Deserving rock star status, Yunus does have an exclusive fan club. His friend Hillary Clinton feted him during a stopover in Dhaka in May; and an indignant Richard Branson last week fired off a letter to the editor of The Times. But in the main, the world's media has averted its gaze while the Bangladeshi banker has been pummelled for more than a year
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Since publication of these advertisements in the local dailies, intelligence agencies and investigative journalists in Bangladesh have started looking into this issue with due importance, as they already are smelling rat behind this mysterious notices published by the ruling party MP. Many are even anticipating that the drivers might also have faced the similar fates of those missing or murdered drivers of Assistant Personal Secretary [APS] of Minister Suranjit Sen Gupta, missing BNP leader M Ilias Ali or the murdered driver of the son of influential Awami League leader Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya.
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Website of Md. Aslamul Haque
The 94-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner, who was jailed for 27 years by the white apartheid government, was well enough to have a small private party last month to celebrate his birthday, where he met guests with a blanket round his knees.
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William B Milam, who was posted in Dhaka in the early 1990s for three years, asked other international lending agencies to take the World Bank's lead in withholding aid for the Awami League-led government.
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A business magnate and a state minister are lobbying hard for a deal with
Malaysia on the Padma bridge project despite the country's failure to submit a
complete proposal even in eight months, communications ministry sources say.
The businessman, known as a loan defaulter, and the junior minister, who is a
powerful leader of ruling Awami League, are misguiding Prime Minister Sheikh
Hasina about Malaysia's capacity to handle the bridge construction.
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Professor Muhammad Yunus turned a villain in the eyes of the top policymakers of the ruling Bangladesh Awami League led leftist-Islamist coalition government, when he harshly criticized limitless corruption of the politicians as well took an initiative of floating a political party named Nagorik Shakti [Citizen's Power], although his political ambition got flopped at the zero hour as he failed to get expected support either from the mass people or from the members of the civil society as well as politicians. Simple reason behind such shameful consequence of his political ambition is, because though he attained grand success to build an international image being the founding father of Grameen Bank, the people at large in the country never anticipated him stepping into politics, nor they had any intention of extending any support to the initiatives of Nagorik Shakti in emerging as a political party, which surely would be an alternative to the existing mainstream political forces in Bangladesh.
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Reality TV star Kim Kardashian has been accused of enjoying a threesome with a
man and a woman.
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A damning inquiry into the treatment of women in Australia's military on
Wednesday recommended quotas to increase female representation and the
establishment of a unit to probe sexual misconduct.
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Apparently everyone wants to be Edison Chen nowadays, what with the latest perpetrator being Taiwanese heir Justin Lee, in a sex scandal that allegedly involved him drugging and possibly raping several women with 60 women taped during the sessions.
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Bollywood Cine Industry may leave Mumbai
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Smith was acquitted of making sexual advances on the female trainee he wooed at
Lackland and of obstructing justice.
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In the wake of the “scandal” – if the philandering of a married 40-something with an unmarried 20-something can be deemed scandalous instead of sadly inevitable – the least-surprising outcome has been the ensuant rush to lay the blame squarely at the feet of Stewart, who the clever internet has now dubbed a “trampire”.
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