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Sheikh Hasina
Let us join forces to lead the country to the cherished goals.
Khaleda Zia
It is impossible to practice politics without patience.
Bangladesh’s 15 lakh Gay Invisible Minority
January 26 2012 Bangladesh (BDNEWS): by Rainer Ebert Babu and Arif are childhood friends. They schooled together, played on the same cricket team and had no secrets from one another – except one, but only until recently. While they were out having phuchkas at a street stand somewhere in Dhaka, Arif suddenly slipped into an [...]
Let the foiled coup be the last
In a very surprising and unprecedented move Bangladesh Army authorities in a press conference called last Thursday disclosed the chilling news that they have foiled a coup attempt by some mid ranking retired and serving army officers to topple the democratically elected government. It is both surprising and unprecedented because seldom the army speaks before [...]
Reduce traffic jam in Dhaka city to at least 50% quickly with a low cost measure
Reduce traffic jam in Dhaka city to at least 50% quickly with a low cost measure sounds like absurd. Besides corruptions, pollution, and gangsterism; traffic jam also rocks the lives of the dwellers of Dhaka City on a regular basis. The best and costly solution is the installation of tracks and running electric metro-trains on [...]
BNP and militant outfit Hizb-ut Tahrir merged together
After listening BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia speaks at a grand rally in port city Chittagong yesterday one may wonder if BNP has taken banned Islamist militant outfit Hizb-ut Tahrir into their political alliance to harden their oust government movement. Hours before Khaleda delivered her speech at Polo Ground banned Islamist militant outfit Hizb-ut Tahrir circulated leaflet [...]
Economics of Fundamentalism and the Growth of Political Islam in Bangladesh : Abul Barkat
Economics of Fundamentalism and the Growth of Political Islam in Bangladesh Abul Barkat Professor, Department of Economics, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh Abstract: The genesis of Islam reveals liberal and humanistic origin of Islam in East Bengal. But this liberal -humanistic Islam has turned in to “Political Islam” mainly due to three major regressive transformations of [...]