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Sunday, August 14, 2011

[ALOCHONA] Zia was the key shadow man



Zia was the key shadow man

Says Lifschultz



Noted journalist Lawrence Lifschultz has said he believes former president Ziaur Rahman was the "key shadow man" behind the August 15, 1975 putsch. "I believe many more details about Ziaur Rahman's involvement in the August 15th events will emerge in the future. It is my assessment at this point in time that Zia played perhaps the most crucial of all roles," Lifschultz told BSS in an interview ahead of the National Mourning Day.

Zia had his own reasons for not leading the coup himself but "without his support, I do not believe the coup d'état could have moved forward", he added. "Zia was the key shadow man. Had he been against the coup he could have stopped it. Of course, it was his constitutional duty to do so. "Ziaur Rahman is a very complicated character. We need to understand in much greater depth how he operated in the shadows during these crucial times," said the US journalist.

He was the Bangladesh correspondent of Far Eastern Economic Review in the early 1970s. The Review later appointed him as its New Delhi-based South Asia correspondent.Lifschultz documented the tumultuous coups and counter-coups of the 70s in Bangladesh: An Unfinished Revolution.He is also acclaimed for his reports on India-Pak relations and Bosnian issues.

http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=198706


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[ALOCHONA] Shipping minister Shahajan Khan



Shipping minister Shahajan Khan



Shipping minister Shahajan Khan, in connivance with communications minister, appointed 10 thousand unfit drivers in 2009 and again trying to appoint 24.5 thousand more.

 http://www.prothom-alo.com/detail/date/2011-08-15/news/178324



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[ALOCHONA] 15 more routes of corridor, a vassal state?

15 more routes of corridor, a vassal state?

From: Zoglul Husain <zoglul@hotmail.co.uk> Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 8:04 AM
To: Isha Khan <bdmailer@gmail.com>

According to reports, Manmohan is to sign agreements for 15 routes of
corridor from Chittagong and Mongla ports for India's military and
trade purposes! If needed by India, there would be additional routes!!

(For details, please click to read the Naya Diganta report, 14 August
2011, as follows:)
http://www.dailynayadiganta.com/fullnews.asp?News_ID=294074&sec=1.

The Govt has already conceded routes through Ashuganj. Huge amounts of
over dimensional heavy cargos are being transhipped. Has this govt
already secretly turned Bangladesh into a vassal state of India, with
Bangladesh territory under Indian control??? The govt has kept all
these agreements secret!!!

Goyeshwar Roy suggested two-days of Hartal during Manmohan's visit.
(Please click to read Amader Shomoy report, 14 August 2011:)
http://www.amadershomoy1.com/content/2011/08/14/news0363.htm

Goyeshwar's suggestion should be implemented. Manmohan should be
greeted with black flags. It is Manmohan who conspired with Bush to
engineer 1/11 2007 (As for Bush, Bush-Blair perpetrated genocides in
Afghanistan and Iraq). Manmohan is trampling our national interest and
trying to snatch our independence and sovereignty.

The patriots of Bangladesh must unite and organise. We will never be
cowed down nor will we ever bow down to Indian hegemonism!


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RE: [ALOCHONA] Digital Bangladesh ?



congratulations.....farida majid,   the would-be finance advisor to PM putul, for ur wonderful comments.

You have not clarified yet, what is " digital Bangladesh"?

Is it a brilliant project to teach I.T. to 5 % Bangladeshis, who are enjoying other community facilities too!!
How many people will benefit from such a bogus master-plan?

What is there in this project....for millions of people in the 'muddy paddy field '  and millions who live

"  under beautiful skies, whether full of rain-clouds or bright blue with cotton flakes of clouds, of these monsoon months of Bengal ".

People have been fooled with sweet talks for years and you must be " the new singer in the block ".





To: alochona@yahoogroups.com
From: farida_majid@hotmail.com
Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2011 18:00:52 -0400
Subject: RE: [ALOCHONA] Digital Bangladesh ?



          The subject line "Digital Bangladesh?" is a sarcastic jab at the election campaign promises of the AL who won a landslide victory at the last election and is now the major party of a coalition that has formed the Govt.
 
         Like the rest of the Alochona members I got the joke, and having gotten it I should feel pretty smart and full of a sense of superiority.  Or so is the intention of bd-mailer who never tires of these jabs at the current Govt.  After all, here I am typing on my computer and not at that muddy paddy field where a family is hard at work planting the rice. Our intrepid bd-mailer, one presumes, never leaves his/her computer to glance at the beautiful skies, whether full of rain-clouds or bright blue with cotton flakes of clouds, of these monsoon months of Bengal.  He and his computer are probably nowhere near Bangladesh.
 
