sushanta d. posted an article on E-Bangladesh - Feb 9, 2012, 2:27 pm
Sazid Khan The most progressive, articulate, inspired and dynamic segment of the country’s population is the student’s community. A country’s hopes and aspirations largely depend on this community. It has been a matter of great regret that country of Bangladesh has failed to practice a good s...
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sushanta d. posted an article on E-Bangladesh - Jan 31, 2012, 4:21 pm
3rd Bangla blog day Blogging has revolutionized the life and politics of Bengalis around the globe in general and in Bangladesh in particular. During the last BNP-Jamaat regime when media licenses were handed out to the business elites in power and when militancy started rearing its ugly head, and ...
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sushanta d. posted an article on E-Bangladesh - Jan 24, 2012, 5:22 am
I would love to echo Mario Osava’s words, “The environmental movement won the ideological battle with the growth of awareness on climate change. Environmentalists are no longer seen as “loonies” or granola-eating hippies: the people seen as on the fringe”. Erratic weather, flash floods, ov...
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sushanta d. posted an article on E-Bangladesh - Oct 31, 2011, 4:49 am
V for Ivy After a massive palpitation over the nerve of Bangladeshi people, Dr Selina Hayat Ivy , a Soviet graduate, physician conquered the Throne of Narayanganj City Corporation.   Apprehension, fear, anxiety, game and gamble of ruling party have went into vain when people of Narayanganj selec...
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sushanta d. posted an article on E-Bangladesh - Oct 13, 2011, 2:57 am
“Occupy Wall Street” has caught many off guard, not only domestically but also globally. It almost seems like some dumb kids were spending way too much time (probably around five minutes) watching global news and realized what has happened in the Middle East. Since the Arab Spring, virtually eve...
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sushanta d. posted an article on E-Bangladesh - Oct 10, 2011, 10:25 am
Arab brutality in the name of Islam Last Friday eight Bangladeshis were beheaded at the (In) Justice square of Riyadh for their alleged killing of an Egyptian and looting a ware house. Amnesty international claims that the Egyptian was killed during a clash between those eight Bangladeshi constructi...
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sushanta d. posted an article on E-Bangladesh - Sep 22, 2011, 3:24 am
On September 19, 2011, the radical Jamaat-Shibir appeared on the peaceful streets of Dhaka and Chittagong to terrorize public security and vandalize public property. These so-called Islamic fundamentalists burnt and ransacked property worth Tk 10 million. Their agenda: stop the War Criminals’ Tria...
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sushanta d. posted an article on E-Bangladesh - Sep 9, 2011, 5:46 pm
Hasina-Manmahon summit in Bangladesh promised so much but delivered too little. Impregnated hopes turned of reaching some milestone agreement into dry despair. Several months of sincere efforts of so many persons of two countries were blown with the winds. Teesta River sharing high drama culminated ...
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sushanta d. posted an article on E-Bangladesh - Sep 3, 2011, 1:34 am
On the backdrop of global recession triggered by US Credit crisis, prolonged uncertainties in the Arab World- Indian Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh is to going to make a couple of days  state visit to Bangladesh from 6th September 2011. Indian Government has just placed a strong anti corruption b...
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sushanta d. posted an article on E-Bangladesh - Aug 13, 2011, 12:31 pm
London based weakly magazine The Economist, with a global readership continues to deliver inaccurate and unbalanced reporting on Bangladesh and India and to its time-tested relations. While some reports have exposed a pattern of bias in Economist coverage, the author repeatedly failed to address...
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sushanta d. posted an article on E-Bangladesh - Aug 8, 2011, 4:52 am
August the first is one of the governmental holidays in China to celebrate her People’s Liberation Army Day, in short PLA or Army Day. The day is set aside to commemorate the contribution that the PLA has made to China both in the past and in the present days. Chinese leaders and public figures go...
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sushanta d. posted an article on E-Bangladesh - Aug 6, 2011, 8:21 am
The honesty and integrity of the British media has come under serious scrutiny in the recent past. Australian Media Tycoon Rupert Murdoch has been compelled to close down his “News of the World” when charged for its unholy methods of tarnishing the image of leading personalities and smear nati...
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sushanta d. posted an article on E-Bangladesh - Aug 5, 2011, 7:57 am
Embraceable You The latest edition of The Economist carries a comprehensive yet questionable report on India-Bangladesh ties. There are a couple of serious allegations in the report that just cannot be allowed to go unanswered. The opening paragraph alleges that India helped Awami League with cash ...
