Director Generals of the border guarding forces of Bangladesh and India met for a 6-day co-ordination meeting in New Delhi, India from September 3, 2018. Under the guise of ‘enhancing cooperation and mutual understanding’ as part of ‘confidence building measures’, India is employing every strategy to bring our military to its knees. And with this abhorrent co-ordination meeting, the subservient Awami League (AL) government has brought another national disgrace by…

 The Chief of Army Staff of Bangladesh Army General Aziz Ahmed made his first foreign six-day tour in India on July 31, 2018 after assuming office. He met high-ranking dignitaries and visited important military installations at Agra and Lucknow. Choosing enemy India to be the first country to visit is perceived as more of a ‘homage to the master’ than as something that will help strengthen ‘mutual trust’ (!).

Yet another wave of wholesale and systematic plundering of people’s properties and resources by the powerful ruling elites of Awami League (AL) has left the country rattled and agitated. Several mega scams have hit Bangladesh hard in a week.

Bangladesh is seeing mounting discontent across the country in the face of the nefarious acts of state-sponsored terrorism to suppress the popular quota reform movement being organized by the disgruntled job seekers and students of different universities and colleges under the coalition Chhatra Odhikar Songrokkhon Parishad (Council of Organizations for the Protection of Student Rights).