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[chottala.com] Poignant Story: Reaganomics Actually works in Bangladesh !!!!

Poignant Story: Reaganomics Actually works in Bangladesh ?
 
Dear All
 
Poignant story behind the picture:
Reaganomics may have actually worked  in Bangladesh !!!!
Let the rich become richer [by fare means or foul]. ......
 
 
 
The poor in Bangladesh are getting the fruits of the trickle-down effect.
The planners have been assuring the poor that if the rich have more
on their dining tables, more crumbs will be swept off and thrown down.
If the rich becomes richer, more donation & charity will be available
Free-market orthodoxy has been firmly installed, the rich... remain
gloriously rich. The poor remain miserably poor.
 
A. Rahim Azad
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[chottala.com] Noble Peace Prize, 2007 .... prediction from Oslo

Norwegian members of parliament Børge Brende and Heidi Sørensen show their joint nominees for the Nobel Peace Prize 2007.

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Al Gore Nobel nominee

The fight for the global climate is a fight for peace, say members of parliament Børge Brende and Heidi Sørensen, and they have nominated former US Vice-president Al Gore for a share of the Nobel Peace Prize.

Canadian environmentalist Sheila Watt-Cloutier is now nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.

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Former US VP Al Gore has thrust the global climate change issue into the public consciousness.

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The two green-thinking MPs suggest that Gore share the prize with Inuit Sheila Watt-Cloutier, in recognition for their efforts to put the danger posed by climate change on the global political agenda.

"This is clearly, absolutely, one of the important efforts to achieve conflict prevention. Climate change can lead to enormous flows of refugees on a scale the world has never seen before. Fighting climate change is immensely important work for global peace," Heidi Sørensen, member of parliament for the Socialist Left Party (SV), told Aftenposten.

"The Nobel Committee has previously been adept at addressing new threats with their awards. Climate change is one of the greatest and most serious threats humanity faces. The United Nations' climate panel now maintains that the earth may be changed more in the next 100 years than in the 10,000 years since the last ice age," Conservative Party MP and former Minister of the Environment Børge Brende said.

The former US VP has toured the world the past year with the film "An Inconvenient Truth", which has actualized the climate change issue for a great many people. Gore has worked with environmental issues for over 20 years and had a decisive role in forming the Kyoto protocol for reducing CO2 emissions in 1997.

Sheila Watt-Cloutier is a Canadian Inuit and for years has been one of the leaders of the Inuit Circumpolar Conference, which represents over 150,000 Inuit. In recent years she has concentrated on focusing attention on the rapid warming taking place in the Arctic, and made a massive effort to explain to world leaders that the Arctic is the planet's barometer of climate change.

"Climate change is also a threat to global welfare. One hundred million climate refugees, major changes in potable water supply and a reduction in biological diversity that will first and foremost hit the poor who live in and depend upon nature - these things will quickly become a major security threat," Brende said.

"Al Gore has done a very important job as former US VP and has created so much pressure in the USA that for the first time President Bush must now say that climate change is a problem. No other single person in the last year has done so much to put the threat of climate change on the agenda, and contributed to lasting changes in international policy," Børge Brende said.

"Gore played a key role in Kyoto and Sheila Watt-Cloutier has opened the world's eyes to what is happening in the Arctic. When she communicated this, the climate debate took a new and important turn. She has communicated the drama and given it a face," Heidi Sørensen said.

Aftenposten's Norwegian reporter
Ole Mathismoen
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[chottala.com] Eid Mubarak

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Eid Mubarak to you all.
 
Dr. Siraj uddowllah, Windsor, Canada.


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Re: [chottala.com] CTG still the ANGEL...Really our dear politicians are making us world famous nation.

