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B1 | UKRAINE CRISIS HITS FOOD IMPORTERS 7 | PRESERVING OUR NATIONAL HERITAGE 12 | AR RAHMAN, AKON TO PERFORM TODAY 15 | DJOKOVIC AND LI ADVANCE RAB ‘grabs’ parts of reserve forest New Gazipur training centre driving away locals, hurting livelihoods n Ahmed Zayeef April 13, 1955 and November 15, 1984. To establish the permanent building of Elite force Rapid Action Battalion is RAB force’s training school, the govern- constructing a training centre, destroy- ment decided to withdraw the declara- ing a part of the reserve forest in Gazi- tion of this land.” pur. To pave the way, the government According to the gazette, the area is in a gazette noti cation earlier this situated in Baupara Beat of Bhawal Na- month cancelled declaration of the al- tional Park Range. A total of 19.97 acres located 20 acre land. of land have been declared as non-clas- Due to the sudden development, not si ed area. The government o cially only the forest but also the poor inhab- declared it as a national park in 1973. itants, their age-old accommodation, The RAB authorities have already education, property and assets have started their work. They marked the been threatened. RAB o cials have al- area with pillars and hung four sign- legedly been using forces to drive away boards that read: Entry prohibited; the locals from the place. area selected for RAB force’s training When contacted, top o cials of the school. district administration and the forest They also evacuated 27 landless department responded reluctantly, and families who had been living in the area for over 50 years. A non-govern- ment high school building and half of A cow grazes on the land that was acquired to set up a training school for the RAB forces in Porabari of Gazipur. The photo was taken yesterday SYED ZAKIR HOSSAIN 27 landless families its playground also falls under the ac- who had been living quired area. Signs of destruction were seen all in the area for over over the area. Few dismantled mud- Plans to fence 50 years have been made houses were standing without Missing jet may have strayed roofs. Most of the landless families left parliament forced to leave the area on a short notice issued by the RAB personnel. Some of them are now toward Andaman Sea suspended did not give any details. On the other staying in the adjacent area by making hand, RAB brushed away the allega- temporary houses. n Reuters on Saturday, less than an hour after Agonising wait n Kamran Reza Chowdhury tions of intimidation. Day labour Yunus Ali told this cor- taking o from Kuala Lumpur, as According to the data from Rodzali, if The Dhaka Tribune reporter visited respondent that some RAB personnel Malaysia’s military has traced what it  ew northeast across the mouth it was the missing plane it would have The authorities have temporarily halt- the area, Porabari village, on Monday. came to the area on January 3 this year, could have been the jetliner missing of the Gulf of Thailand bound for  own for 45 minutes and lost only ed the move to erect security fence It is around seven kilometres from along with the local ward councillor for almost  ve days to an area south of Beijing. about 5,000 feet in altitude. around the parliament building until Gazipur intersection, near the Porabari Delwar Hossain. the Thai holiday island of Phuket, hun- Malaysian Air Force Chief Rodzali There was no word on which di- the original master plan is collected Bazar, and only a 5-minute walking dis- “They gathered us in an open place dreds of miles from its last known po- Daud told a news conference that an rection it was headed and still no clue from the US. tance from Dhaka-Mymensingh high- and ordered us to leave the area imme- sition, the country’s air force chief said aircraft was plotted on military radar at what happened aboard, prolonging the Two weeks ago, Prime Minister way. diately. We urged them to give us some yesterday. 2:15am, 200 miles northwest of Penang agonising wait for news for hundreds Sheikh Hasina had a meeting with o - It is green, verdant, peaceful village. time, and they gave only 15 days. But After a series of at times con icting Island o Malaysia’s west coast. of relatives of those on board. cials of the Public Works Department, A pond named “Botgachiar Pukur” is at they came back before that and forced statements, the latest revelation under- It was not con rmed that the uni- A position 200 miles northwest of the Department of Architecture and the centre of the area. A lot of mango, us to leave.” lined that authorities remain uncertain denti ed plane was Flight MH370, but Penang, in the northern part of the security wing of the parliament, where banana, jackfruit, litchi, Shishu and eu- While talking to Yunus, few oth- even where to look for the plane, and Malaysia was sharing the data with Strait of Malacca, would put the plane she enquired about the construction of calyptus trees were seen in the area. er people gathered around a tea stall no closer to explaining what happened international civilian and military au- roughly south of Phuket and east of the the fence. The gazette issued on March 5 said: within a very short time. All of them to Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 or thorities, Rodzali said. tip of Indonesia’s Aceh province and She also asked them whether the “According to the Forest Law of 1927, were eager to say something about the the 239 people on board. “We are corroborating this,” he add- India’s Nicobar island chain. fencing would hamper the proposed the land was declared as a reserve for- sudden evacuation. The  ight disappeared from civilian ed. “We are still working with the ex- Indonesia and Thailand have said construction of the metro rail link that est through gazette noti cations of  PAGE 2 COLUMN 1 radar screens shortly before 1:30am perts, it is an unidenti ed plot.”  PAGE 2 COLUMN 1  PAGE 2 COLUMN 3 INSIDE Khoka now to quit city News 3 The prosecution yesterday completed its part of closing arguments against war leadership to ‘save face’ crimes accused Motiur Rahman Nizami seeking highest punishment for the His announcement stoked intra-par- “ring leader” of collaborators. ty feud and controversy among the party leaders and activists as many of Nation them think it was Khoka’s “face saving 6 Students of Nachol Madhabpur High trick”. School in Chapainawabganj fear they Khoka, who was in the helm of Dha- have to su er a lot in the coming days ka city BNP for the last 17 years, tried as the summer season is nearer. his best to cling to the post and to this end he held a meeting with the BNP International chairperson but eventually he failed to 8 EU member states have agreed manage the party chief, sources said. the wording of sanctions on Russia, Khaleda on March 9 in a standing including travel restrictions and asset n Mohammad Al-Masum Molla committee meeting decided to reor- freezes against those responsible for ganise the city committee. violating the sovereignty of Ukraine, Two days after BNP Chairperson Khale- Party sources said Khoka sat with according to a draft document seen da Zia’s decision to reconstitute the some of his colleagues on Tuesday by Reuters. Dhaka city unit for its failure to build night and decided to hold a press con- up any resistance against the January 5 ference which the senior leaders of the Op-Ed polls the committee Convener Sadeque party disagreed saying it would amount 11 While the entire Bangladesh banking Hossain Khoka yesterday hoped his to humiliating party decision. industry is struggling with ine ciency party would relieve him of his respon- Three senior leaders of the party and graft, many are thinking: How do sibility soon.  PAGE 2 COLUMN 3 we ensure the migration of best practices to Bangladesh banking? Violence escalates NOTICE Dear readers: starting this week, we ahead of upazila polls shall be printing our Avenue T lifestyle supplement on Saturday instead of the n Mohammad Al-Masum Molla Election related violence slightly usual Thursday and Mohammad Zakaria increased compared to the last two phases, but the Election Commission Escalation of violence and violation was yet to take any measures to combat of electoral code of conduct across violence and create a congenial atmos- the country have marked the scenar- phere for voters. The EC only suspend- io ahead of the third phase of upazila ed polling in an upazila due to violence. parishad elections. Stray incidents of violence had also A total of 81 upazilas will go to the marked the  rst phase while one per- polls on March 15. son was killed in the second phase of As the BNP Jamaat-backed candi- the upazila polls. But one person has dates led the last two phases of the already been killed ahead of the third elections, the ruling Awami League has phase prompting the EC to postpone been trying hard to make its candidates voting in the upazila. win in the next phase. The BNP and Ja- The Awami League tried to ensure maat-e-Islami have also been trying to win of single candidates in more seats keep on winning the victory.  PAGE 2 COLUMN 4 2 DHAKA TRIBUNE News Thursday, March 13, 2014

