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Mitra Bahini lay of locals siege to dhaka, call Sundarban’s ecology under threat

for surrender of TBT d eSk pak forces The situation of the world's largest mangrove forest 'Sundarban' is worsening DHAKA : By the 13th of December, three days post the oil spillage form the oil tanker Southern Star 7. Estimated 1971 the war was coming to an end. 250,000 litres of oil has now spread throughout the 34,000 hectares of land, The Soviet pacific fleet and the US sev - expanding from the Shela river and Passur river towards the Bay of Bengal, caus - enth Fleet was facing each other in the ing unimaginable effect not only to the biodiversity of the region, but also to the Bay of Bengal, while the Mitra Bahini livelihood of the residents and fishermen. The leak has been denoted to be an eco - was firmly placed around Dhaka for logical catastrophe. the penultimate battle, reports BSS. Even though the sunken oil tanker has been salvaged from the river, the oil Inside the besieged city were about spillage hasn't been brought under control. A thick layer of oil is spreading 30,000 Pakistani troops and 6,000 throughout the nearby areas. The oil spill has already blackened the shoreline, Mitra Bahini troops were outside the threatening trees, plankton, vast population of fishes and dolphins. city. And more Mitra Bahini soldiers As per the officials the total environmental damage cannot be accounted as yet, were on the way. however the damage will be visible soon and it is predictable. The water quality of The chief of staff of the Indian army, the region has already been damaged to a great extent, which will leave a disas - General S H F J Manekshaw, once trous result in the upcoming days. again appealed to the Pakistani forces The toxicity has spread in the air. As per the fishermen of the areas, dead fishes to surrender, unconditionally. The and crabs are seen floating on the rover. Dead crabs and crocs are now visible on message was repeatedly broadcast the shore. Oil tanker 'OT Southern Star-7' capsized on the Shala in Sundarban carrying 3 lack 57 thousand 664 liters over All-India Radio, every hour, both The area is also known to be one of the largest sanctuaries for rare species of dol - of oil. The locals started extracting the oil from the river-water from Friday. \ photo: Banglar Chokh in English and Urdu. phins; however, no dolphins have been spotted in the area since the mishap. It is In a message to General Rao Farman expected that tigers and dolphins too will be immensely affected. Crabs, which are Ali, civil affairs' advisor to General the largest single group in the forest are facing the biggest threat. Niazi, the same message was con - Environment specialists included that if crabs are affected, dolphins will find it Blasts kill at least veyed. even difficult to breathe. > (Contd. on page-11) WB expected to provide 2bn in The message was sent to Farman Ali because he was behind the UN resolu - 40 in Nigerian tion for cease-fire a few days back which was later scuttled by Pakistan's city of Jos project assistance in current FY Two bombs exploded near a bus sta - president, Yahya Khan. Meanwhile, Truck accident in Jessore kills tion in the central Nigerian city of Jos on Indian air-strikes in Dhaka were con - DHAKA : The World Bank is likely Primary Education Development Thursday evening, witnesses said, the to come up with huge financing Programme III, Income Support for tinuing. second one killing at least 40 people, The Pakistani leadership in occupied worth nearly $ 2 billion for the Poorest Programme and 3 including JUST student reports Reuter. Bangladesh in the current fiscal year Multipurpose Disaster Shelters -- Dhaka was visibly upset by the misin - Casualties from the first blast could formation fed to them by Islamabad. (2014-15) against some important with a total commitment of $1.075 JeSSOre COrreSpONdeNT Yasin Ali (35), Khairul Islam (42) and not immediately be ascertained and General Niazi, the GOC-in- proposed projects, including ones in billion. Bikash Biswas (40), were admitted to Nigerian security sources could not Command of East Pakistan was so education, disaster shelters, urban ERD additional secretary Kazi At least three people have been Jessore Medical College Hospital. immediately be reached for comment. shaken that he went to Governor resilience and livelihood improve - Shofiqul Azam told the news agency killed and 10 others including children University Vice-Chancellor Abdus Bomb blasts that bore the hallmarks of Malek complaining about the situa - ment, reports UNB. that the World Bank is likely to injured when a truck hit a human Sattar confirmed the death incident of Islamist Boko Haram militants killed tion. hauler on Jessore-Chowgacha high - Eight of the projects seeking the approve fund for the three projects at the student (Abu Hamid) to The 118 people in the same area of Jos in World Bank's support are Primary its Board meeting on December 16 (Contd. on page-11) way at Abdullahpur Bazar under > Bangladesh Today correspondent. May. Education Development Programme next. Chowgacha upazila in Jessore. Following the accident, students of "I saw a flash of light and heard a loud The deceased were identified as, III - AF ($ 400mn), Income Support The senior ERD official in charge of JSTU rushed to the spot and set the boom. Afterwards there was debris for the Poorest Programme ($ the World Bank wing also hoped that 19 Bangladeshis Abu Hamid (24), a third year student truck on fire, which infuriated trans - everywhere and mutilated bodies," wit - of Physical Education Department of 300mn), Multipurpose Disaster the aid disbursement by the World port workers and a chase and counter ness Tanko Mohammed said of the blast Shelters ($375mn), Bangladesh Bank to Bangladesh would cross a Jessore University of Science and in Jos's commercial Terminus district. A rescued while being chase between the students and the Urban Resilience Project ($165mn), record $ one billion mark in fiscal Technology, Khadiza Begum (50), Reuters reporter counted 11 bodies at workers. NATP II ($ 160mn), Nuton Jibon 2015. hailing from Chaugachha and Anisur one bomb site and 29 at the other. trafficked to India Electrical and Electronic Livelihood Improvement Project ($ Besides, the government and the Rahman (28), from the same area. Boko Haram is a Sunni jihadist move - Engineering student of the university, 200mn), Pro-Poor Slums Integration World Bank struck a deal on Local witnesses informed The ment that has been waging a five-year thru’ Satkhira Al-Amin said, "After the accident inci - Project ($ 80mn) and Financial December 7 last under which the Bangladesh Today that a speedy truck insurgency to establish an Islamist state SATKHIRA : Members of Border dent, the many of JUST students Sector Support Project ($ 300mn), , multilateral lender will provide $ 60 dragged a passengers carrying in the northeast of the country. Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in a drive came out from the university gate according to sources at the Economic million to modernise Bangladesh's 'Bhatvati' (Vehicle's local name) from President Goodluck Jonathan rescued 19 Bangladeshi people while while the transport workers locked in Relations Division (ERD). Value Added Tax (VAT) administra - the back side leaving three dead on the declared a state of emergency in three they were being trafficked to India a clash leaving a few students injured". An official at the ERD told UNB tion and to boost tax revenue. spot including a university student, northeastern states last year. The num - through Gazipur border here Friday "Even they (transport workers) cre - that the Washington-based lending According to the sources, the World but the truck drive had fled away sens - ber of attacks has risen sharply since morning, reports UNB. ated obstacles while we the friends agency is likely to sign three deals Bank has 31 ongoing projects ing the mass beating. then, in the run-up to elections in The rescued people hail from and well-wishers were trying to go to with the government in January, amounting $6.7 billion in "Jessore University of Science and February 2015. Gazipur, Sunamganj, Mymensingh the hospital area", the student added. 2015 for three of the projects -- Bangladesh. and Thakungoan districts. Technology students blocked the Jessore kotwali police station The latest blasts came as both > (Contd. on page-11) Tipped off, a BGB conducted a drive Jessore-Chaugachha road to protest Officer-in-Charge Anamul Hoque Jonathan's ruling party and the main in the area and rescued them from the the death of fellow classmate. Around said: "A Jessore-bound truck knocked opposition coalition agreed on candi - border in the morning, said Nayeb 12:00 pm they torched the truck set down the human hauler around 11am dates to contest the elections, in which Subedar Haider Ali, BOP Commander fire on road", source added. on Friday, killing three on the spot security is likely to be a major campaign Biman’s domestic flights ‘cannot of Gazipur border. Others injured were- Swapna (24) and injuring the others." "Now the issue. Former military ruler Later, they were handed over to and her daughter Ratna (4), Khadiza situation is under control and law Muhammadu Buhari will be challenging Satkhira Sadar Police station. Begum (35) and her daughter Bristy enforcers have been trying to arrest Jonathan at the polls for the second A case was filed in this connection. (8), Zahid Hasan (2), NGO activist the truck driver soon", he added. time. take off next month as planned’

DHAKA : Biman Bangladesh Airlines' efforts to regain its lost domestic passen - ger market through resuming its local flights next month have suffered a setback as it could not yet sign the necessary deal with the Egyptian aircraft supplier com - pany, reports UNB. "The plan to resume Biman's domestic flights won't be possible from the next month as the agreement with Egyptian Smart Aviation for a pair of Dash 8-Q400s is yet to be signed," AM Mosaddique Ahmed, a director of Biman, now serving as acting managing director and CEO of the national flag carrier, told UNB. He said the representatives of the Smart Aviation were scheduled to sign the deal in October last but they could not. "They'll be here to sign the deal in the mid - dle of this month." Namaz Timings The aircraft are supposed to be taken on dry lease basis for five years, Mosaddique said. A dry lease is an arrangement whereby an aircraft financing entity (lessor) provides an aircraft without insurance, crew, ground staff, support - Today ing equipment and maintenance. Start Jamaat "We had a plan to resume the flights early next month, but now it seems that it's not possible now, we need more time," Mosaddique said. Fajr 05:14 AM 05:45 AM This was Biman's seventh attempt to collect turboprop aircraft for resuming Zohr 11:56 PM 01:15 PM flights on its domestic routes along with some other regional ones. Currently, it Asr 03:37 PM 04:15 PM has no small aircraft to carry passengers on domestic routes. Biman will also use the Dash 8-Q400s aircraft to operate on two regional routes Magrib 05:17 PM 05:18 PM -- one to Yangon and the other to Kolkata. Esha 06:35 PM 07:30 PM At present, four private local airlines -- United, Regent, Novoair and US-Bangla Tahajjud after midnight -- fly mainly on four domestic routes from Dhaka to Chittagong, Cox's Bazar, Sylhet and Jessore. Source: Islamic Foundation The Dhaka-Chittagong route draws the highest volume of traffic followed by SUNSET : 05:14 pm Dhaka-Jessore one. SUNRISE : 06:32 am Jessor Science & Technology University student, Abul Hanif dies including 2 others on a road accident, Currently, around 50,000 passengers fly on the domestic routes a month where revenge stricken people set fire to the truck. photo: Banglar Chokh Dhaka-Chittagong route carry almost 70 percent. > (Contd. on page-11) THE BANGLADESHTODAY 2

NNATIONALATIONAL SATURDAy, DECEMBER 13 , 2014 Russian delegation visits Dhaka WHO to implement guidelines University Habibur Rahman Ovi for indoor air quality DU Correspondent: DHAKA : World Health Organisation year have been attributable to ambient (or Ural Federal University of (WHO) yesterday targeted to implement outdoor) air pollution and approximately 40 Russia delegations paid a new guidelines for indoor air quality: percent of the deaths from indoor air courtesy call on Dhaka household fuel combustion, at a regional pollution and 25 percent of those attributed University Vice-Chancellor workshop of representatives of Member to outdoor air pollution occur in the eleven Prof. Dr. AAMS Arefin States on air quality and human health countries of WHO South-East Asia Region, Siddique on Thursday at the organized in New Delhi, India, reports UNB. he said. latter's office of the "We must act to protect people from air "The ministries of health must play a university. pollution ... Half the deaths due to stronger role in communicating the health The delegation, included pneumonia in children aged less than five impacts of air pollution and advocate for Dr. Anna Kurumchina and years can be attributed to household air policies by other sectors that offer the most Professor Vladimir pollution making it a leading risk factor for health benefits," added Dr Khetrapal Singh. Gryaznov, visited the childhood deaths," said WHO Regional Representatives from Member States, the university area by the Director for South-East Asia Dr Poonam Global Alliance for Clean Cook stoves, Clean warmth reception of Prof. Khetrapal Singh. Air Asia and US Centers for Disease Siddique. Four million deaths each year have been Surveillance and Prevention are among the During the meeting they attributable to exposure to household air participants at the two day workshop, discussed about the joint pollution and a further 3.7 million deaths per concluded yesterday. A rally was brought out on Friday at Dhaka university area led by DU VC Professor AAMS Arefin Siddique collaborative academic and after the inauguration of the 6th National Undergraduate Mathematics Olympiad. Around sixty research programs as well as competitors are participating in the competition. Photo : TBT talked about signing a MoU between the University of Dhaka and Ural Federal University of Russia. 10 best freelancer women to be awarded today BFUJ, DUJ protest DHAKA : Ten successful women in Sundar Sikder will be the special guest. under the scholarship programme on conspiracies against freelancing career, who have done their The women have completed Graphics, SEO and Networking. courses under the scholarship freelance courses from Creative IT, one On the occasion, certificate will also programme of the Hi-Tech Park, will be of the pioneering IT institutes of the be given to the students completed journalist Halim Azad awarded here today, reports BSS. country, under the Skill Enhancement their courses, managing director of the DHAKA : Bangladesh The award will be given at a reception Programme of the Hi-Tech Park of the Creative IT Monir Hosen said. Federal Union of Journalists programme to be held at the National Ministry of Science and Information Winners of Graphics, Photography (BFUJ) and Dhaka Union of Museum auditorium at 10 am. and Communication Technology. and Blogging competitions will be Journalists (DUJ) yesterday State Minister for Information and About 2,000 youths, half of them given award and the students of strongly protested the communications technology (ICT) women, have completed freelance Creative IT will be introduced with two conspiracies being hatched Zunaid Ahmed Palak will present the course from Creative IT in the last one new job areas to help the freelance by a vested quarter of function as the chief guest while year, out of which 800 students graduates to find their employment, he Narayanganj against Deputy secretary of the ICT ministry Shyam completed their courses free of cost said. Chief News Editor of Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS) Poet Halim Azad, reports UNB. In a joint statement, BFUJ President Manjurul Ahsan Bulbul and Secretary Extra police protection was deployed at Baitul Mukarram National Mosque on General Abdul Jalil Bhuiyan Friday. Photo: Banglar chokh and DUJ President Altaf Mahmud and General Secretary Quddus Afrad said Halim Azad is not only a well- established journalist, Bangladeshi ‘Moon but also a front-ranking Freedom Fighter of the War of Liberation. Boat’ exhibited in Paris The journalist society will give a befitting reply if the evil activities which the vested quarter launched Int’l Nautic Show against him (Halim Azad) for fishing in troubled DHAKA : An authentic Moon Boat from A book entitled "Boats, a Treasure of waters are not stopped Cox's Bazaar is on display in the Bangladesh" written and published in immediately, they said. International Nautic Show from English by Yves Marre and Enayetullah The BFUJ and DUJ December 5-14 at the exhibition center Khan was also presented at the event. leaders alleged that the of Porte de Versailles in Paris, reports The book documents the naval Quantum foundation on Friday conferring silver and gold medals to the volunteer blood donators. The award vested quarter is out to UNB. tradition of Bangladesh and the receivers are seen with chief guest Barrister Amir-ul Islam and others distinguished guests. Photo: Banglar chokh misguide the people by This 28-feet long beautifully designed importance of boats to the Bangladeshi disseminating false, traditional country boat was brought to population as a means of transport and fabricated and untrue Paris from Cox's Bazaar by a French trade and a toll for adaptation to floods. information by quoting NGO named Watever, aims to raise A large number of French citizens as comments of Halim Azad awareness about the naval heritage of well as members of the Bangladeshi that he made at a rally of Bangladesh and the necessity to community in France attended the NDC, AFWC graduation dinner held "Toqi Mancha" held at No 2 preserve it, said a press release. inaugural ceremony of the event held on Railgate in Narayanganj Bangladesh Embassy in Paris December 10. DHAKA : The Graduation Dinner of country, he emphasized the need for Hasina for patronizing the college as town on December 5. partnered with Watever by sponsoring a Artist Shahabuddin Ahmed, Mime National Defence Course (NDC) and greater synergy and integrity among the Chairperson of the Governing "We strongly protest and reception at the inaugural gathering by Artist Parthopratim Majumder, NBR Armed Forces War Course (AFWC) - all national forces for attaining much Body. condemn the ill efforts to which the moon boat has been presented Chairman M Ghulam Hussain, former 14 of the National Defence College coveted goal of national development Among others, Chiefs of three attach stigma to this at the Nautical Show. Navy Chief Rear Admiral M A Taher were held at Mirpur Cantonment in and security. services, members of parliament, Freedom Fighter and The Moon Boat exhibition was (Retd), social and political personalities the city on Thursday, reports BSS. He reiterated government's ambassadors of different High journalist," they said. inaugurated by Bangladesh Ambassador and embassy officials were present at the Security Affairs Adviser to the Prime continuous effort in developing the commissioners in Dhaka, PSO of to France M Shahidul Islam. inaugural ceremony. Minister Major General (retd) Tarique country to fulfill the desire of the Armed Forces Division, senior Ahmed Siddqui attended the people and accomplish the secretary of the Government, vice Factory sealed off for programme as the chief guest, said a Millennium Development Goals in chancellor and Professors of different release yesterday. future. universities, defence advisers of producing poultry Highlighting the role of NDC in Commandant NDC Lieutenant different countries in Bangladesh and building national cohesion to address General Mollah Fazle Akbar expressed high officials of Defence Forces feed of tannery waste development challenges in the his gratitude to Prime Minister Sheikh attended the Graduation Dinner. DHAKA : A Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) mobile court sealed off a poultry feed factory at Hazaribagh 2 'thugs' hurt Beribadh in the city on Friday on charge of in city cop producing the fodder using poisonous tannery waste, firing, 7 held reports UNB. Two of the factory DHAKA : Police arrested employees were also seven alleged extortionists punished in this connection. from the city's Badda area A team of Rab-2, led by its on Friday evening deputy director Dr Md following a firing that left Didarul Alam, conducted a two of the gangsters drive at 'Hypo Feed Factory' injured, reports UNB. at 42/8/Ka Sonatangar of Two policemen were Hazaribagh Beribadh at also injured in the about 11:30am. incident. During the drive, it was Police had information found that poultry feed was that a gang of 7-8 being produced at the extortionists went to a factory using tannery waste house at Road-10 of DIT which is harmful to human Rehabilitation Project to health. collect toll, officer-in- Later, the Rab team charge of Badda Police detained two employees -- Station MA Jalil told UNB. Saiful Islam, 24, and Md Based on the Jamal Miah. information, a police team During interrogation, conducted a drive at the Saiful revealed that house around 5:30pm to although factory owner arrest the criminals, he Khalil who is suffering from said. cancer instructed them not However, the gangsters to use poisonous tannery tried to flee the scene waste for producing the firing on the law enforcers fodder, they had long been that prompted police to using those defying his GD-1770/14 (6X3) fire in self defence. order. THE BANGLADESHTODAY 3

