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Re: [ALOCHONA] Grameen Bank Uses The Poor To Bail Out Adidas From Its Financial Crisis



Mr. Devinder is being a little harsh on Grameen Bank. We all know it is not perfect and has opportunities to improve in places. But looking at this from a negetive point of view would be unfair to Grameen organization. Grameen is a successful organization and if Adidas comes to Bangladesh, we should welcome it. Our workers will have exposure to new skills and it will be good for us in the long run.
 
We have lot of unemployment and any initiative to expose our idle work force to modern shoe making skill should be supported by all of us. Maybe Adidas will make a lot of money, let it be. Next time it may motivate local business people to start selling cheaper shoes for poor people. They pay tax and help us in the long term.
 
It is not the time to isolate ourselves from the modern world. I have to disagree with Mr. Sharma this time.
 
-----qr



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Subject: [ALOCHONA] Grameen Bank Uses The Poor To Bail Out Adidas From Its Financial Crisis

 
Grameen Bank Uses The Poor To Bail Out Adidas From Its Financial Crisis
By Devinder Sharma
 
Nobel laureate Muhammed Yunus is planning a joint venture with German sports apparel maker Adidas to provide cheaper shoes for the poor. Bangladesh's newspaper Daily Star reported on March 21: The two sides have signed a memorandum of understanding and are working together on how to bring the products into market tentatively by the year-end, said officials of Yunus Centre, the hub of his social business activities. At a meeting at Yunus Centre, Yunus was quoted as saying: "The shoes will be cheap and affordable for the poor. It will protect people from diseases."
Appears to be a laudable objective. But just pause, and think.
I admire Muhammed Yunus for his ability to use the poor so effectively in promoting the commercial ventures of internationally known brands, which are faced with a serious economic crisis. Adidas is one such company, which recently faced a money-laundering probe, and has had its net profits falling by a whopping 97 per cent to just US $ 6.7 million. According to news reports, "Adidas has announced a major restructuring of its operations that would include the elimination of regional headquarters in Europe and Asia and was expected to generate more than €100 million in annual savings."
Adidas would remain eternally grateful to Muhammed Yunus for providing it an assured market that it was desperately looking for. Any shoe company would grab an opportunity where it can sell its shoes continuously for years, in bulk. In other words, Grameen Bank will end up bailing out Adidas from its present crisis of survival. Even if the market was for cheaper shoes (in any case, these shoes have often been allegedly manufactured in 'sweat-shops'), Adidas ends up making enough money to keep it afloat.
Ever since I was a child, I always felt outraged to see the poor walk barefoot. In my own village in Himachal Pradesh, this was quite a usual sight till recently. In many other parts of the country, more so in the tribal and poverty-stricken areas, poor people walk barefoot for miles. I even see women walking barefoot to collect drinking water, fuel and fooder. Most people do understand that walking barefoot makes them vulnerable to several ailments and diseases. But it is because of their economic inability, they can't afford a pair of shoes or chappal.
Providing the poor with cheaper shoes certainly looks to be a pious initiative. I am sure Grameen Bank will soon link up sales of shoes with its loan repayment plans. In other words, poor will become an assured market for Adidas shoes.
I am sure many of you would agree that if the poor were given micro-credit at a lower rate of interest than what the Grameen Bank is doing at present, they would be left with more money in their hands from which they can buy not only shoes but also a decent pair of clothing that Muhammed Yunus is now trying to sell. Interestingly, you first squeeze out every penny from the pocket of the poor in the name of empowerment, and then you show benevolence by selling them a pair of shoes!
Muhammed Yunus and his brand of Micro-Finance Institutions (MFIs) all over the developing world charges the poorest of the poor with a very high interest rate varying between 24 to 36 per cent on an average. I don't think even former US President Bill Clinton, a strong votary of micro-finance, himself pays a 24 per cent rate of interest like what the poorest of the poor are made to shell out.
Since the loan recovery is on weekly basis, the poor end up paying still higher interest, anything between 35 to 50 per cent. No wonder, in several parts of India (and also in Bangladesh) poor loanees are being driven to commit suicide.
Micro-finance is an organised money-lending.
Imagine if the poor were to repay at the rate of 4 to 5 per cent rate of interest, which increasingly is being offered to farmers in India, the entire economic activity for which they receive the small credit, would become profitable. I have always been saying that if the poorest of a poor woman in a village were to get credit at 4 per cent interest for buying a goat, she would be probably be driving a Nano car at the end of the second year.
Yunus is only talking about providing the poor with a pair of cheap shoes. I am talking about Nano car (I don't have to sign an MoU with Tata's to market Nano for the poor). I am sure if he (and his fellow MFI partners) were to start charging only 4 per cent interest on the small credit that is made available, poverty would banish much sooner than what is projected to be achieved under the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). But then, the problem is who will sustain the livelihood of MFI employees? How can the MFIs then turn into big Empires?
The MoU with Adidas benefits everyone except the poor. Grameen Bank gets the accolades from the urban elite for an imaginative business deal. The business and industrial chambers in Bangladesh (and also in India) would be delighted since these are the kind of business activities that can keep them afloat. Adidas of course will get a breather that it is desperately looking for. Economists would be very happy because the GDP will go up.
Grameen Bank tie-up with Adidas is a classic case of how the well-to-do in our society gangs up to exploit the poor.
Long live the poor!!


