But fortunately and unfortunately for the company, this won??t be the last time that privacy issues cause it to make urgent product adjustments. These days, Facebook users often don??t publish the kind of information they share on it anywhere else on the web, putting the company in a unique and central position the future of online privacy. As a result, it is now responsible for setting and managing the expectations of 1) 500 million users who trust it with their data, 2) millions of businesses who trust it with their money and marketing plans, and 3) hundreds of national governments who have the power to regulate it whenever enough of either users or businesses get upset.

Facebook??s challenge is to continually adapt its privacy products to meet the varied and evolving needs of each of these diverse groups. When expectations and products get out of whack ? even if the problems are unspecific and/or exaggerated unfairly by media ? the company could quickly find itself in situations like it did a month ago with Senators teeing up the Facebook football on the steps of the Capitol. (And just this week, it also received an inquiry from the House Judicial Committee.)

Privacy and Politics
Facebook has shown it can survive the regular bans it gets from smaller countries (for example, Facebook was banned in both Bangladesh and Pakistan recently for facilitating for free speech/obscenity reasons ? not privacy), but those countries only represent a small portion of Facebook??s user base. And in cases like these, those governments have usually reversed the ban relatively soon when internal political pressure subsided (although in the Pakistan case, Facebook deleted an offensive group to help get access restored more quickly). But the stakes are much higher when talking about US government regulation.

Thus, Facebook is ramping up its Congressional staffer briefing efforts to try to educate and manage Washington better, especially in this election year. Unlike Google, Facebook doesn??t have many alumni high up in the Obama administration, so it??s going to have to start the Beltway dance quickly to make sure it isn??t underheard.

One of the key challenges Facebook will face in the months and years ahead ? besides trying to keep privacy watchdog groups under control ? is getting Congress to think with broader context when it comes to online privacy, instead of targeting it, specifically. Because of its success, Facebook is now a poster child for how new technology is affecting our notions of online privacy today ? much like the leading e-commerce companies who were the first to handle big volumes of online credit card transactions in the ??wild west?? days of the consumer Internet. As informed observers like Tim O??Reilly recently noted,

When I wrote last week about Facebook privacy flap, I was speaking out of the frustration that many technologists with a sense of perspective feel when we see uninformed media hysteria about the impact of new technology. (How many of you remember all the scare stories about the risks of using a credit card online from back in the mid-1990s, all of them ignoring the risks that consumers blithely took for granted in the offline world?)??

There are real privacy issues to be faced in the data collected by web companies. But they are part of a far bigger picture of how the world is changing. We need thoughtful understanding of what the real risks are, not finger pointing by the media (and even more frighteningly, by members of Congress) at companies that are easy targets because they make good political theater.
Mark Zuckerberg has been telling us for years that his vision for Facebook is to create a public/private hybrid model for sharing information ? meaning Facebook will encourage users to make some information private, and some information public. As Facebook continues to tweak and change its products over the coming months and years, it will have to continually tweak its privacy controls as well to sufficiently match the expectations of consumers, businesses, and governments. It won??t always be exactly right, but it is in Facebook??s interests to continually protect and cultivate its greatest asset ? the trust that people put in the company by virtue of how they use Facebook to develop their online identity and build their part of social graph.

Privacy and Revenue
When it comes to the intersection of privacy issues and Facebook??s revenues, one important point to note is that Facebook is trying hard to reiterate that its in-house advertising model is not dependent upon its privacy model. In other words, people see the same Facebook Ads, no matter what their privacy settings are. In general, this is the simplest way that Facebook has avoided bigger problems with regulators. By handling the serving and optimization itself for most ads shown on Facebook.com, Facebook is working on building a large business that doesn??t require it to share personally identifiable information with advertisers.

