BUET beats IIT to become Asia West champion in Moscow programming contest

[Black_cats]

BUET beats IIT to become Asia West champion in Moscow programming contest

Jinat Jahan Khan, Abdus Salam Shawn
Mon Oct 11, 2021 01:53 PM
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'BUET HellBent', a team from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), has earned the title of the 'Champion of the Asia West' in the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) Moscow World Final 2021. Globally, it has also secured the 28th position out of 117 teams participating from over 100 countries in this prestigious yearly multi-tiered programming competition.

'BUET HellBent', a team from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), has earned the title of the 'Champion of the Asia West' in the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) Moscow World Final 2021. Globally, it has also secured the 28th position out of 117 teams participating from over 100 countries in this prestigious yearly multi-tiered programming competition.

The team 'BUET HellBent', consisting of Arghya Pratim Pal (CSE-15), H M Ashiqul Islam (EEE-15) and Pritom Kundu (CSE-16) and coached by Mohammad Sohel Rahman, has overtaken the team from the Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT), Delhi to win ICPC Asia West region.

BUET HellBent participated in the preliminary competition in Bangladesh in 2019, organised by Southeast University. They came first competing against 1792 teams. The selected teams went to the next stage, ICPC Dhaka Regional 2019, where 190 teams participated. They came out on top again leading them to the world finals. The finals of 2021 were held in Moscow where the teams were given a problem set of 15 questions. BUET HellBent solved 7 of those problems making them the Asia West Champion, and securing 28th place in the global ranking.

H M Ashiqul Islam, a team member of BUET HellBent, said, "We have a strong culture in BUET when it comes to programming competitions. Our teachers arrange different contests every week, and anybody from any department can participate. We also help each other with problems which enrich our own knowledge. Moreover, it has helped us maintain good relationships with seniors and mentors, who have always mentored us and helped us."

The ICPC is one of the most prestigious programming competitions in the world, where the finest programmers and coders around the world compete to be crowned as the champion. Every year, more than 60,000 student programmers from more than 3,000 universities of 115 countries take part in the qualifying rounds.

Another team from Dhaka University, 'DU SwampFire' has also obtained the 33rd position in this event. The Nizhny Novgorod State University of Russia became the champion in the ICPC World Finals.

BUET beats IIT to become Asia West champion in Moscow programming contest

'BUET HellBent', a team from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), has earned the title of the ‘Champion of the Asia West' in the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) Moscow World Final 2021. Globally, it has also secured the 28th position out of 117...

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[F-6 enthusiast]

BUET beats IIT to become Asia West champion in Moscow programming contest

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Jinat Jahan Khan, Abdus Salam Shawn
Mon Oct 11, 2021 01:53 PM
Image: Facebook

'BUET HellBent', a team from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), has earned the title of the 'Champion of the Asia West' in the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) Moscow World Final 2021. Globally, it has also secured the 28th position out of 117 teams participating from over 100 countries in this prestigious yearly multi-tiered programming competition.

'BUET HellBent', a team from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), has earned the title of the 'Champion of the Asia West' in the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) Moscow World Final 2021. Globally, it has also secured the 28th position out of 117 teams participating from over 100 countries in this prestigious yearly multi-tiered programming competition.

The team 'BUET HellBent', consisting of Arghya Pratim Pal (CSE-15), H M Ashiqul Islam (EEE-15) and Pritom Kundu (CSE-16) and coached by Mohammad Sohel Rahman, has overtaken the team from the Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT), Delhi to win ICPC Asia West region.

BUET HellBent participated in the preliminary competition in Bangladesh in 2019, organised by Southeast University. They came first competing against 1792 teams. The selected teams went to the next stage, ICPC Dhaka Regional 2019, where 190 teams participated. They came out on top again leading them to the world finals. The finals of 2021 were held in Moscow where the teams were given a problem set of 15 questions. BUET HellBent solved 7 of those problems making them the Asia West Champion, and securing 28th place in the global ranking.

H M Ashiqul Islam, a team member of BUET HellBent, said, "We have a strong culture in BUET when it comes to programming competitions. Our teachers arrange different contests every week, and anybody from any department can participate. We also help each other with problems which enrich our own knowledge. Moreover, it has helped us maintain good relationships with seniors and mentors, who have always mentored us and helped us."

