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VOLUME # 7, ISSUE # 05, DHAKA, FEBRUARY 01, 2012 |
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BTCL-VOIP racket looting billions of Taka
Zahid Al Amin • February 2, 2012
The sources in Bangladesh Telecommunications Company Limited as well as the ministry concerned told Weekly Blitz that a general manager of BTCL sent a letter to the managing director of the organization giving information on how the Call Detail Recorder [CDR] system has been kept inoperative by a racket inside BTCL thus causing huge revenue loss to the country. Following such letter, a committee was formed to investigate the total volume of time as well as amount of loss incurred due to illegal activities with the Call Detail Recorder [CDR] as well as illegal VOIP calls in past 10 years. It is alleged that, more than US$ 1.5 billion had already been looted from the expected amount of revenue by the unscrupulous VOIP operators as well as organized racket inside Bangladesh Telecommunications Company Limited by keeping the Call Detail Recorder [CDR] inoperative. But, none of the kingpins of such huge illegal activities are brought into book. It may be mentioned here that, following publication of an investigative report in Weekly Blitz in 2006, the first ever illegal VOIP call centre in Dhaka was busted by the members of the Rapid Action Battalion. This illegal call centre was owned by Helal Khan, a leader of the cultural front of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party.
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High profile connection of MLM fraudsters
Special Correspondent • February 2, 2012
Following the rivalry between two of the prominent Multi Level Marketing [MLM] fraudsters named Destiny 2000 Limited and Amway, Directorate General of Forces Intelligence [DGFI] and National Security Intelligence [NSI] have reportedly sent confidential reports to the ministries concerned suggesting immediate action against MLM fraudsters of Aim-way Corporation Limited and its chairman Redwan Bin Ishaq [step brother of Moulana Syed Fazlul Karim, Pir of Chormonai and leader of an Islamist political party]. It may be mentioned here that, Aim-way Corporation Limited was established by one of the founding directors of Destiny 2000 Limited keeping Redwan Bin Ishaq at the forefront. The company started its fraudulent activities from July 1, 2011 with Redwan Bin Ishaq, who proclaims to be the "pir" of Chormonai. Prior to formation of this fraudulent MLM Company, Redwan Bin Ishaq worked as a close aide of one Gofran, who is one of the founding directors of another fraudulent MLM company named Destiny 2000 Limited.
Szandor Blestman • February 4, 2012
I am an individual. I am unique. I am the smallest minority. I am one out of seven billion or so. That's approximately 0.00000000143%. I am approximately the 0.00000000143%, and I am still significant. I matter. I have as much right to exist in this world as anyone else. I have as much right to express my opinion. I have as much right to pursue my interests as anyone else. I have as much right to acquire private property, goods and services in a fair and equitable manner as anyone else. I respect everyone else's natural rights, and everyone else should respect mine. If I need help, I would appeal to your sense of humanity and generosity to try to convince you to offer your help on a voluntary basis, I would not ask a violent organization to steal from you or coerce you through threats of imprisonment, or worse, into turning your hard earned property over to meet my needs.
Danger! Still Existing in Nepal
Dirgha Raj Prasai • February 4, 2012
Nepal is a country which has a long history of communal harmony where all castes, religions and languages have survived and flourished with tolerance and co-existence. The Nepali language establishes the unity and collective identity of the diverse ethnic groups of Nepal. The Nepali Language has been both the official and the Lingua Franca between ethnic groups of Nepal (as well as abroad). Because it is the international language, we respect English language too. We regard the Hindi Language also but not as an official language, because everybody has their own mother languages. If Hindi also is accepted as an official language that will mean the domination of India. And we'll never support the suicidal demands of Indian agents.
The Money Tree and the Evil of Good Intentions
Szandor Blestman • February 4, 2012
It's something most of us learn when we're very young. Money isn't easy to come by. You have to earn it. You have to work for it. You have to do your chores. You have to get a job delivering newspapers. You have to mow people's lawns or shovel their walks when it snows. You have to do something productive and then people will pay you. Only then can you go to the candy store and buy yourself a treat, or spend your Saturday afternoon in a dark movie theater enjoying an eye popping spectacle. That was part of Americana when I was growing up, learning that things weren't just handed to you, they needed to be earned.
Why such brutalities on our men?
Maswood Alam Khan • February 4, 2012
For about an hour he was kicked in the stomach, beaten indiscriminately on his head, legs, arms, and genitals. With those terrible, desperate eyes, Habibur, at one stage before his hands were tied, grabbed tightly a foot of a soldier, beseeching him for a little mercy, still croaking in pains. He was made to lie flat on the ground and one soldier after another clubbed him with sticks and all their strength. Not satisfied as yet with this cruel torture, they took a long piece of rugged wood and wedged it between his back and his tied-up hands to inflict more pains on his body. Then they kicked on his buttock, pressed their boots on his breast, as if they intended to press him to death. Habibur was shrieking, calling upon God, 'Maa' (mother) and 'Baba' (father) to save him, while one soldier tried to gag him to prevent him from screaming.
