KIDNEY SALE!

Thousands trafficked into India for kidney sale:
roundtable
Thursday, 19 June 2008
Organ-trafficking rackets smuggle thousands of poor men from Bangladesh and other South Asian countries into India every year to remove their kidneys for sale, speakers at a roundtable alleged Tuesday, reports bdnews24.com
But a narrow definition of trafficking in a relevant SAARC convention prevents rescue and rehabilitation of the trafficked people.
"The SAARC convention on trafficking in persons does not recognise trafficking of males as trafficking," Nishat Chowdhry, a national programme officer of the International Organisation for Migration, told the roundtable in Dhaka. The SAARC convention has a restricted definition, she said.
The convention says trafficking means the moving, selling or buying of women and children for prostitution within and outside a country for monetary or other considerations with or without the consent of the person subjected to trafficking.
"Trafficking is an international or regional crime. There should be a regional or international mechanism to combat it," said Dr Mizanur Rahman, a Dhaka University teacher.
Thousands of Bangladeshis were trafficked to Valore of India and forced into "donating" their kidneys, according to the roundtable.
"One of the flaws of the SAARC convention is, there is no compliance mechanism for the member countries," said Rabab Fatima, IOM's South Asia representative.
She said there was no treaty body to review the convention from time to time.
"Bangladesh believes the definition of trafficking in the SAARC convention should be widened," said Abida Islam, a foreign ministry director.
She said the definition should be broadened gradually as it would be "difficult to implement the convention if the definition was widened abruptly".
The SAARC Convention on Preventing and Combating Trafficking in Women and Children for Prostitution was signed in 2002.

AIDS in Sylhet!

71 people died of AIDS in Sylhet
Thursday, 19 June 2008
Speakers at a workshop Monday revealed that 71 people died of AIDS here so far and two others affected by it are now undergoing treatment, reports agency.
Padakkhep Manobik Unnayan Kendra, an NGO, has organized the advocacy workshop on ‘AIDS and Youth’ at the district council auditorium.
Additional Deputy Commissioner Shahidul Islam attended as chief guest in the workshop, which was chaired by Acting Civil Surgeon Dr Jalal Uddin Ahmed.
Speakers termed Sylhet as country’s “danger zone” saying that more people might be affected if necessary measures to check the disease are not taken immediately.




A School Teacher and her Daughter after HIV test(Positive)






HIV-positive young girl
Moni Shantibag.

Crime world

Crime world beckons 7 lakh slum kids
Around seven lakh children living in slums of the six metropolitan cities of the country are susceptible to a life of crime because of lack of any proper mechanisms to protect them.
In the absence of any social safety nets to guard their well-being, juveniles raised in slums and streets without proper care or guidance from parents are easily lured into committing criminal offences.
According to government estimates, seven lakh children are among the 50 lakh people -- a number estimated by a Centre for Urban Studies survey in 2005 -- residing in slums in six metropolitan cities, and their numbers are ever increasing.
In exchange for very small amounts of money, youngsters are being hired by gangsters to carry or use firearms or peddle drugs. These children don't know any better than falling into such traps, and where they understand the gravity of the jobs they are hired for an empty stomach often overrides considerations.
Eleven-year-old Shawon, not his real name, is a glaring example of how a juvenile growing up in a slum can slip into a life of crime. Only three months ago Shawon used to scavenge papers in Karwan Bazar area, but now he sells cannabis on the railway track in the same area under cover of the night.
“A woman I called aunt brought me into this business three months ago,” Shawon told The Daily Star.
He makes about Tk 150 a day selling drugs to support his crippled mother and younger sister. When asked about his father, Shawon's eyes sparkled in anger. First he said his father was dead.
A moment later he corrected himself and said, He is very much alive, he abandoned us and got married again so he is dead to us.”
Kafrul police arrested two juveniles about a month ago as they fled from the scene after hurling two homemade bombs towards a sweetmeat shop at Shewrapara.
The boys, aged around 12 and 14 years, said a local criminal had paid them Tk 100 each to explode the bombs in front of the shop to scare its owners into paying extortion money.
Poor children living in slums remain most vulnerable as they easily come into contact with narcotics traders and criminals who also live in slums. Many end up in a life of crime. Many top criminals of the country like Kala Jahangir, Killer Abbas, Freedom Sohel and Sweden Aslam got started in this way.
Dr Mehtab Khanam, professor of psychology department of Dhaka University, says juveniles can not apply moral values and so they work without reasoning and opportunists exploit them.
Dr Abdul Hakim Sarkar, a professor of the Institute of Social Welfare of Dhaka University, says the ever-increasing poverty is one of the chief reasons leading to juveniles' involvement in offences.
Poor parents are so busy earning a livelihood that they have no time to guide children, he said.
Dr Sarkar suggests that a comprehensive child policy, parenthood training and developing parental associations could help counter this situation.
The government or other social organisations do not have any particular statistics about how many juveniles are already involved in offences in the country or how many are exposed to potential involvement.
Dhaka Metropolitan Police prepared a list of 336 professional teenage offenders from records in its 33 police stations in 2004. Experts suspect that the actual number is much higher.
At least 235 non-government organisations work on child rights in the country, but no one works specifically to protect juveniles from a potential criminal life.
The Director of the Department of Social Services Habibur Rahman said that since poverty pushes juveniles to criminal activities, the department provides loans to the poor to help upgrade their financial condition.
Some NGOs also provide micro credit to the poor.
There are 84 government run institutions in the country, 50 Shishu Paribar, 25 Shishu Sadan, three Kishore Unnayan Kendra (KUK) and six safe homes, with a total capacity of accommodating 10,500 children, according to statistics of 2005.
The Shishu Paribar and Shishu Sadan centres are mainly for proper care and nursing of orphan or destitute children living there. The safe homes are for girls and are based in the divisional headquarters in the country. The KUKs are the remand homes for juvenile under-trial prisoners and convicts.
However, none of these homes come into the picture to protect poor children from their exposure to a criminal life.
Sarkar said juveniles from middle and upper class families usually get involved in offences due to spread of sky and cyber cultures. They try to be adventurous like the characters they watch on television.
“Children learn social norms and moral values from their guardians and peers, but nowadays they spend very little time with parents that they don't learn a lot of things,” Sarkar says.
He cites an example that children learn to respect rules from playing games as all games have certain rules, but nowadays there are hardly any playgrounds for children.
Sarkar also blames private tuition based education for the situation. This type of education makes children dependent on others and a dependent child does not learn to take his own responsibility, he says.
Children do not learn how to make sacrifices or accommodate others as they grow up amid a sense of selfish relationships, the professor points out.
Respecting others' interests and moral values are relatively absent in the present society, Dr Sarkar points out, “ So when any thing goes against their interest, children do not hesitate to commit a wrong.”
Shariful Islam