The ICPC is one of the most prestigious programming competitions in the world, where the finest programmers and coders around the world compete to be crowned as the champion. Every year, more than 60,000 student programmers from more than 3,000 universities of 115 countries take part in the qualifying rounds.

Another team from Dhaka University, 'DU SwampFire' has also obtained the 33rd position in this event. The Nizhny Novgorod State University of Russia became the champion in the ICPC World Finals.

BUET beats IIT to become Asia West champion in Moscow programming contest

'BUET HellBent', a team from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), has earned the title of the ‘Champion of the Asia West' in the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) Moscow World Final 2021. Globally, it has also secured the 28th position out of 117...

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Shabbash!
We need to invest more in education. We are lagging behind our neighbours. Most of Bd Gov research is funding agricultural research.

 

[Bilal9]

Well looks like Indian talent took a second seat to Bangladesh talent. Knew this all along.

Where are the Bhakt chest-beaters claiming Indian supremacy in prraaag-rumming ?

I posited long ago that there is little real talent that Indian ICT majors pass on to the West.

Its mostly four-month corner-market-course-graduate IT coolies whose work is pi$$ poor at best, as we have all seen in US corporate circles...

Fifteen unsuccessful attempts at compiling code, that too with five IT coolies jointly trying to edit each others' work. What a sad excuse for 'talent'.

 

[bd_4_ever]

Good job lads. MIT/CalTech/Carnegie Mellon calling.

 

[Bilal9]

Good job lads. MIT/CalTech/Carnegie Mellon calling.

See the narrow mentality of these Bhakt Indians. Anyone Hindu, even if Bangladeshi, belongs to Endeya. Especially if they are talented.

Always viewing life with a "religious lens".

Idiots don't get that Bangladesh is not the fascist hellhole that India is and we don't treat our minorities like they do.

Bangladeshi Hindus returned in massive numbers from India after seeing with their own eyes what a land of Milk and Honey India is. Hindus used to be 7% in Bangladesh a decade ago. Now they are 12%.

What's next - claiming Nepali Hindus as Indian? Nepalis can't stand Indians.

Low class bhakt gadha idiots.

 

[Maula Jatt]

Whats a pajeet? I dont speak mullah lingo, as I fear I may blow myself up. Thanks but no thanks.
yes, our boys were beaten. No denying that. And knowing how a typical IITian functions they will come back stronger. Proud of them.
And as a bengali hindu I am proud of the 2 brilliant kids from BUET aswell.

And going by how Hindus are insulted day in and day out in Bangladesh by hujurs, alems and ilk - i am not kidding when I say they will migrate to their home- India.
Infact CAA/now CAB is in place for this brilliant folks only. To filter out the garbage so to speak.
Btw, are you the mathor who cleansed those street shitters arse after they were done. Yuck. And you keep a picture of that in your device? Wtf man?

It's a term in the west for Indians in dating circles - usually derogatory
usually reserved for ugly men like yourself

 

[Mirzah]

There may be no Hindus left in Bangladesh in 30 years

VIVEK GUMASTE

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In 2001, following the electoral victory of BNP led by Khaleda Zia, her supporters unleashed a systematic campaign of violence against Hindus for about 150 days.


The tragic tale of the Hindus of East Bengal (which later became East Pakistan and is now Bangladesh) must start with the Noakhali genocide, for it was a prelude to what would unravel in the years to come. In 1946, Noakhali district in south eastern Bangladesh, was the scene of a gruesome carnage which the historian Yasmin Khan described as being defined by “clear strategic organization (roads in and out of the almost inaccessible region were cordoned off)” (The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan. Yale University Press, 2008); at least 5,000 Hindus were massacred, hundreds of Hindu women raped and thousands forcibly converted to Islam; many more fled to India. Even Mahatma Gandhi’s peace mission to Noakhali failed to quell the atrocities against Hindus which continued unabated during his stay. Exasperated, Gandhi left Noakhali, urging the Hindus there to “Quit Noakhali or Die” (NY Times. 8 April 1947).