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[ALOCHONA] Toothless ACC



JS body chair seeks ACC apology: Do some people want license for corruption?



Chairman of Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Accounts Dr Mohiuddin Khan Alamgir yesterday asked the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) to apologise for its two years' activities during the previous caretaker government.

Criticising the role of the ACC during the caretaker government the committee chairman observed that there is no necessity of the commission.

"We don't need the ACC that worked as stooge to protect interests of vested quarters in violation of the constitution during the caretaker government," he said while talking to reporters at Media Centre after the meeting of his committee at Sangsad Bhaban.

Terming the Government initiative to amend the ACC law positive Alamgir said, "We don't want to make the institute stronger with teeth and nails so that it can bit somebody without any fault."

He argued that in the democratic system, the position of the appointed authorities like ACC, Election Commission (EC) and Public Service Commission cannot be above Parliament.

The committee chairman said the ACC has to work in accordance with the law of the land. In this connection, he alleged that the ACC took foreign assistance directly by violating the Constitution.

"The then ACC chairman Hasan Mashhud Chowdhury sold furniture of the Commission without any tender. Who will conduct its trial?" he questioned.

He also raised questions as to why people who sent crores of Taka through money laundering saved them and where is the ACC notice that was served to owner of the daily Prothom Alo and Transcom Group.

Alamgir also alleged that the ACC harassed politicians without faults during Farkhruddin and Moyeen-U-Ahmed-led caretaker government.

"I was forced to give a statement against Sheikh Hasina. Subsequently, I was arrested as a did not give the said statement. I was awarded punishment but no allegation brought against me was proved," he said.

Criticisng the statement of Prof Muzaffar Ahmed on amendment of ACC law, Alamgir said he (Muzaffar) has violated the court saying that many corrupt people were elected lawmakers taking the advantage of legal loopholes.

"We have been released through legal fight, then came to Parliament taking the mandate of the people. But he (Muzaffar) is talking without the support of people and by spending foreign moneytHe has no principle. He is a most corrupt person," he alleged.

Earlier, he told reporters that the meeting discussed corruption of 5 executive engineers of Local Government Engineering Department (LGED), misappropriation of foreign remittance against export LC of Sonali Bank, failure of Sonali Bank to realise loan and misappropriation of depositors' money in Rupali Bank during the BNP-led four-party government regime. The meeting also discussed the audit report on the ACC, he said.

Committee members-Prof Md Ali Ashraf, MK Anwar, Muhammad Imajuddin, Mohammad Syedul Haque, AKM Rahmatullah, Khan Tipu Sultan, Maj Gen (Retd) Abdus Salam, Narayan Chandra Chanda and Ms Farida Akhter attended the meeting.
 
 
 


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[ALOCHONA] Jubo League factions fight for contract



30 hurt in Meherpur bomb attack
 
At least 30 people were hurt in a bomb attack by a Jubo League faction during a tender dropping in Meherpur yesterday. Of the injured, Asirul, Tareq, Hira, Ranga, Raza, Bhola, Rezaul, Atiar, Nafiz Uddin, Abbas and Zia were admitted to Meherpur General Hospital.

Police and Rab sources said a gang led by district Jubo League general secretary Bipul attacked the rival group led by Golam Rasul, president of Meherpur sadar upazila Awami League, when the latter reached LGED office to drop tender documents.

The attackers exploded six bombs leaving 30 persons splinter-hit. They also threw two explosives at a Rab vehicle partly damaging its front side, Rab sources said. Rab and police jointly chased both groups, charged baton on them and brought the situation under control.

