Its a landslide victory for Awami League and the grand alliance.Here are the party wise details.Here is a nicely done detailed interactive map with updated results.Image courtesy The New A...
December 29, 2008
Liveblogging Bangladesh Elections results
The vote ended a couple of hours ago. The results have started coming in. Still early to call anything.* BDT 7:09PM Nayadiganta is updating Districtwise results* BDT 7:11PM The Daily Star has nice layout for the results. Still the figures are nil.* BDT 7:12PM Unheard Voice is also live blogging.* BDT 7:15PM Rizvi Ahmed of BNP gives press conference says the media is showing bias in reporting news of “intimidation” by BNP members. The money that...
Rural Voices
By Unnayan TVThe video was randomly recorded in two villages “Mujatati” and “Kabarikanda” of Mymensingh districts from 12-15 December 2008. The rural interviewers expressed their real feeling with instant opinion; could be called “Public Demand on Election 2008 of Bangladesh”. These rural voices portray the majority voices and vision of election, democracy, reality and future political leadership in Bangladesh. The video was captured by Siraj and J.Alam of Machizo with association of Shujan, Sanjit and Munam Master; however with the production...
Bangladesh: Microblogging an election
In a few hours time 81 million Bangladeshi voters (51% women) will go to vote for the ninth parliamentary election. The election is crucial for the nation as it will bring the country back into the track of democracy after two years of emergency rule of an interim government backed by armed forces.We have discussed earlier about the use of internet in the campaign and activism for an informed vote. Now we have got another interesting development.Somewherein,...
Banngladesh Goes into Poll
(Image credit: The Daily Star)in a few hours Bangladeshis will decide their future by voting in the ninth parliamentary election. Stay tuned for all the coverage in E-Bangladesh, The New Age, Somewhere in, Amar Blog, BDNEWS24.com e...
December 26, 2008
14 War Criminals contending in Bangladesh Election
Please do not vote for them.Via Dark Ocean Needs A Lighthou...
December 25, 2008
Merry Christmas Everyone
Christmas market in GendarmenmarktChristmas lighting in Arkaden, Potsdamer PlatzSony Center, Potsdamer PlatzChristmas Market, Europa CenterDas SchlossKaufhaus des Westens (KaDeWe), Kurfursten...
December 24, 2008
Election Express
The Asia Foundation is covering Bangladesh Election:Bangladesh just lifted its long-standing emergency rule, giving candidates freedom to campaign for the Dec. 29 parliamentary elections. Home to 150 million people, Bangladesh has been a parliamentary democracy since 1991, when a pro-democracy movement ended the country's latest military regime. The Asia Foundation is partnering with the Election Working Group (EWG) on election observation, voter education, and electoral reform advocacy. EWG will deploy 178,000 domestic observers across Bangladesh...
December 23, 2008
Bangladesh Election 2008 And Cyber Activism
Bangladesh goes into poll on December 29, 2008 for a much awaited parliamentary election. The scenario is lot different than the recent US presidential election where citizen media and Internet campaigning and fund raising were extensively used. With a penetration of 1% of the total population of 145 million, Internet is still not a media that reaches mass people. The new generation of bloggers and facebook users are trying to harness the power of...
December 20, 2008
Clean Voter List, Clean Polls
The Bangladesh general election on December 29, 2008 will be remarkable in many ways. First of all the national ID card project with biometric data hindered the inclusion of false voters which was a regular affair in previous elections. See the comparative voter lists since the birth of Bangladesh:What is remarkable is that for the first time we have more women voters (51%) than the previous lists. Another thing to note is that from 1996 to 2001...
December 19, 2008
Disconnected...
Calls to and from Bangladesh have been seriously effected today. In case you are wondering why this happened here is the reason:Internet and telephone traffic between Europe and the Middle East and Asia was hampered Friday after three major underwater data lines were cut, according to France Telecom.The cut occurred on lines between 07:28 and 08:06 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) on lines in the Mediterranean sea that connect Sicily to Tunisia and...
Facebook and Terrorism
From the AllFaceBook blog:We’ve covered extensively how Facebook has been impacting the global political landscape and much of what we’ve discussed has been about the spreading of democracy. Now for the first time, it appears that Islamic terrorists are preparing to spread Jihad through the largest global social network. In a post entitled “Invading Facebook: Theory and Practice”, Umar Abd al-Hakim of Syria covers how Facebook can be used to spread Jihadi media to the masses.Major General Muniruzzaman, a former military advisor and Chief of Staff...
December 18, 2008
TIME person of the year Barack Obama
Time magazine named US president-elect Barack Obama its 2008 "Person of the Year.I think this is one selection everybody around the world will agree. There was a survey once which showed if the world could vote, Obama would win over McCain in a landslide. So no surprises here.David Von Drehle writes:It's unlikely that you were surprised to see Obama's face on the cover. He has come to dominate the public sphere so completely that it beggars belief...
December 17, 2008
AFP defends its hyped up story!!!!
