The National Human Rights Commission of Bangladesh responds to an editorial by The Daily Star.
There are no visible changes yet.
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.
This refers to a comment allegedly passed by Supreme Court Bar Association President Barrister Rokanuddin Mahmud in a press conference organised by the Supreme Court Bar Association. According to some newspapers, Barrister Rokanuddin Mahmud has asked the government to dissolve parliament as he thinks parliament has nothing to do in the absence of opposition lawmakers. Perhaps the lawyer has overreacted out of sheer emotion. I have some observations which reflect the voices of the overwhelming majority....
Bachelor is undoubtedly an extra-ordinary creation. Otherwise, people would not have thought so much about this movie. Mr. Istiaque Uddin Rifat, February 16, Asif Ahmed, February 20, Rifat Mahbub, February 23 and last, but not the least, Minuara Begum Binu, February 25, 2004 made good criticism about its positive and negative sides in the letters page of The Daily Star. It's obviously a positive thing that people have found a topic (Bangla Cinema! In recent times they used to laugh at it ) to debate on....
Bangladesh Cricket team arrived in Zimbabwe for two Tests and five ODIs. The small Bangladeshi community was ecstatic. The two teams are ranked 9th and 10th respectively in the world cricket. Theoretically, if Bangladesh can beat any team, it should be Zimbabwe....
Bangladesh is a third world country but specialists have opined that we have prospects to alleviate our stature if proper decisions are taken in the policy-making level and these decisions are properly implemented. To do so, the first step is to restore law and order and restoring law and order necessarily needs one thing, that is, "Independence of the Judiciary"....
It has been almost a year that the call-charges for all other GP packages have been reduced to some extent but what happened to "Easy Pre-paid" subscribers who are still paying Tk.6.90 (including VAT) per minute?
Is GP trying to compel their "Easy Pre-paid" subscribers to migrate to GP's other packages in order to be able to sell more of new connections and thus increase their revenue many-fold?
Most men and women over 60 years of age who are suffering from diabetes, heart ailment, cancer, blood pressure, kidney trouble or any other incurable disease are not waiting and counting their days for getting admitted into hospital or clinic or going to a foreign country for medical check up and treatment. But they are worried about the last journey to the grave leaving behind their near and dear ones, relatives and friends, wealth or poverty....
In the recent years, all of the Bengali dailies have started publishing one new variety of advertisement. It is "Birthday Wishes". Usually, father-mother, grandpa-grandmother, or uncles and aunties send those birthday wishes for their one to four to five years oldies. There are some birthday wishes, if you have noticed them for their difference in language and tendency for secrecy, you can very well understand that they are sent for the lovers, or spouses. Interesting. Even a few years back, this was not there in our metropolitan culture. Ekushey and ntv, in their early days, also telecast birthday wishes....
The biggest challenge, the world has ever faced is AIDS. This killer disease is spreading at an alarming rate. The world leaders have met many times to take some measures regarding AIDS. Though the summits have succeeded in giving an outline of the action plan, but they have failed to contribute to lessening the rate of its spread. Many countries have started thinking about taking other measures. As people are ignorant and not aware of its hazards, we cannot expect much from them....
Please don't think I am making fun of our top political leaders. I am an ordinary girl and I have no right to do so. But when they give speeches they always mention that they think of the young generation. But their activities show just the opposite....
