News Asia

Solar Energy and Bangladesh

noreply@blogger.com (HASSAN) — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 17:54:00 +0000

Solar energy may be a good alternative to meet the present demand of electricity. In rural area in household and small consumer such as community clinic, village market and water pump may be derived by the solar energy. To encourage the solar energy in the office of Prime Minister of Bangladesh establishes solar plant, which meet the full demand of electricity. Bangladesh has set up a solar panel industries in country, which annual capacity is around 10MW only; it’s too small but first attempted to do such a challenging job. Few companies are working to provide solar energy to the villages in Bangladesh like Grameen Sakti. The companies are also interested to extend the service to the city dwellers. A problem of solar energy is at the front end of installation requires a large amount of money, which is an extra burden for rural people. In this situation, government of Bangladesh providing a long term loan to the solar panel provider company. They are providing at 15% down payment and 20 years for rest of payment in an installment in every month. 90% of the service holders are not satisfied at all.

Atomic Energy and Bangladesh

noreply@blogger.com (HASSAN) — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 17:38:00 +0000

Atomic Energy may be a solution for present energy crisis in Bangladesh. Recently Bangladesh is facing serious energy crisis. There is a huge gap between demand and supply. The actual demand of electricity is 5500MW (Mega ward)-6500MW (Mega watts) during the peak and off-peak period, where as the supply is 3900MW (Mega ward)-4500MW (Mega ward). But Bangladesh has electricity production capability above 5000MW. There are two reasons not to reach full production, one is old power plant and another is gas crisis. The daily gas demand 2.1TCF (Trillion Cubic feet), where as the supply is nearly 1.8 TCF (Trillion Cubic feet), the production of industries are greatly hampering for electricity and gas. Some of the industries set up are ready to go production, but they are unable to go production due to connection of gas and electricity. In 2012 the actual demand will be nearly 7000MW-8000MW if the current economic growth of the country sustain. The current government of Bangladesh is very sincere about this issue. The Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina recently visited Russia and signed in a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to set up 2000MW(Mega Watts) of electricity from atomic power plant with the government of Russia. Bangladesh is also encouraging private entrepreneur to set up power plant to meet the present demand. The government also takes initiative to strengthen Petro-Bangla and BAPEX (Bangladesh Petroleum exploration and Production Company limited) to explore new gas field and pick up gas from there.

Parliament of Bangladesh

noreply@blogger.com (HASSAN) — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 19:10:00 +0000

Parliament of Bangladesh

The Parliament of Bangladesh is a unicameral legislature consisting of 300 members. They are directly elected from an equal number of territorial constituencies, which is one from each constituency, on the basis of adult franchise. Earlier there used to be 30 seats reserved for women who were elected by the directly elected Members. This provision in the Constitution for the reservation of seats for women was a transitory one. The 7th Parliament was the last Parliament to have this reservation. With the exception of the first Parliament, which had 15 reserved seats for women, and the fourth Parliament, which had no such reservation, all previous Parliaments (before 8th Parliament) of Bangladesh had included the 30 reserved seats. In the 8th Parliament the Constitution (Fourteenth Amendment) Act, 2004 was passed by the Parliament on May 2004 by which the following provision was inserted in the constitution of Bangladesh:

Art. 65(3) "Until the dissolution of Parliament occurring next after the expiration of the period of ten years beginning from the date of the first meeting of the Parliament next after the Parliament in existence at the time of the commencement of the Constitution (Fourteenth Amendment) Act. 2004, there shall be reserved forty five seats exclusively for women members and they will be elected by the aforesaid members in accordance with law on the basis of procedure of proportional representation in the Parliament through single transferable vote:".