NATIONAL SATURDAy , DECEMBER 13, 2014

Manikganj celebrates its 1 killed, 10 liberation day today injured in Tangail Monirul Islam Mihir, Manikganj road crash Correspondent Md Nasir Uddin, Tangail People of Manikganj district will observe Correspondent today (December 13) as 'Manikganj liberation day'. Marking the day a fortnight fair titled One person was killed and 'Muktijuddher Bijoy Mela' will be held Govt. ten others injured in a road Boys High School Field. accident at Dhaka-Tangail Declaring the district (the then sub-division) highway in Kurni area under free from Pakistani occupation forces, heroic Mirzapur upazila on freedom fighters hoisted national flag atop the Thursday night. Primary Training Institute at Manikganj on The deceased was this day in 1971. identified as Babu Miah of Under the leadership of Captain Abdul Kurigram district. He was a Halim Chowdhury, the freedom-loving people bus driver. of Manikganj prepared to resist the Pakistani Whip of Jatiya Sangshad Shahbuddin Ahmed inaugurated and laid the Warehouse inspector of army in March 1971. foundation stones of extension of Barlekha upazila parishad building and Mirzapur Fire Service Abdus A day after the declaration of independence hallroom as the chief guest on Thursday. Photo : Abdur Rob Samad informed that, the on March 26, freedom fighters took firearms accident occurred when a from Manikganj Treasury and started passenger bus and a cavard training. van collided head to head at As the Pak forces captured important around 3 am, resulting the establishments, entered different areas of the Cold weather disrupts bus to fall in a ditch 25 feet district and killed many innocent people, from the road. 10 people freedom fighters formed 'Biplobi Parishad' at were injured due to the Kowri village in Harirampur upazila. normal life in Rajshahi accident, of them 6 people Divided into several groups, they engaged in were admitted to Mirzapur several fights with the occupation forces at RAJSHAHI : Normal life in temperature during the past He said a huge number of Health Complex Hospital. Golaidanga village in Singair upazila on the city and its adjacent 24 hours. children, attacked with viral On Friday evening police October 28. areas is being affected due to Local Met Office recorded fever, ARTI (Acute removed the bus from the Seventy-eight Pak soldiers were killed a the continuous cold weather the season's lowest Respiratory Tract Infection), ditch. Then the fire service fierce battle with freedom fighters. In the last coupled with chilly wind and temperature of 10.1 degrees Bronchitis, Pneumonia and members recovered the week of November in 1971, fresh groups of dense fog for the last couple Celsius against the highest of Diarrhoea, are being dead of Babu Miah. freedom fighters entered different areas of of days, reports BSS. 22.6 degrees Celsius in admitted to the hospital. He Manikganj and defeated Pakistani troops in a The sufferings of daily Rajshahi today while also mentioned that ‘End early and Martyrs' memorial set up in front of Shahid Miraz-Tapan few battles. Finally they declared the then sub- wage earners like day yesterday's minimum malnourished and Stadium in Manikganj. Photo : Monirul Islam Mihir division free on December 13. labourers, rickshaw pullers, temperature was recorded premature babies are forced marriage’ traffic police and farm 11.1 degrees against the especially vulnerable to the labourers have also been highest 17.4 degrees. cold related diseases. Raushan Over 400 Jamaat- mounted during the Sources said the Meanwhile, many elderly Proper microcredit management morning and evening hours. temperatures marked patients, attacked with Salauddin Belal, Mymensingh Shibir men on the The overall cold-wave further fall due to decrease asthma, Bronchitis, Correspondent situation deteriorated in the in humidity and blowing of Respiratory Infection, and run in Palashbari region with the lowering of Himalayan winds from the cold allergies, are also Leader of the Opposition in for women empowerment stressed mercury level coupled with north and northwestern being admitted to RMCH, Parliament Begum Raushan Rafiqul Islam, Gaibandha reducing gap between directions. Upazila Health Clinics and Ershad MP has urged to end RANGPUR : Proper management in governance in the small-scale CBOs and Correspondent minimum and maximum Mounting Cold spell with different private clinics in early and forced marriage. microcredit and savings activities of small- cooperative societies could unite the poor to mild chilly wind and heavy the district. She said early and forced scale community based organisations (CBOs) enhance productivities in all rural sectors, A chase and counter- fog has triggered cold- According to the marriage is a violation of human could accelerate uplift to alleviate poverty including agriculture and enterprises, in the chase between the related diseases. concerned sources, the rights that destroys girls' bringing self- reliance to rural women for their process of building a middle income Jamaat-Shibirmen and 5 brick kilns The number of patients unusual cold situation has childhoods and women's lives. It empowerment, reports BSS. Bangladesh. the police took place at suffering from Pneumonia, been preventing people has to end. If we all come forward Speakers said this at the concluding The chief guest stressed effective Palashbari upazila in fined in Asthma and respiratory from going outside of together then we can end child ceremony of a three-day training course on managements in the grassroots level Gaibandha when the complications increased in residences in the morning marriage and forced marriage 'Savings and Credit Management' organised cooperative societies to accelerate the process Jammat-Shibirmen Barguna the upazila and district level along with creating within a very short time. by Fulbari Area Development Programme of developing human resources as well as brought out a procession BARGUNA : A mobile court hospitals, including negative impact on day- to- She said this while addressing (ADP) of World Vision Bangladesh (WVB) at women leadership to eradicate poverty marking the first here on Thursday penalized Rajshahi Medical College day life. the inauguration ceremony of Madila Sub-centre under Fulbari upazila of through increasing productions and creating anniversary of Jamaat Taka 3.70 lakh as fine to the Hospital, with rise in Especially in the early Shambhuganj GKP Degree Dinajpur on Thursday afternoon. jobs. He called for making best use of the leader Quader Mollah's owners for illegal running of intensity of cold biting, the hours, only a few people College and orientation Fulabri Upazila Cooperative Office allocations and assistance being provided by execution on Thursday. brick kilns in Amtoli upazila hospital sources said. are seen going out of their program for new students as extended necessary assistance in arranging the government and non-government Police filed cases of the district, reports BSS. Talking to BSS, Assistant houses on urgent need the chief guest on Friday. the course from December 9 to 11 and organisations to accelerate rural uplift and accusing around 80 The court, jointly Professor Dr Belal Uddin of while the day labourers The programs were presided participated by 25 female leaders of Betdighee women empowerment in building the identified Jamaat-Shibir conducted by Department of Pediatrics Department of cannot work in fields due to by president of GKP Degree Mohona Mohila Samobai Samity Limited poverty-, exploitation-and hunger-free leaders and activists Environment and district Rajshahi Medical College the biting cold. College Sirajul Islam. Among under Betdighee union of the upazila. Bangladesh. including Palashbari administration , also served and Hospital informed that In addition to the others parliament member Fulbari Upazila Cooperative Officer upazila parishad notices to the owners of all three Pediatrics wards of sufferings of the people, Faqrul Imam, Salauddin Mukti, Mohammad Abdul Rouf attended the chairman Nazrul Islam Dhaka Bricks, Bijoy and the hospital were occupied particularly the poor, former upazila chairman concluding ceremony as the chief guest with Sugarcane crushing begins Lebu, and vice chairman Shishir Enterprise, FMS with patients attacked with cultivation especially Foyzur Rahman Kabir, Programme Officer of Fulabri ADP of WVB amir Abu Taleb Master, Bricks, Hossain Bricks and cold- related diseases. Even, wheat, potato, chilli and professor Sultana Parvin, Badal Sangma in the chair. in Joypurhat sugar mill and 300/400 unmanned HRB Bricks for stopping many patients took shelter Irri-Boro and pisciculture chairman Nur Md Mir, etc also Fulbari Upazila Cooperative Officer others on charge clashing their industrial units on the floor of the wards. has been affected. gave speeches. Mashrekul Alam, Joypurhat Correspondent Mohammad Abdur Rouf and Madilahat with police and operations. Branch Manager of non-governmental The current season's sugarcane crushing vandalizing vehicles in During the raid, the development organisation 'Podokhkhep' began in Joypurhat Sugar Mill (JSM) here, different places of the owners of brick kilns have facilitated the training course as the Trainers. the largest state-owned sugar mills of the district. failed to show any legal The trainers provided training to the country, on Friday. Palashbari Thana OC, documents to the members participants on fundamental concepts of Elderly sugarcane farmer Alhaj Abdur Mojibur Rahman of the court in favour of cooperative, account keeping, maintenance of Rahman and elderly mechanic Nurul Islam informed that, they have establishing their units. documents, difference between shares and jointly inaugurated the crushing programme arrested 15 Jamaat-Shibir The court, led by assistant savings, cooperative checklist and financial at a simple function, which was also featured activists including Amir commissioner of Barguna report, savings guidelines, loan guidelines, a Milad Mahfil on the mill premises in Sakwat Hossain a listed district Sheikh Shamsul budget preparation, audit and other related presence of a large number of sugarcane terrorist of a special group Arefin, is comprised of the issues. growers. Deputy Commissioner of Joypurhat titled "Action Committee" officials of Department of The participants took part in the training district, SM Solaman Ali, upazila parishad formed by Jamaat till Environment and district course actively and expressed full satisfactions chairman Fazlur Rahman, municipal mayor Friday evening. After administration. for acquiring necessary knowledge and Abdul Aziz Molla, upazila vice chairman investigating police expertise to run financial and microcredit Hasibul Alam Liton, etc were present at the discharged 4 people who Valiant daughters activities in their organisations better in occasion. Abdus Salam, Managing Director of are believed not be future. The speakers stressed enhancing Joypurhat Sugar Mills said that, as much as involved with the capacities of CBO leaders, small andmarginal 6,425 tonnes of Sugar is targeted to be incident. of Habiganj farmers and entrepreneurs to ensure proper produced during the current season by The remaining members HABIGANJ : Responding financial managements in freeing the nation crushing 90,000 tonnes of sugarcane. The are now undercover and to the call of Father of the from poverty and hunger through achieving price of sugarcane has been fixed at Taka police members launched Nation Bangabandhu self- reliance by the poor rural women. 97.60 per mound in different purchasing drives to hunt down the Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, They said proper management with good centres of the mills' zone this year. remaining accused. women of Habiganj also joined the Liberation War in 1971, reports BSS. When the Pakistan army arrived in Habiganj it was the 12th of Joishdha. Akhoy Chandra Shukla Baidya had got up from sleep late at night to feed the cattle. He was imprisoned by the Pakistan army who had already entered their house. They broke the door and arrested his elder brothers, Rakhal Chandra and Jyotindra Ram Shukla Baidya. They were tied to an army jeep and taken to the nearby house of the Pals. Hearing the sound of gunfire Akhoy's son Tenu Shukla Baidya came out from the house. They were all shot along with Bipin Pal, Harendra Pal, Brojendra Pal and a purohit (priest). Later, they were thrown into a hay stack and burnt to death. The others of the two households were kept in custody in the house of one Rashid Miah, a we`y¨r/Rb-584(2)11/12/14 Members of 29 Border Guard Battalion Bangladesh (BGB) seized smuggled Indian goods worth Tk 30 lakh collaborator of the Pakistan wRwW-1773/14(8 x3) after searching a train in Fulbari upazila under Dinajpur district on Friday. Photo : Banglar Chokh army. THE 4 BANGLADESHTODAY