The broader strategy question connecting privacy and revenue for Facebook, however, is that of the Facebook Platform. Here, there are actually two competing dynamics at play:

1) By allowing third parties to get access to some user information when users authorize applications, Facebook is enabling these third parties to in effect compete with it by creating their own advertising products that key off of user data obtained through the Facebook Platform. For example, if a user authorizes an application to access their list of music interests, that application might be able to provide a compelling ads or offers for concert tickets or other music-related items. If that application has access to advertising inventory that Facebook doesn??t, then it could, in a sense, capitalize on Facebook by plugging into its API.

We??ve seen this at play over the years as a variety of companies have created third party ad networks on the Facebook Platform to varying degrees of success. While there were aggressive players in this area during the first couple years after the Platform launched, Facebook has tightened the rules on third party data access here over time. In general, most of these companies have complained that Facebook hasn??t given them sufficient access to user data to create a larger opportunity, especially compared to Facebook??s own ad business, and we??ve seen some consolidation in this market over the last 18 months. (Most of the new advertising efforts are now focused on virtual currency ? see our previous coverage for more details on issues in that area.)

2) But the broader strategic goal of the Platform of course is to make Facebook??s social graph the underlying infrastructure for all parts of the Internet that depend on social context. For example, if Facebook can get many media sites to personalize content based on your Facebook identity and friends list, or many e-commerce sites to personalize their stores based on your Facebook identity and friends list, it would then play an important role in many internet services, apart from ads. If Facebook succeeds here, more of the Internet will depend on it for increasingly valuable parts of its functionality, increasing Facebook??s leverage as a growing part of the value chain.

Several years out, Facebook??s revenues will be increasingly affected by its off-Facebook.com activities. Here, the privacy questions get more complicated. Will Facebook be able to provide value to advertisers without sharing user data with publishers in a way that publishers will be willing to accept ? or will Facebook need to create new rules for sharing user data with publishers on its network? For example, would a travel website which depends on Facebook for social context allow Facebook to completely handle all the advertising on its site as well, or would it want greater control over its user and monetization data? If Facebook didn??t share any data with the publisher to follow the same type of third party privacy standards it does on Facebook.com today, the value proposition to the publisher would be less attractive. But if Facebook were able to create a service that worked well anyway, it would be able to grow its advertising business substantially on the back of the Platform. However, this is a much longer term question.

Conclusion
If Facebook is able to navigate these near- and intermediate-term waters successfully, it will be in a very strong and unique position for many years to come. After all, for many of Facebook??s 500 million users, Facebook is the exclusive platform on which they are publishing and sharing any personal information online that??s tied to their authentic identity, enabling Facebook to continue to build a strong advertising business.

Fundamentally, a lot of people both like and trust Facebook, as shown by how they use and share information on it. But there are certainly going to be a lot of potholes ahead. Like the issues Facebook has faced in recent weeks, many of these won??t actually have any immediately measurable impact on user behavior ? but will be symptomatic of the work Facebook has to do with government, advertisers, and the media

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Sources :The Bangladesh government has doubled cash incentives to 20 percent against exports of potatoes to encourage exporters,

Potato exporters will receive the subsidy against the net repatriation of the free-on-board (FOB) prices of their products between April 1 to June 30, according to a circular issued by the central bank of Bangladesh.?The government has doubled cash incentive on potato exports following bumper production of the perishable item. It will also help to ensure fair prices of the vegetable,? said a senior official of Bangladesh Bank, the country’s central bank.

The official said the subsidy would be re-fixed to 10 percent from the existing 20 percent for fiscal 2010-11.

Last week, the government allowed cash incentives at 5.0 percent against exports of crust leather and shipbuilding to facilitate the exporters of those sectors.

The government earlier announced a list of 15 exportable products that would receive the cash subsidy for the current fiscal year

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The assurance came when the visiting Danish Development and Cooperation Minister Soren Pind paid a courtesy call on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at her office here.

During the meeting, they discussed wide range of bilateral relations, Danish investment in Bangladesh’s private sector and expansion of Trade and business between the two countries, said Prime Minister’s Press Secretary Abul Kalam Azad after the meeting.

The Prime Minister said her present government attaches great importance to her relations with Denmark as it considers Denmark as a dependable friend and development partner.

