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Bangladesh Politics and its leadership Excellence!
By: Mohammad Gani (USA)
(Part 1: Awami League).
SCOPE: It is almost time to say all good about Bangladeshi politics. No wonder why Awami League & BNP has been burgeoning in US, Canada, Europe and many other countries. Finally, their challenging journey to foreign lands has come off with flying colors, with new hopes, spirits and direction under the tutelages of Madam Hasina and madam Khaleda. Just look at what the “un-Common“ has happened in British House of “Commons“ only last Friday (07 May 2010)! Imagine an elected “Awami League MP” in British Parliament that generated powerful Tsunami of democracy all over the world. The fact is, Madam Hasina’s “Awami League candidate“ Rushanara Ali made an unprecedented history by securing decisive victory over Khaleda’s “BNP candidate” Ajmal Masroor and “JAMAT candidate” Abjol Meah! Another Awami League candidate, grand daughter of our Bongabondho, Tulip Siddiqui easily won a position of City Councilor (at Regent Park Ward in London) ........ More
India
may declare no-firing along Bangladesh border: Pillai
India
may declare a unilateral no-firing along its border with
Bangladesh for a year to avoid the deaths of civilians in
any cross-fire, Home Secretary G.K. Pillai said here Friday.
We are considering unilateral no firing on the border for
one year. The modalities of that are being worked out, Pillai
said at the India-Bangladesh security dialogue organised
by the Observer Research Foundation (ORF) and Bangladesh
Enterprise Institute (BEI) here.
Details
A
call for justice from Bangladesh
Bangladeshi
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was 27 years old when her father,
the first prime minister of Bangladesh, was slaughtered
along with most of her family in 1975. The army officers
who shot them installed a military government and kicked
off 15 years of coups, counter-coups, and dictatorship.
Hasina, who ... Details
Bangladesh
Court Upholds Death Sentences in Coup Case
DHAKA,
Nov 19 (VoBD) - Bangladesh's Supreme Court on
Thursday upheld death sentences on five men convicted of
killing the country's independence leader, Sheikh Mujibur
Rahman, in an army revolt 34 years ago, lawyers and court
officials said. Mujib was slain with most members of his
family in the August 15, 1975 revolt, which ended the nation's
first spell of democracy and set the stage for a series
of coups and foiled coups.
This file
handout photos received from the Melbourne Royal Children's
Hospital on November 13 and taken in August 2009 shows Trishna
(left) and Krishna, the Bangladeshi set of twins joined
at the head. Australian doctors successfully separated joined-at-the-head
Bangladeshi twins after more than 24 hours of surgery on
Tuesday, describing the moment as "surreal".
In this photograph
President Barack Obama and Bangladesh Ambassador to United
States Mr. Akramul Qader which was taken during the aforementioned
credential ceremony on 04 November 2009. Photo: VoBD
2006
Nobel Peace Bangladesh's Muhammad Yunus gives a speech before
the plenary Session of the 4th European Developpment Days
meeting in Stockholm in October 2009. Yunus brought ideas
for creating micro "social businesses" from Bangladesh
to Germany, with backing from several of the world's leading
corporations.
Ambassador
Mr.Akramul Qader presented his Credentials to U. S. President
Mr. Barack H. Obama
Washington
DC - 4 Nov (VoBD) - Ambassador of Bangladesh
to the United States, Akramul Qader presented his Credentials
today to the President of the United States of America,
Barack H. Obama at the Oval office of the White House.
Rally
held to demand passage of Student Safety Act
Via Weekly Thikana and Transalated
by Moinuddin Naser.
New
York - 5 Nov (VoBD) - A rally was held October
22 in front of City Hall to demand that the New York City
Council pass the Student Safety Act [Intro. 816-2008]. The
Urban Youth Collaborative, an organization devoted to human
rights activists, organized the rally in which leaders from
different activist groups - including Desis Rising Up and
Moving (DRUM) and the New York Civil Liberties Union - spoke.
Round
Table Discussion on Bangladesh: Climate change
London-
29 Oct (VoBD) - As
a follow up to Copenhagen summit in Dec 2009 on climate
change a round table discussion was held on 29 Oct 2009
at the table in The Nature of the Beast: Goshka Macuga,
Whitechapel Gallery, organised by the European Action Group
on Climate Change in Bangladesh.
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