         I was actually thoroughly delighted by the photograph of this wonderful scene of Bangalee innovation in the midst of want and dearth.  I said a prayer of goodwill for the boy riding on the 'moi' pulled by his parents wading in the rich mud. How much happier is he than the boy of his age stuck in the city of Dhaka with no playground either in school or in the neighborhood of his apartment complex.
 
        What would have pleased bd mailer and his dumbed down cheerleaders in Alochona? the picture of a 4-yr old in front of a desktop computer playing violent video games? May be thats what the BNP thugs would publicize when they come to POWER with the message that the real 'Digital Bangladesh' is one where you abandon agriculture and devote yourself to money-laundering a la Tarek Zia and Coco using computerized cell phone or other gizmo.
 
           Farida Majid
 

To:
From: bdmailer@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2011 13:24:37 +0600
Subject: [ALOCHONA] Digital Bangladesh ?

 




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Re: [ALOCHONA] Awami League helped by bags of Indian cash triumphed in e lections



You may try visiting the following website.

http://boi.gov.bd/


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-----Original Message-----
From: S Turkman <turkman@sbcglobal.net>
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Sent: Sun, Aug 14, 2011 4:15 pm
Subject: [ALOCHONA] Awami League helped by bags of Indian cash triumphed in e lections

 
Sir,
Could you tell me, how Bangladesh or Bangladeshis have suffered because of Pro India Regimes and how have they benefited because of Anti India Regimes because I want what's good for people on the street and poor of on of the poorest countries of the world ...?
In my opinion, both kind of regimes have failed to advance B.D. in last 39 years. I have been trying to know details about a Sanitary-ware Factory in Mirpur, Dkhaka this regime has been trying to sell to Foreign or Local Investors for a year and has not gotten any bids. I thought I should buy it to start manufacturing my one of my inventions, a US Patented 21st Century version of W.C. but I have not received any response from BD Embassy in Washington here that claims to be working hard to attract Foreign Investor like me. Actually its one god, the Commercial Attache got mad at me for pushing him too much for the information. He knows nobody can get him dismissed from his job because probably he has gotten it because he or his family knows someone in Awami League or Army.
So, I contacted Finance, Commerce and Foreign Ministries but I have not received any response for a month from their so very patriotic Ministers, either.
I guess, nobody wants to work or they do not do what they say. I guess, the factory in question would be sold at throw-away price to one of their own people for not receiving any Bids. Great prize for maliciously blocking all the Bids and hurting B.D. I guess.
Loot, loot, loot ...!
Loot poor Bengalis and live off them rich ...!
Bangladesh JinDaabaaD ...!


From: Mohiuddin Anwar <mohiuddin@netzero.net>

Mr. Turkman,
 
Not only  during the past general election pro_indian Awami League received bags of money during 3rd November 1975 too. But at that time money didnot work because of steadfastness of Bangladesh's Defense Force. During the past general election pro-Indian military Chief Gen. Moin betrayed Bangladesh's national interest and worked for India as well as for Awami League. Defintely Gen Moiu will bev tried and prosecuted in coming days when pro-Indian government won rule Bangladesh. Moin might had secret agreement with RAW to help the pro-Indian Awami League. In return Moin received non-prosecution agreement from Hasina regime. Hasina regime won't prosecute a single wongdoers of 1/11 rather kept one of the real player of 1/11 as Bangladeshi High Commissioner to Australia for almost three years.
All who  betraying Bangladesh's national interest will pay heavyiest price in coming years, make no doubt about it.
Bangladeshis knew it very well how to punish the betrayers.
 

