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  • Garment workers, Urdu-speakers a force in Mirpur
  • Date: Monday, December 22, 2008
  • Local voters in Mirpur see garment workers and Urdu-speaking voters being a major force in the upcoming polls. Of some 300, 000 voters in Dhaka-16 constituency, 89,000 are garment workers, 15,000 transport labourers and 40,000 are 'non-Bengalis' or Urd...
  • Protests, boycott call may mar J&K polls
  • Date: Monday, October 20, 2008
  • As Jammu and Kashmir prepares for a long poll process, the Election Commission faces an unusual but difficult challenge this time - peaceful public protests in response to the boycott call, especially in view of the current separatist groundswell across t...
  • Hired, fired, and hired again
  • Date: Friday, October 17, 2008
  • "I am so happy. I still can't believe it has happened. My entire family is dancing and celebrating right now," said 20-year-old Shruti Bhardwaj. She was reacting to a late-night press conference in Mumbai where Jet Airways chairman Naresh Goy...
  • Rights activists assaulted in Panaji restaurant
  • Date: Tuesday, October 14, 2008
  • Two rights activists, including one who was instrumental in the sexual harassment complaint against a Goa minister's son, were seriously injured when an armed group of men attacked them while they were having dinner at a Panaji hotel. Aires Rodrigues, ...
  • PM dissatisfied with drinking water project
  • Date: Friday, September 26, 2008
  • Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani on Thursday expressed his dissatisfaction over the clean drinking water programme initiated by the previous government in 2004 and constituted a committee to thoroughly examine the progress of the programme and submi...
  • Ahmed Faraz, revolutionary Urdu poet
  • Date: Monday, September 8, 2008
  • By Haresh Pandya The revolutionary Pakistani poet Ahmed Faraz, whose name is synonymous in South Asia with modern Urdu poetry, died Aug. 25 in Islamabad. He was 77. The cause was kidney failure, said his son, Shibli Faraz. He was earlier reported...
  • Urdu-speaking people 'forced' to be voters
  • Date: Monday, September 8, 2008
  • Urdu-speaking people in the country have accused some BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami leaders of using threats and violence to force them to enrol their names in the Election Commission's voter list. They have sent a letter to Chief Adviser Fakhruddin Ahmed in...