DECREASING POPULATION
Gandhi’s words proved prescient for the entire Hindu community of East Bengal for decades to come after 1946: they either perished or fled. The Hindu population has undergone a steady attrition over the years, from 28% in 1940 to 8.96% in 2011, with especially two periods of sharp decline—the first around the time of partition and the second during the 1971 Bangladesh War that resulted in the liberation of Bangladesh. However, even after the emergence of Bangladesh, the Hindu community has contracted—from 13.5% in 1974 to 8.96% in 2011—a nearly 33% decline, which is humungous in demographic terms. These dwindling numbers are a stark indicator of the deeply hostile anti-Hindu environment prevalent in that country.
Professor Abul Barakat of Dhaka University in his recently published book, The Political Economy of Reforming Agriculture: Land Water Bodies in Bangladesh, writes that “there will be no Hindus left within Bangladesh within 30 years…The rate of the exodus over the past 49 years points to that direction.” As per his research, around 11.3 million Hindus were compelled to flee Bangladesh due to religious persecution from 1964 to 2013.
GENOCIDE OF 1971
Atrocities against Hindus culminated during the Bangladesh Liberation War. It was arguably the darkest period for Bangladeshi Hindus—they became the victims of horrendous genocide.
Senator Edward Kennedy in a report submitted to US Senate Judiciary Committee (1 November, 1971) categorically stated: “Field reports to the US government, countless eye-witness journalistic accounts, reports of international agencies such as World Bank and additional information available to the subcommittee document the reign of terror which grips East Bengal (East Pakistan). Hardest hit have been members of the Hindu community who have been robbed of their lands and shops, systematically slaughtered, and in some places, painted with yellow patches marked ‘H’. All of this has been officially sanctioned, ordered and implemented under martial law from Islamabad.”
In Gary Bass’ book, The Blood Telegram(Vintage, 2014), Archer Blood, who was the American Consul General in Dhaka, speaks of the “international moral obligations to condemn genocide…of Pakistani Hindus”.
And David Bergman, an investigative journalist based in Bangladesh, in an op-ed column (The Politics of Bangladesh’s Genocide Debate, 5 April 2016, New York Times) also refers to the Hindu genocide: “There is no question that there were many atrocities, including rape, deportation and massacres of civilians, carried out by the Pakistani Army, aided at times by pro-Pakistani militias. Some of these included members of the student wing of Jamaat-e-Islami, an Islamist party that remains a powerful force in Bangladesh today. There is an academic consensus that this campaign of violence, particularly against the Hindu population, was a genocide.”
Estimates of the actual number of deaths vary from a ridiculous low 26,000 put out by the Pakistan government (Hamood-ur-Rahman Commission) to a high of 3 million circulating in the international media. The official position from Bangladesh concurs with the figure of 3 million.
R.J. Rummel, in his book, Statistics of Democide: Genocide and Mass Murder Since 1900 (Chapter 8) concludes: “Consolidating both ranges, I give a final estimate of Pakistan’s democide to be 300,000 to 3,000,000, or a prudent 1,500,000.”
Using these estimates, the final casualty figures for Hindus sum up to anywhere between 1.2 to 2.4 million, as Hindus accounted for nearly 80% of those killed—a mind numbing figure by any standards.
CONSTITUTIONAL STATUS
For the greater part of their existence since 1947, the Hindus of Bangladesh have lived as second class citizens—first under the Islamic theocracy of Pakistan till 1971 and subsequently under some of the governments in Bangladesh.
Sheikh Mujibur Rehman did include secularism as one of the four core governing principles in the first Constitution of Bangladesh in 1972. However, this was short-lived. In 1975, a military coup deposed Sheikh Mujibur Rehman in the name of the “Islamic Republic of Bangladesh”.
Subsequently, General Ziaur Rahman further fortified the religious basis of the Constitution by deleting “secularism” as one of the four major fundamental principles of state policy and adding an Islamic invocation above the preamble (5th Amendment, 1979). Next, General Ershad deemed Islam as the state religion by introducing Article 2A, which averred that “the state religion of the Republic is Islam but other religions may be practiced in peace and harmony in the Republic” (8th Amendment, 1988).
In 2011, Sheikh Hasina restored “secularism” to the Constitution, but maintained Islam as the state religion and made no changes to the preamble, retaining its religious invocation (15th Amendment). With an officially sanctioned state religion, secularism is reduced to naught sans any practical impact—the Hindus and other minorities continue to be for all intents and purposes second class citizens.
There have been other discriminatory orders passed by the government. In 1993, the Home Ministry asked commercial banks to regulate withdrawal of cash by Hindus and stop disbursement of loans to the Hindu community in districts bordering India.
COMMUNAL VIOLENCE AND RELIGIOUS INTIMIDATION
Their Constitutionally ordained secondary status makes Hindus vulnerable to mob violence orchestrated by fundamentalist groups especially during election times and during periods of social turmoil.
In 2001, following the electoral victory of the BNP led by Khaleda Zia, her supporters unleashed a systematic campaign of violence against Hindus that went on for about 150 days. A judicial commission probing this violence documented about 18,000 incidents of major crime; about 1,000 Hindu women were raped and 200 were victims of gang rape. Nearly 500,000 Hindus fled to India (The Daily Star, 2 December 2011; Hindu American Foundation report).
When the International Crimes Tribunal indicted several Jamaat members in 2013 for war crimes against Hindus during the 1971 Bangladesh atrocities, their supporters retaliated by attacking Hindus: Hindu properties and businesses were looted, women were abducted and raped and temples were desecrated. Overall, more than 50 Hindu temples were destroyed and over 1,500 Hindu homes were burnt spread out over 20 districts.
Hindu priests are regularly targeted and intimidated for preaching Hinduism. In February 2016, Jogeshwar Roy, a 55-year-old Hindu priest was beheaded by Islamic militants, while preparing for prayers inside the Deviganj temple in Panchagarh district.
HINDU PROPERTY
In addition to the fragility of their lives, government laws ensure that land and property owned by Hindus is not secure as well. In 1965 after the Indo-Pakistan War, Pakistan promulgated the Enemy Property Act (EPA) that gave the government unbridled powers to appropriate enemy property—a euphemism for Hindu owned assets. The new Republic of Bangladesh retained the EPA under a new name the Vested Property Act (1974) whereby the Government of Bangladesh vested itself with the “enemy” properties previously seized since the 1965 War and continued to use the discriminatory law to confiscate Hindu land.
In 2001, the Awami League made an attempt to restore Hindu property to its rightful owners by the Restoration of Vested Property Act, 2001; but it was nothing more than an eyewash. The requirements were too burdensome and failed to translate into any benefit at the ground level.
Approximately 1.2 million Hindu families, or 44% of all Hindu households, have been affected EPA/VPA: Hindus have been dispossessed of more than 2 million acres of land. Even after the Restoration of Vested Property Act passed in 2001, land encroachment involving Hindu land has continued but mostly during BNP governments. (Rabindranath Trivedi. Retired Additional Secretary and former Press Secretary to the President of Bangladesh. The legacy of enemy turned vested property act in Bangladesh. Asian Tribune. 29 May 2007.)
CONCLUSION
In all this oppression, the Awami League has offered a glimmer of hope and demonstrated some semblance of right and wrong by instituting a judicial probe into the post-election violence of 2001 and setting up the International Crimes Tribunal to try the perpetrators of the 1971 war crimes. It must be lauded. But overall these efforts have been insufficient. So instead of questioning the need for a CAA as Sheikh Hasina did or Bangladeshi diplomats calling off their visits to India in a huff, Bangladesh must pledge to do more to bolster the confidence its Hindu minority.
In summary, the Hindus of East Bengal have had an unenviable existence since 1947: they have been the victims of an unprecedented genocide, their properties continue to be illegally usurped, their temples continue to be desecrated and their women are fair target for their detractors—forcing them to flee the country in droves to the only land where they hope to find relief—India.
So, I reiterate this question to the CAA protestors that I asked recently with regard to the Hindus of Pakistan: Can anyone with even an iota of conscience deny this community refuge?

