Media outlets all over the world are currently devising different strategies to sustain their fame and acceptability in the middle of the augmentation of Artificial Intelligence or AI tools. Countries which will be able to keep pace with this innovative sprint faster can only stay on in the race while countries which cannot generate efficient and sustainable technicalities on time have to drop out of the competitive circumference that surrounds us.
In countries like Bangladesh, we can see that media houses often run into different hurdles. Media entrepreneurship in countries like ours often get disrupted and the entire news industry faces insurmountable challenges to work independently. As a result of frequent impediments posed by state organs, financial doldrums, political intervention, hostile tagging, antagonism from different quarters, newspapers are thrust into a blind alley where everything seems to have reached a point of no return. This is a perilous scenario for news industry and it heavily interrupts freedom of expression. Good governance, rule of law and socioeconomic justice cannot be established without freedom of press and people's liberty to speak out their opinions without fears.
The FBCCI expressed hope that Shoeb Chowdhury and his committee members would play a significant role in bringing new insights and innovative ideas in the press and media sector in the country, according to a letter issued on 15 January and signed by Md Alamgir, secretary General of FBCCI.
The apex trade body also hoped that the standing committee under Shoeb Chowdhury's leadership will be working diligently to identify the challenges of the sector and suggest ways and means to improve it.
The two-nation theory adopted in 1947 was an unequal and ill-motivated political intrigue that divided India into two parts on the basis of religion. Pakistan rulers wanted to impose Urdu on East Pakistan as the only state language but the Bengali-speaking people of East Pakistan did not take it for granted. Dhirendranath Dutta opposed this proposition in 1948. Muhammad Ali Jinnah was the instigator of the predicament that arose over the issue of making Urdu the state language of East Pakistan. Muhammad Ali Jinnah was a very clever and arrogant politician.
American author Suze Oman once said, "A big part of financial freedom is having your heart and mind free from worry about the what-ifs of life". It has hit news headlines that forty banks out of sixty one scheduled banks of Bangladesh are meeting their daily expenses by borrowing money from Bangladesh Bank as a result of acute liquidity crisis. Such an instance was not found in the country's history earlier. It is a lucid reflection of the endangered and worsening plight of our banks. Scams, anomalies and corruption have taken the steam out of the country's banks. I wrote a number of times in my articles that if we fail to streamline our banking and financial sectors then our achievements will be overshadowed and Bangladesh's economy will get plunged into abysmal woes but our policymakers and regulators did not pay heed to my apprehensions. My article titled " Our Titanic Economy", "Is Economy Heading for Greek Tragedy", "Financial Sector in Black Hole: Remedy Required Immediately and "Trust Versus Mistrust: Which Way to Go" are some of the write-ups in which I warned the authorities concerned to wake up before it is too late to fix up the country's banks and financial institutions.
