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  • Bangladeshs Shahbag movement still on claim leaders activists

    By Sahana Ghosh, Dhaka, May 22 : Directed at channeling the "patriotic spirit" of youngsters in Bangladesh to create a "secular youth force", the Shahbag movement, that peaked in February and March with tens of thousands of protesters and torchlight processions, is "not dead" and "lives on" sans the noise and the fury, its leaders and participating ...

  • Protests aimed at toppling Bangladesh govt

    The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP)-Jamaat led 18-party alliance patronised the Hefajat-e Islam's May 5 rally in Bangladesh with the aim of toppling the government. Junaid Babunagari, detained secretary general of Hefajat, revealed this in his confessional statement to Metropolitan Magistrate Harun-ur Rashid of Dhaka in the sub-inspector Shahjahan murder case yesterday afternoon. The ...

  • Study says India Jordan Bangladesh Hong Kong worlds most racially intolerant

    INDIA, Jordan, Bangladesh and Hong Kong are among the the most racist countries in the world - but Britain is among the most accepting of different races, a survey has found. The World Values Survey asked people in more than 80 countries what type of people they did NOT want as neighbours. More than 40 per cent of those quizzed in India, Jordan, Bangladesh and Hong Kong said they didn't ...

  • Dhaka Premier League to begin on July 1

    The Bangladesh Cricket Board on Tuesday announced that the Dhaka Premier League, the country's most popular one-day domestic competition, would begin on July ...

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WR: Mysteries of the Organism (WR: Misterije organizma) [DVD]

WR: Mysteries of the Organism (WR: Misterije organizma) [DVD]

Dusan Makavejev's infamous WR: Mysteries of the Organism (WR: Misterije organizma), a quasi-documentary that simultaneously mocks both communism and consumerism while advocating liberated sexuality as the ultimate force in the world, is fascinating ... ...

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  • Climbers from Bangladesh and South Korea die while descending from Everest

    Two climbers have died while descending from the summit of Mount Everest on Monday night, officials confirmed.The climbers have been identified as Mohammad Khalid Hussain of Bangladesh and Sung Ho-Seo of South Korea.Khil Lal Gautam, official at Tourism Ministry, said that Ho-Seo, who had climbed the peak without supplemental oxygen, refused to put on oxygen mask on returning to tent as suggested ...

  • US slates attacks on minorities in Bangladesh

    The US government in a recent report came down hard on Bangladesh for attacks on the religious minorities.The report, however, stated that the trend in government's respect for religious freedom did not change significantly in 2012. It generally respected religious freedom in Bangladesh.The US State Department, in its International Religious Freedom Report for 2012 released in Washington DC ...

  • Labour leaders in Bangladesh urge Wal-Mart Gap to sign factory accord

    The local arm of IndustriALL, a global union federation, yesterday appealed to Wal-Mart and Gap to join a legally binding accord immediately to ensure safety in Bangladesh's garment factories.A total of 37 international clothing retailers have already signed the agreement designed by IndustriALL to contribute financially towards minimising occupational risks in Bangladesh's garment ...

  • Leaving Bangladesh Not an easy choice.

    Bangladesh offers the global garment industry something unique: Millions of workers who quickly churn out huge amounts of well-made underwear, jeans and T-shirts for the lowest wages in the world. But since a building collapse April 24 killed at least 1,100 garment workers in Bangladesh in one of the deadliest industrial tragedies in history, the country has gone from one of the industry's ...

  • Bangladesh Justice System Compounds Violence Against Women

    Introduction: 1. Bangladesh has been ruled alternately by two women for more than two decades. Both the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition are women, and the posts have been held by women since the 1990s. The country's parliament has more than sixty female members and several of them are members of the cabinet. There are a considerable number of women serving in the ...

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