Hi Mr Mohathir
What problems?? Wait & see.
Unxeperienced  unskilled CTG now is earning experienced knowledge in all sectors being skilled exeprienced  persons & after finishing all reforming chapter will start developing chapter. For it nation must needs to pay value. Because this CTG is the result of movement. Our politicians have created CTG systems & have brought this CTG by doing long movement doing long street fighting killing many people destroying people property.
What  problems??
Once Bangladesh  was Bottomless Basket.......
Then it became World Top Class Champion Corrupted.
Now it world be Champion as Adam Export Country.
Bangal Adams will do hunger strike laying on abroad streets.
Really
Our dear politicians are making us world famous nation.
.


mahathir of bd <wouldbemahathirofbd@yahoo.com> wrote:
As Bangladesh is now running smoothly since after 1/11, ...............................................................
 
Yes Mr. Siraj , CTG is running Bangladesh smoothly , but not forward , running backword.
 
Back word in overall economy , law and order, foreign investment, relations with friends of Bangladesh, job creation, remittance, garments exports,  What not.?
 
Even  if the CTG succced to jail the two ladies influencing the Cheif justice(as evident from the comments of Barrister Rafiqul haque ), they will not be able to minus them from BD politics, rather they are making them more powerful . Every such sign  is evident. Betrayer Mannan  has  raised the picture of khaleda  again in his drawing room. Opportunist ( you call them reformist )  from AL has joined to conformists  and set their priority  to get Hasina released.
 
So where the CTG succedding ?
 
Ultimately this government will gift us  a famine and peace of grave yard.
 
 
 Every symptoms of such  situation is becoming evident  day by day(india has baned rice export to Bangladesh ,production has reduced due to flood twice, many people have lsoty jobs, price of essentials going up and up,many poor people has lost their job due to dismantling of small shop, bazar and so on ).
 
 But some blind supporters  of CTG can not see it,
 
 The sooner this reactive, destructive , inexperienced, ineffective CTG goes , the better it is for  Bangladesh.
 
 
 
 
 
there are many who cannot sit peacefully in their house. They are always habituated of "Oshanto Poribesh in Bangladesh".  
 
 


Siraj uddowllah <uddowllahsiraj@yahoo.com> wrote:
Dear Moderator,
 
CTG is still angel to some blind supporters living abroad, not in Bangladesh...............mahathir of bd                   
 
'To every action there is an equal and opposite reaction'. --- Newton's third laws of motion. Practicable in our every spheres of life.
 
Before 1/11 what was going on in our country and those who were responsible to create all those situation, are now facing the consequences. exactly the same as opposite reaction for their ill activities. If CTG does anything wrong at this moment they will also have to face the same consequences as opposite reaction quoted by one of our learned writters of chottala 'dina khan'.  But there are some who don't like to wait upto that moment. 
 
As Bangladesh is now running smoothly since after 1/11, there are many who cannot sit peacefully in their house. They are always habituated of "Oshanto Poribesh in Bangladesh".  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
We are staying outside for the time being, but CTG is still inside ruling the country sincerely by bringing all those culprits under trial and putting them behind the bar. Don't you feel comfotable now or feeling uncomfortable by being apart from close association of your friends in the jail detained for corruption.
 
People who live outside for the time being, are also Bangladeshi,  a patriotic Bangladeshi. It is due to their patriotic feeling still they are thinking for a peaceful Bangladesh and are still loyal to legal govt of CTG  by becoming a blind supporter, not behaving as an antistate elements.
 
Dr. Siraj uddowllah, Windsor, Canada. 


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[chottala.com] Unfair trial and continued imprisonment of former parliamentarian Sheikh Hasina

Unfair trial and continued imprisonment of former parliamentarian Sheikh Hasina

- A case for intervention by the IPU -

06 October 2007

I. Introduction

Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR) appreciates the decision of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) to consider its request to explore the possibilities for intervention against the arrest, detention and continued imprisonment of former parliamentarian and former Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina since 16 July 2007. She is also the President of Awami League, one of the largest political parties in Bangladesh.

Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR) has studied all the four complaints filed so far against Sheikh Hasina by three private individuals and the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) of Bangladesh. A cursory reading of the cases reveals that these complaints are trumped up.  

