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Over 900 Bangladeshi nationals have been killed by the Indian Border Security Force (BSF) over the last decade, Human Rights Watch said in a report released on December 9, 2010. Human Rights Watch found no evidence in any death it documented that the person was engaged in any activity that would justify such an extreme response by BSF, the report added. It is revealed that in several cases they found that Bangladeshi nationals were injured or killed due to indiscriminate firing from across the border. For instance, 13-year-old Abdur Rakib was shot as he was grazing his buffaloes near the border when a soldier opened fire. Another boy, Mohammad Omar Faruq, age 15, was injured. The USA based international human rights wathdog also observed that many of the Bangladeshi people were killed by BSF when they crossed into Indian territory for cattle rustling or other smuggling activities. "Residents complain that intimidation, verbal abuse, and beatings are common, with border gua

Am I married? Woo! I have no gold though I am married. It can not be thought! Gold is the matter of emotion to the girls and women of the world. It is specially the matter of high satisfaction to the females of the Indian subcontinent.  Gold is the media to expose total fairness of a girl. Gold increases beauty and image of women.Gold is the means of security to the women of middle class families. Gold is the way to show the up to date fashion. Fashion makes fascination for gold among the girls. They see aesthetic beauty in side of them though the touches of golds. They address their dearest some one telling "my gold". It is some time very much precious to them even more than their life. They think all things may go out of my hand but my gold. Gold fashion now a days is becoming more attractive and passionateness among the females even in this age of technology and careerists. From very top and busy personalities to model and house wives are the fond of gold.   Howe

26 March: South Korean warship, Cheonan, sinks, killing 46 sailors. 20 May: Panel says a North Korean torpedo sank the ship; Pyongyang denies involvement. July-September: South Korea and US hold military exercises; US places more sanctions on Pyongyang. 29 September: North holds rare party congress seen as part of father-to-son succession move. 29 October: Troops from North and South Korea exchange fire across the land border. 12 November: North Korea shows US scientist new - undeclared - uranium enrichment facility. 23 November: North shells island of Yeonpyeong, killing at least four South Koreans . 27 Nov-1 Dec: South Korea and US hold joint military drills. 6-12 Dec: South Korea stages live-fire military exercises

Google has agreed to set up a Books Rights Registry through which authors could register their works and get compensation but no ruling from the US court looking at the case has yet been handed out. Google eBooks, formerly known as Google Editions, has been launched in the US on Monday (December 6, 2010). Google also hopes to write itself a substantial chapter in the digital books story with the launch of its own store. It will allow users to download three million e-books to a range of devices. It will put it head-to -head with Amazon, which links its Kindle device to its own store, and Apple with its iBookstore. The launch of the service has been delayed, due to legal and technical wrangles. But Google is hopeful that its "device agnostic" store will rewrite the current generation of digital books. "It benefits authors because they will be able to be more visible and more accessible than with the physical constraints of a book store," said Santiago de la M

The Swiss post office bank, PostFinance, has frozen the accounts of Wikileaks founder Julian Paul Assange. The whistle-blowing website says the freeze includes a defence fund and personal assets worth 31,000 euros. Wikileaks has published hundreds of secret US diplomatic cables, angering the US government and triggering moves by several companies including PayPal and Amazon to end their services. Meanwhile, a warrant for Mr Assange's arrest has reached the UK authorities. Sources have told the BBC that the European Arrest Warrant for Mr Assange arrived on Monday afternoon. Swedish prosecutors want to question Mr Assange in connection with allegations of rape, which he denies. He is believed to be in hiding somewhere in south-east England. Once the police have located him, he would be expected to appear at a magistrate's court within 24 hours, pending extradition to Sweden, says the BBC's security correspondent Frank Gardner. The move by Switzerland's PostFinance

The Halomonas titanicae bacterium was found in "rusticles", the porous and delicate icicle-like structures that form on rusting iron. Samples of rusticles from Titanic were gathered in 1991 by the Mir 2 robotic submersible. Various bacteria and fungi live within the delicate structures - first identified on the Titanic - actually feeding off of the rusting metal. The find is described in the journal International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. Researchers from Dalhousie University and the Ontario Science Centre in Canada and the University of Seville in Spain isolated the H. titanicae bacteria from those samples. They sequenced the microbes' DNA before discovering that they constituted a new member of the salt-loving Halomonas genus. The bacteria are of particular interest because they may shed light on the mechanism by which rusticles form, and thus on the general "recycling" that such microbes carry out on submerged metal structure

Iran claimed Sunday it could now use domestically mined uranium to produce nuclear fuel , giving the country complete control over a process the West suspects is geared toward producing weapons. Tehran made the claim a day before a new round of nuclear talks with world powers that want to rein in Iran's uranium enrichment — a process that can be used either to make fuel for nuclear energy or nuclear weapons. The nuclear chief said Iran had for the first time delivered domestically mined raw uranium to a processing facility — allowing it to bypass U.N. sanctions prohibiting import of the material. Four rounds of U.N. sanctions have targeted Iran's uranium enrichment program. Nuclear chief Ali Akbar Salehi said the uranium ore concentrate , known as yellowcake , was produced at the Gachin uranium mine in southern Iran and delivered to the uranium conversion facility in the central city of Isfahan for reprocessing. Salehi, head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, sa