This reservation of seats in favor of women did not disqualify them from being candidates in the general election."
The Constitution of Bangladesh in its two texts, Bengali and English, gives the unicameral legislature the name of 'Jatiyo Shangshad' in Bengali and 'House of the Nation' in English. However, the term 'House of the Nation' is rarely used. Rather the one-word nomenclature, 'Parliament', has gained currency, probably because the term 'House of the Nation' is used only once in the Constitution. Many do not know that the Constitution contemplates Parliament to be known in English as 'House of the Nation'.Source: National Web Portal of Bangladesh

Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina's personal achievement

noreply@blogger.com (HASSAN) — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 19:02:00 +0000

The personal and collective achievement of Prime Minister of Bangladesh are given bellow :

Sheikh Hasina is the recipient of the UNESCO Houphouet-Boigny Peace Prize for 1998 for her role in bringing peace in the Chittagong Hill Tracts region of Bangladesh.
Sheikh Hasina has been awarded the Mahatma Gandhi Award for 1998 (Oslo, Norway) for her contribution towards promotion of communal understanding, non-violence, religious harmony and growth of grassroots democracy in Bangladesh.
She has been awarded 1999 CERES Medal for contribution to the agriculture development by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome.
She is the winner of the 1999 Pearl S. Buck Award for "your vision, your courage and your achievements in political, economic and humanitarian spheres capture the spirit of the award and of the woman who inspired it."
She has been awarded honorary Doctor of Liberal Arts by the University of Alberta Dundee in the United Kingdom in October 1997.
She has been conferred honorary Doctor of Laws by the Boston University in the United States and the Waseda University of Japan.
She has been conferred the degree of Desikottama (Doctor of Literature) by the Visva-Bharati University, India founded by Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore.
She has been conferred honorary Doctor of Laws by the Australian National University in October 1999.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has been conferred honorary Doctor of Laws by Dhaka University in December 1999.
She has been conferred honorary Doctor of Laws by the Catholic University of Brussels in February 2000.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has been conferred by the honorary Doctor of Humane Letters for her contribution to world peace and development by the University of Bridgeport, Connecticut in the United States on 5 September 2000.

Source: National Web Portal of Bangladesh.

News Asia: The PM of Bangladesh

noreply@blogger.com (HASSAN) — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 21:23:00 +0000

News Asia: The PM of Bangladesh

The PM of Bangladesh

noreply@blogger.com (HASSAN) — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 21:05:00 +0000

Sheikh Hasina Wazed (Bengali: শেখ হাসিনা ওয়াজেদ) (born September 28, 1947) was the Prime Minister of Bangladesh from 1996 to 2001. She has been the President of the Awami League, a major political party in Bangladesh, since 1981. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the nationalist leader and first president of Bangladesh.

Sheikh Hasina's political career started as a student activist in Eden College in 1960's. However, she was mostly under the shadow of her father until her family was killed in a coup d'état on August 15, 1975. She and her sister Sheikh Rehana, who wehe re in West Germany at the time, were the only surviving members of the family. She later moved to the United Kingdom, and then was in self-exile in New Delhi, India before returning to Bangladesh, and Bangladeshi politics, on 17 May 1981.

Daughter of a politician in Pakistan, Hasina got involved in politics as a student. While at Government Intermediate College, she was elected vice president of the College Students Union for the term 1966-67. Her opponent was the leftist student leader Motiya Chowdhury, who much later joined Awami League and became a member of Hasina's cabinet.

In Dhaka University, Sheikh Hasina was a member of the Chhatra League (the student wing of Awami League) and secretary of the Rokeya Hall unit. During the liberation war in 1971, Hasina, then a young mother, was in house arrest with her mother, brothers, sister and her son. Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was imprisoned in West Pakistan during this period. After liberation, Hasina's involvement in politics was minimal as Sheikh Kamal, her brother, was touted as Mujib's successor.

Her political and personal destiny was irrevocably altered on the fateful night of August 15, 1975, when her father and almost her entire family including her mother and three brothers were assassinated in a coup d'etat by a section of disgruntled officers of the Bangladesh Army, some of whom were freedom fighters during 1971.[1] Sheikh Hasina and her sister, Sheikh Rehana were on a goodwill tour of West Germany at that time. Hasina then sought refuge in United Kingdom and later, in India. She was exiled to New Delhi, India until May 17, 1981 when she was allowed to return to Bangladesh.