She said Bangladesh and Denmark currently enjoy excellent bilateral relations that are characterized by friendly feelings, commonality of views, economic cooperation and increasing bilateral trade, which are well reflected in the economic cooperation between the two countries in various sectors of our development.

Referring to Chittagong Hill Tracts Peace Accord signed during the past Awami League government, Sheikh Hasina said her government is committed to implementing the CHT Peace Accord with a view to upholding political, social, cultural and economic rights of all citizens living in the CHT region.

In this context, she said her previous government was trying to implement the accord fully in line with the agreement. The past BNP-Jamaat government did not take any initiative to implement the accord, she added.

The Prime Minister informed the Danish minister that land commission has so far been constituted in line with the accord to resolve the land related disputes in the hill region.

Sheikh Hasina said her government has also launched different projects for the development of Chittagong Hill Tracts. In this context, she sought more Danish support for the CHT region.

About terrorism, the Prime Minister said her government is firm to root out terrorists and militants at any cost. The terrorists have no boundary and political ideology, she added.

Regarding poverty alleviation, she said the present Awami League government has taken various measurers to build a happy and prosperous Bangladesh by eradicating poverty and hunger.

The Danish Minister lauded the Prime Minister for her able leadership and relentless efforts to turn Bangladesh into a modern technologically advanced one.

Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister M A Karim, Secretary to the Prime Minister’s Office Molla Waheeduzzaman and Press Secretary Abul Kalam Azad were present.

Meeting with Dipu Moni.

Visiting Danish Development and Cooperation Minister Soren Pind has assured of continuing development cooperation with Bangladesh for development of the country.

He gave the assurance during his meeting with Foreign Minister Dipu Moni at state guest house Padma in the capital, Dhaka on Tuesday.

During the meeting, they discussed various issues including food and health security, strengthening democracy, establishing good governance, eliminating corruption, strengthening institutions, instituting rule of law, fighting climate change challenges, providing energy security, conducting counter terrorism measures, empowering women, and meeting crucial infrastructure requirements, a foreign ministry press statement said.

The foreign minister mentioned that the government is putting its efforts in these areas and is working to translate the peoples desire to bring positive changes in all spheres of life to realize the vision 2021.

She also said Bangladesh attaches great importance to the relations with Denmark and considers Denmark as a dependable friend and development partner.

The Danish minister pointed out the need for more high level bilateral visits between the two countries and expressed hope that more high level visits would take place between Bangladesh and Denmark in the near future

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“The apex court verdict has paved the way for reintroduction of the original spirit of the 1972 constitution…while the government has already prepared a draft for education with the spirit of secularism,” Shafique Ahmed told a convention of teachers here.

He said the Awami League government planned to reintroduce secular education system after being backed by the apex court that ruled illegal a 1979 constitutional amendment that facilitated the flourishing of religion-based politics in the country.

The original constitution of 1972 embodied four fundamental principles of nationalism, socialism, democracy, and secularism.

Earlier this week, the apex court ruled the Fifth Amendment, which had also legitimised the post 1975 military backed regimes in Bangladesh, as illegal and upheld the original 1972 constitution.

Ahmed said the judgement nullifying the Fifth amendment “has not hurt religion, but established it” despite a “misleading propaganda” by the Opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP).

The Awami League-led grand alliance government welcomed the judgement. However, the BNP said it would make detailed comments only after going through the full text of the verdict. Jamaat-e-Islami, BNP’s key ally in the earlier four-party coalition government, described the judgement “part of a plot to ban Islamic politics”.

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Now that he has been appointed ambassador to the United Nations for Bangladesh, Momen will have to field criticism of the six-month-old government he has agreed to represent. And some of that criticism is surfacing in his adopted state, Massachusetts.

Rafiq Islam, who lives in Falmouth on Cape Cod and has been in the United States for 26 years, contacted the Globe to say he had just returned from Bangladesh and found the crime and security situation to have deteroriated. He said that extrajudicial killings of political figures also have continued despite the promises of the new government.