Syed Badrul Ahsan, about SSC results

Ground Realities
Of SSC results, of the generational torch . . .
Syed Badrul Ahsan
A thrillingly large number of young men and women, as we observed last week, have crossed the school leaving bar this year. The number of those who have emerged successful from their Secondary School Certificate examinations, we have known, is staggering. No fewer than 70.41 per cent of those appearing at the examinations have qualified for further studies at the college level. A significantly high number among them have scored what we now know as GPA-5. By all means that is a remarkable achievement and we are all happy because the students and their guardians and their teachers are happy.
When the young do well in academic pursuits, when through all the darkness around us there happens to be some light at the end of our long tunnel, we tell ourselves that our future is likely safe, that we have little to worry about.
And yet there are quite a few reasons for worry. And those reasons, just so you have not noticed, lie embedded in the manner in which the young, be they in school or in college, choose to pursue their studies these days. The alacrity with which tutors outside the classroom have taken charge of the young, the briskness with which parents in the urban centres of the country cough up money to have their children come in touch with what they think are the best teachers in town are perfect reasons for us to question the mode of education we appear to have developed in this country.
Again, that mode we speak of can be broken down into quite a few sub-modes, one being the system that is at work in the rural interior of the country. It is hardly surprising, and for some of us it may come as something rather startling, that under the umbrella of what passes for a system of education in Bangladesh today, we are clearly into the business of giving shape to an elitism that may be ignoring the needs of the villages.
We of course refer to the gap, a rather widening one, that segregates those young who go looking for education in their villages from those who pursue it in the cities. And the gap is quite telling. Even in a year when ecstasy underscores our celebrations of this year's SSC results, there is the disturbing truth of how badly the young in our village schools have fallen behind.
Most of the 30 percent or so students who were unable to leap across the school leaving bar this year inhabit villages. And many of the schools that recorded not a single instance of student success are located in our villages.
That is the unvarnished truth. The initiative for the future, it is clear, is slipping into the hands of a localised, small and self-contained urban class. Or perhaps the slip has occurred already. You notice the intake into the professions -- government, business firms, non-government bodies, universities -- and you realise with something of discomfiture that the vast majority of those coming into professional life, those with promise of a fast track rise, are from an essentially urban background.
There used to be a time when academic brilliance was a general feature in the lives of the village young. Poverty and hard work and driving ambition (and there was absolutely no question of private tutors marring the arrangement) were light unto the future. And that is how men made it to the Indian civil service (in the days before the vivisection of India) and then into the Central Superior Service of Pakistan.
Much a similar instance, though not all of it, characterised the Bangladesh Civil Service after 1971 (though excellence has by now taken a horrific slide). You name any illustrious individual from your parents' generation. Chances are you will trace the story of that man's life from humble beginnings in a rustic clime and go up all the way to his becoming part of a global stage.
But that is not how things happen any more. The old teachers who took keen and relentless pride in the business of enlightening the young in the villages are an extinct species. The partition of 1947 led, quite naturally, to an exodus of teachers, all from the Hindu community, to the other side of the bitter frontier. It happened again, in 1950. The residue, of good Muslim teachers, in time was lost to us through the simple rules of mortality.
Today, conditions have come to a pass where only a miracle can help us locate a man or a woman able to teach good, flawless English or mathematics in our village schools. Does it not make you wonder that a staggering 80 percent of those who could not make it at the SSC this year stumbled over English or mathematics or both? And why or how did that happen? The answer is not that these young people had only no private coaching of the kind their peers in the urban regions have had, but is also in the fact that few qualified teachers, those in command of their subjects, have made their way into their classrooms in recent years.
A drastic fall has been there in the quality of teaching. Then again, there have been conditions where teaching in crucial subjects has been conspicuous by its absence because there simply are no teachers to be had.
It all boils down to the question of a decline, a moral as well as cultural one. On a bigger perspective, what you have here is a society that is clearly and unashamedly turning its back on its villages, indeed on the great traditions that once went into the shaping of its social and cultural heritage.
Schools in the rural environment are losing out in every way. There are precious few schools with libraries left; the information technology which is fast taking over increasingly wider swathes of academic territory in the cities is yet to make any inroad in the schools dotting the dusty paths of our villages; the much vaunted progress in rural literacy is not walking but limping.
Add to that the many wrong turnings taken down the road, all per courtesy of anti-politics: the establishment of schools on partisan considerations, the peopling of school committees by men known for intellectual opacity or worldly banality. And do not forget the low pay and lower self-esteem of the teaching community. They have come all the way to the nation's capital, to ask for a raise; and they have been ignored, beaten and compelled to go back home with little to show for triumph.
You cannot wish away the feeling that the future of this country, like its past, is indelibly linked to its villages and hamlets. You may glorify your towns and cities; you can carouse and revel in the knowledge that your schools in the cities have been making quantum leaps in achieving spectacular academic results. But do not forget that the young man beside his father in the field and the young woman rationing the light from her lamp in the hut for reasons of austerity are the bearers of the generational torch.
The rickshawpuller's son who has done well at the SSC, through all his parents' pains and through all his silent tears, also deserves to be celebrated, to be reassured that the future is his to claim as well.
Scrape away this growing elitism from education and take it back to this entirety of a country. That way, there is a good chance you will be promoting social justice for all.
Syed Badrul Ahsan is Editor, Current Affairs, The Daily Star. He can be reached at: bahsantareq@yahoo.co.uk.

