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Mar 15 2013

Introducing the New Learn.WordPress.com


WordPress.com News

New to WordPress.com and don’t know where to start? Looking for just the right theme, or wondering how to use all the features in your dashboard? Interested in creating a website, not a blog? Or perhaps you’re ready to do more on your site, from adding image galleries to using built-in tools to connect with the community — and the world.

On our new WordPress.com tutorial site, learn.wordpress.com, you can get the help you need to create the site you want and get it up and running right away.

Learn — our WordPress.com tutorial site — gets a facelift!

We’ve completely revamped and reimagined learn.wordpress.com with lots of new content to help you get the most out of your WordPress.com site, including detailed guides to tasks like:

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Mar 7 2013

ফকা’র চি‍ৎকার, ‘মুক্তিবাহিনী আঁরে মারি ফেলিব’ কোর্টবিল্ডিং অপারেশন


ফকা’র চি‍ৎকার, ‘মুক্তিবাহিনী আঁরে মারি ফেলিব’ কোর্টবিল্ডিং অপারেশন.

Dec 16 2012

Showcase Your Images with Galleries


WordPress.com News

We recently announced changes to the Media Manager, which is designed to make it easier to upload images, audio, and video files to your site and edit their attributes.

Galleries and the Carousel

We highly encourage you to display your images in a gallery. Our different gallery styles showcase your collections of images professionally, and when you click on an image in a gallery, you can view its larger size in a full-size carousel. In the carousel, your readers can comment on individual images, and you can opt to display the metadata for all of your images — which is valuable info for photographers, camera hobbyists, and anyone interested in learning more about your images.

You can insert a gallery with the default thumbnail grid layout, as seen in German photographer Sven Seebeck’s galleries of landscapes and nature photography. Sven’s stunning images of coastal Cornwall in England and Norway’s Lofoten…

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Nov 13 2012

Bangladesh seeks Pakistan apology for 1971 war crimes


Bangladesh seeks Pakistan apology for 1971 war crimes

November 9, 2012 by AFP

Pakistani Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar as on a six-hour visit to Bangladesh to formally invite Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to a summit scheduled to be held in Islamabad on November 22.—Reuters Photo

DHAKA: Bangladesh’s foreign minister on Friday asked his Pakistani counterpart to apologise for war crimes allegedly committed by the army during Bangladesh’s bloody liberation struggle in 1971, a Bangladeshi ministry official said.

Dipu Moni made the request during a meeting in Dhaka with Pakistan’s Hina Rabbani Khar following previous discussions about the issue between the two countries, said Bangladesh’s Foreign Secretary Mijarul Quayes.

“The foreign minister has raised the 1971 issue and expected that Pakistan would apologise at one stage,” Quayes told reporters after the meeting.

“There are some unresolved issues between the two governments and she expects that Pakistan would come forward to resolve them,” Quayes said.

Khar was on a six-hour visit to Bangladesh to formally invite Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to a summit scheduled to be held in Islamabad on November 22.

“The Pakistani foreign minister said that they have regretted in different forms in the past and that it was time to move forward,” Quayes said.

Muslim-majority Bangladesh, which was formerly called East Pakistan, won its bloody independence struggle in December 1971.

Oct 15 2012

Malala Yousafzai: Pakistan bullet surgery ‘successful’


BBC Urdu Service

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-19893309

10 October 2012 Last updated at 15:53 GMT

Surgeons have removed a bullet from the head of a 14-year-old girl, a day after she was shot by Taliban gunmen in north-western Pakistan‘s Swat Valley.

The operation on Malala Yousafzai, a campaigner for girls’ rights, went well, her father told the BBC.

The attack sparked outrage among many Pakistanis, who gathered in several cities for anti-Taliban protests and held prayers for the girl’s recovery.

The militants said they targeted her because she “promoted secularism”.

A spokesman for the Islamist militant group, Ehsanullah Ehsan, told BBC Urdu on Tuesday she would not be spared if she survived.

The BBC’s Aleem Maqbool in Islamabad says the authorities will now have to consider how to protect the girl.

He says her family never thought about getting security because they just did not think that militants would stoop so low as to target her.

Two other girls were injured in Tuesday’s attack, one of whom remained in a critical condition on Wednesday.

‘Icon of courage’Malala Yousafzai came to public attention in 2009 by writing a diary for BBC Urdu about life under Taliban militants who had taken control of the valley.

The group captured the Swat Valley in late 2007 and remained in de facto control until they were driven out by Pakistani military forces during an offensive in 2009.

While in power they closed girls’ schools, promulgated Islamic law and introduced measures such as banning the playing of music in cars.

Malala Yousafzai’s brother, Mubashir Hussain, told the BBC that the militants were “cruel, brutal people” and urged all Pakistanis to condemn them.

Pakistani politicians led by the president and prime minister condemned the shooting, which the US state department has called barbaric and cowardly.

President Asif Ali Zardari said the attack would not shake Pakistan’s resolve to fight Islamist militants or the government’s determination to support women’s education.

Army chief Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani visited Malala in hospital on Wednesday and said the Taliban had “failed to grasp that she is not only an individual, but an icon of courage”.

Thousands of people around the world have sent the teenage campaigner messages of support via social media.

Schools in the Swat Valley closed on Wednesday in protest at the attack, and schoolchildren in other parts of the country prayed for the girl’s recovery.

Protests were held in Peshawar, Multan and in Malala’s hometown of Mingora, and another rally was expected in Lahore.

Late on Tuesday, she was flown from Mingora, where the attack happened, to the city of Peshawar, 150km (95 miles) away, for surgery.

Doctors in Peshawar operated on her for hours before managing to remove the bullet early on Wednesday.

“The operation went well, now she is ok and the swelling is down,” her father, Ziaudin Yousafzai, told BBC Pashto.

“Please pray for her, the next 24 to 48 hours are very important. Doctors are saying we don’t need to shift her. It’s good for her to be here now.”

A medically equipped plane had been placed on standby at Peshawar airport as medical experts tried to determine whether she would need further treatment overseas.

Police said they had arrested more than 40 people in the area, but all were later released on bail.

Correspondents say the arrests are part of a routine, and even the police do not believe they have found the attackers.

Malala Yousafzai earned the admiration of many across Pakistan for her courage in speaking out about life under the rule of Taliban militants, correspondents say.

She was just 11 when she started her diary, two years after the Taliban took over the Swat Valley and ordered girls’ schools to close.

Writing under the pen-name Gul Makai for BBC Urdu, she exposed the suffering caused by the militants.

Her identity emerged after the Taliban were driven out of Swat. She later won a national award for bravery and was nominated for an international children’s peace award.

Since the Taliban were ejected, there have been isolated militant attacks in Swat but the region has largely remained stable and many of the thousands of people who fled during the Taliban years have returned.

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Oct 12 2012

Class Dismissed


Class Dismissed
Watch video on …Malala Yousafzai
 

A 2009 documentary by Adam B. Ellick profiled Malala Yousafzai, a Pakistani girl whose school was shut down by the Taliban. Ms.  Malala Yousafzai a 14-year-old activist in Pakistan was shot by a gunman on Tuesday (10 October-2012).

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/video/2012/10/09/world/asia/100000001835296/class-dismissed.html
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