one is rice eating bihari,bengali muslim the other is chapati eating
muslim punjabi,pathan....
nothing in common
one is
baath kao na ?
the other is
roti kali ?
hahaha!
only potata is available in bangladesh
what a pity
baath koa na ?
Khuda hafeez
"VognoDuut218" <japak@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Indian state facing famine
> after rat plague
> Agence France-Presse . Manila
> A million people in northeastern India face famine after rats destroyed
> most
> of the rice crop in their state, the International Rice Research
Institute
> has said.
> The 2007 infestation spread over to the border areas of Bangladesh and
> Myanmar in early 2008, 'increasing fears of widespread food shortages,'
> the
> Philippines-based institute said.
> It left the Indian state of Mizoram, home to about a million people,
> with
> just one-fifth of its monthly rice requirement.
> 'Aid agencies have re****ted that many people have been forced onto a
> diet
> of wild roots, yam and sweet potatoes,' the institute said in its
> quarterly
> magazine 'Rice Today'.
> IRRI said the rat population boomed after the flowering of a native
> species of bamboo, an event that occurs only once every 50 years.
> 'After exhausting the feast of bamboo seeds, the rats turned to the
rice
> crop,' it said.
> It gave no immediate estimates of the damage on the neighbouring
> countries.
> Rice prices have soared this year, triggering civil unrest in at least
> two dozen countries according to UN agencies.
> India is the world's second largest rice producer after China and is
> also
> one of the world's key ex****ters.
>
>
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