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     Volume 9 Issue 16| April 16, 2010|


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Voicebox

"We have had many queries since the beginning of the fair on April 3. We get many calls at our office about setting up solar power systems in urban areas."
MD WALIUL BARI
deputy manger of the leading solar home system provider Grameen Shakti.

"Undoubtedly, we need strong conventional armed forces to protect and defend our country's independence and sovereignty. But the ultimate defence will be our people. So, we discussed how to ensure people's engagement in the defence system."
M IDRIS ALI
chief of parliamentary standing committee on defence ministry.

"We had remained alert so that none can carry any arms and ammunition in the airport."
GM QUADER
Civil Aviation and Tourism Minister.

"The question of seeking formal apology by Pakistan to Bangladesh for her role in 1971 has to be decided through discussion between the two countries."
ASHRAF QURESHI
Pakistani High Commissioner

"People can't stay under open sky for months….shift them somewhere and provide them with food and drinking water."
SHEIKH HASINA
prime minister
about Aila victims

You need both needle and thread to sew. Let the needle do its work and the thread do its work.
SHEIKH HASINA
Prime Minister
regarding the role of Upazilla
Chairpersons and MPs.


Cartoon by Tanmoy

 

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