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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Isn't PM also responsible for the violence?
Only forty-two years have passed since our independence, but already things have started to rot away. Never before have we felt this fear, uncertainty and hopelessness.
Many senior leaders of the BNP are charged with setting fire on vehicles or throwing cocktails. Interestingly, police could not arrest the miscreants who actually did it, and these leaders are charged on the assumption that they instigated the culprits. How funny! Quite a number of top BNP leaders are in jail. Hussain Muhammad Ershad is still in CMH, who was picked up by RAB when he refused to participate in the general election.
We are outraged by the government's low esteem for people. Does it think that people do no understand anything, or does it not care? Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is constantly blaming Khaleda Zia for the loss of lives and property. We do not know if all the havoc is created by opposition but we are sure about one thing: the reason behind this turmoil is the discarding of the CTG. So is not Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina mainly responsible for the present situation?
Nurlahan Chittagong
Remembering Mandela
I have learned a new concept of love from Nelson Mandela's autobiography: love out of anger and injustice against the rule of the white minority in South Africa. It is amazing to see that after serving 27 years in jail, Mandela became the first black president there, believing in reconciliation with the white for permanent peace and harmony. Mandela never nourished any revenge against the white people. He is now considered the Greatest Gift of God for South Africa.
Mandela was a great statesman with vision, courage, sagacity and magnanimity for the people of the whole of Africa. He was greatly impressed by our profound respect and honor shown to him when he visited the land of the Brave (as he said), Bangladesh in 2007.
May God grant him eternal peace.
Abul Ashraf Noor
On e-mail
Microbeads pose environmental hazard
Microbeads are tiny particles used for different scientific purposes. Plastic mocrobeads are used in beauty products such as face wash. But microbeads are environment pollutant. According to a recently published research report in the journal "The Marine Pollution Bulletin" high concentrations of plastics were found in U.S. lakes, particularly Lake Erie, with microbeads accounting for 90 percent of these plastics. These tiny plastic particles are washed down the drain, reach waterways and pollute water. The fishes and other aquatic animals eat these particles which cause serious harm to fish population. When humans consume these fishes, they also suffer health problems. These microbeads are not only polluting lakes but also seas.
In Bangladesh, beauty products containing microbeads are widely used but this should be stopped. Instead of using plastic microbeads in face wash, natural products such as ground nuts and fruit pits can be used which do not cause any harm to environment.
Professor M Zahidul Haque
Dean, Faculty of Agriculture
Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University
Dhaka
Comments on news report, "New Year starts with Nonstop Blockade," published on December 31, 2013
Shadhinl008
Democracy is a myth and long live the myth.
Morshed Alam
The weirdest New Year ever; I doubt if the ladies have anything better to offer us. And 1 hope good sense will prevail over all evil.
Fakhrul Islam
Democracy march is more effective to paralyse the country because of the government's reaction.
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"US, UK move to break deadlock" (January 01, 2014)
Kalu_Mia
Breaking the deadlock needs breaking the dead weight of Hasina regime.
Jafar Iqbal
The whole world is already tired of these futile activities of diplomats for the last one year without any kind of practical solution.