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| Beleaguered Bangladesh's beleaguered begums | | | |
BL KAK
Bangladesh is beleaguered. Also beleaguered are two begums--Sheikh Hasina and Khalida Zia. If South Asia analysts are noting the uncanny similarities between political developments in Bangladesh and its erstwhile western wing, Pakistan, it is no surprise. Like Pakistan, where former Prime Ministers, Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif, fell afoul of the military, Bangladesh's only two grass-roots political leaders have been relentlessly targeted since the Army-backed takeover by the caretaker administration began its so-called clean up.
Former Prime Minister, Khalida Zia, under virtual house arrest, has seen two sons detained, with the younger released ahead of her own reported departure into self-exile after a “deal” with the administration. Khalida Zia's Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), seen as corrupt, was virtually run by her older son Tareque whose business interests grew exponentially as did his clout. He, as well as a number of senior ministers and officials, remain behind bars.
Khalida Zia's arch rival, the rabble-rousing Shaik... | |
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| Taking of hormones increase risk of breast cancer | | | | =========================
BL KAK NEW DELHI, Apr 20
Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) is not risk-free. Studies done in the United States and United Kingdom showed women who take hormones after menopause--hormone replacement therapy--will have a mugh higher risk of breast cancer and a slightly higher risk of ovarian cancer.
From 2001 to 2004, breast cancer rates fell almost 9 percent in U.S. -- a dramatic decline, researchers reported in New England Journal of Medicine.
Government statistics showed breast cancer rate plunged in 2003 as millions of women stopped taking hormones after a major study tied hormones use to higher heart, stroke and breast cance... | |
| | | | Congress party's minorities cell in action | | UP Muslim voters witness new propaganda stuff | | |
BL KAK
NEW DELHI, Apr 20:
A booklet just brought out by the Congress party is clearly meant to rope in the Muslim electorate in Uttar Pradesh. Circulated by the Congress party's minorities cell, the booklet titled 'Musalman Congress kay saath kyon' describes the Congress party as the "messiah of the Muslims".
The 12-page booklet continues to be circulated among Muslims in Uttar Pradesh, where Assembly polls are, at present, going on. The booklet -- in Urdu and in Hindi -- not only goes about proclaiming that the Congress was responsible for extending opportunity to Muslims to occupy top constitutional and political posts, but also goes on t... | |
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