India Bangladesh border clashes - searching for the truth

I have said it before that the illegal border trades and the involvement of the border security forces in the smuggling are the key causes for the India-Bangladesh border strifes. We have seen  Indian border security forces (BSF) killing one Bangladeshi every five days...

Curfew in Bangladesh

"Curfew to start from 8 PM today, for an indefinite period. All universities closed down and students have been asked to vacate dormitories. "

Bangladesh: release journalist blogger Tasneem Khalil

Bangladeshi blogger and journalist Tasneem Khalil has been arrested by the joint forces tonight. One of his colleagues (also a renowned blogger) broke the news requesting anonymity. They are afraid to speak out....

Breaking News: Serial Bombs in Bangladesh by a new Al-Qaeda group

A series of bombs went off at Dhaka, Sylhet and Chittagong railway stations Tuesday morning, spreading panic among commuters. A rickshawpuller was injured in the Chittagong blast. All the bombs exploded between...

The Blogospheres on Big Brother, Shilpa Shetty, Bullying and Racism

"The issue isn’t just that Shetty is being subjected to intimidation - that much is obvious. The issue at stake here is that for whatever reasons that might have caused the coven to develop a dislike for Shilpa, they are choosing to act on that by picking on things that are...

Iajuddin resigns as interim government chief: Breakthrough in political stale...

"President Iajuddin Ahmed has decided to quit as the caretaker (interim) government chief, which was the number one demand of the opposition grand alliance. In addition their second demand was fulfilled; no election is going to happen on the 22nd of January. Iajuddin Ahmed...

Iajuddin resigns as care taker government chief: Breakthrough in political st...

"President Iajuddin Ahmed has decided to quit as the caretaker (interim) government chief, which was the number one demand of the opposition grand alliance. In addition their second demand was fulfilled; no election is going to happen on the 22nd of January.  Iajuddin...

Bangladesh in turmoil

"Violence erupted in many places across Bangladesh as the oppositions protest continued for resisting the appointment of a controversial interim government chief. The protesters had stabs and oars in their hand as prescribed by their party leaders and were put in use as their...

Great Day for Bangladesh: Dr. Yunus gets the nobel prize

"For the first time in recent history Bangladesh has made news in all the international media for a positive contribution to the world. Dr. Muhammad Yunus and his organization Grameen Bank have jointly been...

After the pope, now Mozart?

"Otto von Bismarck, the Prussian prime minister and prominent statesman of Germany in the Nineteenth century said "An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts". However, this is the twenty first...

Taslima Nasrin reviews Ayaan Hirsi Ali's book

"Ayaan’s problem is that she puts the burden of all traditional and patriarchal repression of women squarely on Islam. For her, Islam is responsible for child marriage, incest, purdah, the insistence on...

Table of Free Voices

"Bebelplatz, a square in Berlin, near to state opera and the Humboldt University buildings has an infamous past. Seventy Three years ago (1933) Nazi youths instigated by their Propaganda Minister, Joseph Goebbels...

It simply is not cricket

"Cricket used to be a gentlemen's game. There was a time when batsmen would give away their wicket if he was convinced that he had nicked a ball, which went to the keeper's hand, before the umpire had their say. The umpires used to pat a player's shoulder telling that if he...

Plagiarized views, such is the state of anti-Bangladesh writings

"I was shocked, as I was reading one artcile called 'Bangaldesh: New terror route' written by Mr. Vipin Agnihotri, who has a post graduate diploma in mass communication in India. He has posted the same article titled "Bangladesh: A New Terror Hub" in The Day After magazine....

Propaganda War

"The Israel-Hizbullah war has gone to next level. Now people are manipulating pictures and news, which are produced in the media across the world. Reuters has withdrawn all 920 pictures of the Lebanese...
 

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