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By BOB Goswami BANGLADESH NEWS - The elite Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has been blamed for series of human right violation, executing extra-judicial killing in the past few years. Human Rights Watch says. However, Bangladesh's government has strongly dismissed the allegation. The report has unveiled a surprising analysis, saying 200 people have been killed in RAB operations since the new Awami League government leads the nation. The report also blamed the government for not being proactive against RAB officers or official, who haven't yet received a single punishment award for the killings and gross human rights abuses. However, the government earlier committed that it would see the matter seriously and prosecuted the guilty. The report also highlighted British forces trained some RAB members, which also confirmed WikiLeaks report. However, British official said it mainly focused on improving interviewing techniques, crime detection methods and investigations. In its defense, ...

PERSPECTIVE TUESDAY, May 10, 2011 US President Barack Obama - THUMBS UP The US President has seen his dismal approvals surge by as much as 15 percent points. More usefully, killing Obama bin Laden has killed off Republicans claims he was a security wimp. But it isn't all politics. Obama has been just as determined as George W. Bush on destroying Al Qaeda. Indian PM Manmohan Singh - SMALL UP India gains because Pakistan is down. Sort of. India has been busy pointing out that the Pakistani military is in ca boots with every possible terrorist you can name. But Singh is too focussed on his peace drive to make much of what's happening in Afghanistan. Perhaps Kayani will be more realistic about his country's future - in which case the talks may actually be fruitful. General Ashfaq Kayani of Pakistan Army - BIG DOWN There is strong speculation the Pakistani army chief will be told to retire. Otherwise, Kayani was looking good. He had Hamid Karzai over a barrel, Manmo...

From EDITOR's Desk August 13, 2011 17 years later, the story continues with a simple photograph of a sea green eyed girl when a casual photography by McCurry turned out to be one of those captivating portrait that sear the heart and ran on the cover of National Geographic magazine in June 1985. The shy girl was among hordes of refugees at the refugee camp in Pakistan. The anger of those haunted eyes was apparent, which swept away the photography fraternity and not least the whole world, but after 17 years nobody actually remember her, even her name. The year is 2011 when a team from National Geography Television & Films brought McCurry to Pakistan to search the immortal face. They searched around Nasir Bagh where the refugee camp still stands lonely among multitude. After showing her photographs to number of people, they came to know the girl in the picture returned to Afghanistan and now lived in the mountains near Tora Bora. So, they decided to hunt the girl. ...

By STAFF Writer August 05, 2011 INDIA NEWS - Ancient Vedic festival Rakhi, also known as Rakhsha Bandhan, gets greater market both online and offline. The online B2C companies in India such as VirtualRakhi.com, Rakhi-Gifts.com, SendRakhiGiftsToIndia.com, RakhiFestival.com, rakhi.indiangiftsportal.com, Rakhi.Rediff.com, festivals.iloveindia.com/rakhi, Raksha-Bandhan.com have already launched their Rakhi Store months ago to attract its global customers who wants to send rakhi to India and other countries. Indian postal department is also playing a major role to celebrate this relationship celebration between brothers and sisters. The department has launched special envelops for sending Rakhis which is pre-gummed with peel-off strip to ensure proper and safe delivery of Rakhis. These tear and water-resistant envelops cost just Rs. 5 per piece. Riya Arts & Exhibition Solutions is organizing a Rakhi Mela, The Shopping Carnival, between 10th and 13th August at Bansal Bhawan in ...

From EDITOR's Desk August 13, 2011 17 years later, the story continues with a simple photograph of a sea green eyed girl when a casual photography by McCurry turned out to be one of those captivating portrait that sear the heart and ran on the cover of National Geographic magazine in June 1985. The shy girl was among hordes of refugees at the refugee camp in Pakistan. The anger of those haunted eyes was apparent, which swept away the photography fraternity and not least the whole world, but after 17 years nobody actually remember her, even her name. The year is 2011 when a team from National Geography Television & Films brought McCurry to Pakistan to search the immortal face. They searched around Nasir Bagh where the refugee camp still stands lonely among multitude. After showing her photographs to number of people, they came to know the girl in the picture returned to Afghanistan and now lived in the mountains near Tora Bora. So, they decided to hunt the girl. ...

By BOB Goswami BANGLADESH NEWS - The elite Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has been blamed for series of human right violation, executing extra-judicial killing in the past few years. Human Rights Watch says. However, Bangladesh's government has strongly dismissed the allegation. The report has unveiled a surprising analysis, saying 200 people have been killed in RAB operations since the new Awami League government leads the nation. The report also blamed the government for not being proactive against RAB officers or official, who haven't yet received a single punishment award for the killings and gross human rights abuses. However, the government earlier committed that it would see the matter seriously and prosecuted the guilty. The report also highlighted British forces trained some RAB members, which also confirmed WikiLeaks report. However, British official said it mainly focused on improving interviewing techniques, crime detection methods and investigations. In its defense, ...

By STAFF REPORTER October 17, 2011 In the first eight months of this year the trade between Thailand and Cambodia went up by 8%. Thai Embassy in Phnom Penh said yesterday the trade between went up to $1.93 billion. The export of Cambodia to Thailand was 125.6 million dollars, which is 17% lower compared to the same period last year, whereas the export of Thailand to Cambodia went up by 10% to 1.8 billion dollars. Director of Thai embassy's Foreign Trade Promotion Office, Jiranan Wongmongkol said trade between the two countries is seeing better recovery since August when the Pheu Thai Party came to power led by Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra. She added, "We project that through restoring good relations between the two nations, the bilateral trade will grow around 20 percent this year." Director of statistics department at Cambodia's Ministry of Commerce, Kong Putheara also said that Cambodian and Thai trade would re-grow well henceforth after it slow...

Incest Story In Haryana Just a few days back India gloriously celebrated its 64th Independence Day but the oxymoron of Indian freedom runs in Indian villages. Nowadays one of the most noted sarcasms is quite in style in national news channels. The noise is quite audible, and annoyance level is also comfortably high. The subject is the most tempting one to mankind – sex. Haryana, a state in India known for flourishing industrialism and affluent farmers, seems living in the medieval period. The self-proclaimed Haryana’s Khaps are the sham ‘kings’ of the villages. Their “moral judgments” can even make shy to the epitomes of immorality. They do all sort of things – to solve personal problems of family, to give judgment of any conflict, and above all their profound knowledge in ancient gotras, caste system etc. is mind-boggling. A recent example is about a law graduate and resident of Karora village Seema whose brother had been killed for marrying a woman from the same got...

From EDITOR's Desk August 13, 2011 17 years later, the story continues with a simple photograph of a sea green eyed girl when a casual photography by McCurry turned out to be one of those captivating portrait that sear the heart and ran on the cover of National Geographic magazine in June 1985. The shy girl was among hordes of refugees at the refugee camp in Pakistan. The anger of those haunted eyes was apparent, which swept away the photography fraternity and not least the whole world, but after 17 years nobody actually remember her, even her name. The year is 2011 when a team from National Geography Television & Films brought McCurry to Pakistan to search the immortal face. They searched around Nasir Bagh where the refugee camp still stands lonely among multitude. After showing her photographs to number of people, they came to know the girl in the picture returned to Afghanistan and now lived in the mountains near Tora Bora. So, they decided to hunt the girl. ...