EDITORIAL Saturday , december 13 , 2014

THE BANGLADESHTODAY big ideas in Social change, 2014

Acting Editor & Publisher : Jobaer Alam tina roSenberg Telephone: +8802-9104683-84, Fax: 9127103 e-mail: [email protected] This year, people in Charleston, S.C., problems early. bank, just a locked box. No outsiders at suspended and then expelled, even in taught young children to read. In Las In India, the nongovernmental group all, in fact, except to facilitate preschool, and sometimes arrested. Saturday, december 13, 2014 Cruces, N.M., others cured hepatitis C. Pratham devised one-page tests for spreading the word and getting things This policy succeeds only in And still others treated depression in basic reading and math. Volunteers started, and not always then. These sabotaging the education of the the slums of Kampala, Uganda. with very little training go door-to- groups go on for years and years with children who need it most - mostly On the surface, these people have door to test children. Because of their no intervention. low-income African-American or ensuring supply of nothing in common - except for being simplicity and portability, these tests The advantages are obvious: women Hispanic boys, many of whom have featured in Fixes columns this year. have allowed Indian parents for the who live too far away from anything to already faced daunting, often But they are all cousins, in a sense. first time to grasp the true failure of be served by a bank or traditional overwhelming, problems. When a 6- safe vegetables They all owe their success to one the country's educational system - and microcredit can benefit, which means year old is aggressive, uncontrollable Winter is the best time of the year in Bangladesh for consumption of particular strategy. mobilize to do something about it. they are less likely to experience food or violent in class, the question vegetables and winter time for this country has arrived. The supply of This year in the Fixes column, we've Especially when care involves shortages during the year. After the shouldn't be "What's wrong with him?" vegetables in the winter time is found to be particularly good in terms of looked at 60 or so ways that people are behavioral change, less training can be initial training, these groups cost but "What happened to him?" The price and variety. Health conscious people in the country are also more trying to change the world. Some of an asset, not a liability. Who's better at nothing to run. And they last. Projects answer, too often, is that he and more taking an interest to replace meats in their diets with these projects are successful, some getting people to improve their eating NGOs bring in from outside often fall experienced homelessness, divorce, vegetables. partially successful, some are failing in and exercise habits? A doctor - an apart when the NGO pulls out. Not family violence, incarceration, drug Therefore, at a time when consumption of vegetables in the country ways we can learn from, and some are authority figure who can spend only 15 savings groups, because they truly use, neighborhood violence, sudden are clearly on the rise, it indeed comes as disappointing that vegetable intriguing ideas that have yet to minutes and generally learns little belong to the women themselves. (The separation or loss - or typically a producers and their handlers at different levels in the distribution chain compile a track record. about a patient's life - or a health Family Independence Institute in the combination of the above. Researchers are resorting to large scale use of pesticides in the fields to preserve the The initiatives we've covered are - worker from the patient's own United States uses a similar model of now call these things ACEs or "adverse vegetables and at secondary levels the handlers are using various quite literally - all over the map. But community, with the same problems, self-organized problem-solving led by childhood experiences." Increasingly, chemicals to artificially lend colour or appearance of freshness to such there are ideas that unite them, a few who can visit the patient at home and families, and has also produced they are measuring them and vegetables. strategies that show up over and over has the luxury of spending time? surprising results. discovering how drastically they can Both the insecticides and chemicals can be highly toxic . They make again. By connecting the dots we can Experience indicates it's the latter. We usually define "helping people" decrease the chances of a successful the vegetables ( on which these are applied) toxic. Thus, in this manner get a sense of what can work in various Task-shifting can be an alternative as doing things for them. But often, it life if parents, educators or doctors fail toxic substances enter the human food chain as consumption of such contexts to solve many different types any time resources are short and should mean asking them to do things to recognize them and respond. But vegetables by humans means passage of the toxins into human bodies. of problems. These, then, are Fixes' people can learn to do a specific for others. People like to feel parents and teachers can learn new, Regular entry of toxins in human bodies can cause many deadly nominations for the big ideas in social activity without the full training competent, useful, needed - they and better ways of helping these diseases including cancer and failures of vital organs like kidneys and change of 2014. specialists receive. Reading Partners benefit greatly from that feeling. That's children - far more effective than livers. Reading Partners in Charleston, succeeds, for example, because it the insight behind the work of The reflexive punishment - and the kids So far, nothing has been heard that any organization is engaged in Project ECHO in New Mexico, and isolated the key components of helping Mission Continues, which asks themselves can learn ways to calm any service to persuade the farmers not to use pesticides but to go for Strong Minds in Kampala all rely on children learn to read, and found a way veterans - a highly service-oriented themselves and manage their strong natural ways of pest control. Nobody has warned or taken actions task shifting: taking jobs normally to teach them clearly and quickly to group - to continue serving at home, emotions. against vegetable sellers not to spray chemicals on them considering the restricted to specialized professionals community volunteers. working with chronically homeless Social determinants follow students health hazarding aspects of such practice. and turning them over to people with Like other forms of task-shifting, this veterans, building playgrounds or all the way through their educations. Thus, it is high time for the relevant ministry to do something far less training in order to reach is a money-saver, as volunteers or low- mentoring young people. Community colleges have become the immediately to safeguard public health from the serious threat posed by underserved groups. paid workers are stretching the efforts Another example is the Homeless colleges of the poor in this country. poisoned vegetables. Recently, we noted some activism against the use of higher-paid professionals. Such World Cup, a series of local, national And six years after enrolling, only one- of formalin in kitchen markets specially against formalin sprayed on At face value, task shifting sounds programs also allow people to get and international soccer leagues for third have completed a degree or fishes and fruits. But this kind of activism is found missing in relation to dangerous. After all, we have access to preventive services, which homeless people. If you listed what transferred to a four-year college. vegetables. But considering that vegetables are consumed a great deal at professional qualifications for a almost always result in huge savings homeless people need, a soccer league Why do students drop out? this time of the year and considering the grave health risks associated to reason. It takes training and later. The advantages of task shifting probably wouldn't figure high on that Overwhelmingly, it's that they can't consumption of vegetables laced with pesticides and insecticides, it is experience to be a good teacher, can be summed up in the aphorism: list. And yet it can be a catalyst, a afford school, and can't afford to take only proper for all concerned to swing into action to demand the purity hepatologist or psychologist. People in "Don't let the perfect be the enemy of painless way to for a homeless person time off from work to study. of the vegetables. those professions have learned things the good." to build the confidence, trust and One response is Single Stop, which Researchers at the Institute of Development Policy Analysis in they need to know. This idea is related to task-shifting - relational skills to be able to go after all has offices now spreading through Bangladesh found banned and suspect pesticides among the 12,000 What's next, having amateurs take in fact, it's the main reason task- the other things they need. community colleges that help people tonnes imported into the country last year -- a three-fold increase over over the operating room? It's already shifting is effective: we often It can also work for depression, the find out if they qualify for benefits such the last decade . Suppliers continue to sell many chemical and also 12 happening. Zambia, a country the size underestimate what ordinary people world's second most burdensome as food stamps, child care subsidies, particularly controversial pesticides dubbed the "dirty dozen" by of Texas, has only six surgeons in its can accomplish and succumb to disease - for women, it's first. In federal financial aid or the earned- activists campaigning worldwide to stop their manufacture. But rural areas. So it offers clinical officers stereotypes about low-income people Kampala, Strong Minds is testing cost- income tax credit - and if so, Single gullible and illiterate farmers are persuaded by glib sales talk at a three-year surgery course, during or minorities. Look at the Springboard effective ways to treat depression, with Stop helps clients to get them. promotional camps, and through incentive schemes, to buy new which they learn to do the most Collaborative, a summer reading the goal of eventually getting to self- Looking for the social determinants unregistered formulations that promise to protect crops against pest commonly needed operations, such as program in Philadelphia, for example. sustaining peer groups. Peer support is not the same as looking for root attacks and disease C-sections, hysterectomies, Springboard uses the public school groups do successfully treat causes, which can sometimes become In a recent survey of 820 boro (winter rice), potato, bean, eggplant, appendectomies and bowel system's most underemployed depression. They can be doubly an excuse for inaction - the idea that cabbage, sugarcane and mango farmers in Bangladesh, more than 47 obstruction surgery. resource: low income, predominately effective, in fact, because people get you have to solve everything before percent of farmers were found to use more pesticides than needed to Personally, I'd prefer a surgeon. But African-American or Latino parents, a more out of helping others than being you can solve anything. Both concepts protect their crops. in rural Zambia, a surgeon isn't the group usually falsely written off as helped. Helping others reinforces their recognize that poverty causes With only four percent of our farmers formally trained in pesticide use alternative. Death is. Task shifting unable or unwilling to help their own behaviors, and being useful is in interlocking problems. But targeting or handling, and over 87 percent freely admitting that they used little or matters because it brings good things children. itself a depression-fighter. In social determinants is specific and no protective measures while applying pesticides, overuse is potentially like health care and education to Alejandro Gac-Artigas, Alcoholics Anonymous, the very model practical. A medical clinic doesn't have a very threatening problem to farmers' health as well as the people who otherwise wouldn't get Springboard's founder, wondered of a self-sustaining peer group, to lift a child out of poverty to treat her environment in this country. Thus, in Bangladesh there is an urgent them at all. whether low-income parents didn't get research shows that sponsors benefit asthma. But it must get the landlord to need to actively promote safer pesticide use and hygienic practices And not just in Africa. Project ECHO as involved with their children's more than the people they sponsor. do mold abatement. Schools can't among people who handle these substances. began training rural doctors by video education as more affluent parents But it's best to do both - and in peer reduce adverse childhood experiences. Research findings also highlight the need for policymakers to design because when it started, in 2003, only because they didn't believe they had support groups, people do. But they can manage their impact. effective, targeted outreach programs that address pesticide risk, safe 5 percent of New Mexico's 34,000 much to offer. So Springboard's system A medical mystery: A child lands in You don't have to solve everything to handling, and protection. The approach should ideally be participatory, chronic hepatitis C patients were gives parents an easy-to-use the hospital with asthma. The doctor make progress on social problems. But with a view to addressing the most dangerous information gaps. getting treatment. It uses regular case- curriculum that mainly involves asking prescribes medicines. The child uses what needs to be solved may be hidden Another important finding from Bangladesh is that specific crops and based training, and specialists work questions of the child before, during them - properly. Yet two months later, from view. Finding it, attacking it and geographic locations experience more overuse than others. For the most remotely with the front-line doctors and after reading - even parents who she is back in the hospital. measuring the results - that's a big idea measurable results, interventions should focus on these crops and and nurses. can't read can use it. Parents average Maybe the problem is that the child in social change, this year and every regions. Another example is dental over 90 percent attendance at the lives alongside mold, insects and rats. year. Information on how pesticides affect health is quite limited in therapists, who have two or four years weekly training sessions - and instead That child doesn't need a doctor - she Bangladesh. Farmers in Bangladesh are often unable to distinguish the of graduate training. They are treating of falling back several months over the needs a lawyer, who can persuade, or symptoms of pesticide poisoning from other health problems which patients in Alaska and Minnesota (and summer, which is standard for low- threaten, the landlord to clean it up. - The New York Times suggests that regular medical checkups and blood tests should be soon, Maine) who live in areas with income kids, their children gain more And at more than 230 medical clinics Tina Rosenberg won a Pulitzer conducted for those who handle highly or moderately toxic pesticides. limited access to dental services. than three months in reading. "In our around the country, lawyers are on Prize for her book "The Haunted Also, farmers should be encouraged to switch to lower-hazard pesticides Task-shifting doesn't necessarily experience, people want to do things hand to help. Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After and use protective gear to reduce individual health risks. mean second-class care, and they're good at and avoid things they're Health isn't just a medical problem. Communism." She is a former Even when individual farmers are careful, pervasive contamination sometimes it produces better results bad at," said Gac-Artigas. Health is undercut by substandard editorial writer for The Times and from others' pesticide use and persistent pesticide residues in local than the specialists do. The patients A world away, nine million women in housing, air pollution, food deserts, the author, most recently, of "Join water, air and soil may pose significant health risks. Collective with hepatitis C in rural New Mexico villages in Mali and some 40 other dangerous streets, trauma and toxic the Club: How Peer Pressure Can measures, therefore, can be an important complement to individual seen by local non-specialists do better African countries are living better by stress - the social determinants of Transform the World" and the actions. than those seen at the specialist clinic using savings groups. Women make health. Being poor can make you sick, World War II spy story e-book "D Chemically polluted runoff from fields has contaminated surface and in Albuquerque, possibly because small deposits at each meeting, and and doctors can't always help. for Deception." She is a co-founder ground water, damaged fisheries, and destroyed freshwater ecosystems health workers from the same members can borrow from the pool of Education, too, has social of the Solutions Journalism in Bangladesh. A significant part of such contamination is the result of community do better at getting funds. determinants. "Zero tolerance" has Network, which supports rigorous unregulated pesticide use. patients to stick to their care plans, It's sort of like microcredit - except become the fashion in American reporting about responses to social But a great deal of positive changes can occur with Integrated Pest and can interact regularly and catch there's no money from outside and no schools - kids who act up are problems. Management (IPM) and conventional techniques. IPM comprises a range of approaches, from carefully targeted use of chemical pesticides to biological techniques that use natural parasites and predators to control pests. Results from Bangladesh suggest that the productivity of IPM based farming is not significantly different from the productivity of conventional farming. Since IPM reduces pesticide costs with no the eu is heading for disaster accompanying loss in production, it seems to be more profitable than conventional farming. Peter oborne Interview results also suggest substantial health and ecological benefits. However, collective adoption of these methods is a must. The single currency's final unwinding representatives included Michael political parties have emerged, from the back into a danger zone. Neighbours' continued reliance on chemicals to kill pests will also kill may well give Britain everything it wants Heseltine, Peter Mandelson, Tony Blair, far-Left and far-Right, brought into Last Monday, it was learnt that France helpful parasites and predators, as well as exposing IPM farmers and from Europe and may help realise Ken Clarke, Nick Clegg and Danny existence by a common scream of despair and Italy would soon breach their fiscal local ecosystems to chemical spillovers from adjoining fields. Thatcher's eternal vision of a Europe of Alexander, at the time only a cadet against a broken system. For the time limits. There are signs of disharmony at nations member of the European political class, being, the former political class remains the European Central Bank (ECB). Yet As Karl Marx was one of the earliest to so perhaps the chief secretary can be in charge. It has as much legitimacy as the more proof that no central bank can exert point out, economics (though so much forgiven) ignored all warnings. Indeed, ancien regime in pre-revolutionary real authority without a state behind it. less interesting) is far more important Lord Mandelson is still advocating British France, with the same moral bankruptcy, The ECB is racking up worthless report illustrates cia's than politics. Marx considered all political membership! It is impossible to calculating venality and profound sense sovereign debt and bank loans in its events as epiphenomena. He viewed great exaggerate the arrogance, the bone- of entitlement. doomed battle to save the Eurozone: In men as blind instruments of irresistible headed stupidity and above all the This elite has the same distaste for due course, there will be an almighty row legacy of mistrust forces, which they themselves could brutality and callousness of these democracy as 18th-century lords and over about who will pay up for the black hole. con coughlin hardly comprehend. The Marxist vision Europhiles. Their demented attempt to the long term, the same chances of Hopes that economic growth will float the The revelations of the agency's systematic torture of terror suspects of society has been disproved many times, impose a new economic model on an survival. In its dying convulsions, Jean- Eurozone off the rocks have been have stripped it of its integrity. always at epic human cost. unworkable political structure has Claude Juncker's political class has extinguished by forecasts of stagnation Fifty-five years ago, when work began on the CIA's new However, his doctrine that productive already caused untold suffering. abolished democracy. Italy has had three from the cruelly realistic ECB. headquarters at Langley, Virginia, Allen W. Dulles, the spy agency's forces propel history has stood the test of At the heart of their project is an consecutive unelected prime ministers Meanwhile, the Eurozone has been first civilian director, stipulated that its motto, taken from St John's time - and is invaluable for an audacious attempt to prove the primacy since Silvio Berlusconi's scepticism about plunged into deflation, meaning that in Gospel, should be inscribed at the building's entrance. To this day, understanding of the current of politics over economics. Bear in mind the euro caused the European Union real terms the value of debt will rise, a anyone who enters the vast complex is confronted by the engraving: predicament of the European Union. It that it is an experiment for which the (EU) elite to recruit an unscrupulous chilling repeat of the European "And ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free." elegantly explains why European European elite personally do not have to cabal of bankers to remove him (former experience of the 1930s. Most deadly of It is unlikely that the thousands of employees who work there are Monetary Union was destined to fail. The pay a price. Their experiment has caused US treasury secretary Timothy Geithner all is the resurrection of the Greek debt feeling particularly liberated in the wake of the US Senate state socialists and former communists depression (not recession as inaccurately gives a gripping account of this horror. The country is ungovernable and last Tuesday, the president was (quite Intelligence Committee's damning report into the agency's who invented the euro never got to grips reported by pro-European journalists at unwholesome manoeuvre in his recent controversial programme to detain and interrogate terrorism rightly) sacked, opening up the possibility with this aspect of Marxist thought. Only the BBC and elsewhere) across much of memoir). of a spring general election and thus suspects after the September 11 attacks. Conservatives with an intelligent Europe. This is getting worse. The Italian That it has survived so far is thanks to a President Barack Obama insists that Americans should continue causing the biggest collapse on the Athens appreciation of economics and history - economy is moribund, social cohesion series of financial confidence tricks, of stock market in 27 years. We are very to consider CIA officers as "patriots" to whom the country owes "a an enlightened congregation that has vanished and Italians are starting to which the latest example is Juncker's close now to Marx's moment of profound debt of gratitude". But there will be many at Langley who included Margaret Thatcher, Oliver turn venomously on immigrants. The implausible scheme to convert 21 billion alignment. The political structure must be feel a deep sense of betrayal that, yet again, the agency has found Letwin, Peter Lilley, Tim Congdon, John Greek economy has shrunk by 30 per euros (Dh95.5 billion) of equity into a 315 made to fit the economic reality, or vice itself caught in the crosshairs of a bitter political battle between Redwood, Nicholas Ridley and Alan cent, and one quarter of the population is billion euros slush fund to relaunch the versa. Bear in mind that the single Republicans and Democrats over how best to confront the threat Walters - grasped that the EMU would out of work. Youth unemployment in European economy. This amounts to no currency will only work with a single posed by Islamist terrorists. Indeed, there are many current and collapse under the weight of its own Spain stands at an unspeakable 50 per more than wishful ravings, though it economic policy, a single treasury, a former CIA officials who are already questioning the veracity of the contradictions, and that it was folly to cent. would be financially disastrous if by some single system of taxation and spending, a committee's account. construct a single currency before the We are talking about tens of millions of malign chance it were put into effect. single national parliament and single political conditions were in place. ruined lives and busted dreams. This Things cannot go on like this and this political identity. - The Telegraph Group Limited, London, 2014 Meanwhile, the European elite, who reality has already brought about a month, we have witnessed a series of advocated the euro (British convulsion in Europe. Entirely new telling signs that the Eurozone has turned - The Telegraph Group Limited, London, 2014 THE BANGLADESHTODAY 5

