Archive for: June, 2015

Rampal Coal Power Project: A curse for the world

If anyone votes “yes” to coal based power plant, please ask the Americans. With over 500 coal based power plants dotted around the USA today, each American goes to bed every day with the guilt of being the largest polluter of this planet. For America it had all started very early 20th century.  Cursed by […]

Gazetted Kuakata “Master Plan” gathering dust on LGED desk

The much-awaited Kuakata master plan was gazetted in November 2014, but officials in Dhaka are still sitting on it, not taking any steps to notify authorities for its implementation. A futuristic 30-year Kuakata Master Plan should otherwise now be in force to prevent unplanned and haphazard growth of this highly potential tourist hub on the […]

A rural affair with a happy ending

At a village in Barisal, located in the south of Bangladesh, a 25-year old sturdy looking man, Bipul, and his best friend, Riad, had been regularly engaging in phone conversations with girls and trying to get lucky in lust calls. But charming Bipul always wanted to seek the thrill of love and ached to fill that […]

The forgotten 186 of Buriganga

Nearly six years on, PM’s pledge remains unfulfilled In the afternoon of December 29, 2009, about 150 traditional boatmen from the Basila-Washpur ghat formed a spectacular column with their boats in the river Buriganga and waited under the just completed Shaheed Budhijibi Bridge there. On the eastern side of the bridge, amid tight security, several […]

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