https://www.sundayguardianlive.com/opinion/may-no-hindus-left-bangladesh-30-years


Ah! And bangladeshis are using that also now ???
Hahahahahah.
Lol, what weird people.

2 crore population will disappear in 30 years? BD hindu population is actually growing although i dont know why susma swaraj had to tweet about it?

https://twitter.com/x/status/1019898732001673216

 

[Michael Corleone]

It's hilarious how these Pajeet's cope.
So 1.4 billion Hindus of your country couldn't produce a team good enough to beat the BUET team?

Well there's one thing we can never beat you at..
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IIT is a big deal in india. I know a couple students who scored 96% and didn’t get entry into IIT and now lay around drunk all day because their hopes and dreams are quashed. If BUET students beat IIT it’s a very big deal. They’ll probably suppress this news in india.

 

[Maula Jatt]

I know you are trying to insult me here.
But help me understand how do you define ugly when we have never met?
Going by your logic, you are a person who was born by inbreeding so your brain functions a bit slow , not to mention your uncle who took a special liking you which caused severe psycological damage. Are you the guy on whose life that famous pakistani movie was made?

Mate I am 1000% sure you ugly af,
posting styles can usually give us a hint - sand, angry lil men are usually on forums talking big
So lets not go there lol - You are a stereotypical Pajeet = you know it, I know it, we all know it

Slow brain? damn that's your low-IQ lot (look up your IQ data)
stop gang raping goats for a while can you?

 

[My-Analogous]

There may be no Hindus left in Bangladesh in 30 years

VIVEK GUMASTE

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• February 8, 2020,
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In 2001, following the electoral victory of BNP led by Khaleda Zia, her supporters unleashed a systematic campaign of violence against Hindus for about 150 days.


The tragic tale of the Hindus of East Bengal (which later became East Pakistan and is now Bangladesh) must start with the Noakhali genocide, for it was a prelude to what would unravel in the years to come. In 1946, Noakhali district in south eastern Bangladesh, was the scene of a gruesome carnage which the historian Yasmin Khan described as being defined by “clear strategic organization (roads in and out of the almost inaccessible region were cordoned off)” (The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan. Yale University Press, 2008); at least 5,000 Hindus were massacred, hundreds of Hindu women raped and thousands forcibly converted to Islam; many more fled to India. Even Mahatma Gandhi’s peace mission to Noakhali failed to quell the atrocities against Hindus which continued unabated during his stay. Exasperated, Gandhi left Noakhali, urging the Hindus there to “Quit Noakhali or Die” (NY Times. 8 April 1947).

