Palash Basak's Blog

Starting with the audacity of youth, Shahbag Movement (the Movement) is nothing but the outburst of a long-pending dissatisfaction of the people of a country for fair trial against war-crimes. The Movement is not for revenge, and it is not against any particular religious-believe. The Movement is to confirm the justice for the crimes against humanity which has been delayed for more than four decades. The Movement is to bring-back the spirit of 1971 war of independence. The Movement is to re-write the history of Bangladesh. The demand of Shahbag Movement is very clear and simple - ‘ ensure capital punishment for the war-criminals of 1971 ’. At the same time, ‘the war-criminals should not be allowed to be organized with political, financial or social establishments’. And the ‘people’ of the country has endorsed the demands. The Movement is not going to say how the demands will be full-filled, but it has already established the points. Now, it is the responsibility of the represen...

Night Lights of Bibiyana Gas Field Bibiyana Gas Plant, which is producing more than 30% gas of Bangladesh at present, is one of the remarkable features in the night lights of North-Eastern Bangladesh. It appears that the Bibiyana Gas Plant's light is brighter than that of Sunamganj, one of the districts under Sylhet Division. It is also visible in the night light map of Bangladesh as well. Bibiyana is expected to be larger than the initial estimates . Chevron, the operator of the gas plant, is going to invest additional 500 million dollars which is said to the single largest foreign investment in Bangladesh . The original image was taken by the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (Suomi NPP) satellite in any day between April 2012 and October 2012, and has been copied from NASA's Earth Observatory website ( Night Lights 2012 - Flat map ). This map has been created by annotating the original image in Google Earth (with international boarders) an...