Later at about 2:00pm, men loyal to Bipul attacked the house of district AL general secretary Kaji Mia Jan. They ransacked rooms and torched a motorcycle. The same group also burnt another motorcycle owned by Amanuallah, a supporter of Golam Rasul, on CB Road.

Rab raided the houses of some leaders of both factions around 3:00pm but could not arrest anyone. Rab, however, seized Bipul's motorcycle. Police later arrested two persons including a bomb-hit AL activist. The two are Turaf, 30 and Asirul, 30. Meherpur SP Iqbal Hossain told The Daily Star, special police were deployed in the town.

LGED authorities floated a tender of Tk 1.55 crore to build roads and culverts in two upazilas of the district about a month ago. Yesterday was the last date for the bidding.
 
Strike continues for 18 days

Three people were injured as the BCL activists of Chittagong University unit vandalised six university-bound human hauliers at different spots here yesterday.

The BCL enforced indefinite strike at CU campus is continuing since April 16.Protesting the violence, drivers and transport workers put up barricade in front of Muradpur intersection halting traffic movement for nearly one hour.

Witnesses said agitated BCL activists in different groups ransacked three human haulers of Tori Service near Sholoshahar Railway Station, one in front of Chittagong Education Board and two others near Muradpur Rail Gate area between 10:30am and 11:00am. Jashim Uddin, driver of a human hauler, its helper Mamun and an unidentified CU female student were injured as pelted stones and pieces of broken glass hurt them, sources said.

Police, however, arrested two CU students: Shahidul Islam, of statistics department and Ferdous, of soil science department, in this connection.Assistant Commissioner of CMP Panchlaish Zone Rezaul Masud said they suspect that the groups involved in the rampage were activists of BCL CU unit while the two arrestees were also from the same unit.

Leaders of Chittagong Metropolitan Sarak Paribahan Malik Sramik Oikkya Parishad threatened to go for movement if the police fail to ensure security of vehicles.

http://www.thedailystar.net/story.php?nid=136966


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[ALOCHONA] Winter vegetables in summer



Winter vegetables in summer
 
 
 
Dhaka, May 03 (bdnews24.com) – Bangladesh and Bhutan are set to enter an almost reciprocal arrangement.

While Bhutan looks set to export winter vegetables to Bangladesh at the height of summer, Bangladesh could export them in winter when temperatures in Bhutan are forbiddingly low for much farming activity.

Thus consumers in Bangladesh may look forward to getting winter vegetables such as cauliflower, cabbage and tomatoes from this summer as Bhutan is likely to export them from July, officials say.

According to an agreement, winter vegetables from the Himalayan kingdom will get duty-free access to Bangladesh market. That India allows goods laden Bhutanese trucks travel up to Bangladesh border through its territories would facilitate the matter further.

In Bhutan, cauliflower, cabbage, tomato, beans and other vegetables grow in June-July when temperature rises above 15 degrees Celsius. But Bangladesh's weather does not permit cultivation of such vegetables due to heavy rainfall with the mercury rising well above 30 degrees Celsius.

"We are very grateful that Bangladesh has given duty-free access to 18 Bhutanese products that includes vegetables," Daw Penjo, Bhutan's foreign secretary, told bdnews24.com last week.

He said his country could export winter vegetables to Bangladesh in June-July and import them from November to March when they become abundant in Bangladesh and scarce in Bhutan.

"Hopefully we will be able to export winter vegetables to Bangladesh from this June-July," Sonam Tshering, Bhutanese secretary for economic affairs, told bdnews24.com at his Thimphu office on Apr 27. He said Bhutanese farmers used to produce vegetables to meet their own demands as there were no opportunities to export the produce.

"We have already started encouraging the Bhutanese farmers to produce more vegetables as Bangladesh can consume a huge quantity," said Tshering. The secretary said prime minister Sheikh Hasina during her Bhutan visit in last November said she would allow vegetables to get duty-free access to help the poor Bhutanese farmers.

Again, the farmers in Bangladesh would be benefited by exporting vegetables to Bhutan in November to March. "This will bring benefit for both countries," said Tshering. "We can export vegetables to Bangladesh as India allows Bhutanese trucks to move freely through Indian territories," said the secretary.

Dhaka and Delhi in January agreed that Bhutan and Nepal would use Indian territories to trade with Bangladesh. Bangladesh's nearest land port Burimari is over 60 kilometres off the Bhutanese border. Tamabil is another land port that the Bhutanese use. Thimphu recently proposed another land port in Nakugaon in Sherpur which will be the nearest port for Bhutan.

