Archive for March, 2009

Public servant Shouldn’t comment like a Public Representative or a Minister. They have to remember that they are the servant for the nation not particularly for any party or any group. They have to be very much careful about the press briefing and government shouldn’t allow such type of flattery and to arrange monitoring system internally. Government may change but the public servant/bureucrats are not being changed at any time. So, they can utter some positive words, which apparently looks good for the government but it’s ultimate result is not positive since people are more cautious now-a-days and they can understand everything. Hope, the concerned will realize the matter very well. Details…

On 16 March, just before dawn, Pakistan’s Prime Minister, Yousaf Raza Gilani, announced the restoration of the deposed Chief Justice of Pakistan, Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, promptly followed by the announcement of the end of the “long march” on the capital by the opposition. Since then, every faction is claiming this event as a victory, according to its own agenda….

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To build the “Padma Bridge” on the River Padma was one of the cited election manifesto of the present government and till now they are having the positive steps to construct the Bridge in time no doubt at all. Details…

By William Gomes— “There’s no proof that the death penalty deters crime. It’s a strange philosophy that the state should kill to encourage people not to kill.” This is how Massachusetts State Representative James B. Eldridge argued against the death penalty. When Mother Theresa visited California’s death row in 1987, she made a very simple appeal against the death penalty, asserting, “What you do to these men, you do to God.” Details…

The Vatican’s official newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano, recently published an article titled “Islamic finance proposals and ideas for the West in crisis,” prepared by Italian economists Loretta Napoleoni and Claudia Segre, in which it was suggested that the basic rules of Islamic finance could relieve suffering markets and particularly international financial systems. Details…

On March 10 2009 the CEO of the private equity company Blackstone Group LP (BX.N) Stephen Schwarzman said that up to 45 percent of the world’s wealth has been destroyed by the global credit crisis. Details…

Recent indications of returning unskilled labors have threatened our economy… Details…

By William Gomes — The Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) is a paramilitary force in Bangladesh in charge of guarding the country’s borders. With a total manpower of 67,000 troops, organized into a central headquarters and various sectors, battalions and border outposts, mainly along the frontiers, BDR’s primary task is to patrol and secure Bangladesh’s 2,500-mile border with neighboring India and Myanmar. Details…

The term “sick man of Europe” was coined to describe the declining situation of the Ottoman Khilafah by Tsar Nicholas I of Russia in 1853. The Uthmani territories were being swallowed by rival world powers, increasingly falling under the financial control of the European powers and the Ottoman’s had lost territory in a series of disastrous wars. Details…

The origin of the use of the word ’spirit’ is found in the discussions that took place between people who believe in the existence of God, frequently using words such as ’spirit’ and ’spirituality’ to articulate the effect of a creator. Details…