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Bangabandhu’s ideology should be presented to next generation: M Mohid Ali Mithu

Sheffield Awami League UK recently organised a discussion meeting to observe the National Mourning Day and Bangabandhu’s 40th Death Anniversary. President of Sheffield Awami League and prominent leader M Mohid Ali Mithu presided over the meeting.  While addressing the audience, he said that, we would not have the independent Bangladesh if Bangabandhu was not born.  He also emphasised that Banganbandhu’s ...

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British High Commissioner Congratulates Potential Future Leaders of Bangladesh

Today British High Commissioner, Robert W Gibson CMG, welcomed to his Residence sixteen potential future leaders of Bangladesh. The sixteen are all recipients of the Chevening Scholarship Award to study in the UK this academic year.  When congratulating them the High Commissioner said: “Chevening is the UK Government’s international flagship programme which allows future leaders, influencers and decision-makers from around ...

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Exciting line up of events for Season of Bangla Drama

A Season of Bangla Drama is to return this November with a celebration of diversity and culture. Fourteen theatrical productions have made the final cut supported by Arts Council England, Canary Wharf Group, Queen Mary University of London and Tower Hamlets Council. The festival brings together British and Bangladeshi writers, actors, directors and producers – all of whom have faced ...

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PLAIN TRUTH

                      Hajj: A Lifetime Spiritual Journey   <<Dr. Mozammel Haque>>   ISLAM IS A PRACTICAL RELIGION which lays down a complete code of life. It makes various provisions for creating peace and harmony in the lives of mankind as well as in the universe. Peace and harmony can be achieved only when there is solidarity and universal brotherhood among human ...

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The many tales of our diplomats abroad

By Syed Badrul Ahsan :: It is time to sit back and reflect on Bangladesh’s diplomacy and the men and women sent abroad to articulate such diplomacy. The degree to which our ambassadors and high commissioners have since the early 1970s been able to speak forcefully and persuasively for the country abroad calls for a serious and purposeful rethink. The ...

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A walkover for the colleagues

By Shibabrata Barman ::  A quick bail prematurely ending an earlier remand order and the release of a journalist may settle the dust for now. But there is an element of grave concern the Probir Sikdar whirlwind has brought to our attention and we should not overlook it. The legal procedures followed in the ICT lawsuit against this journalist might ...

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The Camerons have worked hard to perfect the art of chillaxin

Summer’s lease has all too short a date — and the last week of August is the time it starts to run out. Thoughts of pinot grigio and finishing Elena Ferrante novels give way to anxiety about the lack of a career plan, dearth of school shoes and that unfinished piece of work you started in July. Fortunately, the Prime ...

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Europe ‘must open official channels for migrants’

European leaders should do more to open up and help migrants instead of using language that dismisses their rights, a UN expert on migrant rights has said. Talking about “marauders” and “swarms” was an unsubtle way of dismissing their legitimacy, said Francois Crepeau. European countries should open official channels and their labour markets to migrants because building fences would not ...

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Germany ‘arson attack’ destroys planned asylum shelter

Police in Germany say a school sports hall intended as a temporary shelter for asylum seekers has burned down in a suspected arson attack. Investigators believe the fire in Nauen, west of Berlin, was started deliberately. No-one was injured. Far-right protesters have demonstrated against asylum seekers in the area. German Chancellor Angela Merkel earlier condemned violent protests at an asylum ...

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France train shooting: Passengers ‘left to their fate’

A British man caught up in the foiled train attack near Arras in northern France has criticised the actions of the train’s staff. Jamie Robinson, a medical researcher, told the BBC’s World Have Your Say programme that passengers were abandoned by the staff, who ran and locked themselves away in a service room. His experience tallies with that of French ...

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