While living in self-exile in India, Sheikh Hasina was elected the president of Bangladesh Awami League in 1981. After she returned to the country, the erstwhile president Ziaur Rahman was assassinated in yet another coup in May, 1981. The following year, General Hossain Mohammad Ershad captured power through a bloodless coup and declared Martial law. In 1983, Hasina formed the 15-party alliance to launch a movement to oust him from power. She was in and out of prison throughout the 80's. Her party along with the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, led by Zia's widow Khaleda Zia, were instrumental in the movement against the military rule. In 1984, Hasina was put under house arrest in February and then again in November. In March 1985, she was put under house arrest for three months at a stretch.

In 1990, Hasina's 8 party alliance was instrumental along with another BNP-led alliance in finally overthrowing the Ershad regime.

Interestingly, under the leadership of Sheikh Hasina, Awami League formed an alliance with Hossain Mohammad Ershad's Jayiya Party in 2006.

Sheikh Hasina and her party Awami League participated in the 1986 Parliamentary election held under President Lieutenant General Hossain Mohammad Ershad. She served as the leader of opposition between 1986-1987. Hasina's decision to partake in the election has been criticized by her opponents, since the election was held under dictatorial rule. Her supporters maintain that she effectively used the platform to challenge Ershad's rule. The parliament was dissolved in December, 1987.

The first democratic elections were held in 1991 after long dictatorial rule. A caretaker government, headed by Shahabuddin Ahmed, the outgoing chief justice, oversaw the elections. Bangladesh Nationalist Party won the election, and Hasina's Awami League emerged as the largest opposition party. Hasina was defeated in the Dhaka constituency that she contested by Sadeque Hossain Khoka, a future Mayor of Dhaka, but was elected to the Parliament from her home constituency in Gopalganj. Hasina accused BNP of "nuanced rigging" in elections. Hasina nevertheless offered to resign as the party president but later stayed on at the request of party leaders. Khaleda Zia of BNP took office as the first female Prime Minister of Bangladesh.

Politics in Bangladesh took a decisive turn in 1994, after Magura by-elections. This election was held after the MP of that constituency, a member of Hasina's party, died. Awami League was expected to win it back, but the seat was won by BNP. The opposition parties accused BNP of widespread rigging and the election commission of incompetence. The Awami League, with other opposition parties, demanded that the next election be held under a caretaker government, and that the notion of a caretaker government be incorporated in the constitution. The ruling party of Khaleda Zia, Hasina's arch rival, denied to give in to these demands.

Opposition parties launched an unprecedented campaign, calling strikes for weeks on end. The government accused them of destroying the economy while the opposition retaliated that BNP could solve this problem by acceding to their demands. In late 1995, the MP's of Awami League and other parties lost their seats due to prolonged absence in the parliament. The government declared elections on February 15, 1996, an election that was boycotted by all major parties but the ruling BNP. Hasina claimed that the election was a farce. The elected parliament, almost totally comprised of BNP members, finally amended the constitution to create provisions for a caretaker government. The next parliamentary election was held under a caretaker government headed by Justice Habibur Rahman on June 30, 1996.

Awami League won 148 seats in the 1996 parliamentary elections. The support of the Jatiya Party and a few independent candidates were enough for the 150+ seats needed for the required majority. Hasina took the oath as the prime minister of Bangladesh. She vowed to create a Government of National Unity. Though some smaller parties and a few individuals from BNP did join the government, the distance between the main two political parties (as well as their leaders) remained as large as ever. Hasina did manage to convince Justice Shahabuddin Ahmed, who led the first caretaker government, to assume the post of President. This selection of a neutral person as president was praised by her supporters as a proof of Hasina's good will to reach out to the opposition.