---------- Original Message ----------
From: "Turkman" <turkman@sbcglobal.net>

 
But who had stopped you from getting Bags of Money from ISI that you lost Elections, Mr. Munshi?
-----

--- In khabor@yahoogroups.com, Isha Khan <bdmailer@...> wrote:
>
> Mohammad Munshi in FaceBook:
>
> If bags of Indian money and advice were given they all went to Gen. Moin U.
> Ahmed who manipulated the election process in 2008. He should be brought
> back to Bangladesh and questioned for his role during 1/11 and how he
> engineered the 2008 elections against the BNP alliance parties. He had an
> obvious motive in manipulating the elections as a BNP victory would have
> seen him brought to trial for treachery and his links to India would have
> been exposed. The Economist has only revealed part of the story and a more
> thorough investigation into the period from 2007-2008 would reveal the rest
> of the conspiracy to hijack Bangladesh democracy. Since it was the British,
> the Americans and India who were behind the 1/11 plan the international
> community could be said to be in direct collusion in all this and their
> declarations about the 2008 elections hold no water.
>
> India's objective in closer relations with Bangladesh is merely to treat the
> country as a captive market and obtain a strategic advantage over China.
> India's ambition is to be the dominating and hegemonic power in South Asia
> and Bangladesh will have a subservient and servile role and find its
> independence and sovereignty increasingly diminished. These are not the
> goals upon which the Liberation War of 1971 was fought. The territory that
> now constitutes Bangladesh has never accepted subjugation and this has been
> the case from the Mughal period to the British Raj and then during the short
> period of Pakistan but that attitude of fierce resistance has now utterly
> changed.
>
> On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Isha Khan <bdmailer@...> wrote:
>
> > *Bags of Indian cash*: Economist report may be true
> >
> >
> >
> > http://amardeshonline.com/pages/details/2011/08/06/97556
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 10:36 AM, Isha Khan <bdmailer@...> wrote:
> >
> >> *Elephant Embrace*
> >>
> >> This week's *Economist* has a rather intriguing article on Indo-Bangla
> >> relations. Full article over the fold. I'm not sure whether posting this
> >> makes me a dalal or part of the dreaded 25%<http://unheardvoice.net/blog/2011/07/03/from-manmohan-to-lalmohan/>in your eyes, but as I won't be making any further comments on this thread,
> >> please feel free to share your thoughts on my ulterior motives.
> >>
> >> Some interesting excerpts:
> >>
> >> *"Ever since 2008, when the Awami League, helped by bags of Indian cashand advice, triumphed in general elections in Bangladesh, relations with
> >> India have blossomed."*
> >>
> >> I know Bangladesh is little more than a banana-republic when viewed from
> >> the pinnacle of straight-dealing that is British journalism at the moment,
> >> but that "bags of cash" thing is a serious allegation. What is the basis for
> >> it?
> >>
> >> As a result, officials this week chirped that relations are now "very
> >> excellent". They should get better yet. India's prime minister, Manmohan
> >> Singh, will visit early in September to sign deals �
> >>
> >> Manmohan Singh's gaffe is not mentioned even once in this article. Which
> >> indicates to me that the writer possibly spends more time in Delhi than
> >> Dhaka, though I have no way of confirming that.
> >>
> >> Some Bangladeshis fret that if India tries to overcome its own logistical
> >> problems by, in effect, using Bangladesh as a huge military marshalling
> >> yard, reprisals from China would follow.
> >>
> >> Who are these Bangladeshis and when can I take them out for a drink/dinner
> >> to express my gratitude for Realist thinking? Stand up and identify yourself
> >> good ladies or gentlemen!
> >>
> >> Mrs Zia's family dynasty, *also corrupt*, is as against India as Sheikh
> >> Hasina's is for it.
> >>
> >> A bit of reading between the lines: note that "also". Earlier in the
> >> article, the author says, "Corruption flourishes at levels astonishing even
> >> by South Asian standards". The allegation of corruption against the Awami
> >> League is in the passive voice, without a subject. Yet, the Zia "family
> >> dynasty" is corrupt "also". Who exactly is the author trying to point to and
> >> has s/he been hanging out with Mahmudur Rahman too long?
> >>
> >> All in all: *very* intriguing. One does not really know what to make of
> >> these haphazard allegations and the glaring lacunae about Indian attitudes
> >> to Bangladesh, as highlighted by Manmohan Singh's comments. The only part
> >> which I dispute without reservation is its characterisation of the claim,
> >> that Sheikh Shaheb is the "greatest Bengali (sic) of the millenium", as
> >> "propaganda".
> >>
> >> That's actually the closest this Awami League government gets to fact.
> >>
> >> http://unheardvoice.net/blog/2011/07/29/elephant-embrace/
> >>
> >> -------------
> >> <http://www.economist.com/node/21524917/print>
> >>
> >> *Embraceable you*
> >>
> >> *Growing geopolitical interests push India to seek better relations
> >> nearer home*
> >>
> >> Jul 30th 2011 | DHAKA | from the print edition
> >>
> >> NOT much noticed by outsiders, long-troubled ties between two neighbours
> >> sharing a long border have taken a substantial lurch for the better. Ever
> >> since 2008, when the Awami League, helped by bags of Indian cash and advice,
> >> triumphed in general elections in Bangladesh, relations with India have
> >> blossomed. To Indian delight, Bangladesh has cracked down on extremists with
> >> ties to Pakistan or India's home-grown terrorist group, the Indian