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Northeast India needs a Yoda For the northeast of India to importance of the northeast to Southeast Asia. Modi inaugurated a power plant in to both. The heart of the issue separate Naga inhabited and thanked Bangladesh for disaster and suffered prosper and finally make it wing of a house for the announced a slew of much Tripura, With a nearly US$10 being the Naga peace talks administrative unit. On the allowing transhipment of incompetent governance home to economic fame and prosperity of its occupants, needed projects including billion budgetary allocation which have been running other hand Nagaland's chief heavy machinery to the 726- since independence. social stability, we perhaps Modi dreamt big for the scholarships for students, a for the northeastern region, around in circles for 17 long minister T R Zeliang pressed MW gas-based power plant at The immediate challenge is need a Yoda of Star Wars region as India's gateway to national sports university, Modi's focus is on years, with no resolution in upon Modi to finalize the Palatana, 60 kilometers south to provide a personal fame. Someone who can Asia in the 21st 'Asian agricultural colleges, infrastructure, both inside sight. The Armed Forces Naga peace process. of Agartala, the capital of leadership to resolving the predict the future; offer Century". upgraded power and digital India and on projects linking Special Powers Act (AFSPA) is Modi did throw a poser to Tripura. festering thorny issues that insights on what needs to be In a whirlwind tour connectivity and new railway the northeast regionally such a widely criticized issue in the Nagas during his speech at The genesis of the majority have long plagued the region. done, and the time plots of covering Assam, Nagaland, lines. as the road from Imphal to Manipur's civil society. the Hornbill Festival to "take of these issues and the theme What needs to be done now is when and how to get there. pause to look back at the past of Modi's visit lie in the follow through with final I say this with some fifty years and take stock". economic deprivation of the binding political and measure of seriousness (as And while Modi has northeastern region since administrative decisions to someone with roots in the instructed his official independence. Modi did well secure the region and ensure harmony amongst its region) as the negatives that interlocutor to bring speedy to kick off massive economic packages to alleviate the multitude of ethnic groups afflict the region are far too closure to the Naga issue and communities to truly get many: armed conflicts, intra- within 18 months, the prime anxieties of people of the northeastern states. With the 'being India's gateway' ethnic violence, secessionist minister kept his cards close share of prosperity in this movements, unemployment, to his chest. enhanced infrastructure in place, Modi is betting big on "Asian Century". demands for secession, lack of Modi did reveal his his would require a different boosting economic infrastructure, cultural intentions of following up on conceptualization than just development with tourism, estrangement, political the land swap agreement with state-driven approaches organic agriculture, textiles, indifference, ethnic hatred, Bangladesh to demarcate the based on a "synthetic" sense of and limited tolerance for border comprehensively. In IT-enabled services and unity. Rather, it will require ethnic "others". We therefore Assam, the prime minister traditional industries. His the meeting of cultures, of have to aspire, like in the pushed for this solution in long-term goal is for the peoples, of hearts, of feeling world of space, to something tandem with cracking down region to act as the economic that being part of the 'Indian higher than ourselves, to that on existing illegal immigrants bridgehead for India into dream' is truly emancipating infinite cosmic unity that as the most effective Southeast Asian markets. for individuals and for ethnic makes the impossible seem measures, although the While Modi's visit was an communities. It will require a internal one to the northeast, real. We will come to this proposal will seem like a loss sense of organic natural unity it does underscore the aspect later in the article. in the short term. Modi's in diversity, not something importance the region plays in On the morning of announcements were not well forced down from Delhi, but the new foreign policy November 29, the day Prime received in Assam, which something spontaneous, outreach of India to Southeast lively, and inspiring. Minister Narendra Modi along with West Bengal, Asia. Towards this end, the began a tour of the Meghalaya and Tripura That is why we need a Yoda, resolution of all internal issues an old Jedi force who is northeastern region of India, stands to lose about 40 square has become prime imperative he tweeted of how he was kilometers of land to powerful, wise, and has a to prepare the region for its strong vision for the future. eagerly looking forward to Bangladesh. role as India's "Gateway to Hopefully, northeast India attending a wide variety of Tripura Chief Minister Asia in the 21st Asian will finally get it act together programs and connecting Manipur and Tripura, the He addressed regional Mandalay in Myanmar. Prior to the PM's arrival, Manik Sarkar demanded that Century". So Modi certainly with the people. Invoking prime minister coined a new police chiefs, waved off the Modi's visit to Nagaland Manipur's chief minister Modi take up transportation has his plate full to achieving for itself. But then again, hope Vaastushastra (the Indian acronym: NEZ, or Natural first train from Guwahati to and Manipur was especially Okram Ibobi Singh had access through Bangladesh internal stability and cannot be a policy. Steps have traditional system of Economic Zone, and called for Meghalaya, laid the significant due to the long- reiterated that his state will with that country. In his international connectivity in a to be tangible and realistic, harmonizing energies for the region to be developed foundation stone of the first running ethnic insurgencies not sacrifice 'an inch of land' outreach to Bangladesh Modi region that has been a plotted on a time-scale with architecture) to highlight the through economic corridors railway line to Mizoram and and political issues common towards the creation of a offered to sell surplus power complete administrative achievable goals. CIA torture: the Xi and the end of Zhou Yongkang BEIJING - With the famous coup de main more and more conservative state institutions to fit their show the people inside China - Yet, once standards are set, future starts here expulsion from the Communist organized and carried out by Nationalists (KMT). desires. and also outside, since the they live their own lives Party last week of Zhou Mao's former head of security, Last but not least, Mao This was objectively driving country is growing in stature in independent of the people who I have now read most extensive reporting on Yongkang, the former security Wang Dongxing. wanted to keep his options China into the Soviet trap of the the world - the new system and shaped them in the first place. of the 499-page how much of the czar and member of the This time the arrests have open with the United States, Brezhnev era, in the 1970s, to firmly cement the principle The need to face practical summary of the Senate intelligence gathered Standing Committee (China's been carried out in slow which was growing disaffected when powerful industries (in that will rule China in the results and realities came back Intelligence Committee was not useful - either supreme political body), motion, in a prolonged with the ever more corrupt the case of China, the State- future. to bite Mao in the case of the report on CIA torture. the CIA already had it, or paramount leader Xi Jinping campaign over months and KMT. To achieve his multi- Owned Enterprises, or SOEs) In fact, it will take years and a Great Leap Forward in the late Having spent years could have been has officially brought an end to years that is continuing. This pronged objectives, Mao had to were carving up the state, great amount of dexterity and 1950s. Mao's friends and investigating the abuses obtained more easily. A an era. Zhou's removal, indicates that in 1976 the power establish a "cultural hegemony" corrupting it, and making the wisdom to fully apply the supporters went to him saying detailed by the clear narrative emerges meaning he will soon be openly of the Gang of Four was still (the term comes from Italian country a hollow shell moved principle of the rule of law in a that his wonderful idea of fast committee, I did not that the torture of Abu tried in court, in fact has only very strong. An open Communist Party chief by the interests of a few country accustomed for development through people's think it was possible to Zubaydah and Khaled one precedent: the capture of confrontation with them in the Gramsci, who had oligarchs. Private enterprises, decades to the naked exercise of mobilization was not working; still be shocked by the Sheikh Mohamed the notorious Gang of Four in party was deemed difficult, independently developed the the dynamos of growth since power. The same was true with it was making people starve to CIA - but it is. appears to have been 1976 and their trial in 1980. with uncertain results, and to theory in the 1930s) over the the late 1970s, were being Mao's pragmatic "Chinese death, not wealthier. The report repeats counter-productive - the The Communist Party has get rid of them, Wang party and the country. He then pushed aside by all- characteristics". They had to Mao's first response to these many facts already CIA got some three governing bodies, from Dongxing's allies thought it did that by affirming the encompassing SOEs, keen on cut through decades of very criticisms could not be to deny reported about the CIA intelligence eventually bottom to top: the Central necessary to strike fast. The principle of "Chinese devouring all competition - at ideological divisions and a the theory of checking the torture program, but it seems they were Committee, the Politburo, and same people eventually ended characteristics" (zhongguo the cost of making the overall dogmatic nationalism that had reality on the ground (the including the use of doing quite well with the Standing Committee. up bringing Deng Xiaoping tese). economy less efficient and become grafted into a defense ideological backbone of his brutal stress positions, both men before they Since then, top victims of back to power. The idea, in very simplified slowing down China's of the imperial system, all of power) but had to be to deny extended sleep started using the most inner-party struggle - starting Xi, however, didn't control terms, was that practical development. which defended the status quo the truthfulness of the deprivation with bright brutal techniques. with Zhao Ziyang, the former security (which was in the conditions in China could The idea of rule of law has and old vested interests against messengers in order to deny light and loud noise, The report makes it general secretary and Standing hands of Zhou) or the PLA (in waterboarding, and seem the CIA had very Committee member who lost the hands of Xu Caihou and shutting detainees inside little capacity to his job for supporting the Guo Boxiong), so he had to coffins. determine when student demonstrators in proceed differently. He moved It also contains new detainees they were Tiananmen Square in 1989 - through the party machinery, details showing that CIA torturing were actually have been demoted and which was in his hands, and torture was even more giving them true censored, but never publicly advanced in a slow, systematic egregious than information - the report tried. In the mid-1990s, the way, eliminating not a few previously thought: cites a few examples Beijing party chief, Chen heads but all people who didn't painful restraints, use of where the CIA thought a Xitong, a Politburo member, comply with the new course, punitive "anal feeding" detainee was lying when was sentenced by a court, but thousands and thousands of or "anal rehydration," in fact he was being his higher-ranking ally in the people, as we have seen in the and forcing detainees truthful, and vice versa. Standing Committee was not past couple of years. with broken leg bones to There is also a pitiful even named. About a decade The present law-and-order stand shackled against a footnote (number 442) later, his Shanghai colleague battle seems to be both the wall. The number of that describes the Chen Liangyu, also Politburo reason for and the result of this detainees was also bit ridiculous interrogation member, followed the same power struggle. It is the reason higher than we thought: of Abu Bakr al-Filistini, course, but his mentor Huang because without gearing up a at least 119, not 90 to also known as Samr al- Ju, in the Standing Committee, complex theoretical and 100. Many were released Barq, who under torture was spared the public ignominy ideological set-up, the party - some are now free, but stated and recanted his of a trial and left to die of (which like the Roman Catholic it will be hard to track statements so many cancer. Church is moved by deep them down. One in five times it raised the For a while, it seemed that "theological"/idealistic goals) didn't meet the CIA's question of why he was the same pattern would be would not find enough reasons own definition of who even being questioned. followed with Bo Xilai, the to get rid of these very powerful should be detained. CIA interrogators former Chongqing party chief figures. The interrogations profiled in the report are and Politburo member. He was It is the result because a new clearly took a heavy toll, revealed as far less publicly displayed in court last method is being set up now, a especially because the professional and trained year, but the fate of Zhou, his system of rule of law (in abusive methods were than the CIA and White key mentor and again a Chinese yi fa zhi guo, to mark it Standing Committee member, is really the concept of "rule of used in combination and House had previously over the long-term. They still hung in the balance. law," as is also stressed by its argued. Overall the Initially, it looked as if Xi would English translation, and not the built upon a base of sleep impression is of CIA deprivation and denial be content with just spreading "rule by law," which the old override ideological concerns. brought back the standard of the need for deep and dramatic the message. When the personnel and officials the news of Zhou's misfortune ambiguous fa zhi might have Therefore, a concrete accurate efficiency and development - modifications. message became totally of human contact. Many who didn't really know detainees were severely and the disgrace heaped on his entailed) in which even the reading of reality on the ground and it has placed in a new light The rebuilding and reshaping undeniable, he had to what they were doing, allies in the military: former mightiest party honchos are - rural China, which Mao even the concept of Chinese of the party in the early and relinquish power in the early affected, both physically but were pretending PLA (People's Liberation subject to the law. understood better than his characteristics, something that mid-1940s, the victory in the 1960s. and mentally - one is otherwise. Army) Commission vice This process - only the urban-educated comrades - was invoked right and left to civil war in the late 1940s, and He did so grudgingly, described as "clearly a The report summary is chairmen Xu Caihou and Guo process, not much else - is was to be the standard by which justify particular behaviors, then the early years of suspecting dishonesty and broken man", another a very disturbing read. Boxiong. similar to what Mao Zedong to gauge results and policies. which in fact were not-so- communist power in the 1950s disloyalty and thus unleashing "on the verge of a Will the full 6,000-page Now, for the first time, the applied in 1942 in Yan'an, at the Almost by definition, the 28 special corrupt practices. saw a massive effort to root out the Cultural Revolution on his complete breakdown." committee report be news of Zhou's expulsion conference on ideology and Moscow-trained comrades, The consequences of the new (sometimes dramatically) old former friends in the mid- One passage, describing brings us back to the end of the literature. Mao then had to get fully acquainted with the USSR rule of law are multifold. Now, habits and vested interests. 1960s. The movement denied the interrogation of the declassified? Will it push the Obama Cultural Revolution. It is the rid of the overbearing power of but out of touch with rustic it is almost like a magic wand in The next years might witness any practicality of the Chinese CIA's first detainee, Abu end of an era, Xi is clearly Moscow - which sent money China, were out of the game. Xi's hands, but it has a similar push, although this characteristics and moved Zubaydah, notes that he administration to prosecute those stating, but there is an that was vital for the sheer This time Xi is using different compulsory consequences. If time the effort could be limited China into a new theoretical "frequently 'cried,' important difference between survival of the beleaguered standards: not Chinese the rule of law is to be applied, to within the party and not realm, with little or no touch responsible for torture 'begged,' 'pleaded,' and that end and the present. Then, party - and the 28 Moscow- characteristics but the rule of then the people who brought extended to the whole society. with reality. Mao then did 'whimpered,' but as international law the notorious four (Jiang Qing, trained Chinese "Bolsheviks" to law (yi fa zhi guo). He had the country to the brink of In fact, this time Chinese establish a new cultural continued to deny that requires? Unless Zhang Chunqiao, Yao take full control of the party. plenty of reasons to relentlessly collapse - and are incidentally society and Chinese private hegemony, but this time it was he had any additional criminal acts carry Wenyuan, and Wang Mao wanted to keep the campaign for a new rule of law enemies to Xi - have to be enterprises have mostly based only on his crude use of information on current criminal penalties, there Hongwen, either Standing money, get rid of the 28 in a situation in which party eliminated, in accordance to enthusiastically embraced power and cruel abuse of threats to, or operatives is little to prevent a Committee or Politburo Bolsheviks, take over the party, officials and their clients pulled the new laws of the country. change and reforms that human emotions and not on in, the United States." future president from members) were all arrested at and open up to Chinese liberal strings right and left, pushing Zhou and his cohorts are to although launched and guided actual needs and necessities - The report contains using torture again. once, by surprise, within a few intellectuals, who were growing laws and regulations aside at be publicly tried; not to be by the party, were also opposed and therefore, it failed minutes of one another in a hesitant in their support for the their convenience and shaping made into examples, but to by some sectors of the party. miserably after a short spell. 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Historical Day u Australia PM Abbott wants Atiur indigenous referendum in 2017