Ranking of Universities_2010

noreply@blogger.com (HASSAN) — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 04:46:00 +0000

01.HARVARD University(UK)
02.University of CAMBRIDGE(UK)
03.YALE University (USA)
04.UCL (University College London) (UK)
05.IMPERIAL College London(UK)
06.University of OXFORD(UK)
07.University of CHICAGO (USA)
08.PRINCETON University (USA)
09.Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA)
10.California Institute of Technology (USA)
11.COLUMBIA University (USA)
12.University of PENNSYLVANIA (USA)
13.JOHNS HOPKINS University (USA)
14.DUKE University (USA)
15.CORNELL University (USA)
16.STANFORD University (USA)
17.AUSTRALIAN National University (Australia)
18.Mcgill University (Canada)
19.University of MICHIGAN (USA)
20.ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) (Swtzerland)
21.University of EDINBURGH(UK)
22.University of TOKYO (Japan)
23.KING'S College London(UK)
24.University of HONG KONG (Hong Kong) 25.KYOTO University (Japan)

Necessity of Education In Bangladesh

noreply@blogger.com (HASSAN) — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 11:22:00 +0000

Necessity of Education

Education is the backbone of a nation. The significance of the value of education is well recognized in the Bangladesh education system. The Education Services Unit of the Ministry of Education is responsible for providing the system with necessary infrastructure facilities and the supply of textbooks and equipment to facilitate the process of education.

Education helps people to think different way. An educated man can use his or her education in any creative section. In developed countries the education rate is nearly hundred percent. So it proves that as a nation to be self dependent education should be mandatory for all in Bangladesh. In my life I have found wide range of significance of education. Such as education for earning and education for self motivation, education for to understood peoples values, trends and motive. So it can be said it is easy to be self dependent for an educated person. Now a day’s literacy rate of Bangladesh is 43.1 percent in which men 53% and women 35%.

The importance or necessity of education is difficult to write, because education requires in every where and every sector or every step in life. A web site shows the statistics of the physical development and the human resources of the school system are necessary to promote education in the country.

Author: Engineer Hassan Imam.

Kasmir crisis deteriorated again

noreply@blogger.com (HASSAN) — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 22:33:00 +0000

Pakistani-Indian troops exchange fire in Kashmir

Pakistani and Indian troops on Saturday exchanged fire in the disputed Himalayan Kashmir region amid heightened bilateral tensions triggered by Mumbai terror attacks. The incident broke five months of relative peaceful along the heavily militarized border. The two militaries exchanged blame for the incident, with each accusing the other of ‘unprovoked’ firing across the de facto border dividing Kashmir between the rivals. The Indian army said one of its soldiers was injured in the firing, which a spokesman said lasted five hours, ending early Saturday morning.
Pakistan said it had lodged a ‘strong protest’ with Indian authorities over the ‘ceasefire abuse.’
Pakistan and India agreed in November 2003 to a ceasefire along the LoC before they started their slow-moving peace talks in January 2004.Since then there have been irregular clashes and both countries have blamed each other of violating the ceasefire. In 2007 India blamed Pakistani soldiers of crossing the ceasefire line known as the Line of Control and killing an Indian soldier — allegations Islamabad denied.
India and Pakistan have fought two of their three wars over mainly Muslim Kashmir, held in part by each country but claimed in full by both.
An insurgency against New Delhi’s rule in Indian Kashmir has been under way since 1989 and left more than 47,000 people dead by official count. Islamabad refuses helping the Muslim rebels. more..........

Ashraful made a mistake: Huq

noreply@blogger.com (HASSAN) — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 21:47:00 +0000

Barrister Rafiqul Huq, who is trying to seat former prime ministers Sheikh Hasina and Khaleda Zia together, has come out with all guns blazing after the acting Awami League general secretary had implicitly advised him and business leaders not to meddle with politics. More...

Anwar calls for emergency no-confidence vote in PM