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Walking for Justice

March 26, 2013
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Walking for Justice

A nation started walking in 1971. The country, Bangladesh creed for justice for 42 years. After all these years finally the time has arrived. International Crimes Tribunals (ICT) Bangladesh was set up in 2009 to try the collaborators who helped Pakistani army to commit crimes against humanity.

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Shahbag movement to be streamlined

February 26, 2013
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Shahbag movement to be streamlined

It is time for the Shahbag movement to be streamlined. It all started back in February 5, 2013 and is ongoing till date. If we see the history of the movement, this has gained colossal popularity in the shortest possible time and that only happened because of the demands that were declared. By demand, I…

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The ‘Perfect Choice’ as chief of Bangladesh army

June 26, 2012
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The ‘Perfect Choice’ as chief of Bangladesh army

Iqbal Karim Bhuyan, commonly known among the officers of Bangladesh army as IKB, is one of the old faujians of Faujdarhat Cadet College (FCC) whom I first saw back in 17th August 1974 when I first entered cadet’s accommodation Shahidullah House of FCC, was our house prefect, an appointment of cadet college responsible for the…

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No more Yellow, it’s the “Jessica Fox” journalism!

May 11, 2012
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No more Yellow, it’s the “Jessica Fox” journalism!

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 of…

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Maritime boundary: don’t get confused

April 6, 2012
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Maritime boundary: don’t get confused

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 the…

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Kamathipura girl is going home, thanks to PM Sheikh Hasina

July 2, 2011
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Kamathipura girl is going home, thanks to PM Sheikh Hasina

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 international…

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Plastic Surgery in Bangladesh

June 28, 2011
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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 tourism…

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Open Letter from Bangladeshi families of Vancouver and University of British Columbia about Rumana Manzur

June 19, 2011
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Open Letter from Bangladeshi families of Vancouver and University of British Columbia about Rumana Manzur

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 is…

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Children Park – a type of real social business (example of MOON PARK & MOON HOUSE)

Moon Park (3)

      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 Dhaka…

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Deep Disappointment at India’s New Curbs on Civil Society

September 9, 2010
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Deep Disappointment at India’s New Curbs on Civil Society

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 the…

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