Diplomats from nearly all countries attended the seminar hosted by Confederation of Danish Industry and the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs on June 23.- CO2 emissions is a global challenge, which demands global action, said Hans Skov Christensen, Director General of Confederation of Danish Industry, as he opened the seminar. According to Minister for Foreign Affairs, Per Stig Møller, common goals for CO2 reductions are necessary. Industrialised countries must take the lead with ambitious reduction targets, but it is vital that all countries are on board and contribute to the handling of the climate challenge. The conference follows last year’s energy-safari, where ambassadors took a two-day trip of Denmark to study energy solutions based on wind, solar power, biomass and district heating.The Minister emphasised that there is no contradiction between environmental concern and economic growth.- Investing in green technology and sustainable, stable energy solutions, will benefit both the economy and the climate, he said, and praised Danish companies efforts within wind, solar, biomass and energy-saving solutions. - Denmark has all the solutions, now all we need is global will to act, he concluded.
Anders Eldrup, CEO of Danish energy company DONG, responsible for 1/3 of Danish CO2 emissions, shared groundbreaking plans for production of bio-ethanol from organic waste, and plans for more off-shore wind farms. Also speaking at the seminar was Svend Roed Nielsen, Under-Secretary for International Trade Policy and Business and Thomas Bustrup, Deputy Director General of Confederation of Danish Industry.Jesper Jørgensen, Senior Advisor to the Minister for Climate and Energy, gave an update on the state of play in the COP15 negotiations. Diplomats from nearly all countries attended the seminar hosted by Confederation of Danish Industry and the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs on June 23.- CO2 emissions is a global challenge, which demands global action, said Hans Skov Christensen, Director General of Confederation of Danish Industry, as he opened the seminar. According to Minister for Foreign Affairs, Per Stig Møller, common goals for CO2 reductions are necessary. Industrialised countries must take the lead with ambitious reduction targets, but it is vital that all countries are on board and contribute to the handling of the climate challenge. The conference follows last year’s energy-safari, where ambassadors took a two-day trip of Denmark to study energy solutions based on wind, solar power, biomass and district heating.The Minister emphasised that there is no contradiction between environmental concern and economic growth.- Investing in green technology and sustainable, stable energy solutions, will benefit both the economy and the climate, he said, and praised Danish companies efforts within wind, solar, biomass and energy-saving solutions. - Denmark has all the solutions, now all we need is global will to act, he concluded.
Anders Eldrup, CEO of Danish energy company DONG, responsible for 1/3 of Danish CO2 emissions, shared groundbreaking plans for production of bio-ethanol from organic waste, and plans for more off-shore wind farms. Also speaking at the seminar was Svend Roed Nielsen, Under-Secretary for International Trade Policy and Business and Thomas Bustrup, Deputy Director General of Confederation of Danish Industry.Jesper Jørgensen, Senior Advisor to the Minister for Climate and Energy, gave an update on the state of play in the COP15 negotiations.
Friday, June 26, 2009
Monday, June 15, 2009
The Evolution of Bengali
Bengali belongs to the easternmost branch, called Aryan or Indo-Iranian, of the Indo-European family of languages. Its direct ancestor is a form of Prakrit or Middle Indo-Aryan which descended from Sanskrit or Old Indo-Aryan. Sanskrit was the spoken as well as the literary language of Aryandom until circa 500 B.C., after which it remained for nearly two thousand years the dominant literary languages as well as the lingua franca among the cultured and the erudite throughout the subcontinent.
Like Sanskrit, Apabhramsa-Avahattha was a literary language, and in the available records it shows remarkably little local variation; practically the same form of the language appears in the poems written in Gujrat and in Bengal. But the spoken language conditioned by the regional linguistic and ethnic environments took up the different regional New Indo-Aryan languages. The emergence of these New Indo-Aryan speeches was not all synchronized. But some of them, including Bengali, certainly originated by the middle of the tenth century at the latest.
For old Bengali the only records are mystic carya songs discovered in a MS from Nepal by Haraprasad Shastri.The language of the carya songs is basically vernacular, but at the same time it is also something of a literary language.
Bengali at the present day has two literary styles. One is called "Sadhubhasa" (elegant language) and the other "Chaltibhasa" (current language) . The former is the traditional literary style based on Middle Bengali of the sixteenth century. The later is practically a creation of the present century, and is based on the cultivated form of the dialect spoken in Calcutta by the educated people originally coming from districts bordering on the lower reaches of the Hoogly. The difference between the two literary styles is not very sharp. The vocabulary is practically the same. The difference lies mainly in the forms of the pronoun and the verb. The Sadhubhasa has the old and heavier forms while the Chalitbhasa uses the modern and lighter forms. The former shows a partiality for lexical words and for compound words of the Sanskrit type, and the latter prefers colloquial words, phrases and idioms. The Chalitbhasa was first seriously taken up by Pramatha Chaudhuri at the instance of Rabindranath Tagore during the early years of the first World War. Soon after Tagore practically discarded Sadhubhasa, and Chalitbhasa is now generally favored by writers who have no particular fascination for the traditional literary style. The Sadhubhasa is always easy to write but it is somewhat faded in signification and jaded in rhythm.