1,687 women fall victim to violence

Wednesday, July 2, 2008 04:13 AM GMT+06:00
1,687 women fall victim to violence in 6 months
A total of 1,687 women fell victim to violence including fatwa (religious edict) in the country from January to June this year, according to a Bangladesh Mahila Parishad report based on news published in 14 daily newspapers.
The report says 329 women experienced violent torture while 73 of them were gang raped and 66 killed after rape.
A total of 49 women were victims of acid violence while 22 were burnt in fire.
The report also said 55 women were abducted and 125 women and children were trafficked during this period. Out of the trafficked, 10 were sold to brothels.
The number of women repressed for failure to pay dowry was 148 and 99 of them were killed for dowry.
A total of 27 domestic workers were tortured by their employers and 8 women were tortured by members of law enforcement agencies.
During the same period, 135 women committed suicide due to repression and 47 women and children died in mysterious circumstances.
The number of women fell victim to violence in June alone is 333. A total of 73 incidents of rape and 15 gang rapes were reported in the same month.
Meanwhile, Bangladesh National Women Lawyers' Association (BNWLA) reported 235 incidents of violence against women last month, based on reports published in 10 national dailies.

Telephone Number of Police Service

Directory: Police Service
Dhaka
Control Room 8616551-3, 9665407, 9661700

DMP Exchange 8322501-9

DMP Emergency/Enquery 999

Police Commissioner 8316248

DC, DB 9337362

Deputy Police Commissioner(Detective) 9335866, 9336494

Deputy Police Commissioner(East) 9568916

Deputy Police Commissioner(North) 9880072

Deputy Police Commissioner(South) 9332188

Deputy Police Commissioner(West) 9116824

Deputy Police Commissioner 9335866, 9336494

Head Quarter 9560661, 9561967

Karanigonj 7772300

Khilgaon 7219090

Kotowaly 7116255

Sutrapur 7116233

Lalbagh 246262,7316300

Demra 7516244

Ramna 9350468

Motijheel 8323008

Dhanmondi 509961, 509652

Shabuzbagh 7219344, 7219988

Uttara 8914126, 8914664

Tejgaon 9119444, 9119467

Gulshan 9880234, 9895826

Cantonment 8916277, 8913077

Mohammadpur 9119960, 9119943

Mirpur 9001000, 9001001

Pallabi 8015122

Narayangonj 9716999, 9716910

Police Commissioner 8316248

Al-Helal P. Box 410061-9

Azimpur Police Fari 509352

Babupara 955457

Banani Police Box 600458

DIG Headquarter 9568269, 9561773, 9568719

Farmagate P. Box 9119925

Gabtali Police Fari 9003791

Gulshan Fari 600539

Hazaribagh O.P 505977

Khilgaon Police Fari 413979

Mohakhali P. Box 600581

Mohammadpur Police Fari 9119461

Motijheel P. Box 413193

Nayatola Police Fari 409918

Nilkhet P. Fari 509214

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Police Head Quarter 9560661, 956796