After having studied the complaints filed so far, ACHR can assert that complaints of alleged corruption, which could have been considered as alleged cases of bribery, have been turned into "extortion" cases – non- bailable offences - by the Caretaker government. In addition, three cases i.e. two complaints of extortion filed by Noor Ali and Azam J Chowdhury and one case of corruption filed by the ACC - have been brought under the Emergency Powers Rules (EPR) of 2007 in order to deny her bail indefinitely. These measures have been taken in order to prevent her from carrying out political activities which pose formidable challenge to the Care-taker government. A Care-taker government, which has no mandate of the people, by definition, must function within the ambits of the Constitution of Bangladesh and other national laws to facilitate installation of a government with people's mandate. The Care-taker government has not only set aside the Constitution of Bangladesh but has also assumed the role of the judiciary by retroactively applying the Emergency Powers Rules of 2007 which violates the basic tenets of fair trial and rights guaranteed under the Constitution of Bangladesh and international human rights law .

Asian Centre for Human Rights appeals to the Committee on Human Rights of Parliamentarians of the Inter-Parliamentary Union to take a decision at its 117th Assembly to be held in Geneva on 6 to 9 October 2007 to intervene with the government of Bangladesh for immediate release of Sheikh Hasina and ensure full respect for internationally accepted principles on the right to fair trial.

In this submission, ACHR provides (i) the briefs of the cases filed against Sheikh Hasina, (ii) issues of concerns for the Inter-Parliamentary Union and (iii) ACHR's requests for interventions.

II. Briefs of the cases filed against Sheikh Hasina

Former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has so far been charged in four criminal cases – three relating to alleged bribery charges which have been turned into extortion charges - and one relating to alleged corruption filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission of Bangladesh which has been brought under the Emergency Powers Regulations of 2007.

Case No. 1: Complaint filed by Tajul Islam Farooq with Tejgaon Police Station, Dhaka

On 9 April 2007, one Tajul Islam Farook, Chairman of Westmont Power Company, filed a complaint (No.30) with Tejgaon Police Station against Sheikh Hasina for allegedly extorting Taka 30 million from him. The case was registered under Sections 385 (extortion), 386 (extortion by putting any person in fear of death or of grievous hurt) and 387 (e xtortion by threat of accusation of an offence punishable with death or imprisonment for life) of Bangladesh Penal Code. He claims to have taken Taka 30 million in one suit case to give them to Sheikh Hasina on 12 December 1998.

No evidence was provided by the complainant.

Case No. 2: Complaint filed by Noor Ali with the Tejgaon Police Station, Dhaka

On 13 June 2007, one Noor Ali, Managing Director of Unique Group of Companies filed a complaint (No 32) with the Tejgaon Police Station accusing Sheikh Hasina, her cousin Sheikh Helal and Helal's wife Rupa Chowdhury of extorting Taka 32 million from him for helping his firm win a power plant deal in 1997. In this complaint filed under Sections 385 (extortion) and 109 (abetment) of Bangladesh Penal Code, the complainant alleged that the money was paid between 8 June 1997 and 20 May 1999.

The signatures on the back side of the cheque which is mandatory for the withdrawal of the money from the Bank were reportedly neither of Sheikh Hasina nor of the other accused.

Though the case was filed under Bangladesh Penal Code, on 16 July 2007, the government decided to put the case under the Emergency Powers Rules of 2007.

In a related development, on 17 July 2007, the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) asked Sheikh Hasina to declare her wealth within seven days.

On 29 July 2007, Sheikh Hasina has been shown arrested in the case filed by Noor Ali. [1] She has been in detention since 16 July 2007.

On 5 August 2007, Sheikh Hasina filed a writ petition with the High Court against the ACC's order asking her to declare her wealth.