The Bengali script, like all other Indian scripts, originated from Brahmi alphabet of the Asokan inscriptions.The Bengali alphabet in its present printed form took shape in 1778 when printing types were first cast by Charles Wilkins. There still remained a few archaic forms and these were finally replaced in the middle of the nineteenth century.
Like Sanskrit, Apabhramsa-Avahattha was a literary language, and in the available records it shows remarkably little local variation; practically the same form of the language appears in the poems written in Gujrat and in Bengal. But the spoken language conditioned by the regional linguistic and ethnic environments took up the different regional New Indo-Aryan languages. The emergence of these New Indo-Aryan speeches was not all synchronized. But some of them, including Bengali, certainly originated by the middle of the tenth century at the latest.
For old Bengali the only records are mystic carya songs discovered in a MS from Nepal by Haraprasad Shastri.The language of the carya songs is basically vernacular, but at the same time it is also something of a literary language.
Bengali at the present day has two literary styles. One is called "Sadhubhasa" (elegant language) and the other "Chaltibhasa" (current language) . The former is the traditional literary style based on Middle Bengali of the sixteenth century. The later is practically a creation of the present century, and is based on the cultivated form of the dialect spoken in Calcutta by the educated people originally coming from districts bordering on the lower reaches of the Hoogly. The difference between the two literary styles is not very sharp. The vocabulary is practically the same. The difference lies mainly in the forms of the pronoun and the verb. The Sadhubhasa has the old and heavier forms while the Chalitbhasa uses the modern and lighter forms. The former shows a partiality for lexical words and for compound words of the Sanskrit type, and the latter prefers colloquial words, phrases and idioms. The Chalitbhasa was first seriously taken up by Pramatha Chaudhuri at the instance of Rabindranath Tagore during the early years of the first World War. Soon after Tagore practically discarded Sadhubhasa, and Chalitbhasa is now generally favored by writers who have no particular fascination for the traditional literary style. The Sadhubhasa is always easy to write but it is somewhat faded in signification and jaded in rhythm.
The Bengali script, like all other Indian scripts, originated from Brahmi alphabet of the Asokan inscriptions.The Bengali alphabet in its present printed form took shape in 1778 when printing types were first cast by Charles Wilkins. There still remained a few archaic forms and these were finally replaced in the middle of the nineteenth century.
General Md Abdul Mubeen took over as the chief of army staff today replacing General Moeen U Ahmed who just ended his four-year tenure of service.
Shortly after taking baton from Moeen U Ahmed at the Army headquarters, Mubeen called on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who is also in charge of the ministry of defence.
Navy Chief Rear Admiral ZU Ahmed and Air Chief Air Marshal SM Ziaur Rahman wore Mubeen the rank badge in presence of the prime minister.
Mubeen was named new chief of the armed forces on June 4. He was promoted to the rank of general from lieutenant general with effect from today.
Moeen was appointed as the army chief on July 15 in 2005.
Gen Mubeen served as GOC in Jessore and Chittagon and was made Principal Staff Officer to the Armed Forces Division on June 4 in 2008.
Shortly after taking baton from Moeen U Ahmed at the Army headquarters, Mubeen called on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who is also in charge of the ministry of defence.
Navy Chief Rear Admiral ZU Ahmed and Air Chief Air Marshal SM Ziaur Rahman wore Mubeen the rank badge in presence of the prime minister.
Mubeen was named new chief of the armed forces on June 4. He was promoted to the rank of general from lieutenant general with effect from today.
Moeen was appointed as the army chief on July 15 in 2005.
Gen Mubeen served as GOC in Jessore and Chittagon and was made Principal Staff Officer to the Armed Forces Division on June 4 in 2008.
Lifestyle
vast majority (98 percent) of the people of Bangladesh are Bengalis and they speak the Bengali language. Minorities include Biharis numbering 250,000 and other tribes numbering about a million, with the Chakma being most numerous in number. About 83 percent of Bangladeshis are profess Islam as their religion. The next major religion is Hinduism (16 precent). Other major religions include Buddhism and Christianity.
