Bangladesh Parliament House

Parliament House of Bangladesh is one of the twentieth century’s utmost architectural structures.  It was made of mostly concrete and marble showing a rich blend of ancient and modern architecture. Use of different geometrical shape and floating outlook are some unique attractions of this glorious creation.
This stunning building was designed by famous architect Louis Kahn.Local people called it “Sangshod Vaban”. Its better if you can hire a "Rickshaw" and go around it. The best
time to visit is Obviously in the day time. 

world largest becach cox's bazar

cox's bazar beach,    it is the world largest and longest beach. it is 140 k.m. long beach. it situated in bnagladesh
many visitor come here for see natural beauty of beach. there have lot of hotel for visitor in cheap rate. visitor can come
come cox's bazar beach easily by bus or air. for that visitor need to first come chittagong. and than which one
like to go air they will go chittagong air port and other person go to ......

Pakistan naval base siege close to an end

Troops agitate Taliban marksman holed up in Pakistan's naval air force headquarters on Monday after the most audacious attack in the unstable, nuclear-armed country since the killing of Osama bin Laden.

Blasts be gird out and helicopters hovered above in the city of Karachi, nearly 12 hours after more than 20 Pakistani Taliban militants stormed the building with guns and grenades, blowing up at least one aircraft.

However, security officials and a senior minister said the operation appeared to be coming to an end.

"A major area has been cleared," Interior Minister Rehman Malik told  "The sweeping process is continuing."

The bushwhack casts fresh doubt on the Pakistan military's ability to protect its bases following an attack on the army headquarters in the city of Rawalpindi in 2009, and is a further embarrassment following the surprise raid by US special forces on bin Laden's hideout north of Islamabad on May 2.

The Pakistan Taliban, which is cognate with al Qaeda, said the attack was to avenge the al Qaeda leader's killing.

"It was the revenge of crucifixion of Osama bin Laden. It was the proof that we are still united and powerful," Taliban agent Ehsanullah Ehsan told Reuters by telephone from an undisclosed location.

Sporadic bouts of heavy gunfire erupted from the base as security forces battled to end the siege. Twelve military personnel were killed and 14 wounded in the assault that started at 10.30 p.m. on Sunday a navy agent said.
The operation is still on but resistance from militants has reduced significantly. A security source said at least threemilitants had been killed.

Obama departs for Europe trip, explores Irish roots

 President Barack Obama kicked off a multi-nation European tour on Sunday, departing for Ireland, where he will explore his Irish roots in a town that once was home to a distant relative.
Obama and his wife, Michelle, took off from Andrews Air Force Base late on Sunday for a weeklong trip that will include stops in Britain, France and Poland.
Obama is expected to press US allies to help advance the movement for democratic change offered by the "Arab spring" uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa during the tour.
But he starts off on a nostalgic note, visiting a country where 37 million Americans claim ancestry and going to Moneygall, a sleepy village that was the birthplace of his great-great-great grandfather, Falmouth Kearney, a shoemaker.
Town residents lined up for up to six hours last week to get a ticket to see the president, who has been affectionately renamed "O'Bama" for his Irish sojourn. An exclusion zone will be in place around the town on Monday and only people with tickets will be let in.
Obama, the first African-American US president, is the son of a Kenyan father and Irish-American mother.
After Ireland Obama heads to Britain, where he will be feted by Queen Elizabeth at a formal state dinner. He then attends the Group of Eight summit in France before concluding his trip in Poland, where he will meet with leaders from eastern Europe.

Furious US lawmaker blocks Afghan aid

A senior US assembly member on Monday June 29 angrily blocked billions of dollars in aid to Afghanistan, vowing not to give "one more dime" until Afghan President Hamid Karzai acts against corruption. Representative Nita Lowey, who sits on the powerful committee in charge of the budget, said she would hold hearings into allegations that top Afghan officials flew suitcases full of cash from US aid to foreign safe havens.
"I do not intend to appropriate one more dime for assistance to Afghanistan until I have confidence that US taxpayer money is not being abused to line the pockets of corrupt Afghan government officials, drug lords and terrorists," she said.
An aide to Lowey said that President Barack Obama''s administration requested 3.9 billion dollars in aid for Afghanistan in the 2011 fiscal year, which starts in October. A member of Obama''s Democratic Party from New York, said she would refuse to consider any assistance for Afghanistan other than "life-saving humanitarian aid" when her subcommittee meets on the budget on Wednesday.
"Too many Americans are suffering in this economy for us to put their hard-earned tax dollars into the hands of criminals overseas," Lowey said in a statement.
"We will not commit billions more in taxpayer money for Afghanistan until there are assurances that such funds will be used for their intended purposes and that the government of Afghanistan is willing and able to root out corruption within its ranks," she said.
Lowey heads the House Appropriations Subcommittee on State and Foreign Operations. Her decision would not affect military appropriations, which are handled by a separate subcommittee.
Lowey was responding to a report in The Wall Street Journal that US investigators suspect that Afghan officials stuffed suitcases full of cash siphoned from Western aid projects and flew them out of Kabul airport.
The report said more than three billion dollars has been legally declared to leave Kabul International Airport over the past three years, a figure so large for such a poor country that it triggered concerns.
Separately, The Washington Post ran a front-page story Monday saying that top officials in Karzai''s government have often blocked corruption investigations.
Transparency International, a watchdog, has ranked
Afghanistan as the world''s most corrupt nation-worse even than Somalia which has no effective government.

