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"The World Bank cancelled the fund being often provoked by a vested quarter from the country and America."
SHEIKH HASINA
Prime Minister
Alleged that the World Bank (WB) had cancelled its funding in the Padma bridge project being provoked by the US and a vested quarter in the country.

"The series of disciplinary breaches show that he has a severe attitude problem, the extent of which we have never seen in a Bangladesh national player. …What is alarming is that there are several other players beginning to behave like him and that is not a good sign."
NAZMUL HASSAN PAPON
BCB president
Said Papon at a press conference in Mirpur.

"Government should not be in the business of deciding what is and isn't a good project or whether people can travel outside the country. These are the kind of restrictions one usually associates with a one-party or authoritarian state, not a democracy like Bangladesh."
PHIL ROBERTSON
 Deputy Asia Director of HRW
While calling upon international donors to publicly express concern over the draft Foreign Donations (Voluntary Activities) Regulation Act, 2014, saying it would severely restrict the already “beleaguered NGOs”.

"Percentage of businesspersons-turned-MPs increased a lot compared to other professions, which is alarming for the interest of parliament."
IFTEKHARUZZAMAN
Executive Director of TIB
Said while presenting the findings of TIB's study titled “Parliament Watch”.

"I think we are ready for a woman to break through the glass ceiling; at the end of this year or early next year."
HILLARY CLINTON
Former US secretary of state
Said during her visit to Berlin that it was high time for the US to have a woman leader.  

"I have trimmed the hair and beards of more than 700 local and Uzbek militants ahead of the security forces' operation."
AZAM KHAN
A barber in Miranshah of North Waziristan
 Told AFP his business boomed in the month leading up to the army assault as the militants sought to shed their distinctive long-haired, bearded look.

"I am more concerned about potholes on the road than my clothes getting soaked. Who will save me if I fall into a pothole?"
FARZANA BEGUM
A pedestrian in Dhaka
Complained about the devastated road conditions as she had to wade carefully through the waist-high muddy water at Malibagh intersection of the capital.