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Is Muslim majority Bangladesh poised to convert into a secular nation?

August 5, 2010
By Saleem Samad
Is Muslim majority Bangladesh poised to convert into a secular nation?

FOR MILLIONS of people in impoverished Bangladesh, it seems to have ushered a political blessing. The nation which fought a bloody war of independence in 1971 against Islamic Pakistan to establish secularism and democracy was obliterated by military juntas and autocratic governments. Bangladesh's first constitution included secularism, democracy, socialism and nationalism as key political philosophy...
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Bangabandhu’s General Amnesty Declaration: Documentary Evidences and Relevant Stories

July 24, 2010
By Omi Rahman Pial
Bangabandhu’s General Amnesty Declaration: Documentary Evidences and Relevant Stories

Whenever the issue of trial of war-crimes is raised, the killers and collaborators say, ‘it was he who resolved the issue by declaring 'general mercy', so it is meaningless to discuss this issue and give much importance now. In a quest to find the truth about 'general mercy' activists dug out the newspaper clippings...
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Bitterness Continues

April 26, 2010
By Kh.A.Saleque.

In early 1990 two leading ladies of Bangladesh politics Begum Khaleda Zia and Sheikh Hasina Wajed were together on the streets struggling to overthrow the autocratic regime of General Ershad. Since early 90s excepting the two years of Care Taker/interim government, two ladies led what people call democratic government over the last two decades....
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Tracking BDR Rebellion updates via twitter

February 26, 2009
By Rezwan

Follow BDR Mutiny updates on Twitter http://tweetgrid.com/grid?l=2&q1=dhaka&q2=bdr&q3=bangladesh /* widget config */ var jtw_search = ' "#dhaka" OR "#bdr" '; /* keywords or phrase to send to search.twitter.com and display */
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Poisoned powder milk in China – why Bangladesh needs to worry

September 17, 2008
By Rezwan
Poisoned powder milk in China – why Bangladesh needs to worry

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...
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Dynasty politics continued

September 3, 2008
By E-Bangladesh
Dynasty politics continued

Is the politics in Bangladesh hard to predict? No its easy. It comprises of veneration of leaders of political dynasties without asking for any accountability. Most leaders of political parties try to grab power to have economic powers and plunder wealth. But yet people queue up to vote for them as if its a...
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Political parties critical of Fakhruddin Ahmed’s statement on Al Jazeera Television

March 23, 2008
By E-Bangladesh

The major political parties, including Awami League and Bangladesh Nationalist Party were critical of chief adviser Fakhruddin Ahmed’s statement about the jurisdiction of the proposed Truth Commission regarding the top two politicians, Sheikh Hasina of Awami League and Khaleda Zia of BNP. Awami League, Workers Party of Bangladesh, Communist Party of...
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Sector Commanders’ Forum put pressure on Caretaker Government

March 22, 2008
By E-Bangladesh
Sector Commanders’ Forum put pressure on Caretaker Government

Convention of Sector Commanders’ Forum, Photo:Banglar Chokh Sector Commanders’ Forum have asked the government to immediately initiate process for trial of the hated war criminals, who perpetrated the history’s worst ever genocide during Bangladesh’s liberation war in 1971. ‘As the government itself realised that the trial of the war criminals should...
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US designated HUJI-B as foreign terrorist organisation

March 6, 2008
By E-Bangladesh
US designated HUJI-B as foreign terrorist organisation

  Photo: A screenshot of Executive Order 13224 blocking Terrorist Property. The US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice on March 6 designated Harakat ul-Jihad-i-Islami, Bangladesh as a ‘foreign terrorist organisation’ and as a ‘specially designated global terrorist’ under Executive Order (E.O.) 13224.  The Harakat leader signed the February 1998 fatwa sponsored...
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“The closed door trial will undermine the image of Bangladesh abroad” said William Sloan

February 19, 2008
By E-Bangladesh
“The closed door trial will undermine the image of Bangladesh abroad” said William Sloan

    William Sloan, President of Canada Chapter of American Association of Jurist(AAJ), currently visiting Bangladesh, was denied entry to a special court on February 19. Sloan, also an international human rights lawyer, went to the special judge’s court set up at the Jatiya Sangsad...
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