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Tripura to get rice via Bangladesh from tomorrow

Rice from southern India to Tripura via Bangladesh is likely to reach here on Thursday, bringing to fruition a three-year-long diplomatic and strategical endeavour between New Delhi and Dhaka. “The first consignment of 5,000 tonnes of rice in small ships from Kakinada port in Andhra Pradesh reached on Saturday at Ashuganj river port in (eastern) Bangladesh via Kolkata port,” Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs Minister Bhanulal Saha told IANS here. pariza rice panicleHe said, “The rice, meant for Public Distributi...

Farmers’ acquittal over shooting Bangladeshis sparks outrage in Greece  

A Greek court’s decision to acquit local farmers who admitted shooting 28 Bangladeshi strawberry pickers when they dared to ask for months of back pay has sparked outrage in the country, The Guardian reports. Politicians, unionists and anti-racist groups roundly condemned the verdict describing it as a black mark for justice in a case that had shone a light on the appalling conditions in which migrant workers are often kept in Greece. “I feel shame as a Greek,” said the victim’s lawyer, Moisis Karabeyidis, after the tribunal in the western port city of Patras, delivered the shock ruling. “This decision is an outrage and a disgrace … the court showed an appalling attitude toward the victims.” [caption id="attachment_8405" align="alignleft" width="300"]

Landslide buries Indian village; at least 25 dead  

Rescue workers and desperate villagers dug through deep mud, rocks and the debris of shattered homes Thursday after a massive landslide buried a remote village in western India, killing at least 25 people and trapping more than 150, authorities said. Two days of torrential rains triggered the landslide early Wednesday, but national rescue personnel could not reach the stricken area in Pune district of Maharashtra state for several hours because of bad communications, dangerous roads and debris. landslide IndiaRain was still hampering th...

CoSci prof featured at building system workshop in Bangladesh  

Builders, architects, engineers and educators in Bangladesh deepened their knowledge of designing and building plumbing systems under the instruction of Ifte Choudhury, Texas A&M associate professor of construction science, during a building systems workshop at the Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology June 27 and 28, 2014. Choudhury led a session examining site drainage, irrigation and methods and principles for building a plumbing system in structures unique to Bangladesh, which is enjoying healthy economic growth and a growing middle class. Cosci

Israeli soldier of Indian origin dies in combat

Thousands of people took part in the funeral of a 27-year-old Israeli soldier of Indian origin, killed after being hit by a mortar shell near the Gaza Strip border while Israel was holding fire under a U.N.-brokered humanitarian truce.

Barak Refael Degorker, killed on Saturday night, was laid to rest Monday in a military cemetery in his hometown of Gan Yavne. 53d76012b20ac.preview-300The bereaved family – parents Ora and Moshe, two younger brothers and a sister – were inconsolable at their loss. They spoke about a “ki...

Gaza assault to control Palestinian gas, avert Israeli energy crisis

Yesterday, Israeli defence minister and former Israeli Defence Force (IDF) chief of staff Moshe Ya’alon announced that Operation Protective Edge marks the beginning of a protracted assault on Hamas. The operation “won’t end in just a few days,” he said, adding that “we are preparing to expand the operation by all means standing at our disposal so as to continue striking Hamas.” This morning, he said: “We continue with strikes that draw a very heavy price from Hamas. We are destroying weapons, terror infrastructures, command and control systems, Hamas institutions, regime buildings, the houses of terrorists, and killing terrorists of various ranks of command… The campaign against Hamas will expand in the coming days, and the price the organization will pay will be very heavy.” [...
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