Bangladesh's exports to Bhutan amount to less than $1 million, while Bhutan's exports to Bangladesh stand at around $14 million according to the commerce ministry.

Bhutan's main exports are minerals, foodstuffs, fruits, beverages and oats.

Commerce ministry officials say if Bhutan can export winter vegetables, consumers in Bangladesh will get them at more affordable prices.

Bangladesh produces a huge quantity of cauliflowers, cabbage, beans, peas, tomatoes and others between November and March. The winter vegetables turn so cheap that sometimes farmers are forced to let them rot in the field. But these are not available during summer. The little that are available, are so costly that ordinary consumers cannot afford them.

Diplomatic observers say that Bangladesh may not be in a position to export vegetables to Bhutan as Delhi is yet to allow Bangladeshi trucks go up to the India-Bhutan border through its territories. But foreign ministry officials expect that India might soon give that permission.



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[ALOCHONA] LA TIMES - Where's the beef? Cow smuggling from India to Bangladesh,



 

 

Where's the beef? Indians don't want to know

By Mark Magnier, Los Angeles Times

3:20 PM PDT, May 2, 2010

www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-india-cows-20100503,0,7142346.story

 

Most Indian politicians don't discuss the thriving business of cow smuggling from Hindu-majority India, where the animals are revered, to Muslim-majority Bangladesh, where many people enjoy beef.

 

Reporting from Murshidabad, India

 

For a cow, it doesn't get much better than India.

 

Wander the streets surrounded by vegetarians, enjoy being adorned with garlands and treated with god-like reverence as you look forward to dying of old age.

 

But danger lurks, even in paradise.

 

A dirty little secret that most Indian politicians don't discuss is the thriving cow smuggling trade from their Hindu-majority nation, home of the sacred cow, to Muslim-majority Bangladesh, where many people enjoy a good steak. The trade is particularly robust around the Muslim festival of Eid.

 

India has outlawed cattle exports, but that hasn't prevented well-organized traffickers from herding millions of the unlucky beasts each year onto trains and trucks, injecting them with drugs on arrival so they walk faster, then forcing them to ford rivers and lumber into slaughterhouses immediately across the border.

 

On the hot, flat Murshidabad plains bridging the border, Sarvender Ghankar, 24, a member of India's Border Security Force, pointed toward Bangladesh. It's a few hundred yards away, but the line is unmarked. Farmers wander back and forth. But to hear him talk, the divide is as secure as Ft. Knox.

 

"There used to be smuggling, but now the border is completely sealed," Ghankar said, sporting camouflage fatigues, shiny black boots and a 20-round semiautomatic rifle. "Soon we'll even have a fence."

 

Area residents have a different take.

 

"The border guards are in on it, both in India and Bangladesh, and take bribes to look the other way," said Yasin Mullah, 55, a Murshidabad shopkeeper and cow owner. "Smuggling is rampant these days with all the money and growing population."

 

Estimates suggest 1.5 million cows, valued at up to $500 million, are smuggled annually, providing more than half the beef consumed in Bangladesh.

 

The cows come from as far as Rajasthan, about 1,000 miles away. Many trade hands several times en route.

 

At the Panso market in Jharkhand state, an interim stop about 300 miles from the border, the 15,000 or so cows passing through each week fetch about $100 apiece, local vendors say.

 

Animals that arrive exhausted are injected with Diclofenac sodium, a banned anti-inflammatory drug, to energize them. Most of the traders are Muslims. Many of the drivers and handlers are Hindus. At the border, crossings are usually done at night.

 

Most cows pass through West Bengal state, which shares a 1,300-mile border with Bangladesh. The state's communist government maintains a neutral line on religion, allowing cows to be openly slaughtered and traded.

 

Other Indian states accuse West Bengal of encouraging the illegal trade, said Haripada Biswas, a state assemblyman from Jagadal district, a stance he sees as hypocritical.

 

"Delhi is biased against cow killing, but beef is very delicious," Biswas said. "And many of the illegal cows arrive from cow-loving states. Those guys act all principled, and quickly blame us, but don't seem above making a tidy profit."

 

The profits can be significant. A $100 medium-size cow in Jharkhand is worth nearly double that in West Bengal and about $350 in Bangladesh. Indian residents along the border complain that the markup also attracts illegal migrants from Bangladesh, who steal cows at night and dart back home.