He said that the new prime minister, Sheikh Hasina Wazed, elected in a landslide victory in December, appeared to be doing what she had done in her first term as prime minister, from 1996 to 2001, promising change and then failing to deliver. “The situation has not improved very much. Many international watchgroups have criticized the government, and the so-called progress has not materalized. It is more of a political dictatorship than a real democracy,” Islam said.

I wrote about Momen’s appointment in the Globe on Tuesday. Last night I asked him by email to respond to criticism that the government isn’t doing enough or acting fast enough. Momen, who is traveling today to Bangladesh to collect his credentials for the UN post, answered by email before departing.

He said that in just a few months, the Awami League government led by Hasina in fact has made significant progress in a number of areas.

For example, he said the government had cut the prices of essential foodstuffs, including rice, by half in the last six months. To reduce corruption, the government has required Cabinet members to declare their wealth, and has made the financial system more transparent. The economy is likely to grow 5.5 percent to 6 percent this year, Momen said, ahead of earlier projections.

He acknowledged that there are law and order problems in Dhaka, the huge capital city, and that extrajudicial killings have continued, although he said the pace of such killings has been cut drastically. “More importantly, in the present government, both the Law Minister and the Home Minister have publicly stated that they will not tolerate any extrajudicial killing and those responsible would be punished to the fullest extent of the law. This is a good beginning. I have written personal notes to both the Ministers to fully stop the extra-judicial killing as it simply unacceptable.”

Momen said terror attacks by Islamist extremists had stopped since Hasina took office, but he added that because of campaigns against tax evaders and corruption, “many well-to-do people are upset and they are trying to derail the government.”

The daughter of one of the most prominent victims of extrajudicial violence in Bangladesh is Nazli Kibria, a professor at Boston University. Her father, Shah AMS Kibria, a member of Parliament and former finance minister, was assassinated in 2005. The family maintains a web site about Kibria and the assassination. The previous year, Hasina herself narrowly escaped a similar grenade attack.

Nazli Kibria applauded the appointment of Momen to the UN, but said she was upset that nothing had been done by the new government to bring the perpetrators of her father’s killing to justice. “My father was a member of the Awami League. We expected this new government to do something, but they?ve done absolutely nothing. My family is not happy about it,” she said.

Momen said in his email: “As you know, extra-judicial killing has become a norm, especially over the last seven years, and it is taking time to fully stop it.”

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Lawmaker of ruling Awami League, who earlier took newspaper headlines several times for his erratic and rude behaviour, on Friday landed in hospital after being beaten by own partymen for assaulting police officers at Chittagong port city.

The Water Transport Coordination Cell began operations on Friday after dropping MP and CCCI president Mohammed Abdul Latif from the post of adviser and convenor, leading to a run-in with police.

Shipping minister Afsarul Amin and Chittagong City Corporation mayor ABM Mohiuddin Chowdhury attended the launching programme as chief guest and special guest respectively.

The WTCC was formed in 2005 in association with Coastal Ship Owners’ Association and Bangladesh Cargo Owners’ Vessel Owners’ Association.

A memorandum of understanding signed with the chamber stipulated that the Chittagong Chamber of Commerce and Industry president and senior most vice-president would hold the post of adviser and convenor respectively.

But Latif, Awami League MP from Chittagong-10, thrust himself into the post of both adviser and convenor on being elected CCCI chief eight months back.

The aggrieved ship owners sat with the shipping minister who on June 3 directed senior vice president of the chamber Mohammed Abdus Salam to take the charge of convenor.

Ignoring the minister’s directives, Latif expressed his desire to retain the convenor’s post and got related papers signed by the chamber directors.

He decided to launch WTCC operations without intermediaries of the ship owners’ association while the latter retaliated by cancelling the MoU with the chamber signed four years ago

Around 10am on Friday when Latif, accompanied by some hundred supporters, attempted entering the WTCC office, the police stopped them and an altercation arose

A close aide of the lawmaker, Enamul haque Muniri, alleged that the policemen and the supporters, belonging to a particular faction of the ruling party, have manhandled the lawmaker sending him to a private facility for treatment with a fractured arm.

