No wonder another news was muffled in the Bangladeshi media which took the British Bangladeshis by storm. They were disgusted and annoyed to hear that Barrister Rizwan Hussain was detained by the Zia International Airport in Dhaka, Bangladesh on the charges of trespassing while he claims he was merely helping an elderly. And things took to a dramatic turn when he was handed over to plain cloth joint forces staffs and he was beaten mercilessly and forced to sign false statements that he was sorry for trespassing and he was treated well by the captors.

The international media are at it again. A light of a world wide famine beaconing, which is a favorite topic for any media professional. You will see picture galleries full of hungry people fighting for food, skinny children waiting for help makes any journalistic work easy. ABC News terms the recent food riots around the world as an apocalyptic warning predicting hundreds of thousands of starving people in Asia and Africa. The World Bank announces “the world is moving towards a food crisis that may lead to wars and riots”.

If you are wondering why I was not blogging last couple of month as frequently as before, I confess now I was engaged in a mammoth project.
It all started after the much discussed denial - Jamaat-e-Islami’s leader Ali Ahsan Muzahid’s statement that “Jamaat did not work against the Liberation War in 1971 and there are […]

Photo: Shaheed Minar, a solemn and symbolic sculpture erected in the place of the massacre. The monument is the symbol of Bangladesh Nationalism.
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Today is the International Mother Language Day, an annual event in UNESCO member states to promote linguistic and cultural diversity and multilingualism. This is mostly the international recognition of the Language […]

[Photo by Amirul Rajiv.]

[Scan courtesy Drishtipat (right).]

[Photo by Banglar Chokh.]
[Photoblog by Amirul Rajiv.]

[Click any of the thumbnails for a GreyBox show.]
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Recently I reported about bloggers reactions on the controversies surrounding an exhibition of the masterpieces of Ganges in Mus

[Sky News: Born into political life and ascending the ranks to become the country’s first female prime minister, Benazir Bhutto was well-versed in the fraught tensions of life in Pakistan. Ian Woods reviews her life lost attempting to change the country she loved.]
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There is something wrong in the way General Pervez Musharraf runs Pakistan. […]

[Update] Statement from the French Embassy in Dhaka:
On the 22nd December, between 3.30 am and 7 am, a crate containing two small statues belonging to the National Museum was stolen from the service area of Zia International Airport hours before being loaded on a flight. This crate was part of the second consignment of masterpieces […]

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Shahidul News has a touching story on the protest to halt sending Bangladeshi artifacts to Musee Guimet, France.
Reasons:
Some media in Bangladesh started the conspiracy theory raising doubts on the transparency of the process.
Allegations that “Musee Guimet in Paris incidentally also holds thousands of stolen/illegal objects from China and the rest of Asia,” and it […]

Also monitoring Sidr: Keep Me Honest.
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According to latest reports by bdnews24.com tropical super cyclone Sidr strikes Bangladesh at category 4 hurricane velocity.
Latest updates from different news sources so far:
Hurricane SIDR struck Khulna-Barisal coast shortly after 5 PM Thursday, setting off driving rains in its path.
Hurricane triggered heavy winds speeding at up to 180 kmph […]

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Bangladeshi blogosphere observed November 10 as Nur Hossain day.
Banglapedia:
Hossain, (Shahid) Nur (1961-1987) a victim in a mass movement against Ershad-regime in 1987. Born in 1961 at Narinda in Dhaka Nur Hossain was the son of Mujibar Rahman, an auto-rickshaw driver, whose ancestral home was at village Jhatibunia under Mathbaria upazila of Pirozpur district.
His family […]

[Update.]
Former Islami Bank chairman and Jamaat-e-Islam think-tank Shah Abdul Hannan has described the Liberation War of 1971 as a “civil war.” He denied that genocide took place in the country at that time and that war criminals exist here. Speaking on a talk show, Ekushey Shomoy, on private satellite television channel Ekushey Television Friday, Hannan […]

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An independent judiciary free from influence of legislative and executive organs of the state is the prime requirement of a democratic state. article 22 of Bangladesh constitution states:

The State shall ensure the separation of the judiciary from the executive organs of the State.

However this was not made possible since the independence of Bangladesh […]

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October 15 was the Blog action day, a day when bloggers around the web were united to emphasize the important issue the environment that people tend to ignore. The campaign asked every blogger around the world to post about the environment in their own way and relating to their own local or international topic.
Why […]

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The issue gets complicated as:
* The Government asks Prothom Alo publishers to suspend the publication of the newspaper’s weekly satire supplement Alpin.
* The Dhaka district magistrate asked the publishers to explain within two weeks why the publication of Alpin would not be banned and legal action would not be taken against the publisher.
* Three […]

Prothom Alo cartoon irks many Bangladeshi Muslims.
Cartoonist Arifur Rahman arrested by the police.
Alpin magazine editor Sumanta Aslam has been sacked.
Issue banned by the government.
Apology issued by Prothom Alo.
The cartoon can be viewed/read here.
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Alpin is one satirical cartoon supplement of Prothom Alo, claimed to be the most popular Bangla Newspaper. In page 6 of its […]