Acting Foreign Secretary: No discussion on visa policy with Rena Bitar

Earlier, Rena Bitar and Janine Wynne, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the US Bureau of Population, Migration and Refugees, met the Acting Secretary of State on Saturday afternoon. After the meeting, Khurshid Alam said that various issues were discussed with Rena Bitar but there was no discussion on visa policy. Nor did he raise this issue. […]

Coco Chanel: Fashion icon with controversial connections

Guardian It is reported that the name “Gabrielle aka Coco Chanel” appears on a list of 400,000 people whose role in the resistance is supported by official records. “We have verification from the French government, including a document from 1957, which confirms their active participation in the resistance,” Cullen told the newspaper. Cullen said, “The […]

Is ‘growth-surprise’ heading towards ‘growth-disaster’?

We have been seeing for the last six months that various rating agencies have been downgrading the credit ratings of Bangladesh. These ratings are coming at a time when Bangladesh has taken the bailout package of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). In recent times Bangladesh was promoted as a ‘development-wonder’ among international agencies. Now the […]