By Fatema Miah : 70.8 North, 69.2 East. It’s the Latitude Long co-ordinate location of a section of the Yamal Peninsula in Siberian Russia. A typically chilly region of frozen but now thawing ground more than 4 degrees of Latitude north of the Arctic Circle. A place that saw the appearance of odd, disturbing (and now controversial) methane blowholes pockmarking ...
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PLAIN TRUTH : Eid Mubarak to you all from the Masjid al-Haram
Words of Peace from the Land of Peace Dr. Mozammel Haque : Makkah al-Mukarramah: I wish all of you a happy Eid Mubarak 2016 from the Masjid-al-Haram in the Balad al-Ameen. The Saudi Royal Court announced that Wednesday has been declared as the first day of Eid-ul-Fitr, a celebration marking the end of fasting in Ramadan. The declaration was ...
Read More »UK’s next prime minister very confident
Rayhan Ahmed Topader : Theresa May is the new Conservative Party leader and will become the UK’s second female prime minister on Wednesday, taking charge at one of the most turbulent times in recent political history.The 59-year-old home secretary’s carefully cultivated image of political dependability and unflappability appears to have made her the right person at the right time as the ...
Read More »It is 27th Ramadan tonight!
By Fatema Miah All over the world People have completed reciting, and reading Quran over the month of Ramadan. Most have read complete Quran all over from the beginning to the end, and some have repeatedly done the same many times; more than once, twice, three times or more. May Allah accept our recitations, readings efforts and performances, Ameen. Ramadan ...
Read More »Brexit and the ramifications
By Syed Badrul Ahsan The people of Britain have made their choice over their future in Europe. They have voted, by a margin of 52 per cent to 48, to leave the European Union forty three years after coming into it in 1973. The irony ought not to be missed. Forty three years ago, it was a Conservative Prime ...
Read More »Brexit, Article 50 & new Immigration Rules
By – Barrister M. A. Muid Khan Prologue “We not only have a parliamentary democracy, but on questions about the arrangements for how we’ve governed there are times when it is right to ask the people themselves and that is what we have done…The British people have voted to leave the European Union and their will must be ...
Read More »Brexit, multilateral trade and Bangladesh
The United Kingdom’s (UK) decision to quit the European Union, known as Brexit, has spurred a new wave of debate on its impact on multilateral trading regime. Immediately after the referendum on June 23, 2016, when the majority wanted Britain to leave the EU, policymakers, experts and businesses across the world are getting increasingly engaged in the debate. Analysis of ...
Read More »Europe without Britain prone to accommodation with Russia
A Europe, minus Britain will be more prone to seeking accommodation with Russia. Will EU now consolidate itself in the growing concert of a multipolar world? Or will it begin to splinter? Saeed Naqvi asks BY THEIR Brexit vote, the people have administered a punch on the chin of the British establishment, leaving it rattled and dazed. Britons have now ...
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By Fatem Miah The truth is that, the establishment of Britain proposed to exit from EU not the working class Brits those voted out. A deeper analysis of the situation shows that the UK leaving the EU right now which might turn out to be favourable for the United States. In the given situation, when right-wing forces in almost all ...
Read More »PLAIN TRUTH : The Last 10 days and nights of Ramadan Seek the Greatest Night of the Year
Dr. Mozammel Haque Makkah Al-Mukarramah: I still remember my childhood when an old man of 70 years, Abdul Jabbar, used to come from the district of Faridpur (now in Bangladesh) took the silent alleys of our village in the night, chanting and calling, to wake up Muslims for the last meal before another day of Ramadan fasting begins. Abdul ...
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