By K. Ratnayake 21 May, 2013 WSWS.org Police fired rubber bullets on tens of thousands of protesting Bangladeshi garment workers in the Ashulia industrial belt near Dhaka yesterday, injuring at least fifty. Workers were protesting to demand higher wages and… Continue Reading →
AFP, May 2, 2013 Relations hit a sour note: Fashion brand Mango placed orders for clothing items this year at one of the factories housed in the now collapsed building in Bangladesh. Photo: AFP From factory fires to slave labour,… Continue Reading →
By Javed Anand Leaders and the led from a host of rightwing Indian Muslim organisations – Jamaat-e-Islami Hind (JEI), All India Muslim Majlis-e Mushawarat, All India Milli Council, All Bengal Minority Youth Federation, West Bengal Sunnat Al Jamaat Committee included –… Continue Reading →
30 April 2013 Press Trust of India DHAKA, 30 APRIL: Bangladesh‘s Supreme Court today upheld the death sentences of two fugitive junior military officers awarded by a local court for killing four top national leaders, including the then acting president Syed… Continue Reading →
Dhaka Tribune, April21, 2013 The next generation has found its voice through the Internet Photo- DhakaTribune I never knew how active Bangladesh, as an entire country, was virtually until the Shahbag story broke out on social media this year. You… Continue Reading →
Thursday, 07 March 2013 20:28by Farooq Sulehria , viewpointonline.com The Communist Party of Bangladesh or Bangladesh Samajtantrik Dol (Socialist Party) have been unwavering in their commitment to the war criminal trials ‘Sadly, the Awami League has not fully restored the 1972… Continue Reading →
ByCaesar Mandal, TNN | Mar 13, 2013, DHAKA: It’s a carnival that’s rocking the entire nation. Quite literally. The Shahbag Movement — fuelled by music, art, blogging and the sheer spontaneity of youth — is teaching a new way of protest to… Continue Reading →
PTI Mar 3, 2013, DHAKA: Bangladesh government today moved the Supreme Court seeking death penalty for Jamaat-e-Islami leader Abdul Quader Mollah, who escaped with life imprisonment from a court here for committing “crimes against humanity” during the country’s independence war in… Continue Reading →
The name Shahbag will not evoke much recognition from the Indian pretenders to ‘global citizenship’. Dhaka is the city many Indians believe that ‘they’ liberated in 1971. Shahbag is one of the main street intersections of Dhaka where the… Continue Reading →
By Anis Ahmed DHAKA (Reuters) – DHAKA | Sun Feb Feb 17 (Reuters) – Bangladesh‘s parliament, meeting the demands of protesters thronging the capital, amended a law on Sunday allowing the state to appeal any verdict in war crimes trials it deems… Continue Reading →
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