 

In a bid to stem the rustling, the Murshidabad local government announced a cow-licensing system in 2007. Cows were issued photo IDs. Branding or ear tags were nixed as hurtful to cows and easily altered by rustlers.

 

But enforcement has been lax, and the ID system is largely ineffective, residents said.

 

"You can put a picture of your cat, dog, your elbow in the photo and no one looks closely," said Mullah, who has opted not to register his two cows.

 

India has mostly turned a blind eye to the smuggling problem. In part, it's worried that any mention could inflame religious tensions between Hindus and Muslims, said Sreeradha Datta, an analyst with New Delhi's Institute for Defense Studies and Analyses. Hindus consider cows sacred because of references in ancient religious texts.

 

"It's too political," she said. "And every pocket is being lined, with a trade of this magnitude."

 

Bangladesh has little incentive to raise the issue publicly either, analysts said, given that it taxes the smugglers and is quite happy not to pay India the duties that a legal trade would entail.

 

Mohammad Jalal Uddin Sikder, professor of migration at the University of Dhaka in Bangladesh, believes that the cross-border business should be legalized to reduce the number of deaths in clashes; about 100 cattle traders and border guards are killed each. The two nations met to discuss the idea in 2008, but Sikder acknowledges that legalization is unlikely anytime soon, given longstanding distrust between the two sides.

 

One thing is clear, he said: The trade isn't going away.

 

"My grandmother's house is in Bangladesh, and her field is in India," he said. "There are 21 rivers along a border that's [2,700 miles] long. It's just not possible to stop."

 

mark.magnier@latimes.com

 

Anshul Rana of The Times' New Delhi Bureau and special correspondent Baldeo Sharma in Jharkhand contributed to this report.

 



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Re: Fwd: [ALOCHONA] Re: Tagore Deification



Dear Qr

I understand and share your frustrations. But these interlocutors you refer to are 'legends in their own minds" and hardly in the mood for introspection. So your plea is just going to go by the wayside.

 

Robin


-----Original Message-----
From: qrahman@netscape.net
Sent: Apr 30, 2010 4:37 AM
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Subject: Fwd: [ALOCHONA] Re: Tagore Deification

 






"
Muslims are heard praying to Allah to put Hindus into the fire of hell, when they hear about their death.
 
Do Muslims also pray to Allah to place Tagore in hell on the Day of Judgment?
 
Mohammad Asghar"
 
Mr. Asghar,
 
This is not accurate. Muslims are not in a position to send anyone to hell. Our Maker is the only one to make such decitions. I am afraid this sort of distortion should be checked and stopped by all fair minded alochoks. Such action is not supported by Islam and God is the ultimate judge.
 
Shalom.
 
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Does islam enjoined the muslims to pray for Tagore for Allah to cast him unto the blazing fire of hell?


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Subject: Re: Tagore Deification

Most educated Bangladeshi Muslims love Tagore, more than they love their own parents. His birthday is celebrated with great fanfare. His death anniversary is observed with great solemnity.
 
Most homes in Bangladesh of educated Muslims have his pictures, despite the fact that Tagore was a Hindu and he is reported to have disliked Muslims from the core of his heart.
 
Muslims are heard praying to Allah to put Hindus into the fire of hell, when they hear about their death.
 
Do Muslims also pray to Allah to place Tagore in hell on the Day of Judgment?
 
Mohammad Asghar
 

 


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Subject: Tagore Deification

 
"Tagore speaks of the " Heavenly Kingdom "---the "almighty God" and "Soul". If these could remove us from misery what would be the use of man's Endeavour to reform the world? We oppose Tagore, who tries to stunt the growth of self-determination and the struggle of oppressed classes and races". Chinese Communist Party
 
