tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71079172232410996002012-01-29T06:58:05.309-08:00Breaking News and Analysis of major news stories of the day.Hasibul Haquenoreply@blogger.comBlogger281100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7107917223241099600.post-9953691701744162402009-01-20T17:09:00.000-08:002009-01-20T17:10:04.245-08:00

In his Presidential inauguration address today, Barack Obama explicitly addressed Muslims and said: “To the Muslim world, we seek a new way forward, based on mutual interest and mutual respect. ” It was definitely a gesture of goodwill to the Muslim world in general, at least in words. Then he added: “To those leaders around the globe who seek to sow conflict, or blame their society’s ills on the

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As CNN and other News channels in the US spent most of yesterday showing its viewers an empty US Airways Airbus 320 floating in the Hudson river, the citizens of Gaza ran for their lives from the indiscriminate bombing by the Israeli forces. But in a place as small as Gaza, there is not much place to run and hide from the firepower of Israeli forces.. So the weak and the hopeless of Gaza continue

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A team of Indian and German scientists have started a 70-day ocean expedition to find out if pouring iron powder into ocean can trap greenhouse gas, CO2 from atmosphere and can keep it long enough under water to make a difference in global warming situation, according to a report by Times of India.The scientists leaving from Cape Town, South Africa in a research ship towards a region in

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By now, rational folks everywhere across the globe are disgusted by one more episode of disproportionate and excessive use of force by Israel in Gaza that has killed many innocent men,women and children and injured many.What if anything Israel is achieving through this reckless violence but breeding another group of hopeless youths ready to take over the violent struggle of their dead comrades? .

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Terrrorists in the Mumbai attacks were all pakistani nationals trained by Lashkar-e-Taiba according to a report by Times of India:The gang of terrorists who wreaked mayhem in Mumbai for three days were made to believe by their Lashkar bosses that they were not being sent on a suicide mission and that they would be coming back alive.Ajmal made another important disclosure: that all terrorists were

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A 24 year old cartoonist from Bangladesh news daily - Prothom Alo, was arrested a few days earlier when his cartoon sparked protest rallies by islamists across the country who alleges the cartoon was published to dishonor prophet Muhammad. Bangladesh authorities swiftly arrested the cartoonist and put him in jail.Meanwhile many Bangladeshi bloggers are protesting the arrest of Arifur Rahman.

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HODEIDAH, (Yemen)- A source in the Yemeni Naval Forces in Hodeidah said that three people were found dead and one survivor was found out of the eight reported missing earlier after a volcanic explosion that rocked the tiny Yemeni island on the Red Sea - Jabal al-Tair on late Sunday.Abdul-Bari Shamsan told Yemeni News agency that the survivor is in a good health and he was moved to the Military

Hasibul Haquenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7107917223241099600.post-76862647107454545712007-09-30T20:50:00.000-07:002007-09-30T20:57:10.963-07:00

A volcano erupted today on a tiny island off Yemen - according to a report by Canadian Navy.Ken Allan,a Navy spokesman, said a NATO fleet just outside the territorial waters of the tiny Yemeni island reported seeing a "catastrophic volcanic eruption" at 7 p.m. local time. The 2-mile-long island is about 70 miles off the coast of Yemen."At this time, the entire island is aglow with lava and magma

Hasibul Haquenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7107917223241099600.post-67358474887354073222007-09-29T09:01:00.000-07:002007-09-29T09:20:09.470-07:00

This video clip was taken by a civilian journalist on September 27, 2007 north of Sule Pagoda in Rangoon where Japanese journalist Kenji Nagai was shot in the chest by Burmese soldiers. It was filmed minutes before he was killed nearby.

