Sad News For Us !

Famous Bengali Writer Sunil Gangopadhyay (78) passed away in the early hours Today (Tuesday). This pic was taken at Studio of ABC Radio on 04th January, 2010. You can listen and download the long interview from ABC Radio's website: http://abcradiobd.fm/downloads/
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We are one.......we want no discrimination between Muslims and Buddhists

 
Look the Leading Photo>>Thousands of Bangladeshi Muslims set fire to at least 10 Buddhist temples and 40 homes in anger over a Facebook photo of a burned Quran before authorities restored order.From the news of AP-

"The situation was under control Sunday afternoon after extra security officers were deployed and the government banned public gatherings in the troubled areas near the southern border with Myanmar, said Nojibul Islam, a police chief in the coastal district of Cox's Bazar.."

OUR PRIDE SAMSON H. CHOWDHURY

Samson H. Chowdhury was recognized as a Global Business Leader in his country. He had been awarded with various national and international recognitions from various business association. He was considered as a Commercially Important Person (CIP) in Bangladesh. Chowdhury ventured into a partnership pharmaceutical company with three of his friends in 1958. When asked why the name SQUARE was chosen he recalled: “We named it SQUARE because it was started by four friends and also because it signifies accuracy and perfection meaning quality” as they committed in manufacturing quality products. That company is, as of 2012, a publicly listed diversified group of companies employing more than 28,000 people. The current yearly group turnover is 616 million USD.

Chowdhury was born on 25 September 1926. He studied at Senior Cambridge. He completed a management training course jointly sponsored and conducted by University of Dhaka and Harvard University. After completing his education he returned to what was then East Pakistan and settled in Ataikula village in the Pabna district, where his father was working as a medical officer in an outdoor dispensary. In 1952 he started a small pharmacy in Ataikula village which is about 160 km off capital Dhaka in the north-west part of Bangladesh. He was a practising Christian of Protestant (Baptist) faith. Among his children, the middle son Tapan is a notable figure in the industrial sector of Bangladesh.

He served as a vice president of the Baptist World Alliance from 1985 to 1990. In addition to being a BWA vice president, Chowdhury served in other areas of the global Baptist organization, including on the BWA General Council, the Executive Committee, the Baptist World Aid Committee, the Promotion and Development Committee, and the Memorial Committee. Chowdhury was elected president of the Bangladesh Baptist Church Fellowship (BBCF) a dozen times, and was honorary general secretary for 14 years, between 1956 and 1969. He was a president of both the National Church Council of Bangladesh and the National Evangelical Alliance.

In 2012 Samson H. Chowdhury died  at the age of 86. He did a lot for our country and inspired us to be a patriot. But now a days a few people know about him properly. We should give him proper respect and learn lessons from his life as well.

Positions:

§  Chairman, Square Group

§  Chairman, Mutual Trust Bank board of directors 

§  Chairman, Astras Ltd.

§  Honorory Member, Kurmitola Golf Club

§  Former Vice President, Baptist World Alliance, 1985-1990 

§  Former Chairman, Micro Industries Development & Services (MIDAS)

§  Chairman, Transparency International, Bangladesh Chapter, 2004–2007

§  President, Metropolitan Chamber of Commerece & Industries, Dhaka in 1996 and 1997

§  Vice-President: International Chamber of Commerce, Bangladesh

§  Former Director, The Federation of Bangladesh Chamber of Commerece & Industries (FBCCI)

§  Member, Executive Committee of Bangladesh French Chamber of Commerce and Industry

§  Director, Credit Rating Agency of Bangladesh

§  Chairman, Central Depository Bangladesh Ltd

§  Member, Advisory Committee of the Bangladesh Association of Pharmaceutical Industries

§  Founder President, Bangladesh Association of Publicly Listed Companies

Accolades:

• “Business Executive of the Year” by American Chamber in Bangladesh in 1998.
• “Best Entrepreneur of the Country for the year 2000 – 2001” by the Daily Star and DHL Worldwide Express.
• "Special contribution in country's industrial and commercial sectors for the year 2003" by "Merchantile Bank Award 2003"
• For Uncompromising Business Ethics, Honesty & Transparency of the year 2005 by "Banker's Forum Award - 2005".
• Recipient of ICAB National Award “Best Published Accounts and Reports 2006 in the Manufacturing Sector”.
• Recipient of NBR Award one of the Highest Tax-Payers in 2007-2008.
• Recognized by the National Board of Revenue (NBR) as one of the top ten tax payers of the country since 2005.
• Recipient of CIP (Industry) 2009-2010 status by the Government of The Peoples Republic of Bangladesh.

We are Shocked!

We are deeply shocked at the attack in the office of Bd News 24, the first online news media. The editor and the reporter were seriously injured by the terrorist attack. The reason of this attack is not sure. But it can easily be said that it is obstructive to our expressing right. We are totally speechless at this incident. Where journalists are not safe from the ferocious claws of terrorism, how can the people expect safety?

Still the Problem is not Over

This year about 83 thousand students have got GPA 5. It is better than the previous few years. It means the number of brilliant students in Bangladesh is increasing gradually. People are happy with this large number of talented students. But is this the solution of our education problem? Is this the completion? It may be because nobody thinks about the destination of these students. Even the Prime Minister and the Education Minister do not have the pressure. They are just happy with this increasing of Bangladesh. But most of the students cannot get themselves admitted in a good college. No one is serious about that. Only the students and their parents are worried about that. In our country the number of government colleges is very negligible. So the students who have got Golden A+ cannot admit themselves all in those colleges. Then what will be with the students who have got GPA 5? So we all beg the help of the authority. Few more government colleges should be established according to the number of the brilliant students.  