On 7 August 2007, the High Court granted interim bail to Sheikh Hasina and ordered the government not to try her under the Emergency Powers Rules of 2007. The High Court also stayed the ACC's order asking Hasina to disclose her wealth. [2]

The government immediately moved the Supreme Court against the High Court's order. On 14 August 2007, the Supreme Court asked the government to file regular petitions to challenge the order. [3] On 27 August 2007, the Supreme Court stayed the High Court's order of 7 August 2007, thereby the Supreme Court sanctified her continued detention under the Emergency Powers Rules of 2007.

Earlier, on 14 August 2007, Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mohammad Ashraf Uddin ordered the Officer-in-Charge of Tejgaon Police Station to submit the investigative report by 30 August 2007. [4] On 25 September 2007, Magistrate Mohammad Ashraf Uddin again ordered the Officer-in-Charge of Tejgaon Police Station to submit the probe report by 23 October 2007. [5]

Case No. 3: Complaint filed by Azam J Chowdhury with Gulshan Police Station, Dhaka

The third case was filed on 13 June 2007 by Azam J Chowdhury, Managing Director of East Coast Trading Private Ltd with Gulshan Police Station, Dhaka against Sheikh Hasina and her cousin, Sheikh Fazlul Karim Selim for allegedly extorting Taka 29.9 million from him for the work of Siddhirganj Power Plant in Narayanganj. [6] The case (No.34) was registered with the Gulshan Police Station under Sections 385 (extortion), and 109 (abetment)of Bangladesh Penal Code.

On 16 July 2007, Sheikh Hasina was arrested by the joint forces and imprisoned in a makeshift jail at the premises of the Parliament. On the same day, the Home Ministry issued an approval to bring the case under the Emergency Powers Rules, 2007 considering "public importance" of the case.

On 24 July 2007, Gulshan Police Station Officer-in-Charge, Obaidul Haq, who is also the Investigation Officer of the case, charge-sheeted Hasina along with her sister Sheikh Rehana and cousin Selim under Sections 385 (extortion), 109 (abetment) and section 34 (criminal liability) of the Bangladesh Penal Code. The charge-sheet stated that Selim confessed before the police that he had taken money from the businessman, Azam J Chowdhury on the direction of Sheikh Hasina and later gave Taka 10 million to Sheikh Rehana.

On 29 July 2007, Sheikh Hasina moved the High Court challenging the government's decision to bring Taka 29.9 million extortion case against her under the Emergency Powers Rules of 2007. [7]

On 30 July 2007, the High Court granted bail to Sheikh Hasina and ordered the government not to try her under the Emergency Powers Rules. [8]

The government immediately appealed before the Supreme Court against the High Court order. On 2 August 2007, the Supreme Court deferred the hearing till 14 August 2007.

On 27 August 2007, the Supreme Court stayed the High Court order of 30 July 2007 thereby denied her bail and brought the alleged charges under the Emergency Powers Rules of 2007. The Supreme Court also asked her to submit a statement disclosing her wealth to the Anti-Corruption Commission within a week. [9]

On 19 September 2007, Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate KM Ruhul Amin set the next date of hearing on 4 October 2007 to decide as to whether or not to accept the charge sheet filed against Sheikh Hasina and others. [10]

Case No. 4: Complaint filed by ACC

The fourth complaint was filed by the Anti Corruption Commission on 2 September 2007 with the Tejgaon Police Station under the Anti Corruption Law against Sheikh Hasina and six others alleging that Sheikh Hasina, who was then the Prime Minister had received kickbacks worth Taka 30 million from the two power companies between 24 October 1996 and 24 November 1997 in exchange for favour.

On 19 September 2007, Sheikh Hasina was shown arrested in this case.

On 19 September 2007, the Anti-Corruption Commission also permitted the authorities to include the corruption case against Sheikh Hasina and six others under the Emergency Powers Rules of 2007. The case has been brought under Section 15 and Section 19(j) of EPR, 2007 following an application by the Investigation Officer of the case, Deputy Director of ACC, Morshed Alam. [11]

It is clear that ACC is acting as the judge and jury. None of the accused will be granted bail.