DECREASING POPULATION
Gandhi’s words proved prescient for the entire Hindu community of East Bengal for decades to come after 1946: they either perished or fled. The Hindu population has undergone a steady attrition over the years, from 28% in 1940 to 8.96% in 2011, with especially two periods of sharp decline—the first around the time of partition and the second during the 1971 Bangladesh War that resulted in the liberation of Bangladesh. However, even after the emergence of Bangladesh, the Hindu community has contracted—from 13.5% in 1974 to 8.96% in 2011—a nearly 33% decline, which is humungous in demographic terms. These dwindling numbers are a stark indicator of the deeply hostile anti-Hindu environment prevalent in that country.
Professor Abul Barakat of Dhaka University in his recently published book, The Political Economy of Reforming Agriculture: Land Water Bodies in Bangladesh, writes that “there will be no Hindus left within Bangladesh within 30 years…The rate of the exodus over the past 49 years points to that direction.” As per his research, around 11.3 million Hindus were compelled to flee Bangladesh due to religious persecution from 1964 to 2013.
GENOCIDE OF 1971
Atrocities against Hindus culminated during the Bangladesh Liberation War. It was arguably the darkest period for Bangladeshi Hindus—they became the victims of horrendous genocide.
Senator Edward Kennedy in a report submitted to US Senate Judiciary Committee (1 November, 1971) categorically stated: “Field reports to the US government, countless eye-witness journalistic accounts, reports of international agencies such as World Bank and additional information available to the subcommittee document the reign of terror which grips East Bengal (East Pakistan). Hardest hit have been members of the Hindu community who have been robbed of their lands and shops, systematically slaughtered, and in some places, painted with yellow patches marked ‘H’. All of this has been officially sanctioned, ordered and implemented under martial law from Islamabad.”
In Gary Bass’ book, The Blood Telegram(Vintage, 2014), Archer Blood, who was the American Consul General in Dhaka, speaks of the “international moral obligations to condemn genocide…of Pakistani Hindus”.
And David Bergman, an investigative journalist based in Bangladesh, in an op-ed column (The Politics of Bangladesh’s Genocide Debate, 5 April 2016, New York Times) also refers to the Hindu genocide: “There is no question that there were many atrocities, including rape, deportation and massacres of civilians, carried out by the Pakistani Army, aided at times by pro-Pakistani militias. Some of these included members of the student wing of Jamaat-e-Islami, an Islamist party that remains a powerful force in Bangladesh today. There is an academic consensus that this campaign of violence, particularly against the Hindu population, was a genocide.”
Estimates of the actual number of deaths vary from a ridiculous low 26,000 put out by the Pakistan government (Hamood-ur-Rahman Commission) to a high of 3 million circulating in the international media. The official position from Bangladesh concurs with the figure of 3 million.
R.J. Rummel, in his book, Statistics of Democide: Genocide and Mass Murder Since 1900 (Chapter 8) concludes: “Consolidating both ranges, I give a final estimate of Pakistan’s democide to be 300,000 to 3,000,000, or a prudent 1,500,000.”
Using these estimates, the final casualty figures for Hindus sum up to anywhere between 1.2 to 2.4 million, as Hindus accounted for nearly 80% of those killed—a mind numbing figure by any standards.
CONSTITUTIONAL STATUS
For the greater part of their existence since 1947, the Hindus of Bangladesh have lived as second class citizens—first under the Islamic theocracy of Pakistan till 1971 and subsequently under some of the governments in Bangladesh.
Sheikh Mujibur Rehman did include secularism as one of the four core governing principles in the first Constitution of Bangladesh in 1972. However, this was short-lived. In 1975, a military coup deposed Sheikh Mujibur Rehman in the name of the “Islamic Republic of Bangladesh”.
Subsequently, General Ziaur Rahman further fortified the religious basis of the Constitution by deleting “secularism” as one of the four major fundamental principles of state policy and adding an Islamic invocation above the preamble (5th Amendment, 1979). Next, General Ershad deemed Islam as the state religion by introducing Article 2A, which averred that “the state religion of the Republic is Islam but other religions may be practiced in peace and harmony in the Republic” (8th Amendment, 1988).
