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Gas bubble: the saga repeated in Bangladesh |
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12-December-2009 |
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| Trans-national companies have emerged as mega corporations through merger which has significantly contributed to their increase in terms of size, range of activities and finally economic power in global and local economy. Meer Ahsan Habib writes on issues regarding ongoing controversy over PSC deal with US oil company Conoco-Phillips for gas blocks in the Bay of Bengal
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Doctoral Complicity in State Terror |
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Investigative,
10-November-2009 |
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| Doctoral, as an adjective, refers to a doctorate, the highest degree awarded by a university. But as a transitive verb, as in doctoring, it means to change something in order to make it appear different from the facts. From the truth. In other words, to deceive. Is that what doctors did? Rahnuma Ahmed writes more....
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Liquid War: Postcard From Pipelineistan |
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8-November-2009 |
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| What happens on the immense battlefield for the control of Eurasia will provide the ultimate plot line in the tumultuous rush towards a new, polycentric world order, also known as the New Great Game. Pepe Escobar writes more....
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Of Cowards and Crowds |
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4-October-2009 |
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| The story has now been amply rehashed. From Facebook walls to face to face conversations, the moral tenor of the discussions around this event reached a feverish intensity.....But what about the protests, both collective and solitary, that happened on the streets and at homes in the weeks after Anu Muhammad was injured? Argues Nusrat S Chowdhury
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"People are now conscious of their ownership of natural resources" |
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3-October-2009 |
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| IMMEDIATELY after Professor Anu Muhammad, member secretary of the National Committee to Protect Oil, Gas, Mineral Resources, Power and Ports, was taken to Square Hospital, injured in police action on the committee’s protest march in the capital Dhaka on Wednesday, (September 2, 2009) afternoon, eminent photographer Shahidul Alam interviewed him on camera.
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The resource curse |
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Analysis,
3-October-2009 |
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| The attitude of successive governments of Bangladesh regarding energy deals has always been the same. No matter which government is in power, the energy sector has always been kept mostly out of public scrutiny. Almost every government’s nucleus and their coterie are said to have secured personal gains from deals in fossil fuel extraction. And almost every government has gone out of its way to protect the interest of these companies. Writes Tanim Ahmed....
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The Unfolding Crisis in Pakistan |
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31-July-2009 |
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| Strategically, the US covets Baluchistan for several reasons: it lies east of Iran, south of Afghanistan, and has three Arabian sea ports, including Gwadar, practically at the mouth of the Strait of Hormuz. Once Pakistan is balkanised, the US could take control of Baluchistan's rich natural resources, and promote Gwadar for the benefit of TAPI, not IPI. That would fulfill the imperial dream..... Rahnuma Ahmed elaborates.
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The dark side of Dubai |
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Investigative,
31-July-2009 |
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| Once the manic burst of building has stopped and the whirlwind has slowed, the secrets of Dubai are slowly seeping out. This is a city built from nothing in just a few wild decades on credit and ecocide, suppression and slavery. Dubai is a living metal metaphor for the neo-liberal globalised world. Sri Venkat writes more
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Case against Tipaimukh Dam: A Himalayan Blunder |
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23-June-2009 |
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| The Tipaimukh project was originally conceived in 1955 as a barrage to control flood in Barak Valley in Assam and had nothing to do with Manipur. Subsequently the emphasis has shifted to hydro-electric power generation with irrigation and other benefits as spin-offs. People from both India and Bangladesh are opposing this project. Nazmul Alam investigates the real of it.
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Sustainable Alternative to Coal Mining in Bangladesh |
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22-June-2009 |
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| Although GCM resources and its agents have been vaguely arguing that Bangladesh has no alternative than open-pit coal mining, recent studies on mining and environment explicitly demonstrate there are alternatives available which Bangladesh should go for. Rumana Hashem elaborates.
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An ineffective oral cholera vaccine launched in India concealing vital information |
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Investigative,
20-June-2009 |
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| Shantha Biotechnics, a Hyderabad-based French-Indian vaccine company, has recently launched an oral cholera vaccine with the trade name Shanchol. They are currently lobbying inside the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF to promote the vaccine for global use against cholera. However, they have concealed vital information on the vaccine’s composition and protective efficacy. Writes Ahmed Sadiq.
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Open pit mining: New face of an old campaign |
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9-June-2009 |
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| While the economics of an open-pit coalmine are ‘compelling’ compared to those of a shaft mine, neither the government nor any of the advocates have so far carried out a cost-benefit analysis that dismisses dissenters’ reservations and establishes a concrete case for open-pit coal extraction. Writes Tanim Ahmed
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As the story of subaltern grievances receded... |
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Analysis,
16-March-2009 |
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| How did the story of the BDR rebellion at Pilkhana as being one of subaltern grievances pale away? Did it begin with the discovery of the bodies of the two army officers that had spewed out of the sewers at Kamrangir char? Or did it happen sometime later, when the first mass grave was discovered? rahnuma ahmed continues...
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