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With Zia ready, Bangladesh poll may be held Dec 28
Dhaka, Nov 21 (IANS) Bangladesh’s Election Commission is mulling to put back the already delayed national elections by 10 days provided former prime minister Khaleda Zia’s Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP)-led four-party alliance commits to participate. Election ...
21 Nov 2008, 2:49 am | click here for more
Zia undecided as government, Hasina, diplomats urge early poll
Dhaka, Nov 20 (IANS) Foreign envoys have lent support to a call by Bangladesh’s caretaker government, endorsed by most political parties, urging former prime minister Khaleda Zia and her Islamist allies to participate in the ...
20 Nov 2008, 5:41 am | click here for more
What Indians don’t Know when They say ‘A Sea-Route to Northeast Soon’
Sinlung Says: A Main Land Indian Perspective of What is Northeast India from the tables of Rediff News. When we say Northeast India. What does it actually mean? A different Country Connected by Land? A Diffrent Group of People Occupied? Where is Nagaland? Where is Manipur? Now, where are the lesson’s Taught in High School Geagraphy? This brings us back to the Shilpa Shetty Drama some Years ago on ‘Big Brother.’ When Indians who had a Voice shouted - Racism, Stereotypes… These same Indians
20 Nov 2008, 5:16 am | click here for more
BNP and its allies to join polls on condition
Khaleda Zia, chief of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party-led alliance, on Thursday said the alliance would participate in the parliamentary elections if the date of ballot was deferred to December 28 from December 18, provided the government fulfilled the three other demands of the alliance. ‘We will certainly participate in the [parliamentary] elections if it is held on December 28, but the government must implement our three other demands’, Khaleda Zia said at a crowded press conference at her
20 Nov 2008, 4:05 pm | click here for more
Is ATS a Rogue Intelligence Agency
Ashok Malik is kinder. He calls the slime-filled ATS investigation into the Malegaon blasts as a rogue intelligence operation. Given the material that has now surfaced, I think the appropriate term for the ATS is Rogue Intelligence Agency (RIA). His incisive piece deserves reading in full. Don’t miss it. A Hindu Dreyfus Affair? Ashok Malik Has a rogue operation by the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad ended up undermining a Military Intelligence network and thus severely discomfited the
20 Nov 2008, 3:08 am | click here for more
Bangladesh's ex-premier Zia willing to join a delayed election
Bangladesh's ex-premier Zia willing to join a delayed election Submitted by Sahil Nagpal on Thu, 11/20/2008 - 19:04. Featured General Politics Bangladesh Dhaka - Bangladesh's former prime minister Khaleda Zia Thursday night announced that her party and allies would join the December election if the poll was deferred by 10 days. "We will definitely join the elections if they take place on December 28," Zia, who leads the Bangladesh Nationalist Party-led four-party alliance, told a press confe
20 Nov 2008, 2:04 pm | click here for more
Khaleda Zia willing to join a delayed election
Dhaka, Nov 21 (DPA) Bangladesh’s former prime minister Khaleda Zia Thursday night announced that her party and allies would join the December election if the poll was deferred by 10 days.”We will definitely join the elections if they take place on Dec 28,” Zia, who leads the Bangladesh Nationalist Party-led four-party alliance, told a press [...]
20 Nov 2008, 2:02 pm | click here for more
Khaleda Zia willing to join a delayed election
Dhaka, Nov 21 (DPA) Bangladesh’s former prime minister Khaleda Zia Thursday night announced that her party and allies would join the December election if the poll was deferred by 10 days.”We will definitely join the elections if they take place on Dec 28,” Zia, who leads the Bangladesh Nationalist Party-led four-party alliance, told a press [...]
