Was it necessary? – was my first reaction after hearing this news. Awami League-led government has decided to change the name of Zia International Airport to Hazrat Shah Jalal International Airport.
Sad but true, this cabinet meeting was headed by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Her press secretary Abul Kalam Azad told reporters, “According...
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The most surprising name was Comrade Dilip Barua. People know about the honesty of Matia Chowdhury, Abdul Mal Abdul Muhit, Syed Ashraful Islam, Nurul Islam...
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Its a landslide victory for Awami League and the grand alliance.
Image courtesy The New Age.
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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 “their...
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The news is very eye-catching and commensurate in terms of ‘positive Bangladesh’: recently the ministry of Industry has sent a proposal to the cabinet division for the decision to reopen three state-owned mills. The National Coordination Committee (NCC) to combat serious crimes has recommended positively on the proposal. But the outcome is not so...
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Friday is the typical day of activity of the religious political organization Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh. Last Friday an organization named “Jatiyo Muktijoddha Proshad” (National Freedom Fighters Front) held their annual summit in the Diploma Engineers Institute Auditorium in Dhaka. The Daily Shamokal reported that almost three-fourth of the approximate two thousand participants present were actually...
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Several blog posts have been written in the recent months since the Sajek incident in CHT (Chittagong Hill Tracts) followed by two well-publicised fact finding reports. These reports also brought the Kalpana Chakma campaign in the forefront, once again, reviving her cause in the public domain. While activists are mobilising, organising, speaking for justice,...
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Recently the Election Commission (EC) announced that the local government polls in four city corporations and nine municipalities will be held on August 4 this year. The caretaker government will relax the Emergency Powers Rules (EPR) in respective areas to allow campaign processions and rallies.
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Since 27th May , The Daily Amader Shomoy has been chronicling on irregular basis the politico-literary lore of one journalist Peer Habibur Rahman which spun an almost gratifying concurrence from AL politician Mahmudur Rahman Manna on 31st May and host of reactions from the readers. This sequel of Peer starkly exposes pervasive moral decadence...
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