The National Human Rights Commission of Bangladesh responds to an editorial by The Daily Star.
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The trainee doctors at BSMMU have been demanding an increase of monthly allowance from Tk 20,000 to Tk 50,000 – a demand which is justified.
I would like to express my outrage and dismay at the terrorist attacks in London. I would also urge Muslims to wake up to the reality of extremism. Condemning the attacks in London, and indeed any other terror attack, does not mean supporting US and British policy in the Middle East. The invasion of Iraq and the unjust foreign policies in the Middle East have made the world a dangerous place and fuelled the rise of extremism....
As I am a housewife I have enough time to read papers daily, watch TV programmes which interest me most.
I am disturbed by current world affairs. There are so many questions that keep popping up in my mind. I read all the suggestions and scrutiny of intellectuals for getting an answer.
The continual blaming of Muslims always makes me a bit irritated. We need to have a just world order where nobody will be blamed for having a particular religious faith.
I was as usual reading the newspaper the other day, the day after SSC results of this year were published. It was full of news and reports on the topic. One article caught my attention. I found that the education board had published two lists. One containing ten schools of Dhaka Board which secured highest number of GPA-5s and the other one based on hundred percent pass rate. The second list made me curious. To find out more about it I went to the official website of the Board. And there I found the second list which is Tangail Cant. Board School (43), Bangladesh International School, Jeddah (50), and some other schools, including cadet colleges. It is evident that the reason behind the hundred percent success rate is the less number of students. The ten cadet colleges have the...
The Oxford English Dictionary defines these two words like this.
booty (1) valuable stolen goods. booty (2) Plural (booties) North American informal a person's bottom. What a big difference in meaning? So it's clear booty (1) is plural in itself. The point of sending this to you is because recently I read a letter published in your paper using booties (1) as plural to mean valuable stolen goods.
A few days ago while reading the newspaper a name on one of the headlines caught my attention-- the inside story was about a man who claimed himself a controversial speaker before delivering a speech in a discussion meeting on Plassey Day. In that meeting he said that we are an independent Muslim country but our national anthem is written by an anonymous Rabindranath Tagore!...
A TV advertisement on ATN is composed with Holy Azan of Muslim religion, which is totally against the norm of advertising. I urge the higher authorities of the company to investigate the matter and withdraw the advertisement from ATN, Canada, or recompose the background music of the advertisement excluding Azan from it. According to Muslim religious practice, Azan cannot be mixed with music due to its purity and supreme value, neither can it be used as a commodity of commercial value such as advertising.
I strongly protest this act of payless2india ( wwwpayless2i-ndia.com) advertising team and urge its higher authorities to investigate the matter.
The above refers to a news item which appeared in DS on August 11, 2005.Much has been written in the past concerning corruption in DESA, and each time the question is raised on the above the authorities including the minister himself assured that they had initiated necessary steps to contain corruption and alleviate systems loss. However, no steps have so far been proved to be effective to contain the above, rather all their efforts are going in the opposite direction unabatedly....
How do you define extremism? Republican Congressman Tom Tancredo of Colorado said that if a terrorist attack were to occur in the US by Muslim extremists, then the US response should be to bomb Mecca. Okay, let us get this straight: Does that mean if an Irish Catholic radical group goes off the deep end and hurts Americans, then the US should level the Vatican?
Yes, we think Mr. Tancredo was suggesting exactly that.
Does Mr. Tancredo's country want to punish a small group of extremists by doing something so off-the-wall extreme that it would horribly kill millions of innocent people?
Is this the thinking ability of a US Congressman? I guess he needs some sort of training as a politician. If training doesn't work, he should receive medical treatment.
