Talk in the Bangladesh telecom sector has been focused on taxes these days because the government had proposed a 25% tax on handsets and the retention of the controversial TK 800 tax on SIMs. These are counterproductive taxes both in terms of improving government revenues and connecting people electronically; their combined effect is to make it a lot more expensive to get connected. It’s only people who are connected who generate usage-based taxes, they are counter-productive for the government and they absolutely go against plans for a Digital Bangladesh. At the end of all the efforts to change the government’s

A recently released World Bank report states that mobile prices in Sri Lanka dropped by 43%, the world’s highest, in 2004-06. Next were Uzbekistan and Chad at -37% and -31% respectively.

[TamilNet, Thursday, 02 July 2009, 01:00 GMT]  

Opposition AIADMK members (Jayalalithaa & Co.) were today evicted from the TOILET Nadu assembly as they disrupted the proceedings by raising their Armpits to release their Righteous Stink into the room to demand Indian Central government meddling into Sri Lankan affairs once again.

Speaker R Avudaiyappan ordered the eviction following a request from TOILET Nadu’s Own Stinky Chief Minister, Karunanidhi, who himself said that the opposition party’s Stink was even too much for him to bear!

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Both were splashed with some sort of acid, one a 22-year-old who suffered severe burns. He was taken to the burns unit at Concord Hospital and had to be placed in an induced coma.

The other, 27, was also splashed