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By Piya Mayenin : ….Maa go tomar koley, tomar boley, kotoy shanti bhalobasha, aa mori Bangla bhasha…. People originating in the sub continent should know that in 1947 India and Pakistan was divided on the basis of religion solely. Moreover newly formed Muslim Pakistan consisted of East and West Pakistan which was nevertheless divided oblivious to the myriad linguistic and ...

  8 March 2016: International Women’s Day   By Piya Mayenin   International Women’s day (IWD), Mothering Sunday, Mothers Day are celebrated in 6th and 8th March respectively which are the official dates and time to remember Women and their contributions. However we do not remember women in the same way on those days. Whilst Mothering Sunday, Mothers day and ...

By Nabila Rafique , Legal  Advisor, AZURIST The Business Summit organised by British Bangladesh Chamber of Woman Entrepreneurs (BBCWE) at Crowne Plaza on the 24.02.2015 was a much needed concerted effort by a group of driven and passionate females. Lead by the awe inspiring yet graceful Dilara Khan the organisation is the flagship platform for British Bangladeshi woman to discuss, ...

By Piya Mayenin :: Bengali language cannot even write the word Sylheti because Sylheti has a s sound whereas Bangla does not have that s sound despite of having three ‘sho’ sounds and two ‘ch’ sounds. Those are not the the s sound in Sylhet. That is precisely why a non Sylheti professor who lived in Sylhet for 40 years ...

Dr. Mozammel Haque Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has called for “a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States” on Monday evening in the wake of the San Bernardino terrorist attack and hours before a campaign rally on the USS Yorktown, a second world war aircraft carrier berthed near Charleston, South Carolina. Jessica Glenza reported from New York to The ...

Author: Mashuk Ahmed Khan Member of: The University of Oxford Philosophical Society and; The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development                                                                                                                           This article is intended to rebut the fallacy in the survey report published by Tom Newton Dunn (“Tom”) (the political editor of the SUN newspaper, London) in the SUN dated 23 November 2015 on sympathy for “Jihadis” by British ...

Prophet Muhammad (pbuh): The Greatest Leader, Reformer and Finality of Prophethood   Dr. Mozammel Haque This is the month of Rabi al-Awwal when Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him came to this world and spread the message of Islam revealed to him by Archangel Jibrail. This year, I read three books on the life of the Prophet (peace be upon ...

By Professor Raihan Ahmed Topader :: Bangladesh is a developing country that is classified as a next Eleven emerging market and one of the Frontier Five.According to a recent opinion poll,Bangladesh has the second most procapitalist population in the developing world.Between 2004 and 2014,Bangladesh averaged a GDP growth rate of 6%.The economy is increasingly led by export -oriented industrialization.The Bangladesh ...

By Ferdousi Kabir Helaly :: When I started menstruating I wasn’t allowed to get out from the home that week because as I was bleeding, some bad souls would cast bad eyes on me and I would have heavy cramps and etc. It was not my mother’s fault though, she had been taught that way. Third world countries are full ...

Barrister Nazir Ahmed ::   The UK based Indian catering industry is a unique and flourishing British industry that is worth around £4.5bn and employing more than 100,000 people.  This industry has been contributing approximately £1.5bn every year towards the British economy.  With this industry more than a million people are directly or indirectly involved. The Indian curry outlets in ...