DEEP SEA PORT AT SONADIA Abu Ha z: Violence during polls is Dubai rm proposes pre-construction study commonplace n Tribune Report n Mohosinul Karim were present at the presentation. will be done during the next meeting to ing, operating and maintaining large tra c is currently being handled from DP World proposed a long-term be held soon,” he said. seaports globally. the port of Chittagong facing severe Election Commissioner Mohammad The DP World, an Emirati marine ter- agreement for the New Mooring Con- According to the shipping ministry, “The DP World has a portfolio of congestion because of infrastructure Abu Ha z yesterday said violence minal operator interested in investing tainer Terminal at the port of Chit- proposal of the DP World has its posi- more than 65 marine terminals across bottleneck which in turn is hampering during polls became a commonplace in in three major projects in Bangladesh, tagong be made based on the Build-Op- tion on top of the list while that of Rot- six continents, including new devel- Bangladesh’s trade growth, the propos- the country. yesterday proposed that a study be erate-Transfer (BOT) method. This is a terdam Port, the Netherlands-based opments underway in India, Africa, al said. “If violence does not occur during conducted before investment in con- joint venture with the government of  rm, and China Harbour, the Chinese Europe, South America and the Middle Meanwhile, additional secretary polls, it seems unusual. Our neighbour- struction of a deep-sea port at Sonadia Bangladesh for building a deep-sea port  rm, are also under consideration. East. In 2012, it handled more than 56 of the shipping ministry Mohammad ing country, India, also witnesses vio- in Cox’s Bazar was made. at Sonadia and also an inland container According to the proposal of DP million TEU (twenty-foot equivalent Alauddin will be attending a meet- lence during polls,” he told reporters at The idea was suggested during a pre- terminal on JV/EOT/BOT at Gazipur. World submitted to the ministry ear- container units),” the proposal reads. ing of the Bay of Bengal Initiative for the EC secretariat. sentation of its multi-billion dollar invest- Jamal Abdul Nasser, CEO of the lier in the day, at least $14 billion will The proposal also mentioned that Multi-Sectoral Technical and Econom- The commission had taken stern ment proposal for construction of deep- deep-sea port body told the Dhaka be needed to construct the deep-sea Bangladesh had achieved e ective eco- ic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) in Thailand measures and that was why incidents sea port at the Prime Minister’s O ce. Tribune that two companies from the port. Construction will be done in three nomic growth over the past 10 years on March 18. of violence during polls were much Members of the government’s Netherlands and China also made pre- phases by 2055. and had seen consistent growth in its Construction of deep-sea ports in less, Ha z said. high-level committee led by the prin- sentations. The proposal says the UAE, through export and import trade. the BIMSTEC area is expected to be dis- The commissioner said holding elec- cipal secretary to the prime minister “Nothing has been  nalised yet. It DP World, has experience in develop- Majority of its export and import cussed at the meeting. l tion in a day had turned into a culture. The commission was holding polls in phases for di erent reasons like SSC examinations, he mentioned, adding Muhith: Revenue target that the army assisted the election of-  cials in holding polls. The commission will sit today with not possible the chiefs of law enforcement agencies, principal sta o cer of armed forces n Tribune Report The minister confessed that there division and o cials concerned for was corruption in taxation and indus- talks on the deployment of lawmen to Finance Minister Abul Mal Abdul Muhit trialisation, saying the government was the Tangail 8 by-poll. yesterday told the parliament that the not able to take action as there was no The Tangail 8 by-election would be government had made the decision to allegation in this regard. held on March 29. l collect revenues for the 2013-14  scal “All corruption cases become nor- year and said it would not be possible mal if there is not any complaint. But MPs take part in to achieve the revenue target because if we get a complaint, we take action of political crisis and global recession. against it,” he said. anthem rehearsal The recent political situation of the Replying to the question of M country and global recession had neg- Abdul Lalif, the minister also said n Tribune Report ative impact on investment, export the government was informed about and import, the minister said while re- fraudulences in mobile and online Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury plying to a question of Awami League banking, which mostly happened and members of parliament yesterday lawmaker Musfa zur Rahman of Chit- because of lack of IT related knowledge took part in a rehearsal to sing the na- tagong 16 constituency. of the users. l tional anthem as preparation for a re- cord-making attempt on March 26 at the national parade square. Over 50 MPs, including several minis- RAB ‘grabs’ parts of reserve forest Red  ags are erected near some date trees in front of the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban to mark the areas designated for the proposed metro ters, assembled at the south plaza of the  PAGE 1 COLUMN 2 They untied those cows and scattered rail tracks. The photo was taken yesterday NASHIRUL ISLAM Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban in the afternoon Harun-or-Rashid, a tailor, said: “One them all over the village. After search- to the practice with singer Mita Haque. day they [RAB members] came to my ing, I found only  ve of them.” The rehearsal continued for about house and beat me up in front of my Wing Commander ATM Habibur Plans to fence parliament suspended half an hour before the house went into wife and children. They threatened Rahman, director of RAB’s legal and  PAGE 1 COLUMN 6 Meanwhile, the public works de- the eastern side of the Sangsad Avenue session. me with dire consequences if I did not media wing, said: “We wanted some goes along the eastern side of Jatiya partment has already marked a straight and take a left-turn near Ispahani Eye The Parliament Secretariat provided leave the area immediately.” land from the government to establish Sangsad Avenue. line with red  ags from the northern Hospital and head toward Sayedabad. the MPs with printed copies of the na- The non-government education- the school and they gave us this land. The o cials told the premier that side of Sangsad Avenue to the southern Environmentalists and architects tional anthem. al institute, Shah Su Fosi Uddin Ask them why they did so.” they did not have the original plan of end of the parliament premises. raised concerns over the construction However, most of the MPs fumbled High School, was established in 1995. About the intimidation by RAB per- the building and it would cost Tk85 The line is around 30 feet inside the of the metro rail project for alleged vio- while singing in tune with Mita. Around 650 students are studying sonnel in the acquired area, he said: lakh to get a copy from architect Luis I proposed fencing point. lation of Kahn’s design. MP Rahmat Ali, who could not man- there now. The school has two build- “We did not receive any such allega- Kahn’s son. An o cial of the Parliament Secre- age to stand for more than  ve min- ings – one is a two-storied one, and the tions.” “Such a cost should not hold up the Metro rail route tariat said the technical experts on the utes, fell ill and had to sit down while other is single-storied. While talking to the Dhaka Tribune project,” Hasina told the o cials and According to the Parliament Secretariat metro rail project would examine the singing the national anthem. There is a playground in front of the over phone, Chief Forest Conservator ordered the Department of Architec- sources, the public works department site and go for construction of the in- According to the plan, over three school. It is also used for Eid congrega- Yunus Ali  rst claimed that the area ture to get the copy as soon as possible. has assessed that the existing bound- frastructure upon instruction from the lakh people will sing the anthem on In- tions where people from Baorait, Uttor was not reserved forest, it is “acquired “We have suspended the construc- ary wall on the eastern side has en- prime minister who would examine the dependence Day to enter the Guinness Santra and Porabari villages gather ev- by the government.” tion of the fence until we get the orig- croached at least 30 feet of the Sangsad original plan. Book of World Records. l ery year. As the reporter read out the full ga- inal copy of the master plan,” Selim Avenue, which should have been 150 One of the largest legislative com- But the one-storey building and half zette, he started stammering. He said: Khan, executive engineer of Jatiya feet. At present, the road is 120 feet. plexes in the world, the parliament Khandaker of the ground have fallen under RAB’s “As the government is satis ed with Sangsad Bhaban, told the Dhaka Tri- Starting in Pallabi of Mirpur, the pro- building comprises 215 acres of land. It acquisition. the RAB, it gave them permission.” bune. posed metro rail route is set to cross along was inaugurated on January 28, 1982. l Mosharraf detained Headmaster Sanaullah Sarkar said: He declined to make any further “The RAB authorities verbally told us comment on the issue. in graft case that they will not acquire this land per- Md Nurul Islam, the Gazipur depu- Khoka now to quit city leadership to ‘save face’ manently. But few days ago, we wanted ty commissioner, said he and his o ce n Tribune Report to cut a tree which the school authori- did not have anything to do with the  PAGE 1 COLUMN 3 failed,” Khaleda blamed the city leaders. himself said: “Those people have poor ties planted a couple of years back. We issue. He came to know about it upon said though Khoka would be dropped Khoka at a press brie ng said he did knowledge about politics. Some of our The police detained BNP Stand- wanted to make some chairs and tables receiving a copy of the gazette noti - from the committee his strong grip not want to stay in the committee and party leaders are making such state- ing Committee member Khandaker for the students but they [RAB] did not cation. over it would remain ever strong as no requested the BNP chairperson to re- ments and playing blame game. I think Mosharraf Hossain yesterday night, in allow us to do it.” Ishtiaq Uddin Ahmad, country rep- other competent city leaders came to constitute the city committee. it is not proper party politics.” connection with a case  led by the An- “Now we are concerned about the resentative for IUCN Bangladesh, told the limelight in more than a decade. “I do not want to carry on with the Explaining why they failed to build ti-Corruption Commission. existence of the school.” the Dhaka Tribune: “This reserved for- When contacted senior leaders re- responsibility anymore. I requested up any resistance on the instruction The BNP leader was held from his Some 10 RAB personnel are now est has already been disturbed. It has fused to comment but expressed their Netri (Khaleda) to reconstitute the of the party chief he said: “We fought Gulshan residence in the capital by staying in the area in a house which already shrunk in size. Any permanent grievances saying Khoka was trying to committee and she will take initia- against Ayub Khan, Yahya Khan and ACC Deputy Director Ahsan Ali with was made by Abul Kalam Azad, former infrastructure is harmful here.” linger the reconstitution of the com- tive soon. When I was in jail I sent a autocratic Ershad. This time the gov- the help of local police, said Pronob managing director of Bangladesh Tea The Border Guard Bangladesh au- mittee by making his announcement message to Madam (Khaleda) to do so ernment was harsher than even the Kumar Bhattcharjee, public relation of- Board. thorities early last year took over public. with either Mirza Abbas or Abdul Awal government of that time. We could not  cer of the ACC. He said: “I bought this land in 40 acres in Cox’s Bazar’s Rajarkul “Those who are involved in corrupt Mintoo putting at the helm of the city wage any movement because of killing Earlier, the commission  led a 1978. When the forest department range and started developing it politics only they can say like this. He unit,” Khoka said. and abduction.” case against Khandaker Mosharraf on claimed it to be government prop- without prior permission from the made the announcement to conceal “I believe in democracy. As I am a “It was Khoka’s trick to share the charge of allegedly laundering around erty, I went to the court. The High forest department. Of the land, 36 his failure,” Goyeshwar Chandra Roy, a loyal activist of the party, I do not want blame of failure on senior leaders,” a Tk9.54crore to the United Kingdom. Court gave the decision in my favour. acres fall within the purview of a re- standing committee member said. the party to remain stagnant and that’s senior leader told the Dhaka Tribune. Nasim Anwar, director of the an- Now I am waiting for the Supreme serve and the rest under a protected Earlier on February 10, Khaleda why I will carry on with the role of con- The city unit was formed on May 14, ti-graft watchdog,  led the case with Court’s decision.” forest area. slammed the city unit leaders for not vener till the reconstitution of the com- 2011 with Sadeque Hossain Khoka as its the Ramna police station on February 6. Azad claimed that the RAB person- Former environment and forest taking to the street. “When I was evict- mittee,” he said. convener and Salam the member secre- According to the case statement, nel went there all of a sudden and ac- minister Hasan Mahmud termed the ed from my cantonment residence no- On criticism from inside and outside tary. It was asked to form the ward and the former minister earned for- quired his house without any notice. land allocation a special consideration body then opened  re on you but you the party for poor performance of city the thana-level committees within six eign currency valued over £800,000 “I had a farm with 25 Australian cows. of the government. l were not seen on the streets. You have leaders on the street, Khoka defending months. l (Tk95,395,381) by abusing his power between 2001 and 2006, and through concealing information. Missing jet may have strayed toward Andaman Sea Violence escalates He deposited the money at a  xed-term  PAGE 1 COLUMN 3 third phase of polls and then make a deposit account at Lloyds TSB O shore  PAGE 1 COLUMN 5 Malaysia has been criticised for giving or crew on the plane had personal or failed in at least 50 seats. decision on this. Meanwhile, the EC Private Banking at Guernsey in the UK. The their militaries detected no sign of any con icting and confusing information psychological problems that might The BNP Jamaat coalition also failed postponed the election in Shreepur up- joint account belongs to the former minis- unusual aircraft in their airspace. on the last known location of aircraft. shed light on the mystery, along with to manage its rebel candidates. Candi- azila of Gazipur as violence  ared up in ter and his wife Bilkis Akhter Hossain. The position is hundreds of miles Earlier yesterday, Air Force Chief the possibility of a hijacking, sabotage dates of both the Awami League and the upazila. The High Court also stayed Earlier on February 25, the Appel- west of the point where the Boeing 777- Rodzali had denied saying military or mechanical failure. the BNP and rebels were busy carrying the polls in Fenchuganj upazila. late Division canceled the High Court 200ER dropped o air tra c control radar had tracked MH370  ying over The airline said it was taking seri- out last moment polls campaign with At least 15 Awami League activists verdict that granted a six-week antici- screens. Malaysia has asked India for the Strait of Malacca. ously a report by a South African wom- allegations and counter allegations of were injured in attacks by the support- patory bail to Khandaker Mosharraf in help in tracing the aircraft and New Vietnam brie y scaled down an who said the co-pilot of the missing violation of electoral code of conduct. ers of BNP-backed candidate in Fulgazi a money laundering case. Delhi’s coastguard planes have joined search operations in waters o its plane had invited her and a female The polls campaign will end tonight. upazila of Feni. The attackers vandalised The  ve-member apex court bench the search. southern coast, saying it was receiving companion to sit in the cockpit during Although the EC was thinking of the election o ce of the Awami League- headed by Chief Justice Md Muzammel Authorities however are continuing scanty and confusing information a  ight two years ago, in an apparent sending letters to the political parties, backed candidate and set  re to two cars. Hossain yesterday came up with the to search around both locations - from Malaysia over where the breach of security. especially the ruling party ministers Army and other law enforcement ruling in response to an appeal lodged at the last known position of the aircraft may have headed after it lost Hugh Dunleavy, the commercial di- and MPs, asking them not to in uence agencies, including Border Guard Ban- on February 16 by the ACC. plane over the Gulf of Thailand and contact with air tra c control. Hanoi rector of Malaysia Airlines, however, the local body polls, it did not as of yes- gladesh, Rapid Action Battalion, police Meanwhile, BNP Chairperson Khale- around the radar plotting site later said the search was back on in told Reuters there was no reason to terday, a senior EC o cial told the Dha- and Ansar, would be deployed from to- da Zia condemned the “arrest” of where the Malacca Strait meets the full force and was even extending blame the crew. ka Tribune seeking anonymity. day in the upazilas to maintain law and Khandaker Mosharraf and demanded Andaman Sea. on to land. “We have no reason to believe The commission observed that most order during the polls. his immediate release. In total, the search is over 27,000 China also said its air force would that there was anything, any incidents of violence occurred in areas A total of 1,119 candidates are con- In a statement signed by the par- square nautical miles (93,000 sq-km), sweep areas in the sea, clarifying actions, internally by the crew that where there were ministers and MPs. testing the polls in 81 upazilas. Of ty’s Joint Secretary General Ruhul an area the size of Hungary. Until now, however that no searches over land caused the disappearance of this “We are keeping watch on the situ- them, 419 are vying for chairman posts, Kabir Rizvi, Khaleda Zia said: “The in- there has been no con rmed sighting were planned. aircraft,” he said. ation. The commission asked the au- 423 for vice-chairman posts, and 277 cumbent illegal government has been of the plane or any debris. The Boeing 777 has one of the best thorities concerned to take stern action for women vice-chairman posts. hatching conspiracy to destroy the op- A dozen countries are helping Nothing ruled out safety records of any commercial air- against anyone violating electoral laws A total of 76,216 law enforcers will position party and Mosharraf’s arrest is Malaysia in the search, with 42 ships In the absence of any concrete evi- craft in service. Its only previous fatal and to keep an eye on the situation,” be deployed in 5,444 polling stations in part of that conspiracy.” and 39 aircraft involved, Transport dence to explain the plane’s disappear- crash came on July 6 last year when Election Commissioner Mohammad Abu 81 upazilas where 35,331 polling booths Arresting a veteran leader like Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said. ance, authorities have not ruled out Asiana Airlines Flight 214 struck a sea- Ha z told the Dhaka Tribune yesterday. have been set up. A total of 13,185,013 Mosharraf in a false case would lead anything. Police have said they were wall on landing in San Francisco, killing About writing to the political par- voters — 66,00,131 male and 65,67,832 fe- the government to a wrong direction, Confusing information investigating whether any passengers three people. l ties, he said the EC would observe the male — will cast their votes in the polls. l she added.l DHAKA TRIBUNE News Thursday, March 13, 2014 3

