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In 2009, the 54 existing private universities admitted 52,161
students, though they had 65,312 seats, said the latest UGC
report.According to the UGC, out of the 54 existing private
universities only 11 set up their own campuses and landscape according
to the required specifications.
The government should have considered all the relevant aspects before
giving permission to the eight new private universities, Kazi Saleh
said.
He said that the government should have been extra careful when it
faces the allegation that it failed to regulate the existing private
universities.

New univs on sponsors� political link to hamper education

Source:http://www.newagebd.com/detail.php?date=2012-03-15&nid=4034

Mushfique Wadud

Educationists said on Wednesday that giving permission to open new
private universities due to political colours of the sponsors would
hamper quality of higher education.
They said that decisions on such considerations were also bound to
lead to a chaotic situation in the field of higher education making it
difficult to ensure quality.
On Tuesday, the government gave permission, mostly to ruling party
elements to open eight new private universities.
They also questioned the justification to allow the new universities
when in 2009 there were no applicants for 13,152 seats of Bangladesh�s
54 existing private universities with 63,312 seats.
Educationists said that only on academic and not political
considerations permission should be given to open new private
universities.
When the government is unable to make many of the existing private
universities follow the rules, the authorities need to be extra
careful in allowing new universities, they told New Age when their
reaction was sought about the education ministry giving permission to
open eight new universities.
They in this regard said that there are allegations against many
existing private universities that they were doing �business� in the
name of providing education and government was unable to make them
follow the rules.
In this backdrop, they said, the authorities should have been extra
careful in taking into consideration all the relevant aspects before
allowing eight new private universities to come to the scene.
According to the education ministry officials, ruling Awami League
leaders are linked, directly or indirectly, with the ownership of the
eight universities, which got the fresh permission.
Only two new universities received the permission to open academic
campuses in the capital city, education ministry officials said.
Awami League law maker Muhiuddin Khan Alamgir is the main initiator of
European University, Bangladesh, which got the permission to run
academic activities at Mirpur in the capital city, they said.
The second university which got the permission to open its campus in
the capital city was BGMEA University of Fashion and Technology.
North East University, with an Awani League leader in Sylhet, as the
founder, received the permission to open its campus in Sylhet.
Former Chattra League president Liakat Shikdar is associated with
Barendra University which received the permission to open its campus
in Rajshahi.
Awami League advisory council member and former National University
vice chancellor Durga Das Bhattacharya is associated with newly
permitted Esha Kha University which has been allowed to open its
campus in Kishoreganj.
ZH Sikder University of Science and Technology received permission to
open its campus at Shariatpur, also due to known political colours of
the sponsors.
First Capital University received permission to open its campus at Chuadanga.
Hamdard University, which received permission to open its campus at
Narayanganj, is possibly the lone new university without a ruling
party sponsor.
Educationists said that giving permission to open eight new private
universities becomes questionable at a time when a report of the
University Grants Commission states that in 2009 there were no
applications for admission to 13,151 seats, or one fourth of the seats
of the existing private universities.
In 2009, the 54 existing private universities admitted 52,161
students, though they had 65,312 seats, said the latest UGC report.
Professor emeritus Serajul Islam Choudhury said, �Universities should
get permission purely on academic consideration and not on political
considerations.�
Former Dhaka University vice chancellor Moniruzzaman Miah said that
giving permission to open new universities to sponsors only because of
their political colour was bound to create �a chaotic situation� in
the arena of higher education.
He said it would hamper the quality of higher education.
Former Jahangirnagar University vice chancellor Kazi Saleh Ahmed said
that political identity should not be the qualification for getting
the permission to open new private universities.
Former UGC chairman Nazrul Islam was of the view that political
leaders could get the permission to open private universities, but the
government and the UGC had to make sure that quality was not
compromised while giving such permission.
The sponsors received the permission to open new private universities
at a time when the government faces the allegations that it was
failing to regulate the existing private universities.
Most private universities failed to move to their permanent campuses
in 15 years or more.
According to the UGC, out of the 54 existing private universities only
11 set up their own campuses and landscape according to the required
specifications.
The government should have considered all the relevant aspects before
giving permission to the eight new private universities, Kazi Saleh
said.
He said that the government should have been extra careful when it
faces the allegation that it failed to regulate the existing private
universities.