III. Issues of concerns for the IPU

Asian Centre for Human Rights strongly believes that the arrest of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has little or nothing to do with offences allegedly committed by her but more to do with silencing any opposition to the Care-taker government from the Awami League.

Asian Centre for Human Rights shares the following concerns:

First, the arrest of Sheikh Hasina violates the cardinal principles of administration of justice – the presumption of innocence until proven guilty as provided under Article 14(2) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR). Under the Criminal Procedure Code of Bangladesh, when complaints are filed by private individuals and not the State, the allegations made in the complaint must be first investigated by the police before making arrest, and the complainant has to mandatorily make out a prima facie case before the Court could take cognizance of an alleged crime. No such investigation was conducted before taking Sheikh Hasina into custody. The investigation started only after she was taken into custody on 16 July 2007.

Second, the complaints were filed under various sections of Bangladesh Penal Code. Be as it may, even if the allegations were true, these alleged offences should have been considered offences such as "corruption", "abuse of official powers" etc but not "extortion".   The offence of "extortion" has been invoked to deny her bail.

Third, all the alleged offences took place prior to the Emergency Powers Rules, 2007 came into force. Under no circumstances, a law can be applied retroactively. Moreover as provided under Section 15 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights " No one shall be held guilty of any criminal offence on account of any act or omission which did not constitute a criminal offence, under national or international law, at the time when it was committed. Nor shall a heavier penalty be imposed than the one that was applicable at the time when the criminal offence was committed ."

Fourth, the Emergency Powers Rules of 2007 violates internationally accepted principles on the right to fair trial and allows the government to assume the role of the judiciary. Under Section 10(2) of the Emergency Powers Rules of 2007, " offences under these Rules are cognizable, non-compoundable and non-bailable" . Section 19(D) of the Emergency Powers Rules further provides that "While the Proclamation of Emergency remains in force, notwithstanding anything contained in Sections 497 and 498 of the CrPC, 1898 or any other law, a person accused of any offence under these Rules or under any of the laws referred to in Rules 14 and 15 of the Rules, 2007, may not submit a petition for bail before any Court or Tribunal pending enquiry, investigation or trial of such offence ".

It is for the judiciary to decide whether any accused should be given bail or not. However, as stated above, in Bangladesh, the Care-taker government has assumed the role of the judiciary under the Emergency Powers Rules of 2007 and no justice can be obtained as the judiciary has been reduced to a rubber stamp.

IV. ACHR's requests for interventions

On 30 July 2007, Sheikh Hasina was granted bail by the High Court into the complaint filed by Azam J Chowdhury, Managing Director of East Coast Trading Private Ltd with Gulshan Police Station. There is seldom any precedence for the government to appeal against such order of bail of the High Court before the Supreme Court. Bail can normally be cancelled by the bail granting court if any of the conditions of the bail are violated. But in case of Sheikh Hasina, the Care-taker government instantly filed an appeal to the Supreme Court against the order of the High Court and also simultaneously showed her arrested in another case under the Emergency Powers Rules 2007.

The order of the Supreme Court of 27 August 2007 staying the order of the High Court is also bad in law. Under the common law system of criminal jurisprudence, which Bangladesh follows, bail is also usually not denied so long there is no possibility of the accused disappearing after the grant of bail or interfering with the process of investigation. There is no possibility of Sheikh Hasina disappearing and it is the Care-taker government which did not want her to return to Bangladesh. Nor can she interfere with the process of investigation.

Sheikh Hasina continues to remain imprisoned simply because the alleged cases of bribery have been turned into "extortion" charges which are non-bailable offences and these alleged charges have further been brought under the Emergency Powers Rules of 2007. This has been done primarily because Sheikh Hasina has been challenging the Care-taker government which has been crossing its brief, among others, by acting as law unto itself and putting aside the Constitution of Bangladesh .