Rape victim’s condition deteriorates n Mohammad Jamil Khan The condition of a  ve-year-old rape victim of Mirpur yesterday was stated to be critical as the bleeding did not stop. She is now undergoing treatment at the One-stop Crisis Centre (OCC) of Dhaka medical College Hospital. “The condition of the girl has dete- riorated as bleeding did not stop. The organ was badly ruptured by torture,” Bilkis Begum, coordinator of the OCC, told the Dhaka Tribune. “Our special- ised doctors are doing their best to cure the child and we are hopeful about it.” She said they would say clearly about the torture after getting result of the DNA test. The child was admitted to the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina sits for a photo session with members of the joint governing body of the National Defence College and the Defence Services Command and Sta College at Dhaka Cantonment yesterday PMO DMCH on Tuesday after she was al- legedly raped by the Arabic teacher of her school – Holy Crescent School and College. Police arrested the culprit, Minhaz Uddin, after the incident and Prosecution ends arguments in Nizami case veri ed the arrestee by the victim. Bail, remand rejected n Udisa Islam arguments in the case for the second On Tuesday, the tribunal asked Ali defence at di erent times and the legal able to prove all the charges against Police yesterday placed the accused time as the former chairman of Inter- to close the arguments by 1pm includ- arguments on incitement and crimi- Nizami and therefore, seeking highest before the Chief Metropolitan Magis- The prosecution yesterday completed national Crimes Tribunal 1 had gone ing the submission of Tureen and oth- nal responsibility. After her two-hour punishment for him. trate’s Court seeking a  ve-day remand its part of closing arguments against into retirement before delivering the ers, if any. But he took the whole time submission she said: “Nizami was the After her arguments, prosecutor while the defence lawyer submitted war crimes accused Motiur Rahman verdict. alone and sought one more session ring leader of all the crimes committed Haider took part in the hearing. The bail prayer. Nizami seeking highest punishment On the third day of hearing, Ali ar- for Syed Haider Ali. The tribunal then by al-Badr and Islami Chhatra Sangha tribunal then adjourned the hearing After a hearing, Judge Alamgir Kabir for the “ring leader” of collaborators. gued on  ve charges. On charge num- asked Haider to place his submission during Bangladesh’s Liberation War in until today asking the defence to start Raj rejecting the prayers sent the ac- Prosecutors Mohammad Ali and Tu- ber 16, which is related to intellectual after Tureen since he was senior to her. 1971.” placing their part of closing arguments cused to jail. reen Afroz sought the sentence as they killing, he read out the full deposition In the second session, Tureen ar- She argued that Nizami had superi- in the case. Accused Minhaz is the younger completed their argument separately of Shyamoli Nasrin Chowdhury, wife gued on three speci c parts – respons- or responsibility in committing crimes Meanwhile, the tribunal 2 yesterday brother of Mesbah Uddin, principal of against the accused. of martyred intellectual Alim Chowd- es to some questions that came up dur- against humanity. adjourned the hearing in the trial of the school. l The tribunal is hearing the closing hury. ing the submission by Ali and by the She also said the prosecution was Syed Md Qaisar until today. l

HC drops contempt PM: Public health threatened by proceedings food adulteration against journos n Tribune Report n Tribune Report the premier. BNP Jamaat. Hasina also said the government Replying to a query by Awami The High Court yesterday dropped the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yester- had been carrying out a campaign to League lawmaker Enamul Haque, the contempt of court proceedings against day told the Jatiya Sangsad that adul- create awareness among the people premier also told the parliament about two Bangla newspapers and president teration of food items has become a against food adulteration. six priority “fast track” projects for and general secretaries of four journal- threat against public health. “The government has enacted laws the current tenure that include Padma ists bodies for demanding apology from “Some unscrupulous traders have and set up a directorate to protect con- Multipurpose Bridge, Ruppur Nuclear lawyer Rokanuddin Mahmud for his de- been committing isolated crimes by sumers’ rights and impose restriction Power Plant, coal-based power plant meaning comment against journalists. mixing formalin with food items in on import of formalin,” she added. of Rampal, Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) The bench of Justice Naima Haider some areas of the country,” she said Responding to a supplementary of Dhaka (Metro Rail Project), deep and Justice Zafar Ahmed passed the while replying to a query by lawmaker question from Awami League law- seaport of Sonadia and LNG terminal order after the journalists of the dailies Altab Uddin Sarkar during the ques- maker Shamsul Haque Chowdhury, project. – Samakal and Naya Diganta, and the tion-answer session. the prime minister said her govern- Listing the government’s long- Dhaka Reporters Unity, Barisal Division The premier said the government ment would keep up the development term economic plan, Hasina said the Journalists Association, Dhaka Univer- had already taken stern steps to deal of the country, adding that the people country would turn into a mid-income sity Journalists Association and Jagan- with the dishonest traders. had again given them the chance to country by 2021 and a developed nath University Journalists Association The parliament sitting, chaired by form a government. country by 2041. sought unconditional apology. Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury, Hasina said the country would “The government has been working The two dailies published the state- had the  rst 30 minutes of the march forward even in the face of to decrease the poverty rate to 13% by ments of the four organisations and question-answer session selected for political violence unleashed by the 2021,” she added. l later Rokanuddin drew the court’s at- tention to those. On Sunday, the bench issued a contempt of court ruling against the editors and publishers of the two Alleged war criminal vandalises newspapers, the president and secretar- ies of the journalists bodies. On March 2, the same bench on its witness’ house in Begumganj own motion summoned Mizanur Rah- man Khan, joint editor of Prothom Alo, n Our correspondent, Noakhali was known in the village for his alleged the lawmen rushed to the spot immedi- for writing a post-editorial questioning involvement in war crimes – allegedly ately after hearing the news of vandalism the anticipatory bails granted by the A man dubbed as “war criminal” in as- vandalised the house of Md Abdul Gafur and brought the situation under control. bench. The court issued a contempt of sociation with his cohorts in Begumganj around 4am yesterday. Gafur was a wit- A legal battle over a piece of land was court ruling against Editor Matiur Rah- upazila of the district allegedly van- ness in the war crimes case against Belal. going on between Belal and Gafur for a man and Mizanur. l dalised the house of a witness in a war The case was lodged with the judicial long time, the OC said, adding that on crimes case. magistrate court of Noakhali on May 18, Tuesday Belal got the court verdict in his HC to hear amici The incident occurred early yesterday 2010, by one Moklesur Rahaman, son of favour, and a sheer vengeance might have in the village of Choia Hossainpur under Mo j Mia in the same village. led to the vandalism. curie on judges’ A DMP employee installs CCTV cameras at an Uttara intersection yesterday as part of the Rajganj union in the upazila. Mosta jur Rahaman, o cer-in-charge Gafur said he would  le a case with the beefed up security measures surrounding the T20 World Cup SYED ZAKIR HOSSAIN Locals said Belal ‘Rajakar’ – as he of Begumganj Model police station, said police station in this connection. l appointment issue n Tribune Report SYLHET JMB ATTACK Five senior lawyers have been asked 7 amici curie to hear national poll’s to present their opinion as amici curie on a writ petition that sought speci c Female leaders asked to guidelines for appointing judges of the uncontested winner case High Court. The lawyers are Dr Kamal Hossain, n Nazmus Sakib er told the Dhaka Tribune. and the Election Commission secretary testify May 6 Barrister Ra que-Ul Huq, Moudud The bench of Justice Mirza Hus- were asked to reply to the ruling in 10 Ahmed, Rokanuddin Mahmud and The High Court yesterday asked six Su- sain Haider and Justice Khurshid Alam days. However, they had not replied n Tribune Report maker Syeda Zebunnessa Haq, district Ajmalul Hossain QC. They would place preme Court lawyers and the secretary Sarkar gave the order. yet, lawyer for the petitioner Hassan MS unit Mohila Dal joint secretary Asma their opinion in their convenient time. of Shushashoner Jonno Nagorik (SHU- On February 16, the bench had issued Azim told the Dhaka Tribune yesterday. A Sylhet court yesterday ruled that the Kamran, Mohila League general secre- The bench of Justice Mirza Hus- JON) to place their opinions as amici a ruling seeking explanations as to why The petition said: “The [RPO] provi- four female leaders including an Awa- tary Rubi Fatema Islam and its leader sain Haider and Justice Khurshid Alam curie during the hearing on constitu- the provision of the Representation of sion is also contrary to the constitution mi League lawmaker injured in a JMB Salma Basit. According to the court Sarkar passed the order. tionality of declaring an uncontested the People Order (RPO) for declaring an as it inherently possesses the scope of attack on March 24, 2004 appear before sources, JMB members launched an at- Hassan MS Azim, lawyer for the peti- candidate winner in general election. uncontested candidate winner in par- arbitrary and discriminatory use of the it on May 06 to testify against the ac- tack on a meeting held at the lawmak- tioner, told the Dhaka Tribune that the Senior lawyers Dr Kamal Hossain, liamentary poll should not be declared election process by the political parties cused of the banned Islamist out t. er’s house. At least 15 leaders of Awami court on June 6, 2010 sought explana- M Amir-Ul Islam, Ra que-Ul Huq, unconstitutional. and, thereby, gets their choice of can- Judge Mohidul Islam of Public Se- League were injured in the attack. tions from the government as to why Mahmudul Islam, Moudud Ahmed and It passed the order in response to a didates declared by the Election Com- curity Disruption Prevention Tribunal Following the attack, the lawmak- speci c guidelines should not be framed Rokanuddin Mahmud and SHUJON writ plea  led on December 17 by Jatiya mission to have been elected avoiding passed the order. The female leaders er’s husband Enamul Haq  led a case for the appointment to bring transparen- Secretary Badiul Alam Majumder will Party Vice-Chairman Khandker Abdus participation of the people.” were supposed to appear before the tri- with Kotwali police station against cy and competitiveness in the process. attend the hearing when the case is put Salam. A total of 153 lawmakers were elect- bunal yesterday, but they were absent the JMB leaders including Mufti Abdul The matter would be in cause list for on the cause list from March 14 to 31, The cabinet secretary, the law sec- ed unopposed in the 10th parliamentary from their court appearance. Hannan, Delowar Hossain, Mo jul Is- hearing after vacation that starts from Deputy Attorney General Al-Amin Sark- retary, the chief election commissioner election held on January 5. l The four female witnesses are law- lam and Mufti Moinuddin. l tomorrow until March 31, he said.l

