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....
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