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[ALOCHONA] Study: Folic Acid, B12 Don't Lower Heart-Disease Risks



Study: Folic Acid, B12 Don't Lower Heart-Disease Risks

For decades, heart disease has retained the dubious honor of being the leading killer of Americans. So doctors have long been on the lookout for potential new factors that could help them identify and protect people who are at high risk of the disease.

One such promising factor was homocysteine, a naturally occurring amino acid that previous studies have linked to a higher risk of heart events and stroke. But researchers in the U.K. now close the book on the usefulness of the marker, finding in a new study that lowering patients' blood levels of homocysteine did not in turn reduce their risk of heart trouble. (See TIME's special on how to live 100 years.)

In the seven-year study of 12,064 heart-attack survivors, participants took daily supplements of folic acid and vitamin B12, which are known to break down homocysteine in the body. Although the supplementation lowered the amount of the amino acid in patients' blood 28%, it had no effect on rates of heart events or stroke compared with people taking placebo pills. (Read about whether antidepressants really work or are just placebos.)

Researchers had believed that homocysteine, whose levels are determined by a combination of genetics and diet, affects a person's heart risk by damaging the lining of blood vessels and promoting the formation of blood clots. So scientists have been eager to determine whether controlled B-vitamin supplementation would result in a difference in heart-disease rates in patients. The new study shows that it did not, but some experts say they are not surprised by the findings, noting that previous studies had hinted that folic-acid supplementation has little effect on heart-disease outcomes. (Read about how gene screens don't help predict heart disease.)

"We've been through vitamin E, we've been through beta carotene, we've been through hormone-replacement therapy," says Dr. Alice Lichtenstein, director of the cardiovascular-nutrition laboratory at Tufts University, referring to some of the most recent candidates for reducing heart-disease risk. "Unfortunately, now we've been through folate."

Lichtenstein says it's not clear exactly why lower levels of homocysteine in the study did not translate to lower heart risk but notes that the findings cast doubt on the direct influence of the compound on heart disease. If homocysteine itself were directly harmful to the heart, then lowering its levels would have had some beneficial effect on death and disease rates in the study, which it did not. It's possible that homocysteine may instead be a marker for some other process that raises the risk of heart disease — one that is not influenced by folate. But the study was not designed to assess those mechanisms. "The only sound conclusion we can draw from this is that across the board, lowering of homocysteine with folate supplements does not result in improved cardiovascular outcomes," says Lichtenstein.

She adds that we should expect more studies exploring the role of homocysteine in heart disease; if it is a marker for some other unknown risk factor, further study may expose potentially new ways of treating or even preventing heart conditions.

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[ALOCHONA] Virgin Coconut Oil has a hundred uses



Raw Organic Virgin Coconut Oil has a hundred uses for health and home
 
NaturalNews) People who really know about health know about virgin coconut oil. It's the oil of choice for health-conscious people, and it's used in everything from smoothies (delicious!) to personal care products. You can use coconut oil both inside and outside your body.

It's even useful for cooking because coconut oil has a much higher temperature tolerance than even extra virgin olive oil. Its fat molecules stay intact, in other words, at higher stovetop temperatures, so that makes it safer for use as a cooking oil. It's also widely used in raw foods recipe as a stabilizer and source of delicious plant-based fats with their own unique nutritional properties.

Virgin coconut oil is 44.6% lauric acid, 16.8% myristic acid, and 8.2% palmitic acid, and it's composed mostly of medium-chain-fatty-acids (MCFA). MCFAs are widely regarded as extremely useful for providing sustainable energy due to their molecular structure. Many bodybuilders and athletes rely on MCFAs as a key part of their high-performance diets.

I've been an advocate of organic virgin coconut oil for years, recommending all the top companies such as Nutiva (
www.Nutiva.com) and Vivapura (www.VivaPura.net). They provide outstanding coconut oil products that I use myself on a regular basis.

Now, we've teamed up with The Raw Food World to acquire a large shipment of 100% raw, organic, Kosher, centrifuge virgin coconut oil from the Philippines that's available in the NaturalNews Store starting today. This is the really good stuff that's processed with a centrifuge, not by cooking, so the coconut oil is both raw and molecularly intact.

