The recent events at the Viqarunnisa Noon School and College (VNC), a prestigious girls educational institution in the Bangladesh capital Dhaka, has stirred much buzz in the Bangladeshi blogosphere. Porimol Joydhor, a teacher of Bangla department of the school’s Bashundhara campus, was accused of raping a female student of class ten at VNC while...
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Children Park – a type of real social business (example of MOON PARK & MOON HOUSE) This was also published in The News Today 09 Dec 2010 and other blogs http://www.newstoday.com.bd/index.php?option=details&news_id=14376&date=2010-12-09 http://www.bdcomcn.com/English-Articles/children-park-a-type-of-real-social-business-of-moon-park-a-moon-house.html http://bangladesh-web.com/view.php?hidRecord=343086 Prime Minister, Sheikh Hasina, of Bangladesh while addressing the prize giving ceremony of a painting competition at...
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This was also published in The Independent dated 22 Oct 2010 http://www.theindependentdigital.com/index.php?opt=view&page=28&date=2010-10-22 Bangladesh and China established diplomatic relations on October 4, 1975 and the same date in this year was its 35th anniversary. To mark the importance of this long lasting relationship, lot of activities were observed at both Dhaka and Beijing in this...
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The message is global democracy. Global decisions on climate change, migration, trade and labour are not executed democratically. The absence of democracy in these global issues, it is the rich who decide for everyone, countries like UK and US. To counter that, here comes the strategy or activism you can say called Use a...
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E-Bangladesh Report An Islamist militant body Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) has asked officials of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), International Federation of the Red Crescent (IFRC) and World Food Programme (WFP) to stop work and leave Barisal district immediately in southern Bangladesh. Three letters written in the name of the banned Islamist outfit...
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The Human Rights are being violated randomly inside of the Pilkhana. What the BDR mutineers did is crime indeed, but what the Army officials are doing now is the open brutality of a vindictive nature. They have dared to shout at the honorable Prime Minister of Bangladesh. Not only that, they published their arrogance...
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The interim government has not yet decided whether to withdraw emergency before the December elections, an adviser to the interim government said. ‘How can you be certain that the state of emergency is going to be withdrawn before the polls?… I cannot say at this moment whether the emergency will be withdrawn,’ the home...
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The ninth parliamentary elections will be held on December 29 and the third upazila elections on January 22, the Election Commission announced on Sunday. The chief election commissioner, ATM Shamsul Huda, in a jam-packed news conference after consultation with BNP and Awami League, announced the fresh polls schedules after the BNP-led alliance announced to...
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Photo: Advisers with Sheikh Hasina, BanglarChokh. Photo: Advisers with Khaleda Zia, BanglarChokh. The military-backed government and the political parties until Tuesday night failed to forge any consensus to reschedule the next month’s elections despite hectic negations, overt and covert, as the BNP’s 48-hour deadline expires tonight. The Bangladesh Nationalist Party rejected the government’s offer...
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