What is this near absolute cult-like blanket status granted to Tagore by the educated sheeps of Aipaar and Oyeepaar Bangla? What is this about the Bengalees who love to deify anything or anybody they fall in love with?
Sujit K. Bhattacharjee, the great Tagore lover opines, "he is the greatest literary genius the world has ever seen". Greatest genius? Let's try this. Was he a better short story writer than Leo Tolstoy? Was his Geetanjali better than Tolstoy's War and Peace? Did he write anything comparable to Dostoevsky's Crime & Punishment?  How can the Nobel committee chose Geetanjali over that epic War & Peace? Was he better than Shakespeare in poetry? Was he better than George Bernard Shaw as a playwright? Was he better than Shakespeare as a dramatist? Honestly tell me, is he better than Ludwig Van Beethoven or Wolfgang Mozart as a composer?  Are you telling me that Tagore as an Essayist surpassed the Essayist, E.B White? In fact, Hazrat Google informed me that Tagore's name is not even included in the list of 100 greatest novelists of all time! Why do these Bengalees get all touchy and feely when anything about Robindronath is questioned? What is this inveterate admiration of Tagore by the second rate Bangla-Babus of this world? Wasn't he a mere mortal ? What is this tendency among the Bengalees for deification of a personality? What is this cult mentality? As long as we keep on deifying him, how can we ever judge him as a human being? Where is the difference between blind Mohammed lovers and blind Tagore lovers? Where is the difference between those who recite holly Quran to get their cancer cured and those who listen to Robindroshongeet to get cured from their deadly earthly sojourn?  In Calcutta , on December 16, 1911, Robindronath sung Jana Gana Mana to welcome King George V.  This poem sung high praises of the King of England—calling him the Bharat Bhaggyyaa Vidhaata-Dispenser of India 's Destiny! Next day all the newspapers reported it was a magnificent salute to a mighty King. There is no doubt in my mind that he had written the song to felicitate the King Emperor of England and his Colonial Empire. Who is this Bharat Bhagya Vidhata?  Who is this Adhinaayek? When attacked viciously by the nationalist forces of India , Tagore clarified that the song was written in praise of God. Alas the damage was already done! Nehrujee did admit that the song was in praise of the King!!! I am astounded by the behavior of Tagore lovers. Most of them have only herd instinct like the members of the jealous desert cults. You see, until we chose to slay the gods—we shall never be free as people.   
 
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[ALOCHONA] Re: Two Sides of a PM's Brain / Interesting

Nonsense propoganda is not only the tool of BNP. AL is full of nonsense propoganda too.

If I disagree with her am I a pakistani rajakar?

On what basis?

--- In alochona@yahoogroups.com, Mohsin Ali <baarnyinc@...> wrote:
>
> NONSENCE PROPAGANDA.
>  
> WHAT PM SHEIKH HASINA IS DOING IS ABSOLUTELY RIGHT. ONLY THE PAKISTANI-LOVER RAZAKARS ARE AGAINST HER.
>
> --- On Tue, 3/30/10, Mounota <nistabdhota@...> wrote:
>
>
> From: Mounota <nistabdhota@...>
> Subject: [ALOCHONA] Two Sides of a PM's Brain / Interesting
> To: alochona@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Tuesday, March 30, 2010, 3:34 AM
>
>
>  
>
>
>
>
> People are complaining about Hasina that instead of finding people of Bangladesh as friends for a united Bangladesh, she is looking for enemies within the country and friends outside. People are complaining that she is giving everything to India with nothing in return. They complain that she is even ready to surrender Bangladesh's sovereignty through giving transit to India, even the cost of building the roads at Bangladesh's cost. They say, just because they are Muslims, Hasina is chasing the helpless Rohingya refugees out of out Bangladesh, killing and arresting anybody with beard in the university hostels, and against the US and Saudi Arabia's wishes, she is even urgently taking action against the four decades old war crime already resolved by her father, she is helping the India-backed tribals but going after the Bengali people of Chittagong Hill Tracts as being the Jamatis and terrorists. In this normalizing the unthinkable, she is going after
> anything that is about Muslims.
>  
> Now that people are questioning about her mental state, she decided to see her doctor and immediately she complains that if she had any problems it got to be due to poisoning by the CTG but the doctor found nothing. Now for her hearing problems from bomb blasts she says it is the BNP to blame. Doctor also found no hearing problems. She insisted that she must have hearing problem because when there was the dialogue between Monmohon and her she couldn't hear anything Monmohon said, that is why she signed the agreement without knowing about the content of the agreement. She says, its BNP's fault. Then she says, for the loads adding and all the other problems in the country, the BNP and the CTG to blame because they gave her so much trouble that she could not hear her beloved people's cries for water and electricity. Now she can only understand through people's sign language. She says, Pakistanis must also be behind all this
> conspiracy. She even has proof from the Supreme Court judges.
>  
> To solve all these problems her enemies are causing to her, she says, she digitally stopped changing the daylight time. Hearing this the doctor was convinced that there must be a problem and suggested her to do a brain scan. The doctor has the results.
> The doctor said: Prime Minister I have some bad news for you.
> First, we have discovered that your brain has two sides: the left side and the right side."
> She interrupted, "Well, that's normal, isn't it?
> I thought everybody had two sides to their brain?"
> The doctor replied, "That's true, but your brain is very unusual because on the left side there isn't anything right,
> while on the right side there isn't anything left.
>  
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[ALOCHONA] Re: Bangladesh offers India connection to northeastern states

The trade imbalance with India has never been a matter of real concern for any government of Bangladesh. Thats why all the smuggling on our borders has seldom - and probably NEVER - been an issue in Parliament. We don't care about the billion dollar smuggling rackets on our borders but we are concerned about how much shathkora achar we export to India?!

