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Saturday, May 10, 2008

[chottala.com] Your invitation card for tomorrow's program

It's our pleasure to send you the formal invitation card (attached) for tomorrow's program.

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Bangladesh Open Source Network, Dhaka
2000 batch, Dept. of CSE, SUST
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[chottala.com] A simple but excellent story

A simple but excellent story
 
A baby asked God, "They tell me you are sending me to earth tomorrow, but how am I going to live there being so small and helpless?"
 
"Your angel will be waiting for you and will take care of you."
 
The child further inquired, "But tell me, here in heaven I don't have to do anything but sing and smile to be happy."
 
God said, "Your angel will sing for you and will also smile for you. And you will feel your angel's love and be very happy."
 
Again the child asked, "And how am I going to be able to understand when people talk to me if I don't know the language?"
 
God said, "Your angel will tell you the most beautiful and sweet words you will ever hear, and with much patience and care, your angel will teach you how to speak."
 
"And what am I going to do when I want to talk to you?"
 
God said, "Your angel will place your hands together and will teach you how to pray."
 
"Who will protect me?"
 
God said, "Your angel will defend you even if it means risking it's life."
 
"But I will always be sad because I will not see you anymore."
 
God said, "Your angel will always talk to you about Me and will teach you the way to come back to Me, even though I will always be next to you."
 
At that moment there was much peace in Heaven, but voices from Earth could be heard and the child hurriedly asked, "God, if I am to leave now, please tell me my angel's name."
 
"You will simply call her, 'Mom.'"
 
 
Best wishes for Happy Mothers Day.
Kind Regards,
Sumon
A mother understands what a child does not say."
 
 


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[chottala.com] Tata is back : Bangladesh to reopen talks with Tata on 3bln dollar investment

 

Bangladesh to reopen talks with Tata on 3bln dollar investment

 

DHAKA (AFP) — Bangladesh's military-backed government will reopen negotiations with Indian conglomerate Tata on Sunday on the group's record three-billion-dollar investment plan, officials said.

Senior Tata officials led by its executive director Alan Rosling will meet top government bureaucrats nearly two years after the conglomerate postponed what would be the biggest single foreign investment in Bangladesh.

The Indian salt-to-telecoms giant offered to build a steel plant, two power plants, a fertiliser plant and a coal mine back in 2006, after upgrading a 2004 plan.

Bangladesh investment board chief Kamaluddin Ahmed confirmed the talks, but refused to provide agenda details.

A Tata official said the group was encouraged by "positive indications" from the Dhaka government.

"Yes, there is an intention to move it forward," said Tata's Bangladesh chief Syed Manzer Hossain.

He said the company was ready to discuss all the issues.

"We submitted it in 2006 and it's now 2008. Obviously there are some changes. The government may have some issues. We'll evaluate the changing scenario after we meet," he said.

Bangladesh has been under emergency rule since January 11 2007 when the president cancelled elections amid allegations of poll rigging.

The government has promised to "take up all necessary projects" to promote long-term economic growth and vowed to clean up corruption before restoring democracy and holding elections before the end of 2008.

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party government had promised a decision on the Tata project by June 2006.

But after two years of negotiations, it halted the deal, saying political sensitivities just ahead of the polls make it difficult to reach a decision and left it for a new government after parliamentary elections.

Anti-Indian sentiment is rampant among Bangladeshi voters as many believe India seeks to bully its smaller neighbour and political leaders traditionally fear being seen courting the regional power.
 
Bangladesh to reopen talks with Indian conglomerate
Radio Australia, Australia - 52 minutes ago
Bangladesh's military led government will reopen negotiations with Indian conglomerate Tata on its record three-billion-dollar investment plan. ...
Bangladesh to reopen talks with Tata on 3bln dollar investment
AFP - 19 hours ago
DHAKA (AFP) — Bangladesh's military-backed government will reopen negotiations with Indian conglomerate Tata on Sunday on the group's record ...
 
 
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[chottala.com] Islamic Divorce Ruled Not Valid in Maryland:: Talaq??

The process of wealth-sharing in a divorce case, I found Islamic jurisdiction is pretty unfair to woman. Perhaps, scholars should review the process and wife should get a greater share of the pie!