In 2011, Sheikh Hasina restored “secularism” to the Constitution, but maintained Islam as the state religion and made no changes to the preamble, retaining its religious invocation (15th Amendment). With an officially sanctioned state religion, secularism is reduced to naught sans any practical impact—the Hindus and other minorities continue to be for all intents and purposes second class citizens.
There have been other discriminatory orders passed by the government. In 1993, the Home Ministry asked commercial banks to regulate withdrawal of cash by Hindus and stop disbursement of loans to the Hindu community in districts bordering India.
COMMUNAL VIOLENCE AND RELIGIOUS INTIMIDATION
Their Constitutionally ordained secondary status makes Hindus vulnerable to mob violence orchestrated by fundamentalist groups especially during election times and during periods of social turmoil.
In 2001, following the electoral victory of the BNP led by Khaleda Zia, her supporters unleashed a systematic campaign of violence against Hindus that went on for about 150 days. A judicial commission probing this violence documented about 18,000 incidents of major crime; about 1,000 Hindu women were raped and 200 were victims of gang rape. Nearly 500,000 Hindus fled to India (The Daily Star, 2 December 2011; Hindu American Foundation report).
When the International Crimes Tribunal indicted several Jamaat members in 2013 for war crimes against Hindus during the 1971 Bangladesh atrocities, their supporters retaliated by attacking Hindus: Hindu properties and businesses were looted, women were abducted and raped and temples were desecrated. Overall, more than 50 Hindu temples were destroyed and over 1,500 Hindu homes were burnt spread out over 20 districts.
Hindu priests are regularly targeted and intimidated for preaching Hinduism. In February 2016, Jogeshwar Roy, a 55-year-old Hindu priest was beheaded by Islamic militants, while preparing for prayers inside the Deviganj temple in Panchagarh district.
HINDU PROPERTY
In addition to the fragility of their lives, government laws ensure that land and property owned by Hindus is not secure as well. In 1965 after the Indo-Pakistan War, Pakistan promulgated the Enemy Property Act (EPA) that gave the government unbridled powers to appropriate enemy property—a euphemism for Hindu owned assets. The new Republic of Bangladesh retained the EPA under a new name the Vested Property Act (1974) whereby the Government of Bangladesh vested itself with the “enemy” properties previously seized since the 1965 War and continued to use the discriminatory law to confiscate Hindu land.
In 2001, the Awami League made an attempt to restore Hindu property to its rightful owners by the Restoration of Vested Property Act, 2001; but it was nothing more than an eyewash. The requirements were too burdensome and failed to translate into any benefit at the ground level.
Approximately 1.2 million Hindu families, or 44% of all Hindu households, have been affected EPA/VPA: Hindus have been dispossessed of more than 2 million acres of land. Even after the Restoration of Vested Property Act passed in 2001, land encroachment involving Hindu land has continued but mostly during BNP governments. (Rabindranath Trivedi. Retired Additional Secretary and former Press Secretary to the President of Bangladesh. The legacy of enemy turned vested property act in Bangladesh. Asian Tribune. 29 May 2007.)
CONCLUSION
In all this oppression, the Awami League has offered a glimmer of hope and demonstrated some semblance of right and wrong by instituting a judicial probe into the post-election violence of 2001 and setting up the International Crimes Tribunal to try the perpetrators of the 1971 war crimes. It must be lauded. But overall these efforts have been insufficient. So instead of questioning the need for a CAA as Sheikh Hasina did or Bangladeshi diplomats calling off their visits to India in a huff, Bangladesh must pledge to do more to bolster the confidence its Hindu minority.
In summary, the Hindus of East Bengal have had an unenviable existence since 1947: they have been the victims of an unprecedented genocide, their properties continue to be illegally usurped, their temples continue to be desecrated and their women are fair target for their detractors—forcing them to flee the country in droves to the only land where they hope to find relief—India.
So, I reiterate this question to the CAA protestors that I asked recently with regard to the Hindus of Pakistan: Can anyone with even an iota of conscience deny this community refuge?

