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WB finds graft rampant in govt, NGOs

by Shahidul Alam Posted on February 3, 2012

By David Bergman The New Age Thursday, 2 February, 2012 Five non-governmental organisations have admitted to the World Bank that they made corrupt payments to Bangladesh government officials to receive contracts under a bank-funded project. The admissions are contained in … Continue reading →

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Wahid Adnan Wins Award of Excellence in CPOY

by Shahidul Alam Posted on December 16, 2011

Wahid Adnan (Pathshala South Asian Media Academy) Graphics of Deadliest Crash Award of Excellence Documentary Story: Graphics of Deadliest Crash Graphics of Deadliest Crash A building opposite  Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) was razed by the angry investors after the crash … Continue reading →

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Sense of humour failure

by Shahidul Alam Posted on November 27, 2011

Subscribe to ShahidulNews  Censorship in Pakistan Economist Nov 25th 2011, 13:04 by L.M. AN OFTEN overlooked perk of being a country with a large population and relatively low wages is the capacity to employ people to carry out silly … Continue reading →

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Rahnuma Ahmed Injured

by Shahidul Alam Posted on June 15, 2011

Subscribe to ShahidulNews Rahnuma Ahmed was amongst around twenty people who were injured as police clashed with protesters at a rally held near the National Press Club in Dhaka on 14th June 2011. Members of the National Committee to Protect … Continue reading →

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Microcredit Pioneer Faces an Inquiry in Bangladesh

by Shahidul Alam Posted on February 1, 2011

Subscribe to ShahidulNews By Lydia Polgreen New York Times: January 29, 2011 DHAKA, Bangladesh — Any other year Muhammad Yunus, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate and a pioneer of microcredit, would be in Davos, Switzerland, this week. For years he … Continue reading →

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Nobel Peace Prize winner’s reputation under threat in riddle of £40m loans

by Shahidul Alam Posted on December 2, 2010

Subscribe to ShahidulNews *Fariha Karim, Dhaka, and Francis Elliott, Delhi* The Times of London The reputation of a Nobel peace laureate, credited with helping to defeat global poverty through microcredit, hung in the balance last night after allegations that he had diverted … Continue reading →

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Long March

by Shahidul Alam Posted on October 25, 2010

Subscribe to ShahidulNews Day One Dhaka to Gazipur Bangladeshi citizens began a long march from Dhaka to Dinajpur to protect the country’s natural resources. The march began at Muktangon in Dhaka with a rally and the first day ended in … Continue reading →

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Pentagon’s Prayers

by Shahidul Alam Posted on January 6, 2010

By Rahnuma Ahmed As more US troops surge into Afghanistan, as Predator drone attacks on Pakistan’s north-western villages increase, as news of operations by killing squads of US Special Forces on the Afghanistan side of the border intensifies, as yet … Continue reading →

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Doctoral Complicity in State Terror

by Shahidul Alam Posted on November 11, 2009

By rahnuma ahmed I take liberties with English language as I write “doctoral” to indicate the complicity of doctors and hospitals, both public and privately-owned ones, in short, the Bangladesh medical establishment’s actions which aid and abet state functionaries who … Continue reading →

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The Current State of Health Care in this Country

by Shahidul Alam Posted on August 4, 2009

By Arjun Janah I have learned, from experience with my aged parents and my younger sister-in-law, that elementary services, or even basic coverage, can be denied on the flimsiest of grounds.  My own experience with physicians and hospitals has been … Continue reading →

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