Sadarghat P. Box 246277

Science Lab. P. Box 509252

Shajahanpur Police Fari 413937, 419344

Siddheswari Police Fari 413839

Tejgaon O.P 605274

Chittagong
Bandar P.S 722240, 725104

Chandgaon P.S 670040, 619922, 616119

Double Moring (P.S) 505103, 502040

Panchlaish (P.S) 681055, 652797

Phartali (P.S) 751335

Police Commissioner 624100

Police Contorl 632319, 633023, 619922, 722040, 630691

Police Station (Kotoali) 630521, 619922

Police Station (Bondor Thana) 502240, 506104

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Khulna
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ASP, KMP 723028

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DIG 761823

Doulatpur Thana 774458

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Khalishpur Thana 761536, 762091

Khulna Metroplitan Police Commissioner 720444

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Feni
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Feni Thana 74831, 74883

Police (Betar) 74836

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Cox`s Bazar
Police 248, 223

Sylhet
Police Enquiry 713433, 717333

Faridpur
Police Enquiry 3038

Kushtia
Police Enquiry 4641

Mymensingh
Police Enquiry 4641

Bogra
Police Enquiry 5066

Comilla
Kotowaly Thana 5057, 5015

Police Enquiry 5053, 5012

Jessore
Chachra Police Box 76128

DC Jessore 74002

DSB Office 73695

Police Control Room 75031

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Noakhali
Police Enquire 6067

Chandpur
Police Enquiry 3027, 4212, 3013

Laxmipur
Police Control Room 242

Sadar Thana 228

Rangpur
Kotwali P.S 3090

Sayadpur
Police Enquiry 2111

Tangail
Police Enquiry 3018

Rangamati
Thana 2060

Natore
Civil Surgeon 6770

Police Control Room/Enquiry 2207

Police Station 6922

Bangladesh Area Codes (BTTB)

Directory: Bangladesh Area Codes (BTTB)
X should be added before area codes for NWD (Nation Wide Dialing) access
Area Code District Number Format
Alamdanga 7622 Chuadanga 2XX-3XX

Ashugonj 8528 Brahman Baria 2XX-3XX

Avaynagar (Noapara) 4222 Jessore 2XX-3XX

Badargonj 5222 Rangpur 2XX-3XX

Bagerhat 401 Bagerhat 2XXX-3XXX

Bandarban 361 Bandarban 2XX-5XX

Barguna 446 Barguna 2XX-8XX

Barisal 431 Barisal 5XXXX, 7XXXX

Bauphal 4422 Patuakhali 2XX-3XX

Bazitpur 9423 Kishoregonj 2XX-3XX

Bhairab 9424 Kishoregonj 3XX-7XX

Bhandaria 4623 Pirojpur 2XX-3XX

Bheramara 7022 Kushtia 2XX-3XX

Bhola 491 Bhola 55XXX,581XX,582XX

Bogra 51 Bogra 72XXX, 73XXX, 3XXX-6XXX

Brahmanbaria 851 Brahmanbaria 5XXXX

Chandpur 841 Chandpur 3XXX-5XXX

Chandraghona (Kaptai) 3529 Rangamati 2XX-3XX

Chhatak 8723 Sunamgonj 2XX-3XX

Chittagong 31 Chittagong 61XXXX, 62XXXX, 63XXXX, 65XXXX, 67XXXX, 68XXXX, 71XXXX, 72XXXX, 74XXXX, 75XXXX, 50XXXX

Chuadanga 761 Chuadanga 2XXX-4XXX

Comilla 81 Comilla 3XXX-6XXX, 8XXX-9XXX, 7XXXX

Companigon (Bashurhat) 3223 Noakhali 2XX-5XX

Cox's Bazar 341 Cox's Bazar 3XXX-4XXX

Daudkandi 8023 Comilla 4XX

Daulatpur 7023 Kushtia 2XX-3XX

Dhaka 2 Dhaka 8XXXXXX, 900XXXX, 901XXXX, 902XXXX, 911XXXX, 912XXXX, 913XXXX, 933XXXX, 934XXXX, 935XXXX, 955XXXX, 956XXXX, 966XXXX, 967XXXX, 971XXXX, 980XXXX, 987XXXX, 988XXXX, 7XXXXXX