We're also making it available at a terrific discount to NaturalNews readers. See below for specials that offer as much as 45% off what you'd normally pay for this kind of premium-grade coconut oil.

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A 16 oz. container of this oil normally sells for $17.95. Through this NaturalNews Store special discount, it's now available to NaturalNews readers for just $10.95 for a 16 oz. container. That's a savings of 39% over the regular price.

When you purchase three 16 oz. containers of this coconut oil, the price drops to just $9.98 each. That is nearly a 45% discount off the usual retail price, and it comes out to just over 62 cents per ounce. (These 16 oz. containers are GLASS.)

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Compare this price anywhere, and you'll see what a tremendous deal this really is. We've put together yet another screaming good deal for our NaturalNews with this coconut oil offer.

(These one gallon containers are PLASTIC. We're working on a way to use glass gallon container in the near future, but breakage is a huge problem during shipping, so right now they're packaged in plastic. If you want glass containers, choose the 16 oz. containers instead.)

How coconut oil is harvested and extracted

Ever wonder how premium coconut oil is actually made? Here's where ours comes from:

First, whole coconuts are collected fresh off the tree, then shelled to remove the outer shell (the brown skin).

The white coconut meat is removed and ground at low temperatures into granules. These granules are then dried at 104 - 113 degrees Fahrenheit for 2.5 hours.

Once dried, the coconut granules are loaded into a customized cold-process expeller that squeezes out the oil. This is also done at 113 degrees or lower in order to preserve the raw nutrients.

The oil that comes out is then loaded into a centrifuge machine that spins it at high speed to remove any moisture or particulate matter. (The solid coconut matter that comes out is used to make coconut flour, which can be substituted for wheat in baking recipes.)

The resulting oil is called "Virgin Coconut Oil." It is then poured into the final containers, labeled and shipped.

Note that there is no cooking, pasteurization, fumigation, hydrogenation or other artificial process involved. This is all about harvesting the coconut meat, drying it, then pressing out the oils to be captured, filtered and packaged. It is probably the most natural process you can find for consuming coconut oil other than picking and eating the coconut yourself.

Coconut oil has a surprisingly long shelf life -- up to several years on the shelf due to its ability to naturally resist oxidation. When stored in the refrigerator, it is naturally a solid. When warmed in ambient room temperature, it becomes a liquid.

Using virgin coconut oil

Here are several ideas for using coconut oil. If you're right now cooking in a pan with something like olive oil, try replacing that with coconut oil. Coconut oil resists creating high-heat carcinogens, meaning you can cook with it at higher temperatures without poisoning your food as often happens with corn oil, soybean oil or other cheap, low-end vegetable oils.

Secondly, you can add coconut oil to just about any smoothie to give it a fatty "ice cream" flavor and texture. Try blending frozen fruit with palm sugar and coconut oil! It makes a delicious, ice cream textured dessert that will just blow your mind with its nutritional potency, too. (Your kids can eat this all day long, guilt free!)

If you're into raw foods recipes, you'll find yourself using coconut oil for all kinds of things. Especially desserts, where coconut oil is often part of the icing that goes on the raw cake or pie. It's super delicious! (And also guilt free...)

You can use coconut oil in practically any recipe that calls for vegetable oil or shortening. Shortening, by the way, is just hydrogenated vegetable oil. I hope you never eat that because it's terrible for your health. Replace it with coconut oil for the sake of your health...

Coconut oil can also be used as a partial replacement for butter. It doesn't quite have the butter taste, but it's close, and the healthy fats in it resemble butter in many recipes. (Try replacing half the butter in a recipe with coconut oil.)

Finally, you can use this coconut oil to make your own skin care products. Melt a small amount of bees wax in a pan with coconut oil, add some medicinal herbs or tinctures, and you've made your own skin salve! Coconut oil is a wonderful base for all sorts of personal care products. I've even seen it packaged as a personal lubricant (no kidding!). It's great for skin, hair, face and your entire body, head to toe.