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No third carrier for Bangladesh presses hajj  ights: Menon for ending violence n Mohosinul Karim No other airline except the  ag carriers of Bangladesh and Saudi Arabia would be allowed to carry hajj pilgrims this against women year, despite a recent High Court ruling to permit a third carrier, according to a decision by the civil aviation ministry. Gender violence costing country Only Biman Bangladesh Airlines and Saudi Arabian Airlines would be 2% of total GDP permitted to operate hajj  ights, Civil Aviation and Tourism Minister Rashed n Sheikh Shahariar Zaman er pointed out. Khan Menon told reporters yesterday. Saying the civil society and develop- “We want Biman and Saudia to carry With the backdrop of recent studies ment partners were concerned about pilgrims as it would be easy for us to  nding that 87% married women in the reproductive health and rights issues, deal with them. So, we have decided country experience violence by their the UN o cial added that although not to allow a third carrier. There will spouses, Bangladesh has been pressing Bangladesh had done well in reducing be no third carrier this year,” Menon for a stop to violence against women maternal mortality, there was still more added. and the elimination of child marriage at to do. On July 29, the Hajj Agencies As- the ongoing session of the Commission Child marriage was linked to early sociation of Bangladesh and a pilgrim on Status of Women. pregnancy and the chance of dying in jointly  led a writ petition challenging Bangladesh has put forward its pro- childbirth was higher for young wom- the legality of a similar government de- posal to the UN for post-2015 develop- en, she added. cision last year to allow only Biman and ment agenda, which includes two goals If adolescents had the full under- Saudia to carry pilgrims. on ensuring equal opportunity and standing and education about repro- The High Court on February 20 de- bene t for all women, and ensuring ductive health, and were able to dis- clared the decision as illegal and ruled the role of women in decision-making cuss it with their parents and get the that pilgrims could choose any airline process. services they need, it would greatly to go for hajj. The matter will be discussed during help in reducing maternal mortality, However, Menon said the govern- the 58th session of the Commission on Hunter said. A jubilant woman shows a victory sign in Dhanmondi yesterday after collecting her ticket for a concert that will celebrate the T20 World ment had obtained a stay order on the Status of Women that started on March Recent studies had also found that Cup DHAKA TRIBUNE HC ruling after an appeal two weeks 10 and will continue until March 21 in the cost of violence against women ago. New York. constituted 2% of the total GDP in Ban- The minister, meanwhile, rejected a Speaking on the issue, Christine gladesh, while the country was ranked proposal to allow National Air Services Hunter, country representative for UN third in the world and  rst in Asia re- Policeman's 'hired goons kill' wife (NAS Air), a Saudi state-owned airlines, Women Bangladesh, told the Dhaka garding child marriage, with 65% wom- to  y pilgrims. Tribune: “I am really hoping that Ban- en being married before the age of 18. n Our Correspondent, Rajbari dar upazila. She was an HSC  nal year later hired goons to kill her. Saudi Ambassador Abdullah bin gladesh will continue to advocate for She also said Bangladesh has student of Rajbari Government Mohila When contacted, Investigation Of- Nasser Al Basiri made the o er when these positions.” achieved many of the Millennium De- A case was  led yesterday with Rajbari College.  cer of the case Babon Uddin Mollah, he met the minister earlier at his secre- The session in New York creates velopment Goals despite being a poor sadar police station in connection with The victim’s uncle Ahamed Mandal sub-inspector of Rajbari Government tariat o ce in the capital. a very good platform for advocacy, country. the alleged murder of a college girl said Morzina was married two years Rail Police, said there was no doubt that “We have rejected their proposal to she said, adding that the conclusions In the discussion on the post-2015 on a Khulna-bound moving train on ago with police constable Mamun Mol- miscreants killed Morzina after rape. carry hajj pilgrims, as it is an ine cient agreed at the session were binding for agenda, the Bangladesh government March 1. lah, son of Helal Uddin Mollah of vil- Police said when the train reached and irresponsible air agency. There are all member countries. was making a strong point that the Police have started to investigate lage Rotondia in Kalukhali upazila of Pangsha Railway Station, railway po- lots of allegations against the agency,” About the role of women in deci- post-2015 goals have to be in equal part- the incident and the station’s O cer- the district, after she passed her SSC lice found the compartment door Menon said. “But they may be allowed sion-making process, Hunter said: “We nership between the wealthy and the in-Charge Md Abdul Khaleque said examinations. locked. They later peeped inside the to carry passengers for umrah. We will have taken some good steps, and now poor countries, and that the wealthier they were trying to arrest the accused The uncle said Mamun was jobless compartment through the window and consider it,” he added. we have to take our next steps.” countries would have to live up to their as soon as possible. when he married Morzina in exchange saw a girl’s body hanging with the ceil- According to the civil aviation min- Citing an example, she said out of 12 commitment, she said. The college girl was killed allegedly of Tk4.5 lakh as dowry. Mamun needed ing fan. They then broke the door and istry, NAS Air had carried pilgrims in posts in the local government council, “We should invest the resources. by her husband’s hired goons after the money as bribe for getting a job in recovered the body. 2011 and 2012. But the pilgrims had to three were reserved for women. These are important because if we be- she was raped inside compartment No the police service, he added. Ahamed After being informed, Mamun su er long delays at Jeddah airport. “There are nine men on a council lieve in human rights, we should not 5002 of Nokshikatha mail train. Sourc- said Morzina’s husband now works as a came to the victim’s house and asked They also faced problems after return- and each man covers one constituency. have people living in extreme poverty es said she was going to a rally of BNP police constable at Dhaka Metropolitan Morzina’s father to dismiss the murder ing home as most of them lost their lug- And those three women cover three and destitution. We should not have Chairperson Khaleda Zia. Police service, but denies he is married. issue and o ered him the dowry money gage. Thus, the ministry decided not to of those. So constituencies covered by people excluded from social processes; The girl’s was Morzina Khatun, 20, Family sources said Mamun had back. As a result, the victim’s family reassign the airlines for hajj  ights. l three men have to be covered by one so, we need to invest on that,” Hunter daughter of Abdus Sukur Mandal of cut-o relation with Morzina after get- could not  le any case in this connection woman, but her budget is same,” Hunt- added. l village Gangaprosadpur in Rajbari sa- ting the job in police. They claimed he from the day of the incident. l HC orders to give passport to Moudud Oxygen plant BSF returns four children RAB beats up mother of Tribune Report explosion kills 2 n n Our Correspondent, The children remained imprisoned The High Court yesterday ordered the Chapainawabganj for 19 months to 36 months in Bohrom- n Our Correspondent, Narayanganj, JCD leader director general of the immigration and pur Jail of India. passport o ce to issue a machine read- The Indian Border Security Force re- They were brought back to the At least two workers were killed and 10 n Our Correspondent, Lakshmipur They took away three mobile sets able passport to BNP standing commit- turned four Bangladeshi children yes- country with the help of Jatiya Mohila others injured in an oxygen plant explo- from the house, and hit Zisan’s mother tee member Moudud Ahmed within 48 terday, who were tra cked to India Ainjibi Samity. sion yesterday inside a rerolling factory Members of Rapid Action Battalion on her face. They also threatened to hours. through Sonamoshjid port in Chapain- Authorities of Mohdipur in Barpa area in Narayanganj. yesterday allegedly beat up the mother break her hands and legs if she could The bench of Justice Quazi Reza-Ul awabganj district. Immigration in Maldohol district in The deceased were identi ed as Abu of former Chhatra Dal leader Solaiman not trace Zisan by today, Zisan’s moth- Hoque and Justice ABM Altaf Hossain They were identi ed as Masud Ali, India handed them over to authorities Zafar, 22, and Abdur Razzak, 23. The Uddin Zisan in Lakshmipur’s West Lat- er Fatema Begum claimed. gave the ruling on a writ petition  led 14, son of Ra qul Islam, Imon Imam, of Sonamoshjid Immigration. incident took place at 4pm inside the ifpur village. Maj Shahed of RAB 11, however, said by the BNP leader as he was not given a 12, son of Iqbal Hossain of Sopura BSF and BGB o cers were present Ahmmad Rerolling Factory at Barpa, be- Zisan’s family members alleged that the law enforcers had conducted many passport in 72-hours after applying on village, Abdul Zabbar, son of Rabiul at that time. sides the Dhaka-Sylhet Highway. identifying themselves as RAB mem- drives to nab many notorious terror- February 24. Islam of Dinajpur district and Ripa The children would be handed OC of Rupganj police station Asa- bers they entered into the house and ists, but there was no incident of mis- Last Thursday, the court issued a di- Khatun,13, daughter of Abdul Khaleque over to their family members, said duzzaman said they were investigating carried out vandalism in the name of behaviour with old persons or with any rective, which was made absolute yes- of Mymensingh district. sources. l the matter. l searching Zisan. family.l terday. l