Dinajpur 531 Dinajpur 3XXX-5XXX

Faridpur 631 Faridpur 2XXX-4XXX

Feni 331 Feni 7XXXX

Fulbari 5327 Dinajpur 2XX-3XX

Gaibandha 541 Gaibandha 3XX-9XX

Galachipa 4424 Patuakhali 2XX-4Xx

Gazipur 681 Gazipur 5XXXX

Ghatail 9225 Tangail 2XX-3XX

Gopalgonj 423 Gopalgonj 55XXX, 581XX, 582XX, 591XX, 592XX

Hajigonj 8424 Chandpur 2XX-3XX

Hatiya (Oshkhali) 3224 Noakhali 2XX-3XX

Hobigonj 831 Hobigonj 5XXXX

Ishwardi 732 Pabna 3XX-6XX

Jamalpur 981 Jamalpur 2XXX-3XXX

Jessore 421 Jessore 7XXXX, 3XXX-6XXX

Jhalokathhi 496 Jhalokathhi 2XX-9XX

Jhenaidah 451 Jhenaidah 2XXX-3XXX

Jhikargacha 4225 Jessore 2XX-3XX

Joypurhat 571 Joypurhat 2XX-8XX

Kalaroa 4724 Satkhira 2XX-4XX

Khagrachhari 371 Khagrachari 6XX-9XX

Khepupara 4425 Patuakhali 2XX-3XX

Khulna 41 Khulna 72XXXX, 73XXXX, 76XXXX, 77XXXX, 78XXXX

Kishoregonj 941 Kishoregonj 5XXXX

Kurigram 581 Kurigram 3XX-8XX

Kustia 71 Kustia 5XXXX, 7XXXX

Laksham (Daulatgonj) 8032 Comilla 2XX-5XX

Lakshmipur 381 Lakshmipur 2XX-6XX

Lalmonirhat 591 Lalmonirhat 2XX-3XX

Madaripur 661 Madaripur 5XXXX

Magura 611 Magura 2XXX

Manikgonj 651 Manikgonj 2XX-7XX

Mathabdi 6251 Narsingdi 2XX-5XX

Meherpur 791 Meherpur 2XX-5XX

Moheshkhali 3424 Cox’s bazar 2XX-3XX

Mongla 402 Bagerhat 2XX-5XX

Mongla New Port 4031 Bagerhat 2XX-3XX

Moulavibazar 861 Moul. bazar 5XXXX

Muktagacha 9028 Mymensingh 2XX-3XX

Muladi 4326 Barisal 2XX-4XX

Munshigonj 691 Munshigonj 2XXX-3XXX

Mymensingh 91 Mymensingh 5XXXX

Nabinagar 8525 B. baria 2XX-3XX

Naogaon 741 Naogaon 5XXXX

Narail 481 Narail 2XX-5XX

Narsingdi 621 Narsingdi 2XXX-3XXX

Natore 771 Natore 2XXX, 6XXX

Nawabgonj (Chapai) 781 Nawabgonj (Chapai) 5XXXX

Netrokona 951 Netrokona 2XX-8XX

Nilphamari 551 Nilphamari 2XX-7XX

Noakhali 321 Noakhali 3XXX-6XXX

Pabna 731 Pabna 4XXX-6XXX

Paikgacha 4027 Khulna 3XX-4XX

Palash (Ghorashal) 6254 Narsingdi 2XX-3XX

Panchagar 562 Panchagar 2XX-5XX

Parbatipur 5334 Dinajpur 2XX-3XX

Patuakhali 441 Patuakhali 2XXX

Perojpur 461 Perojpur 2XX-5XX

Potiya 3035 Chittagong 2XX-5XX

Rajbari 641 Rajbari 2XX-8XX

Rajshahi 721 Rajshahi 7XXXXX

Ramgoti (Char Alexander) 3823 Lakshmipur 2XX-3XX

Rangamati 351 Rangamati 2XXX-3XXX

Rangpur 521 Rangpur 2XXX-5XXX

Sarsha (Benapol) 4228 Jessore 2XX-5XX

Satkania 3036 Chittagong 2XX-3XX

Satkhira 471 Satkhira 2XXX-3XXX

Savar 2 Dhaka 771XXXX

Shariatpur 601 Shariatpur 554XX-559XX, 581XX, 582XX, 591XX, 592XX

Sherpur 931 Sherpur 2XX-9XX

Sirajgonj 751 Sirajgonj 7XXXX

Sitakundu (Barabkundu) 3028 Chittagong 2XX-3XX

Srimangol 8626 Moul. bazar 2XX-5XX

Sunamgonj 871 Sunamgonj 55XXX, 561XX, 562XX, 581XX, 582XX

Syedpur 552 Nilphamari 20XX-26XX

Sylhet 821 Sylhet 7XXXXX

Tangail 921 Tangail 5XXXX

Thakurgaon 561 Thakurgaon 5XXXX

Ukhia 3427 Cox’s bazar 2XX-3XX

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Move selected paragraphs up ALT+SHIFT+UP ARROW
Move selected paragraphs down ALT+SHIFT+DOWN ARROW
Expand text under a heading ALT+SHIFT+PLUS SIGN
Collapse text under a heading ALT+SHIFT+MINUS SIGN
Expand or collapse all text or headings ALT+SHIFT+A or the
asterisk (*) key on the
numeric keypad
Hide or display character formatting The slash (/) key on the
numeric keypad
Show the first line of body text
or all body text ALT+SHIFT+L
Show all headings with the Heading 1 style ALT+SHIFT+1
Show all headings up to Heading n ALT+SHIFT+n



Keys for Menus
Show the shortcut menu SHIFT+F10
Make the menu bar active F10
Show the program icon menu
(on the program title bar) ALT+SPACEBAR
Select the next or previous command
on the menu or submenu DOWN ARROW or UP ARROW
(with the menu or submenu
displayed)
Select the menu to the left or right; or,
with a submenu visible, switch between
the main menu and the submenu LEFT ARROW or RIGHT ARROW
Select the first or last command on the menu