A member of the Indo-European family of languages, Bangla (sometimes called Bengali) is the official language of Bangladesh. Bangladeshis closely identify themselves with their national language. Bangla has a rich cultural heritage in literature, music, and poetry, and at least two Bengali poets are well known in the West: Rabindranath Tagore, a Hindu and a Nobel laureate; and Kazi Nazrul Islam, a Muslim known as the "voice of Bengali nationalism and independence." Bangla has been enriched by several regional dialects. The dialects of Sylhet, Chittagong, and Noakhali have been strongly marked by Arab-Persian influences. English, whose cultural influence seemed to have crested by the late 1980s, remained nonetheless an important language in Bangladesh.
Biharis, a group that included Urdu-speaking non-Bengali Muslim refugees from Bihar and other parts of northern India, numbered about 1 million in 1971 but had decreased to around 600,000 by the late 1980s. They once dominated the upper levels of Bengali society. Many also held jobs on the railroads and in heavy industry. As such they stood to lose from Bangladesh independence and sided with Pakistan during the 1971 war. Hundreds of thousands of Biharis were repatriated to Pakistan after the war.
Bangladesh's tribal population consists of about 1 million people, just under 1 percent of the total population. They live primarily in the Chittagong Hills and in the regions of Mymensingh, Sylhet, and Rajshahi. The majority of the tribal population (778,425) live in rural settings, where many practice shifting cultivation. Most tribal people are of SinoTibetan descent and has distinctive Mongoloid features. They differ in their social organization, marriage customs, birth and death rites, food, and other social customs from the people of the rest of the country. They speak Tibeto-Burman languages. In the mid-1980s, the percentage distribution of tribal population by religion was Hindu 24, Buddhist 44, Christian 13, and others 19.
The four largest tribes are the Chakmas, Marmas (or Maghs), Tipperas (or Tipras), and Mros (or Moorangs). The tribes tend to intermingle and could be distinguished from one another more by differences in their dialect, dress, and customs than by tribal cohesion. Only the Chakmas and Marmas display formal tribal organization, although all groups containe distinct clans. By far the largest tribe, the Chakmas are of mixed origin but reflect more Bengali influence than any other tribe. Unlike the other tribes, the Chakmas and Marmas generally live in the highland valleys. Most Chakmas are Buddhists, but some practiced Hinduism or animism
A member of the Indo-European family of languages, Bangla (sometimes called Bengali) is the official language of Bangladesh. Bangladeshis closely identify themselves with their national language. Bangla has a rich cultural heritage in literature, music, and poetry, and at least two Bengali poets are well known in the West: Rabindranath Tagore, a Hindu and a Nobel laureate; and Kazi Nazrul Islam, a Muslim known as the "voice of Bengali nationalism and independence." Bangla has been enriched by several regional dialects. The dialects of Sylhet, Chittagong, and Noakhali have been strongly marked by Arab-Persian influences. English, whose cultural influence seemed to have crested by the late 1980s, remained nonetheless an important language in Bangladesh.
Biharis, a group that included Urdu-speaking non-Bengali Muslim refugees from Bihar and other parts of northern India, numbered about 1 million in 1971 but had decreased to around 600,000 by the late 1980s. They once dominated the upper levels of Bengali society. Many also held jobs on the railroads and in heavy industry. As such they stood to lose from Bangladesh independence and sided with Pakistan during the 1971 war. Hundreds of thousands of Biharis were repatriated to Pakistan after the war.
Bangladesh's tribal population consists of about 1 million people, just under 1 percent of the total population. They live primarily in the Chittagong Hills and in the regions of Mymensingh, Sylhet, and Rajshahi. The majority of the tribal population (778,425) live in rural settings, where many practice shifting cultivation. Most tribal people are of SinoTibetan descent and has distinctive Mongoloid features. They differ in their social organization, marriage customs, birth and death rites, food, and other social customs from the people of the rest of the country. They speak Tibeto-Burman languages. In the mid-1980s, the percentage distribution of tribal population by religion was Hindu 24, Buddhist 44, Christian 13, and others 19.
