Archive for January, 2012

Matiur Rahman 

            Both Awami League (AL) and Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) have been dominating the Bangladesh politics for over 30 years with two leaders inheriting distinct family legacies.  About 75% of the adult population in Bangladesh is almost evenly distributed along the party lines.  Details…

With an aim to improve the socio-economic condition of the poor and disadvantaged and ensure people’s right to information, BRAC Community Empowerment Programme has formally launched Radio Pollikontho, 99.2 FM, a Community Radio in Maulvibazar District in Sylhet Division, as an effective communication medium for improving people’s access to information and building awareness of the marginalized, especially women. Details…

Dhaka, Jan 26 (bdnews24.com)—In a thinly veiled dig at the World Bank, prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday hinted that her government will not take money from the global lending agency to implement the Padma bridge project if the donor fails to prove charges of corruption it raised in the country’s biggest infrastructure project. Details…

Dhaka, Jan 19 (bdnews24.com)—The Bangladesh army has said it has foiled a plot by some hardline officers to topple the Sheikh Hasina government and that the process to bring the culprits to justice has begun. Details…

The streets of Bangladesh have long turned into nothing but a playfield of open mines. Generally, in the military/defence language mines are kept under the mud or sand which you probably have been seen in many TV footage on Afghanistan, Iraq war etc. Details…

Spring 2011: China has become one of the world’s largest economies over the past few decades and has the potential to move into the ranks of the world’s developed nations. However, this will only happen, says Linda Yueh, if China continues to institute changes in the institutional protections provided to businesses. Details…

A Head Teacher from Pirojpur was arrested for having a copy of Taslima Nasreen’s ‘Lajja’ in the school’s library.

He was later released on bail. Details…

Reference to an article (It’s a big responsibility to be an examiner and what’s the measure to protect the state) published on the daily Ittefaq on 3rd instant regarding the frustrating picture of the standard of our education has drawn my attention with great sorrow. Details…

Liberation has its own labour. Ours was for nine months. Pangs of pain were in bounty. Death and destruction littered the land. None was immune. But none, perhaps, was pained more than those who lost their dearest one. On this victory day, it is only befitting to remember those who were fallen and to recount the pain of those who have lost their dearest ones. Details…

We are all aware of the fact that the Bangladeshis living abroad form one of our most invaluable resources in every sense of the term. No accurate data on the precise number and distribution country wise or even continent-wise are available. Details…