Thousands stage protest in Greece as strike cripples life

Thousands demonstrated in Athens and major cities today and travellers faced fresh travel misery as the country was gripped by the fifth general strike this year against tough austerity policies.
Over 15,000 people according to police estimates took part in street protests in the capital and the main northern city of Thessaloniki to force the government to abandon an EU and IMF-mandated pay and pension cuts.
The main demonstration in Athens called by the country''s largest labour unions and leftist parties attracted around 5,000 participants, police said.
Some 4,000 people of all ages, down to babies in prams, had marched in the capital earlier under another protest called by Communist-affiliated workers.
A giant banner on a crane hung over the protesters, calling on the ruling Socialists to scrap an accord with Brussels and the IMF that secured a huge bailout loan for Greece in return for sweeping pay and pension cuts.
"When injustice becomes law, resistance is a duty," read another banner.
Another 7,000 people marched in two separate demonstrations in the main northern city of Thessaloniki according to the police.
The general strike put travellers through a gauntlet for the second time in a week as it disrupted departures from the capital.
Thousands of travellers to the Greek islands were prevented from sailing as at least four scheduled ferry services to the Aegean were cancelled.
Some 500 Communist-affiliated strikers at the harbour also blocked the departure of smaller vessels to islands closer to Athens.
The authorities managed to keep the lanes open in the early morning and got a handful of ferries through by dispatching around 1,000 coastguards and police to keep unionists at bay.
Greece''s main airlines grounded nearly 50 of Tuesday''s domestic flights because of the strike while rail access to Athens airport was also impeded.
Intercity trains also ran a reduced service along with hospitals while state offices shut down altogether.
No news was broadcast as journalists joined the action.
On June 23, another one-day protest had stranded thousands of travellers at Piraeus, one of the Mediterranean Sea''s busiest ports, for hours.
The recurring labour unrest has cost Greece booking cancellations and millions of euros in damages at a time when the debt-hit nation is struggling to maximise its revenues and revive its flagging economy.
"Greek islanders are counting on the next month for funds," Manolis Galanakis, deputy chairman of Greek coastal shipping associations, told Mega television.
He added that some 18,000 people were originally scheduled to sail from Piraeus on Tuesday.
A court late on Monday declared the ferry strike illegal but the Communist party and its related syndicates dismissed the ruling.
"permissibility is relative. How can someone losing their job be considered legal?" the head of the Piraeus labour centre Nikos Xourafis told the television station.
Tourism contributes 17 percent of Greece''s gross domestic product.
Lawmakers on Tuesday were to begin discussing a disputed pension reform tabled by the government that raises the general retirement age to 65 years for both men and women for the first time.
It also increases the mandatory period in the workforce from 37 to 40 years and cracks down on early retirement.

Tensions Ahead of U.S. - Israel Talks

U.S. President Barack Obama is scheduled to hold discussions with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House today. The talks come amid sharp disagreement between the two leaders on the best way to move forward in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process (BBC)--with Obama advocating a Palestinian state with pre-1967 borders, and Netanyahu claiming such boundaries are "indefensible." According to the New York Times, Netanyahu was incensed by the president's decision to endorse the 1967 borders in his highly touted Mideast speech yesterday. Obama has said he does not believe Netanyahu has the political will to offer the type of concessions necessary for a peace deal.
Obama's address on the democratic uprisings in the Mideast and North Africa was the first outright declaration of his policy on the contested issue of borders (al-Jazeera)--essentially endorsing the Palestinian desire to revert to the status before the 1967 war, in which Israel captured the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem. Analysts suggest that while this has long been the tacit U.S. position, Obama's public comments signal a bolder U.S. policy.
Hopes for success in U.S-Israeli talks have diminished in recent weeks (WSJ) with announcements of a unity government between the main Palestinian factions of Fatah and Hamas--an Islamic militant group--and the campaign for Palestinian statehood at the United Nations.