The key is getting the good quality coconut oil that hasn't been cooked. That's why you'll really like what we've acquired for you here: It's a premium-grade coconut oil that's perfect for smoothies, cooking, baking and personal care needs.

http://www.naturalnews.com/029047_coconut_oil_extra_virgin.html


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[ALOCHONA] India’s strategic liability



India's strategic liability

P R Kumaraswamy

Politically incorrect? For sure. But time to wake up to the strategic relevance of South Asia. Are the immediate neighbours important for India? Absolutely, no doubts; but for all the wrong reasons. Unless handled carefully they would make life miserable and excruciating for India.

 In one form or another, India has serious and long-running problems with all its neighbours. Not just with China, India has unresolved problems with most of its neighbours. While it's northern neighbour had skilfully resolved all its territorial disputes except for one (with India of course), New Delhi has serious border quarrels with most of its neighbours. If the Kashmir question hogs the maximum attention, situation is no better on other fronts. Even after decades India and Bangladesh are yet to formalise their borders. A small stretch still remains the sticking point thereby preventing India from ratifying the boundary treaty signed by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and President Sheikh Mujibur Rahman as far back as in 1974.

No matter how scholars choose to depict, interpret or rationalise the phenomenon, none can ignore the large-scale presence of Bangladeshis inside India. Rather than controlling the daily flow of hundreds of illegal migrants from that country, New Delhi is haggling over the presence of a few hundred people inhabiting pockets of islets that are in 'adverse possession.' If these are not enough, in recent months both countries are entangled in a dispute over maritime boundary. Scarcity of natural resources, especially hydrocarbon, could only intensify the Indo-Bangladeshi competition over the exclusive economic zone. Likewise, the fishing rights periodically crop up whenever the situation in Sri Lanka deteriorates.

Second, the cross border ethno-linguistic linkages have proved to be a curse rather than a boon. Violence in the neighbourhood invariably spills over into India. The primary headache of the Pakistan-watchers has been to prevent internal meltdown in that country falling into the Indian lap. Situation elsewhere is no better. For years Bangladesh has been a safe haven for various militant groups that were operating in India's northeast. Despite the recent bonhomie, seasoned observers doubt Sheikh Hasina's ability to synchronise Bangladeshi policies with India's security concerns over the militants. The post-monarchical political structure in Nepal is getting complicated by each passing day. The civil war in Sri Lanka has ended but the situation is still fluid. Reconciliation between warring sides would require prolonged and sustained efforts from the Lankan government.

Three, in recent years the neighbours have been using the China card. Since the late 1950s Pakistan has successfully played the China factor to minimise its strategic vulnerability vis-à-vis India. Now others have joined the bandwagon. Sri Lanka which in the late 1980s used Pakistan to counter India's role in the ethnic crisis, is now cozying up to Beijing. Similarly, China has overtaken India as the largest trading partner of Bangladesh. Since the dying days of the monarchy, Nepal has played up the China card and now anti-Indian rhetoric has become the daily staple food for the Maoists.

Four, on the economic front the numbers are louder than the most optimistic voices. India's trade with the countries of South Asia is just a drop in a bucket. During 2008-09, India's imports from the countries of South Asia stood at $1.8 billion or a mere 0.5.9 percent of the total imports. During the same period India exported $8.6 billion worth of goods to its neighbours accounting for about 4.6 per cent of the total exports. So much for South-South cooperation!

The hype over the eventual transformation of South Asian Association for Reginald Cooperation into a South Asian Free Trade Area (SAFTA), to become fully operational by the end of 2015, will not be change the situation. Even if India were to unilaterally bring down all the trade barriers vis-à-vis its neighbours, the material impact would be marginal. Why then is this obsession with the neighbourhood? It is politically correct to play up the good neighbour image.

Thus many want India to bend over backwards, even over unreasonable demands. Rather than expecting the neighbours to be equally accountable to their commitments, some demand concessions from the more powerful India. Even those who otherwise oppose unilateralism harp on unilateral concessions from India, political as well as economic. Fortunately so far no one has claimed that such measures from India would solve the key problems but many argue that such measures would 'minimise' the friction and hopefully reduce anti-Indian feelings prevalent in these countries.

