After three years of respite Hartal, a South Asian form of strike action is back in Bangladesh. Bangladesh’s opposition alliance has called for a hartal on Sunday (27th of June, 2010) to press for its 11-point demand including solution of the utility crisis, tender manipulation, persecution of opposition leaders and workers etc. Things have...
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“Failed to utilize the administration”? Is Mr. Hassan claiming that there is a way his side could have used the administration to win the election? Perhaps he forgot that elections are supposed to be won at the ballot box, not by government intervention? The Prime Minister and leader of AL, and of course the...
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Finance Minister of Bangladesh Mr AMA Muhith has just placed the National Budget Proposal to Parliament for the fiscal year 2010-11. This is the first time in the history of Bangladesh any budget is placed using power points in a digital format. Bangladesh is passing through desperate energy crisis. Confronting energy crisis is definitely...
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Bangladesh has become the second country in Asia after Pakistan to block the entire Facebook domain in recent times. On 28th May, 2010 Friday at around 8:30 the ban was executed on charges of malicious propaganda against Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and hurting religious feelings, reports blogger and journalist Biplob Rahman at MuktoMona...
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Poor Mahbub Alam Rodin. As I write this, he is probably experiencing what the business end of a police baton feels like. His crime? He allegedly uploaded some caricatures of the Prime Minister, the Leader of the Opposition and some other political figures to Facebook. So some idiots who can call the shots on...
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Dear Madam Prime Minister Why are you surrounded by incompetent idiots? We know it is unfair to blame you for everything, but in this case we will hold you personally responsible for this horrendous personnel decision. We are of course talking about the fact that the chief investigator of the War Crimes Tribunal himself...
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In early 1990 two leading ladies of Bangladesh politics Begum Khaleda Zia and Sheikh Hasina Wajed were together on the streets struggling to overthrow the autocratic regime of General Ershad. Since early 90s excepting the two years of Care Taker/interim government, two ladies led what people call democratic government over the last two decades....
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The Bangla blogosphere and Bangladeshi Facebook users are angry with protests as 'Avro', a freeware and one of the popular and widely used Bangla input systems, was accused as a pirated version of another proprietary Bangla input system 'Bijoy' and the Avro team was mentioned as hackers.
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Mr AMA Muhith Finance Minister of Bangladesh while talking about prevailing energy situation of Bangladesh regarded the situation as Energy famine. We do not know how many of his cabinet colleagues will subscribe to that. But when a finance minister repeatedly mentions energy crisis as the major barrier in investment in Bangladesh he must...
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When we NRBs think and talk about our dear motherland Bangladesh, now in desperate crisis, we must realise that when the chief resources are constrained, the cities are overpopulated, the government is ingrained in corruption and terrorism is a major threat, tackling energy crisis is a great challenge. We have too many smart persons...
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