Also monitoring Sidr: Keep Me Honest. – According to latest reports by bdnews24.com tropical super cyclone Sidr strikes Bangladesh at category 4 hurricane velocity. Latest updates from different news sources so far: Hurricane SIDR struck Khulna-Barisal coast shortly after 5 PM Thursday, setting off driving rains in its path. Hurricane triggered heavy...
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Bangladeshi blogosphere observed November 10 as Nur Hossain day. Banglapedia: Hossain, (Shahid) Nur (1961-1987) a victim in a mass movement against Ershad-regime in 1987. Born in 1961 at Narinda in Dhaka Nur Hossain was the son of Mujibar Rahman, an auto-rickshaw driver, whose ancestral home was at village Jhatibunia under Mathbaria upazila...
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Former Islami Bank chairman and Jamaat-e-Islam think-tank Shah Abdul Hannan has described the Liberation War of 1971 as a “civil war.” He denied that genocide took place in the country at that time and that war criminals exist here. Speaking on a talk show, Ekushey Shomoy, on private satellite television channel Ekushey Television...
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An independent judiciary free from influence of legislative and executive organs of the state is the prime requirement of a democratic state. article 22 of Bangladesh constitution states: The State shall ensure the separation of the judiciary from the executive organs of the State. However this was not made possible since the...
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October 15 was the Blog action day, a day when bloggers around the web were united to emphasize the important issue the environment that people tend to ignore. The campaign asked every blogger around the world to post about the environment in their own way and relating to their own local or...
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The issue gets complicated as: * The Government asks Prothom Alo publishers to suspend the publication of the newspaper’s weekly satire supplement Alpin. * The Dhaka district magistrate asked the publishers to explain within two weeks why the publication of Alpin would not be banned and legal action would not be taken...
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Prothom Alo cartoon irks many Bangladeshi Muslims. Cartoonist Arifur Rahman arrested by the police. Alpin magazine editor Sumanta Aslam has been sacked. Issue banned by the government. Apology issued by Prothom Alo. The cartoon can be viewed/read here. – Alpin is one satirical cartoon supplement of Prothom Alo, claimed to be the...
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Perhaps not yet but this question was raised by Canadian expatriate blogger Shawn as problems in accessing Google started from around September 8-9. Shawn informs: This problem seems to affect Bangladeshis trying to access Google
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According to weather office in Dhaka a Tsunami may hit Bangladesh coastal lines after Wednesday midnight following an earthquake measuring 8.2 in Richter scale near southern Sumatra of Indonesia. The earthquake was also felt in Comilla, Noakhali, Chittagong and neighboring districts in Bangladesh. BDNews24 informs that the Malaysian authorities reported a tsunami...
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The Bangladesh government temporarily shut down its first 24 hour private satellite news channel CSBNEWS on charges of forgery. If the TV authority can not answer satisfactorily the charges of forgery within 7 days, the station will be shut down permanently. News reports in BBC, The Daily Star and BDNews24. Tiktiki has...
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