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Floods displace thousands in central Bangladesh
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGgDCtN9S_E&feature=related]Floods in northern and central Bangladesh displaced thousands of families Thursday as rescuers braced for another day of

Flash floods grip Bangladesh washing away homes of thousands
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3ax_v1Bnjc&feature=related]Tropical rains lashed northern Bangladesh Sunday unleashing flash floods which washed away scores of mudflat villages,

Bengal micro credit company honoured by Forbes
KOLKATA: What started as a fledgling organisation five years ago at Konnagar in West Bengal has now bagged the honour

Police record complaint against Ershad ‘henchmen’
The police Thursday recorded a complaint from a journalist that supporters of former president HM Ershad had “confined” him in his house for three hours. Journalist Masud Kamal filed a general diary with Gulshan Police Station. Bidisha, estranged wife of Ershad, alleged that Kamal had been taken away from in front of her

Pakistan blocks anti-establishment blogs
Two weeks after the Pakistan government passed a new law with tough punishment for cyber crimes, hundreds of anti-establishment blogs have been blocked, bloggers said. Access to blogspot.com, a hosting domain that contains hundreds of blogs by Pakistani students and activists opposing President Pervez Musharraf’s rule and championing causes like the reinstatement of deposed judges, […]
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