Rahman’s Australia: Australian PM Tony Abbott has ations of discrimination and disadvantage vowed to "sweat blood" to secure constitu - have left them with poor health and low lev - Birth Day tional recognition for indigenous people, els of education and employment. "That Atiur Rahman, Governor of saying he wants a referendum in 2017. would be a richly symbolic time to complete Bangladesh Bank, the cen - But Mr Abbott said he would not rush with our constitution," he said. tral bank of the country was the date until he was confident the referen - "But I do not want it to fail because every born on this day in 1953 in dum would succeed, reports BBC. Australian would be the loser. It is more Jamalpur . As a develop - To be passed, the change must be backed important to get this right than to try to rush ment economist of by a majority of people in a majority of Aus - it through." And Mr Abbott stressed: "I am Bangladesh, he is noted for tralia's six states. prepared to sweat blood on this." writing on popular econom - The constitution currently does not recog - "The country we created has an Aboriginal ic issues, and has written a nise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders heritage, a British foundation and a multi - number of books both in as the nation's first people. cultural character and it's high time that this Bengali and English. On 29 Unlike in other nations settled by Euro - reality was reflected in our constitution." April 2009, he was appoint - peans, such as Canada and New Zealand, Meanwhile, opposition leader Bill Shorten ed as the governor of Australia's constitution does not mention urged the referendum question to be for - Bangladesh Bank, the cen - indigenous people. malised before the next general elections for tral bank of the country, for In the past few years, there have been dis - the campaign to move forward. a tenure of four years. Atiur cussions about recognising them in a pre - Mr Shorten said that otherwise "it is just Abe's base aims to restore past religious, patriotic values. Japan Today Rahman has distinguished amble to the constitution, and about chang - not possible to raise awareness (about the himself as an expert on ing the main part of the constitution to issue) beyond the abstract". poverty alleviation. It is his include a section that outlaws racial discrim - In 2010, the government formed an expert pet area and he has been ination. panel to examine constitutional recognition Abe’s base aims to restore past engaged in first hand Aboriginal Australians represent about of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peo - research to find the causes 2.5% of Australia's 24 million people. Gener - ples. of poverty and means of religious, patriotic values remedy. One of the most important researches is his work on char (shoal) TOKYO : As Prime Minister Shinzo him," said Yutaka Yuzawa, director of Conference), a broader lobby group for dwellers and poverty allevi - Abe promises voters a bright future for the Shinto Association of Spiritual which Abe serves as a "supreme advis - ation. Atiur Rahman is a Japan's economy, key parts of his con - Leadership (SAS), the political arm of er". popular newspaper colum - servative base want him to steer the the Association of Shinto Shrines. The Experts see parallels between these nist who often writes on nation back toward a traditional ethos group, which counts Abe as a member, groups and the U.S. Tea Party move - poverty, public expenditure, mixing Shinto myth, patriotism and is one of a network of overlapping ment, with its calls to restore lost Amer - economic development, pride in an ancient imperial line. organisations sharing a similar agenda. ican values. public welfare and such oth - Proponents say such changes are "The prime minister's views are "Nippon Kaigi and the Shinto Associ - er socio-economic issues. needed to revive important aspects of extremely close to our way of thinking," ation basically believe the Occupation He has published 45 titles as Japanese culture eradicated by the U.S. Yuzawa told Reuters in an interview. period brought about ... the forced of 2009, of which 16 are in Occupation after World War Two and Among the key elements of the SAS removal of Shinto traditions from pub - English and 29 in Bengali to counter modern materialism, agenda are calls to rewrite Japan's U.S.- lic space and public institutions," said some of them are Agami reports Japan Today. drafted, post-war constitution, not only University of Auckland professor Mark Diner Bangladesh: Ekusa Critics say they mirror the Shinto ide - to alter its pacifist Article 9 but to blur Mullins. "For them, this was authentic sataker Unnayana Bhabana, ology which mobilised the masses to the separation of religion and state. Japanese identity ... and to be an inde - Pathak Samabes, Alo and - fight the war in the name of a divine Education reform to better nurture pendent and authentic Japan again harer Bangladesh: Manab emperor. The legacy of that war still "love of country" among youth is anoth - those things need to be restored." Unnayaner Sambhabana O Tony Abbott is a long-term supporter of constitutional recognition of haunts ties with China and South Korea er top priority. Abe has long been close to such Cyalenja, Mawla Bradarsa, indigenous Australians. BBC nearly 70 years after its end. "After the war, there was an atmos - groups but they have increased their Apaunnayan: Samakalin A predicted landslide win by Abe's phere that considered all aspects of the reach since his first 2006-2007 term as Bangladesher Arthaniti, Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in a pre-war era bad," Yuzawa said. "Poli - leader. Samajniti, Pyapirasa, Jana - general election on Sunday, called as a cies were adopted weakening the rela - Membership data show 301 mem - ganer Bajet: Amsagrahana - India MP Sakshi Maharaj sorry referendum on his economic growth tionship between the imperial house - bers of parliament, mostly from the mulaka Pariprekshita, policies, and prospects Abe may hold and the people ... and the most LDP, are affiliated with the SAS, includ - Pathaka Samabesa. become a rare long-term Japanese fundamental elements of Japanese his - ing 222 in the 480-seat lower house leader have given his ardent supporters tory were not taught in the schools." before the election. A Nippon Kaigi for praising Gandhi killer their best chance in decades of achiev - Similar concerns drive other organi - caucus had 295 members, including Lok Sabha passes ing their goals. "We really have trust in zations such as Nippon Kaigi (Japan some opposition MPs. India: An MP from India's bill on coal block governing party has apolo - gised in parliament a day allocations after he praised the killer of independence leader Mahat - Pakistan Taliban slam Malala over Nobel prize NEW DELHI: LokSabha ma Gandhi as a "patriot", today passed a bill which reports the Reuters. ISLAMABAD: The Pakistani provides for fresh auction of But Sakshi Maharaj of the Taliban hit out at teenage edu - 204 coal blocks de-allocated Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) cation activist Malala by the Supreme Court in used his apology to attack the Yousafzai over her Nobel September with the govern - opposition Congress Party, peace prize on Friday, slam - ment allaying apprehen - fuelling further outrage. ming her as a "soldier against sions of some parties that Earlier this month another Islamic society", reports UNB. the legislation would lead to BJP MP sparked outrage by Malala became a global icon privatization of the sector, using offensive language to after she was shot and nearly reports the times of India. describe non-Hindus. killed by the Taliban in Octo - The Coal Mines (Special Gandhi was assassinated in ber 2012 for insisting that girls Provisions) Bill, which 1948 by Nathuram Godse, a had a right to an education. replaces and Ordinance hard-line Hindu. The 17-year-old vowed to promulgated in October, Godse, who was executed continue her struggle for every was passed by voice vote for the murder, resented child's right to go to school overcoming demands by Gandhi's calls for Hindus and when she collected her Nobel some opposition parties it be Muslims to unite. at a ceremony in Oslo on sent to the Parliamentary On Thursday, Sakshi Wednesday. Standing Committee for Maharaj had said: "Godse She is the youngest ever closer scrutiny. was an aggrieved person. He Nobel peace laureate, and the The Bill provides for "allo - may have done something by first Pakistani to claim the cation of coal mines and mistake but was not an anti- prize, but some in her home vesting of the right, title and national. He was a patriot." country condemn her as a interest in and over the land The comments led to out - Sakshi Maharaj is an MP from Unnao constituency Western agent-including the The Pakistani Taliban hit out at teenage education activist Malala Yousafzai over and mine infrastructure, rage in parliament, with in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. AP militants who shot her. her Nobel peace prize on Friday. PTI together with mining leases, opposition MPs condemning Muhammad Umar Kho - to successful bidders and attempts to "glorify" Godse. riots", in which Congress said nobody could accept rasani, spokesman for the to subservient domestic roles, the Western powers to destroy Islam." allottees through a transpar - "I respect Gandhi, I respect leaders were accused of lead - eulogising the assassin of main faction of the Tehreek-e- but Malala has praised her Pashtun culture and Pakistan," After she was shoot in the ent bidding process. the House. I withdraw my ing mob attacks. Gandhi. Taliban Pakistan (TTP) head - father Ziauddin, a school - Khorasani said, referring to the head at point blank range, "This will ensure continu - remarks," the MP said in the This drew loud protests from Many Indians have taken ed by Mullah Fazlullah, told teacher, for encouraging her to dominate ethnic group in the Malala was taken to Britain for ity in coal mining operations lower house of parliament on opposition MPs, who refused to Twitter to express their AFP that Malala had won the pursue her dreams. country's northwest, where treatment. Her family moved and production of coal. The Friday. to accept the apology. outrage. Nobel prize for "promoting The militant spokesman sin - Malala is from. to join her and she now goes to bill prescribes the conditions But he went on to say that The government distanced Journalist Abhijit Western culture, not educa - gled him out for criticism. "Her father is using Malala school there, unable to return to rationalise the coal sector the opposition Congress itself from his remarks. Majumder tweeted that tion". Pakistan's patriarchal "Malala's father Ziauddin as a soldier against Islamic to Pakistan because of Taliban for mining operations, con - "killed the Mahatma's ideolo - Parliamentary Affairs Godse stood for "everything society often relegates women has made an agreement with society and teachings of death threats. sumption and sale." gy in 1984 during anti-Sikh Minister M Venkaiah Naidu Hinduism is not".

Spot Light News Chinese lawyer Beijing: At least 260 Chinese lawyers have protested after a fellow attor - Colombo: A Sri Lankan air force plane crashed Friday outside the island's capital, ney was detained by police for invoking the constitutional rights of free Sri Lanka air force killing four and injuring one, reports AP. Air force spokesman Gihan Seneviratne detained for speech and religion in court, reports AP. said the plane crashed in foggy weather early Friday in Authrugiriya just outside u The lawyers signed an open letter condemning the police action in the plane crashes u the capital Colombo. Seneviratne said the plane was flying between two airports invoking northeastern province of Jilin. Zhang Lei, who drafted the letter, said Fri - near Colombo and the pilot had reported difficulty in locating his landing strip. constitution day that lawyer Zhang Keke was detained for six hours over his speech in killing 4 The police spokesman's office said four bodies were recovered from the crash site court defending a member of the banned spiritual group Falun Gong. and that one injured survivor has been admitted to a hospital.

Bangkok: A Thai airline says a flight to China returned to Bangkok after a pas - Jakarta: Indonesian police have named editor in chief of a leading English- Thai flight returns senger assaulted a flight attendant by tossing hot water at her, reports AP. Indonesian editor-in- language newspaper a suspect in a blasphemy case after the paper published A statement from Thai AirAsia says the Chinese passenger on a Thursday a cartoon that allegedly insults Islam, reports AP. evening flight to Nanjing berated the crew member before scalding her after passenger chief suspected of The cartoon published July 3 showed a flag of the militant Islamic State group u with the water. It says colleagues gave her first aid while the pilot returned u in Syria and Iraq replaced with a skull and crossbones, but it left Islamic scalds crew to Bangkok and removed the passenger and her entourage of three other blasphemy from the plane. sacred phrases in Arabic inside the scull.

BEIJING: The national anthem should not be performed or chanted at wed - BEIJING - China has dismissed Vietnam's sovereignty claim for the Nansha China bans dings and funerals or in commercial arenas, Chinese authorities said Friday. China dismisses and Xisha islands in the South China Sea, saying it is "illegal and invalid" and Also banned is performing or chanting the anthem during entertainment "China will never accept such claim." Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei national anthem Vietnam's sovereignty made the comment on late Thursday after Vietnam's foreign ministry said u activities such as balls or non-political celebrations, according to a statement u Vietnam held sovereignty over the Nansha and Xisha islands and objected to at weddings issued by the Communist Party of China central committee's general office claim for South China China's nine-dash line stance. Vietnam also said its position has been made and the general office of the State Council. clear to the Arbitral Tribunal on the South China Sea Arbitration initiated by the Philippines. THE BANGLADESHTODAY 7

INTERNATIONAL SATURDAy, DECEMbER 13 , 2014

Historical Day u Ukraine’s Chocolate King president President Wilson makes finds promise tough to keep first U.S. presidential KIEV: The Chocolate King is finding it diffi - Ukraine's 49-year-old president hasn't sold cult to relinquish his throne, reports any of his assets, including his most valuable trip to Europe Reuters. Petro Poroshenko, one of Ukraine's one: a majority stake in Roshen Confec - After nine days at sea aboard richest men and owner of a sweets empire, tionery Corp, Ukraine's biggest sweets mak - the SS George Washington, made an unusual promise last spring while er. His promise appears to be a victim of the Woodrow Wilson arrives at campaigning to be president - if elected, he very problems that face him as president. Brest, France, on December would sell most of his business assets. Executives at the two financial firms that 13, 1918, and travels by land "As president of Ukraine, I only want to Poroshenko has hired to help sell his assets to Versailles. There, he head - concern myself with the good of the coun - caution that deals, particularly in former ed the American delegation try and that is what I will do," he told an Soviet republics and eastern Europe, can to the peace conference seek - interviewer. often take a year or more. But they also con - ing a definitive end to World Poroshenko won the election, but he hasn't cede that their client's timing is terrible. War I. The visit marked the succeeded yet at keeping his campaign "It's clearly not a good time to sell," said Gio - first official visit by a U.S. promise. vanni Salvetti, managing director of Roth - president to Europe. With his country at war with Russian- schild CIS, which is trying to sell Roshen. "I Although the president's backed separatists in the east, the economy hope the situation will improve in the first or political opponents criticized faltering and its currency weakening, second quarter" of 2015. his European visit as a sign of egotism, Wilson worked tire - lessly during the proceedings to orchestrate an agreement The U.S. Capitol dome and U.S. Senate (R) in Washington. Reuters that would encourage a last - ing peace in Europe. During the stay, Wilson also led the effort for the establishment of the League of Nations, an US Senators back use of force against IS international organization designed to seek diplomatic WASHINGTON: Democrats on a Sen - imposed harsh Islamic law. no action would allow the White solutions to future conflicts. ate panel on Thursday unanimously Under the US Constitution, Con - House to keep acting under earlier At Versailles, Wilson's supported a new authorisation for gress has ultimate power whether to war-on-terror authorisation. hopes for a "just and stable military force against Islamic State declare war. "If we wait for an administration - peace" were opposed by the jihadists without US ground troops, There is broad consensus that law - this or any other one - to send us their other victorious Allies, and signalling their willingness to tie Pres - makers should fully debate the use of language for an AUMF and they never the final treaty, which called ident Barack Obama's hands on war military force in Iraq and Syria, but do it... they have a veto over the consti - for stiff war reparations from policy. that will occur in 2015 under a Repub - tutional imperatives and prerogatives the former Central Powers, In a party-line vote, the Senate For - lican-controlled Congress. to declare war," he said. would be regarded with eign Relations Committee approved a Democrats went on record however Obama has sent 3,100 US military increasing bitterness in Ger - three-year authorisation for use of stressing the need to retain the power advisers into the field to help coordi - Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko looks on as he speaks at the International Institute for many in the years to come. Strategic Studies (IISS)-Asia Fullerton Lecture at a hotel in Singapore recently. AP military force that would supercede on declaring war, and underscoring nate the battle against IS, and said he President Woodrow Wilson the open-ended AUMF's passed in their opposition to the White House's was relying on the previous authorisa - was awarded the 1920 Nobel 2001 and 2002 in the aftermath of Al open-ended use of 12-year-old autho - tion against the Taliban and other Peace Prize for his efforts to Qaeda's 9/11 attacks on the United risations to conduct military action "terrorists" of 2001, and the Iraq inva - bring peace to Europe. States. today. sion authorisation of 2002, to do so. Clean air and recycling The US-led coalition has already The new AUMF would "envision Many US lawmakers contest the legal - carried out some 1,100 airstrikes in boots on the ground, they're just not ity of such actions. Syria and Iraq since September target - American boots," argued Democratic "This is really in many ways a stand - US sends mixed ing IS extremists in a bid to defeat the committee chairman Senator Robert off between the parties but also with laws at risk in EU group, which has seized large swathes Menendez. the administration," Senate Democrat message to Myanmar of territory, executed opponents and He also warned that Congress taking Barbara Boxer acknowledged. EU : The EU may scrap plans for legislation on economy" - a modern society in which people military air pollution and waste in a drive to boost the live in harmony with the Earth, creating jobs economy, according to a leaked document seen through clean technology and recycling materi - Washington: Human rights by BBC News. als. advocates and some law - In its draft workplan, the European Commis - But Mr Juncker has already signalled that he makers say the United States sion says the priorities are creating jobs, reduc - will not waste time on proposals that won't fly - 26 missing after Nicaragua is sending the wrong signal ing public debt and increasing industrial com - and the Commission's workplan says member by opening the door for petitiveness. It says citizens do not want Europe states cannot agree on the recycling ambitions. broader engagement with interfering in issues that can be solved national - Environmentalists are in a rearguard battle. Myanmar's widely criticized ly. Environmentalists are appalled, saying green They think Europe's relatively tight environ - lobster boat sinks military just weeks after issues require EU-level action. mental standards have given manufacturers a President Barack Obama Dirty air is the prime cause of premature death global lead in efficient products. But the lobby MANAGUA: Nicaraguan air and sea The head of the Nicaraguan navy or swam to shore. assured opposition leader in Europe and the current air quality legislation group Business Europe has argued that rescue teams were searching for 26 told state media that a number of the The military mobilized helicopters Aung San Suu Kyi that clos - seeks to establish a national emissions ceiling overzealous rules are making firms uncompeti - people after a lobster boat carrying survivors were rescued at sea by a and boats to try and find the people er ties weren't going to hap - directive for six toxic pollutants. tive on the global stage. 50 people sank Thursday in the passing sailboat. Fifteen crew mem - who were still missing late Thursday. pen soon, reports AP. Eleven governments have written to the Com - Already the EU is treading more gingerly in its Caribbean, a military source said. bers were picked up by small boats It is believed the boat sank due to Congress, acting at the mission President Jean-Claude Juncker, urging climate change leadership, and the helm of the At least 24 crew members survived or swam to shore. rough seas. administration's request, is him to keep the directive on track. And the Com - European Council has been taken by Donald after the boat sank in the early The head of the Nicaraguan navy Fishing boats typically employ expected to allow U.S. train - mission's plans for a substantial revision of the Tusk, who championed coal while prime minis - morning hours, some 40 miles (64 told state media that a number of the swimmers of indigenous origin or of ing in some noncombat legislation will be opposed next week by some ter of Poland (and also won admiration for keep - kilometers) off the coast of Puerto survivors were rescued at sea by a African descent who live in this activities for the military in MEPs. But the fate of the legislative plan to recy - ing Poland's economy afloat in the recession). Cabezas, a small town in northeast passing sailboat. Fifteen crew mem - remote and impoverished coastal Myanmar, also known as cle 70% of municipal waste and 80% of packag - Industrialists have also been pushing for a Nicaragua, reports UNB. bers were picked up by small boats region of Nicaragua. Burma. This would be part ing by 2030 is more uncertain. relaxation of rules protecting wildlife areas from of a sweeping defense policy The UK waste industry says the nation would new development, and they have secured a bill slated to pass Friday. still be sending all its waste to landfill if the EU review of the Birds and Habitats directives, to The administration says had not stepped into a "policy vacuum". The pre - see if they are fit for purpose. That review will this does not mean closer ties vious Commission aspired to create a "circular report its findings in 2016. are imminent with a military known for rights abuses. Patrick Ventrell, a National Security Council spokesman, said the provision would "give us the flexibility to pursue slightly broader engagement if the military takes steps to implement reforms and sup - port Burma's democratic transition." But lawmakers who over - see U.S. foreign policy say it's ill-timed. Political reforms have stalled, tens of thousands of minority Mus - lims are still living under apartheid-like conditions in displacement camps after attacks by Buddhist extrem - ists, and fighting is heating The head of the Nicaraguan navy told state media that a number of the survivors were rescued at sea by a up between the government EU vice-president Frans Timmermans gave paper copies of the proposal to ditch passing sailboat. Reuters and ethnic rebels. clean air and recycling laws to commissioners. Spot Light News

Johannesburg: Mourners in South Africa have held separate services for Milan: Thousands of union workers staging a general strike are marching two South African civilians who were killed in conflicts in Yemen and Thousands of Italian through more than 50 Italian cities to protest government reforms that South Africans Afghanistan, reports UNB. they say erode workers' rights, reports AP. The general strike, shutting mourn slain u A memorial ceremony was held Friday for Pierre Korkie, a teacher who workers march u down basic services across Italy, is the first ever by two of Italy's largest was killed in Yemen on Dec. 6 during a U.S. raid on al-Qaida militants union confederations against a center-left government, which have tradi - compatriots who were holding Korkie and American hostage Luke Somers. American against reforms tionally cozied up to unions. Premier Matteo Renzi insists his tougher officials say militants killed both men. line is necessary to return the economy to growth and create jobs. Athens: Greek authorities are investigating a pre-dawn, drive-by gunfire Bamako: The Malian Health Ministry says the last Ebola patient being Shots fired at attack on the Israeli embassy in Athens, which caused no injuries or dam - treated in the country has survived the disease and been released, reports age, reports AP. Mali govt. says last AP. The ministry said in a statement posted on its website Friday that the Israeli embassy Police closed off a major road outside the embassy early Friday and foren - known Ebola case patient was discharged a day earlier after several Ebola tests came back u sics experts in white protective clothing were searching the area. Officials u negative. Mali has recorded eight cases of Ebola, all of them linked to peo - in Athens said at least 20 bullet casings were found near the scene of the attack, cured, released ple who crossed from neighboring Guinea. The ministry said that the which occurred long before the building opened for business. country now has no confirmed or suspected cases.