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Dry weather likely n UNB Weather may remain mainly dry with temporary partly cloudy sky over the country with chances of light rain or thunder showers at one or two places over Rajshahi, Rangpur divisions and the regions of Tangail, Mymensingh and Sylhet until 6pm today. Day and night temperatures might rise slightly over the country, Met Of- Garment worker Momena, who was injured in the Rana Plaza collapse, addresses a  ce said. programme marking the International Women’s Day at the National Press Club yesterday The sun sets in the capital at 6:07pm NASHIRUL ISLAM today and rises at 6:09am tomorrow. Country’s highest temperature 33.5 degree Celsius was recorded in Rajsha- hi and Mongla and lowest 12.0 degrees Sayedee appeals case in Srimangal yesterday. Highest and lowest temperatures re- corded in some major cities yesterday adjourned till April 1 were: n Tribune Report he argued. On April 1, Mahbubey Alam would City High Low The Appellate Division of the Su- place his arguments on the charge of Dhaka 32.2 18.2 preme Court yesterday deferred the killing Bisabali. Assistant Attorney Chittagong 30.2 19.0 war crimes appeals case of death row General Bashir Ahmed assisted him Rajshahi 33.5 15.6 convict Delawar Hossain Sayedee until during the hearing while SM Shahjahan Rangpur 31.2 15.4 April 1. represented Sayedee. Khulna 32.3 19.5 The  ve-member top court bench Arguments in the case began on Barisal 33.0 18.4 headed by Chief Justice Md Muzam- January 28. The defence completed its Sylhet 32.5 16.4 mel Hossain passed the order following part of arguments but would rebut the Cox’s Bazar 33.0 20.4 a plea by Attorney General Mahbubey arguments made by the government, Alam. said Shahjahan. PRAYER TIMES The top law o cer of the country The International Crimes Tribunal 1 Fajar 4:54am told the court that as per the deposition gave death penalty to Sayedee on Feb- Sunrise 6:09am of two eye-witnesses – Muken Chakrab- ruary 28 last year. The Jamaat leader on Zohr 12:08am arty and Sukharanjan Bali, Sayedee had March 28 lodged an appeal with the apex Asr 4:27pm been involved in the killing of Bisabali. court seeking acquittal. The government Magrib 6:07pm So, the International Crimes tribunal also registered an appeal to specify the Esha 7:22pm 1 had handed down the death penalty punishment in all the six charges that Source: IslamicFinder.org rightly for the Jamaat-e-Islami leader, were proved at the tribunal. l Thursday, March 13, 2014 5 DHAKA TRIBUNE News Kaliakoir hi-tech park gets another JnU students to organise 40.5 hectare land rally on March 16 n Mohammad Jamil Khan Students’ Alliance extended their sup- n Muhammad Zahidul Islam where only software and service relat- to provide funds for these projects, the appointment of a developer following a port and expressed solidarity with the ed work will go on. We do not expect government would  nance those from petition. The students and teachers of ongoing students’ demo yesterday. Fol- Prime minister’s telecommunication the hi-tech park to become an EPZ.” its own sources. “The World Bank gives On January 28 this year, the govern- Jagannath University (JnU) announced lowing a rally in front of the JnU Liber- and ICT Adviser Sajeeb Wazed Joy yes- The tech park has progressed very us money and we repay it. It has been ment  led an appeal with the Appellate to hold a rally in front of the central ation War Sculpture at 11am, they made terday announced to increase the area little in the past 15 years since the proj- their habit to impose conditions. But Division against the High Court order Shaheed Minar on March 16 to gather the announcement. of the country’s  rst hi-tech park at Ka- ect was conceived, and o cials con- Bangladesh is not a country of beggars, and got the verdict in its favour. a mass support for their ongoing The progressive students’ leaders liakoir, Gazipur by another 40.47 hect- cerned blame frequent shifts in govern- it is going ahead,” said Joy. In the meantime, the cabinet decid- demonstration in retrieving their also assured the students that they are (100 acre). ment’s decision and the World Bank’s After the army-backed caretaker ed to invite a re-tender for the project. grabbed halls. would lead the demo peacefully until The area of the park, which was intervention for this. government took new initiative in Sep- Talking to the Dhaka Tribune on Shariful Islam, convener of the hall the government met the demands. started about 15 years ago in 1999 and In 1999, the then prime minister tember 2007, the construction work of Tuesday, Project Director ANM Sa qul recovery committee and president of JnU Chhatra Union President Jahid- is still to be completed, will now stand Sheikh Hasina decided to establish the the project started, building basic infra- Islam expressed hope that the work of JnU Bangladesh Chhatra League, told ul Islam Sajib, Chhatra Font President at 332 acre. park on 232 acres of land of the Kalia- structure at a cost of Tk24.4 crore. the Kaliakoir hi-tech park would go on the Dhaka Tribune that they had al- Masud Rana, Chhatra Federation Pres- After a visit to the project site, Joy koir Surface Satellite Station. But the In 2010, the government declared smoothly from now. ready started campaigning and di er- ident Tahmida Islam Tania, Chhatra expressed dissatisfaction at the slow following four-party alliance govern- it as a high-priority project and estab- Junaid Ahmed Palak, state minister ent steps were taken to make the rally League Secretary Shirajul Islam ad- progress but said the park would be ment did not carry on with the proj- lished the Bangladesh Hi-tech Park Au- for ICT Division, said: “We are not set- successful. dressed the rally among others. completed within the term of the pres- ect. The then science, information and thority. ting any deadline but the implemen- “All students, teachers and universi- Students of the university have been ent government. communications technology ministry In 2012, it decided to implement the tation work of the project has already ty sta s are expected to join the rally,” observing agitation programmes on “I have been satis ed with the prog- initiated a new project at Kaliakoir in project through public-private part- started.” he said, adding that the rally would de- the campus since February 12 this year, ress of other telecommunication and 2004, but it did nothing more than ac- nership and the Kuala Lumpur-based Post, Telecommunications and In- stroy the strength of all the land grab- demanding recovery of halls which ICT projects over the past  ve years, but quiring land. Kulim Technology Park Corporation formation Technology Minister Abdul bers. have been grabbed by vested interest I have only one frustration, and that is Project o cials concerned alleged that became the top bidder in an interna- Latif Siddique, Railway Minister Md Students said though the movement group. this [Kaliakoir hi-tech] project,” said Joy, the World Bank, which is  nancing Tk200 tional tender. Muzibul Hoque, Junaid Ahmed Palak to retrieve their halls began in 2005, Education Minister Nurul Islam Na- son of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. crore in the project, had often caused In February 2013, the government and acting secretary of the ICT Division this is the  rst they were going arrange hid has already assured the students He said: “We do not want a hi-tech problems by interrupting decisions. approved the Tk2.26 billion project and Kamal Uddin Ahmed accompanied Joy a grand to press home their demands. of taking measures to recover the hall factory…We want a software park Joy said if the World Bank refused in November the High Court stayed the during his visit. l On the other hand, JnU Progressive without any delay. l Rajuk, IFC to work together to strengthen building safety in city n Tribune Report building inspection and regulation of construction permits,” said Md Nurul The Rajdhani Unnayan Kartipaksha Huda, Chairman of Rajuk. and the International Finance Dhaka is one of the fastest growing Corporation (IFC) have joined hands cities in the world, and there is a need together to improve building safety for more disciplined growth in the fu- standards by strengthening the ture for sustainable development, he construction permit approval process added. and related building inspection In a landmark move, the govern- mechanisms. ment has committed cash contribution Through a project, the IFC will sup- to the project aiming to improve the port Rajuk, development authority of country’s investment climate, , says a the capital, to introduce third party in- press release. spection for increasing safety, stream- “IFC is committed to providing as- lining existing laws, automating the sistance to raise safety standards of construction permits issue process, buildings in Bangladesh. and introducing digital signatures to Once factories and buildings are giv- reduce paperwork. en clearance using a thorough, fast and The project will actively encourage reliable system, investment con dence pro-environment green options to save in Bangladeshwill get a boost. water and energy at new buildings by This will also help address con- incorporating green building measures cerns about unsafe infrastructure in in the construction regulations of the ready-made garment sector,” said Rajuk. Kyle F Kelhofer, IFC country manag- “Dhaka is densely populated and er. situated in an earthquake prone zone. IFC and International Labour Organ- Bringing down risk levels in buildings isation are working together on a la- is crucial. To address global concerns bour standards programme called Bet- around safety in buildings, we are ter Work, which focuses on improved keen to support strict enforcement of buildings for worker security. l A labourer is involved in renovation work on Aparajeya Bangla at Dhaka University yesterday SYED ZAKIR HOSSAIN

DU reshu es pre-convocation DU student torture case DU students protest move to make schedules deposition recorded Bangla, linguistics departments equal n Tribune Report n Md Sanaul Islam Tipu Huq Hall, from a relative’s house at Es- n DU Correspondent which marched di erent streets of the immediately. When contacted with katon. Later, Helal took him to his of- campus. Then the agitated students held Prof Shoumitro Shekhor, faculty mem- Dhaka University authorities changed A Dhaka court yesterday recorded the  ce room. Helal beat up Kader severely Students of Bangla department of Dha- a protest rally at the base of Aparajeyo ber of Bangla Department said the stu- their schedule for providing invitation deposition of Dhaka University student to make a confessional statement. ka University staged demonstration in Bangla denouncing the decision adopted dents of the two departments have to papers and gowns for the participants Abdul Kader, against former OC Helal As he denied to give confessional the campus yesterday protesting the by education ministry and UGC. follow di erent types of syllabi, so it is of the 48th convocation of the univer- Uddin, in a case  led against the police statement, Helal hacked him below his recent decision jointly taken by the Speakers at the rally said: “We (stu- not a wise decision by the UGC and Ed- sity. o cial for torturing Kader, then mas- knee with a sharp weapon. Ministry of Education and University dents of Bangla) have to face exams ucation Ministry.” Participants can now collect all nec- ter’s student of biochemistry. Then, police lodged two separate Grants Commission (UGC) regarding amounting to 3000 marks to complete S M Sadik, a master’s student from essary stu from 10am till 4pm on April Metropolitan Magistrate Alamgir Kabir cases against him one for robbery and approval of isometric status of linguis- our degree in Bangla. To the contrary, Bangla department told the Dhaka Tri- 4 and 5 and from 10am to 1pm on April Raj recorded the statement and  xed another for possessing illegal  rearm. tics students to that of Bangla. linguistics students have to face only bune that it was a ridiculous decision 6, said a university press release. April 6 for next prosecution witnesses. He was also shown arrested in an- Earlier yesterday morning, educa- 100 marks of examination related to our by the authority and we want immedi- The invitation papers and gowns During the deposition, Kader de- other false case  led with Mohammad- tion ministry sent a letter to the Ban- course. Of course the two courses cannot ate cancellation of that decision. would be available in the Social Science scribed before the court how Helal pur police station for carjacking. gla Department saying DU linguistics be counted as equal. We will never com- Meanwhile, teachers of the Bengla Faculty Building, Science Cafeteria, brutally tortured him in custody and Teachers and students of DU and department and Bangla Department ply with education ministry’s decision.” Department and Prof Emeritus Anisu- Curzon Hall, Business Studies Facul- implicated him in false cases. people from di erent walks of life pro- were now equivalent and linguistics They urged the Education Minister zzaman also expressed their solidarity ty Building and TSC (Teacher-Student Helal was present before the court tested the torture. students could be considered for the to withdraw the decision as early as with the protesters. “Two departments, Centre). during the recording. He was freed on bail on August 3, post of teacher at Bangla department. possible and announced to form a hu- Bangla and Linguistics, are important in However the date of the convoca- According to the statement, some 2011, after 18 days of his detention. The Around 500 students of Bangla De- man chain at Aparejeyo Bangla today. their respective sectors, so UGC should tion remained unchanged as it would plainclothes policemen held him in court also acquitted him from the cases. partment started demonstration boycot- The agitated students also an- not bring any undue change in the be held on the Central Playground of Segunbagicha on July 16, 2011 while he Later, police submitted charge sheet ting classes and brought out a procession nounced to wage tougher programmes course and curriculum of the subjects,” the university on April 7. l was returning to his dormitory, Fazlul before the court against Helal. l from the pedestal of Aparajeyo Bangla if their rational demands were no met said Prof Anisozzaman. l Bench assistants demonstrate, halt court activities in Chittagong n Tarek Mahmud, Chittagong physically assaulted him on Tuesday Mojibur Rahman and leaders of the bar evening over a trifling matter,” association. A half-day work abstention by bench claimed Omar Fuad, bench assistant “We withdrew the demonstration assistants of Chittagong courts protest- of Chittagong Metropolitan Session responding to the judge, but our move- ing the alleged assault on a colleague Judge Court. ment will continue,” said Omar Fuad. by some lawyers halted judicial activ- The bench assistants started their Meanwhile, lawyers demanding a ities for nearly four hours in the port protest at 9am by locking the entries to stop to alleged irregularities by bench city yesterday. 20 courts, including the Metropolitan assistants also brought out a proces- The protesters locked the doors of Session Judge and Chief Metropolitan sion at the court premises around noon the court rooms, preventing sched- Magistrate courts. yesterday. uled hearings from taking place and The protesters, however, unlocked Abdur Rashid, general secretary of causing inconvenience to justice seek- the court rooms in the afternoon fol- the bar association, said the bench as- ers, especially those from remote ar- lowing discussions with judges and sistants staged the protest without any eas, sources said. lawyers. But judicial proceedings could prior notice and caused su erings to “Several lawyers locked into an not resume for the day in most of the justice seekers. altercation with Md Kefayetullah, a courts, the sources added. “If they have any objection, they bench assistant of the Seventh The bench assistances ended could lodge a complaint,” Rashid said, Chittagong Metropolitan Session their protest and unlocked the court adding that both sides came to an Minister for Cultural A airs along with other guests are seen at the inaugural function of the two-day dialogue titled ‘Creative Bangladesh- Judge Court, at the Chittagong rooms around 1pm after a meeting agreement through the intervention of Hard Skills and Soft Skills’ at a city hotel yesterday. The British Council has organised the event MAHMUD HOSSAIN OPU District Bar Association’s ofice and with Metropolitan Session Judge SM Mojibur Rahman. l 6 DHAKA TRIBUNE Nation Thursday, March 13, 2014