He(latif) kept lying there even after Shipping Minister Afsarul Amin and Chittagong City Corporation (CCC) Mayor ABM Mohiuddin Chowdhury walked past him to the meeting where they were the chief guest and special guest.

Later, Bangladesh Chhatra League activists carried the lawmaker out of the building around 5:30pm.

The WTCC was formed in 2005 merging two organisations of inland cargo vessel owners–Coastal Ship Owners Association of Bangladesh (COAB) and Bangladesh Cargo Vessel Owners Association (BCVOA).

As per a memorandum of understanding COAB and BCVOA signed with the CCCI, the senior vice-president of CCCI was to act as the convener of WTCC while the CCCI president would act as an adviser.

However, Latif even after becoming the president of CCCI on December 15, 2008, clung on to the convener and the adviser posts.

As vessel owners drew the shipping minister’s attention to the matter, the minister directed them to form an ad hoc committee following the rules of the organisation.

On June 3, COAB and BCVOA formed the 14-member ad hoc committee, excluding Latif, and made Gazi Belayet Hossain Mithu the convener.

The ad hoc committee was to form a new constitution to run WTCC under a new management, excluding the CCCI, and elect a new committee.

The ad hoc committee informed Latif of his expulsion from WTCC in a letter Thursday.

The meeting of the ad hoc committee was held as scheduled.

Latif earlier took the newspaper headlines first for humiliating two police officers at Patenga on one occasion, misbehaving with another police officer on a Biman flight and rudely rebuked deputy commissioner of the port city in two other incidents.

On another occasion he was criticised for his rude behaviour with a port officials, including a senior navy officer serving on deputation at the main port, in presence of a visiting parliamentary delegation.

?Interview:

Latif alleged, “Shipping minister Afsarul Amin and Chittagong mayor ABM mohiuddin Chowdhury set the police to stop him entering WTCC office.”

“At their instruction police kept beating me mercilessly until I fell on the ground.”

He alleged that the minister and his men were trying to occupy WTCC office to establish a reign of plundering.

“It is because of them that the country has become a land of thieves and cheats,” he said.

A Short? Interviews on the scuffle by M A LATIF ?from Metropolitan Hospital with The editor( www.gurumia.com ?) Md Moshiur Rahman ?when meet him to see his phisical condition .

Grumia : Say something in short about the scuffle.

M A Latif : I have courage to say truth and i am a politician to change the Contry? to a expected developed level. Problem is our system does not allow change easily .(system- political and burucrates positions- traditions-profit maker). So this is an example that the root of facilitor goast are still strong . To get real change of? the old political goast and get ?a real reform political views ?we may? sometime fall in such a situation .

Gurumia: How are you felling now ?

MA Latif : I feel pain on my left hand ?.neck and backbone,

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After a landslide victory you are assuming the premiership of Bangladesh when the world is facing one of the worst recession of contemporary history. There are good reasons to believe that Bangladesh will face the trauma of the global recession by late 2009. The have-nots and the poor people of our country will not be able to bear it. So you have no option but to be proactive and act in time to surprise the world. Your and our creator gave you a lifetime chance to write your name in gold as the world’s most benevolent lady prime minister by turning Bangladesh to a middle income country during your office this time as prime minister. You have to address the issue of income distribution and social justice in our country very thoughtfully. You should be the first Prime minister of Bangladesh with the aim of raising awareness and creating framings and visions that promote equal dignity for all citizens in the country you govern.

Premier Sheikh Hasina:
I hope you will share with my concept- “Road map to good governance- The Nine-I model” (see http://www.goodgovernancebd.org/ for details) for building a democratic society ensuring good governance. However political democracy rests on economic democracy, and economic democracy assumes a social order that provides equal opportunity for every member of the society to become economically self-sufficient and free from the dominance of some who control their subsistence in today’s world.