or submenu HOME or END
Close the visible menu
and submenu at the same time ALT
Close the visible menu; or, with a
submenu visible, close the submenu only ESC




TIP: You can select any menu command on the menu bar or on a visible toolbar with the keyboard. Press ALT to select the menu bar. (To then select a toolbar, press CTRL+TAB; repeat until the toolbar you want is selected.) Press the letter that is underlined in the menu name that contains the command you want. In the menu that appears, press the letter underlined in the command name that you want.

NOTE: The following shortcuts are not in Help. Remove items from menu (MRU, commands, etc.) CTRL+ALT+Hyphen (-)
Pointer turns to minus sign when keys are
pressed, then open menu and click item to
be removed.
Shortcut method for customizing keyboard
settings (Macintosh) CTRL+ALT+NUM PLUS
Plus (+) key on the
numeric keypad.



Keys for Toolbars
Make the menu bar active F10
Select the next or previous toolbar CTRL+TAB or
CTRL+SHIFT+TAB
Select the next or previous button
or menu on the toolbar TAB or SHIFT+TAB (when a
toolbar is active)
Open the menu ENTER (when a menu on a
toolbar is selected)
Perform the action assigned to a button ENTER (when a button is
selected)
Enter text in a text box ENTER (when the text box
is selected)



Keys for Windows and Dialog Boxes
Switch to the next program ALT+TAB
Switch to the previous program ALT+SHIFT+TAB
Show the Windows Start menu CTRL+ESC
Close the active document window CTRL+W
Restore the active document window CTRL+F5
Switch to the next document window CTRL+F6
Switch to the previous document window CTRL+SHIFT+F6
Carry out the Move command
(document icon menu, menu bar) CTRL+F7
Carry out the Size command
(document icon menu, menu bar) CTRL+F8
Maximize the document window CTRL+F10
Select a folder in the Open
or Save As dialog box (File menu) ALT+0 to select the
folder list; arrow keys
to select a folder
Choose a toolbar button in the Open
or Save As dialog box (File menu) ALT+number (1 is the
left most button, 2 is
the next, and so on)
Update the files visible in the Open
or Save As dialog box (File menu) F5

Switch to the next tab in a dialog box CTRL+TAB or CTRL+PAGE
DOWN
Switch to the previous tab in a dialog box CTRL+SHIFT+TAB or
CTRL+PAGE UP
Move to the next option or option group TAB
Move to the previous option or option group SHIFT+TAB
Move between options in the selected drop-down
list box or between some options
in a group of options Arrow keys
Perform the action assigned to the selected
button; select or clear the check box SPACEBAR
Move to the option by the first letter in the
option name in a drop-down list box Letter key for the first
letter in the option name
you want (when a drop-
down list box is
selected)
Select the option or select or clear the
check box by the letter underlined
in the option name ALT+letter key
Open a drop-down list box ALT+DOWN ARROW (when a
drop-down list box is
selected)
Close a drop-down list box ESC (when a drop-down
list box is selected)
Perform the action assigned to the default
button in the dialog box ENTER
Cancel the command and close the dialog box ESC

Move to the beginning of the entry HOME
Move to the end of the entry END
Move one character to the left or right LEFT ARROW or
RIGHT ARROW
Move one word to the left or right CTRL+LEFT ARROW or
CTRL+RIGHT ARROW
Select from the insertion point to the
beginning of the entry SHIFT+HOME
Select from the insertion point to the end
of the entry SHIFT+END
Select or deselect one character to the left SHIFT+LEFT ARROW
Select or deselect one character to the right SHIFT+RIGHT ARROW
Select or deselect one word to the left CTRL+SHIFT+LEFT ARROW
Select or deselect one word to the right CTRL+SHIFT+RIGHT ARROW