Two HSC examinees go Man to die for 20 years on, a school yet missing in Barisal killing wife n Our Correspondent, Gazipur n Our correspondent, Barisal call from her son around 2:20am early yesterday, told Sub-Inspector Ahsan Ka- A Gazipur court yesterday awarded to get electricity Two higher secondary certi cate ex- bir, investigating o cer of the case. death penalty to an accused in the aminees of Agorpur Degree College went Fatema murder case in Gazipur. Students of Nachol Madhabpur Government Primary Schhol missing since Tuesday evening from Police were trying to trace Fatema Nazib, judge of Gazipur Sharikal area under Gournadi upazila of the call phone call and Women and Children Repression become exhausted while attending classes in summer Barisal. (Prevention) Tribunal, passed the The victims were identi ed as Kazi arrest those unknown verdict. n Our Correspondent, has got 12 fans, computers, laptops is all the work that had been done so Shahriar Anik, son of Aktaruzzaman, kidnappers to recover the According to case statement, Faruq Chapainawabganj from District education o ce, there is far, he said with frustration. and Sohag Khan, son of rickshaw van bashed his wife Fatema’s head with no use for them for lack of electricity A few teams from both the educa- driver Shahid Khan and both of them missing youths bricks before his two sons for not pro- Students of Nachol Madhabpur High connection. tion o ce and the REB visited the hailed from Mahisha village under Shari- viding dowry on October 29, 2011. The School in Chapainawabganj fear they The country is now resounding with school several times, but no progress kal union of Gournadi upazila. Anik hurriedly informed her that uni- incident occurred at the roof of a hospi- have to su er a lot in the coming days the aim of achieving digital Bangladesh by has been made. Aktaruzzaman, a teacher of Agorpur denti ed people riding on a motor ve- tal. On that night, Fatema succumbed as the summer season is nearer. 2021. But the word “Digital Bangladesh” During the 10th national parliamen- Degree College, told his son and Sohag hicle at Sakokati rickshaw stand asked to her injuries. The students, especially in sum- still remains a farce for these students since tary election and fourth phase of upa- were friends and HSC examinees of them to show the way to Sharikal and Deceased’s mother Khodeza Begum mer, can neither concentrate on study they cannot even turn on a computer. zila polls, the authorities of the REB Agorpur Degree College. they became senseless after that.  led a case with Tongi police station in nor feel comfort during school hours Headmaster of the school Ataur connected the school with electricity, Abul Kalam, o cer- in-charge of They found that they were taken hos- this regard. as their school has remained without Rahman said, “The authorities are not but the connection was snapped the Gournadi police station, said Anik’s fa- tage by those unknown people when Around seven witnesses, includ- electricity since its inception in 1994. providing us electricity connection for next day of the election. ther lodged a general diary in connec- they regained sense. Anik switched o ing Fatema’s two sons Sakib and Rakib No one knows when, if ever, they will lack of three poles.” When contacted, General Manager tion with the missing of the two youths the phone telling hurriedly that he se- gave deposition before the court. Fol- get a power connection. He said they had applied to the Ru- of Rural Electri cation Board (REB) in yesterday morning and then it was cretly called her mother and those peo- lowing the hearing, the court gave the Many students return home after ral Electri cation Board (REB) several said, “I am going to USA. Steps will be turned into a kidnapping case in the ple might their hear conversation, the IO verdict. becoming sick after school hours. And times to bring them under electri ca- taken after I come back to the country.” same afternoon. said. However, Faruq has been abscond- for that reason, attendance of students tion, but the authorities did not pay Since its establishment in 2004, the Both of the victims went for a stroll on Police were trying to trace the call ing after getting bail three months ago. remains thin from April to September as heed to their demand. school (from class VI X) was listed for MPO Tuesday evening and subsequently went phone call and arrest those unknown Fatema’s relatives and Special Public students do not feel like going to school. An electrician of the REB set up ca- (Monthly Pay Order). The number of stu- missing since that night. Anik’s mother kidnappers to recover the missing Prosecutor of the tribunal Shahjahan Although the school, surprisingly, bles in the school 10 years ago, but that dents at the school is 300.l claimed that she received a cell phone youths, he said. l Mia expressed content on the verdict. l 7-month ban on vessel service on risky routes from tomorrow n Our Correspondent, Barisal Machuakati on Meghna, Ilisha, Kocha, unsafe small transports,” he said. Baleswar, Bishkhali, Tentulia and Bura Md Shahidullah, Barisal river port of- The seven-month-long restriction on Gourango.  cer and deputy director BIWTA, said plying of passenger carrying water The 210-day restriction was  rst the ban on plying passenger transports transports, including launches and imposed by the sea transportation without having valid license or sea- trawlers, on risky four routes in the directorate on June 18, 2000 following survey  tness was to save the life of the Meghna River estuary and coastal areas some fatal launch and trawler accidents travellers. will come into e ect from Friday. in previous years in the areas on “Considering the shortage of ves- The restriction was imposed by ship- about 3000 kilometers long routes sels in the danger zone during the time, ping ministry from March 15 to Octo- which touched at least 26 stations, we were trying to manage four BIWTC ber 15 because of nor’wester, cyclone said Mahruf. sea trucks soon,” said Gopal Chandra and storm during the monsoon in the “This region is vulnerable due to Majumdar, assistant manager, BIWTC river estuaries and coastal belts in the natural calamities like cyclone, storm Barisal station. southern region, said Maruf Hossain, and nor-wester,” said Abul Bashar Ma- Sea trucks named-ST Shahid Fazlul inspector, shipping directorate o ce in jumdar, deputy director, BIWTA and Huq Moni on Char Alexandar-Mirzakalu Barisal. river safety and tra c management in- route, ST Sukanta Babu/Sheikh Kamal The routes touching major stations charge of Barisal port. on Manpura-Shashiganj route, ST Kh- are Shabajpur, Mozuchowdhurir Hat, “The ban, without an arrangement of izir-7 on Ilisha-Maju Chowdhury route Daulatkhan, Mirzakalu, Char Alexander, alternative transportation will con ne a and ST Khizir-8 on Barisal-Maju Chowd- Serajganj, Shashiganj, Betua, Aslampur, large number of people to islands and hury route would be placed on the dan- A kitchen market is set up on the premises of Kamarol Government Primary School, hampering educational activities DHAKA TRIBUNE Buriabon, Barguna, Patharghata, Baro endanger their lives because of travel by ger-zone areas, he said. l

Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh Rail links in Dinajpur halted for 2 hrs Local Government Engineering Department, n Our Correspondent, Dinajpur sistant Abdul Jalil in Bagdanga area However, the train communications Offi ce of the Upazila Engineer, in Jessore around 6:00am when they resumed as the higher authorities as- Boalmari, Faridpur. Train communications between Di- didn’t stop the train as per signal of sured the agitating masters of taking najpur-Khulna and Dinajpur-Rajshahi some accomplices of the gang down legal actions against the culprits. came to a halt for about two hours yes- here to carry Indian smuggled goods, Due to the strike, Rajshahi bound terday as some train masters went on a leaving the former injured. “Borendra Express” and Khulna bound INVITATION FOR TENDER (CIVIL WORKS) sudden strike protesting the attack on Later, Mozammel was admitted to “Rupsha Express” stopped on the way, two of their colleagues by smugglers. Joypurhat Sadar Hospital. creating su ering to the commuters TENDER NOTICE NO. 04/2013-2014 Parbatipur Station Master Sheikh Angered by the attack, about 8-10 Emdadul Haque, inspector of Memo No: LGED/U.E/Boal/Farid/2014/186 Dated: 12/03/2014 Abdul Jabbar said a gang of smugglers, locomotive masters from the station Hakimpur government railway police who were in guise of passengers, beat went on a  ash work abstention stop- (GRP), said they arrested two people in up Rajshahi bound train Uttara Mail’s ping train communications on the connection with the incident and try- Sealed Tenders are hereby invited from the eligible tenderers as defi ned in the tender document for the under master Mozammel Hoque and his as- routes from around 7:25am. ing to nab the rest culprits. l mentioned work as per terms and condition below: Five houses gutted 01 Project Name NEED BASED REPAIR 02 Source of funds GOB in Chittagong 03 Procurement Method Limited Tender Method (LTM)Enlisted Contractors of LGED under LTM shall n CU Correspondent be participated in this Notice. 04 List of work At least  ve houses were gutted in sep- arate  re incidents at city’s Baizid area SL Package No. Name of work Estimate Amount Price of Time for and Hathazari upazila yesterday. No Cost (Tk) of Tender tender Completion Fire service sources said two semi- security (Tk) documents pucca houses in Hamidpur area under 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Baizid police station were gutted in the 01. FRD/BOAL(URC) Repair of Upazila 2,00,000.00 5500.00 250.00 60 days city. /01/2013-2014 Resource Centre(URC) The  re originated from an electric under Boalmari Upazila, short circuit at 10am. Dist. Faridpur On information,  re ghters from Baizid Fire Service Station went to the 02 Date, time & place of pre- Date : 20/03/2014 spot and doused the  re after an hour tender meeting Time : 11.00 AM of hectic e ort. Place : Offi ce of the undersigned In another incident, three semi-puc- 03 Last date, time & places of Date : 06/04/2014 ca houses were gutted at Banikpara area selling tender document Time : 5.00 PM in Nandirhat under Hathazari upazila. l Places : a) offi ce of the undersigned b) offi ce of the Executive Engineer, LGED, Faridpur Madrasa student dies c) Offi ce of the Upazila Engineer, LGED, Alfadanga, Faridpur. 04 Last date, time & place of Date : 07/04/2014 falling from rooftop receiving tender Time : 1.00 PM CU Correspondent Places : a) offi ce of the undersigned n b) offi ce of the Executive Engineer, LGED, Faridpur A student was killed falling o from c) Offi ce of the Upazila Engineer, LGED, Alfadanga, Faridpur. the rooftop of a one-storied madarasa 05 Date, time & place of Date : 07/04/2014 building at Patiya upazila in Chittagong Opening tender Time : At 3.00 PM yesterday afternoon. Place : Offi ce of the undersigned. The deceased, Md Khokon, 12, son of Osi Ahmed, of Dakbarunpara at An- 06 Only Tenderers enlisted in the districts under LGED Region, Faridpur (Dist: Faridpur, Rajbari, Gopalgonj, wara upazila, was a class IV student at Madaripur & Shariatpur) are eligible. Shah Akbariya Dakhil Madrasha at Hay- 07 According to the Gazette published of PPR-2006, Rules No.24 Clause 19(Revised) The Tender Price should idgaon of the upazila, said police. not be more. Khokon was slipped ‘accidentally’ 08 Than 5% (Five Percent) less or 5% (Five Percent) above than the Offi cial Estimated Cost. Failing which the while he was walking alone on the tender shall be rejected. rooftop of the madrasa building and fall down around 2:30pm, said Sub-In- 09 Tender shall be valid for a period of 60 days after tender opening and must be accompanied by the tender spector Jahirul Islam, o cer-in-charge security specifi ed above. Interested tenderers may obtain further information from the offi ce of the undersigned of Chittagong Medical College Hospital and purchase the tender documents in cash/treasury chalan/bank draft form the places mentioned above. police outpost. The tenderer or their authorizes representatives are allowed to attend the opening of tenders. The authority Later, the student was rushed to reserves the right to accept or reject any or all the tenders with assigning any reasons whatsoever. upazila health complex and shifted to CMCH in critical condition where the Upazila Engineer on duty doctors of doctors pronounced LGED, Boalmari his death, he said. l GC-28/14(10"×4) Faridpur DHAKA TRIBUNE Juris Thursday, March 13, 2014 7 Preserving our national heritage JURIS QUOTE Antiquities Act, 1968 is the applicable law in this regard

Abdullah Al Arif Laws are generally found n to be nets of such a texture In Bangladesh, we have a vast number of archaeological as the little creep through, sites and monuments, mostly belonging to the medieval the great break through, and period. Paharpur Buddhist Vihara of Naogaon, Lalbagh Fort the middle size are alone of Dhaka, Shait-Gumbad Mosque of Bagherhat, Kantanagar entangled in. Temple of Dinajpur and the historic city of Sonargaon near Dhaka are the major archeological sites in Bangladesh. William Shenstone Department of Archeology is the concerned authority for English poet the preservation, presentation and promotion of our glori- (1714 – 1763) ous cultural heritage. At present the department owns 448 heritage sites. Many of these archeological sites and monu- ments are at stake due to lack of proper preservation and management.