> >> Mujahideen, as well as on vociferous Islamist (and anti-Indian) politicians
> >> in the country. India feels that bit safer.
> >>
> >> Now the dynasts who rule each country are cementing political ties. On
> >> July 25th Sonia Gandhi (pictured, above) swept into Dhaka, the capital, for
> >> the first time. Sharing a sofa with Sheikh Hasina (left), the prime minister
> >> (and old family friend), the head of India's ruling Congress Party heaped
> >> praise on her host, notably for helping the poor. A beaming Sheikh Hasina
> >> reciprocated with a golden gong, a post
> >>
> >> humous award for Mrs Gandhi's mother-in-law, Indira Gandhi. In 1971 she
> >> sent India's army to help Bangladeshis, led by Sheikh Hasina's father,
> >> Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, throw off brutal Pakistani rule.
> >>
> >> As a result, officials this week chirped that relations are now "very
> >> excellent". They should get better yet. India's prime minister, Manmohan
> >> Singh, will visit early in September to sign deals on sensitive matters like
> >> sharing rivers, sending electricity over the border, settling disputed
> >> patches of territory on the 4,095km (2,500-mile) frontier and stopping
> >> India's trigger-happy border guards from murdering migrants and
> >> cow-smugglers. Mr Singh may also deal with the topic of trade which,
> >> smuggling aside, heavily favours India, to Bangladeshi ire.
> >>
> >> Most important, however, is a deal on setting up a handful of transit
> >> routes across Bangladesh, to reach India's remote, isolated north-eastern
> >> states. These are the "seven sisters" wedged up against the border with
> >> China.
> >>
> >> On the face of it, the $10 billion project will develop poor areas cut off
> >> from India's booming economy. The Asian Development Bank and others see
> >> Bangladeshi gains too, from better roads, ports, railways and much-needed
> >> trade. In Dhaka, the capital, the central-bank governor says broader
> >> integration with India could lift economic growth by a couple of percentage
> >> points, from nearly 7% already.
> >> Our interactive map displays the various territorial claims of India,
> >> Pakistan and China from each country's perspective
> >>
> >> India has handed over half of a $1 billion soft loan for the project, and
> >> the money is being spent on new river-dredgers and rolling stock.
> >> Bangladesh's rulers are mustard-keen. The country missed out on an earlier
> >> infrastructure bonanza involving a plan to pipe gas from Myanmar to India.
> >> China got the pipeline instead.
> >>
> >> Yet the new transit project may be about more than just development. Some
> >> in Dhaka, including military types, suspect it is intended to create an
> >> Indian security corridor. It could open a way for army supplies to cross
> >> low-lying Bangladesh rather than going via dreadful mountain roads
> >> vulnerable to guerrilla attack. As a result, India could more easily put
> >> down insurgents in Nagaland and Manipur. The military types fear it might
> >> provoke reprisals by such groups in Bangladesh.
> >>
> >> More striking, India's army might try supplying its expanding divisions
> >> parked high on the border with China, in Arunachal Pradesh. China disputes
> >> India's right to Arunachal territory, calling it South Tibet. Some
> >> Bangladeshis fret that if India tries to overcome its own logistical
> >> problems by, in effect, using Bangladesh as a huge military marshalling
> >> yard, reprisals from China would follow.
> >>
> >> Such fears are not yet widespread. Indeed, India has been doing some
> >> things right in countering longstanding anti-Indian suspicion and resentment
> >> among ordinary Bangladeshis. Recent polling by an American university among
> >> students found a minority hostile to India, whereas around half broadly
> >> welcomed its rise. A straw poll at a seminar of young researchers at a
> >> think-tank in Dhaka this week suggested a similar mood�though anger remained
> >> over Indian border shootings.
> >>
> >> For India, however, the risk is that it is betting too heavily on Sheikh
> >> Hasina, who is becoming increasingly autocratic. Opposition boycotts of
> >> parliament and general strikes are run-of-the-mill. Corruption flourishes at
> >> levels astonishing even by South Asian standards. A June decision to rewrite
> >> the constitution looks to be a blunt power grab, letting the government run
> >> the next general election by scrapping a "caretaker" arrangement. Sheikh
> >> Hasina is building a personality cult around her murdered father, "the
> >> greatest Bengali of the millennium", says the propaganda.
> >>
> >> Elsewhere, the hounding of Muhammad Yunus, a Nobel laureate and founder of
> >> the Grameen Bank who briefly flirted with politics, was vindictive.
> >> Similarly, war-crimes trials over the events of 1971 are to start in a few
> >> weeks. They are being used less as a path to justice than to crush an
> >> opposition Islamic party, Jamaat-e-Islami.
> >>
> >> It hardly suggests that India's ally has a wholly secure grasp on power. A
> >> tendency to vote incumbents out may yet unseat Sheikh Hasina in 2013, or
> >> street violence might achieve the same. She would then be replaced by her
> >> nemesis, Khaleda Zia, of the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party. Mrs
> >> Zia's family dynasty, also corrupt, is as against India as Sheikh Hasina's
> >> is for it. But India's habit of shunning meetings with Mrs Zia and her
> >> followers may come to look short-sighted. When he visits Bangladesh in
> >> September, Mr Singh, the Gandhi family retainer, would do well to make wider
> >> contact if India's newly improving relations are not one day to take another
> >> big dive for the worse.
> >>
> >> http://www.economist.com/node/21524917/print
> >>
> >
> >
>