Keys for Working with Web Pages
Insert a hyperlink CTRL+K
Go back one page ALT+LEFT ARROW
Go forward one page ALT+RIGHT ARROW
Refresh F9



Keys for Working with Cross-References, Footnotes, and Endnotes
Mark a table of contents entry ALT+SHIFT+O
Mark a table of authorities entry ALT+SHIFT+I
Mark an index entry ALT+SHIFT+X
Insert a footnote ALT+CTRL+F
Insert an endnote ALT+CTRL+D



Keys for Using the Office Assistant
Make the Office Assistant balloon active ALT+F6
Select a Help topic from the topics the
Office Assistant displays ALT+number (1 is the
first topic, 2 is the
second, and so on)

See more Help topics ALT+DOWN ARROW
See previous Help topics ALT+UP ARROW
Close an Office Assistant message ESC
Get Help from the Office Assistant F1
Display the next tip ALT+N
Display the previous tip ALT+B
Close tips ESC
Show or hide the Office Assistant in a wizard TAB to select the Office
Assistant button;
SPACEBAR to show the
Assistant or turn off
Help with the wizard



For more information about keyboard shortcuts: http://support.microsoft.com/

List of the keyboard shortcuts for Word 2000

Select Text and Graphics:

One character to the right SHIFT+RIGHT ARROW
One character to the left SHIFT+LEFT ARROW
To the end of a word CTRL+SHIFT+RIGHT ARROW
To the beginning of a word CTRL+SHIFT+LEFT ARROW
To the end of a line SHIFT+END
To the beginning of a line SHIFT+HOME
One line down SHIFT+DOWN ARROW
One line up SHIFT+UP ARROW
To the end of a paragraph CTRL+SHIFT+DOWN ARROW
To the beginning of a paragraph CTRL+SHIFT+UP ARROW
One screen down SHIFT+PAGE DOWN
One screen up SHIFT+PAGE UP
To the end of a window ALT+CTRL+PAGE DOWN
To the beginning of a document CTRL+SHIFT+HOME
To include the entire document CTRL+A
To a vertical block of text CTRL+SHIFT+F8, and then
use the arrow keys; press
ESC to cancel selection
mode
To a specific location in a document F8+arrow keys; press ESC
to cancel selection mode

List of the keyboard shortcuts for Word 2000

Insert Special Characters:
A field CTRL+F9
An AutoText entry ENTER (after typing the
first few characters of
the AutoText entry name
and when the ScreenTip
appears)
A line break SHIFT+ENTER
A page break CTRL+ENTER
A column break CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER
An optional hyphen CTRL+HYPHEN
A non-breaking hyphen CTRL+SHIFT+HYPHEN
A non-breaking space CTRL+SHIFT+SPACEBAR
The copyright symbol ALT+CTRL+C
The registered trademark symbol ALT+CTRL+R
The trademark symbol ALT+CTRL+T
An ellipsis ALT+CTRL+PERIOD
The euro symbol ALT+CTRL+E

List of the keyboard shortcuts for Word 2000

Keys for Editing and Moving Text and Graphics
Delete Text and Graphics:
Delete one character to the left BACKSPACE
Delete one word to the left CTRL+BACKSPACE
Delete one character to the right DELETE
Delete one word to the right CTRL+DELETE
Cut selected text to the Clipboard CTRL+X
Undo the last action CTRL+Z
Cut to the Spike CTRL+F3

Copy and Move Text and Graphics:
Copy text or graphics CTRL+C
Display the Clipboard CTRL+C, CTRL+C
Move text or graphics F2 (then move the
insertion point and
press ENTER)
Create AutoText ALT+F3
Paste the Clipboard contents CTRL+V
Paste the Spike contents CTRL+SHIFT+F3
Copy the header or footer used in the
previous section of the document ALT+SHIFT+R

List of the keyboard shortcuts for Word 2000

Format Paragraphs: Single-space lines CTRL+1
Double-space lines CTRL+2
Set 1.5-line spacing CTRL+5
Add one-line spacing preceding a paragraph CTRL+0 (zero)
Remove one-line spacing preceding a paragraph CTRL+0 (zero)

Center a paragraph CTRL+E
Justify a paragraph CTRL+J
Left-align a paragraph CTRL+L
Right-align a paragraph CTRL+R
Indent a paragraph from the left CTRL+M
Remove a paragraph indent from the left CTRL+SHIFT+M
Create a hanging indent CTRL+T
Reduce a hanging indent CTRL+SHIFT+T
Remove paragraph formatting CTRL+Q

Apply a style CTRL+SHIFT+S
Start AutoFormat ALT+CTRL+K
Apply the Normal style CTRL+SHIFT+N
Apply the Heading 1 style ALT+CTRL+1
Apply the Heading 2 style ALT+CTRL+2
Apply the Heading 3 style ALT+CTRL+3
Apply the List style CTRL+SHIFT+L

