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Thousands mourn Lahore blast victims

Lahore, Pakistan. September 2, 2010 [DrikNEWS] - Mourners carry the dead bodies of those were killed in Wednesday's bomb blasts for burial in Lahore, Pakistan on September 2, 2010. Thousands of Shiite Muslims mourned at funeral prayers for victims of the triple bombing that ripped flood ravaged Pakistan. The blasts occurred in front of the gate of Lower Mall police station, opposite Karbala Gamay Shah building when Muslims were preparing for breaking the dayÂ’s fasting on Wednesday evening.

Photo- Adrees Hasan, Lahore, Pakistan

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  If I were asked to write a paragraph about river, I would have started “Bangladesh is a Riverine country”. I guess students do this still while sit for their Bangladesh Studies exam. However, how far the fact still makes sense is a big question. Continuous pollution, erosion and encroachment have led the ‘Riverine Bangladesh’ a seasonal reality. Moreover, majority of the people who were dependent on the rivers for their living have already changed their profession. The eventual deaths of the rivers are increasingly making the distinct culture and the ways of living of those people a history. ‘Sandar’ an anthropologically distinct group of people who were dependent on the rivers for their livelihood are gradually changing their profession and station. They used to live in boats and live on fishing. Now a day, they can hardly depend on fishing as the small rivers in the country do not exist except during the monsoon. And they cannot live in the boats as rivers have been encroached where they used to live. They never thought, one day they have to move to dry places to live leaving their boats. But the tough reality has made them live on the land and change their professions. There are still some boats of this people at the porabari area of Savar but no one knows how many days are left before the gypsy ‘Sandars’ will live only in the memory of their descendents living on the land.
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  Dr. Rofiqul Islam, assistant professor at the National Institute of Chest Diseases & Hospital, Mohakhali, Dhaka, Bangladesh, is working for Tuberculosis (TB) prevention. Every day he gives treatment to nearly 50 patients of various kinds of TB, some of them from rural areas.
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Number of anthrax infected people has risen to 41 in Sirajganj as of Saturday. District sanitary inspector Ramchandra Saha said, a buffalo of Abdus Salam and a cow of Shah Alam from Chithulia village of Kaempur Union - both infected with anthrax - were slaughtered on July 27 and 28 and their meat was sold off at a low price to the villagers. Both of the farmers had repeatedly tried to bring the local veterinary Babul to treat their animals before they slaughtered those, but failed. Later, those who came in close contact with those animals or consumed their meat contracted anthrax. Experts team from the Dhakas institute of Epidemiology Disease Control and Research (IDCR) and ICDDR,B already reached Sirajganj to assess the situation, the local civil surgeon said. Shahzadpur, Sirajganj, Bangladesh. August 22, 2010
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