Considering the blatant violations of the internationally accepted principles on the right to fair trial and the lack of independence of judiciary through interference by the Care-taker government and the restrictions put by the Emergency Powers Rules of 2007 on the judiciary, the Inter-Parliamentary Union must consider intervening for the immediate release of Sheikh Hasina.

Asian Centre for Human Rights requests the Committee on Human Rights of Parliamentarians of the Inter-Parliamentary Union to take the following measures:

First, send a team of the Committee on Human Rights of Parliamentarians to Bangladesh to meet Sheikh Hasina and study the case/complaint documents and bring out a report which will, inter alia, examine whether the prosecution, trial and continued imprisonment of Sheikh Hasina meet internationally accepted principles on the right to fair trial and submit the same for consideration by the Assembly of the IPU;

Second, send a team of the Committee on Human Rights of Parliamentarians or international legal experts representing the IPU to observe the proceedings of the trials of Sheikh Hasina to monitor independence of judiciary and report to the Assembly of the IPU; and

Third, take any other measures that the IPU deems fit.



[1] . Hasina challenges extortion case at HC, The Daily Star, 30 July 2007

[2] . Hasina gets bail in another case, Daily Star, 8 August 2007

[3] . SC asks government to file regular petitions, The New Age, 15 August 2007

[4] . SC rejects govt plea for stay on Hasina's bail, The Daily Star, 15 August 2007

[5] . Cop asked for probe report on Hasina by Oct 23, Daily Star, 26 September 2007

[6] . Two more extortion cases against Hasina, The Daily Star, 14 June 2007

[7] . Hasina challenges extortion case at HC, The Daily Star, 30 July 2007

[8] . HC grants bail to Hasina, The Daily Star, 31 July 2007

[9] . Hasina's bail stayed, The Daily Star, 28 August 2007

[10] . Court now to decide on trial of case against Hasina Oct 4, The Daily Star, 20 September 2007

[11] . ACC okays bringing Hasina's Tk 3cr graft case under EPR, The Daily Star, 21 September 2007

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Re: [chottala.com] CTG still the ANGEL

As Bangladesh is now running smoothly since after 1/11, ...............................................................
 
Yes Mr. Siraj , CTG is running Bangladesh smoothly , but not forward , running backword.
 
Back word in overall economy , law and order, foreign investment, relations with friends of Bangladesh, job creation, remittance, garments exports,  What not.?
 
Even  if the CTG succced to jail the two ladies influencing the Cheif justice(as evident from the comments of Barrister Rafiqul haque ), they will not be able to minus them from BD politics, rather they are making them more powerful . Every such sign  is evident. Betrayer Mannan  has  raised the picture of khaleda  again in his drawing room. Opportunist ( you call them reformist )  from AL has joined to conformists  and set their priority  to get Hasina released.
 
So where the CTG succedding ?
 
Ultimately this government will gift us  a famine and peace of grave yard.
 
 
 Every symptoms of such  situation is becoming evident  day by day(india has baned rice export to Bangladesh ,production has reduced due to flood twice, many people have lsoty jobs, price of essentials going up and up,many poor people has lost their job due to dismantling of small shop, bazar and so on ).
 
 But some blind supporters  of CTG can not see it,
 
 The sooner this reactive, destructive , inexperienced, ineffective CTG goes , the better it is for  Bangladesh.
 
 
 
 
 
there are many who cannot sit peacefully in their house. They are always habituated of "Oshanto Poribesh in Bangladesh".  
 
 


Siraj uddowllah <uddowllahsiraj@yahoo.com> wrote:
Dear Moderator,
 
CTG is still angel to some blind supporters living abroad, not in Bangladesh...............mahathir of bd                   
 
'To every action there is an equal and opposite reaction'. --- Newton's third laws of motion. Practicable in our every spheres of life.
 