The story that a Bangladeshi film producer has claimed that he has spent 58 million dollars building an exact replica of the "Taj Mahal" was first reported by AFP and then quickly picked up by the MSM in Bangladesh, India and International media.Some Bangladeshi bloggers went to see what the fuss is all about and were disappointed with the findings and claimed this as a money making scam to milk the visitors with exorbitant prices. Aparna's post at Global Voices reveals all that which ends with:"With Bangladeshi bloggers uploading their first-hand...
Why you are unable to call home to Bangladesh
In recent times people from all over the world are having tough time to call to Bangladesh using calling cards or other means using VOIP technology. This article answers why. Some snippets:"VOIP or Voice Over IP is a technology that enables telephone companies to transmit high numbers of phone calls all over the world very cheaply. [..] Creative entrepreneurs have popped up everywhere setting up VOIP internet exchanges throughout Bangladesh that carry a huge volume of international phone calls into Bangladesh using the Internet. These exchanges...
December 16, 2008
Victory Day
Greetings to everyone on the 37th anniversary of the Victory day in Bangladesh.It is a day when Bangladesh came into being. 'Victory against what?' one may ask. It was a victory against the farcical two nation theory, The colonialism of West Pakistan and their oppression against their East Pakistani brothers in economic, administrative and cultural sectors, victory against one of the worst genocides in the history of the world, victory against the rape of thousands of women by the Pakistani soldiers and the nine month long liberation war.The history...
December 15, 2008
Bloggers unearth the fake Taj Mahal scam in Bangladesh
Global Voices has the full details:Bibortonbadi, another blogger who visited the site was also very upset at falling prey to yellow journalism; he wrote in his blog [bn]:There's nothing worth seeing. The so-called replica of the brilliant Taj has been made with colored tiles. I had read so many things in the newspapers - 400crores of Taka, valuable marble and tiles from Italy, 172 diamonds from Belgium, 160kgs of bronze on the dome…where is all of...
December 12, 2008
Today's links
Iranian 'Blogfather' Hossein Derakhshan is arrested on charge of spying for Israel.Primark accused over bad pay in Bangladesh.The German Obama?Bangladesh 'Beatle hero' move.Where are Chinese (and Bangladeshi) Internet Police being trained?Highest paid Presidents/PM's around the World.'Facebook terrorists' pose new challenges, warns Bangladeshi general.Thoughts on Grameen Bank and foreign aid.Microfinance for Rickshaw pullers in progre...
Web 2.0 Guide
100 Blogs that will inspire you to be a better person.Who killed the VoIP revolution? Causes: The leading way to change the World online.Cairo activists use facebook to rattle regime.The Moral Economy of Web 2.0 by Henry Jenkins. Christine Herron's top ten mashups for social changeMedia attention cartogramsThe conversation has left the BlogosphereDemystifying Wikipedia: How to be a model Wikipedia contributor.Blogging your way into a business Before and After: How Google, Wikipedia have changed our lives - for better and worseBuilding a website...
Awami League Election Manifesto
Awami League unveiled today their election manifesto which looks promising. You can download the manifesto from here.The salient features of the election promises include:* Measures will be taken to reduce the unbearable burden of price hike and keep it in tune with the purchasing power of the people.* Necessary steps would be taken for investment promotion, energy security, retaining and enhancing domestic demand, safeguarding value of money, assisting...
December 11, 2008
In Memory of Gurudasi Mondol
Rest in peace Gurudasi Mondol, finally, after 37 years.“I will NOT forget. I will not let YOU forge...
December 10, 2008
Images from London
One fine morning about 100 passengers checked in the Berlin Schoenefeld airport for their Ryan Air flight to London Stansted and were waiting in the boarding lounge. All of a sudden they were asked to vacate the lounge. The immigration police were one the job to reverse the process of immigration and the passengers were wondering why. After a while they realized that the flight was cancelled and this was the reason.I was one of them. And I had to...
December 07, 2008
Beautiful Bangladesh
If you have doubts these images will change your mind.News: Bangladesh gets a new country bra...
December 03, 2008
Mumbai Terror Attacks: Who Did It and Why
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December 01, 2008
The new low in Bangladeshi politics
BNP nominated its former lawmaker and deputy minister Abdus Salam Pintu along with his brother Sultan Salauddin Tuku, senior vice-president of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal, for the Tangail-2 constituency as its candidate in the December 29 parliamentary polls. Pintu is now detained and charges were made against him and 22 persons including top Harkat-ul-Jihad (Huji) leader Mufti Abdul Hannan for the sensational August 21 grenade attack against Hasina....
November 29, 2008
Karachi Riots
After Mumbai, now its Karachi. Newspapers report that four persons killed and 77 got injured in Karachi ethnic violence . GEO reports:The riots started in Banaras area where unknown armed-men opened fire at passing vehicles and also pelted them with stones, killing four including a woman and injuring 54 others.Unknown men also set on fire 7 vehicles in different parts of the city. The media is reportedly downplaying the incide...
November 28, 2008
Quote of the day
"My powers of empathy, my ability to reach into another's heart, cannot penetrate the blank stares of those who would murder innocents with such serene satisfaction."- Barack Obama, US president el...
