16 Feb. 2012. Dhaka. Bangladesh-US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia ROBERT O BLAKE addresses a news conference at the National Press Club in the capital on Thursday. The US government is looking forward to the appointment of an efficient leader to Grameen Bank for running the country’s largest micro-credit institution effectively, a US official said Thursday. © Monirul Alam
15 Feb. 2012 Dhaka. Bangladesh-Former Jamaat-e-Islami chief GHULAM AZAM is leaving the International Crimes Tribunal after the day’s session on Wednesday amid strict security. The former Jamaat ameer, accused of 62 specific charges of crimes against humanity during the 1971 Liberation War, sought bail on February 9 on health and old age grounds. © Monirul Alam. See more news,picture and video clips on Prothom Alo on line edition http://www.prothom-alo.com/detail/date/2012-02-15/news/224896
The Conflict between tiger and human has to a new level in the mangrove forest of the Bangladesh.Thirty people were killed by tigers last year and three tigers by people. Since Cyclone Sidr [November 2007] and Cyclone Aila [May 2009], when 1,000 people who lived near to the water had their homes flooded and were forced to move inland. Hungry people now risk facing a tiger attack everyday when they go into the forest looking for food. On February 6 in southern Sundarban. A Bengal tiger had just killed a 40-year-old woodcutter called Mabud, deep in the mangrove forest when he was collecting firewood in the area of Char-shesher. One villager told me ‘We enter the jungle searching for food and the tiger kills us . . . the tiger comes to our village, we kill the tiger’.
I took these photos on February 6 in southern Sundbaran . A Bengal tiger had just killed a 40-year-old woodcutter called Mabud, deep in the mangrove forest when he was collecting firewood in the area of Char-Shesher. One of his fellow woodcutters, Abul Sarder, told me that five of them entered the jungle to collect firewood and suddenly a tiger attacked them. ‘When we had escaped we realised that Mabud had not. We tried to save him but failed to fight off the tiger.’
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Jan 30, 2012 Dhaka. Bangladesh- Bangladesh opposition leader Khaleda Zia leads a mass procession in the capital on Dhaka Bangladesh. One person was killed and at least 30 people were injured after police clashed with thousands of opposition protestors in Bangladesh’s northwestern city of Rajshahi, police said. © Monirul Alam
Jan 27,2012. Dhaka. Bangladesh- CPB member’s takes some food before their grad rally started in the capital Dhaka .Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB) brings out a national rally in front of Matshaya Bhaban in the city of Dhaka on Friday. These are the first national meetings of the party in the last 11 years. Leaders and activists of the party from all districts joined the rally and meeting. © Monirul Alam
04. Jan 2012.Dhaka.Bangladesh- Different left learning student’s under the banner of Progotisheel Chhatra Jote joined the demonstration one stage students and office ad mine are scuffle at Jagannath University Campus. Left learning students continue their demonstration against hiked admission fee in this year. © Monirul Alam http://monirul.photoshelter.com/
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