Lost your phone? Assume the worst, study finds

By William Jackson
Source:http://gcn.com/articles/2012/03/09/symantec-report-on-lost-smartphones.as\
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Mar 09, 2012
If you lose a smart phone there is a 50 percent chance that the finder will try
to return it, but an almost 100 percent chance that they first will browse
through your files and applications, according to a recent experiment done by
Symantec and Sprint.

"What surprised me was the number of people who went through the data on the
phones," said Kevin Haley, director of Symantec Security Response. "People are
naturally curious, but a high percentage of people let curiosity get the better
of them."

The experiment, which logged the activities of people who found "lost" smart
phones, did not distinguish between malicious behavior and idle curiosity, but
the bottom line was that data on lost devices is likely to be compromised."The
owner of a lost smart phone should not assume the finder of their device will
attempt to make contact with them," warned the Symantec report on the
experiment. "Even when contact is made, the owner of the device should not
assume their personal or business-related information has not been violated."

The risk of exposing sensitive information becomes more serious as more workers
use personal devices for work-related activities. In a recent study commissioned
by the security research company ESET, 81 percent of respondents said they use
personal devices for work. Although desktop and laptop computers remain the
platforms of choice, with more than 50 percent using them for work, 38 percent
also use a smart phone and 15 percent use a tablet.

Most of the personal devices are being used without basic security, the ESET
study found. Only one third of laptops and one quarter of smart phones had an
autolock feature to block out unauthorized users, and fewer than 10 percent of
the tablets used it.

The Symantec experiment, dubbed the Smartphone Honey Stick Project, involved 50
phones, fully charged and loaded with apps, and sans security. They were left in
public places, 10 each in New York, Washington, Los Angeles, San Francisco and
Ottawa. Forty-seven of the devices were turned on by finders and their
activities on the phones logged.

Of those found phones:
89 percent were accessed for personal applications and information.
83 percent were accessed for business resources.
70 percent were accessed for both personal and business information.
50 percent of the finders contacted the owner and provided contact information.
Applications loaded on the phones were labeled:
Social networking
Online banking
Webmail
Private Pix
Passwords
Calendar
Contacts
Cloud-based docs
HR Cases (PDF)
HR Salaries (Spreadsheet)
Corporate Email
Remote Admin.
All of these files were opened. The most commonly accessed file was "contacts,"
which finders opened on 38 of the found phones. The motives for this might be
benign, since that is where contact information for the phone's owner was
located. But "private pix" was accessed on 34 phones, apparently from simple
voyeurism.

Haley said the file and application labels were not meant to be provocative or
to entice finders to open them. "I think they were fairly descriptive," he said.

Although the desktop is the most commonly used tool for remote working, the
widespread use of smart phones puts a focus on the risk from lost devices.
"Nobody ever left their desktop in the restroom of a Chinese restaurant," Haley
said.

The growing popularity of tablet computers � a platform with smart-phone
mobility and laptop functionality � is likely to add another area of risk. The
recent release by Apple of its new iPad has focused attention in this segment of
the market. While most observers agree that the latest release is an incremental
improvement over its predecessor rather than a significant jump, it also is
likely to see continued uptake as a business tool.

"It's a sign that the industry is beginning to mature," said ESET security
researcher Cameron Camp. "The tablet is here to stay."

But possibly because it is a newer platform, not as many users are implementing
security on tablets as on smart phones.

The bottom line is that all mobile devices should be password-protected to
prevent casual snooping, Haley said. And if a device contains sensitive personal
or work information, users should consider applications to tack and or remotely
wipe the device.
About the Author
William Jackson is a senior writer of GCN and the author of the CyberEye column.

Tech Job Market Flourishes in Silicon Valley and Beyond

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By CIOinsight
2012-03-13

From north to south, California has more to offer tech professionals than just
Silicon Valley.

While the overall labor market in the U.S. continues to limp forward, the tech
industry is showing more vigorous signs of growth, and in some places around the
country where it wouldn't necessarily be expected, according to the March tech
employment report from IT jobs specialist Dice.