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sushanta d. posted an article on E-Bangladesh - Jul 30, 2011, 4:41 am
Transit has become an issue of hue and cry for the Bangladeshi people. Laymen and think tanks of the country are making a storm in the tea cup because of this contemporary issue. The most interesting thing, probably the important thing is all the people from different classes are calculating the bal...
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sushanta d. posted an article on E-Bangladesh - Jul 27, 2011, 1:53 am
A leading United States rights group has urged the government of India to investigate fresh allegations of killings, torture, and other abuses by the Border Security Force (BSF) at the border with Bangladesh. New York-based Human Rights Watch said on Sunday that those against whom there is credible...
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sushanta d. posted an article on E-Bangladesh - Jul 17, 2011, 12:44 pm
The daughter of a retired Bangladeshi Army officer, Rumana Monzur, 33, was the image of a beautiful intellectual: wide eyes, angelic smile, and gentle disposition. While most of her aunts and uncles settled in the U.S. and Europe, landing in towns as far-flung as Bridgewater, N.J., she grew up ...
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sushanta d. posted an article on E-Bangladesh - Jul 17, 2011, 5:05 am
The recent events at the Viqarunnisa Noon School and College (VNC), a prestigious girls educational institution in the Bangladesh capital Dhaka, has stirred much buzz in the Bangladeshi blogosphere. Porimol Joydhor, a teacher of Bangla department of the school’s Bashundhara campus, was accused...
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sushanta d. posted an article on E-Bangladesh - Jul 14, 2011, 3:16 pm
BNP chairperson and leader of the opposition in Bangladesh parliament has issued a war cry to unseat the government through Arab awakening type mass upsurge. Addressing a gathering of party loyalists and aligned groups on a day long hunger strike in Dhaka Khaleda announced that there will be no more...
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sushanta d. posted an article on E-Bangladesh - Jul 14, 2011, 12:53 pm
Bangladesh’s main opposition party has threatened to boycott the election if the government refuses to hold polls under non-partisan neutral government. “We will not take part in the elections under a partisan government, as people will never accept the scrapping of the caretaker government sys...
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sushanta d. posted an article on E-Bangladesh - Jul 14, 2011, 9:41 am
Amendments to the rules of procedure for Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) address some key problems but fail to bring other areas of the law and rules into compliance with international standards, New York based Human Rights Watch said on Monday, July 11. “We want these trials t...
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sushanta d. posted an article on E-Bangladesh - Jul 12, 2011, 1:36 pm
Bangladesh investigators press war crime charges against Islamic leader, accusing him of genocide, murder and rape during the bloody war of independence in 1971 on Monday. Bangladesh chief prosecutor Ghulam Arif Tipu accused Maulana Delwar Hossain Sayedee, a senior leader of Jamaat-e-Islami Banglad...
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sushanta d. posted an article on E-Bangladesh - Jul 6, 2011, 5:30 am
The eagerly awaited return visit of Prime Minister of India Dr Manmohon Singh is being fixed on the first week of September 2011. This very important summit must address and honestly attempt to resolve several sensitive unresolved matters between the two SARRC neighbors –the largest democracy of t...
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sushanta d. posted an article on E-Bangladesh - Jul 3, 2011, 9:45 am
The system of a supposedly neutral caretaker administration before elections is not only absurd but also contradictory to the spirit of democracy. Bangladesh had to go through this system following rigged bye-election of Magura under the 1991 BNP rule. That’s when the Awami League came up with the...
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sushanta d. posted an article on E-Bangladesh - Jul 2, 2011, 5:33 am
20-yr-old Bangladeshi sold twice in a month’s time and forced into prostitution until her SOS eached Sheikh Hasina, who alerted the Interpol. Special city police team did the rest. This could have been just another story of an impoverished girl pushed into the flesh trade by a scheming relati...
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sushanta d. posted an article on E-Bangladesh - Jul 2, 2011, 5:15 am
“He’s not a war criminal. He’s not evil. He didn’t lie. He wasn’t anyone’s poodle. He hasn’t got blood on his hands.’’ This is not an unusual stand for a lawyer Barrister Rafiqul Islam Miah who is advocating in favor of a criminal, no matter whether the criminal had raped or kille...