The four largest tribes are the Chakmas, Marmas (or Maghs), Tipperas (or Tipras), and Mros (or Moorangs). The tribes tend to intermingle and could be distinguished from one another more by differences in their dialect, dress, and customs than by tribal cohesion. Only the Chakmas and Marmas display formal tribal organization, although all groups containe distinct clans. By far the largest tribe, the Chakmas are of mixed origin but reflect more Bengali influence than any other tribe. Unlike the other tribes, the Chakmas and Marmas generally live in the highland valleys. Most Chakmas are Buddhists, but some practiced Hinduism or animism
Bangladesh's hopes of qualifying for the Super Eights of the ICC World Twenty20 were dashed when they suffered a six-wicket defeat to Ireland in their Group A do-or-die match at Trent Bridge, Nottingham on Monday.Ireland, comprising of county cricketers, reached 138-4 with 10 balls to spare after Bangladesh could manage 137-8.Ireland reached the Super Eights along with India, who will face the Irish in a group-deciding encounter on June 10.After going down to defending champions India by 25 runs in the first match, Bangladesh needed to win against Ireland, who also stunned Bangladesh in the 2007 World Cup in the West Indies.Definitely the score Bangladesh put on the board was not enough to defend and captain Mohammad Ashraful's bowling changes were also questionable as he kept spinner Abdur Razzak out of the attack until 11th over and by that time the Irish had recovered from a sluggish start to reach 70-2.Razzak was introduced in the 12th over and proved his worth removing opener William Porterfield for 23 with his second delivery, but the captain did not bother to use Razzak's fourth over. Ashraful even did not consider to use Naeem Islam, who conceded just nine runs in the two overs he bowled.Basically it was the O'Brien brothers who turned the match in Ireland's favour as one-down Niall O'Brien played a hurricane 25-ball 40-run innings, of which he smashed three sixes off Mashrafee in an over. Niall also smashed three fours in his innings.It seemed Bangladesh were in the match till the start of 15th over after Mashrafee removed Gray Wilson in 14.2 overs, and Kevin O'Brien came to the middle to change the scenario.Needing 48 runs from 34 deliveries, Kevin O'Brien smacked two sixes and four fours in his 17-ball 39-run knock to propel Ireland home with 10 balls to spare. John Mooney was not out with 17 off 14 balls.Earlier, Bangladesh recovered from a lacklustre batting display early in the innings as most of the batsmen struggled against some quality Irish bowling to finish on 137-8.It was all Ireland for 19 overs as they kept Bangladesh's run rate below six until that point. Johnston was the star bowler finishing with 3-20 off his four overs rattling the Tigers' top order.But the last over of the innings saved Bangladesh's blushes as Mashrafee Bin Mortaza hit Alex Cusack for 20 runs with two sixes, taking the score past the 135-run mark and giving them something to defend.Mortaza finished with 33 off 16 balls and was their top scorer.The batsmen apparently threw their wickets away despite having made a confident start with Junaed Siddique smashing two successive fours in the opening over from Boyd Rankin to pick up 10 runs.The left-handed opener, Bangladesh's top-scorer against India, also took on Trent Johnston to hitting the first delivery Johnston bowled for a boundary and then went for the big one down the wicket in the next delivery only to see his skier caught by Jeremy Bray, leaving the side at 15-1 in 1.2 overs.When a solid partnership was needed, captain Mohammad Ashraful also threw his wicket away after being dropped on one at first slip by Kevin O'Brien off Johnson, who finally removed the Bangladesh captain for 14 off 10 balls studded with one six and one four.Johnston was the Irish hero after having Shakib Al Hasan caught by Gray Wilson for seven and then Tamim Iqbal was unfortunately run out for 22 and Bangladesh's hopes of piling up huge total was then dashed.Mushfiqur Rahim and Roqibul Hasan made 14 and 13 respectively before Mashrafee's big hitting in the final over.
PM urged to side with people on Tipaimukh issue
Former Transparency International, Bangladesh chairman professor Muzaffer Ahmed on Monday asked prime minister Sheikh Hasina to side with the people on the issue of Tipaimukh dam project. "People elected you to protect the interest of the country. Don't forget their interest. You have to take position against the construction of Tipaimukh dam alongside the people." "The dam project has turned into a life-threatening problem for us. It is not a political issue," he told a seminar on 'Tipaimukh dam: responsibilities of Bangladesh'. "All of us will have to protest against the project and launch a movement. Those who are on behalf of the project are not the friends of the country," Muzaffer said. The project will destroy the water sources and resources. The land, biodiversity and human resources will also be endangered. Not only Bangladesh many Indian states including Mizoram will be affected. People in Mizoram form human chains and rallies every day but neither the Bangladeshi nor the Indian media report them. "One can see the news on the websites of Mizoram," Muzafer said. He asked all to raise public awareness and hold protest rallies against the move. The ex-TIB chairman asked the MPs and cabinet members to work in the interests of the people. "I request you who do not want to protect the interest of the country to quit the position." Surma Kushiara Meghna Banchao Andolan organised the seminar at National Press Club.
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
exclusive Event of The Largest Export Earning sector of Bangladesh
5th Bangladesh Knitwear Exhibition 2009 at Khlalil,
Knit Expo2009
Knit Expo is the largest annul Knitwear exhibition of Bangladesh knitwear. To display the latest products and innovations of this sector, bangladesh knitwera manufacturers & Exporters Association (BKMEA) organize it regularly.
Knit Expo2009
Knit Expo is the largest annul Knitwear exhibition of Bangladesh knitwear. To display the latest products and innovations of this sector, bangladesh knitwera manufacturers & Exporters Association (BKMEA) organize it regularly.
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