Climate talks in Lima have entered their final day with long-running issues Fires at planned Berlin: Police say arsonists are suspected of setting fires at three empty still dividing the parties, despite an impassioned appeal from US Secretary buildings in Bavaria that had been earmarked to serve as accommoda - Lima climate talks: Old of State John Kerry. Mr Kerry told the negotiators that the world was "still refugee housing in tion for asylum seekers, reports AP. divisions surface on a course leading to tragedy". An ambitious deal he said was "not an u The fires broke out late Thursday evening in Vorra, near Nuremberg. u option, it is an urgent necessity". But ongoing battles are threatening to lim - Germany Police said Friday that anti-foreigner slogans and swastikas were found between rich and poor it any progress in the Peruvian capital. Many developed countries want to daubed at one site. see a change in the way the nations are classified in the UN process. THE BANGLADESHTODAY 8

ENTERTAINMENTENTERTAINMENT SATURDAy , DECEMBER 13 , 2014 Concert for Kombol on December 19

and Dreek. All the band performing in the concert will not be taking any charges. The main aim for the concert is to collect money to distribute blankets in 32 districts over the country. The entry fee to the concert is a blanket and those who fail to buy one can purchase a kombol pass on the day of the event for TK 250, which will cover the price of a good quality kombol and its distribution cost. This initiative is taken by two civil society organizations, Entertainment Desk at the Kalabagan field from 2pm such as e Aurthohin, Maqsood O BANDHU Foundation and till 11pm on December 19. The Dhaka, Bappa and Friends, Garbo Bangladesh Foundation, "Concert for Kombol" , meaning concert will include Chirkutt, Obscure, Different to improve winter clothing concert for blanket, will be held participation of renowned bands Touch, Shunno, Yaatri, Tahsan distribution in Bangladesh. Asha Bhosle Salman Khan dethrones Shah Rukh from top spot on Forbes list receives Lifetime Entertainment Desk list. After featuring in movies like Happy New Year and Finding Fanny, the actress is at the Actors Shah Rukh Khan and Salman Khan eighth spot in the list with earnings of Rs may be starting a new chapter of their 67.20 crore, said a statement. friendship after a cold war, but the latter has The list is compiled by measuring money Achievement dethroned the former by grabbing the top and fame, which includes estimated spot in Celebrity 100 list for 2014 of Forbes entertainment related earnings from October magazine. 1, 2013 to September 30, 2014, and their Interestingly, Shah Rukh has fallen down visibility on print, television and internet. from the number one spot to Salman's last The list not only revolves around actors, Award at DIFF year's number three spot. The decline is television stars but even sportspersons, because of his disappearance from the screen authors, film directors, music directors, Entertainment Desk the audience to an impromptu performance over 100 films, in a career spanning nearly five for the preparation and shoot of his top singers and comedians. of her most memorable renditions. decades. grosser Happy New Year. At the second spot is megastar Amitabh Noted Indian playback singer Asha Bhosle "Receiving DIFF award from Sheikh El-Sherif and Bhosle joined previous Shah Rukh did some cameos in movies like Bachchan, while cricketer MS Dhoni and was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Mansour Bin Mohammed Al Maktoum," winners including Martin Sheen, Omar Youngistaan and Bhoothnath Returns in the actor Akshay Kumar occupy the fourth and Award at the 11th Dubai International Film Bhosle tweeted. Sharif, Faten Hamamah, Adel Imam, Jameel period considered for this list. Whereas, fifth position. The top five in the list dominate Festival (DIFF). The octogenarian singer has recorded more Rateb, Sabah, Morgan Freeman, Sean Penn, Salman was all over the entertainment sector the earnings sweepstakes, accounting for as The 81-year-old 'Piya Tu Ab Toh Aja' than 12,000 songs and is known for her Amitabh Bachchan, Shah Rukh Khan, Daoud with his films like Kick and Jai Ho. In fact, his much as 35 per cent of the total revenues of hitmaker was presented with the prestigious versatility as a singer be it folk songs, Indian Abdel Sayed, Youssef Chahine, Rachid stint as the host of the reality TV show Bigg the top 100. Salman's estimated earnings in award for her decades of dedication to Indian classical music, pop songs, ghazals and Bouchareb, Yash Chopra, Subhash Ghai Boss is also credited for his upward swing. 2014 are Rs 244.50 crore, Amitabh amassed cinema last night during the opening bhajans. Acclaimed Egyptian actor Nour El- among others. Actress Deepika Padukone has reinforced Rs 196.75 crore, Shah Rukh minted Rs ceremony of the festival. Sherif was also presented with the DIFF The eight day film festival will come to an women power in Bollywood by becoming the 202.40 crore, Dhoni pulled in Rs 141.80 crore After receiving the award, Bhosle treated Lifetime Achievement Award for his work on end on December 17. only woman mentioned in the top ten of the and Akshay Rs 172 crore. Man gets jail for stealing part from car Paul Walker died in Entertainment Desk

A man who stole part of the Porsche that Fast and the Furious actor Paul Walker died in has been sentenced to six months in jail. The Los Angeles County district attorney's office says 26-year-old Anthony Janow was sentenced Tuesday in Southern California. Paul Walker and driver Roger Rodas died in November 2013 when their speeding Porsche Carrera GT hit a tree and a light pole in the Los Angeles suburb of Santa Clarita. Prosecutors say Janow and a friend stole a roof panel when a tow truck carrying the wreckage stopped at a red light. Janow and 19-year-old Jameson Witty each Shraddha Kapoor hopes successful run continues in 2015 pleaded no contest to grand theft, destroying Entertainment Desk Shraddha Kapoor hopes that her next year also Lakme's product here Thursday. evidence and obstructing a turns out to be successful On the work front, Shraddha Kapoor will next peace officer. Actress Shraddha Kapoor, who tasted success "I've been taking it (life) as it comes...going be seen sharing screen space with Varun Witty was sentenced with two back-to-back hit films Ek Villain and with a flow. Year 2014 has been a very special Dhawan for the first time in Remo D'Souza's earlier this year to six Haider this year, hopes that coming year 2015 year, so I can only hope that this success run dance sequel ABCD 2. The film is slated to months in jail. will be as fruitful too. continues," Shraddha said at the launch of release in mid 2015. Horoscope

Aries (March 21 - April 19) Gemini (May 21 - June 20) Leo (July 23 - August 22) Libra (September 23 - October 22) Sagittarius (November 22 - December 21) Aquarius (January 20 - February 18) Someone you care about Today you could meet some Someone close who owes you You should be looking Today you might decide to A very welcome sum of but haven't seen for a long interesting new people, money might suddenly turn up especially attractive today buy a plant for every room in extra money could come time could suddenly Gemini. Among them is at and repay you, Leo. This might and glowing with robust your house or plant a garden, your way today, Aquarius, contact you. You'd usually least one person who shares be a surprise, but you will be health, Libra. You're apt to Sagittarius. If the weather is possibly out of the blue. You love this, Aries, but today a lot of your interests and glad to get it. You may want to feel warm and loving, good, you might visit a might want to put this you could be too caught up in projects of could become a close friend. The joy you blow some of it by taking a friend out to particularly toward small animals. If nursery or botanical garden. You may not money to work for you in some way, your own to want to put them aside. But receive from meeting these people is likely lunch or buying someone a gift. Some you've considered adopting a pet, this is a normally be attracted to plants and gardens, perhaps investing it or purchasing you will have a lot of fun with this to spill over into the rest of your day. You beautiful dreams could haunt your sleep good day to do it. Business, work, and but today both beauty and nature seem supplies or materials for personal projects. person, and you might even interest him could be warmer and more congenial with tonight, perhaps to the point where you feel money matters continue to go well. You especially appealing. Make the most of this, You should feel especially positive where or her in your project. After finishing everyone else in your life, too. In the frustrated when you wake up. Write them should be in a pretty good space. This however temporary. Your house will look your resources are concerned, and your work, go out to dinner. evening, go out and have some fun. down. They're saying something about you. frame of mind should last you a long time. that much more beautiful because of it! confident in your ability to earn.

Taurus (April 20 - May 20) Cancer (June 21 - July 22) Virgo (August 23 - September 22) Scorpio (October 23 - November 21) Capricorn (December 22 - January 19) Pisces (February 19 -March 20) A goal that you've been working on could A book or movie about a foreign country Today you should feel especially warm and Today you should be feeling especially A warm and loving communication could Today you may feel especially warm and finally be reached, Taurus. A could capture your loving toward everyone close warm and loving toward come to you today from loving toward just about group of friends you might imagination and make that to you, Virgo, particularly a close friends and children, someone close. This could be everybody in your circle, not have seen for a long time country seem especially love partner. You may want Scorpio. You could also an email, call, or even a gift of Pisces, even those you could schedule a get-together appealing, Cancer. You might to spend some time with especially appreciate the some kind. This could make usually find irritating. You that you will be all too glad to toy with the idea of taking a friends or family or schedule arts. You might attend a your day, Capricorn, and you could also be looking attend. Expect to have a lot of fun trip there soon. If you're serious, it might be a a romantic evening with your significant play or concert or decide to try your will probably pass whatever good feelings especially attractive and feeling more exchanging news and ideas with these good idea to start making your plans. You're other - or both. If you have paperwork to hand at one of the fine arts yourself. In you draw from it to other friends and family confident than usual. You might even feel people. You will probably feel particularly in a particularly practical frame of mind and take care of, this is the day to do it. You're the evening, go out and enjoy your members. Take a walk around your like shopping for new clothes. Artistic ideas happy to see them. You won't want to let so have the enthusiasm to do it. Have fun particularly practical and feeling good, so friends' company. Celebrate just being neighborhood and say hello to whomever could flow freely, and you might think of much time go by before you reconnect again. browsing through travel brochures and maps. the drudgery won't get you down. together! you meet. It will make you feel even better! different ways to put them to work for you. THE BANGLADESHTODAY 9

SPORTS SATURDAy , DeCeMBeR 13 , 2014 'Big 4' will be hard to topple in Champions League Sports Desk Gareth Bale, James Rodriguez Spanish league - but twice in the last five minutes to With nine different winners and Karim Benzema was the Wednesday's 3-1 win over lose 3-2. The German in the last 11 years, no one only one to pick up a Paris Saint-Germain at Camp champions have few could ever accuse the maximum 18 points in the Nou gave a taster of what to weaknesses in their team, with Champions League of being group stage. Madrid has won expect from its expensively their attack looking even predictable, reports Yahoo. its last 19 games in all assembled, all-star attack. stronger with the addition of It does appear, however, that competitions and Ronaldo, the Messi - with his record- Robert Lewandowski, and an established "Big 4" has been reigning world player of the extending 75th Champions have a coach in Pep Guardiola created in Europe's premier year, has already reached 30 League goal - was on the score who has gone all the way club competition - and this goals for the season. sheet along with Neymar and before in the Champions year's group stage backs up the "I know I've got an Luis Suarez. The trio is six League, with Barcelona in theory. extraordinary team," Madrid weeks into its new partnership 2009 and '11. Barcelona, Chelsea, Bayern coach Carlo Ancelotti said after and when the last 16 comes Chelsea, meanwhile, has Munich and Real Madrid, the Tuesday's 4-0 win over around it could be found a cure to its attacking last four winners of European Ludogorets Razgrad. "I don't unstoppable. frailties of last season with the soccer's top prize, were the top tire from saying this." "We know that together we signing of Spain striker Diego teams in group play, which Any side that contains Lionel can go places," Suarez said Costa and was the top-scoring finished Wednesday. In each of Messi will always have a great Wednesday after Barcelona team in the group stage, with the last three seasons, at least chance, and Barcelona will be sealed first place in its group 17 goals in six games. Words were exchanged between a number of players from both sides on the fourth day in Adelaide. Cricinfo three of that quartet has expected to reach the for the eighth straight season. Traditionally strong in defense, reached the semifinals of the semifinals after missing out Bayern's only defeat in a Eden Hazard is developing Champions League. Madrid last season. Barcelona's tough-looking Group E came into one of the world's best and Barcelona did so in 2011, defense remains a concern - at Manchester City after wingers and Cesc Fabregas has Tensions rise as players lose cool too. although it has only conceded playing more than 70 minutes brought more creativity into So, heading into the seven goals in 14 games in the with 10 men and conceding the team's midfield. Sports Desk However, the umpires checked the far-fetched - enquiry to the umpire, knockout stage that kicks off in The unnatural calm that existed replays and found out that Aaron had Marais Erasmus. Smith gave the February, it would be a big between these two teams evaporated in overstepped. Warner came back all Indians an incredulous look and surprise if this season's the Adelaide heat when the umpires had happy and mocking the send-off, shrugged, which for some reason made champion didn't come from to intervene on at least two occasions to shouting "come on, come on". All hell Rohit lose his cool. "What? What?" this small pool of juggernauts - separate the squabbling players. David broke loose. The not-out batsman, Rohit was heard asking Smith, who just teams who currently are Warner and Virat Kohli were involved in Shane Watson, and Shikhar Dhawan kept smiling until he saw Kohli had left playing football at another both instances, but as pacifiers in one got into an altercation even as Kohli was his station at first slip and planted level to the rest. each. On day three, when Kohli was hit trying to pacify Aaron and Warner. himself mere inches from Smith. Angry "Everybody's there, so the on the helmet, Warner was the first one Warner shouted "come on" again as he words seem to fly until Warner walked Champions League starts to walk up to him and check on him, left alone a delivery. That incensed the all the way up to separate the two. now," Chelsea manager Jose reports Cricinfo. Indians some more. And when Warner The umpires had to get involved Mourinho said of a last-16 The players lost their cool when Varun crossed Aaron while taking a single, again, and could be seen having a long lineup that contains 11 of the Aaron bowled Warner in the middle more pleasantries were exchanged, chat with Kohli, followed by smaller teams who advanced in the session on day four. Kohli had already including a kiss blown by Warner to ones during the next few over breaks. 2013-14 season. been in the face of Chris Rogers when Aaron, who just didn't know how to The rest of the day went largely incident- No club has ever successfully defended the Champions the opener had been dismissed. Now react at being sledged by a batsman, a free, but it has the potential to sour the League title since the when Warner got out, both Kohli and reversal of roles to which he didn't seem spirit in which the first three days were competition's inception in Aaron gave him a bit of a send-off. It was accustomed. played. Both sides, though, sought to 1992. Could Madrid be about the 34th over, Warner had already raced Later during the day, when Steven underplay what happened. to end that jinx? away to 66, and Australia were Smith had joined Warner, Rohit "I don't know if the temperature got to Real Madrid's Cristiano Ronaldo scores the team's first goal from a penalty At top of the Spanish league, effectively 1 for 193. The send-off and Sharma appealed for a leg-before when 40 degrees-plus, but it was getting to a during a Group B Champions League soccer match between Real Madrid and Smith had been miles down the wicket. few people out there," Warner said of a team boasting the attacking Ludogorets at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium in Madrid, Spain, Tuesday, Dec. 9, the celebration didn't quite look on for talents of Cristiano Ronaldo, the state India were in. It was by all accounts just a polite - albeit the incidents. 2014. AP India, Pakistan set for intriguing semi Sports Desk and Australia ousted Argentina 4-2. "I am so happy that both teams are in Arch-rivals India and Pakistan return Dutch coach Max Caldas had been wary the semi-final," Shaikh said. "For fans it to centre stage in field hockey on of the format from the start. "If you lose is a dream. For me, it is a good sign that Saturday after a controversial format all three league games, you could still win Asian teams have started to do well helped them reach the Champions the tournament and I think that's bad," again." Trophy semi-finals in Bhubaneswar, he had said earlier in the week. India have not won a major title since reports Yahoo. In contrast, the surviving teams could bagging the last of their eight Olympic Instead of rewarding performances in not hide their glee. gold medals at the Western-boycotted the preliminary league, all eight teams "Although I am not in favour of this Moscow Games in 1980. were assured of reaching the quarter- (format), today I don't mind it," Dutchman Roelant Oltmans, India's finals-a round which turned the Australian coach Graham Reid said on high performance director who is acting tournament on its head, and left some Thursday. as coach after Australian Terry Walsh was teams quietly fuming. German captain Moritz Furste added: controversially axed last month, "In this situation it is good for us. It has The top four teams in the league- preferred to look ahead to the 2016 given us a lease of life. We can go on to England, the Netherlands, Argentina and Olympics. win the tournament from here." Belgium-were all knocked out in "We need to play tough matches to Thursday's round of eight, while the Pakistan coach Shahnaz Shaikh prepare for the Olympics," said Oltmans, bottom four sailed through to the semi- tempered his joy with a suggestion. "To who had earlier coached Pakistan. "And finals. make this format fair to everyone, a this tournament is as tough as it gets." The format also helped new-look world handicap of one goal should be given to The other semi-final promises to be a champions Australia, seeking a sixth the table-toppers," he said. successive title, and Olympic gold- Millions of fans across India and classic between two young sides. medallists Germany recover from shaky Pakistan will tune in to what should be a Australia wear a new look in the starts to line up for Saturday's other rousing semi-final, a repeat of the Asian absence of veterans Liam de Young and semi-final. Games gold medal clash in South Korea Rob Hammond, who retired after the Hosts India, ranked ninth in the world, in October which India won in a penalty World Cup in June, and five-time world fought back from a 0-2 deficit to beat shoot-out. player of the year Jamie Dwyer and Mark number four Belgium 4-2. Eleventh- Once the masters of the sport, neither Knowles, who are both injured. ranked Pakistan stunned the Dutch by a team has advanced to the final of a major Germany, with seven junior World Cup Pakistan's Umar Bhutta Muhammad (C) celebrates a goal against the Netherlands with teammates similar margin after losing all their three world competition since 1998, when winners from 2013 in their squad, are during their Hero Hockey Champions Trophy 2014 quater final match at Kalinga Stadium in league matches. Pakistan lost the Champions Trophy final banking on Furste, the world player of the Bhubaneswar on December 11, 2014. AP The Germans knocked out England 2-0 to the Dutch in Lahore. year in 2012, to deliver.

