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Romania honours Enayetullah Khan with award

Romania has honoured its Honorary Consul in Bangladesh Enayetullah Khan with an award on the occasion of the country’s 150 years of diplomacy.   Enayetullah Khan, also Editor-in-Chief of UNB and Editor of Dhaka Courier, was given the honorary award for his Friday, December 7th, 2012

Korean entrepreneur donates Tk.10 mill for tiger conservation

Chairman and CEO of Youngone Corporation and Korean EPZ (KEPZ) Corporation (BD) Ltd, Mr. Kihak Sung has called on the global community to help save the Royal Bengal Tiger from extinction.   The Korean entrepreneur, the biggest investor in readymade garments in Thursday, May 10th, 2012

Archiving 1971

Since the early nineties, Drik Picture Library (under The Drik Gallery) has been working to collect and archive any and all scattered records of the Liberation War of Bangladesh held in 1971. They have been working to collect, list and Thursday, February 16th, 2012

Women of substance

Bangladeshi Women at a Glance 2011 Edition launched by Ambassador Dan Mozena, US Ambassador to Bangladesh   United States Ambassador Mr. Dan Mozena on Thursday 9th February 2012 launched the Bangladesh Alliance for Women Leadership’s (BDAWL) second and greatly expanded edition of Thursday, February 16th, 2012

Nineteen seventy one and other stories: a collection of short stories

Rashid Askari is one of the promising storytellers of our time and an emerging talent in Bangladeshi fiction in English. He is firmly committed to the spirit of our Liberation War of 1971 and the indomitable ‘Bengaliness’ of our people. Thursday, February 16th, 2012

Child Labour Revisited: Gender, Culture, Economics and Human Rights

The book addresses the case of child labour by moving beyond the usual concern that regards the phenomenon essentially as an ‘evil’, harmful and corrupt, and instead attempts to assess children’s work in the relevant socio-econornic and cultural context. It Thursday, February 16th, 2012

Splitting Dhaka: A zero sum game

It took just four minutes to divide the 400-year-old city. In one of the shortest sittings of parliament, MPs on Tuesday passed the Local Government (City Corporation) (Amendment) Bill 2011 splitting Dhaka City Corporation.   The new law carves up the capital Thursday, December 1st, 2011

The way forward

The eurozone crisis has had a chilling effect on major economies around the world; and has added to the unprecedented pressures facing the global economy. But, in spite of the difficulties, I am confident that we can both resolve the Thursday, November 24th, 2011

The way forward

The eurozone crisis has had a chilling effect on major economies around the world; and has added to the unprecedented pressures facing the global economy. But, in spite of the difficulties, I am confident that we can both resolve the Wednesday, November 16th, 2011

Dan W Mozena appointed U.S. ambassador to Dhaka

Dan W Mozena, who served as political and economic counsellor in Dhaka from 1998-2001, is the next US envoy to Bangladesh. The US Senate has confirmed President Obama's nomination of Dan W Mozena as the ambassador to Dhaka.   Mozena, who succeeds Thursday, November 3rd, 2011

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