I am confident you will share the ideology of “the equitable distribution of wealth.” The key to economic self-sufficiency is growing the productiveness of the economy in such a way that lifts artificial barriers to equal access to those social institutions (e.g. Capital, credit) that determine who will become empowered as future capital owners. In Bangladesh only then can today’s property less citizens receive just share of their capital assets as well as wages for their work to meet their economic needs and develop to the fullest extent of their human capacities.
You have no time to rest but to move forward with your supporters as well as the supporters of Begum Zia, because at least 10- 12% of her supporters trusted you in this election for at least two reasons.

1. In view of many, the former prime minister wanted to salvage the “Maha Chors” and political cronies of her party which seemed like she wanted to present the nation a reign of corrupts and extremists. A political blunder on the part of an experienced former prime minister.

2. According to her critics, Begum Zia, during her honeymoon with “Razakars”, “Al-Badars”, and “Al-Shams” not only distributed political sweets but also distributed our national flag to them which was earned with the sacrifice of millions. The new generation voters expressed sharp reaction in this election by rejecting the collaborators of the genocide in 1971.

Honorable Prime minister:
The world changed a lot. I know that now you know it better than anyone that you have to cope with international diplomacy of the world politics. Global circumstances cannot be ignored. See Barack Obama meticulously organized his team to salvage the sinking US economy and bring the change for which he is elected to his office.
You should meticulously arrange and rearrange the medium sized cabinet which you can gradually expand evaluating the performance of the cabinet members. You can throw out the bad performers after six months if they fail to give us good governance for which the country paid heavily last two years in both economic and political terms. If the credibility of any of your ministers are questionable or if anyone of them were convicted or corrupt at least by perception, kindly throw them out as soon as the first evidential complain against them reaches you. Congratulations for bringing new faces as ministers and junior ministers, thus creating a space for new leadership in your party.

Madam Prime minister:
Can you consider of giving some lessons to your cabinet crews so that they see how ministers in other democratic countries behave. Kindly arrange some cultural training for your ministers so that they can think, talk and act democratically.
People of Bangladesh no more wants to see vehicles carrying national flags in fish markets, marriage ceremonies, birthday parties, “gaye holuds”, clubs or community centers. Please teach them that, this is how they create a distance with their electoral and ensure confirm defeat in the future elections. There is a dogma in Bangla that “joto mantri toto porajoy.” Please instruct them not to irritate citizens with sirens and police men to demonstrate the presence of a minister. Ministers should limit themselves in using national flags in official business only and use sirens only while rushing to the airport or the parliament or any other urgency. In this way people will not hate them but will talk to them with open minds, irrespective of political identity. This approach will make them accountable to the people from all walks of life present in different social programs. This will pave the path towards a new accountable political culture.

Madam PM— Media is your friend not foe:
We have a very strong vibrant media now to act as a watchdog against misrule and misgovernance and corruption. Our media has always played an admirable role to see a truly participatory and functioning democracy in the country where hopes, aspirations and will of the people will prevail and not trampled by elected despotic and authoritarian rule. Kindly instruct your ministers not to waste time by countering the media. The media cannot bring down any government. The media can only inform the government in advance that the voters will bring them down in the next election. Unfortunately some politicians always failed to receive the media message until they miserably fail in elections. The ministers should correct themselves seeing the public reactions in the mirror of the media.

Madam PM– Give target to Bangladesh diplomatic missions abroad:
To combat the global recession you have to increase the flow of foreign remittance which is presently in the decrease.
Please double the target of manpower export from Bangladesh to the countries that require skilled or semi-skilled manpower from Bangladesh. Let our ambassadors know that you will call them back if they fail to fulfill the new target of manpower export. Instruct them to explore new markets and also to create demand for our manpower in the countries already importing manpower from us. They should perform just like bank managers or have to come back home to do some other job. This is how you can fulfill your election pledge to create one job each house. Also remittances will show an uptrend and will give us a better position to combat the global recession.