https://www.sundayguardianlive.com/opinion/may-no-hindus-left-bangladesh-30-years


Ah! And bangladeshis are using that also now ???
Hahahahahah.
Lol, what weird people.

Look who is talking

 

[Zapper]

So 1.4 billion Hindus of your country couldn't produce a team good enough to beat the BUET team?

The performance of a few individuals doesn't reflect the general education system of a country. Russian folks might have topped the competition here but western univs are way ahead in terms of research or educational advancement in a general sense and we clearly know where b'deshi univs stand compared to Indian counterparts

There are atleast 3-4 Indian institutions consistently showing up in the top 200 universities worldwide while BUET being the top b'deshi institute is unranked and placed in the general list of 800-1000 rank list

Also, it was Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology and not any IITs which topped among the Indian teams and is ranked two places behind BUET at 30


https://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/world-university-rankings/2022

https://pc2.ecs.baylor.edu/scoreboard/

 

[PoondolotoPandalum]

It's nice. But it was down to the passion and enthusiasm of the individuals, rather than a reflection on the higher education system of Bangladesh. It's not our time yet. We must swallow our ego and acknowledge that we have an awfully long way to go when it comes to higher education.

Bangladesh's current education system is enough to get her out of LDC status. That is to say, basic literacy and numerical skills, enough for people to work in the most basic forms of formal and industrial employment. It's a start. But In terms of higher education, we have gone back over the decade. And the barriers to high-quality education (on all levels) have gone up, not down.

Civil servant relatives in BD tell me they're well aware of Bangladesh's abysmal higher education global ranking and research output. But unfortunately, they won't receive much attention until the quality and quantity of primary and secondary education are sorted out. Bangladesh has almost eliminated youth illiteracy. But the challenge is now to increase the quality of education they receive. The main focus nowadays is around pre-employment education. No1 complaint of Bangladeshi employers. Lack of quality graduates.

Like everything else, Bangladesh will choose the bottom-up approach to education. Start with the basics, build yourself up from there. I can sort of see the logic in that. But unfortunately, neither Bangladesh nor Pakistan had the same vision as the men who created the IIT or Tsinghua in China, even when India and China were quite a bit poorer than (combined) Pakistan. Well, maybe they had the vision. But they lack the planning, and the determination to see them through.