20 Nov 2008, 11:24 pm | click here for more
Many Tongues, One Internet
Remember Taslima from the Nari Jibon project in Dhaka? Isn’t she sweet? Now she has her possess domain, Taslima.net. Go on and visit and say hello. Yesterday she led a workshop at Nari Jibon to train the other bloggers there how to publish in their native language, Bangla. It’s not so easy. Jus eeemajin haveeen to tipe owt ur langwej funeticullee in order for a software program to convert each of those phonetic syllables to proper roman script? What a pain in the ass right? That is exactly wha
19 Nov 2008, 7:37 pm | click here for more
Indian Highway Catalogue
A comprehensive exhibition catalogue of Indian Highway, this publication includes a guide to the current flourishing art scene in India by curators and writers, Suman Gopinath and Grant Watson, texts on the artists and their historical and cultural context by Geeta Kapur, the eminent scholar of Indian visual culture; Ranjit Hoskote, co-curator, Gwangju Biennale 2008; and Savita Apte, Associate to Indian Highway, Director, Art Dubai and Correspondent, 53rd Venice Biennale. Additional texts ref
19 Nov 2008, 4:30 am | click here for more
A Sea Route to the Northeast in the Making
Sittwe Port Shillong, Nov 19 : As Bangladesh continues to deny India access to the landlocked northeast through Chittagong port, a little-known Burmese port on the Bay of Bengal has promised to solve the long-standing problem. Sittwe port on the Myanmar coast was not long ago a tiny village of fishing communities and farmers. Now, it could serve as a commercial sea route to the northeastern States through Burmese territory. A Union Commerce Ministry team, which recently visited Shillong i
19 Nov 2008, 3:58 am | click here for more
Dhaka polls on schedule, Zia and Islamists may boycott
Dhaka, Nov 19 (IANS) Bangladesh was on a political precipice Wednesday with prospects of a mass agitation breaking out after the caretaker government’s talks with former prime minister Khaleda Zia and her Islamist allies failed. ...
19 Nov 2008, 1:57 pm | click here for more
Bangladesh government has to decide - poll or agitation
Dhaka, Nov 19 (IANS) Elections or mass agitation - only a last minute compromise could halt Bangladesh’s swing between the two extremes with former prime minister Khaleda Zia’s deadline for accepting her demands ending Wednesday ...
19 Nov 2008, 1:29 am | click here for more
Dhaka polls on schedule, Zia and Islamists may boycott (Lead)
Dhaka polls on schedule, Zia and Islamists may boycott (guide) November 20th, 2008 - 12:43 am ICT by IANS - Dhaka, Nov 19 (IANS) Bangladesh was on a political precipice Wednesday with prospects of a mass agitation breaking out after the caretaker government's talks with former prime minister Khaleda Zia and her ... Posted in Politics, | No Comments »
19 Nov 2008, 12:43 pm | click here for more
NEWS WIRE: Investing for Social Impact Lures Investors
Source: Investment News. Original news wire here. Community and proactive investing refers to [socially responsible investing] strategies designed to have some direct, positive social impact stemming from the actual investment. For many investors, this direct connection between their investment dollars and positive social impact makes community investing an appealing SRI strategy. For example, some investors simply find the tangible nature of a community bank deposit more appealing than
19 Nov 2008, 12:01 am | click here for more
EU to send 150 poll observers
The European Commission (EC) has decided to deploy election observers for the December 18 general election, a European Union (EU) announcement in Dhaka yesterday said. Alexander Graf Lambsdorff, member of the European Parliament, will guide the 150-memebr EU Election Observation Mission (EOM), it said. The commission made the decision after the government repealed elements of the [...]
18 Nov 2008, 3:51 pm | click here for more
Bangladesh government holds crisis talks over polls
DHAKA – Bangladesh's army-backed government held crisis talks with political leaders Tuesday in an effort to receive the schedule for next month's elections back on track. Two times ex-premier Khaleda Zia, who heads a four-party Islamist alliance, issued an ultimatum Monday for the government to meet four demands before she will take part in the polls, which will return the nation to democratic rule.
18 Nov 2008, 3:13 pm | click here for more
The Muslim Insurgency in India
This blog neglects India. I admit it: the topic is so big that I can’t receive a handle on it. Despite (or perhaps because of) the fact that India’s lingua franca is English, the amount of information is just too much for my brain.India is the single largest theater of conflict in the Counterjihad. There are about 140 million Muslims in India — roughly equivalent to half the population of Western Europe — and they comprise more than 13% of the nation’s population. Since the Partition of 1947, whic
18 Nov 2008, 11:40 pm | click here for more