"After two years of continuous improvement in recruitment activity on Dice, tech
is a market-by-market story," the company s report noted.

There are certainly many available tech jobs in traditional centers like Silicon
Valley, New York or Seattle, as the report shows, but other cities continue to
join the party--creating possible opportunities for tech professionals in other
regions. The fastest-growing cities for tech jobs are as varied as their
geographic locations. In Houston, Texas, tech job postings on Dice (up 37
percent year-over-year) received a boost from the oil and gas industry's
strength.

Compare that to Portland, Ore., which placed sixth. It is often called the
"Greenest City," where the emergence of cloud and virtualization jobs is
contributing to its current growth.

Raleigh, N.C., tops Dice's list of fastest-growing cities for tech jobs. With
more than 1,100 opportunities on any given day (up 50 percent year-over-year),
tech professionals in Raleigh enjoy a broad base of possibilities, including
current openings at banks and nearby universities, the report said. Following
Raleigh was Richmond, Va., which posted a 40 percent year-over-year rise in tech
jobs, followed by Houston and Sacramento, Calif.

From north to south, California has more to offer tech professionals than just
Silicon Valley. In Sacramento, firms in health care and technology are hiring,
and tech paychecks have jumped 6 percent year-over-year to $87,000 on average.
In San Diego, tech salaries average more than $85,000 annually, while defense
and aerospace companies are recruiting.

Not to be outdone, Missouri also has two cities on the list. Kansas City-based
tech professionals can expect to take home more than $75,000 a year (up 13
percent year-over-year), and job opportunities can be found at financial
services and legal firms. In St. Louis, where manufacturing and health care
companies are looking for tech talent, yearly tech salaries hover around
$71,000. The only top 10 tech market to also make the fastest-growing city list
is Boston, with more than 3,300 job postings on Dice, up 24 percent
year-over-year. Annual tech salaries increased 2 percent to more than $88,000 on
average.

The New York/New Jersey Metro area remained the top metropolitan location for
technology jobs, with 9,195 jobs posted as of March 1, a 6 percent rise from the
same period last year. The Washington, D.C./Baltimore area followed with 8,289
jobs, a 2 percent increase, followed by Silicon Valley, Chicago, Los Angeles,
Boston, Atlanta, Dallas, Seattle and Philadelphia.

"It's important for tech professionals to remember with growing opportunities
comes expanding options--if you're willing to be flexible about where you live,"
said Tom Silver, Dice vice president for North America. "Consider going for that
promotion, asking for a raise, or changing it up and finding that new
opportunity."


To read the original eWeek article, click here: Tech Jobs Flourish in Silicon
Valley, but Other Regions Offer Opportunities: Dice Report

Source:http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-accelerating-cyb\
erweapon-research/2012/03/13/gIQAMRGVLS_story.html

U.S. accelerating cyberweapon research

By Ellen Nakashima, Published: March 18

The Pentagon is accelerating efforts to develop a new generation of
cyberweapons capable of disrupting enemy military networks even when
those networks are not connected to the Internet, according to current
and former U.S. officials.

The possibility of a confrontation with Iran or Syria has highlighted
for American military planners the value of cyberweapons that can be
used against an enemy whose most important targets, such as air
defense systems, do not rely on Internet-based networks. But adapting
such cyberweapons can take months or even years of arduous technical
work.

When U.S. military planners were looking for ways to disable Libya�s
air defense system before NATO�s aerial attacks last year, they
discussed using cybertechnology. But the idea was quickly dismissed
because no effective option was available, said current and former
U.S. officials.

They estimated that crafting a cyberweapon would have taken about a
year, including the time needed to assess the target system for
vulnerabilities.

�We weren�t ready to do that in Libya,� said a former U.S. official,
who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of
the discussions. �We�re not ready to do that now, either.�

Last year, to speed up the development of cyberweapons, as well as
defensive technology, then-Deputy Defense Secretary William J. Lynn
III and Marine Corps Gen. James Cartwright, then vice chairman of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff, placed $500 million over five years into the
budget of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, one of the
Defense �Department�s premier research organizations.

