RAB declared the Hasina GOB as TERRORIST.

On May 19, prime minister's defence advisor Tarique Ahmed Siddique said Limon and father had close ties with gangster Morshed Jamaddar. Two days later, home minister Shahara Khatun said the adviser's remarks about Limon was indeed the Government's statement. Bozlul Haq Harun, a Government MP, elected from Jhalakati-1 helped Limon and his family (Prothom-Alo 25/05/2011). If this is the consequence than Government has a close relation with Terrorism Groups.

The home ministry's inquiry committee looking into the RAB shooting of college student Limon Hossain of Jhalakati has taken statements of Limon and his father. The one-man committee of additional divisional commissioner of Barisal Mohammad Shawkat Akbar on Tuesday spoke to Limon and his father Tofazzal Hossain at the National Institute of Traumatology, Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation (Pangu hospital) in Dhaka from 11:30am to 1:30pm. The father and son signed their statements, he said. Physician Gazi Mohammad Enamul Haque was present during the recording of the statements.

A RAB team shot Limon, who used to work in a brick kiln, in the leg after reportedly taking him to a place adjacent to his house at Jamaddarhat in Rajapur upazila of Jhalakati on Mar 23. The paramilitary force denies the charges. The incident took place less than a fortnight before his Higher Secondary Certificate examinations were set to begin.

RAB filed two cases against the teenager — one under the arms act and the other for making attempts to murder and injure RAB personnel. Limon's mother Henuara Begum on Apr 10 filed an attempt-to-murder case against six RAB men. "I WENT TO BRING HOME MY COW" After giving his statement, Limon told reporters that a RAB member had shot him in the left leg when he had gone near the Old Jamaddarhat Bridge to bring home his cow. "The RAB member wore a name tag that read 'Lutfar'," he said.

GOVERNMENT WILL PROVIDE FIRMING LOAN TRHOUGH MICROCREDIT PROCESS.

Small-Scale Livestock Farming: A Grass-Based Approach for Health, Sustainability, and Profit

 

A planning is under process to disburse small loans to small entrepreneurs in the fisheries and livestock sector by the government. "The ministry is preparing a proposal in this regard," fisheries and livestock minister Abdul Latif Biswas told on Thursday. Loans ranging from Tk 10,000 to 30,000 would be given to unemployed but trained youths and farm entrepreneurs, he said.

"If the entrepreneurs want to raise livestock, poultry or farm fish, half of their loans will be provided in cash, while the livestock with the rest," Biswas said. The fund will, however, be a revolving one. It will begin work by coordinating all the running microcredit programmes under the ministry.

"The programme, if approved, could start operating in as early as July," Biswas said. The programme will emphasise raising goats and sheep, as entrepreneurs are seen to show more interest in such livestock. Officials said the ministry had been disbursing financial aid and loans to the sector, but there was no coordination. The target of this microcredit project was to create employments for youths not involved in farming.

Bangladesh going to expand the Agricultural Farming Industry in Tanzania.

Local private sector company, Bhatibangla Agrotech, is going to sign a land-lease deal with Tanzania next week to produce crops in the East African country. "We're going to submit our proposal and working plan to Tanzania Agriculture Partnership Department on Friday and it's expected that the process will be completed within a week," Mizanur Rahman Azad, chief executive officer of Bhatibangla Agrotech, from Tanzania on Thursday.

"Initially, we would like to take on lease 30,000 hectares of land for 99 years with per annum cost of Tk 135 per hectare. We want to start the cultivation on June 10." Mizan said they had a plan to have 2.0 to 2.5 million hectares of land in Tanzania for cultivation.

"I discussed other major issues, including permission to grow any crop, procurement of farmers and seed from any country, repatriation of profit, and provision of loans," the Bhatibangla official said. Mizan said there were scopes to take on lease lands in South Sudan, Kenya, Zambia, Uganda and Mozambique. "If land can be taken on lease in those countries, Bangladesh will need not to worry about food security for many years," he said.

A foreign ministry official said a business delegation last month visited Uganda and completed primary negotiations to take on lease 10,000 hectres of land. "Agriculture ministry is going to prepare a guideline for taking land on lease for farming in foreign countries," he said.

  

Nokia X2-01 QWERTY - A review from Bangladesh.

The Nokia X2-01 has the right ingredients to serve and entertain. And if you’re looking to buy cheap, it’s an offer that’s hard to beat. With its combination of features and form factor versus price, the Nokia X2-01 has a market segment of its own. It’s another foot soldier in Nokia’s offensive in becoming the world’s number one QWERTY phone manufacturer.

Key features

•     Entry level QWERTY messenger bar
•     Quad-band GSM/EDGE connectivity
•     2.4" 256K-color QVGA TFT display with great sunlight legibility
•     VGA camera with QVGA video recording at 24fps
•     Series 40 UI, 6th edition
•     Stereo FM radio with RDS
•     Bluetooth 2.1 (with EDR)
•     Standard micro USB port
•     Micro SD card slot (8GB supported)
•     3.5mm audio jack
•     Good audio quality
•     Reasonable price: BDT 7400

This color is available in Bangladesh

Main disadvantages

•     No 3G
•     Piss poor camera
•     No smart dialing
•     No USB charging
•     No Data cable
•     No Micro SD card included

Some document viewer capabilities or basic multitasking should be included in the phone feature. This phone sometime turn-off without any notice if anyone try to do some multitasking activities, this is the major problem to handle this phone in rough time.

RAMNA BATAMUL TRIAL - Still need long way to establish Justice.

Spot-death on the incident of Ramna Batamul, 2001

The nation will commemorate the 10 anniversary of the well-planned deadly explosions at Ramna Batamul. In a well-planned attack on April 14, 2001, militants threw grenades into the crowd, killing at least 10 people and wounding 50 others, blowing limbs off spectators as thousands gathered at Ramna Batamul in the capital to celebrate Pahela Baishakh, the Bengali New Year's Day.

On the day of the incident, Nilkhet Police Camp sergeant Amal Chandra Chanda filed the two cases under killing and explosives acts with Ramna Police Station.

After the case had changed hands of six investigation officers, the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) inspector Abu Hena Mohammad Yusuf pressed charges in the court against 14 accused in the two cases on Nov 29, 2008.

The detained are Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami leaders Mufti Abdul Hannan, Arif Hasan Sumaon, Shahadat Ullah Jewell, Hafez Maulana Abu Taher and Maulana Abdur Rauf. Maulana Akbar Hossain is on bail.

The case records say the two cases went to two speedy trial tribunals, yet the proceedings stalled. According to lawyers and records, the murder case failed to make headway due to absence of the investigation officer and other police officers.

The explosives case is waiting for a High Court directive.

As the case was not resolved within the stipulated 135 trial days due to the absence of the main witnesses, including the investigation officer, it went back to the Metropolitan Sessions Judges Court on May 24 last year.