MS OfficeThe cloud finally takes center stage

  

 

A public preview of Microsoft’s coming Office 2013 client is out today. But Office 365 and SkyDrive are the real stars of the new Office show.
When Microsoft was readying its Office 2010 suite, many wondered whether the company would follow Google down the cloud-first path. As Office 2010 users know, that didn’t end up happening.
But with the coming release of Office, code-named Office 15, Microsoft finally is moving a lot of its focus to the cloud.
A Consumer Preview (aka public beta) of the Office 2013 client — plus previews of a bunch of new Office service plans — is set to be available for download as of July 16 starting around noon PT, the same time as a San Francisco media event focused on the new Office kicks off.
This new focus doesn’t mean Microsoft is giving up on locally installed versions of Office. With the coming Office release, there still will be some unknown number of different Office 2013 SKUs available for some still-unknown prices. The one version we do know about for sure, the Office Professional Plus 2013 release available to any/all interested testers as of today, is a collection of locally installable Office apps that will be sold on a subscription basis, the same way Microsoft offers an Office 2010 Professional Plus option for an annual “rental” fee.
However, make no mistake: With the coming version of Office, the centerpiece will be the cloud. In this case, the “cloud” means Office 365, which is the Microsoft-hosted back-end suite of SharePoint Online, Exchange Online, Lync Online, and, with this coming new release, Project Online (which runs on top of SharePoint Online). It also means SkyDrive, its personal-cloud storage service. Additionally, it means support for roaming settings, which can move with users across devices, as well as the ability to stream the Office bits to new PCs (and remove them later) using an updated version of the current Click-to-Run distribution mechanism that will be known as “Office on Demand.”
Microsoft is adding a new consumer-focused offering that primarily relies on SkyDrive as its cloud component (though it will also make use of SharePoint Online if and when that’s available). Here are the four plans Microsoft is opening up to testers as of today:

Office 365 Home Premium Preview: Allows users to install one licensed copy of Office on up to five PCs and get an additional 20GB of online storage on SkyDrive, which becomes the default for saving and sharing documents online. Home Premium includes Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, OneNote, Access, and Publisher. Users also will be able to save documents locally if they so prefer, or to SharePoint if it is available. Also included in this SKU: 60 minutes of Skype credit per month to call mobile or landline phones with Skype.

Office 365 Small Business Premium Preview: Aimed at businesses with up to 10 employees. Each user can install Office, getting the same applications that are included in Office 365 ProPlus — Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook, ncAccess, Publisher, InfoPath, and Lync — on up to five PCs per user. This version is hosted by Microsoft.

Office 365 ProPlus Preview: Subscription-based locally installable version of Office that enables users to create up to 25 user accounts, with five installations of Office 365 ProPlus per user. It includes Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, OneNote, Access, Publisher, InfoPath, and Lync.

Office 365 Enterprise Preview: Combines Office 365 ProPlus with Exchange Online, including archiving and legal hold to fully manage e-mail in the cloud. It also includes SharePoint Online to manage and share documents and Lync Online to let you conduct meetings and collaborate across remote teams and team members.
According to the Softies, the final version of the new Office 365, when available, will include support for Office for Mac, too. Microsoft officials still aren’t saying when and whether Microsoft also will be making its Office suite and/or an Office 365 subscription plan available on iOS orAndroid devices, as has been rumored.
During the July 16 unveiling of the new version of Office, Microsoft officials are expected to try to take the focus off the incremental features that the development teams have added to each of the apps in the coming Office suite. Most current Microsoft Office users make use of a very small subset of all of the available features in the product, so PowerPoint Web App now supporting co-authoring — a new feature Microsoft execs in the past would have touted as a major, upgrade-worthy improvement — are taking a back seat to bigger-picture messaging this time around.
In addition to the Office team’s new cloud-first messaging, officials also are expected to focus heavily during the Office 15 unveiling on Monday on the ways Office 15 and Windows 8 will work better together. There will likely be lots of touch demos — especially of two new “immersive” Metro-Style apps that complement the desktop/Win32 versions of the Office 2013 client apps. There will be brand-new Metro-Style, touch-optimized versions of both OneNote and the Lync unified communications client delivered alongside the rest of the regular Office 2013 suite. (Only the OneNote Metro-Style app is available to testers as of today.)
If you’re someone interested in all the tweaks and updates Microsoft is making to each of the apps in the Office 2013 suite, there have been some very extensive leaks about many of those apps. Microsoft made private test builds of its Office 15 client and server apps to a select group of testers as of February of this year.

Chuknagar: The largest genocide during the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971

                                         

Chuknagar is a small business town located in the Dumuria Thana of Khulna district and very close to the India Bangladesh border. In 71 thousands of refugees gathered in Chuknagar to go to Kolkata. According to a conservative account around ten thousand people were in Chuknagar waiting to cross the border.

In the early morning of May 10, the fatal day around 10am two trucks carrying Paki troops arrived at Kautala (then known as Patkhola). The Pakis were not many in number, most possibly a platoon or so. As soon as the Paki trucks stopped, the Pakis alighted from the truck carrying light machine guns (LMGs) and semi automatic rifles and opened fire on the public. Within a few minutes a lively town turned into a city of death.

The accounts of the two hundred interviewees were same. They differed only in details. “There were piled up dead bodies. Dead Kids’ on dead mum’s laps. Wives hugging their beloved husbands to protect them from killer bullets. Dads’ hugging their daughters to shield them. Within a flash they all were just dead bodies. Blood streamed into the Bhadra river, it became a river of corps. A few hours later when the Paki bastards ran out of bullets, they killed the rest of the people with bayonet.”

Source: Muntassir Mamun, The Archive of Liberation War, Bangabandhu and Bangladesh Research Institute