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RE: [ALOCHONA] FW: FW: Bangladeshi FM says no info on Tipaimukh dam construction



has Farida Majid taken the task to fool and misguide Bangladeshi citizens about the ultimate construction Timaimukh dam?

Sadly Farida majijid et. al won't be around to witness the complications of building such a dam.

Only our children and grandchildren will suffer.

It is ok to be a member of a corrupt political party, but transforming oneself into a " BLIND CHAMCHA" is not a 
good sign.

khoda hafez.





From: farida_majid@hotmail.com
Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2011 07:23:45 -0400
Subject: [ALOCHONA] FW: FW: Bangladeshi FM says no info on Tipaimukh dam construction



                Before we blindly believe the zulumgiri communalists in the form of obssessive anti-India propagandists of Bangladesh, I thought I would check the information with someone reliable on the ground.
 
                  Here is a response I received from Guwahati.
 
                  I hope this is useful for all the genuine activists who are working towards preventing the Tipaimukh dam from being constructed.
 
                 ~Farida Majid
 

Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2011 12:53:36 +0530
Subject: Re: FW: Bangladeshi FM says no info on Tipaimukh dam construction

 
Dear Farida
 
I had promised to check on the Tipaimukh dam and get back to you after returning to Guwahati. I have checked on it and there is no sign of work being started on it. If I get more info I shall get back to you. Bye
 
Walter
 
Dr Walter Fernandes
Director, North Eastern Social Research Centre
110 Kharghuli Road (1st floor)
Guwahati 781-004
Assam, India
Tel. (+91-361) 2602819
Fax: (+91-361) 2602713 (Attn. NESRC)
Website: www.nesrc.org
Webpage: www.creighton.edu/CollaborativeMinistry/NESRC
 
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, August 05, 2011 02:05 PM
Subject: Re: FW: Bangladeshi FM says no info on Tipaimukh dam construction

 

I shall get back to you after returning to Guwahati tomorrow.
 
Walter
 
Dr Walter Fernandes
Director, North Eastern Social Research Centre
110 Kharghuli Road (1st floor)
Guwahati 781-004
Assam, India
Tel. (+91-361) 2602819
Fax: (+91-361) 2602713 (Attn. NESRC)

Website: www.nesrc.org
Webpage: www.creighton.edu/CollaborativeMinistry/NESRC
 
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, August 05, 2011 01:37 AM
Subject: FW: Bangladeshi FM says no info on Tipaimukh dam construction

 

         Does Dr. Walter Fernandez have any updated information on this crtical dam construction damaging to populations on both sides of the border?
                     Farida

To:
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 10:08:26 +0600
Subject: FM says no info on Tipaimukh dam construction

 
FM says no info on Tipaimukh dam construction



The government has no information that the Indian government starts building a dam on the common river Barak at Tipaimukh, foreign minister Dipu Moni said Monday.