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The crisis in Burma (or Myanmar as renamed by the military junta) is getting worse by the hour.The military junta has cut off internet links to the outside world as amateur videos and pictures flooded the internet showing brutal repression by the military authorities since the crackdown started.What are the chances of military regime giving up power?The answer in my opinion is: no chance at

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TimesOnline is reporting that Bush administration has set up a team to pefect plans to attack Iran:THE United States Air Force has set up a highly confidential strategic planning group tasked with “fighting the next war” as tensions rise with Iran.Project Checkmate, a successor to the group that planned the 1991 Gulf War’s air campaign, was quietly reestablished at the Pentagon in June.It reports

Hasibul Haquenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7107917223241099600.post-40392442451635406962007-09-22T18:24:00.000-07:002007-09-22T18:29:29.127-07:00

If you have wondered about what is going on in the financial markets and World economy in general recently, you will probably find this interesting.Satayajit Das is one of the leading credit derivatives analysts in the world. His analysis and predictions for the future is dire: The world is heading into a prolonged recession.

Hasibul Haquenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7107917223241099600.post-11803512210759255812007-05-27T07:27:00.000-07:002007-05-29T07:41:07.150-07:00

According to comments written by US officials on a draft document which was handed over to Greenpeace international by undisclosed sources,US officials expressed serious concerns about the draft document:"The US still has serious, fundamental concerns about this draft statement," the notes on the document read. "The treatment of climate change runs counter to our overall position and crosses

Hasibul Haquenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7107917223241099600.post-88483953896940338352007-05-26T14:14:00.000-07:002007-05-29T07:41:52.516-07:00

CEO and founder of infoUSA Vinod Gupta was sued by the company shareholders for providing the Clintons corporate jets on different occasions to fly the former president and Hillary Rodham Clinton on business, personal and campaign trips as ABC News reports:The supporter, Vinod Gupta, also secured contracts worth more than $3 million for Bill Clinton to provide consulting services to Gupta's

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Once again Mr.Bush lied through his teeth to the American people in his memorial day address :"Our troops are helping them build democracies that respect the rights of their people, uphold the rule of law and fight extremists alongside America in the war on terror" Bush said. It is well known that the primary motive for Iraq occupation is oil:"President Bush's Cabinet agreed in April 2001 that '

Hasibul Haquenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7107917223241099600.post-85352526279500817292007-05-24T19:32:00.000-07:002007-05-25T08:21:15.579-07:00

Refugees fleeing from the besieged Palestinian refugee camp in Tripoli, Lebanon said anger over the Lebanese army's indiscriminate shelling had reached boiling point and sympathy was growing for the militant group Fatah al-Islam holed up inside the camp:"The army have been killing us, they were hitting anything that moved," said 27-year-old Maher, who had left the camp the previous night for the

Hasibul Haquenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7107917223241099600.post-33599175945864435812007-05-23T20:14:00.000-07:002007-05-24T09:46:11.216-07:00

When asked what she had to say to women of her age, she said:"Don't get a dog, get a baby."Frieda Birnbaum gave birth to "Baby A" at 12:44 p.m. and "Baby B" a minute later by Caesarean section at Hackensack University Medical Center. Birnbaum, a psychologist from Saddle River, underwent in-vitro fertilization last year in Cape Town, South Africa, at a center that specializes in older women. She

Hasibul Haquenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7107917223241099600.post-79399598471402535482007-05-22T18:58:00.000-07:002007-05-22T20:02:48.984-07:00

Russian authorities rejected demands by Tony Blair last night to extradite from Russia, Andrei Lugovoi, the man accused of murdering the former security service agent Alexander Litvinenko in London last November.Britain's Crown Prosecution service said police had gathered sufficient evidence to charge Andrei Lugovoi with murder and demanded that he be extradited to stand trial in Britain for an "

Hasibul Haquenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7107917223241099600.post-44999116893703760522007-05-21T15:03:00.000-07:002007-05-22T20:24:51.007-07:00

Careful to avoid the kind of political opposition that resulted from its 2005 unsuccessful bid to buy US oil company UNOCAL, Chinese government this time has agreed to buy only 9% stake( 10% would have automatically made it eligible for a congressional inquiry.) in US private equity company Blackstone Group LP for $3 billion. Experts agree:Its Blackstone interest will be just under 10 percent