Legal protection of national heritage Article 24 of the constitution of Bangladesh says that the state shall adopt measures for the protection against dis-  gurement, damage or removal of all monuments, objects or places of special artistic or historic importance or inter- est. We also have the Antiquities Act, 1968 that provides the modes of protection and preservation of things which are part of our national history and heritage.

Antiquity The law terms the archeological sites and monuments as an- tiquities. They include: l Any ancient product of human activity, movable or im- movable, illustrative of art, architecture, craft, custom, literature, morals, politics, religion, warfare, science or of any aspect of civilisation or culture l Any ancient object or site of historical, ethnographical, anthropological, military or scienti c interest l Any other ancient object or class of such objects declared as an antiquity by the government.

Immovable antiquity Immoveable antiquity means an antiquity of any of the fol- lowing descriptions: l Any archaeological deposits on land or under water l Any archaeological mound, tumulus, burial place or place of interment, or any ancient garden, structure, building, erection or other work of historical, archaeological, mili- tary or scienti c interest l Any rock, cave or other natural object of historical, ar- chaeological, artistic or scienti c interest or containing sculpture, engraving, inscription or painting of such in- NASHIRUL ISLAM terest, and includes any gate, door, window, panelling dados, ceiling, inscription, wall-painting, wood work, iron work or sculpture or other thing which is attached or rector may prescribe from time to time. Any persons contra- with a licence granted by the director. fastened to an immovable antiquity vening this provision shall be punishable with imprisonment A licence under this provision, in respect of any land shall which may extend to six months, or with  ne, or with both. not be granted to any person other than the owner of the Advisory committee land except in accordance with the terms of an agreement The law provides for an advisory committee to be constitut- Export of antiquity with the owner. Any such agreement may contain the fol- ed by the government consisting of a director, who shall also No person shall export any antiquity except under a licence lowing terms and conditions: be its chairman, two members of parliament and three other granted by the director for the temporary export of antiqui- l The restriction of the owner's rights in respect of the use persons having special knowledge of antiquities. ties for the purpose of exhibition, examination or treatment and occupation of such land for preservation. One can export antiquities in accordance l The compensation or any other consideration to be paid Dispute as to whether any product is an antiquity with agreement with foreign licensees for archaeological ex- to the owner RIO SHUVO If any question arises whether any product, object or ploration and excavations within the term of their licences. l Any other matter connected with the use of the land for site is an antiquity within the meaning of the law, it shall Moreover, the director may give licence for the export of an- the purpose of such excavation be referred to the government and the government shall tiquities which are not of a unique nature in exchange for decide the question after consultation with the advisory antiquities of any foreign country. A licence under this provision shall not be refused to an NOTICE BOARD committee. All antiquities the export of which is prohibited under owner if he undertakes to carry on the excavation in such the law shall be deemed to be goods of which the export has manner that it will not result in the loss of archaeological Send us queries for Custody, preservation of ownerless antiquity been prohibited under section 16 of the Customs Act, 1969 or historical material which in the national interest should Where the director has any information on the discovery or and all the provisions of that Act shall have e ect accord- be preserved. Whoever contravenes the provisions shall be Ask Your Advocate existence of an antiquity of which there is no owner, she/he ingly, except that the antiquity in respect of which the provi- punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend and also your articles shall take such necessary steps for the safe custody, preser- sions of that Act have been contravened shall be con scated to one year, or with  ne, or with both. on any legal issues at: vation and protection of the antiquity. where con scation is authorised under that Act. Prohibition of making copies of protected antiquities [email protected] Penalty for counterfeiting of antiquity Prohibition of movement of antiquity without licence If any person counterfeits, or commits forgery in respect of No person shall transport an antiquity from one place in No person shall, for any commercial purpose, make a cine- Dhaka Tribune any antiquity with intent to commit fraud shall be punish- Bangladesh to another with the object of exporting it in con- matograph  lm of any protected antiquity or any part there- FR Tower, 8/c Panthapath, able with imprisonment for a term which may extend to six travention of the law. Whoever violates the provision shall of except under and in accordance with a licence granted by Shukrabad, Dhaka- 1207 months, or with  ne, or with both. be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may ex- the director. tend to three months, or with  ne, or with both. 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Substantive approach to gender equality

n Juris Desk The concept of substantive equality arose out of the resulting in norms and assumptions about women and Responding to gender difference recognition that formal equality may not be su cient men’s roles in society, and their capability and need. Approaches that take into account di erences between to ensure that women enjoy the same rights as men. An This in turn in uences both policy-making and its women and men may not all be immediately favourable to he concept of equality for women is tradition- ostensibly gender-neutral policy, while not excluding implementation. women. In fact, they could be discriminatory in e ect, if ally understood to mean “the right to be equal women per se, may result in a de facto discrimination Di erences between women and men whether based on not in intention. To be able to intervene e ectively in favour to men.” This becomes problematic when it is against women. It does not consider: biological (sex) di erence or socially created (gender) of women’s equality, it is important to have a conceptually extended to the understanding that women must l Sex or biological di erences whereby, for example, di erences results in women’s asymmetrical experience of: sound understanding of what or why di erences exist be treated exactly like men if they are to gain women bear children, not men. l Disparity, and between women and men. Tequality with men. It implies that women must be treated l Gender di erences or socially-created di erences l Disadvantage There are two ways of responding to gender di erences in according to male standards, obscuring the ways in which policy or approach: women are di erent from men and how they will be disad- l The protectionist approach which, while recognising vantaged because of these di erences. di erences, seeks to curtail or curb women’s activities or Initiatives for the realisation of women’s rights need freedoms with the rationale that the aim is to “protect” to compensate for or cater to the di erence, disparity or women from harm or wrongdoing. This approach does disadvantage, rather than a “one size  ts all” approach. It not challenge gender discrimination, but reproduce it in means taking into account the ways in which women are the guise of protecting women. di erent from men, and ensuring that these di erences are l The corrective or substantive approach which recognises acknowledged and responded to by state measures toward that in order to redistribute bene ts equally between achieving equality. Furthermore, real equality goes beyond women and men, measures to promote women’s rights formal (de jure) equality – women and men must be equal in must transform the unequal power relations between fact (de facto) as in law. women and men in the process. There should not only be equal opportunities for women but also equal access to Substantive equality and difference those opportunities. The Convention on Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination The substantive equality approach recognises that women Against Women (CEDAW) promotes the substantive equality and men cannot be treated the same, and for equality of model and consolidates two central approaches to equality: results to occur, women and men may need to be treated l Equality of opportunity in terms and access to the di erently. resources of a country, to be secured by a framework The challenge is to know when to take note of di erence, of laws and policies, and supported by institutions and and to decide on appropriate measures for di erent mechanisms for their operation. treatment that will facilitate equal access, control and equal l Equality of results upon access and opportunity, toward result. Such measures will have to be assessed to ensure they achieving real change for women. State parties to CEDAW promote autonomy rather than protection or dependency. have a responsibility to ensure the practical realisation of This has to be done without compromising the claim for rights, and are thus obliged to show results. BIGSTOCK equal rights and equality as a legal standard. l 8 DHAKA TRIBUNE World Thursday, March 13, 2014 EU approves framework and No solutions in sight as Syria war wording for sanctions on Russia enters fourth year n Reuters have undermined Ukraine’s integrity European o cials have indicated that “shall be frozen.” Russian President Vladimir Putin and his EU member states have agreed the The document was approved by foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, will not wording of sanctions on Russia, includ- what is known as a silence procedure be on the list, so that channels of com- ing travel restrictions and asset freezes after no EU member states raised ob- munication can be kept open and further against those responsible for violating jections to the wording by 1100 GMT on escalation is possible at a later date. the sovereignty of Ukraine, according Wednesday, o cials said. Instead the list - an annex to the to a draft document seen by Reuters. EU foreign ministers meet in Brus- sanctions document seen by Reuters - is The seven-page document describes sels on Monday and are expected to for- expected to focus on targets close to Pu- in detail the restrictive measures to be mally sign o on the restrictions, unless tin in the security services and military taken against Moscow if it does not re- there is a dramatic change of course by establishment as well as on prominent verse course in Crimea and begin talks Russia. That seems unlikely, with no members of the Russian parliament. with international mediators on e orts indication of any ‘de-escalation’ in “The annex shall also contain, to resolve the crisis over Ukraine. Crimea. A referendum in Crimea on where available, the information nec- If approved by EU foreign ministers Sunday is expected to see the region essary to identify the natural or legal at a meeting on Monday, they would be vote in favor of secession from Ukraine persons, entities or bodies concerned,” the  rst sanctions imposed by the Eu- to join Russia, adding weight to calls for reads the sanctions framework. ropean Union against Russia since the an international response. “With regard to legal persons and end of the Cold War, marking a severe entities, such information may include deterioration in East-West relations. Names still needed names, place and date of registration, reg- “Member states shall take the nec- While the EU has agreed the wording istration number and place of business.” essary measures to prevent the entry for its sanctions, it is still working on The EU and United States are coor- into, or transit through, their territo- the names of those to be targeted. dinating on imposing the restrictions ries of the natural persons responsible Discussions took place in London on and have encouraged other countries, for actions which undermine or threat- Tuesday, when o cials from Britain, including Canada, Japan, Turkey and en the territorial integrity, sovereignty the United States, Italy, France, Germa- Switzerland, to take similar measures and independence of Ukraine,” reads ny, Switzerland, Japan and elsewhere to maximize the impact. Article 1 of the document. met to discuss the issue. If Russia does not respond to the The second article covers assets held “My understanding is that there pressure, the EU has said it is pre- in the European Union and states that was detailed discussion of names at pared to take further steps, probably “all funds and economic resources be- the meeting,” an EU o cial said. “No involving an arms embargo and other A Syrian  ag  utters outside a military barrack in the devastated Baba Amr neighbourhood of Homs on May 2, 2012 AFP longing to, owned, held or controlled” de nitive list has been drawn up, but it trade-related measures. It could also by those responsible for actions which will be ready by Monday.” apply sanctions on Putin himself. l n AFP, Paris But there is a rising feeling that it will threat of Al-Qaeda and so on,’” he said. take years for the crisis to be resolved. “And we’ve already heard reports The Syrian con ict has claimed more To further complicate matters, the of Western intelligence agencies con- Libya’s deposed than 140,000 lives, nearly half of the West has become increasingly wary of the tacting the Syrian regime about a sort Ukraine vows not to population is displaced, the rebellion opposition after the emergence of Al-Qae- of joint counter Al-Qaeda strategy in PM  ees country has been hijacked by jihadists and da-linked Islamist  ghters in its ranks. Syria,” Phillips added. President Bashar al-Assad is still  rmly In ghting and factionalism within Assad’s ouster was an unwavering n Agencies  ght Russia in Crimea in the saddle. the moderate wing of the opposition Western demand at the start of the As the war rages into its fourth year has not helped either. crisis in 2011 but he appears to have Former Libyan Prime Minister Ali and with no diplomatic and military The West wants “neither Assad nor strengthened his position following a Zeidan yesterday  ed his country defy- n AFP, Kiev ident Vladimir Putin had so far resist- solutions in sight, world powers ap- the Islamists,” a European diplomatic September deal under which Damas- ing a travel ban, hours after parliament ed intense international pressure and pear at a loss as to how to deal with source said. cus agreed to destroy its chemical removed him from o ce in a no-con - Ukraine’s acting president told AFP he refused all contacts with Kiev aimed at what has now joined the alarming club arms arsenal. dence vote. would not wage war over Crimea as resolving the worst breakdown in East- of “intractable con icts,” according to Assad has said he will likely run for Zeidan was in Malta for two hours the ex-Soviet state’s premier prepared West relations since the Cold War. Chatham House think tank researcher There is a rising elections scheduled in mid-2014. late on Tuesday on a refuelling stop be- yesterday to seek US President Barack “Unfortunately, for now Russia is Christopher Phillips. feeling that it will On the military level, neither the re- fore going to “another European coun- Obama’s help against Russia’s expan- rejecting a diplomatic solution to the And as the international community gime – backed by Russia and Iran – nor try,” the island’s Prime Minister Joseph sionist threat. con ict,” he said. “They are refusing shifts its focus onto the crisis in Ukraine, take years for the the opposition, which is armed by Saudi Muscat said, Reuters news agency The  rst meeting between Obama all contact at foreign ministry and top the dragging con ict – which has pitted crisis to be resolved Arabia and Qatar, appear close to victory. reported. and Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy government level.” Assad’s traditional ally Russia against Analyst Daveed Gartenstein-Ross Muscat told state-owned television Yatsenyuk comes with the nation on Russia’s  rst military involvement in a the West – now risks being put aside. told the US Senate recently the most TVM that he spoke brie y to Zeidan, the EU’s eastern border in danger of neighbouring country since its brief 2008 “It’s quite tragic that Ukraine is hap- Western nations have also been probable scenario was that the con ict who was banned from travelling abroad breaking apart when the predominant- war with Georgia has sparked an explo- pening at this moment when Syria can alarmed by the growing number of ji- would last for a decade. because of his suspected involvement ly ethnic Russian region holds a Mos- sive security crisis and exposed major ill-a ord to have attention elsewhere hadists from their countries going to “Given the failures of both diplomacy in the embezzlement of public funds. cow-backed referendum Sunday on rifts between Western allies over ways to but it is almost inevitable that the longer  ght in Syria whom they fear could and war to date, it seems likely that Syr- Libya’s parliament voted Zeidan switching over to Kremlin rule. deal with Putin’s undisguised e orts to it goes on, the more people will be dis- pose huge security threats if they re- ia will remain divided between the As- out of ofice on Tuesday after rebels Ukraine’s acting President Oleksandr rebuild vestiges of the Soviet state. tracted and begin to view Syria as some- turned as battle-hardened veterans. sad-controlled west and a mix of com- humiliated the government by load- Turchynov said his heavily outnum- Washington has imposed travel bans thing that can’t be  xed,” Phillips said. peting rebel factions in the east,” said ing crude on a tanker that fled from bered army would never try to seize back and asset freezes on Russians held re- Peace talks in Geneva in January and ‘War will go on for 10 years’ Anthony Cordesman from the Center for naval forces. the Black Sea peninsula from Russian sponsible for violating the territorial February that for the  rst time brought “The longer the war is going on and the Strategic and International Studies. State prosecutor Abdel-Qader troops who made their land grab days integrity of the culturally splintered representatives of the regime and the more the sort of Al-Qaeda type groups Adam Baczko, a researcher at the Radwan said in Tripoli he had banned after the February 22 ouster in Kiev of nation of 46 million people. opposition to the table together failed have emerged in the opposition-held Paris-based Noria think tank, warned Zeidan from travelling abroad be- pro-Kremlin leader Viktor Yanukovych. But the European Union – its  nan- to yield concrete results. northern parts of Syria, the more it has of security threats – particularly as the cause he faced an investigation over “We cannot launch a military opera- cial and energy sectors much more US Secretary of State John Kerry, become a security concern,” Phillips said. West “had handed over the keys to re- the alleged inancial irregularities. tion in Crimea, as we would expose the dependent on Russia than those of the one of the main players in Geneva, de- “That’s why it’s begun to prompt gional actors” – and recalled the huge Zeidan’s whereabouts are unknown. eastern border and Ukraine would not United States – has only threatened fended the talks by asking: “How many some to say: ‘Well actually we should humanitarian crisis that resulted from Oficials in Tripoli could not conirm be protected,” Turchynov said in an in- tougher measures after taking the years did the Vietnam talks take? How accept Bashar al-Assad in power and the con ict. his departure, according to the AP terview with AFP. lighter step of suspending free travel many years did Dayton take in Bos- actually support his government indi- “For the United States, Syria is far news agency. l Turchynov also said Russian Pres- and broad economic treaty talks. l nia-Herzegovina?.” rectly to contain that sort of security away, for us it is at our border,” he said. l

