Sand artists’ of the Aryan Group, Md. Moynul Haque, Deep Roy, Kuljit Das, Jun Das and Rahul Roy making sculpture on sand dunce against Terror in mighty Brahmaputra near Guwahati the capital city of India’s Northeastern state, Assam, India. November 12 2008 Photo-Rajib Jyoti Sarma, Guwahati,India.DrikNEWS.
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Part -I: Aresenic mitigation or commercial ventures Photo: Arsenic poisoning in Bangladesh. Latifa Begum of Alipur, Faridpur is counting her final days lying on the floor of Faridpur Sadar Hospital. She comes from a very poor family. Her husband died years ago, and her eldest son sells newspapers to barely survive in these difficult...
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On the 1st of November four drilling ships from Myanmar started exploration for oil and gas reserves within 50 nautical miles south west of St. Martins Island, in Bangladesh. A South Korean company was awarded the oil and gas exploration contract in that place and two Myanmar naval ships escorted the drilling ships. Three...
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Once in heaven, a man who did many misdeeds in his living period was screaming continuously. He was saying,” I should be named as a local hero in my village as I have saved many peoples’ valuable lives.” When his other fellows, with an amazed view, since they knew his past records, asked him...
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The relationship with radio and the people of Bangladesh dates back to the pre liberation war era when Radio Pakistan used to broadcast its transmission in the region now known as Bangladesh, which was liberated on December 16, 1971. In those days the only source of entertainment was listening to the radio, which definitely...
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Part-I: Posted Earlier. Part -II: Its a catastrophe waiting. The Daily Ittefaq published an article on July 26, 2008 that 80 million people of Bangladesh have high risk of arsenic poisoning. Specialists from Dhaka Medical College, Mitford Hospital, and Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University reported a rapid increase in different cancers, liver cirrhosis, kidney,...
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"Its not only for Lalon but a cursed event for the whole nation. The nation is being completely harassed by some people in religious cloths. Our government is silent. The people with conscience are dead."
Journalist Jahangir Alam Akash reminds that the country is under state of of emergency. However these (fundamentalists) are given...
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Collage of unimaginable shades of musty yellow, hues of grey, black and sallow brown. A lone low watt electric bulb makes a tiny halo of illumination that hardly reaches the floor. At regular intervals constant whirring and deafening clanging ring throughout the place. At first glance one would not be able to distinguish the...
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BNP secretary general Khandaker Delwar Hossain and Jamaat-e-Islami secretary general Ali Ahsan Muhammad Mojaheed mumble in a rally organize by BNP lead 4 party alliances in Engineers Institute auditorium while an arrest warrant issued against Ali Ahsan Muhammad Mojaheed few days ago in Barapukuria coal-mine graft case. Already The Anti-corruption Commission (ACC) finally submitted...
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Rahnuma Ahmed writes: My last column had ended with these words: ‘The current regime’s voter registration list has, in all probability, lessened the likelihood of fraudulent votes. But it also has, in all likelihood, laid the groundwork for installing a new regime of surveillance, one that will be deployed against the citizens of Bangladesh’...
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Part -I: Aresenic mitigation or commercial ventures Photo: Arsenic poisoning in Bangladesh. Latifa Begum of Alipur, Faridpur is counting her final days lying on the floor of Faridpur Sadar Hospital. She comes from a very poor family. Her husband died years ago, and her eldest son sells newspapers to barely survive in these difficult...
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This article has been published in Feed Back column of the daily New Age on September 28, 2008, conveniently tailoring the theme, totally disfiguring writer’s view, in conformity with the editorial message of the same issue. I do believe that in the present partisan terrain of our politics, proposition of meeting of our two...
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The world came to know about the horror only a couple of days ago that the powdered milk products produced by the Sanlu Group in China were contaminated by melamine after hundreds of Chinese babies were hospitalized for having kidney stones and some had kidney failures. On 11th of September Sanlu first defended that...
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