par j.james | Août 8, 2015 | Bangladesh
Dhaka – Cittagong rail link.
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Train communication of Chittagong with Dhaka and Sylhet has been suspended following derailment of a freight train in Banasua under Comilla sadar upazila.
Assistant engineer of Comilla railway station Abdul Hamid said four compartments of a Dinajpur-bound freight train from Chittagong veered off the track around 10:30am, halting train movement on the Chittagong-Dhaka and Chittagong-Sylhet routes. [/su_column] [/su_row]
par j.james | Août 7, 2015 | Bangladesh
Keep people in their place.
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Masud Sheikh from Koyra village of Khulna, whom I met first on May 27, 2009, two days after cyclone Aila hit the southwest coast, lost everything. He was looking for shelter, food, clothes for him and his family. A year later, I met him pulling a rickshaw at the Khulna Sonadanga Bus terminal.
“I came here a week after Aila. As you know, due to Aila, I lost everything- my home, my farm and even my livestock. I went to the ward members, chairman, NGOs, but did not get enough support. My brother-in-law lives in Sonadanga, he told me to come to Khulna. I am not educated, but I am the only earning member of my six member family. I kept my daughter with my wife in the village. She is going to school there. My son is with me and is going to school here. After school he works at a tea-stall near the slum where we live. My wife works in a biscuit factory. I’m pulling a rickshaw. My income is very poor, I hardly earn Tk300 to Tk350 per day. I don’t earn the same amount of money every day. If my wife’s job becomes permanent, we will settle here.” [/su_column] [/su_row]
par j.james | Août 7, 2015 | Bangladesh
Aqis says its members killed Niloy.
[su_row][su_column size= »1/3″] Read More …. [/su_column] [su_column size= »2/3″]Ansar Al Islam has claimed responsibility for the murder of secular blogger Niloy Chatterjee.
The organisation also known as al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) in an email to the media in the evening hailed the murder that took place around 1:30pm in Khilgaon and threatened to destroy the other blasphemers.
The email was sent from ansar.al.islam.bd@gmail.com.
Police suspect that this organisation is none other than recently banned militant group Ansarullah Bangla Team.
Previously Ansar Al Islam through its Twitter account had claimed responsibilities for the murder of several other secularist activists killed since 2013. [/su_column] [/su_row]
par j.james | Août 7, 2015 | Religious fundamentalism
Blogger hacked to death
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Unknown assailants have murdered a secular Ganajagaran Mancha activist and blogger inside his house in Dhaka.
Khilgaon police OC Mustafizur Rahman told bdnews24.com Niloy Chakrabarty Neel was killed in his flat on the fourth floor of a building at North Gorhan around 1:45pm on Friday.
His user name on social networking sites was Niloy Neel. He also used to blog under this name on website ‘Istishon’ (Station).
Rahman said five assailants armed with machetes entered the flat in two groups after the Juma prayers and killed him.
Niloy, the fourth blogger to have been murdered this year, lived in that flat with his family.
Imran H Sarker, the Ganajagaran Mancha spokesperson, told bdnews24.com Niloy was an activist of the platform that is demanding a ban on Islamist parties and the maximum punishment for 1971 war criminals. [/su_column] [/su_row]
par j.james | Juil 13, 2015 | Divers
I like dacca
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I’ve been following the op-ed pages of a few papers for the last few weeks, and all I’ve seen is people complaining about the endless traffic, the sea-like water-logging, the monstrous mosquitoes and, generally, every negative aspect of life in the city. And yes, since I have eyes, I agree that these problems do exist in Dhaka.
But being a “glass is half full” type of person, I have decided to point out all the positives in our metropolis. Having said that, I must admit, or rather, confess, that this article is going to be biased — and very much so. This is due to the fact that Dhaka is my hometown, and by default, my favourite city.
I have two major objectives: First, to remind the residents of Dhaka how beautiful the city really is. And second, to inform non-residents of the good things about our hometown. Let us then, take a ride through Dhaka.
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