Started my journey towards Panchagarh, near the northern border of Bangladesh, I was worried how to get to Shayamoli early in the morning. Finding a CNG autorickshaw is a tough ask these days. I have to use autorickshaw to go to office everyday so I know the pain.Until recently the autorickshaw drivers have created an anarchy by not going as per available meter. For every short and medium distance they would ask Tk. 100 to Tk. 150 ($2) whereas the fare as per meter would be one third of that. And they never would want to go to the place you want...
January 29, 2011
January 13, 2011
Khan Academy Translation Project (Bangla) : Call for Volunteers
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Khan Academy is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) with the mission of providing world-class education to anyone, anywhere. It is the free classroom of the world. Agami is a US-registered non-profit charity, dedicated to promote basic education for the underprivileged children in Bangladesh. 1° Initiative is a registered nonprofit youth organization with a vision to create changemakers through social innovations and currently operates in Bangladesh, Nepal and Canada. In Bangladesh, it focuses on access to education, sustainable environment...
January 12, 2011
Bangladesh, India: Human Rights Hanging On The Border Fence
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Bangladeshis were shocked by widely published photographs of the dead body of a 15 year old Bangladeshi girl hanging on the India-Bangladesh border Fence. According to news reports the girl named Felani was shot dead by the Indian Border Security Force (BSF) at Anantapur while she was illegally crossing the border with her father while traveling back to Bangladesh.
Mahmud Faisal elaborates how the girl was caught in this tragic fate:
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January 08, 2011
Google Bangladesh Page Hacked And A Probable Solution
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When hackers make a breaking news headline it tells a lot about the security infrastructure and knowledge about internet security. This is from BDNews24.com, the leading Online news website in Bangladesh:
Hackers have broken into the Bangladesh site of leading search engine Google, internet service experts said Saturday evening.
"The site has definitely been hacked," said Pradip Dey, chief technical officer of ADN, a leading ISP.
"A couple...
January 07, 2011
Attending a workshop on contribution to Wikipedia.
The workshop has been arranged by Wikipedia Commons Bangladesh, a community of Wikipedia users in Bangladesh and its supporters. Bangladesh has potential to engage more volunteers to create more contents in English and Bangla for the growing number of internet users in Banglade...
January 02, 2011
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