Madam PM– Form Council of experts with people who wants to volunteer:
Many experts from different subject matters do neither want to become minister nor get other government facilities in lieu of their service to develop the economy and governance. They only need your patronization to render service to develop different sectors to take the country ahead. There is no harm if you consider council of experts in different fields like 1.Governance, 2.Trade and commerce, 3.Banking, 4.Insurance, 5.Exploring new markets for manpower exports, 6.Employment creation, 7.Regulating price, and 8.Monitoring law and order, etc. These councils will submit reports to you every three months to assist you to call the respective ministers for a brainstorm towards policy decisions. This will help you to remain well informed and will also stop the ministers from going in the wrong direction.

Beware of Cars without number plate and MP’s without tin numbers:
Will your government allow anybody to drive vehicles without a number plate? Your voters are eager to see whether you will allow MP’s and ministers without tin number to run the country. Please don’t allow tax evaders to handle the money of the tax payers. Give two options to the MP’s without tin number which are- 1. They should rush to the NBR to get a number or 2. Quit from the government headed by the daughter of Bangabandhu. If mistakenly anybody without a tin number is sworn as a minister, instruct him to quit as he will be a glaring example for citizens not to pay tax.

Beware of Isolation syndrome:
Madam prime minister, may I draw your kind attention to the historical fact that some viruses in the civil-military bureaucracy and political nexus infect the prime ministers to develop a disease termed “Isolation Syndrome.” The disease becomes chronic when political cronies build air tight, air con compartments for the Prime minister, creating a No way to talk?No way to write?No way to reach situations. Due to Isolation syndrome Prime ministers can’t hear the people?can’t read the mind of their people. The voters can only see their Prime minister in small T.V. screens. No wonder everybody understands the gravity of security threats for any prime minister, especially security threats for the daughter of the father of the nation. But at least fix a fax or e-mail for complains to reach you, which you can see during your breakfast. I am confident everybody responsible for governance will be highly alert.

When I was writing this open letter from the University of Chittagong, you were busy taking oath. I was overwhelmed with millions of other democracy loving people of Bangladesh to see a group of clean people (perceived) as cabinet ministers. Once again Congratulations Prime minister Sheikh Hasina.

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Indian Parliament Speaker Somnath Chatterjee has offered to train Bangladesh MPs as he praised the restoration of democracy in the eastern neighbouring country as a ?positive development? for South Asia.

Chatterjee and his colleagues are here at the invitation of Speaker Abdul Hamid of the Bangladeshi Parliament.

Speaking at a function, the Lok Sabha speaker said the relations between India and Bangladesh were rooted in a ?shared cultural, economic and political history?.

Both had worked together with common goals and aspirations in the past and should continue to do so, he said.

During a meeting with Hasina, Chatterjee offered to train Bangladesh?s parliamentarians, many of them first termers.

He said that in a parliamentary democracy, the legislatures had the ?immense responsibility? of guiding the destiny of their nations and remained at the centrestage of their democratic polities, according to a statement issued by the Lok Sabha secretariat in New Delhi.

Chatterjee, who arrived here on Saturday at the invitation of his Bangladeshi counterpart Abdul Hamid, is scheduled to address the inaugural session of the four-day Parliamentary Orientation Programme here.

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We was hopeful by seeing the caretaker govt acceptance and thurst of democracy at the same time that we will excercise the new democratic govt with new experience of people demand.We were expecting a new nation of people rights. corruption free , no crime previlised ,progressive political excercised govt.

We? are frusted by seeing so scenes( FROM TODAY DAILY NEWS PAPERS)

We get that our politics has dimantioned in two part AWAMI LEGUE AND BNP ,, but their is one major part who?do not support blindly to any party and the percentage is 50% who say good to the good and bad to the bad. So the power holder should concious about the general and concious citizen of the contry and should not tolare any political agreecive motivator who try to gain their own, through political violence to create them own space by acting as a serious supporter of the party…..in fact they are responsible t fall down the impression of a democratic party.

Please stop them anyway.

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