Secondly, the ethno-linguistic baggage has far serious role in shaping India's neighbourhood policy than many cared to admit. This at times many view the neighbourhood through the ethno-linguistic blinkers. One has to consciously delink cross-border ethnic links while formulating India's policy towards the neighbourhood. One is not suggesting that New Delhi should be indifferent to the concerns and voices of Tamil Nadu, West Bengal or Bihar while formulating its policy towards Sri Lanka, Bangladesh or Nepal respectively. But let these states not have the monopoly in determining the relative importance of the neighbouring states. One has to reframe the issue: Is Sri Lanka important because of the Tamil Nadu politics and interests or in spite of them? Same holds true for other neighbours.

Yes, South Asia is strategically important. Not because it has too many incentives or advantages to offer but failure to pay close attention to the region would be detrimental to India. Violence in Kashmir, terror in Mumbai, large-scale illegal migration, turmoil in the northeast, floods in Kosi or periodic tensions in Tamil Nadu are directly linked to developments in the neighbouring countries. India could ignore these countries only at its own peril. Giving the countries a greater degree of importance should not be difficult. Such an approach might even given them a degree of importance, enhance inter-personal relations and provide a congenial political atmosphere. No harm doing that.

But let us not miss the big picture. The priority accorded to South Asian countries must be commensurate to their relative importance and utility for India's peace and prosperity. It is time to recognise that both individually and collectively the countries of the South Asia have very little to offer positively. They are strategically important; but not as an asset but as a liability. Yes, South Asia is India's strategic liability. Only that.

The author teaches at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

http://expressbuzz.com/opinion/columnists/india%E2%80%99s-strategic-liability/183188.html

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[ALOCHONA] Anti-Aging Superfoods



Anti-Aging Superfoods
 
Can you add years to your life by making smarter food choices? Yes! There are many variables involved in how long you live, but by following a healthy lifestyle, staying active and eating a nutrient-packed diet, you can help slow the aging process and perhaps even stave off age-related diseases, including osteoporosis, diabetes and heart disease.

Start right now by including more of these 7 antioxidant-rich foods to your diet. We've included interesting facts and delicious EatingWell recipes for healthy aging. Here's to your good health!


Olive Oil

Four decades ago, researchers from the Seven Countries Study concluded that the monounsaturated fats in olive oil were largely responsible for the low rates of heart disease and cancer on the Greek island of Crete. Now we know that olive oil also contains polyphenols, powerful antioxidants that may help prevent age-related diseases.

Yogurt

In the 1970s, Soviet Georgia was rumored to have more centenarians per capita than any other country. Reports at the time claimed that the secret of their long lives was yogurt, a food ubiquitous in their diets. While the age-defying powers of yogurt never have been proven directly, yogurt is rich in calcium, which helps stave off osteoporosis and contains "good bacteria" that help maintain gut health and diminish the incidence of age-related intestinal illness.

Fish

Thirty years ago, researchers began to study why the native Inuits of Alaska were remarkably free of heart disease. The reason, scientists now think, is the extraordinary amount of fish they consume. Fish is an abundant source of omega-3 fats, which help prevent cholesterol buildup in arteries and protect against abnormal heart rhythms

Chocolate

The Kuna people of the San Blas islands, off the coast of Panama, have a rate of heart disease that is nine times less than that of mainland Panamanians. The reason? The Kuna drink plenty of a beverage made with generous proportions of cocoa, which is unusually rich in flavanols that help preserve the healthy function of blood vessels. Maintaining youthful blood vessels lowers risk of high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, kidney disease and dementia.

Nuts

Studies of Seventh-Day Adventists (a religious denomination that emphasizes healthy living and a vegetarian diet) show that those who eat nuts gain, on average, an extra two and a half years. Nuts are rich sources of unsaturated fats, so they offer benefits similar to those associated with olive oil. They're also concentrated sources of vitamins, minerals and other phytochemicals, including antioxidants.

Blueberries

In a landmark study published in 1999, researchers at Tufts University's Jean Mayer Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging fed rats blueberry extract for a period of time that in "rat lives" is equivalent to 10 human years. These rats outperformed rats fed regular chow on tests of balance and coordination when they reached old age. Compounds in blueberries (and other berries) mitigate inflammation and oxidative damage, which are associated with age-related deficits in memory and motor function.

http://www.eatingwell.com/nutrition_health/healthy_aging/7_anti_aging_superfoods?page=8



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[ALOCHONA] Re: FW: [bd_journalists] Re: Lord Eric Avebury





On 6/22/10, Zoglul Husain <zoglul@hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
 
Sharing with you my exchange of emails with Nayeem Mahmood on Lord Eric Avebury's so-called Human Rights activities on Bangladesh. He was deeply involved in the international conspiracy of 1/11 in Bangladesh by peddling Indian agenda. He does the same on Chittagong Hill Tracts.

