Bangladesh
Awami League wins landslide victory in Bangladesh’s Parliamentary elections
by st contributor
Tuesday 30th December 2008
Bangladesh Awami League President and former prime minister Sheikh Hasina is poised to become prime minister for the second term after her party’s landslide victory in the 9th parliament elections on Monday. Hasina’s party won two-third majority in 300-member Parliament crashing her rival Bangladesh Nationalist Party…
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Read this articleTurnout in Bangladesh’s ninth parliamentary elections sets record
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Monday 29th December 2008
Bangladesh’s ninth parliamentary elections held on Monday recorded a stunning 86.29 percent voter turnout, breaking all records of the previous national polls, the country’s Election Commission said. Chief Election Commissioner ATM Shamsul Huda told reporters at a press conference here on Thursday that the turnout makes…
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Read this articleSylhet’s Keane Bridge
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Saturday 11th October 2008
A notable landmark, Sylhet’s Keane Bridge, is still a star attraction to many visitors to Sylhet. Until 1986, the only way to cross from the south over the Surma River was Keane Bridge. A second bridge was constructed in 1986 which now takes all of the…
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Read this articleSeminar on ‘Prospective Investment of Non Resident Bangladeshis in the Country and Dual Citizenship’ on 3rd Nov in Dhaka
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Friday 3rd October 2008
The weekly Dhaka Post is to arrange a seminar on ‘Prospective Investment of Non Resident Bangladeshis in the Country and Dual Citizenship’ at 4.00pm on November 3, 2008 at the National Press Club auditorium in Dhaka . The seminar will be followed by the 18th founding…
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Read this articleEkushey Celebrations in Sylhet
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Sunday 15th June 2008
Students marked Bangladesh’s language movement by places a wreath of flowers at the Shahid Minar replica in the village of Shingerkach, Biswanath, Sylhet District. February 21, in Bangla “Ekushey,” refers to February 21, 1952, the day that students demonstrated against the forcible imposition of Urdu as…
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Read this articleRochdale MP Paul Rowen visits Cyclone Sidr Hit Sylhet
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Thursday 12th June 2008
A TRIP to Bangladesh showed Rochdale MP Paul Rowen how people managed to recover after the horrors of Cyclone Sidr, which hit the country in November last year. On his travels Mr Rowen was able to journey to the Sylhet region, the tea capital of Bangladesh…
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Read this articleBoi Mela
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Wednesday 11th June 2008
THE annual Ekushey Boi Mela attracted over 20,000 visitors this year during a month long celebration of Bangladeshi literature in Dhaka. The grand ceremony attracted book enthusiasts from all over Bangladesh as book lovers a considerable number of titles on a wide range of subjects available…