewish, nor Muslim. It is just selfish and it leads our society and our planet straight into a wall. This is the work we have to do beginning today to honour our dead.
Terrorism will never win.
And you, my brother, you also have a job to do. How can you change this society that’s being offered to you? By working, by studying, by taking up a pencil rather than a Kalashnikov. That’s what’s good about democracy, it offers you the noble tools to defend yourself. Take your destiny in hand, take the power. It costs 250 euros to buy a Kalashnikov but not even three euros to buy a pen – and your response can have a thousand times more impact. Take the power, and play by the rules.
Take power democratically, helped by all your brothers. Terrorism will never win. History is there to prove it. And the beautiful image of the martyr walking in both directions. Today there are a thousand [assassinated Charlie Hebdo journalists] Cabus and Wolinskis who have just been born.
Take the power and don’t let anyone take power over you. If those who are presumed guilty of this tragedy really are, know that these two blood-spilling brothers are not yours, and we all know it.
It would at most be two weak-minded individuals, abandoned by society and then abused by a preacher who sold them eternity … Radical preachers who play on and make your misfortune their business have no good intentions. They use your religion only to their advantage. It is their business, their small business. Tomorrow, my brother, we will be stronger, more connected, closer. I promise you. But today, my brother, I cry with you.

From The Guardian

Evil thought is not the different thought

Evil thought is not the different thought. Nation’s Father was ‘Razakar’ is the evil thought, not a different thought. Which journalism wants to rescue devils and evil thought in the name of different thought, they should be thrown in dustbin.


The way of life of the people of Bangladesh, the land, the rivers - all these instruments have formed a rich heritage with marked differences from neighbouring regions. It has evolved over the centuries and encompasses the cultural diversity of several social groups of Bangladesh and always avoid thought against the symphony of culture.


Rivers, Green fields, soils, air, sky, rythm   - in all areas of these geographical position flow a symphony. That is why our national anthem is - 
My Golden Bengal

My golden Bengal,
I love you.

Forever your skies,
Your air set my heart in tune
As if it were a flute.

In spring, O mother
The fragrance from your mango groves
Makes me wild with joy,
Ah, what a thrill!

In autumn, O mother
In the full blossomed paddy fields
I have seen spread all over sweet smiles.

What beauty, what shades,
What affection, what tenderness!
What a quilt have you spread
At the feet of banyan trees
And along the banks of rivers!

Oh mother mine, words from your lips
Are like nectar to my ears.
Ah, what a thrill!

If sadness, O mother
Casts a gloom on your face,
My eyes are filled with tears!

My golden Bengal,
I love you. 


All Bengali polymaths, poets, writers, musicians, revolutionary, folk singers, artists who are voiced by the soul of that symphony are living in history and they are the Rabi Tagore, Nazrul, Jibanananda, Zainul, Sultan, Lalon, Abdul Alim and many others.

Our culture, our language, our independence, our habitual creativeness having an unique harmony are always flowing in our blood. The said harmony is made by the blood, for the blood & of the blood. This is the most important component of blood waved by this geographical area's components flow for and in the people live in here.

Who think against this symphony, against the said harmony, have always defeated and destroyed. Those thought are basically in line with defeated force who tried to establish their thought for long time before 1951 and finally in 1971. On December 16, 1971, that THOUGHT was made as EVIL THOUGHT and by whose blood that is flowing now is Devil.


In this world, no country accepts that thought which is  made as evil thought in that country. All established countries have own rules against evil thought to protect their symphony., If anyone want to politics or make speech, they must do that in line with root, not against the root.


We have to understand this and prepare the same tradition. What you want to do, do in line with our symphony.  

Bangladesh Bank Governor Dr. Atiur Rahman awarded ‘Central Banker of the Year 2015’

Congratulation to Bangladesh Bank Governor Dr. Atiur Rahman for awarded ‘Central Banker of the Year 2015’ from the Asia-Pacific region for stimulating growth and stabilising economy.


From The Banker’s website:
The Banker's Central Banker of the Year 2015 awards celebrates the officials that have best managed to stimulate growth and stabilise their economy.


Central Banker of the Year, Asia-Pacific
Dr. Atiur Rahman, Bangladesh


Dr. Atiur Rahman’s work exemplifies how central banks can play essential roles in providing capital for environmentally and socially aware development without compromising on growth or macroeconomic stability.

“Initially it was not easy. Central bankers are a bit of a conservative, sceptical bunch. They thought it was going to be a disaster,” says Mr Rahman.

He believes that supporting agriculture and small and medium-sized enterprises could avert financial crises. “In many developed countries central banks only create money [and] liquidity in the air. They don’t do much on the ground, which could stop speculative financing and increase liquidity with small deposits. Financial systems would be more stable and have diversified loan portfolios [if this happened],” he says.

One of his initiatives supports tenant farmers with no access to financial services or collateral. Bangladesh Bank lent Tk5bn ($64.7m) at bank rate to non-governmental organisation (NGO) BRAC in exchange for a guarantee, and BRAC in turn organised farmers’ loans. Some 1 million tenant farmers received loans as a result of this invitation, 55% of which are women. The project has a 99% recovery rate.

Bangladesh Bank also established a project to assist street children in June 2014. This was particularly important as without guardians, these children tend to be excluded from the financial sector. Bangladesh Bank set up a Tk2bn refinancing fund for banks to lend to NGOs, including Save the Children, which in turn set up savings accounts for the children for as little as Tk10. Some 14 million such accounts have now been opened. “When they turn 18, they will have money, and they can start small businesses,” says Mr Rahman.

Bangladesh Bank is also promoting and undertaking green financing and bank operational management. Such efforts have not distracted the bank from its core duties, however. Inflation in Bangladesh dropped from 7.5% in 2013, to 6.5% in 2014, while the central bank’s reserves have tripled to Tk22bn during Mr Rahman’s mandate.

Also, Bangladesh gross domestic product has grown by at least 6% per year in the past five years, with a standard deviation of only 0.22%.