The agency also has launched new �cyber-development initiatives,
including a �fast-track� program.

�We need cyber options that can be executed at the speed, scale and
pace� of other military weapons, Kaigham J. �Gabriel, DARPA deputy
director, said in testimony last month to Congress.

Pentagon officials, meanwhile, are developing a congressionally
mandated strategy for the rapid acquisition of cyberweapons that can
keep pace with threats and technology.

Officials are researching cyberweapons that can target �offline�
military systems in part by harnessing emerging technology that uses
radio signals to insert computer coding into networks remotely.

�To affect a system, you have to have access to it, and we have not
perfected the capability of reaching out and accessing a system at
will that is not connected to the Internet,� said Joel Harding, an
independent consultant who is a former military officer and former
director of the Information Operations Institute.

Even if an operator gains access, he said, �unless you already have
custom-written code for a system, chances are we don�t have a weapon
for that because each system has different software and updates.�

In some cases, as with command-and-control systems, military assets
rely on Internet connections, making them theoretically easier to
target.

Without that connectivity, an attacker would have to rely on other
means � for instance, physically inserting into those systems portable
devices such as thumb drives or computer components that have been
altered.

But such approaches lack the control and predictability that military
commanders desire, experts say.

The amount of disclosed spending by the Pentagon on cybersecurity and
cybertechnology � offensive and defensive � is $3.4 billion this year.
The U.S. Cyber Command, based at Fort Meade, was created in 2010 and
has a budget of $154 million this year.

U.S. officials say that existing cyberweaponry has the potential to
disable components of a weapon system, �although it is not likely to
destroy the system.

Cyber tools might be used in conjunction with other tactics and
weapons. Cybertechnology might, for example, enable an attack by
delaying enemy recognition of it until it is underway.

�It will probably never be just a standalone cyberattack on a
network,� said Lt. Gen. Charles R. Davis, commander of the Electronic
Systems Center at Hanscom Air Force Base, who buys the tools and
software that support the Air Force�s offensive and defensive cyber
activities.

Cybertechnology was not a significant factor in military operations 10
years ago, Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
said during an Atlantic Council discussion in December. ��Cyber is a
significant factor today.�

In Iraq, during the 2007 surge of U.S. combat forces, the National
Security Agency used cyber tools to muddle the signals of the
cellphones and laptop computers that insurgents used to coordinate
their strikes, according to previously published reports confirmed by
former U.S. officials. U.S. cyber operators used those techniques to
deceive the enemy with false information, in some cases leading
fighters into an ambush by U.S. troops.

But countering Libya�s air defenses was a different story. The
operation arose quickly. Officials had not foreseen the Arab Spring
uprising against Libyan strongman Moammar Gaddafi, and no intelligence
and engineering work had been done to exploit the vulnerabilities of
the Libyan air defense system.

Some experts believe that Israel may have used a cyberweapon to blind
Syrian radar before bombing a suspected nuclear facility in September
2007, but several former U.S. officials say that the technique more
likely used was conventional electronic warfare or radar jamming using
signals emitted from an airplane.

The Stuxnet computer virus that reportedly disabled some 900
centrifuges in an Iranian uranium-enrichment plant in 2009 and 2010 �
while it has been dubbed by control-system expert Ralph Langner as the
world�s �first digital warhead� � lacked the precision, predictability
and control that a military commander would need during combat,
experts said.

�If I�m trying to knock down an air defense system, I have to know
precisely what�s going to happen and when it will happen,� said a
former military official. �It�s a fundamentally different approach
than Stuxnet.�

DARPA plans to focus an increasing portion of its cyber research on
�offensive capabilities to address military-specific needs,� Gabriel
said recently in testimony before the House Armed Services
subcommittee on emerging threats and capabilities.

Over the past decade, instances have been reported in which cyber
tools were contemplated but not used because of concern they would
result in collateral damage. For instance, defense and intelligence
agencies discussed using cybertechnology to freeze money in Iraqi
dictator Saddam Hussein�s bank accounts just before the U.S.-led
invasion in March 2003 to blunt his efforts to mount a defense. The
plan was aborted because of concern that the cyberattack could disrupt
financial systems in Europe and beyond.

