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Children Found in Jhitka Bzar Manikgonj

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Need your urgent sincere help to find out this boy’s parents. Could you please share this with as many friends as you can in any media? This cute boy of about 8 or 9 years was found on the way to Jhitka Bazar in Manikgonj in a sunny morning on 11 November 2011 Saturday. He can’t talk properly. Even if he can produce a word or two with his utmost effort those are not Bengali and the language can’t be understood.  He is now under the mercy of a family of the village Jagaddiya, Malchi, Aroa, Shibalaya, Manikjang. While having an outing at Jhitka in Manikgonj we came across this boy and the great family who has taken the trouble to look after this boy. They requested us to help them finding out this boy’s parents. We have the phone number and address of that family. Let’s work together with our sincere efforts and affection to help this boy finding out his parents and stop their heart-rending cry of grief. This will be certainly a good work for humanity. May God bless us all.

 

— with Aal Maruf Russell, Babul Abdul Malek, ‘Pulack Ghatack’, Ahad Pix, Hossain Mia, Abul Kashem Harun, Lead Foto, Giasuddin Shrabon, Shafiqul Alam Kiron, Ahsan Habib, Monirul Alam, Hasan Chandan, Iresh Zaker, S A Shahriar Ripon, Akjon RooSho, Rafiqur Rahman Raqu, Khan Md. Nazrul Islam, Srabon Reza and Shoeb Faruquee.


Anti-Imperialist Conference held in Bangladesh

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27 November 2011. Dhaka Bangladesh-  Socialist Party of Bangladesh SPB and International anti-imperialist & people’s solidarity co-ordinating committee YAPCC organized a three day  3rd International anti-imperialist Dhaka conference ’11 in Dhaka Bangladesh on 24 November.

More than 15 countries like Bangladesh, USA, INDIS, IRAN,NEPAL,EGYPT,LEBANON,CANADA,TURKEY are participant these anti-imperialist conference.  © Monirul Alam

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R.I.P. BABU, 1971-2011

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Last week one of our loved  friend BABU, BIPLOB GHAS passed away in Shahid Suhrawardy Hospital- Cardiac Institute at Sher-e-Bangla Nagar in Dhaka on thursday night around at 8 pm. 17th November 2011.  We all of our friends present at the hospital ground  when Babu’s life support put off . . . On these month he occurred and motorbike  accident with his right leg injure during his treatment somehow he attacked on  brain-stroke. I think both of our friends of mine can’t express his early left from us . . . During his funeral with cremation at Postogola Shashan Ghat, we remember him with lost’s of memories where he left us.Babu as a person, really goods friend’s of mine BUT unfortunate his active life is with great difficult and sorrowing.  We deeply mourn and pry  him to Almighty.

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“BABU” WE LOVE YOU AND MISS YOU ALWAYS . . .

monir/chandan/apu/kamal/lipton/biplob/ azad/choton/ shamol/dabir . . .

Patla khan lane, luxmi bazar, old dhak, Bangladesh

-monirul alam 


No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true. – Steve Jobs

FBI Agent Testifies In Bangladesh Money Laundering Case

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 Nov. 16, 2011 – Dhaka, Bangladesh – FBI special agent DEBRA LAPREVOTTE arrives to testify in a money laundering case against BNP Senior Vice-Chairmen T. Rahman and his business associate G. Al Mamun. At the request of the Bangladesh government the FBI found Tk 20.41 crore allegedly siphoned by the accused at a Singapore bank, an FBI official told the media. © Monirul Alam http://monirul.photoshelter.com/

UN Chief Ban Ki-moon Received Honorary Doctorate from Bangladesh

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 15 Nov. 2011. Dhaka. Bangladesh- U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon stand after received honorary Doctorate of Law degree from Bangladesh President and Dhaka University Chancelleor  Zillur Rahman  at a special convocation of the Dhaka University in Dhaka, Bangladesh. © Monirul Alam http://monirul.photoshelter.com/

Climate vulnerable countries meet in Bangladesh

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 14 Nov.2011. Dhaka. Bangladsh- U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon sites during a conference in Dhaka, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon open a forum in Bangladesh on Monday at Sonargaon Hotel. The conference which is in countries most vulnerable to climate change will try to unite ahead of global talks in South Africa in December 2011. The Climate Vulnerable Forum were gathered 18 countries in Dhaka to also share experiences of fighting global warming and to discuss how to tackle its effects.© Monirul Alam http://monirul.photoshelter.com/

People’s takes risky Journey for Celebrate Eid-ul-Azha in Bangladesh

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I was their around 6.30 am. on the Dhaka airport train station to cover the people’s train journey on upcoming Eid Holidays. Thousands of home bound people left Dhaka and to go to their village town celebrating Eid with their loved ones.  Yes, it wills an amazing to see when train arrives on the station. I stand on the foot over bridge to take photos and observe the whole situation.

