Some disturbing reports or basically ill conceived propaganda against ruling grand alliance government of Bangladesh written by someone named Jessica Fox in Sri Lanka Guardian has come to our notice. Only time will prove how much of these are objective journalism and how much are deliberate yellow journalism to confuse readers and vitiate environment...
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One must not interpret it that Bangladesh lost area to Myanmar. One must understand, an international court will always protect the interest of all parties and gives a win-win verdict to uphold its credibility. Bangladesh has established its sovereign rights over the natural resources in the eastern part of the Bay of Bengal after...
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20-yr-old Bangladeshi sold twice in a month’s time and forced into prostitution until her SOS eached Sheikh Hasina, who alerted the Interpol. Special city police team did the rest. This could have been just another story of an impoverished girl pushed into the flesh trade by a scheming relative, until it turned into an...
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Plastic surgery is becoming a world wide phenomenon. It’s difficult to estimate how big medical tourism will get, but by 2012 the industry is estimated to reach $100 billion. Bloomberg Businessweek gives a rather fancy nickname to this new development in tourism: patient outsourcing, giving one an idea at just how big plastic surgery...
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We are Bangladeshi families from Vancouver and University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada. We are deeply shocked and mourning the brutal attack on our sister Rumana Manzur. We are writing this letter out of grave concern observing the attempts made to establish a baseless extramarital story by Rumana’s husband. The Bangladeshi community in the University of British Columbia...
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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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CIVICUS Press Statement, Johannesburg, South Africa 9, September, 2010 Friends……………. Like many countries across the world, Indian Parliament has passed a law (Foreign Contribution Regulation Act, 2010) in late August that puts curbs on the activities of a vibrant civil society in India. The Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA), 2010 is now awaiting the assent of...
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Bangladesh has seen a significant increase in the value of inward remittances over the last year with over US$8 billion flowing into the country between July 2009 and March 2010. This represents an increase of nearly 18% over the corresponding 2008-9 period, a sign that the global economy is gradually beginning to recover turmoil....
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- Dr. Habib Siddiqui Indian foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee (R) met Awami league chief Sheik Hasina in her resident on February 19 2007. Image by: Munir uz Zaman, Drik News. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wazed is scheduled to leave for New Delhi within the next few days. If I were in her shoes, here...
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There has been a long walk from freedom for Bangladesh as she is approaching a rather mature age of forty. And talking about maturity, we always expect our people to be more mature politically and our political parties now showing far more maturity in terms of bureaucratic enterprises, to our greater benefit, to say...
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