Within a war zone, the use of a cyberweapon may be limited by other
considerations. There is the danger of collateral damage to civilian
systems, such as disrupting a power supply to a hospital. A
destructive computer code, once released, could be reverse-engineered
and sent back at vulnerable U.S. targets or adapted for use by foreign
spy agencies. Cybertechnology also is not always the most efficient
way to attack a target � sometimes bombs or electronic warfare are
easier or more reliable.

Within the Pentagon, more money is being spent on defending against
cyber�attacks than on preparing to deploy offensive cyber operations,
officials say. That is appropriate, they say, when adversaries are
trying to develop similar cyberweapons to use against U.S. military
targets that may not be secure against attack and when Pentagon
networks are probed thousands of times daily.

But more money needs to be spent on developing cyperweapons, say some
former officials. �You�ve got to start moving investment to the
offensive side,� Cartwright said.

Pentagon spending on cybertechnology is growing even as other areas of
its budget are shrinking, officials say.

�I am still not remotely satisfied with where we are in cyber,� Deputy
Secretary of Defense Ashton B. Carter said at the Credit Suisse and
McAleese and Associates defense conference in Arlington this month.

�I dare say,� he said, �we�d spend a lot more if we could figure out
where to spend it.�

Published on FierceGovernmentIT (http://www.fiercegovernmentit.com)

Acts of war in cyberspace will likely also be war crimes, says Ranum

By mbernhart
Created Mar 12 2012 -
The big problem with a cyber war is that the target would not just be
military electronic infrastructure. It would likely be a nation's
critical infrastructure, said Marcus Ranum while speaking March 8 at a
Google-sponsored seminar [1] at the University of Maryland.
"If you look at international humanitarian law, I think it would be
very difficult to launch a military cyber attack, not only that isn't
an act of war but that is not inherently a war crime," said Ranum, a
noted network security researcher and chief security officer of
Tenable Network Security of Columbia, Md.
The Defense Department has said it will retaliate against a cyber
attack that meets a certain threshold, but its policy is to remain
vague [2] on what that threshold is. In a recent report, Brookings
Institution fellows argued [3] that the United States and China, in
particular, should discuss "red lines" that could "provoke major
conflict if crossed," because it could help them avoid unintentionally
escalating a conflict and take some "risky actions off the table."
Ranum agrees, but said that defining a cyber act of war is not enough
because carrying out an assassination or blockading commercial
shipping are technically considered acts of war, but most countries
being acted against would not consider those actions that warrant
retaliation.
"I think it would be really great if we would say the types of things
we would retaliate for," said Ranum. "What I would really love to see
is the U.S. say that we would not be the first to use it--although we
probably already have used it first."
The United States and Israel are fairly well implicated in developing
and executing Stuxnet [4], said Ranum. He added that if Stuxnet is
considered an act of war, it likely violated the Geneva Convention,
which specifically states that countries are not to target nuclear
facilities.
"I used to go around saying cyber war is bull and then Stuxnet
happened and I realized, okay, there are people who are seriously
trying to play this stuff," said Ranum.
Another recent development in the cyber realm has Ranum concerned, as
well: Many DoD officials have begun using the term "active defense in
cyberspace."
"Active defense, at least as it was practiced by [German General
Friedrich] von Mellenthin in the World War II, is when you know where
your attacker is coming from and you launch spoiler attacks against
them. You probe them and attempt to destroy them before they're able
to marshal their forces to attack you," said Ranum.
"When I hear we're doing active defense in cyberspace it really
concerns me...the premise appears to be that we're going to go on the
offense and claim that it's against the potential for defense," he
added

EVM only if major parties agree, says EC Shah Newaz
Source:http://www.newagebd.com/detail.php?date=2012-03-20&nid=4554