 

[Maula Jatt]

It's nice. But it was down to the passion and enthusiasm of the individuals, rather than a reflection on the higher education system of Bangladesh. It's not our time yet. We must swallow our ego and acknowledge that we have an awfully long way to go when it comes to higher education.

Bangladesh's current education system is enough to get her out of LDC status. That is to say, basic literacy and numerical skills, enough for people to work in the most basic forms of formal and industrial employment. It's a start. But In terms of higher education, we have gone back over the decade. And the barriers to high-quality education (on all levels) have gone up, not down.

Civil servant relatives in BD tell me they're well aware of Bangladesh's abysmal higher education global ranking and research output. But unfortunately, they won't receive much attention until the quality and quantity of primary and secondary education are sorted out. Bangladesh has almost eliminated youth illiteracy. But the challenge is now to increase the quality of education they receive. The main focus nowadays is around pre-employment education. No1 complaint of Bangladeshi employers. Lack of quality graduates.

Like everything else, Bangladesh will choose the bottom-up approach to education. Start with the basics, build yourself up from there. I can sort of see the logic in that. But unfortunately, neither Bangladesh nor Pakistan had the same vision as the men who created the IIT or Tsinghua in China, even when India and China were quite a bit poorer than (combined) Pakistan. Well, maybe they had the vision. But they lack the planning, and the determination to see them through.

Our top 3 universities like NUST, PIEAS , Quaid-i-Azam University etc are in 300 rankings, all of our top 11 universities are in at least top 1000-1200 global universities
not too bad for a developing country of 200 million people- can be better but not too disappointing

In the long run need more work for public universities- private universities are doing good

 

[Bilal9]

Looks like bhakts in this thread just itching for a ban.

Triggered because they got shown their place so much here.

 

[PoondolotoPandalum]

Our top 3 universities like NUST, PIEAS , Quaid-i-Azam University etc are in 300 rankings, all of our top 11 universities are in at least top 1000-1200 global universities
not too bad for a developing country of 200 million people- can be better but not too disappointing

In the long run need more work for public universities- private universities are doing good

Rankings vary wildly between sources. Some go by the total number of papers published. Others are much more critical (like the % of papers accepted in top journals). It's easy to pump out a lot of low-quality, unoriginal, and semi plagiarised research these days. Which automatically bump up your ranking under certain league tables, but not all (or most).

It's better than Bangladesh I'll give you that, but not in the same league as the top Universities in India. To their credit, they've achieved something remarkable. And no amount of small-minded Pak/Bangla belittling trash talking will change that. Their graduates are much sought after than the ones from NUST et al.

For example, the standards for passing a Ph.D. in Pakistan (or Bangladesh) are often extremely low. Mostly due to corruption, you can get away with bribing your viva examiners. You can fabricate lab results, and no one will challenge them (even if they know better). Universities are obsessed with results, even if it means "fake it to make it". That's the modus Operandi of a lot of Universities in South Asia, baring the IIT and a couple of others. This is because they are much better connected to the global academic community, so the checks and balances are carried out with a far higher degree of scrutiny. Pakistani Ph.D.'s won't be able to get academic jobs in the west so easily. IIT grads on the other hand are highly sought after by even the top schools and academic institutions.

What's your opinion of your general education system? You have better universities than BD right now (at least the state ones), but your literacy rate is just, well, dreadful. Your graduation rates, from primary to tertiary level are much lower than BD. So while you have better Universities than BD, a much higher % of the Bangladeshi population graduate from Universities regardless. And Bangladesh has almost 100% youth (15-24) literacy now, almost 1:1 male to female ratio. Pakistan's youth literacy is around 75%, with females lagging significantly behind. These factors will have much larger economic implications than University rankings.

The major difference between dysfunctional South Asia and prospering East Asia isn't the caliber of top-level intellectuals. South Asian's have them also. It's the education level of the average citizen. it's far, FAR lower in South Asia than in the East. This is why industrialization came to them and not us (at least not fully yet). Forget east Asia, Pakistan, which is a top cotton producer, can't compete with Bangladesh in RMG. And Bangladesh produces no cotton. Because the schooling rate is a lot higher in BD, high enough for RMG-like industries to be globally competitive.