Meltdown Sends Bangladesh Workers Home
23 Mar 2009: DHAKA - Masum Khan boarded a plane heading to Malaysia a month ago with the hope of earning enough money to support himself and his family back home in Bangladesh. But in just weeks, the economic turmoil sweeping the world dashed his hopes and forced himBangladesh mutiny troops surrender
26 Feb 2009: Mutinous border guards who seized their headquarters in the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, have surrendered after a two-day revolt, the government said today. The guards agreed to lay down their weapons after the government promised them an amnesty andAwami League wins Bangladeshi polls
31 Dec 2008: DHAKA // Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League-led coalition has been voted into power in Bangladesh with an overwhelming majority in the first election in seven years. Her 14-party coalition, known as the Grand Alliance, has won 263 seats so far in the 300-seatBangladesh poll campaign heats up
28 Dec 2008: Bangladeshi politicians have launched a final, hectic day of campaigning ahead of the first elections in seven years. Monday's parliamentary polls will end two years of rule by an army-backed regime which stepped in after months of political violenceBangladesh emergency laws lifted
19 Dec 2008: Bangladesh's army-backed government has lifted its two-year-long state of emergency in the run-up to elections on December 29, the country's police chief has said. A presidential order to lift the emergency rule at one minute past midnight on Wednesdayslashnews
Major quake shakes eastern city of Van
A 7.2-magnitude earthquake hit eastern Turkey yesterday, triggering the collapse of buildings and killing many people, according
to officials and experts. At least 50 people were taken to the single hospital in the city of Van, Anatolia news agency said,
The wretched scandal of Gaza
Past bombed suburbs and scrubland stands the house on the frontier of hell. Once, Abdullah Wahdem's home was a pleasant villa set
in the citrus groves of northern Gaza. Now its cream stucco frontage is pitted by the bullets and artillery salvos that
From Hate to Love -
Story of Adiy ibn Hatim
In the ninth year of the Hijrah, an 'Arab king made the first positive moves to Islam after years of feeling hatred for it. He
drew closer to faith (iman) after opposing arid combating it. And he finally pledged allegiance to the Prophet, peace be on him,
Microsoft Bing in search deal with China’s
Baidu
Microsoft has signed a deal with China’s top search engine, Baidu, to provide the site with censored web search services in
English. Baidu, which dominates 83 per cent of the local market and whose success is built on its Chinese language services, said