We should offer transit to India. And continue to valiantly claim the submerged Talpatty islands.

Freaking all this criminality on our borders but Dipu Moni's strongest foreign policy statement on our sovereignty is her claim to the Talpatty islands - after it is declared submerged.

You couldn't make up this crap.

But on the other Bangladeshi hand at least she speaks half decent English and studied abroad.

What more could you ask of a Bangladeshi foreign minister eh?

--- In alochona@yahoogroups.com, Isha Khan <bdmailer@...> wrote:
>
> *Bangladesh offers India connection to northeastern states*
>
> Bangladesh Friday offered India a connection to its northeastern states as
> well as Thailand and Myanmar via Bangladeshi territory.
>
> 'We are ready to take on our destiny as the natural bridge between two
> dynamically thriving regions - South and Southeast Asia,' Bangladesh High
> Commissioner Tariq A. Karim said at the two-day international conference on
> 'From Landlocked to Land-built: North East India in BIMSTEC' at the North
> East Hill University here.
>
> Thailand Ambassador Kirit Kraichitti and his Myanmar counterpart U Kyi Thein
> also attended the international meet inaugurated by Minister of State for
> External Affairs Shashi Tharoor Friday. 'Bangladesh is ready to help not
> only to reconnect India's northeastern states with the rest of the mainland
> India, but also enable Nepal and Bhutan to gain access to the sea, and
> enable India reach Myanmar and Thailand overland through easy terrain,' the
> Bangladeshi envoy said.
>
> Stressing that Bangladesh is eager to serve as the hub of regional linkages,
> Karim said his country has allowed India to use its Chittagong and Mongla
> ports.
>
> A bold step in this direction has already been initiated with Ashuganj in
> Bangladesh and the Silghat in India added as new ports of call under
> existing riverine transit and trade arrangments, he said.
>
> In order to facilitate sea-going access for land-locked BIMSTEC regions with
> Sri Lanka in the southeast and Thailand in the east and beyond, Karim said
> Bangladesh has also decided to allow Nepal and Bhutan to use Chittagong and
> Mongla ports.
>
> Stating the trade imbalance in India's favour has long been a matter of
> concern for Bangladesh, Karim invited Indian entrepreneurs to invest in
> power generation, IT and telecommunication, textiles, healthcare and among
> others in his country. 'We have announced a number of measures that are
> aimed at making Bangladesh one of the most foreign investor-friendly
> destinations,' he said.
>
> http://sify.com/finance/bangladesh-offers-india-connection-to-northeastern-states-news-default-kejxabhjhdh.html
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[ALOCHONA] Re: Shutting down private TV channels

Dear Alochoks

Shutting down Channel 1 was an incorrect and unjust action by the government. It was certainly politically motivated. It is always a television channel that turns out to be the grand example of a Bangladeshi government's pursuit of justice. Big criminal tigers are never really brought to justice. But its so grand and glamorous to throw soem paperwork at a channel and just shut the whole channel down.

It's a joke.

A Bangladeshi style joke.