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ECONOMY & BUSINESS SATURDAy , DECEMBER 13, 2014 Walto’s mammoth preparation in TV US House passes Asian shares mixed, upbeat US $1.1tn budget bill data offset by China woes to avert shutdown production for World Cup at DI Trade Fair US : The US House of HONG KONG: Asian markets were mixed Global markets have been buffeted by Representatives has passed Today at the end of a painful week for global profit-taking this week, while Shanghai has Business Desk from Tk. 300 up to Tk. 10,000. 14-inch the amount of production. For which a $1.1tn budget, hours before shares, as strong US retail sales lifted spirits swung wildly after racking up more than 20 LED television is now available at Tk. Walton has cut its prices for the government was due to shut and Wall Street, while China released percent since the middle of November. The ICC Cricket World Cup-2015 is 9,500. Tk. 1,000 has been cut from the television sets. However, the quality down at midnight on another batch of data indicating weakness in However, spirits were lifted by a rally on scheduled to be held in February- price of 16-inch LED television. The 16- and standard of the products increased. Thursday, reports AP. the world's number two economy, reports Wall Street that came in reaction to a healthy March next. Only a month is left to start inch LED television now costs only Tk. Walton is manufacturing various The Republican measure AFP/BSS. US consumer report. the mega sports event. However, 10,900. 55-inch LED television can model television sets complying with was passed by 219 votes to Oil prices continued to tumble after New The Commerce Department said retail Dhaka International Trade Fair now be purchased at Tk. 90,900. The the taste and demands of the 206 after President Barack York's main contract sank through the $60- sales in November, when the holiday (DITF)-2015, the biggest and most price cut not only applicable for LED customers." Obama had urged a-barrel mark in US trade for the first time in shopping season starts, rose 0.7 percent vibrant showcasing event in He said Walton is Democrats to support the more than five years. month-on-month and 5.1 percent over the the country, will also take manufacturing LED and budget.. Tokyo rose 0.66 percent, or 114.18 points, year. The figures are closely watched as place in the time. Price cuts CRT television sets It will fund most of the to close at 17,371.58 as the yen eased after a consumer spending accounts for almost for LED, other TV sets, considering the purchasing government until recent pick-up, while Seoul added 0.27 three quarters of output in the world's reports in press release. ability of the low income September 2015, but some percent, or 5.12 points, to 1,921.71 and biggest economy. Walton, the country's people. So, the prices of these areas will only receive short- Sydney slipped 0.22 percent, or 11.37 points, In New York the Dow gained 0.36 percent, leading television sets TV sets will be reduced more term funding. to 5,219.6. the S&P 500 added 0.45 percent and the manufacturing and in future. Republicans won control Shanghai ended 0.42 percent higher, Nasdaq rose 0.52 percent. marketing company, has The most popular local of both House and Senate in adding 12.43 points to 2,938.17 on hopes for Thursday's news was the latest to indicate taken mammoth preparation brand has already started elections last month. further Beijing stimulus after a the United States is on a strong recovery ahead of the world cup and manufacturing televisions A relieved John Boehner, disappointing set of industrial output track and will add to pressure on the Federal Trade Fair. The company sets in ultra-modern the Republicans' House figures. However, Hong Kong was 0.10 Reserve to hike interest rates sooner than increased its production automatic machine at its own leader, said: "Thank you and percent lower in the late afternoon. later, buoying the dollar. maintaining the standard factory. A vast Warehouse Merry Christmas." and quality of the products to has been set up where 1.70 meet the huge demand of lakh to 2.00 lakh TV sets can television sets during DITF-2015 and televisions but also for CRT (Cathode be stored. Earlier, only 30 to 50 ICC Cricket World Cup. Ray Tube) televisions. Consumers can thousand TV sets can be stored. The However, the overhead production buy the CRT TV of Tk. 9,500 now for production has also been increased cost has decreased due to the increase Tk. 7,600 while 21-inch CRT TV can be several times. Moudud Pervez Mamun, of the amount of production. For which purchased at Tk. 10,950. In-Charge of Walton Television prices of all kinds of Walton brand Mustafa Nahid Hossain, an Engineer Marketing Department, said Walton television sets including LED TV have of Walton, said the company is manufactures products at competitive been reduced. Besides, several new releasing several new model television prices maintaining the quality and models are ready to be released for ICC sets at the Dhaka International Trade standard. The company has created a World Cup and Dhaka International Fair (DITF). Among them, 32-inch revolution in manufacturing LED Trade Fair. Currently Walton has a Internet Surfing Television, 19 and 24- television sets. Modern technology is total of 64 different models of LED and inch Color Line LED Television, 55 and used in production and quality CRT (Cathode Ray Tube) television 65-inch curved OLED (Organic Light- controlling. He further informed that sets. Market analysis says the demand Emitting Diode) Television and 65-inch Walton itself produces the raw of CRT, LCD and LED television sets AEHD (Ultra High Definition) 3D materials for television production. It rises during the World Cup. The Smart Television will be consumers' should be mentioned here that Walton demand of Smart LED television has prime attractions. Emdadul Haque has released 4K UHD LED television rose high in recent times with the Sarker, Executive Director of Walton's sets in the market. The popular brand achievements of technological Marketing Department, said, "The also started producing TV remote of its perfection. Considering the facts, the demand of television sets is almost own unique design. The related production of Walton television sets same throughout the year. Yet all authorities are very hopeful with the has been increased a several times. necessary preparation has been taken fast growing television manufacturing Authorities concerned said Walton has considering the two biggest upcoming sector. After meeting the local demand, 32 different model LED television sets events - Cricket World Cup and Trade Walton television sets are being starting from 14-inch to 55-inch. Prices Fair. As a result, the overhead exported to different countries in the of different models have been reduced production cost lessens for increasing world. Hong Kong, Ruble hits new record Shanghai markets lows despite rate hike end mixed MOSCOW: The ruble fell Today to record euro and 42 percent against the dollar. HONG KONG: Hong Kong lows as oil prices also sank, despite Russia's The ruble fell Friday along with oil prices. shares ended 0.27 percent central bank hiking its interest rate the day Oil and gas revenues accounting for more lower Friday following before in an attempt to halt the currency's than half of Russia's revenues. another round of poor plunge and the resulting price rises, reports On Thursday the Bank of Russia regulator Chinese data, although AFP/BSS. raised the interest rate for the fifth time this Shanghai ended a The ruble fell to record levels of 71 against year to 10.5 percent from 9.5 percent. The tumultuous week on a high as the euro and 57 against the dollar as the interest rate was 5.5 percent at the beginning investors bet on fresh Moscow stock exchange opened, before of the year. stimulus measures to boost rallying slightly. The foreign exchange market reacted with the mainland economy, Since the beginning of the year, the ruble disappointment, seeing the rate raise as not reports AFP/BSS. has lost 36 percent of its value against the enough, Alfa Bank analysts said. The Hang Seng Index shed eased 63.34 points to 23,249.20 on turnover of HK$76.89 billion ($99.21 billion). In mainland China the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index rose 0.42 percent, or 12.43 points, to 2,938.17 on turnover of 420.4 billion yuan ($68.7 billion). The index, which slumped The IEA, a consultancy to 29 countries. more than five percent. Oil price falls further on IEA energy Sony to launch PlayStation consoles forecast in China from January The price of oil has fallen further after the SHANGHAI: Japanese gaming console PlayStation Vita will also over content. International Energy Agency forecast giant Sony is to offer its be available, with a price tag of Beijing imposes strict controls weaker demand in 2015, reports AFP. PlayStation consoles in China 1,299 yuan, it added. US on materials it deems to be The IEA, a consultancy to 29 countries, from January, the company said, technology giant Microsoft obscene, violent or politically said supply and demand would take "some following rival Microsoft into the launched its Xbox One console in sensitive, and under the rules of time" to respond to sharp falls in oil prices. potentially lucrative market after China in late September, initially the FTZ games must pass It said it was too early to expect low oil China ended a 14-year ban, priced at 3,699 yuan, the first inspection by cultural authorities. prices to start constricting a US supply reports AP. foreign company to enter the Sony said the company plans to boom. On Friday, Brent crude fell to below The company will launch the market. China in January launch games including Little Big $63 a barrel, its lowest price since July PlayStation 4, the latest in its authorised the domestic sale of Planet 3 and Final Fantasy, as well 2009. The price of Brent fell to $62.50 a series, in China on January 11, game consoles through its first as a few titles from Chinese barrel at one point before recovering priced at 2,899 yuan ($475), Sony free-trade zone (FTZ) in developers. Game content had slightly to $62.67. US crude was trading said in a release, adding pre-sales Shanghai, ending a ban originally been submitted to related below $59 a barrel. The IEA cut its forecast started Friday. Its handheld game instituted in 2000 due to worries authorities for approval, it added. for global oil demand growth next year by 230,000 barrels per day to 900,000 barrels per day on the expectation of lower fuel consumption in Russia and other oil- exporting countries. Oil prices have been in steep decline since June due to slow demand growth and a US shale oil boom which has increased supply. Prices "continued to plunge in November and into early December", the IEA said, adding that, "it may well take some time for supply and demand to respond to the price rout". The root cause of the fall in prices was "a surge in non?Opec supply to its highest growth ever and contraction in demand growth to five?year lows". It predicted that non-Opec supply gains would add to a global glut of oil. The US boom should push non-Opec production to a record 1.9 million barrels per day this year, IEA said, but this figure should fall to 1.3 million barrels per day in 2015. In Russia, the IEA said lower global oil prices combined with the effect of wmGGwe/wcAvi-58/2014/502 sanctions and a "collapsing currency" were ZvwiL : 10-12-2014 wLª. likely to have an adverse effect on Sony Computer Entertainment's PlayStation 4 20th anniversary edition video game wRwW-1771/14 (8 x3) production. console is displayed at Sony's showroom in Tokyo. AFP/Dawn THE BANGLADESHTODAY 11

MISCELLANEOUSMISCELLANEOUS SAtURdAy, dECEMBER 13, 2014 Govt out to obstruct N’ganj 134th birth anniversary rally, alleges BNP of Bhasani observed DHAKA : The 134th birth anniversary of DHAKA : BNP joint secretary general enforced disappearance, abduction veteran politician Moulana Abdul Hamid Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Friday alleged and the government's repressive acts. Khan Bhasani was observed yesterday with that the government has made 'evil The rally is also meant for due respect, reports BSS. designs' to obstruct their Saturday's drumming up public support in Popularly known as "Majlum Jananeta", rally at Kanchpur in Narayanganj, favour of the alliance's demand for the leader of the downtrodden, Moulana reports UNB. snap polls under a non-party Bhasani, was born on December 12, 1880 and "The government has resorted to administration. passed away on November 17, 1976. evil tactics to resist massive public He alleged that police arrested To mark the day, different organizations, gatherings at the 20-party's rally at Rupganj BNP leader Delwar, including Bangladesh National Awami Party Kanchpur Balurmath to be held on Ibrahim, Tara Mia and Anwar on (NAP Bhasani), Jatiya Gonotantrik League, Saturday. They're creating obstacles Thursday night and attacked their Moulana Bhasani University of Science and towards holding the public meeting houses. Technology, Bhasani Adarsha Anushilon by arresting our leaders and activists Rizvi claimed that a group of ruling Parishad-Dhaka, Bhasani Foundation and and raiding their houses at Rupganj party 'cadres' led by local Awami other organisations chalked out various and other different parts of the League leader Bazlu attacked the programmes. The programmes included district," he said. houses of Rupganj Mohila Dal placing of wreaths at Bhasani's mazar, The BNP leader came up with the president Hawa Begum and BNP discussions, art competitions and recitations. allegation at a press briefing at BNP' s leader Alamgir's houses, leaving them Bhasani Adarsha Anushilon Parishad Nayapaltan central office. injured. "We think the government is organized a discussion on the Bhasani's He also alleged that the doing all these things to prevent mazar premises in Tangail. government is trying to terrify people people from attending the rally. We Adviser of the parishad Syed Irfanul Bari with its reprieve acts so that they do condemn such repressive acts." spoke as chief guest with Prof Mohammad not join the rally. He also demanded the government Hossain in the chair. Rizvi hoped that people will make immediately release those arrested NAP and Jatiya Gonotantrik League the rally a success with their ahead of the rally. organized a rally in front of Jatiya Press Club spontaneous participation braving all The BNP leader said the while Bangladesh Nationalist Front obstacles and repressive acts. government has got desperate to organized a discussion on "Present Politics" at "We want to clearly state that hang onto power which they usurped Sagar-Runi auditorium at Dhaka Reporters' there'll be no use of making people through the January-5 lopsided polls. Unity here. Bhasani was a popular leader in panicked by attacking and arresting He warned that the current illegal his fight against imperialism and oppression them. Huge people will participate in regime must pay a heavy price for of Pakistani rulers. He led the historic Farakka the rally foiling the government's evil their misrule and repression. March in 1976 to ensure Bangladesh's just designs," he said. Rizvi said they together with people rights over the share of the Ganges River The Narayanganj unit of the 20- will put up a string resistance against waters. Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani, born party is arranging the rally protesting the 'repressive acts' and force it to in 1880 in Dhangara in Sirajganj, was the son the 'growing' incidents of killing, quit. of Haji Sharafat Ali Khan. He gained immense popularity among peasants. Rangpur AL leader Oil spillage From Page-1 receives death threat Specialists denoted that the affect is not be RANGPUR : Rangpur city unit He also said efforts are on to seen right away. It will be difficult to save Awami League general secretary identify the persons behind the the natural habitat if the oil is not Tushar Kanti Mondal has received a death threat. removed fast. death threat over his mobile phone, On the other hand, not just the natural reports BSS. habitat but the residents of the area are to Tushar said he received the threat JSUF marks 17th face difficulties as well. Most of the people through two messages sent to his residing in the area are professionally mobile phone on Thursday night. founding anniv fishermen. Some has already denoted that One of the messages reads: "You DHAKA : A seminar and award-giving the Shela river is overflowing with oil. And and all of your family members will ceremony was held at the Institution it is unable to get into the river. Fishing be killed if you do excess" while the of Diploma Engineers, Bangladesh in has already at halt and it is expected that other says: "You along with other the capital on Friday marking the 17th it will be bad in the upcoming days as well. family members will be finished if founding anniversary of Jatiy Meanwhile, the government has started Chhatra League city committee is Samannita Unnayan Foundation initiatives to remove the oil from the river. suspended." (JSUF), reports UNB. Shipping Minister Shahjahan Khan said Confirming the death threat, Chief Justice M Muzammel that powdered chemicals are to be thrown officer-in-charge of Kotwali Police Hossain was the chief guest at the in the river to subside the oil so that the Station Abdul Kader Zilani said two programme with Khandakar risk of oxygen reduction in the water can general diaries were filed in this Asaduzzaman MP, president of the be mineralized. connection. organisation, in the chair. Local fishermen are engaging in the campaign using their traditional methods to neutralize the oil. Villagers too are taking part in the campaign. The local WB expected to provide administrators asked the residents to collect and sell the oil to the state owned From Page-1 Padma Oil Company. In FY 13-14, the World Bank board approved $1.75 billion new IDA Children of all ages, women, and men financing. Since independence, IDA has committed more than $18.2 billion together are seen collecting the black tar in interest-free credits (40 year maturity, 10 year grace period). In FY13, from the shorelines. Bank disbursements represented 44 percent of total project aid to Bangladesh. Biman’s domestic The ERD data showed that with the leading role of the World Bank, disbursement of foreign assistance during the July-October period of the From Page-1 current fiscal year showed a positive 17 percent growth to $678.67 million According to data from Civil Aviation compared to the corresponding period of last FY14. Authority, Bangladesh (CAAB) some The development partners, including the World Bank, the Asian 648,019 people travelled nationally by air Development Bank and Japan, disbursed $678.67 million in loans and in the last year. grants during July-October period of the FY2014-15 compared to $576.80 Currently private airliners -- United million in the same period last fiscal. Airlines, Novo Air, Regent Airways and The ERD statistics showed that of the $678.67 million aid, the government US-Bangla Airlines -- are operating received $582.94 million in loans and $95.76 million in grants during July- increased flights on domestic routes. October period of FY2015. Another new player, Epic Airways Ltd, The World Bank in July-Oct period disbursed $156.32 million assistance, aims to begin flights on domestic routes the Asian Development Bank $149.06 million, the United Nations' IFAD by the end of 2014. $116.95 million and the Islamic Development Bank $40 million assistance in Dogged by losses and shortage of July-October period this fiscal. aircraft, national flag carrier Biman According to officials at the World Bank Dhaka office, the World Bank suspended its domestic flights on four assistance to Bangladesh has gone up in the last fiscal year from the previous among seven routes in 2007. year. Later, in 2012, it resumed domestic In FY14, the World Bank has approved a total of $1.8 billion financing for flights on a limited number of routes, Bangladesh. The eight new projects approved in FY 14 were: Additional including Dhaka-Chittagong-Dhaka and financing for Secondary Education, $265million; Dhaka-Sylhet-Dhaka routes with Additional Financing for Higher Education Quality Enhancement, $125 connecting flights. mn, additional financing for Emergency Cyclone Recovery and Restoration, Biman is now operating about 30 $140 mn; and additional financing for Renewable Energy and Rural flights a week on its domestic routes with Electrification Development project II, $78.4 mn, Modern Food Storage, large aircraft through its connecting $210 mn, Municipal Governance and Services, $410 mn, Rural Electricity flights in operation on international Transmission and Distribution, $600 mn; and VAT Improvement routes. It now operates 11 flights on Programme, $60 mn. Dhaka-Chittagong, 14 flights on The World Bank's total disbursement for FY14 was, however, US$ 944 mn Chittagong-Dhaka and 5-7 flights on which was higher than the FY13 disbursement of $765mn. Sylhet-Dhaka routes a week. All the World Bank credits to Bangladesh are from the International According to sources, the government Development Association (IDA) - the arm of the World Bank Group that has already taken steps to renovate the helps the world's poorest countries - have 40 years maturity period with a 10- country's five airports in Rajshahi, year grace period, and carry a service charge of 0.75 percent. Saidpur, Cox's Bazar, Jessore and Barisal. Road to victory