Mumbai blasts
Slideshow courtesy Vinu from Vinu's Online Cloud.Shock and dismay, loath and disgust. When will we bring back sanity in the world?Full coverage at Global Voices Online.Live updates at Twitt...
November 24, 2008
Bangladesh Election: The field gets heated up
After the deferral of polls to December 29, 2008 the Election commission of Bangladesh has met one of the demands of BNP and they are hoping that this will pave way for the all inclusive election. The BNP hailed the decision but is still hoping that their three demands including repealing the Section 91E of the Representation of the People Ordinance 2008 will be met. So there is still an element of doubt till the final submission of nomination, that is November 30, 2008. Amidst all that we have seen the usual hate politics has started. The country...
Video of the day
Stacking bricks on the head and carrying them out from a boat: Filmed in Khulna. Although the jobs people do can be mundane, human beings find art in it. Via : Things we woudn't know if we didn't blog...
November 22, 2008
Vote for Rising Voices
Rising Voices is one of the projects that I love to be associated with. I feel my adrenaline pumping every time I read about the efforts of common people across the world and how they are overcoming all the challenges to share them online. Bangladesh's Nari Jibon is just one of those examples. Rising Voices provides micro-grant funding for more than a dozen community blogging projects in some of the most under-represented parts of the world. (Read...
November 21, 2008
November 20, 2008
Election at last!
We have got some conflicting reports coming from Bangladesh. The government declared that the election will be on schedule i.e. December 18th after its frantic two-day negotiations with BNP-led 4-party alliance failed. The government proposals the BNP could not agree with:"Deferment of the parliamentary election by ten days to December 28, total lifting of the emergency at an appropriate time before the election taking into consideration the law and order situation, holding upazila elections on January 8, 2009, and implementing clause 91(e) of...
November 19, 2008
Uncertainties in Bangladesh
"Is everything OK in Bangladesh?" asks BDfact. The government was to announce around 3 PM today a new poll date instead of 18th December. BNP and its coalition is almost on the verge of boycotting the election. It was evident from their play with religious sentiments. Nazim Farhan Chowdhury bets that if BNP does not want something it does not happen. Let us see whether he is right or not.Dr. Akbar Ali Khan, ex adviser of the past caretaker government commented:"BNP will harm more to itself than to the country if it does not participate in the election"...
November 17, 2008
November 14, 2008
Barack Obama's Flickr Photostream
Image by Flickr user Barack Obama used under a Creative Commons License (BY-NC-SA)US President elect Barack Obama anxiously waiting for the results on November 4, 2008.(Via Joi I...
Links of the day
After Defaming Islam & Terrorizing Muslims, Now a Film on Prophet Muhammad of Islam?No Connectivity, No Phone, No Electricty, No ProblemIndonesia Launches Tsunami Warning SystemSidr-hit Sundarbans grows back stronglyBangladesh govt bans ICL coverageBangladeshi population grows at 1.7pc in one yearBangladesh Society of New York puts your election obsession to shameWho will take over?Bangladesh Polls: Drama of Democracy?In Bangladesh: Hoping for Cha...
November 10, 2008
Absolute power, nothing else
The December 18 general election is crucial for Bangladesh as it will bring the country in the track of democracy after a corrupt BNP rule, years of dysfunctional parliament because of mindless boycott from Awami League and violent protests. While most of the parties are ready for election, BNP is trying to create more obstacles by asking more time for the submission of nomination papers. It wants its jailed and loan and utility defaulter old corrupt faces to run for them again. It feels that in this election their chances are slim and they could...
November 06, 2008
Picture of the Day
The Falling Leaves by Margaret Postgate ColeToday, as I rode by,I saw the brown leaves dropping from their treeIn a still afternoon,When no wind whirled them whistling to the sky,But thickly, silently,They fell, like snowflakes wiping out the noon;And wandered slowly thenceFor thinking of a gallant multitudeWhich now all withering lay,Slain by no wind of age or pestilence,But in their beauty strewedLike snowflakes falling on the Flemish cl...
Obama, hopes and reactions
US president elect Barack Obama received a clear mandate from USA and with the support of the world became the first Democrat to win a majority of the popular vote since 1976. Here are some of the interesting reactions found around the web:A reader writes in Andrew Sullivan's The Daily Dish:Everything in my life is exactly the same as it was 30 minutes ago; and yet I feel as though everything is different.I know Obama isn't going to fix the economy overnight, I know he won't be able to provide healthcare to all Americans by February '09. I know...
The Bangladesh-Myanmar maritime boundary dispute
On the 1st of November four drilling ships from Myanmar started exploration for oil and gas reserves within 50 nautical miles south west of St. Martins Island, in Bangladesh. A South Korean company was awarded the oil and gas exploration contract in that place and two Myanmar naval ships escorted the drilling ships. Three naval ships of Bangladesh went to challenge them but the Myanmar Navy responded by alleging that the Bangladesh Navy ships are...
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