 

The dam in the Indian province of Monipur would have severe consequences in lower riparian Bangladesh, water experts said.According to Indian media reports construction of the Tipaimukh Damk would start in weeks.

Dipu Moni, however, said that the two governments would sign transit agreements during Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh's visit to Dhaka in September.Asked about India's decision to build the controversial dam above Bangladesh, she said, 'The Indian prime minister assured our prime minister that India will not do anything harmful for Bangladesh.'

 

'We have no information that they have done anything moving away from that position,' she told a news conference when her attention was drawn to a news according to which the government of India gave approval to build the Tipaimukh dam. 

 

Asked about the Awami League led government's position on providing transit to India, the foreign minister said, 'discussions are going on. I am hopeful that we will be able to sign several transit protocols during the Indian prime minister's visit.'

 

Singh is scheduled to pay a two-day official visit to Dhaka beginning September 6.'We have taken a political decision to provide the transit,' she said during prime minister's Sheikh Hasina's visit Delhi in January, 2010.She said, 'Now the matter is at implementation phase.'

 

She said that the two countries 'are discussing' the issue of determining fees and the use of infrastructure.'It's a long process. Nothing will happen overnight,' said Dipu Moni.She said that the Bangladesh government would also examine deals signed by other countries on providing transit with same characteristics.She said that the government was working on providing transit to India, Nepal and Bhutan under a broad framework.

 

India is about start the construction of the Tipaimukh Dam, United News of Bangladesh reported last week quoting a top official of Nipko, an affiliated company of the Indian Power Ministry, which had been entrusted to implement the hydroelectric project on the common international river Barak.

 

The official said Nipko obtained environmental clearance and received the go-ahead from the Indian central government to build the dam at Tipaimukh in Churachandpur district in the northeastern Indian province of Monipur.He also said that on receiving the go-head the company already took the necessary preparations to start the dam construction on the Barak at Tipaimukh.

 

Barak feeds two rivers in Bangladesh— the 350-kilometer long Surma and 110-km long Kushiara, the lifeline of the country's north-eastern region.India would also build a barrage on the Barak at Fuletal in Lakhipur in Assam below the Tipaimukh Dam to divert its waters for an irrigation project, Nipko said.

The Nipko official said that the machinery and equipment for the construction were being transported to Tipaimukh and the construction engineers, technicians and workers were gathering at the site.The news that the government of India was preparing to start the construction of the Tipaimukh Dam  defying protests by the people of Bangladesh and India's north-eastern region heightened worries in the region.

 

The Indian project to divert Barak waters at the upstream would, in the dry months, dry up Surma and Kushiara, which feeds the Megna, a major river system in Bangladesh, would adversely affect lower riparian Bangladesh in several ways, water experts said.But in the rainy season the release of extra flows by India would aggravate flooding and erosion in Bangladesh, particularly in greater Sylhet.

 

The problems in lower riparian Bangladesh would increase manifold due to Tipaimukh Dam, water, environment and agriculture experts warned.Water and agriculture experts said Tipaimukh would create severe water shortage in Bangladesh's north-eastern region and turn a vast arable area into arid land to threaten the country's food security and farmers' livelihood.

 

Farmers in Sylhet, Moulvibazaar, Sunamganj, Kishoreganj and Brahmanbaria are worried that griculture and fishing, which provide them sustenance, would be destroyed by the Indian dam.

 

http://newagebd.com/newspaper1/frontpage/26751.html

http://amardeshonline.com/pages/details/2011/07/19/93615








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Re: [ALOCHONA] Sad News: Director of the film Matir Moina Tareq Masud dies in Car crash



A great loss for Bangladesh. Whole country is talking about it. This time media gave good coverage about the incident and people involved in it. I am afraid after few days we are going to go back to "Normal". No media will focus on this chronic issue of road accidents in Bangladesh and government will go back to sleep until another national figure dies.

However our "Smart" communication minister already blamed BNP and caretaker government for it. So he bears no responsibility in this!!

Only in Bangladesh we can be so self absorbed that, our brightest sons and daughters ( Mishuk Monir came back from the west to "Serve" his country!!) are allowed to die like this.

Within a week we are going to go back to Eid shopping and feasting over Iftar parties.

I feel horrible for Mishuk Monir. His family lost his father (Late Munir Chowdhury during 71) and now Mishuk had to leave us this way.