From Page-1 safety of the Hotel Inter-Continental number of times. At one point Niazi broke down in tears. (now Ruposhi Bangla) which had been Away in the Soviet capital, Moscow, Malek tried to console him. "It was a declared a "safe zone" by the Red Cross, the Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev strange sight. A military officer being mainly for use by civilians and responded to a cable from US consoled by a civilian," Farman Ali members of the diplomatic corps. president, Richard Nixon. wrote, later. Returning to his command centre, "We have attentively examined your In the middle of the discussion Niazi sent a message to the Indian message over the direct Indian air force planes struck the commander that they were ready to lay communications link. In accordance Governor House (now Bangabhavan), down their arms provided their safe with the confidential exchange of the residence of the Pakistani governor, repatriation was ensured. opinions existing between us, we are Malek, where the talks were being held. The Mitra Bahini responded by advising you that at the present time, The bombs struck twice and created a saying that they would only accept an we are conducting a clarification of all couple of gaping holes in the Durbar unconditional surrender. "Nothing the circumstances in India. We will Hall of the Bhavan. A third missed the short of it," as General Jacob, inform you of the results of the target by inches and landed in the commander of the Indian forces clarification without delay", Brezhnev adjacent pond in the Bhavan's surrounding Dhaka, recalled later. assured Nixon. compound. Meanwhile, aircraft from the Indian Brezhnev was responding to a letter Malek and Niazi were so visibly aircraft-carrier INS Vikrant deployed in from the US president for a direct shaken that Niazi decided to surrender, the Bay of Bengal struck at important communication link in the backdrop of GD-1772/14 (20x4) immediately, while Malek fled to the military installations in Chittagong a the "situation in the Bay of Bengal." UNITING PEOPLE EVERYDAY Restaurant at Gulshan-1 SATuRDAy , D HAKA , D eCeMBeR 13, 2014, A GRAHAyAN 29, 1421 BS, S AFAR 19, 1436 H IJRI

4 hurt as train rams human hauler in Inu refutes allegation Gazipur of repression on BNP GAZIPUR : Four people were injured when a train KUSTHIA : Information Minister Hasanul "It's quite impossible to fix the timetable to slammed into a human Haq Inu yesterday refuted BNP's allegation of unseat this government like that of the trial of hauler at Mouchak level repression on them (BNP men) saying that war criminals which may not be scheduling crossing in Kaliakoir upazila their leaders and activists are enjoying all sorts any national day," he continued. on Friday, reports UNB. of privileges and opportunities under the "Movement can be possible only through The identities of the vic - purview of democracy, reports BSS. mass people's participation but they (BNP) tims could not be known "It's absolutely false that government have no such involvement," he said. immediately. machineries are resorting to repressive acts on On maintaining strict security vigils, he said Dadan Mia, sub-inspector BNP leaders and workers. On the contrary, "We only ensure tight security measures when of Joydebpur Police Station, they are enjoying all sorts of privileges in line Begum Zia engages her activities to create said the accident took place with democracy," he said while talking to local unrest and anarchy across the country to foil in the area around 10.00am journalists after a view-exchange-meeting the government's development activities." when Khulna-bound with the teachers of Bheramara Degree Bherama Upazila Nirbahi Officer Shanti 'Sundarban Express' train College here. Inu, also the president of Jatiya Moni Chakma, Principal of Bheramara crashed into a Konabari- Sanjtantrik Dal (JSD), said BNP Chairperson Degree College Shamsur Rahman, among bound hauman hauler from Begum Khaleda is frequently speaking in vain others, accompanied the minister, who also Sakeshwar while crossing that they would launch a tougher movement exchanged views with his party leaders and the level crossing, leaving against the government. workers there. four passengers of the human hauler injured. Rab's mobile court on Friday raided the chicken food factory at Bou-Bazaar, Hazaribagh, Dhaka. Photo : Banglar Chokh Later they were rushed to local hospital and clinics Melee forces postpones with the help of local people. Mohammad Saiful Islam, officer-in-charge of Remarks of Kader Mollah’s son tantamount joint workers’ meeting Mouchak Police Camp, also confirmed the incident. DINAJPUR : A triangular Rahman Minu attended rally during the melee that clash in the presence of the programme as guests. left seven people injured. 7 get 5 yrs’ jail in to contempt of court : Suranjit BNP's central leaders over An altercation took place Later, Mahbubur sitting on the podium at a between the supporters of Rahman and Minu Sylhet carjacking DHAKA : Awami League Advisory Bangabandhu Academy organised DCC has been announced, they (BNP joint workers' meeting of district BNP general secre - stepped in to quell to feud - Council member Suranjit Sengupta, the discussion on current politics at leaders) said that the polls to DCC the party and its associate tary Mukur Chowdhury ing groups. However, their case MP, yesterday said that the recent the Institution of Diploma Engineers had been announced to foil their bodies left at least seven and Shahriar Akhter efforts went in vain as the SYLHET : A tribunal here on remarks of son of Kader Mollah, who at Kakrail in the capital with its advis - movement. Then which way we people injured in the dis - Haque Don, nephew of clashing groups paid no Thursday convicted seven was handed down with capital pun - er Nazimuddin in the chair. should choose! trict town on Friday, BNP chairperson Khaleda heed to them. people and sentenced them ishment by the war crimes tribunal Dhaka City Awami League vice- BNP should clear its stand whether reports UNB. Zia, around 11:30am over Finally, the two central to five years' imprisonment for his crimes against humanity in president Faezuddin Miah, it wants polls to DCC or not. The city The joint workers' meet - sitting on the podium. BNP leaders left the podi - for snatching a microbus 1971, on review of his father's verdict Bangabandhu Academy leader free - dwellers want DCC polls whether ing of the district BNP and Later, the followers of um amid the triangular leaving its driver uncon - tantamount to contempt of court, dom fighter Abdul Hye Kanu and Begum Khaleda Zia wants or not. So, its front organisations was Lutfar Rahman Mintu clash. scious in 2011, reports UNB. reports UNB. assistant secretary of Awami League the polls should be held expeditiously arranged at Dinajpur joined the feud. Meanwhile, the car of The convicts were identi - "Kader Mollah's son remarked that sub-committee Barrister Zakir for the sake of democracy." Lokbhaban in the town in At one stage, the three Mahbubur Rahman came fied as Manir alias Sumon the Supreme Court killed his father. Hossain were the discussants, among The senior Awami League leader the morning. BNP stand - groups engaged in a clash under attack while he was alias Swapan, 28, of sadar Such remarks of Kader Mollah's son others. said, "Khaleda Zia's reading on polls ing committee member Lt in the presence of the cen - leaving the venue. upaizla of Patuakhali district; Hasan Jamil were objectionable, sim - Terming the remarks of some BNP was frosty which has become clear Gen (retd) Mahbubur tral BNP leaders. The Subsequently, the joint Mohammad Alauddin Alal, ilar to contempt of court and contra - leaders on the Dhaka City now. The cat came out of the sack Rahman and joint secre - unruly BNP men van - worker's meeting has been 35, of Homna upazila in dictory to the Constitution," he said. Corporation (DCC) polls as unwar - after the statement of the European tary general Mizanur dalised the stage of the postponed. Comilla district; Abul Suranjit Sengupta, a senior parlia - ranted, Suranjit Sengupta said, "It's Union (EU) in this regard. In its Hossain alias Ali Hossain, mentarian of the ruling Awami League, the fault of the government if it opts recent statement the EU mentioned 26, of Biswanath upazila in said this while speaking as the chief for polls to DCC or not. As soon as the that they have no comments on the Sylhet district; Parimal guest at a discussion in the city. decision for holding of the polls to polls (in Bangladesh). Chandra Hawladar alias Sagar, 29, of Taltali upazila and Mohammad Anis,25, of Sadar upazila in Barguna district; Mohammad Govt to take action against troublemakers : Amu Islam,26, of Araihazar upazi - la in Narayanganj; and JHALOKATI : Industries Minister Amir Hossain Amu yester - the country and started mass-killing to destroy the constitu - Jashim Uddin, 23, of day said the government must take stern action against the tional continuity but after assuming office, Sheikh Hasina Haimchar in Chandpur dis - troublemakers who will try to curb people's fundamental rights brought the situation under control," he observed. trict. in any way, reports BSS. He said the BNP and Jamaat alliance has been isolated from The court also fined them "It is the responsibility of the government to ensure citizens' the people and as the (people) won't respond to the call of Tk10,000 each, in default, to fundamental rights . . . No unruly and destructive activities in movement against the government. Ranapasha Union AL pres - suffer six months more of the name of anti-government movement will be allowed in ident Mojibur Rahman Mina presided over the meeting. rigorous imprisonment. Bangladesh," he said while speaking at a conference of District AL President Sardar Mohammad Shah Alam, Nolcity According to the prosecu - Ranapasha Union unit of Awami League at Nolcity here. Upazila Chairman M Yunuch Laskor, Upazila AL President tion, the convicts hired a Amu, also a senior Awami League leader, bitterly criticized Taslim Uddin Chowdhury and Ranapasha Union Parishad microbus from Dariapara the unruly activities of BNP and Jamaat men, who tried to Chairman Abdus Salm , among others, spoke on the occasion. microbus stand in the city for launch movement in the streets to foil the January 5 general Later, Ranapasha union committee of Bangladesh Awami going to Jaflong on election. League was formed with Abdul Hamid Molla as its president A tractor driver was killed on Friday after his vehicle got hit by a truck near November 9, 2011. "They (BNP-Jamaat) unleashed a reign of terror throughout and Abdul Khaleq master as general secretary. Bangabandhu bridge's 86 no. pillar. Photo : Bangar Chokh Martyred Intellectuals Day Cosmetics company Cape Agulhas : The Place DMP asks vehicles to use Awami League to observe alternate routes on Sunday driver crushed DHAKA : Dhaka under bus in city Where Two Oceans Meet Metropolitan Police (DMP) January 5 as Day of Victory DHAKA : A driver of a on Friday asked all types of cosmetics manufacturing INTERESTING NEWS unaware that this unimpressive point service transports such as company was killed as a was the southern extremity of Africa. bus, truck, human hauler bus ran over him the When Portuguese explorer Indeed, many people still believe that and three wheelers to ply for Democracy moment he alighted from Bartolomeu Dias rounded the rocky Cape of Good Hope is the southern- on alternative routes another bus near Biman headland of South Africa's Cape most tip of the African continent, but instead of Mazar Road DHAKA : The ruling al crisis had the January observe the Martyred office in the city's Peninsula in 1488, he became the first that title belongs to Cape Agulhas - crossing to Mirpur-1 cross - Awami League will 5 national polls of 2014 Intellectuals Day on Motijheel on Friday European to do so, thus opening the the inconspicuous rocky headland ing from 6:00 am to 9:30 observe January 5 as the not been held. Many per - December 14, the Victory morning, reports UNB. way for a sea route from Europe to about 150 km further south. am on December 14, Day of Victory for sons remarked that there Day on December 16 and The victim was identi - Asia. He named it the "Cape of Incidentally, Cape Agulhas is also the reports UNB. Democracy, reports BSS. would have been a situa - the Homecoming Day of fied as Akbar Ali, 35, son Storms", because of the perilous sea, place where the official dividing line The DMP requested the The party has decided tion like civil war in the Bangabandhu on of Mansur Ali. but it was later renamed "Cape of between the Atlantic and Indian service transports to use to observe the day in all country." January 10 in a befitting He was a driver of Good Hope", because it brought Oceans passes. A stone plaque on the alternative roads for the upazila and district He said Prime Minister manner. Mousomi Industries Ltd, hopes of a new sea route to India. On beach marks the place. (For more smooth movement of vehi - headquarters with elabo - Sheikh Hasina retained Awami League (AL) manufacturer of widely his return journey, Dias passed interesting news visit: The cles during the period as rate programmes includ - the democratic process presidium member Satish popular cosmetics brand another rocky headland, but he was Bangladesh Today/Fun Facts) President, Prime Minister, ing bringing out of in the country overcom - Chandra Roy, joint gener - 'Cute', and also a resident and leaders of various polit - colourful marches. ing many hurdles and al secretary Advocate of Konapara under ical parties and other Awami League joint impediments and for Jahangir Kabir Nanak, Demra police station. organisations will go to the general secretary this reason, the Awami central leaders Abdur Police, quoting wit - Martyred Intellectuals Mahbub-ul-Alam Hanif, League has taken a deci - Rahman, Ahmed nesses, said Akber was Monument in Mirpur to pay MP, disclosed this to sion to observe the day Hossain, Dr Abdus run over by a bus just homage on the Martyred reporters at a press con - as the Day of Victory for Sobhan Golap, Mofazzal after he got down from Intellectuals Day on Sunday ference emerging from a Democracy in a befitting Hossain Chowdhury another bus on the west (Dec 14). joint meeting at the manner. Maya (Bir Bikram), act - side of Motijheel Biman The DMP advised that the political office of party In reply to a question ing president of Dhaka office, popularly known vehicles which will come to president Sheikh Hasina on BNP's counter pro - City AL MA Aziz, state as 'Bak Chattar' in the Mirpur from Ashulia via at Dhanmondi in the gramme on the day, the minister for ICT affairs morning. Mirpur Beribadh must use city. Awami League leader (Information and He was rushed to Shah Ali Thana road after Awami League presidi - said, "It not a matter of Communication Dhaka Medical College turning left of Nababerbagh um member and Deputy consideration to our Technology) Junaid Hospital where he suc - crossing. Leader of the House party. As a political Ahmed Palak and party cumbed to his injuries at The transports, which will Syeda Sajeda party, Awami League parliamentarians of about 8:00 am, said have to cross Shah Ali Chowdhury chaired the will continue to observe Dhaka City and presi - Inspector Mozammel at mazar area through Mazar meeting. democratic pro - dents and general secre - DMCH police camp. Road crossing, must use Mahbub-ul-Alam grammes." taries of AL's associate The body was sent to Darus Salam Road through Hanif said, "There would Besides, he said, the bodies attended the the hospital morgue for the Technical crossing. have been a constitution - Awami League will meeting, among others. an autopsy.

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