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By Syed Neaz Ahmad The writer has spent many years teaching in the Middle East. Here he takes a look back at the practice of ’don’t do anything today if you can delay it until tomorrow’! EVERY week my cluttered desk, my bursting-at-seams shoulder bag and my over worked laptop presents a sad state –...
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By Syed Neaz Ahmad Dhaka: THEY are thought to be the world’s most persecuted refugees. It is also argued that they are one of the most forgotten too. In Jeddah prison I saw and met hundreds of inmates from Burma. Thousands of Burmese Muslims from Arakan – often called Rohingyas – were offered a...
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A group of Bangladeshi women who were illegally taken into India was forced into prostitution in the Indian cities of Mumbai and Pune, BBC revealed. All of these people were transported away from the communities in which they lived and forcing them to work against their will using violence, deception or coercion. People are trafficked both...
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Bleacher report which is an American sports website has recently published a report on a footballer who has been grabbing all the headlines. So maybe you’ve heard of this guy Lionel Messi. Not a bad footballer, that one. And not a bad 2012 for the 25-year-old from Rosario, Argentina. During the calendar year, Leo scored a record...
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US ambassador to Bangladesh Dan W Mozena and USAID Bangladesh Mission director Richard Greene announced the commitment of $200 Million in development assistance for fiscal 2012 at a press conference in Dhaka this week. Dan W Mozena said: “This increase in development assistance emphasises the US’ long-term commitment to co-operate with Bangladesh to reduce...
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A well-known human rights organization Human Rights Watch found secret archives of Muammar Gaddafi. It turned out that before 2008, the CIA, MI-5 and MI-6 helped the colonel in catching enemies, locking them in jail and torturing them before transferring them to Tripoli. Is it a scandal? A sensation? A dirty story? And where...
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The U.S. ambassador to Libya was killed in Benghazi as a result of a missile strike. Three other officers of U.S. diplomatic structures were also killed in the attack. The website of the embassy says that the diplomat’s name was Christopher Stevens. The names and titles of other victims have not been specified yet....
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A new film based on Sir Salman Rushdie’s novel Midnight’s Children may not be released in India, director Deepa Mehta has said. Mehta told The Hindustan Times that the film, based in India, has yet to find a distributor in the country. She said it would be “a pity if insecure politicians deprive the people of...
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