An Ordinary Citizen

Mobile phone is changing the lifestyle of our new generation

bdoza — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:21:08 +0000

In Bangladesh, you would hardly see any young people, male or female without a mobile phone. They are using it for communicating with their friends and families, to pass thier time enjoying the music or listening to FM radio, play games, browse the internet, chat or explore the facebook. Nothing is wrong with all these [...]

Centralised admission test for private medical colleges in Bangladesh- a positive step

bdoza — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:39:57 +0000

The Government has taken decision to organise the admission tests for MBBS in private medical colleges directly under the control of itself through Directorate of Heath Service. There are 40 private medical colleges working in Bangladesh against 17 Govt. Medical Colleges. Till last year, the admission in private medical colleges was controlled by individual colleges [...]

ACC is frustrated over its own state and state of judiciary in Bangladesh

bdoza — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 06:20:45 +0000

The Chief of Anti-Corruption Commission(ACC) recently expressed his frustration over ts own state and state of judiaciary in relation to the corruption cases in Bangladesh. BDnews24.com reports, the chief of watchdog said. ‘ the government is clipping the wings of the Anticorruption Commission, reducing some of its powers, in phases’. After making the Anticorruption Commission a ‘tiger without teeth’, the [...]

US dilemma on Afghan Strategy

bdoza — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:48:46 +0000

In the inauguaral speech President Obama outlined the strategy to combat terrorism. He promised to withdrew troops from Iraq and concentrate more on Afghanistan and if necessary to strike Pakistan. Troops withdrawal from Iraq has started as promised though a bit slowly, but US strikes the terror den along the Pak -Afghan border. But suicidal attacks now more [...]

Is climate migration the answer to save the people of southern Bangladesh?

bdoza — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:22:41 +0000

The impact of climate change has started affecting Banglades. Bangladesh had already experienced devastating cyclone ‘Sidr’ and ‘Aleya’ in the last years. While Sidr has caused more deaths of human lives and damage to the corps, houses and cattles, Cyclone Aleya surged the sea water into the coastal belt and submesed huge area under saline [...]

Obama own Nobel Peace Prize 2009 – Is it premature?

bdoza — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:13:41 +0000

Barack Obama got the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009 that cought everybody surprized including Obama himself. When the prize was declared in Oslo,Norway, Obama was in sleep. After he heard the news, White House took time to express its first reaction to the announcement. After becoming president, Obama started to spread hope of peace [...]

Bangladesh in Human Development Report 2009

bdoza — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:26:11 +0000

UNDP has just published Human Development Report 2009. The state of Bangladesh is presented in the country factsheet An ordinary citizen

UN summit: Changing the system of representation

bdoza — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 17:58:14 +0000

Summit of 192 nations held in the General Assebly of the UN. Leaders of many countries projected their ideas in the summit from Barak Obama of USA to Nitalyaho of Israel. I could manage to listen to part of the session that telecasted live from the spot. Barak Obama deviating from his immediate predecessor expressed [...]

A Daily’s crusade to save our rivers

bdoza — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 07:08:11 +0000

The rivers and canals of Dhaka over the years are being grabbed by the influentials and the greedies. So far no political power took any real initiative to free the rivers and canals from the gravers. As a consequence, drainage of water of Dhaka city is grossly affected, many of the areas inundated by a [...]

A new education policy proposed

bdoza — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:01:05 +0000

The newly formed education commission headed by Prof Kabir Chowdhury submitted their proposal for education policy in Bangladesh and Ministry of Education floated the policy in their website for critical review by the experts and the public. The proposed policy is aimed at unifying the diverse education lines in Bangladesh and upgrading the education equipped [...]