| Vol 9 Issue 11-12 September 03-16 |
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| Loneliness at the Top |
Facing the inevitable fate of impeachment, will President Pervez Musharraf step down? Or will he prove himself to be the born fighter, ready to fight against all odds?
by IKRAM SEHGAL |
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Phulbari Coal Project:
Ready and revving to go |
The coal at the Phulbari mine remains untapped. And the debate continues as to mine or not to mine; but given the energy crisis already upon us, can
we afford to dawdle?
A PROBE Report |
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| BIPs THUMBS DOWN ADI |
“Discretion is the better part of valour,” advised the great Bard to the world. And many kings and their kingdoms have fallen by not paying heed to that advice. Because only....
by K K Rai |
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| Regional Meeting of the Asia & Pacific LIFE Countries takes off |
“We cannot sustain either democracy or good governance without ensuring literacy for all,” observed Mosharraf Hossain Bhuiyan, Secretary, Ministry of Primary and ...
by Shaheen Ahmed |
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| What's up with the willow? |
While a huge budget has been allocated for cricket, the results are dismal. Will it be the same story of failure at tour of Australia by the Bangladesh boys?
by ZAHID RAHMAN |
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| Before Simba Became Just An Animatron |
On the trail of the Asiatic lion, from the shikar days, the first conservationists to present-day efforts
by Raghunandan Singh
THE LIONS OF INDIA
by Edited by Divyabhanusinh
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Eva Rahman sings with Sonu Nigham Organisers paid 15 lac taka
A PROBE report
Sonu Nigham, the heartthrob with a golden voice from India, entranced fans in Dhaka during his performance at the China-Bangladesh Friendship Centre on August 7. Eva Rahman from Bangladesh sang on the same stage.
The concert was organised by Interspeed Activation and Fireworks. Private TV channel ATN Bangla was the media partner. ATN Bangla paid the organisers 15 lac taka. As a result, Eva Rahman got a chance to sing along with Sonu Nigham! Incidentally, Eva Rahman is the young wife of ATV Bangla's Chairman Mahfuzur Rahman.
The organisers did not invite any of the electronic media other than ATN Bangla. ATN Bangla only aired a three-minute bit of news about Eva Rahman and Sonu Nigham. That too, none of the audience was shown. The organisers were very strict about this as they plan to bring out a CD of this concert. However, ATN Bangla shot about 30 minutes of Sonu Nigham and Eva Rahman.
The concert tickets cost 5000 taka and 3500 taka. There were 2000 people in the audience. That means the organisers earned a total of about 80 lac taka on the concert. n |
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| Alternative to the Westphalian rashtra |
How can the discipline of international relations in Southasia be real when its premises are European?
by Navnita Chadha Behera |
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Freedom means
“without dependence” |
Sixty one years into freedom from British rule we are not only prisoner of the circumstances created by our leaders, because of their incapability, selfishness, greed and ...
by IKRAM SEHGAL |
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| The State As Strangler |
Laws to fight Maoist terror are increasingly being used against peaceful dissenters
by Saikat Datta |
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