Before 1/11 what was going on in our country and those who were responsible to create all those situation, are now facing the consequences. exactly the same as opposite reaction for their ill activities. If CTG does anything wrong at this moment they will also have to face the same consequences as opposite reaction quoted by one of our learned writters of chottala 'dina khan'.  But there are some who don't like to wait upto that moment. 
 
As Bangladesh is now running smoothly since after 1/11, there are many who cannot sit peacefully in their house. They are always habituated of "Oshanto Poribesh in Bangladesh".  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
We are staying outside for the time being, but CTG is still inside ruling the country sincerely by bringing all those culprits under trial and putting them behind the bar. Don't you feel comfotable now or feeling uncomfortable by being apart from close association of your friends in the jail detained for corruption.
 
People who live outside for the time being, are also Bangladeshi,  a patriotic Bangladeshi. It is due to their patriotic feeling still they are thinking for a peaceful Bangladesh and are still loyal to legal govt of CTG  by becoming a blind supporter, not behaving as an antistate elements.
 
Dr. Siraj uddowllah, Windsor, Canada. 


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[chottala.com] English writer Doris Lessing wins Nobel Prize for Literature

 
English writer  Doris Lessing wins Nobel Prize for Literature

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Writer Doris Lessing, 86, sits in her home in a quiet block of north London April 17, 2006. Lessing was awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature for 'that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny.' (AP Photo/Martin

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STOCKHOLM, Sweden — English writer Doris Lessing won the 2007 Nobel Prize in literature, the Swedish Academy said Thursday.

Lessing was cited for "that epicist of the female experience, who with skepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilization to scrutiny."

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STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) - American writer Philip Roth and Israel's Amos Oz were odds-on favorites for the Nobel Prize in literature ahead of Thursday's much-hyped and ballyhooed announcement by the Swedish Academy.

If Roth wins he would be the first American since Toni Morrison in 1993 to capture what many consider the world's highest accolade for writers. His name has figured prominently among the whispers of Sweden's literary establishment for years despite being passed over in favor others like Britain's Harold Pinter and South Africa's J.M. Coetzee and the 2006 winner, Turkey's Orhan Pamuk.

Swedish Academy permanent secretary Horace Engdahl, who every year emerges through the wooden doors at the academy's home before a room packed with reporters, cameras and literary groupies to announce the winner, dismissed any notion of an anti-American bias in the 18-member academy.

"Perhaps Americans have been few and far between in recent years, after Toni Morrison. But there is no particular purpose in this," Engdahl said Thursday in an e-mail to The Associated Press.

"The prize always concerns an individual, not a nation, and we have no principle of distribution when we decide. That would violate the will of (prize founder Alfred) Nobel."

The secretive academy often picks obscure writers, making it near-impossible to predict a winner. Last year was an exception. Pamuk was the top choice of many Nobel watchers and betting sites, a rare occurrence.

This year, British bookmaker Ladbrokes gave Roth the shortest odds, ahead of Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami and Oz. The Israeli was tied with French author Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio as the No.1 pick at the betting site iBetips.com.

"We see the betting odds as a mere curiosity," Engdahl said. "Most years Ladbrokes' assessment does not correspond with that of the academy, and if they at some occasion happen to coincide, it is pure luck."

Perennial favorites for the prize include Syrian poet and essayist Adonis, the pseudonym for Ali Ahmad Said Asbar; Sweden's Thomas Transtromer; and Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa. American Joyce Carol Oates would likely be a strong candidate if the committee decides on a woman, which it has done only three times in the last 15 years, most recently in 2004 when Austrian Elfriede Jelinek won the prize and its accompanying $1.5 million check.

Whomever has their name read aloud by Engdahl on Thursday will undoubtedly be catapulted onto the global stage and is guaranteed to see a rise in sales and out-of-print works returned into circulation.

Besides the check, the winner will also received a gold medal and be invited to give a lecture at the academy's headquarters in the Swedish capital's centuries-old Gamla Stan, or Old Town.

