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Ohio 8th-grader suspended for wild Bengals haircut

A young Cincinnati Bengals fan has been penalized for clipping. Dustin Reader got the NFL team's stripes and "B" insignia cut into his hair as a tribute to the team's good season. When he showed up to school in the southwest Ohio city of Hamilton on Monday, officials put the eighth-grader into in-school suspension. The school said its code of conduct prohibits extreme and distracting hairstyles.

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MSM ignore Palestinian, Iraqi, Afghan & Climate Genocides

The terms "Afghan Holocaust", "Afghan Genocide" , Iraqi Holocaust", "Iraqi Genocide", "Palestinian Holocaust", "Palestinian Genocide", "Climate Holocaust" and "Climate Genocide" are absent on searching major MSM.

Roy: "The heart of India is under attack" in state violence-backed corporate land grab
Source: Guardian Unlimited

Shocking report by prize-winning Indian writer and activist Arundhati Roy about the corporate land grab in India that has put millions of desperate people against the wall - "mounting rage of hundreds of millions of people"

Bangladesh under acute threat from mostly First World-imposed man-made global warming
Source: New Statesman Contents

NS article: "the spectre of natural disaster looms largest over poor countries. The total number of floods, cyclones and storms has quadrupled in the past two decades. .. threat is acute in countries such as Bangladesh"

The drowning world of Bangladesh - time is running out due to First World GHG pollution
Source: New Statesman Contents

Time is running out in Bangladesh where floods caused by climate change threaten to engulf entire islands. Comment: Bangladesh's annual per capita GHG is about 60 time less than that of world leading polluter Australia.

Death on the Great Wall of India - India's 2,500-mile border fence around Bangladesh
Source: Guardian Unlimited

In the last six months, more than 50 people have been killed alongside the 2,500-mile barbed wire fence that India is building around its neighbour, Bangladesh. Such "smuggling"-related incidents are increasing.

Flash floods kill 36 in India, displace thousands
Source: alertnet.org

BHUBANESWAR, India - Floods triggered by heavy monsoon rains over the past week have killed at least 36 people in the eastern Indian state of Orissa and inundated half a million homes, officials and witnesses said on Monday.

India Plans Sea Trials Of First Nuclear Submarine - Officials
Source: Morning Star

NEW DELHI (AFP)--India is set to begin sea trials of its first nuclear-powered submarine later this month, joining an elite club that includes neighboring giant China, defense ministry officials said Monday...

British atrocities in India exposed - chopping off hands, mass murder in Indian Holocaust
Source: The Telegraph: Calcutta

The British had chopped off their forefathers' hands in Bengal a generation ago, so the weavers of Mahua Dabar in Awadh cut off a few British heads during the turmoil of 1857 - so British destroyed 5,000 person UP town

Ganga river pollution in India- A brief report.
Source: American Chronicle

Most ancient civilizations grew along the banks of rivers. Even today, millions of people all over the world live on the banks of rivers and depend on them for their survival...

Photojournalists assaulted by security forces in West Bengal
Source: Committee to Protect Journalists Site

Local police beat three photographers in two separate incidents on June 18, 2009, in India's West Bengal state.

Fading Crimson Flaming Anger
Source: Tehelka

The desperate battle for Lalgarh might recapture land for the Left, but the hearts and minds of its denizens are lost to them. SHANTANU GUHA RAY reports from the battle zone...

Man-made climate change a major, worsening threat to India, Bangladesh & South Asia
Source: Countercurrents

Anthropogenic global warming (AGW, man-made global warming) is a major threat to South Asia from effects of increased temperature on agriculture, Himalaya glacier melting & rise in sea level & storm intensity.

Reformer Buddhadeb??

Many in West Bengal see the current Lok Sabha poll as a mid-term referendum on the reformist policies Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, 64, has been pursuing. Curiously, the CPM does not.

The cry of the lackey
Source: http://www.untoldfacts.com/south-asia/intimidation

That Pronob, Shankar and all Indian media had the chorus since the most tragic 25-26 February mayhem of the BDR Head Quarter in Dhaka, it was nothing to wonder that their lackeys from inside Bangladesh have started to sing the same chorus.

The neighbour next door – a persistent pain in Bengal's neck
Source: http://teeth.com.pk/blog/2009/04/04/the-neighbour-

Bangladesh Premier Sheikh Hasina has said that the recent mutiny in the paramilitary force Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) which killed 73 army officers was aimed at triggering a civil war and warned that the masterminds behind the bloody revolt still wanted to achieve their goal.

Remains of Gaur
Source: thedailystar.net

Gaur, the capital of Sultanate Bengal is about 35 kms away from Chapainawabganj town. Remnants of the ancient city are scattered within five square kms area. However, the Department of Archaeology has not taken any initiative to preserve the site.

Google Censors "Manhattan Madonna" Painting & Art for Peace

A Yahoo Search for the Title Words of my "Manhattan Madonna" painting yields article and image as item #1 out of 10.4 million links whereas a Google Search "buries" the same article and image as #52 out of 3.8 million URLs.

Tata announces new plant for Nano
Source: BBC News

Indian firm Tata Motors is to build the world's cheapest car in the western state of Gujarat. Tata group chairman Ratan Tata said the Gujarat deal offered the best chance of making the car, the Nano, as quickly and cheaply as possible.

Orissa outrage in Bengal
Source: The Telegraph: Calcutta

"We are concerned over the way Christians are being attacked in Orissa.

Climate Genocide of Bangladesh - graphic accounts of global warming inundation NOW
Source: Independent.co.uk

Bangladesh, the most crowded nation on earth, is set to disappear under the waves by the end of this century – and the First World to blame as profligacy and global warming have sealed the fate of 150 million people.

Bimal Gurung at most
Source: The Telegraph: Calcutta

As far as days headlines (medias ) are concern or even political class & also intellectuals - yesterday I walk to their spokesperson Roshan Giri over my LG-Tata indicom mobile- Some time he seems to loose the confidence - when I reply- "when we contact TMC's state ofice @ Ti …

Cat PictureTinka - Bengal - June 14
Source:

This is Tinka, our full-blooded Mink Spotted Snow Bengal kitten that has just come to live with us. I presented her to my Wife as a present. This is her baby picture, she was just ten weeks old here. Bengals are very special cats that make very good pets.

Bollywood Hindi Music
Source: bliklist.com

Riya Sen often regarded as a 'sex symbol' is one of the most famous and rising star from the land of Bengal.

Partition Through A Woman's Eye
Source: SAWF.ORG

"I want to live," Nita's cry ricochets through the pine trees of the hill station as her brother looks on helplessly. Ravaged by TB (when the disease was still to find an antidote), her wish to cling on is a cry in the wilderness.

Bengal uncovers human bone-smuggling racket
Source: Yahoo! News

ndian police have discovered a stash of hundreds of human skulls and thigh bones and arrested a gang for allegedly smuggling them to the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan for use in Buddhist monasteries.

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