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sushanta d. posted an article on E-Bangladesh - Jul 2, 2011, 3:39 am
In an unwarranted comment, Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday said Bangladesh political landscape can change anytime. Speaking at the capital New Delhi to a select group of Indian newspaper editors he frankly said his neighbours worries him a great deal. “So a very uncertain neighbo...
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sushanta d. posted an article on E-Bangladesh - Jun 30, 2011, 2:08 pm
Caption: Thousands demonstrates against adoption by parliament an Islamic constitution in Bangladesh capital on Thursday. Thousands of protesters marched in capital Dhaka on Thursday against Bangladesh parliament adopted an Islamic constitution, steering away from a secular political culture, which...
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sushanta d. posted an article on E-Bangladesh - Jun 29, 2011, 1:36 pm
Bangladesh government has envision to maneuver from the United States watch list for being the major source and transit country for men, women, and children subjected to forced labor and sex trafficking. Bangladeshi men and women migrate willingly to Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, the United Arab E...
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sushanta d. posted an article on E-Bangladesh - Jun 28, 2011, 10:23 am
Plastic surgery is becoming a world wide phenomenon. It’s difficult to estimate how big medical tourism will get, but by 2012 the industry is estimated to reach $100 billion. Bloomberg Businessweek gives a rather fancy nickname to this new development in tourism: patient outsourcing, giving one an...
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sushanta d. posted an article on E-Bangladesh - Jun 27, 2011, 4:21 pm
Ethnic communities in Bangladesh are demanding to be recognized as indigenous population as lawmakers consider revising the country’s constitution. Ethnic leaders said they were surprised to learn that a constitutional reform committee has recommended minority groups be dubbed as “tribals,” w...
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sushanta d. posted an article on E-Bangladesh - Jun 26, 2011, 12:54 pm
Bangladesh government’s dramatic turn around from secularism to Islamic constitution has enraged the indigenous population and instead demanded to recognize their existence. The nation is poised to amend the constitution, which is likely to be tabled in the parliament on this week. The move has b...
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sushanta d. posted an article on E-Bangladesh - Jun 23, 2011, 7:40 am
On 5 June, 2011, Rumana Manzur, an Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Dhaka University, became the victim of a horrific case of domestic violence when she was brutally attacked by her husband Hassan Syed, who allegedly beat her mercilessly, tried to gouge out her eyes and bit of...
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sushanta d. posted an article on E-Bangladesh - Jun 20, 2011, 9:07 am
On June 16, 2011, the government of Bangladesh signed a production-sharing contract (PSC) with the US oil & gas company ConocoPhillips for the oil and gas exploration from two deep-sea blocks – DS-08-10 and DS-08-11 covering an area of 5,158 sq. kilometres. The company won the blocks at an off-sho...
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sushanta d. posted an article on E-Bangladesh - Jun 19, 2011, 3:33 am
We are Bangladeshi families from Vancouver and University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada. We are deeply shocked and mourning the brutal attack on our sister Rumana Manzur. We are writing this letter out of grave concern observing the attempts made to establish a baseless extramarital story by ...
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sushanta d. posted an article on E-Bangladesh - May 31, 2011, 3:30 pm
When I heard the news of Syed Saleem Shahzad’s murder I inevitably felt deep sorrow. My sympathies go to his family and those like me who feel that something is now missing from their lives. Shahzad gave me hope. He gave me hope because he’s worked unbelievably hard to try to help Pakistan live ...
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sushanta d. posted an article on E-Bangladesh - May 23, 2011, 7:55 am
[Full text of ICSF’s position paper on this issue is available for download from this link]. - The United States Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues Mr. Stephen Rapp first arrived in Bangladesh on 10 January 2011 at the invitation of the Bangladesh government. Subsequently on 21 March 2011...
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sushanta d. posted an article on E-Bangladesh - May 21, 2011, 2:53 am
  The ‘Operation Geronimo’, is ended in a mystery but the aftermath might be very crucial for the people of Pakistan. The Pakistani people will remain in a deep nightmare due to the death of the most wanted fugitive Osama Bin Laden. This death does not signal the happy ending of the global ter...
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sushanta d. posted an article on E-Bangladesh - May 4, 2011, 12:39 pm
He’s dead. May 2ndwill be a day which is ingrained in world history. Osama bin Laden was involved in major terrorist atrocities throughout the globe. He has finally been silenced; almost a decade after the 9/11 attacks. We should applaud the courage and professionalism of the United States forces ...
