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Photos of Humayun Ahmed-Gultekin Khan-Meher Afroz Shaon and their children
Humayun family in photographs…
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দয়া করে শরনার্থীদের সাহায্য করুন, মাননীয় প্রধানমন্ত্রী
মায়ানমারের শরনার্থী বিষয়ে সরকারের কঠোর মনোভাবে আমি হতাশ। এমনিতেই যারা আছে তাদের নিয়ে সব সরকারই বিরূপ মনোভাব পোষন করে। কক্সবাজারের প্রায় আড়াই লক্ষ (সরকারি হিসেবে পাঁচ লক্ষ) রোহিঙ্গাদের ফেরত পাঠানো কর্যক্রম চলছে এখন। এদিকে আবার এদের মধ্যে একটা বড় অংশের অপরাধ সংঘটন নিয়ন্ত্রন করতেও সরকার ব্যর্থ। কিছুদিন আগে মাত্র নির্বাচনে জিতে অং সাং সুচি রাজনীতিতে…
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Women’s rights: still long way ahead!
The Unfinished Revolution Hillary Clinton memorably proclaimed at the United Nations conference in Beijing in 1995 that, “women’s rights are human rights.” But around the world, this is a distant goal for millions of women and girls. In Saudi Arabia, women are banned from driving and many are forbidden from playing sports. In the Central African Republic and…
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A Brick Wall in Change
[slideshow] Click to read the story on Star magazine Watching the chimneys at the brickfields on the outskirts of the capital that exhaust mainly black smoke gives a common impression — “it doesn’t matter”. These furnaces have been set up almost every corner of Dhaka – along the highways and the rivers surrounding the mega…
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Demolition of shanties along Gulshan Lake
State-run housing authority RAJUK started dismantling the structures built illegally along the lake in Dhaka’s posh Gulshan area in line with the High Court’s order of January 25 to demarcate the lake and free it from illegal encroachers. Monday, Dhaka, Bangladesh, February 6, 2012. On the first day, some 120 shanties of the slum along…
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Checking Air Pollution: Enforcement of rules imperative
Read the original article on The Daily Star In its latest move against air pollution, the government is setting up six air-quality monitoring centres at different places of the country including Dhaka to better identify the extent of toxicity–the key reason behind respiratory illnesses and chronic bronchitis. Officials at the Continuous Air Monitoring Stations (CAMS)…
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‘Media biased against children’
Published on bdnews24.com on Nov 11, 2010 Children are often neglected in the media, although they constitute a large segment of the Bangladesh population, a new study has revealed. The study also found that even when the media reports about them, the coverage mostly depicts the children as victims of violence or repression. It also…
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2.5 lakh buildings in 3 cities at earthquake risk
read the story on bdnews24.com Around 250,000 buildings in the three major cities of Bangladesh—Dhaka, Chittagong and Sylhet—are extremely vulnerable to earthquakes, according to a recent survey. Some 142,000 among 180,000 buildings in Chittagong; 24,000 out of 52,000 in Sylhet; and 78,000 out of 326,000 buildings in Dhaka were detected as risky. “The survey results…
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