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Border pact is testimony to what spirit of cooperation can achieve

Parliament’s passage of the bill on the Land Boundary Agreement (LBA) with Bangladesh brings to an end anomalies of the Radcliffe Award hastily drawn up in the days before Partition, which had continued despite earlier efforts in the Nehru-Noon accord of 1958. The 1974 Indira-Mujib accord was approved shortly by the Bangladesh parliament. India did not do so as the acquisition or surrender of any territory required precise determination of the territory involved. bd-indiaIn fact, in order to become effective, the Bangladesh constitutional amendment had t...

Five lesser known facts about Tagore

  Rabindranath Tagore was born on May 7, 1861 in Kolkata to a zamindar family of Bengal. Tagore was one of the primary crusaders during the pre-independence era to challenge the common perception that India was just a country of snake-charmers and superstitions, and was culturally backward. rabindranath-tagoreHe was one of the stalwarts who travelled around the world to highlight the richness of the country, and pitched that the diversity in the nation was its strength and not weakness. He was the first non-Europ...

ULAB launches ‘Bangladesh’s Changing Mediascape’

University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh (ULAB) launched “Bangladesh’s Changing Mediascape: From State Control to Market Forces”, a publication focusing on the Bangladeshi media. Minister of Information, Hasanul Haque Inu, MP was present as the chief guest in the ceremony and unveiled the book. Cultural Activist _MG_8840Sara Zaker was present as special guest along with ULAB Vice Chancellor Professor Imran Rahman, Pro-Vice Chancellor Dr. Jahirul Haque, Advisor of Communications & Students Affairs Ms. Juditha Ohlmacher, and other ULAB faculty &...

Writer to author in just 7 days

Sitting on something you wrote dreaming of finding a publisher? Or are you hoping to take an independent road to self-publish the material? A bridge of sorts is what the Sapna Book House is offering. Writers across ages can turn to ‘SapnaINK’, a new launch medium for wannabe authors. Once a manuscript is accepted, a writer becomes an author in seven days flat! 5BG_NIJESH_SHAH_2396521fWhat began in December 2014 has seen almost 40 titles being approved. Among the ones published under SapnaINK are 12-year-old Man...

Violence, repression at levels not seen in decades

On April 28, the people of Bangladesh had the chance to have their voices heard in municipal elections in the country’s two major cities. Unfortunately, the opposition has boycotted the elections on accusations of widespread vote rigging. Fair elections are needed to give the Bangladeshi people the opportunity to hold the governing voteAL to account for using the nation’s founding tragedy for political gain, and push for reform of the ICT to open the door to a judicial mechanism that lives up to domestic and international standards and bolsters rule of ...

A dangerous clause to ‘legally’ decrease child marriage

In Bangladesh, a draft of the Child Marriage Restraint Act has been sent to the Cabinet stating the minimum age of marriage will remain at 18 — but it will come with a clause. This new “clause” means that while the legal age of marriage will remain at 18 for girls, marriage will be legal at 16 under special circumstances — if it is their parents’ wish, for example, or if a girl becomes pregnant. henna tattosEssentially, the new clause will allow the continuation of child marriage and prove perilous for young people in Bangladesh. ...
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