As the Indian government strives to elevate people out of poverty, it should realize that good athletes can serve as more than a way to equal China’s Olympic might.
Straight on the heels on charges of election fraud, the BNP leadership has announced that it will commence its country-wide protest plan to challenge and, perhaps overthrow Awami League rule on Wednesday. Claiming that the Bhola-3 by-election was riven with fraud, Begum Khaleda Zia has decided to operationalize her plans to try to bring about […]
The Awami League candidate has won the by-election in the (thern) district of Bhola by an overwhelming margin. The BNP has challenged the outcome. Even with such a strong, ringing public endorsement, the proceedings were not marked with civility and respect. Widely shared anecdotal evidence of voter intimidation and physical violence besmirched the election. Specific, […]
Monday April 19, 2010 – President Zardari made history by signing the landmark constitutional reforms amendment bill into law. Zardari – after taking office 18 months ago – pledged to reform the constitution. He promised that all the anomalies that were created by the dictators to protect their powers will be removed from the constitution. After this amendment the […]
Two day SAARC Summit to begin on April 28 in Bhutan. The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation’s (SAARC) 16th Summit will be held in Thimphu, Bhutan on April 28-29. The theme of this year’s summit is ‘Conservation of Environment and Climate.’ Leaders from the eight member countries in South Asia (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, […]
The government of Bangladesh has nearly completed prosecuting members of the Bangladesh Rifles for February 2009 mutiny that led to the death of 74 people, among them high ranking officers of the military and workaday civilians. The Times published an edited Associated Press write up that provides just the fact ma’am: “A court in southwestern Bangladesh […]
The government of Bangladesh recently denied unregistered Rohingya people refugee status within Bangladesh’s borders. More distressingly, the government has carried on a policy of detainment and coercively repatriation of Rohingya individuals. This is a wholesale violation of their human rights, according to the doctrinal values enshrined in the Constitution of the People’s Republic of […]
The meeting between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President Obama on the sidelines of the Nuclear Security Summit last week, seems to have produced positive results for India. The US ambassador to India, Tim Roemer will be travelling to Afghanistan to view first-hand the “critical” work being done there by India. He told the Times News Network, “India’s […]
30,000 Red Shirt Protesters Thailand: Over the last week the situation in Thailand has deteriorated, with as many as 24 people dead and over 800 injured since the new round of Red Shirt protests begin over 2 weeks ago. A protest that started off with a festive atmosphere slowly descended into violence, with grenade attacks, […]
Black helicopters, U.N. conspiracies and shadowy cabals of all-powerful financiers – this is the stuff that fixates in the feverish imagination of a certain segment of the American populace. In one of those wonders of globalization (and ideological indoctrination), those same shadowy cabals do double duty as the object of much Chinese paranoia. This is […]
As India’s power troubles continue, is it time to think small?
100 mile per hour winds hit parts of the Indian states of Bihar, Assam and West Bengal and claimed at least 130 lives. Bangladesh wasn’t spared. The raging cyclone hit Rangpur and killed at least five people and injured over 200 people. Meanwhile, over 100,000 houses have been demolished by the storm throughout the effected […]
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