Bangladesh's Little Girls Given Hope to Avoid Early Marriage

NGO's working in Bangladesh to register children's births are giving hope to little girls to avoid early marriages.  Bangladesh is a signatory to the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child (UNCRC or CRC) which...

The Guardian Has Received Libel Threat from 1971 War Criminal

Wednesday 7 October 2009 , The Guardian ran an excellent article "Prosecute Bangladesh's war criminals" by the academic, Delwar Hussain, on the legacy of the Bangladesh War of Liberation. In particular,...

Students protests new grading system in Dhaka

Students of some colleges of Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh ( Dhaka College, Titumir College, Suhrawardy College, Kabi Nazrul College and Mirpur Bangla College) converged in front of Dhaka College road at around 11:30am. They took to the streets in front of Dhaka...

Shakib Al Hasan is Test player of the year 2009

Congratulation Shakib Al Hasan. Shakib al hasan, 22-year-old allrounder,  who  is now  the vice-captain of Bangladesh National Cricket team. World's no. 1 cricket magazine "The Wisden Cricketer" selected him as  the Test player of the year ...

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I've come here to share my ideas and feelings with all of you. I've a habit of browsing the whole web. So day by day, I've learned a lot. Just I want to share it with you all.

Dhaka sees heaviest rain in 53 years

the rains this season seem to be the best and worst the citites have ever seen.....mumbai,delhi, orissa and now dhaka...the heaviest rain in 53 years has disrupted life in a large way and claimed lives....please...

Men against violence: Learn masculinity from Mahatma Gandhi?

Men against violence-1 Learn masculinity from Mahatma Gandhi? Nasiruddin Haider Khan DHAKA: "Women have raised their voices against gender-based violence. They have fought for policies and laws. But now it is high time that women's movement should engage men. There are...

How climate change is affecting the Royal Bengal Tiger

Migration induced by climate change is driving the Royal Bengal Tiger from its natural habitat, and into closer, more-and-more tragic contact with humans, according to experts quoted in a report by bdnews24. This has led to the number of Royal Bengals still in the wild...

Ultra - secular India bans Entry of Taslima fearing Muslim wrath

Fearing controversies during the election time, and afraid that the minority voting patterns may be affected, India banned the famous novelist and winner of the prize for the Promotion of Tolerance and Non-Violence ,Taslima Nasreen , from entering the country. A little recap...

Bangladesh scraps BDR, to raise new border force

Bangladesh's mutiny tainted border force BDR (Bangla Desh Rifles) will be disbanded - according to Brigadier-General Moinul Islam, the new BDR chief. More than 70 people including army officers and their family...

Jamaat-e-Islami party blame India for Bangladesh mutiny

Too bad that NP does not have a channel called Jokes. So posting this as an openion.It is amazing that Indian intelligence agencies handed over all the necessary information to Jamaat-e-Islami too soon. "Islamists blame India for Bangladesh mutiny - ...

Terror in Dhaka

"The death toll from this week's mutiny staged by the country's border security force, the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) may be steadily rising, but the consensus among commentators in Dhaka is that a far bigger blood...

Massacre in Dhaka

Hundreds of Bangladeshi military mutineers who slaughtered their own officers could face the gallows as the country's fragile new government attempts to stamp out further threats to its authority. "They started...

Dhaka Mutiny Footage

The mutiny by Bangladesh's border security forces in the capital Dhaka has brought back the spectre of violence that has marked the country's recent political history. According to local media, BDR troops were...

Tanks enter Bangladesh Rifles headquarters, search on for missing

Bangladeshi Army tanks rolled into the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) headquarters, where mutinous troopers who had battled the army for 33-hours had been holed up, in the capital city Friday morning as search...

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