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sushanta d. posted an article on E-Bangladesh - Apr 26, 2011, 4:17 pm
This article was also published in following print media and blog: Financial Express 05 May 2011 http://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.com/more.php?news_id=134646&date=2011-05-05 The New Nation dated 02 May 2011 http://www.thenewnationbd.com/newsdetails.aspx?newsid=3895 http://www.bdcomcn.com/Engli...
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sushanta d. posted an article on E-Bangladesh - Apr 23, 2011, 3:03 pm
Malaria is one the dreadful diseases that had been taking away millions of lives mostly in the sub-Saharan countries. Once putting its claws throughout the globe, the disease has been a tropical disease prevailing mainly in Africa and Asia. In 2009, no malaria has been reported from Europe, and Moro...
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sushanta d. posted an article on E-Bangladesh - Apr 7, 2011, 10:18 am
Dr. Humayun Azad once said that ‘Bangalee + Muslim’ is a disease. This is an incurable infection. There is no antibiotic to cure it. Religion here is used to personal and political convenience. God is traded here all and sundry. People can be easily blackmailed here in Bangladesh emotionally. If...
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sushanta d. posted an article on E-Bangladesh - Mar 25, 2011, 12:43 pm
This is the month of March. We always celebrate our Independence Day on this month, but we were actually celebrating one of the success of this independence with the organizing of World Cup Cricket this year. We could’ve done this long time back in 1996 but couldn’t do it. Why? Well because our ...
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sushanta d. posted an article on E-Bangladesh - Mar 21, 2011, 5:56 am
The Bangladeshi International Crimes Tribunals are seen by many in the American-Anglo alliance as being a nuisance. The genocide allegedly committed by Pakistan’s military and its collaborators during the 1971 Liberation War is seen as a Cold War by-product which should be left well alone. During...
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sushanta d. posted an article on E-Bangladesh - Mar 13, 2011, 11:04 am
According to media reports, the Government of Bangladesh, at its 40th anniversary of national independence, has taken the initiative to honour a number of individuals and organisations for their contributions during the Liberation War of 1971. While it is indeed a commendable move on the part of the...
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sushanta d. posted an article on E-Bangladesh - Mar 10, 2011, 11:56 pm
It all started with Tom Heinemann’s documentary “Caught in Micro Debt” which was aired on the 30th of November, 2010 on the Norwegian state Television. This had set off a chain of events which triggered much controversy on microcredit and Bangladeshi Nobel Laureate Dr. Muhammad Yunus and re...
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sushanta d. posted an article on E-Bangladesh - Mar 9, 2011, 9:57 am
As a citizen of Bangladesh I am surprised to notice that Dr. Yunus declared war against the Government of this country. Yunus doesn’t seem to want to abide by any rules or regulations of the land. The Government is elected by the people of the country and we have a sovereign parliament. Should we ...
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sushanta d. posted an article on E-Bangladesh - Mar 7, 2011, 8:44 am
The prime minister’s son has defended the government sacking Grameen Bank managing director Muhammad Yunus over ‘unapproved’ reappointment. In an email obtained by bdnews24.com, Sajeeb A Wazed, who also advises Sheikh Hasina, made available some facts from the government side. The Banglad...
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sushanta d. posted an article on E-Bangladesh - Mar 2, 2011, 3:49 am
Liberation war of Bangladesh is not just a war to me. I think it’s an epic. People of my country envisaged a map of a country and the country was achieved with a heavy bloodshed. All the countrymen ruminated a soil where they can take breath freely and can uphold their heads with supreme digni...
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sushanta d. posted an article on E-Bangladesh - Feb 28, 2011, 2:00 pm
Muslim Aid UK and its affiliates such as the UK Islamic Mission have close ties to Pakistan’s largest Islamic fundamentalist party- the Jamaat-i-Islami. I have previously written a series of articles on Muslim Aid and the Muslim Council of Britain’s ties to Jamaat for David Horowitz’s frontpag...
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sushanta d. posted an article on E-Bangladesh - Feb 27, 2011, 8:42 pm
A recent international news on Bangladesh was presented in a very positive light – the world’s largest clinical trial of a cheap oral cholera vaccine will be conducted in Dhaka, which can save tens of thousands of lives every year. The reports do not contain much except that the study involves n...
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