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 At that time one of train passenger came to me and asked, Are you journalist and said , I came here yesterday at  6.00 pm. to go to my home town in Lal Monirhat but my train is not to coming on time and authority said, It will possible to come around at 8.00 or 9.00 am these morning ! I am just waiting for long time and spend 200 tk. for my food; I spent one night on the station platform and fall sick.

I looked him and pay attention his problem but not to find any solution. I think this is our system every Eid holidays home bound people are regularly facing these problem.  Atik Hossain  work in a garments factory in the Dhaka city, he also said, I don’t have any ticket yet, my train name Rangpur Express, maybe I will try to ride on the train roof, I know it’s a risky journey but I don’t have any other way.

I am really pained at heart to read today’s news paper Eight people  died falling off the roof of running trains in Tangail and Bogra district on Friday night and yesterday. But people are not to pay much attention and not to bother about the news. I think people really mad to go their village any way. But the painful news is that every year home bound people take these risks by train, launch and bus journey and is in occurred an accident.  

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However, when the train arrives in the station, it’s already overcrowded look like a human sea. Within a few minutes people rush on the train and agitate each other to boarding on the train. Finally they are happy to go to their home to take a risky journey on the train roof. I hope to safe their journey and to celebrate the Eid-al-Azha with their loved ones.

Eyewitness, monirul alam, Dhaka, Bangladesh. 06. November 2011. http://monirul.photoshelter.com/

 

 

 

Seals of the sacrificial animals | Eid-ul-Azha

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 04 Oct 2011 Narsindgi:   Sacrificial animals stand on the local van named Vatvoti heading to the cattle market in Narshandi District. Bangladesh will celebrate Eid-ul-Azha one of the biggest religious festivals in the country. I took thes picture on the way to Narsindgi District where people buy their sacrificial animals two days remaining Eid-ul-Azha.

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 04 Oct 2011 Narsingdi: People punches their sacrificial animals on the cattle market in Narshandi District . Bangladesh will celebrate Eid-ul-Azha one of the biggest religious festivals in the country. I took thes picture on the way to Narsingdi District where people buy their sacrificial animals two days remaining Eid-ul-Azha.© Monirul Alam. http://monirul.photoshelter.com/

 

On the frontline of Climate Change| Bangladesh

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Rafiqul has been forced to move 22 times in as many years, a victim of the annual floods that ravage Bangladesh. There are millions like Rafiqul,  in Bangladesh and in the future there could be many millions more if scientists’ predictions of rising seas and more intense droughts and storms come true.Climate change touches already every corner of the world and every aspect of people’s lives. As the global temperature increases, its impacts will become even more extreme.The impact of climate change World is already facing food and fuel crises.

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World Bank and IMF have sounded a larger alarm push 100 million people in low-income countries deeper into poverty.Bangladesh is a country that stands to be one of the first to suffer from global climate change. As Dr. Atiq Rahman of the Bangladesh Center for Advanced Studies says: “Bangladesh is a resilient country. We have shown the world that we can adapt, that we can confront things, that we are not just passive victims of disasters.”

The IPCC warns of devastating floods, drought, extreme weather, hunger, and disease across the world in decades to come. The Bay of Bengal regularly serves catastrophic cyclones and floods. With few natural resources, bursting cities and poor infrastructure, the small nation is certainly beset with troubles both natural and manmade. But Bangladesh may yet become our best example for how both big and small adoptions can make a difference for people to survive on a warming planet.

 Bangladesh already accelerates it and now a glimpse of everyone’s future.Photojournalist Monirul Alam  as an eyewitness ,he covered in his own country , who struggle against nature .

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7 billion Population Campaign in Bangladesh

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 A group of Bangladeshi youth participates a Flash Mob programmes under the campaign of the world population reaches 7 Billion at the Bashundhara City Shopping Complex in Dhaka city on 29 Oct. The world’ population will reach at 7 billion on October 2011. The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and United Nations Youth and Students Association of Bangladesh (UNYSAB) is innovative global campaign—7 Billion Actions—to build awareness around the opportunities and challenges of a world of seven billion people. © Monirul Alam