The Nobel Prize in literature is handed out in Stockholm on December 10 - the anniversary of Nobel's death in 1896 - along with the awards in medicine, chemistry, physics and economics. The Nobel Peace Prize is presented in Oslo, Norway, in accordance with Nobel's will.

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[chottala.com] CTG is a blessings in disguise

Dear Moderator,
 
CTG is still angel to some blind supporters living abroad, not in Bangladesh...............mahathir of bd                   
 
My staying abroad did not take the right of my showing loyalty to my legal govt CTG. I can go anywhere in the world outside Bangladesh but my loyalty to my beloved country will be always there. "Ihar cheye hotem jodi Arab Beduin, Charan toley bishal moru digontey beeleen". .......Dr. Siraj uddowllah.
                                                                              
CTG is a blessings in disguise for the 15 crores of Bangladeshi people from God in that crucial moment before 1/11. 
 
Thanks a lot Mr. Shamim Al-Mamoon and Mohd. Farid Hossain for your positive views about CTG.
 
Dr. Siraj uddowllah, Windsor, Canada.


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Re: [chottala.com] CTG still the ANGEL

It is clear from the statement and interogation of few
top terors, recently handover by india, that RAB/cross
fire arrangement was formed by Mr Babor and BNP govt
basically to eliminate all their underworld connection
before they leave power.

Mr Tarek, Mamun, Babor all are godfather of all the
terrors. They used them and finally arrange RAB to
eliminate them.It is a most common and widely used
policy of underworld.


We the fools, put claps on RAB's activities and
thought country is moving towrds...... Mr Babor was
our... highly successful ...minister.

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RE: [chottala.com] CTG still the ANGEL

 Your so called CTG has done nothing that will ensure that logi baitha will not come again.
 
  Your CTG is also making the two ladies more powerful by their  wrong way of working and poor performance in every sector, price spiral, law order, remittance, labor export, investment, job creation,  and what not.
 
 You  slept people ,who want to wake up now, don't see the ultimate result of your CTG.
 


Mohammad Farid Hossain <farid2002hossain@hotmail.com> wrote:

My hats off to CTG for their courage to keep the two big Begums behind the bar. How can somebody forget the days before 1/11?
How can people forget the 'people' being killed by logi baita in pure daylight infront of hundred others? Where was your (the chamchas of BNP and AL) heart and brain.  Still you support those pecple who were untouchables for last thirty years. Now is the time .
'Jago Bangladesh'
 
Farid 


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From: uddowllahsiraj@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 14:51:17 -0700
Subject: [chottala.com] CTG still the ANGEL

Dear Moderator,
 
CTG is still angel to some blind supporters living abroad, not in Bangladesh...............mahathir of bd                   
 
'To every action there is an equal and opposite reaction'. --- Newton's third laws of motion. Practicable in our every spheres of life.
 
Before 1/11 what was going on in our country and those who were responsible to create all those situation, are now facing the consequences. exactly the same as opposite reaction for their ill activities. If CTG does anything wrong at this moment they will also have to face the same consequences as opposite reaction quoted by one of our learned writters of chottala 'dina khan'.  But there are some who don't like to wait upto that moment. 
 
As Bangladesh is now running smoothly since after 1/11, there are many who cannot sit peacefully in their house. They are always habituated of "Oshanto Poribesh in Bangladesh".  
 
We are staying outside for the time being, but CTG is still inside ruling the country sincerely by bringing all those culprits under trial and putting them behind the bar. Don't you feel comfotable now or feeling uncomfortable by being apart from close association of your friends in the jail detained for corruption.
 
People who live outside for the time being, are also Bangladeshi,  a patriotic Bangladeshi. It is due to their patriotic feeling still they are thinking for a peaceful Bangladesh and are still loyal to legal govt of CTG  by becoming a blind supporter, not behaving as an antistate elements.
 
Dr. Siraj uddowllah, Windsor, Canada. 


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