Ezajur Rahman
Kuwait

--- In alochona@yahoogroups.com, Isha Khan <bdmailer@...> wrote:
>
> *Shutting down private TV channels*
>
> by Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury
>
> Current government in Bangladesh shut down another satellite based private
> television channel last week. Channel-One, a popular television channel
> commenced its broadcast few years back, when BNP-Jamaat coalition government
> was in power. During that time, a number of broadcast licenses were issued
> in favor of several influential members of the ruling coalition. Channel-One
> is one of those 'fortunate' ones.
>
> Trend of shutting down private television channels began right in 1999 when
> Awami League was first in power. At that time, the government shut down
> country's first private television channel named ATV [earlier A-21 TV] and
> brought false accusation of 'smuggling information via satellite'. Later,
> the court of Metropolitan Session Judge in Dhaka [Bangladesh] not only
> dismissed the case, but made strong remarks criticizing the government for
> bringing such fabricated case against the promoters of country's first
> private television channel. Though fresh applications were submitted with
> the subsequent governments with the copy of the court order seeking fresh
> permission to re-commence the broadcast of country's first private
> television channel, none of the governments ever considered this as the
> owners of the channel were not members of any of the political houses in the
> country.
>
> The tendency of slicing down voice of the media continued during the next
> government, when BNP-Jamaat coalition won the general election in 2001.
> Broadcast license of Ekushey Television, the first private owned terrestrial
> TV channel was cancelled and later the channel was shut down due to court
> order. Huge number of journalists and employees of the channel turned
> unemployed overnight.
>
> When military controlled interim government was in power, broadcast of
> country's only new based channel named CSBC was snatched as the military
> controlled regime felt uncomfortable at the prolific reporting in the
> channel.
>
> Before the general election of 2008, current Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina
> made specific pledge of according total freedom to media. But as soon as it
> came in power, there has been specific tendency of shutting down television
> channels owned by political opponents while issuing license to party leaders
> and affiliates with the aim of establishing monopoly in the electronic
> media, where no criticism of the government would ever be allowed.
>
> While I am very much against the very 'theme' of shutting down television
> channels, it is important for me also to mention a gross via lotion of rules
> by the past BNP-Jamaat government, while issuing broadcast license to its
> party affiliates.
>
> Ekushey Television's broadcast license was cancelled by the BNP-Jamaat
> government at the instigation of some of the so-called 'think-tanks' of it.
> It was alleged that, founder of this television channel got the license in
> his own name, which he later illegally transferred to a company. If this was
> the legal ground to cancel the licence of Ekushey TV, how the same
> government allowed issuing another license to NTV [a channel owned by the
> political secretary of the then Prime Minister]? It may be mentioned here
> that the political secretary of the then PM purchased the ownership of Total
> Entertainment Netrowk [TEN] TV, which was owned by a businessman named
> Sajjad Ali. This channel came into broadcast just for couple of months
> before it was closed down by the owners due to severe financial crisis.
>
> If the transferring shares of Ekushey TV was seen as illegal by the
> BNP-Jamaat government, how the same government issued broadcast license to
> NTV with the transferred share documents of TEN TV? Subsequently, owner of
> NTV started a second channel named RTV. It is logically argued by many that,
> if the very birth of NTV was illegal, there is no legitimacy of RTV and in
> such case; both the channels should be immediately shut down.
>
> Same thing happens in case of BOISHAKHI TV, a private television channel,
> share of which was recently transferred to a 'multi-level marketing company'
> by the owners of the channel.
>
> Most importantly, while Bangladesh Telecommunications Regulatory Commission
> sweats to find out irregularities in private television channel, they are
> ignoring one extremely important point. All of the private television
> channels need to pay substantial amount of rental to the satellites for
> using their transponders for broadcast. According to a recent information of
> Bangladesh Bank, none of the channels ever applied for permission for such
> transfer of foreign currency to the satellite operators for years. In this
> case, it is easily anticipated that such huge amount of money is sent to the
> satellite operators through illegal means, which is an offense under Money
> Laundering Act.
>
> Another source in National Board of Revenue said, the private television
> channels are required to pay 15 per cent of the revenue collected from
> advertisement as Value Added Tax [VAT]. But, NBR claims that, none of the
> channels ever paid even fraction of the justified amount of VAT to the
> National Exchequer. If appropriate investigation will be conducted on this
> area, it will be revealed that, all of the channels are continuing to evade
> millions of Taka only from this specific sector.
>
> I am not mentioning these irregularities to give any provocation to the
> government in shutting down more television channels in the country. The
> reason behind raising these points is to make one clear point that, if the
> government gets determined in suffocating the voice of any of the private
> television channels, they can always find ready tools in hand. But, this
> will not ultimately bring anything good for the very image of the
> government. With the closure of each of the television channels, hundreds of
> journalists and employees will turn unemployed. Hopefully, this does not go
> in favor of the electoral pledge of the current government, which gave
> specific commitment to the nation of doing everything in resolving the
> unemployment issue in the country. But, at least in media sector, the
> government is, contributing in deepening the unemployment crisis instead of
> resolving it. Hopefully, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will kindly look into
> this matter, with sympathy and affection for the members of media in
> Bangladesh.
>
> http://www.weeklyblitz.net/691/shutting-down-private-tv-channels
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