Staff Correspondent

Election commissioner Mohammad Shah Newaz said on Monday that the
commission would use the controversial Electronic Voting Machines in
the next parliamentary polls only if the major political parties
reached a consensus over the matter.
Earlier on Sunday another election commissioner Md Zabed Ali had said
the commission might use both EVMs and ballot papers in the next polls
to be held in less than two years.
Shah Newaz told newsmen at his office the commission would use the
EVMs in the next parliamentary polls only if the political parties
agreed.
�We should not impose anything [on the political parties],� he said.
The election commissioner said the commission was yet to decide
whether the EVM would be used in the parliamentary polls.
�We need to amend related laws if we want to use EVM,� he said.
The country�s two major political camps are now at loggerheads over
the introduction of EVM in the next polls.
The ruling Awami League-led alliance said it would extend all
cooperation to the EC in using EVM in the next general elections while
the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party-led alliance vowed to
resist the move.
As for voters� role update, the election commissioner said he was
satisfied with the progress of the update work across the country.
�We think some 70 per cent of the update work has already been
completed in 64 upazilas by this time,� the commissioner said.
When his attention was drawn to the reported irregularities in the
update work, Shah Newaz said, �We do not have any information till
date of any kind of irregularities in the update work. We will take
necessary actions whenever we get such complaints.�
The EC began updating the electoral rolls on March 10 across the
country in view of the next general elections.


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EVM ‘sensitive’ issue: new CEC

http://www.daily-sun.com/details_EVM-‘sensitive’-issue:-new-CEC_58_1_1_1_7.h\
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Feb 17,2012
EVM ‘sensitive’ issue: new CEC
Voters’ list updating from Mar 10
→ Staff Correspondent

The new election commission gives a second thought to the much-touted
electronic voting machine (EVM) as the newly appointed Chief Election
Commissioner, Kazi Rakib Uddin Ahmed, on Thursday termed the EVM
matter very “sensitive and important”.
He said the new Election Commission is trying to get fully updated on
the new voting
system—which the main opposition BNP has straightway dismissed as a
digital rigging box.
“We are collecting information on the EVM and discussing the sensitive
issue as well,” he told reporters after the EC’s maiden meeting at its
secretariat, replying to a query about the new commission’s stance on
the voting system.
“Today (Thursday), we were mainly apprised of all issues of the previous
Election Commission,” he added.
New Election Commi ssioners Mohammad Abu Hafiz, Md Zabed Ali, Mohammad
Abdul Mobarrak and Md Shahnewaz and EC Secretary Dr M Sadik and senior
officials were present.
Asked about the election to the divided Dhaka City Corporations, the
CEC said, the polls would be held in time.
He further said the EC is going to start updating the
voter list with photographs across the country from March 10. “The
voter- list updating will be carried out in four phases throughout the
country.”
The EC also reviewed all aspects of the upcoming by-polls in Shariatpu


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From: "Islam, Shafiqul" <Shafiqul.Islam@...>
Date: March 30, 2012 2:11:23 PM
Subject: Village ZERO is in the Final: Four Clicks and HELP Save Lives in Bangladesh and elsewhere

We NEED your FOUR Clicks and HELP!

(Sorry for any double posting; I hope you will understand. Several group are supporting the effort and sending email to their contacts for this initiative in Bangladesh to succeed)

 

A Tufts Student Project is competing at the FINAL ROUND (Maia, our daughter, is a team member) for  the President Clinton’s Global Challenge Initiative to track and predict cholera in Bangladesh. Please consider sending to your e-list. Please vote NOW, urge your friends and other contacts to vote and help spread the word. Voting ends TOMORROW (Saturday) 3PM.

 

Imagine a Bangladesh without Cholera:

A Dream with a Plan is Village ZERO!

Please VOTE (Four clicks and less than a minute to HELP SAVE LIVES)
1. Go to http://www.cgiu.org/bracket/
2. Click on Vote on the Village Zero icon
3. In the window that comes up, click Vote on the Village Zero icon again
4. From that window, share it on Facebook that you voted, urge your friends to vote. Done!

Every vote counts!  

