Ensure human rights centering national polls: NHRC chief

    BSS Chairman of National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Kazi Reazul Hoque today stressed ensuring human rights of all citizens, including minority communities, centering the eleventh parliamentary election. “The administrations and law enforcement agencies should ensure proper coordination to work with utmost sincerity in creating congenial environment so that every voter could cast their vote in…

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      The Disengaged Generals

      Israel Harel/Haaretz Well-intentioned people who have blinded themselves to reality seek to duplicate the brilliant model of ‘the disengagement is good for security’ from Lebanon and Gaza in Judea and Samaria Hundreds of retired high-ranking officers, joined by former senior Mossad and Shin Bet security service officials, signed a so-called professional opinion in 2005 that…

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        Low prices frustrate T-Aman rice growers in Bogura

        DOT Desk T-Aman rice growers in Bogura district are frustrated over low prices prevailing in the market. A good number of farmers said they are in a difficult situation as newly-harvested Aman is being sold at a low rate across the district, reports The Financial Express BD. According to the Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE)…

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          NASA telescopes captured the brightest comet of 2018

          Tech Explorist On Dec. 13, the brightest comet 46P/Wirtanen passed 7.4 million miles (12 million kilometers) from Earth. On this event, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured it from multiple angles. In this visible light image, the comet’s nucleus is covered up in the center of a fuzzy glow from the comet’s coma. The coma is…

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            Fire air pollution weakens forest productivity

            Eurek Alert Fire is an important element of Earth system. Every year, global fires directly emit 2 Pg C (billion-ton carbon) into atmosphere, which is ~20% of total emissions from human activities. In addition to the carbon emissions, fire plumes also generate air pollutants, including ozone (O3) and fine mode aerosols (e.g., PM2.5, particulate matter…

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              Trump mulling mass pullout of troops from Afghanistan

              Sayeed Muhammad of DOT US President Donald Trump reportedly “lost his cool” as he ordered the Pentagon to look into options to reduce the 14,000-strong US contingent in Afghanistan, defying his generals’ advice. Trump has become increasingly frustrated over the Afghan stalemate, pushing for the end of the 17-year-long US campaign there over the past…

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