List of the keyboard shortcuts for Word 2000

Keys for Formatting Characters and Paragraphs
Format Characters: Change the font CTRL+SHIFT+F
Change the font size CTRL+SHIFT+P
Increase the font size CTRL+SHIFT+>
Decrease the font size CTRL+SHIFT+<
Increase the font size by 1 point CTRL+]
Decrease the font size by 1 point CTRL+[

Change the formatting of characters
(Font command, Format menu) CTRL+D
Change the case of letters SHIFT+F3
Format letters as all capitals CTRL+SHIFT+A
Apply bold formatting CTRL+B
Apply an underline CTRL+U
Underline words but not spaces CTRL+SHIFT+W
Double-underline text CTRL+SHIFT+D
Apply hidden text formatting CTRL+SHIFT+H
Apply italic formatting CTRL+I
Format letters as small capitals CTRL+SHIFT+K
Apply subscript formatting
(automatic spacing) CTRL+EQUAL SIGN
Apply superscript formatting
(automatic spacing) CTRL+SHIFT+PLUS SIGN
Remove manual character formatting CTRL+SPACEBAR
Change the selection to Symbol font CTRL+SHIFT+Q

Display non-printing characters CTRL+SHIFT+* (asterisk)
Review text formatting SHIFT+F1 (then click the
text whose formatting you
want to review)
Copy formats CTRL+SHIFT+C
Paste formats CTRL+SHIFT+V

List of the keyboard shortcuts for Word 2000

Keys for Working with Documents
Create a new document CTRL+N
Open a document CTRL+O
Close a document CTRL+W
Split a document ALT+CTRL+S
Save a document CTRL+S
Quit Word ALT+F4

Find text, formatting, and special items CTRL+F
Repeat find ALT+CTRL+Y
Replace text, specific formatting,
and special items CTRL+H
Go to a page, bookmark, footnote, table,
comment, graphic, or other location CTRL+G
Go back to a page, bookmark, footnote, table,
comment, graphic, or other location ALT+CTRL+Z
Browse a document ALT+CTRL+HOME

Cancel an action ESC
Undo an action CTRL+Z
Redo or repeat an action CTRL+Y

Switch to page layout view ALT+CTRL+P
Switch to outline view ALT+CTRL+O
Switch to normal view ALT+CTRL+N
Move between a master document
and its subdocuments CTRL+\

Police officer charged with theft
Sunday, 29 June 2008
Bdnews24.com
The police Friday received a complaint against a police officer of stealing a mobile phone set from a Thai citizen at Zia International Airport, Airport Police Station chief Ruhul Amin said.
The complainant is Piath Sarapak de Costa.
Airport immigration officer Nazir Hossain Dewan told bdnews24.com that de Costa and police officer Md Mohiuddin Faruque, both coming from Thailand by a Thai Airways flight, had quarrelled over the 'theft'.
An intelligence officer said the Thai woman had accused Mohiuddin of stealing the phone set and slapped Mohiuddin who had been claiming himself to be a police officer.
Airport officials intervened and Mohiuddin was made to give the woman a mobile phone set from his pocket.
Mohiuddin, an assistant superintendent of police working at the National Central Bureau at the Police Headquarters, were returning from an Interpol seminar in Thailand.
Airport police released him after interrogation, Nazir Hossain said.
De Costa had come to Dhaka with her Bangladeshi spouse.
Contacted by bdnews24.com, acting additional inspector general of police Shah Jamal Raj denied the allegation of theft against the police officer.
He said the accused officer was not on the scene at the time of the incident

Supersize solar power

Parabolic troughs, one of which is shown here, have been around for 25 years, and the technology will be around for at least another 25.
Parabolic troughs reflect sunlight to heat liquid carried through a tube above the troughs. That liquid is converted to steam, which drives a traditional electricity turbine.
One solar thermal power plant developer filed for bankruptcy in the early 1990s. But the technology is making a serious comeback. Building a solar plant in Arizona is cost-effective compared with a natural gas plant, said David Jallo, project head for the 280-megawatt Solana project at Arizona Public Service. At a recent Ceres conference, Jallo attributed this to solar costs going down, while costs of natural gas plants are going up.
These concentrating solar power plants are best suited for desert areas, like the southwestern U.S. and parts of Spain.
Credit: Abengoa

First look at the Earth from outer space

From the first look at the Earth from outer space, NASA has been watching our planet and how man has affected it. For Earth Day, NASA has compiled some of its most breathtaking views of Earth, including some "firsts," natural and man-made disasters, and out-of-this-world sights.

On April 1, 1960, the weather satellite Tiros-1 took its first image of Earth.

Everest

Expedition Everest, as seen in the new Google Earth-Walt Disney World 3D initiative.

Credit: Google Earth

Mountain Railroad

The Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, as seen in Google Earth.