Please VOTE NOW (voting ends on Saturday)

From: "M. Atiq \(www.iciev.org\)" <atq111@...>
Date: April 13, 2012 12:24:22 AM EDT
To: "M. Atiq benjapan.org" <atq111@...>
Subject: Research Grant in BD for BD - pls inform others.
Reply-To: "M. Atiq \(www.iciev.org\)" <atq111@...>

Dear Respected Sir/Madam,
You may know that a new research fund has been introduced: http://iciev.org/grant.html

- in BD, for BD researchers in BD. This is just a beginning and will be offered along with the IEEE/OSA/IAPR Int Conf on Informatics, Electronics & Vision, 18-19 May, 2012, at Univ of Dhaka, Bangladesh.  

Submission details:  http://iciev.org/grant.html

Last date: 30 April 2012

The applicants will submit through online,
Anonymous experts from overseas will review these,
The announcement will be done before the conference and
The names, amounts of donors as well as the awardees will be mentioned in the website later - so that no question can appear on financial clarity.

Financial source for this grant: partial money from ICIEV conf., and mainly from some of my close-friends who promised to support this good cause - from any amount. So far, the amount is very small.

Therefore, I request you to go through the website http://iciev.org/grant.html for details on rules and regulations, kindly inform others. Pls share this news to other Bangladeshi researchers in BD - so that they may submit for this grant. We hope that this journey will contribute a bit to build a bit better research env. in BD in the long run.

 

Best Regards,

Md. Atiqur Rahman Ahad, Ph.D.

 Faculty, Applied Phy., Electronics & Communication Engineering, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh 

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I am requesting Bangladesh government enough is enough, please leave our only
Nobel peace laureate Muhammad Yunus.
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Yunus was fired by Bangladesh's central bank last year for exceeding the
mandatory retirement age -- in a move widely seen as engineered by the
government of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

Critics including Yunus say the government is planning to take over the empire
including its multi-billion-dollar stake in Grameenphone, the country's largest
telecom company.
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Bangladesh targets Yunus's social businesses
(AFP) –
DHAKA — Bangladesh Finance Minister A.M.A. Muhith has said the government will
form a commission to ensure "accountability" of the Grameen social businesses
run by Nobel peace laureate Muhammad Yunus.
The government had fired Yunus from the microlending pioneer Grameen Bank last
March, but the 2006 Nobel winner still leads scores of social businesses, aimed
at creating jobs and reducing poverty in the country.
Critics including Yunus say the government is planning to take over the empire
including its multi-billion-dollar stake in Grameenphone, the country's largest
telecom company.
Muhith told reporters Sunday that although most of these social business had
Grameen's name, they were not linked with the original microfinance lending
institution which provides credit to the poor.
"All of them are tied with Professor Yunus. These 54 enterprises don't have any
relation with micro-credit. They don't function in rural areas, they function
all over the world," the minister said.
"We're setting up a commission for these enterprises... to establish a regime
for this social investment, to bring some accountability and we have to
understand how Grameen Bank entered into these (businesses)," he said.
The minister's comments come just a week after Yunus reportedly expressed
concern that the government was planning to "grab" Grameen Bank and the other
social businesses he now runs.
"The government is taking control of Grameen Bank and its associate enterprises.
We have a big challenge ahead of us," he told Grameen Bank staff during a
ceremony commemorating 20 years of the lender's union.
"All staff must wage a movement to resist the government's move to take control
of the enterprises I've built," he said in comments published in Bengali
Amadershomoy daily.
Yunus was fired by Bangladesh's central bank last year for exceeding the
mandatory retirement age -- in a move widely seen as engineered by the
government of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
The 71-year-old, known as the "banker to the poor", challenged his dismissal,
but his appeal was thrown out by the Supreme Court.
Yunus has since said he would stay focused on his social businesses, which
include Bangladesh's largest renewal energy company, a top garment manufacturer
and providers of anti-mosquito nets, clean water and dairy products.

The oil and gas fields map prepared by Myanmar following ITLOS’ March 14 verdict shows that almost all of its offshore blocks had been excluded from Bangladesh.

“As such, the ITLOS’ verdict would have little impact on Myanmar’s offshore energy resources,” said the RAW report.

Gas reserves in A1’s Shwe and Shwe Phyu fields are estimated at 3.83 trillion cubic feet while that in A3’s Mya field is 1.52 TCF. Both blocks are under development and gas production of 200 million standard cubic metres per day is expected to commence from May 2013.