Archive Detail
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BANGLADESH : Behind the Politics of Over | Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said her country was "made to lose" the cricket World Cup quarterfinal against India. She reassured her Tigers in green-and-red that there was nothing to be upset as everyone has seen ‘how we were made to lose’. ‘’We will win in the future," she told Mashrafe's boys who were defeated but not disgraced in defeat. This was their best ever World Cup campaign. | 28-Mar-2015 |
After the Auckland humdinger, SCG gets r | Hitting a six off the last delivery to win a match is a norm in the Twenty20 madness, but to do it in a World Cup semifinal, a batsman must have arms of steel and stay icy cool under pressure. | 28-Mar-2015 |
Cricket fans have shown lot of maturity | All the talk of heart and mind on the eve of the India-Australia semifinal was nothing but an expression of the lurking fear that Mahendra Singh Dhoni will, after all, not be returning with the cricket World Cup he had won four years ago. | 28-Mar-2015 |
Why can't phensydyl smuggling be stopped | We all know Nicholas Piramal produces the cough syrup Phensydyl. It contains a high degree of Codeine phosphate. which is a narcotic drug and causes addiction when used in large quantities over a period of time. Over the last thirty years, since General H M Ershad enforced prohibition in Bangladesh, drug users there have turned to Phenysdyl in place of liquor. Tripura and other parts of Northeast India have become the gateway for smuggling phensydyl to Bangladesh. | 24-Mar-2015 |
A bakery worker's daughter gets her wing | Unlike girls of her age who dream of becoming doctors or engineers, she wanted to be something different. Many laughed at her dream, but today she is one among the few Muslim women in India to hold a commercial pilot's licence. | 18-Mar-2015 |
Northeast needs to integrate themselves | Brutal murder of the 35 yr. old youth Syed Farid Khan in Dimapur has once again brought to the fore the ugly fact that despite our celebration of 68 years’ of independence, we are to create a niche of India as one nation. | 09-Mar-2015 |
Demand of Rehabilitation or Zero point f | An indefinite period, more than a decade has passed but the area yet to be completed to prevent illegal access from Bangladesh to India. Very often the implementing authorities of Border fencing in Tripura and the victimized people of bordering area come to blows to have their duties and rights respectively. People living beyond 150 yards demand either rehabilitation or fencing near zero point along the border according to the relaxation of Indra-Mojib international agreement 1972. As the government cannot fulfil their demands, each and every effort of Border fencing ended in violence since the last decade. | 16-Mar-2015 |
AVIJIT won't DIE | Avijit Roy had received threats too often to take them seriously. The US citizen of Bangladesh origin had grown in Dhaka and his father, physics professor Ajoy Roy had lived through worse times . But when Islamist zealots killed blogger Rajib Haider at the beginning of the Shahbagh movement two years ago, every free thinking intellectual in Bangladesh should have been cautious. | 03-Mar-2015 |
Paid news menace and underpaid media emp | Whenever India runs an electoral battle, the ‘paid news’ syndrome continues to hunt the general populace as well as the election authority. A number of cases were already registered against various political parties for allegedly bribing some selected media houses of the largest democracy in the globe for facilitating the campaign related favourable coverage in expenses of cash (or kinds). | 01-Mar-2015 |