RAW has established an extensive network by bankrolling many foreign news media, lawmakers, writers, so-called Human Rights activists, etc. But, they get defeated when people are united and mobilised. They will of course hatch new conspiracies, of which we need to be vigilant. We will certainly keep on campaigning
 

To:
zoglul@hotmail.co.uk; bd_journalists@yahoogroups.com
From: mail2_nayeem@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 11:38:04 +0000
Subject: [bd_journalists] Re: Lord Eric Avebury

Salam dear Zoglul bhai.

I think these are the excellent examples of Lord Eric Avebury connection with RAW on BD affairs. I've already sent it to some prominent people on BD. Thanks for taking pain in sending these links.

Nayeem


 


From: Zoglul Husain <zoglul@hotmail.co.uk>
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2010 22:38:28 +0100
To: Nayeem Mahmud<mail2_nayeem@yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: Lord Eric Avebury

Dear Nayeem Bhai

I am forwarding below some reports on Lord Eric Avebury's so-called Human Rights activities on Bangladesh. A glance on them will make it evident how deeply he is involved with RAW's agenda in BD. 

Very best wishes

Zoglul Bhai

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Lord Eric Avebury

With Syed Ashraful Islam on war crimes trial, 30 May 2010: 

http://ericavebury.blogspot.com/2010/05/meeting-with-bangladesh-lgrd-minister.html

Reports on some of his so-called HR activities on Bangladesh with Shahriar Kabir, Dr Reza Kibria,  Prof Muntassir Mamoon,  Barrister Shafique Ahmed, Barrister Amirul Islam, some Indian operatives, etc. Actually he was deeply involved in the conspiracy of 1/11 in Bangladesh. 

http://hem.bredband.net/secularvoice/

His involvement in the Indian conspiracy in Chittagong Hill Tracts, a Report on 22 February 2010. The trouble was reported to be started by two Indian operatives, who were involved in false flag arson attack, and the description of the event was fabricated. 

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Chittagong hill tracts

Commission

Co-Chairpersons: Sultana Kamal, Lord Eric Avebury, Ida Nicolaisen

Members: Shapan Adnan, Lars-Anders Baer, Victoria Tauli Corpuz, Sara

Hossain, Muhammad Zafar Iqbal, Lee Swepston, Robert Evans, Hideaki Uemura

22 February 2010

To

Honourable Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina

Government of the Peoples' Republic of Bangladesh

Prime Minister's Office

Tejgaon, Dhaka

Subject: Urgent demand for investigation into arson attack and

alleged killings in Sajek

The CHT Commission (CHTC) is appalled to receive reports of the arson attacks carried out on over 200 Pahari homes in the Baghaihat area of Sajek union under Baghaichari upazila in Rangamati district from the night of 19 February 2010, in the following villages and their adjoining areas -- Gangaram Mukh, Guchchhagram, Hazachhara, Jaralchhari,Dane Baipachhara, Bame Baipachhara, Simanachhara, Chhurung Nala and Gulakmachhara, and the subsequent confirmed killings of 2 persons, reportedly in firing.

The CHT Commission is very deeply disturbed at allegations of the involvement of the army in the killings of at least two Pahari villagers in 'brushfire'. The Commission has also received reports that the Banani Bana Bihar, a Buddhist temple of the locality, has been looted.

The CHT Commission notes with concern that certain political quarters are claiming that this outbreak of violence is primarily due to the withdrawal of army camps from the CHT (as mandated by the 1997 CHT Accord). However, the Commission in its various field visits to the CHT has not found any evidence of the army presence being withdrawn from the area in question; indeed, the army has long had,and continues to have, a garrison in Baghaihat which is in close proximity of the Pahari villages that were attacked. It has been alleged by affected people that, prior to the firing by the army, a planned arson attack was carried out by Bangali settlers in collusion with the Army and other security forces.