--- On Fri, 5/9/08, Syed Aslam <Syed.Aslam3@gmail.com> wrote:
From: Syed Aslam <Syed.Aslam3@gmail.com>
Subject: [chottala.com] The Washington Post: Islamic Divorce Ruled Not Valid in Maryland [Consequently, in the United States ]
To: chottala@yahoogroups.com, notun_bangladesh@yahoogroups.com
Date: Friday, May 9, 2008, 8:07 AM

Custom Allowing Men to End Marriage With Oral Declaration Lacks 'Due Process'

By Ruben Castaneda
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, May 8, 2008; B02

After his wife of more than two decades filed for divorce in Montgomery County Circuit Court, Irfan Aleem responded in writing in 2003, and not just in court.

Aleem went to the Pakistani Embassy in the District, where he executed a written document that asserted he was divorcing Farah Aleem. He performed "talaq," exercising a provision of Islamic religious and Pakistani secular law that allows husbands to divorce their wives by declaring "I divorce thee" three times. In Muslim countries, men have used talaq to leave their wives for centuries.

But they can't use it in Maryland, the state's highest court decided this week.

The state Court of Appeals issued a unanimous 21-page opinion Tuesday declaring that talaq is contrary to Maryland's constitutional provisions providing equal rights to men and women.

"Talaq lacks any significant 'due process' for the wife, its use, moreover, directly deprives the wife of the 'due process' she is entitled to when she initiates divorce litigation in this state. The lack and deprivation of due process is itself contrary to this state's public policy," the court wrote.

The decision affirms a 2007 ruling by the Court of Special Appeals, the state's intermediate appellate court, which also said that talaq does not apply in the Free State.

Under Islamic traditions, talaq can be invoked only by a husband, unless he grants his wife the same right.

According to the Court of Appeals' opinion, Irfan Aleem, who worked for years as an economist with the World Bank, is worth about $2 million, half of which Farah Aleem is entitled to under Maryland law. When Irfan Aleem tried to divorce his wife under the concept of talaq, a sum of $2,500 was mentioned as a "full and final" settlement, according to the appellate decision.

That amount was written into the marriage contract Farah Aleem signed the day she married him in their native Pakistan in 1980, according to the appellate decision. The contract was in accordance with Pakistani custom. At the time, he was 29 and she was 18. The couple moved to the Washington area in 1985.

"I don't even know how to express how happy I am. I am ecstatic, relieved," Farah Aleem, 46, said yesterday.

Over the years, a lack of financial support from her ex-husband caused hardship for her and her son and daughter, who are in college, she said. "All I ever wanted was my fair share, not a penny more," said Aleem, who lives in the Washington area, works full time for an accounting firm and is pursuing an accounting degree at night.

At the direction of the judge who presided over the Aleems' divorce proceedings, the couple's Potomac home was sold, and half the proceeds -- about $200,000 -- went to Farah Aleem, said Susan Friedman, her attorney.

Friedman said she thinks that Irfan Aleem, who retired in recent years, invoked talaq to avoid paying Farah half of his World Bank pension, which provides him with $90,000 annually, the attorney said.

"It will be very pleasant when [Farah] gets her share of that," Friedman said. "She's delighted about that."

Friedman said she will serve papers on the World Bank showing that the original order from the Circuit Court -- that Farah Aleem is entitled to half her ex-husband's pension -- is now final and that the bank has to give her half.

Irfan Aleem, who is in his late 50s, lives in Pakistan, Friedman said.

His attorney, Priya R. Aryar, said, "We're very disappointed with the decision. We think this could have adverse ramifications for a whole bunch of people who reside in the D.C. area under diplomatic visas and assume that their family law rights and obligations are governed by the laws of their country of citizenship."

A legal scholar and an Islamic leader said the appellate court's decision was not surprising.

"For the most part, Muslims expected this kind of ruling," said Muneer Fareed, secretary general of the Islamic Society of North America in Plainfield, Ind. "The contrary would be a surprise to them. They do not expect the U.S. legal system to give full recognition of talaq."

Julie Macfarlane, a legal scholar who is researching a book about Islamic divorces in North America, said the decision was not surprising. "There's no legal enforceability [for talaq] in U.S. courts," said Macfarlane, a professor at the University of Windsor in Canada.

Source:

Custom Allowing Men to End Marriage With Oral Declaration Lacks ...
Washington Post, United States - May 7, 2008
By Ruben Castaneda After his wife of more than two decades filed for divorce in Montgomery County Circuit Court, Irfan Aleem responded in writing in 2003, ...



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[chottala.com] Humour: A B C's of Kolkata

A MUST READ!