Jihadist outfit Hizbut spreading in Bangladesh
Special Correspondent • January 26, 2012
Notorious jihadist outfits Hizbut Tahrir and Hizb Ut Towhid, in affiliation with members of Islami Chhatra Shibir [student front of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami] have reportedly established a number of training camps with hill tract areas in Bangladesh, especially Banderban and Cox's Bazar. Members of Islami Chhatra Shibir are also continuing propaganda in favor of these jihadist outfits by using various means, including social networking sites.
Belated happy birthday, broken cane!
Sir Frank Peters • January 26, 2012
Why didn't the child protection agencies speak out against it? No doubt they spent millions on compiling reports to justify their existence. Did parents love their children less in bygone days? – I doubt it. Were parents (especially in village settings) less educated in years gone by and unable to tell the difference between assault and discipline? Most definitely! Did the alleged 'learned ones' (teachers) take advantage of their ignorance? Most definitely! – And still do.
Tantric Sex, Finding Higher Self and Politics
Szandor Blestman • January 26, 2012
Much has been written about the art of tantric sex. I think that many people are drawn to explore it because of the physical aspect. They are titillated by the promise of longer orgasms, more control over orgasms, multiple orgasms and just a more satisfying sexual experience in general. There's no problem with this. Who wouldn't want to have a more pleasurable experience? Who wouldn't want to try something that may help them enjoy an experience as never before? Who wouldn't want to try to make something that has perhaps become old and boring new and exciting again? From what I have read, tantric sex can, indeed, do these things for you.
Dillon Freed • January 26, 2012
Thus, an honest, objective person can see that there are many reasons for a military strike on Iran's facilities, targeted assassinations and sabotage. Some of these reasons, yes, if we are not going to be childish, involve (gasp) American self-interest (such as the need to protect the American investment in Iraq, and oil prices at home). For those too pure of spirit to even consider the real world, fear not, there are non-selfish, shall we say Kantian, reasons as well, most salient of these is that if one cares anything about the young Iranians who have been fighting for freedom against the theocracy (c.f. many in the Green Wave Movement of 2009) then one cannot, under any circumstance, let the authoritarian theocrats attain nuclear power atop of their already expansive political power. For if Iran were to get the bomb, how in the world could the United States – or anyone for that matter – ever help the pro-democracy and pro-freedom and pro-secular groups (who often cry out for such help) in that country if they ever rise up again? Would the United States invade a nuclear Iran on the side of those people? Would the United States even risk airstrikes to assist? Would the United States even arm the rebels?
Szandor Blestman • January 19, 2012
As you may have figured out, I derived the above title from the old saying "America, love it or leave it." That saying has always struck a raw cord with me. It is perhaps one of the most un-American thing one could say, in my opinion. You might as well say "If you don't agree with what the federal government of this country is doing you should just bite your tongue and go along to get along no matter how tyrannical the government acts." This attitude is the same type of attitude that helped create the darkest aspects of the communist regime in the USSR, the fascist regime in pre-WWII Germany and the socialist regime of East Germany. I would bet that it's an attitude prevalent in modern China.
Medical experts find surprising benefits of beer
News Desk • January 14, 2012
Drink up: A 2011 Harvard study of about 38,000 middle-aged men found that when those who only drank occasionally raised their alcohol intake to one to two beers or other drinks daily, their risk of developing type 2 diabetes dropped by 25 percent. The researchers found no benefit to quaffing more than two drinks. The researchers found that alcohol increases insulin sensitivity, thus helping protect against diabetes.
Waging international legal war against Tipaimukh Dam
Barrister M. A. Muid Khan • January 12, 2012
India has decided to construct the proposed dam on the trans-boundary Barak River which flows between India & Bangladesh. In Bangladesh, it enters through Amalshid of Sylhet and becomes divided at Amalshid onto two branches and flows as Surma River (Right Branch) and Kushiara River (Left Branch). Both become united in Habiganj district and flow down as the Kalni River. The Kalni River joins with Ghorautra River near Bajitpur of Kishoreganj district to become the Meghna River. It then flows to Padma River near Chandpur district and falls into the Bay of Bengal, constituting a big estuary in Bangladesh. This estuary is the spawning place of Hilsa and other fishes as well as marine lives. The estuary is a part and parcel of ecology of Bangladesh which cannot be measured in terms of money.
The Midwest versus the Middle East
Dillon Freed • January 12, 2012
And it is a blessing that Midwest Americans, in some respects, are apolitical and a historical – again uneducated. This is in stark contradistinction to the Middle East where the people, while not always technically educated, know history very well – too well. Indeed, you would be amazed by the enormous number of names, battles, treaties, foreign leaders, and dates even the most unschooled Middle Eastern Arab or Muslim driving a cab in New York City can recite. Bernard Lewis, the retired Princeton scholar of Near East studies, often alluded to the fact that Arabs and Muslims are very savvy about their past.
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