Only Ilias Kanchon (Bangla film hero) has been working on this serious issue over years but mass media did not lend him enough support to make a difference. Hope this time media will do their job by talking about it until authority make some REAL changes . The only real way to pay respect to these people if we can make our highways much safer for our children. 


May their souls rest in peace.



-----Original Message-----
From: Robin Khundkar <rkhundkar@earthlink.net>
Sent: Sun, Aug 14, 2011 4:16 pm
Subject: [ALOCHONA] Sad News: Director of the film Matir Moina Tareq Masud dies in Car crash

 
Very sad to hear this. Met him and his wife some years ago and both Shuklaji and I tried to organize a showing of the film Matir Moina to the community in LA. Unfortunately, due to legal reasons (exhibition rights) we were unable to do so.
A huge loss! .
 
Robin
 

Top Bangladesh film-maker dies in road crash
DHAKA — Award-winning Bangladeshi film-maker Tareq Masud died Saturday along with four other people in a road crash west of the country's capital, Dhaka, police said.
Masud and four others, including the chief executive of Bangladesh's private ATN television news channel, Mishuk Munier, died on the spot when the minibus carrying them collided head-on with a bus at Ghior, police said.
Masud's US-born wife and producer, Catherine Masud, and a noted Bangladeshi painter, Dhali al Mamun, and his wife were seriously injured in the accident, local police chief Mohammad Raisuddin told AFP by telephone.
"They had come to Ghior to select a shooting spot for Masud's next film. They had made their choice and were returning home when the accident occurred," he said.
Ghior, a scenic district close to the Ganges River, lies around 70 kilometres (40 miles) west of Dhaka.
Masud shot to fame after his 2002 film "Matir Moina" (The Clay Bird) won several prizes, including an International Federation of Film Critics award at the Cannes Film Festival.
Police said Masud was believed to be around 50 years of age.
Road accidents are common in Bangladesh and kill thousands of people each year. Shoddy highways, poorly maintained vehicles and drivers' disregard for road safety are blamed for most fatalities.
A recent study by the Dhaka-based Accident Research Center said that more than 12,000 people die in road accidents in Bangladesh every year, making the country's highways among the deadliest in the world.


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Re: [ALOCHONA] Digital Bangladesh ?



Yes and it is part of being democratic. In a free and democratic country people should ask questions to people in power. No matter who is in power. These "Digital jabs" and part of 21st century concept of democracy. If you follow the republican nomination process in Iowa (IN the state side), you will think we are very civilized people.

What would have pleased bd mailer and his dumbed down cheerleaders in Alochona?

However I do not see any reason to get "Personal" over these issues.

Ramadan Mubarak to all Alochok friends!



-----Original Message-----
From: Farida Majid <farida_majid@hotmail.com>
To: Alochona Alochona <alochona@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sun, Aug 14, 2011 4:14 pm
Subject: RE: [ALOCHONA] Digital Bangladesh ?

 
          The subject line "Digital Bangladesh?" is a sarcastic jab at the election campaign promises of the AL who won a landslide victory at the last election and is now the major party of a coalition that has formed the Govt.
 
         Like the rest of the Alochona members I got the joke, and having gotten it I should feel pretty smart and full of a sense of superiority.  Or so is the intention of bd-mailer who never tires of these jabs at the current Govt.  After all, here I am typing on my computer and not at that muddy paddy field where a family is hard at work planting the rice. Our intrepid bd-mailer, one presumes, never leaves his/her computer to glance at the beautiful skies, whether full of rain-clouds or bright blue with cotton flakes of clouds, of these monsoon months of Bengal.  He and his computer are probably nowhere near Bangladesh.
 
         I was actually thoroughly delighted by the photograph of this wonderful scene of Bangalee innovation in the midst of want and dearth.  I said a prayer of goodwill for the boy riding on the 'moi' pulled by his parents wading in the rich mud. How much happier is he than the boy of his age stuck in the city of Dhaka with no playground either in school or in the neighborhood of his apartment complex.
 
        What would have pleased bd mailer and his dumbed down cheerleaders in Alochona? the picture of a 4-yr old in front of a desktop computer playing violent video games? May be thats what the BNP thugs would publicize when they come to POWER with the message that the real 'Digital Bangladesh' is one where you abandon agriculture and devote yourself to money-laundering a la Tarek Zia and Coco using computerized cell phone or other gizmo.
 
           Farida Majid
 

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Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2011 13:24:37 +0600
Subject: [ALOCHONA] Digital Bangladesh ?

 


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