 

     A is for Office. This is where the average Kolkattan goes and spends a day hard(ly) at work. If he is in the Government he will arrive at 10, wipe his forehead till 11, have a tea break at 12, throw around a few files at 12.30, break for lunch at 1, smoke an unfiltered cigarette at 2, break for tea at 3, sleep sitting down at 4 and go home at 5. It's a hard life!

 

     B is for Bhision ('Vision' for the uninitiated). For some reason most of the Bengalis don't have good bhision. In fact in Kolkata most people are wearing spectacles all the time. The effects of this show in the city.

 

     C is for Chappell. This is the Bengali word for the Devil, for the worst form of evil. In the night mothers put their kids to sleep saying 'go to bed, or Chappel will come and take you away.'

 

     D is for Debashish. By an ancient law every fourth Bengali Child has to be named Debashish. So you have a Debashish everywhere and tying to get creative they are also called Deb, Debu, Deba with variations like Debnath and Deboprotim thrown in.

 

     E is for Eeesh. This is a very common Bengali exclamation made famous by Aishwarya Rai in the movie Devdas. It is estimated that on an average a Bengali uses eeesh 10,089 times every year. (That's counting eeesh and other eeesh-ish words).

 

     F is for Feesh. These are creatures that swim in rivers and seas and are a favourite food of the Bengalis. Despite the fact that a fish market has such strong smells, with one sniff a Bengali knows if a fish is all right. If not he will say 'eeesh what feeesh is theesh!'

 

     G is for Good name. Every Bengali boy will have a good name like Debashish or Deboprotim and a pet name like Shontuda, Chonti, and Dinku. While every Bengali Girl will be Paromita or Protima as well as Shampa, Champa and Tuki. Basically your nickname is there to kiil your good name.

 

     H is for Harmonium. The Bengali equivalent of a rock guitar. Take four Bengalis and a Harmonium and you have the successors to The Bheatles!

 

     I is for lleesh. This is a feeesh with 10,000 bones which would kill any ordinary person, but which the Bengalis eat with releeesh!

 

     J is for Jhola. No self-respecting Bengali is complete without his Jhola. It is a shapeless cloth bag where he keeps all his belongings and he fits an amazing number of things in. Even as you read this there are 2 million jholas bobbling around Kolkata- and they all look exactly the same!

 

     K is for Kee Kando. It used to be the favourite Bengali exclamation till eeesh took over because of Aishwarya Rai (now Kee Kando's agent is trying to hire Bipasha Basu).

 

     L is for Lungi. People in Kolkata manage to play football and cricket wearing it. Now there is talk of a lungi expedition to Mt. Everest.

 

     M is for Minibus. These are dangerous half buses whose antics would effortlessly frighten the living daylights out of Formula 1 race drivers.

 

     N is for Nangtoe. This is the Bengali word for Naked. It is the most interesting naked word in any language!

 

     O is for Oil. The Bengalis believe that a touch of mustard oil will cure anything from cold (oil in the nose), to earache (oil in the ear), to cough (oil on the throat) to piles (oil you know where!)

 

     P is for Phootball. This is always a phavourite phassion of the Kolkattan. Every Bengali is born an expert in this game. The two biggest clubs there are Mohunbagan and East Bengal and when they play the city comes to a stop.

 

     Q is for Queen. This really has nothing to do with the Bengalis or Kolkata, but it's the only Q word I could think of at this moment. There's also Quilt but they never use them in Kolkata.

 

     R is for Rabi Thakur. Many years ago Rabindranath got the Nobel Prize. This allows everyone in Kolkata to frame their acceptance speeches and walk with their head held high and look down at Delhi and Mumbai!

 

     S is for Sardarjee whom Bengalis are very envious of because he is born with a semi-monkey cap on.

 

     T is for Trams. Hundred years later there are still trams in Kolkata. Of course if you are in a hurry it's faster to walk.

 

     U is for Ambrela. When a Bengali baby is born they are handed one.

 

     V is for Violence. Bengalis are the most non-violent violent people around. When an accident happens they will shout and scream and curse and abuse, but the last time someone actually hit someone was in 1979.

 

     W is for Water. For three months o f the year the city is underwater and every year for the last 200 years the authorities are taken by surprise by this!

 

     X is for X mas. It's very big in Kolkata, with Park Street fully lit up.

 

     Y is for Yastarday. Which is always better than today for a Bengali.

 

     Z is for Jeebra, Joo, Jip and Jylophone.

 


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