Archive for September, 2007

A hilarious news: Donkey eats buyer’s money!

September 29, 2007

A donkey at an Algerian market ate the money of a man who came to buy him, making the unfortunate buyer and the owner wonder who the animal belongs to, an Algerian newspaper reported. Full report here.

A beginning of a new era of telecommunication in Dhaka

September 23, 2007

Dhaka Phone, a private land phone company, launched its service in Dhaka zone. This ends the monopoly of the most corrupt institution in Bangladesh, BTTB. It is high time to take care of BTTB’s hegemony and rescue the management of submarine cable from its evil grip. The full story can be found here:
http://www.thedailystar.net/story.php?nid=5209

Power Situation Improves Significantly

September 22, 2007

Load shedding in Bangladesh dropped to 200MW from 1200MW in recent days. In my opinion, it is a miraculous achievement. It was unimaginable during last 5 years. According to this report of The Daily Star, this could be achieved due to proper distribution of responsibility and more authority to engineers and electricians to take [...]

Water can be burnt!

September 11, 2007

This is an exciting discovery. If this can be used then the problem of fuel will be solved for good, the world will be at peace too as wars will not be needed to secure hydro-carbon fuel. The complete story is here:
http://green.yahoo.com/index.php?q=node/1570

Politics in Bangladesh – Comments made By an Expatriate in Bangladesh

September 6, 2007

I just came across this email in a mail group, thought I should share it with others. Here it goes:

Remarks regarding the former Prime Ministers, Khaleda Zia and Sheikh Hasina- Comments made By an Expatriate
Wednesday September 05 2007 20:28:58 PM BDT

Gregor, Bangladesh

As a foreigner I'm a guest in Bangladesh, living in [...]