Hasibul Haquenoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7107917223241099600.post-41830911134189227702007-05-20T16:21:00.000-07:002007-05-29T08:21:57.550-07:00

Former President Carter is known for calling spade a spade and he was no different this time as he described Bush administration as "the worst in history" in international relations in an interview with Arkansas Democrat-Gazette:During a telephone interview with the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette from the Carter Center in Atlanta, the ex-president also accused the current White House occupant of

Hasibul Haquenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7107917223241099600.post-63756429668620759052007-05-18T19:32:00.000-07:002007-05-22T20:23:49.263-07:00

French President Nicholas Sarkozy announced his cabinet of 15 ministers today. For the first time in French history, a person of North African origin and for that matter a woman of Muslim origin has been appointed as a minister:Rachida Dati - Justice MinisterThe daughter of illiterate Algerian and Moroccan parents, Ms Dati is one of 12 children. She studied law at university and then accounting,

Hasibul Haquenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7107917223241099600.post-6204113320508769652007-05-17T20:57:00.000-07:002007-05-22T20:23:25.931-07:00

After stalling for weeks unashamedly, Paul Wolfowitz, the beleagured President of World Bank finally declared that he is resigning at the end of June: Embattled World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz will resign at the end of June, he and the bank said late Thursday, ending his long fight to survive pressure for his ouster over the generous compensation he arranged for his girlfriend. His

Hasibul Haquenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7107917223241099600.post-71471404980077180002007-05-17T20:21:00.000-07:002007-05-22T20:24:36.395-07:00

Two very alarming news came out in last few days in the Global warming front as reported by CNN : this and this.I am quoting from the first link:The Southern Ocean is one of the world's biggest reservoirs of carbon, known as a carbon sink. When carbon is in a sink -- whether it's an ocean or a forest, both of which can lock up carbon dioxide -- it stays out of the atmosphere and does not

Hasibul Haquenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7107917223241099600.post-38068903116214434602007-04-27T18:50:00.000-07:002007-04-27T19:56:17.471-07:00

Bangladesh media is reporting that Former PM Sheikh Hasina will delay her return to Bangladesh - is it because of her schedule in London or perhaps the uncertainity of what will happen if she returns to Dhaka immediately?The caretaker government did not completely let her off the hook yet when they withdrew a ban on her return to Bangladesh and annulled an arrest warrant on charges of Murder

Hasibul Haquenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7107917223241099600.post-64769892522131718062007-04-27T17:43:00.000-07:002007-05-29T08:20:53.644-07:00

It is a remarkable assessment only in the sense that it is coming from a serving US army officer. LT. COL. PAUL YINGLING predicts US will be defeated in Iraq (as if we didnt know this). But I must give him credit for writing very clearly the reasons why America will be defeated in Iraq.Of the three ingredients of a successful war he mentions in this article:Passion - is 100% absent in the minds

Hasibul Haquenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7107917223241099600.post-23177102948507291502007-04-27T12:48:00.001-07:002007-04-27T19:57:33.199-07:00

Khaleda is finally going for a Umrah, and not on exile to Saudi Arabia - so it seems.Does it mean that the exile question is over? Not so soon..In fact, Khaleda may choose exile on her own to save her younger son Coco from imprisonment.Under the new rules to be declared by Election commission, anyone who is not a college graduate, would not be allowed to contest for a MP seat and no one will be

Hasibul Haquenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7107917223241099600.post-71764387192110061332007-03-26T14:03:00.000-07:002007-04-27T19:58:30.398-07:00

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I was watching "Hridoye Maati O Manush" this morning on Channel I - a show on agriculture and on lives revolvoing around agriculture in rural areas of Bangladesh. This particular episode was shot in Narsingdi, a provinicial town near Dhaka. The presenter was chatting with farmers in a village tea-stall and inquiring about the price they got for selling their of products to the middlemen. During

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