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Pakistan: Sacrificing lives to form trade unions |
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16-July-2010 |
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On 6th July while Mustansar was listening to a worker who had not been paid his wages by a textile boss, an unknown person with a Kalashnikov entered the front room and fired. Mustansar tried to save his life by running to the next room but 10 people were determined to finish him off. Writes Farooq Tariq |
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Fake Lakes vs. Real People: G20 and Canada |
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5-July-2010 |
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Expenses of hosting the G20 talks in Canada is costing Canadian taxpayers around $416,000 a minute, at a time when most Canadians themselves are facing a choice between food bill and rent. This reflects the basic characteristic of the G20 itself, where the leaders are more interested in protecting the interest of the financial sector at the expense of those worst affected by the present crisis. Ananya Mukherjee Reed elaborates.
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Have no illusion: G20 IS G7 |
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4-July-2010 |
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The much-condemned G20 summit has ended. Though the battle this time was not as fascinating as Seattle, the rich men’s summit did bring thousands on the streets, and the Canadian authority did end up spending some $930 million on the summit security. Maha Mirza has more... |
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Gas bubble: the saga repeated in Bangladesh |
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12-December-2009 |
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Trans-national companies have emerged as mega corporations through merger which has significantly contributed to their increase in terms of size, range of activities and finally economic power in global and local economy. Meer Ahsan Habib writes on issues regarding ongoing controversy over PSC deal with US oil company Conoco-Phillips for gas blocks in the Bay of Bengal
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"People are now conscious of their ownership of natural resources" |
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3-October-2009 |
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IMMEDIATELY after Professor Anu Muhammad, member secretary of the National Committee to Protect Oil, Gas, Mineral Resources, Power and Ports, was taken to Square Hospital, injured in police action on the committee’s protest march in the capital Dhaka on Wednesday, (September 2, 2009) afternoon, eminent photographer Shahidul Alam interviewed him on camera. |
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The resource curse |
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Analysis , by
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3-October-2009 |
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The attitude of successive governments of Bangladesh regarding energy deals has always been the same. No matter which government is in power, the energy sector has always been kept mostly out of public scrutiny. Almost every government’s nucleus and their coterie are said to have secured personal gains from deals in fossil fuel extraction. And almost every government has gone out of its way to protect the interest of these companies. Writes Tanim Ahmed....
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An ineffective oral cholera vaccine launched in India concealing vital information |
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Investigative , by
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20-June-2009 |
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Shantha Biotechnics, a Hyderabad-based French-Indian vaccine company, has recently launched an oral cholera vaccine with the trade name Shanchol. They are currently lobbying inside the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF to promote the vaccine for global use against cholera. However, they have concealed vital information on the vaccine’s composition and protective efficacy. Writes Ahmed Sadiq. |
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BDR Rebellion and Pilkhana Massacre |
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Views , by
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4-March-2009 |
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This is certainly not the first time that there has been a rebellion within the armed forces. There have many such incidents before. But this rebellion was far different—both in context and goal. Tanim Ahmed elaborates. |
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TIFA and Bangladesh: A Critique |
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Analysis , by
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27-January-2009 |
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The prospect of signing the bilateral Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA) between Bangladesh and the USA is now looming large. But what is it actually, and why there are reasons to have deep distrust among people about it? Mohammad Tanzimuddin Khan explains. |
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Democracy and voter turnout in US elections |
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16-November-2008 |
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Voter turnout in US elections is one of the poorest among the advanced industrial nations of the world. A little over 50 percent of the voting-age population take part in US presidential elections. Writes Ahmed Sadiq |
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Bangladesh: A testing time |
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9-October-2008 |
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A constitutional and legal fiction, the Fakhruddin government is nothing but a motley collection of individuals handpicked by the authors of the emergency. Any expectation that this contraption of a government will behave politically or will be transparent and decisive in policy or action, is thus naďve, to say the least. Writes NM Harun. |
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Current political trends and post 1/11 Bangladesh |
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9-October-2008 |
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Bangladesh thus stands at a critical juncture of its own history as well as in the history of South Asia. With a population of over 150 million, in a land surrounded on three sides by India, the risk of a destabilized political order is great not only for its own people but for its neighbouring country. No amount of military strength will be able to prevent an uprising if the people are pushed to a corner. Meghna Guhathakurta elaborates.
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Primary Education to the Corporate NGO |
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31-July-2008 |
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Recently Government of Bangladesh has taken initiative to hand over its monitoring, supervision and training rights of state primary school to the biggest corporate NGO BRAC. However, the primary teachers of all over the country have rejected the proposal and insist that education should be the government’s sole responsibility and that this move is a part of privatizing primary education. Sarwar Bashar examines the proposal. (in Bangla) |
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