– Mehedi Hasan has been released, a WRC spokesperson confirmed: … Mehedi Hasan was released Sunday afternoon, Dhaka time. We have confirmed it directly with Mehedi himself. We also understand that the pending charges against him have been dropped, this is what the police have told Mehedi’s lawyer. Documents confirming...
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There is this issue which I keep on stumbling over and which seems to be agitating so many people who are in the publishing business. There seem to be two camps, the first camp is the journalist camp and the second seems to be the bloggers camp. And boyo, do...
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Bangladeshi investors were irked by the news that Grameen Phone, the largest cellular company in Bangladesh was fined another $25 million, twice in four month. Grameen Phone is scheduled to initiate a public offering in the capital market next June and the proposed stock offering will be the biggest ever in...
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Eight imprisoned students were released Wednesday, January 23. Three Dhaka University teachers charged with breaching the Emergency Powers Rules during the August 2007 campus protests were freed from jail Tuesday on a presidential clemency. No application was filed for the mercy. DUTA president Sadrul Amin, general secretary Anwar...
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– Thousands of Dhaka University students have come out on the streets. Peaceful protest has brought the campus to halt, E-Bangladesh correspondents on the ground report. – Unconfirmed reports from sources close to the Bangladesh Home Ministry: Convicted teachers will get presidential pardon in the evening. Related file is now on the...
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Dhaka University students, united under the banner of “Students against Repression,” have announced fresh protest programs Friday demanding immediate withdrawal of all cases filed against imprisoned students and teachers of the university. Earlier, their ultimatum to the military-led government seeking immediate release of all detained students and teachers expired. – January...
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A curfew was declared. Streets were off limit to the public while jeeps and truck-loads of military personnel were coming out of the barracks. Those boots that left the cantonment on January 11, 2007 keep stomping Bangladesh to date, one year...
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– Five new advisers sworn-in Wednesday at the presidential palace: Former secretary AMM Shawkat Ali, former Attorney General AF Hassan Ariff, former Director General of National Security Intelligence (NSI) Major General (Retired) Ghulam Quader, Director of CAMPE Rasheda K Chowdhury and economist Hossain Zillur Rahman. –...
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