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Debating is considered a battle of minds. But it is a healthy battle, a healthy competition that helps develop the mental faculties like quick thinking, ability to reason and face the audience with courage. it is encouraging to note that most of the educational institutes of the country are extending full support to the students and faculty members in their efforts to popularize debating as an extracurricular activity.
I personally feel that a great silent battle has been going in the reputable educational institutions in order to transform debate into a modern art. And the good result has been debate is no longer confined in the elite circle—-rather it has spread its wings across innumerable institutions in the remote areas of the country.
National Debate Federation Bangladesh is the pioneer in carrying the torch of debate to the grass root level of Bangladesh. Debate used to be practiced in a small scale in the rural areas of Bangladesh and the quality of debate was increasing in both rural and metropolitan areas of Bangladesh. To minimize this gap NDF Bangladesh took the initiative to pass the light of debate in the remotest part of Bangladesh with the aim to equip the rural students with value-based logical knowledge of their known world. Currently around 365 schools, college and universities are attached with NDF BD & 50,000 member with our logical force.. NDF bd is persistent with the improvement of these institutions and their activities include debate schooling, workshop, competition, career and leadership development programs.
The main objective of NDF BD in taking debate to the districts and beyond to create social awareness among students on various social, political and economic issues to enhance and facilitate the development of value-based human resources. Preparing the next generation with vale-based knowledge and leadership skills to make each citizen a global player in the new era of globalization.
WE BELIEVE THAT DEBATE AS A CONTINUOUS LEARNING PROCESS CAN MOST EFFECTIVELY HELP BUILDING A RATIONALISTIC SOCIETY—THE GOAL OF HUMAN CIVILIZATION.
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AKM SHOAIB
CHAIRMAN
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Sammy opts out of BPL
Sammy opts out of BPL
West Indies captain Darren Sammy has opted out of the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) so that he can play in the domestic regional four-day competition and prepare for the upcoming home series against Australia in March. 
Sammy was bought by Sylhet Royals for $55,000 at the player auction in Dhaka on Thursday. Continue reading
Google, Facebook oppose Web control in Delhi HC
NEW DELHI, Jan 16 (bdnews24.com/Reuters) – Internet giants Google and Facebook told the Delhi High Court on Monday that it is not possible for companies to block offensive content that appears on their websites, in a case that has stoked fears about censorship in the world’s largest democracy.
Google and Facebook are among 21 companies that have been asked to develop a mechanism to block objectionable material, after a private petitioner took the websites to court over images deemed offensive to Hindus, Muslims and Christians. Continue reading
NASA catalogs thousands of asteroids near Earth
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 7 (bdnews24.com/Reuters) – About 1,000 asteroids big enough to cause catastrophic damage if they hit Earth are orbiting relatively nearby, a NASA survey shows.
In a project known as Spaceguard, the US space agency was ordered by Congress in 1998 to find 90 percent of objects near Earth that are 1 km (0.62 of a mile) in diameter or larger.
The survey is now complete, with 93 percent of the objects accounted for, astronomer Amy Mainzer of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, said at the American Geophysical Union conference in San Francisco on Tuesday. Continue reading
Bullet-proof’ evidence of past water found on Mars
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 9 (bdnews24.com/Reuters) – A NASA rover scouting for signs of past water on Mars has found the strongest evidence yet — a vein of gypsum, a mineral deposited by water, protruding from an ancient rock.
The rover, called Opportunity, and its twin, Spirit, arrived on opposite sides of Mars in January 2004. Over the years, the rovers, aided by several orbiting spacecraft, have returned a convincing body of evidence that Mars was not always as cold and dry as it is today.
The most convincing proof, unveiled this week at the American Geophysical Union conference in San Francisco, is a thin vein of gypsum laced inside and protruding from an ancient rock along the rim of a 96-mile wide crater called Endeavour.
Gypsum — commonly known as plaster of Paris — typically forms from water flowing through rock.
“This is the single most bullet-proof observation that I can think of that we’ve made this entire mission,” Cornell University planetary scientist Steve Squyres, lead researcher for NASA’s Spirit and Opportunity Mars rovers, told Reuters.
While Spirit, which is no longer operational, and Opportunity have previously found evidence of other water-deposited minerals, many questions remained.
“They’ve been moved around by wind. They’ve been mixing with other materials. It’s a big, jumbled up, fascinating mess,” Squyres said.
In contrast, the newly found gypsum is threaded into a rock. “This stuff formed right here. There was a fracture in the rock. Water flowed through it. Gypsum was precipitated from the water. End of story,” Squyres said.
Both the chemistry and the geologic conditions “just scream water,” he added.
Opportunity is expected to analyze other suspected veins of gypsum around the crater before moving on to probe what appears to be water-formed clays.
Water is considered to be a key condition for life. A new rover, named Curiosity, is en route to Mars to assess if another site, called Gale Crater, has or ever had water and other ingredients, including organics, necessary for life.
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Weaker countries get more wrong decisions: Kamal
Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) president Mustafa Kamal has said that weaker teams get the short end of the stick when it comes to umpiring decisions.
“I was listening to the commentators during the recently concluded Pakistan series. Everyone mentioned there that we got bad decisions,” Kamal said during the launch ceremony for the 2012 Asia Cup on Monday, reports ESPNcricinfo.
“If those decisions went our way, the cricket would have been more competitive but we couldn’t do that. To err is human. I cannot talk against umpires being an ICC director, but I have seen that against weaker countries, there are more wrong decisions.”
Kamal was referring to the fourth day of the second Test at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium, when Bangladesh opener Tamim Iqbal was given out caught even though the ball appeared to have struck his helmet and lobbed to the slip fielder.
It was a crucial time for the Bangladesh team who were in pursuit of saving the game. There was a loud clamour for the Decision Review System (DRS), though this wasn’t the first such instance.
During the England series in March 2010 as well, there was a lot of talk surrounding the BCB’s reluctance to use technology with then captain Shakib Al Hasan being one of the advocates.
In the second Test of that series, coach Jamie Siddons was seen fuming at some of the decisions in the England first innings. Umpire Asoka de Silva’s mistakes during the Pakistan tour in 2003 was the first flashpoint of Bangladesh’s angst with decisions.
Kamal was recently named the joint-nominee from Pakistan and Bangladesh for the ICC vice-presidency, and is in line to take over as president in 2014.
He said that during the ICC’s meeting a few months ago, the deliberations on making technology mandatory were put on hold as the system isn’t foolproof yet. However, he stated that the next Bangladesh television deal would include the use of DRS.
“In the October ICC meeting, the DRS was discussed. There it was decided that since the technology hasn’t been developed to that extent and there are mistakes in the DRS system itself, it won’t be made mandatory.
“In our deal with Nimbus, there was no DRS. But from next April, when we will discuss with another broadcaster, we will tell them to include DRS in all our games.”
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