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Bangladesh Secretariat: 10/11 Iqbal Road, Mohammadpur, Dhaka-1207, Bangladesh

Phone: +88-02-9146048/01819289622, Fax: +88-02-8141810

chtcomm@gmail.com, www.chtcommission.org

Thousands of Pahari families have been living in this area after having been suffered internal displacement from other parts of the CHT.

However, in 2008, some Bengali settlers began to illegally construct houses in Gangaram area on land used by Pahari villagers. On April 20,2008, a group of settlers attacked several indigenous villages, injuring people and burning down more than 70 houses. However, there was no effective intervention by the authorities, despite the close presence of the army and the other security forces. Subsequently, many indigenous peoples fled the area and lived in hiding.

In view of the circumstances and considerations noted above, the CHT Commission urges the Government of Bangladesh to immediately take the following remedial actions:

1. To prevent any further destruction of forensic and other evidence

of killing or arson by any party, including the administration and security forces;

2. To ensure safety and security of all injured persons and transport them to a nearby hospital and provide urgent medical treatment to those suffering.

3. To also take immediate governmental custody of all dead bodies from the army and settlers, transferring them to neutral civilian government administration members, with the eventual objective of handing these over to the respective families;

4. To undertake an urgent, independent, high level investigation into the killings and allegations of human rights violations in the Baghaihat area of Sajek;

5. To prosecute through fair and prompt and independent processes those who are responsible for such killings and violence, and to ensure immediate security and safety for thebereaved families and other victims;

6. To take immediate steps to provide security of life and property, as well as food, water and shelter, for all women, men and children who have been left homeless, insecure and destitute from the arson attacks;


The CHT Commission also urges the Government of Bangladesh to take the following short-term actions:

1. To take immediate steps to activate the Land Commission and amend the CHT Land Dispute Settlement Commission Act 2001,so that all outstanding land disputes in the Chittagong Hill Tractscan be readily and fairly settled, as per provisions of the CHTAccord, thereby helping to prevent the outbreak of further violence;

2. To withdraw army camps from the three hill districts in accordance with the CHT Accord, as well as terminate Operation Uttaran;

3. To immediately declare a roadmap for full and comprehensive implementation of the 1997 CHT Accord, in line with the government's election pledge.


On behalf of the CHT Commission

Eric Avebury Sultana Kamal Ida Nicolaisen

Co-chair of the Co-chair of the Co-chair of the CHT Commission CHT Commission CHT Commission

cc to:

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1. Syeda Sajeda Chowdhury, Honorable Deputy Leader of the House

& Chairperson of the National Committee for Implementation of

the CHT Peace Accord.

2. Dr. Dipu Moni, Honourable Minister, Foreign Ministry,

Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh, Dhaka.

3. Barrister Shafique Ahmed, Honourable Minister, Law, Justice and

Parliamentary Ministry, Government of the People's Republic of

Bangladesh, Bangladesh Secretariat, Dhaka.

4. Mr. Syed Ashraful Islam, Honourable Minister, Local Government,

Rural Development and Cooperative Ministry, Government of the

People's Republic of Bangladesh, Bangladesh Secretariat, Dhaka.

5. Mr. Rezaul Karim Hira, Honourable Minister, Ministry of Land,

Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh, Bangladesh

Secretariat, Dhaka.

6. Mr. Jyotirindra Bodhipriya Larma, Chairman, CHT Regional

Council, Rangamati.

7. Mr. Dipankar Talukdar MP, Honourable State Minister, Ministry of

CHT Affairs, Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh,

Bangladesh Secretariat, Dhaka.

8. Mr. Hasan Mahmud, Honourable State Minister, Ministry of Forest

and Environment, Government of the People's Republic of

Bangladesh, Bangladesh Secretariat, Dhaka.

9. Mr. Promod Mankin, Honourable State Minister, Ministry of

Cultural Affairs.

10. Mohammad Shah Alam, MP and Chairman, Parliamentary

Standing Committee on CHT Affairs, Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban,

Dhaka.

11. Mr. Jatindra Lal Tripura, MP and Chairman, Task Force on

Rehabilitation of Returnee Refugees and IDPs, Khagrachari.

12. Mr. Bir Bahadur, MP and Chairman, CHT Development Board,

...

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