The daughter of a retired Bangladeshi Army officer, Rumana Monzur, 33, was the image of a beautiful intellectual: wide eyes, angelic smile, and gentle disposition. While most of her aunts and uncles settled in the U.S. and Europe, landing in towns as far-flung as Bridgewater, N.J., she grew up in Bangladesh, marrying a childhood...
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The recent events at the Viqarunnisa Noon School and College (VNC), a prestigious girls educational institution in the Bangladesh capital Dhaka, has stirred much buzz in the Bangladeshi blogosphere. Porimol Joydhor, a teacher of Bangla department of the school’s Bashundhara campus, was accused of raping a female student of class ten at VNC while...
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BNP chairperson and leader of the opposition in Bangladesh parliament has issued a war cry to unseat the government through Arab awakening type mass upsurge. Addressing a gathering of party loyalists and aligned groups on a day long hunger strike in Dhaka Khaleda announced that there will be no more hartals. Instead she will...
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Bangladesh’s main opposition party has threatened to boycott the election if the government refuses to hold polls under non-partisan neutral government. “We will not take part in the elections under a partisan government, as people will never accept the scrapping of the caretaker government system,” the head of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), former...
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Bangladesh investigators press war crime charges against Islamic leader, accusing him of genocide, murder and rape during the bloody war of independence in 1971 on Monday. Bangladesh chief prosecutor Ghulam Arif Tipu accused Maulana Delwar Hossain Sayedee, a senior leader of Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh, has been also accused of “crimes against humanity, looting, arson and...
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The eagerly awaited return visit of Prime Minister of India Dr Manmohon Singh is being fixed on the first week of September 2011. This very important summit must address and honestly attempt to resolve several sensitive unresolved matters between the two SARRC neighbors –the largest democracy of the world India and the land of...
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“He’s not a war criminal. He’s not evil. He didn’t lie. He wasn’t anyone’s poodle. He hasn’t got blood on his hands.’’ This is not an unusual stand for a lawyer Barrister Rafiqul Islam Miah who is advocating in favor of a criminal, no matter whether the criminal had raped or killed the lawyers’...
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In an unwarranted comment, Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday said Bangladesh political landscape can change anytime. Speaking at the capital New Delhi to a select group of Indian newspaper editors he frankly said his neighbours worries him a great deal. “So a very uncertain neighbourhood.” He blames Pakistan’s dreaded spy agency Inter-Services...
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Thousands of protesters marched in capital Dhaka on Thursday against Bangladesh parliament adopted an Islamic constitution, steering away from a secular political culture, which was enshrined in 1972 constitution.
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Bangladesh government has envision to maneuver from the United States watch list for being the major source and transit country for men, women, and children subjected to forced labor and sex trafficking. Bangladeshi men and women migrate willingly to Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Qatar, the Maldives, Iraq, Iran, Lebanon,...
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