Israel passes law to conscript Islamist militants ‘killed’ 22 in Syrian ultra-Orthodox Jews village n AFP, Jerusalem the army or perform civilian service, in n Reuters, Beirut a law which will go into force in 2017. Israeli MPs on Wednesday voted The law also includes a clause stip- Islamist militants and their local sup- through a law which will compel ul- ulating sanctions against draft dodgers porters have killed at least 22 people tra-Orthodox Jews to either serve in – including imprisonment – in a move in a village in northern Syria near the the military or perform national civil- which has enraged the ultra-Orthodox Turkish border, opposition activists ian service. leadership who said it would be tanta- said yesterday. The bill was voted through by 65 to mount to jailing people for practising The Syrian Observatory for Human 1 in a poll broadcast on Israel’s parlia- their faith. Rights monitoring group quoted res- mentary television channel. Military service is compulsory in Is- idents in Shuyukh, 100 km (65 miles) The lone dissenting vote was cast by rael, with men serving three years and northeast of Aleppo, as saying that mil- an MP from the far-right Jewish Home women two. itants from the Islamic State of Iraq and who broke coalition discipline to oppose Earlier this month, more than the Levant (ISIL), had killed 12  ghters the law. Opposition parties within the 120- 300,000 ultra-Orthodox took to the from rival rebel groups and at least 10 seat parliament had earlier announced streets of Jerusalem in a mass prayer local tribesmen, including a 16-year-old. they would not participate in the vote. vigil to protest against the impending The British-based watchdog, which The cabinet last year agreed to end a legislation. has a network of sources across Syria practice under which tens of thousands The new law is seen by many Israelis and opposes President Bashar al-As- of ultra-Orthodox were exempted from as amending the historic injustice of an sad, said the men had been executed military service if they were in full-time exemption handed to the ultra-Ortho- by gun re and knives. It said at least study at a Jewish seminary, or yeshiva. dox in 1948, when Israel was created. nine other villagers were missing and The new legislation stipulates that At that time they were a small segment suspected to have been killed. ultra-Orthodox men must either join of society. l Media activists circulated online a Protestors hold newspapers bearing a picture of the crying mother of Berkin Elvan on the day of his funeral in Ankara AFP list of people they said were victims. They named 20 people killed and nine missing, and said four bodies had been US death row inmate free Boy’s death stirs protests in Turkey thrown into the Euphrates River. “Residents of Shuyukh betrayed the n AFP, Istanbul in a coma, was hit on the head by a Tuesday in at least 32 cities, including mujahideen. Then ISIL stormed into after 30 years in jail tear gas canister while going to buy Istanbul and Ankara, where the most the area,” said an opposition activist Protestors clashed with police in Tur- bread during the demonstra- violent clashes took place. who runs a Facebook page for the Ja- n AFP, Washington Ford, an African-American who had key yesterday as tens of thousands of tions against Prime Minister Recep The renewed unrest is likely to add rablus area, which includes Shuyukh. been on death row since 1984 after his people took to the streets to mourn a Tayyip Erdogan that gripped Turkey to pressure on Erdogan, whose govern- He said ISIL, an al Qaeda breakaway A man who spent 30 years on death conviction by an all-white jury, said he teenage boy who died from injuries in June. ment has been rocked by an escalating group, had participated in the attack, row in Louisiana has walked free after a has missed out on much of his life. “My su ered during last year’s anti-govern- “Berkin’s murderers are the AKP corruption scandal ahead of elections but that local men had led it. court threw out his murder conviction. sons, when I left, was babies. Now they ment protests. police,” protesters shouted in Istanbul, that could decide his fate. The Facebook page for Jarablus pub- Glenn Ford, 64, one of the lon- grown men with babies.” Riot police  red tear gas and wa- referring to Erdogan’s ruling Justice Elvan’s story became a symbol lished a photo of what appeared to be gest-serving death row prisoners in the A judge ordered that Ford be freed ter cannon at protestors in the capital and Development Party (AKP). of the heavy-handed police tactics the bodies of  ve men on a dirt path United States, was ordered to be released after prosecutors petitioned the court Ankara, while in Istabanbul, crowds “The rage of mothers will su ocate against demonstrators in June, the big- running through a  eld, as bystanders after new information cleared him of a to release him, said the Capital Post shouting anti-government slogans lit the killers,” screamed others as they gest of Erdogan’s 11-year-rule. inspected the scene. 1983 murder. “My mind’s going all kinds Conviction Project of Louisiana. a huge  re as they made their way to marched through the streets after El- Erdogan has vowed to step down if ISIL has battled other Islamist of directions, but it feels good,” Ford told New information corroborated what a cemetery for the burial of 15-year-old van’s funeral. the AKP, in power since 2002, loses lo- rebel groups in the area in the past reporters outside the Louisiana State Ford has maintained all along: that he Berkin Elvan. His death prompted protests remi- cal elections on March 30 that are seen few weeks. A car bomb it detonated Penitentiary after his release Tuesday, ac- was not present at nor involved in the Elvan, who died in an Istanbul niscent of last year’s unrest, with thou- as a key test of his popularity after last in Jarablus in January killed at least cording to CNN a liate WAFB. November 1983 slaying of a jeweler. l hospital on Tuesday after 269 days sands of people clashing with police on year’s unrest and the graft probe. l 26 people. l 9 DHAKA TRIBUNE World Thursday, March 13, 2014

Malaysia under re over ‘chaotic’ What happened to the search for missing jet missing jetliner?

AFP, Kuala Lumpur AFP, Bangkok said former Inspector General of the US n n Department of Transportation and avia- Malaysia denied yesterday that the Five days since it disappeared while en tion lawyer, Mary Schiavo. hunt for a missing jet was in disarray, route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, there after the search veered far from its is still no trace of Malaysia Airlines  ight Structural disintegration? planned route and China said that con- MH370. The lack of wreckage or black box trans-  icting information about its course Con icting information, false alarms mission has led to another speculation was “pretty chaotic.” over debris and confusion over the focus that the plane may have disintegrated Transport Minister Hishammuddin of the search have produced more ques- mid-air. However, experts say while struc- Hussein said Malaysia would “never tions than answers. tural disintegration has been behind some give up hope” of  nding the plane’s 239 Here we take a look at the possible previous aircraft disappearances, new passengers and crew, dismissing alle- scenarios being weighed up by industry planes use better materials, technology gations that e orts were mired in con- experts as the world waits for clues as to and maintenance schedules. fusion after a series of false alarms, ru- the fate of the Boeing 777: mours and contradictory statements. Hijacking? “I don’t think so. It’s far from it. It’s Explosion on board? The absence of debris around the in- only confusion if you want it to be seen The presence on board of two suspect tended flight path, the possibility that as confusion,” he said at a press confer- passengers travelling on stolen passports the flight turned back, and conflicting ence where military and civilian o - fuelled fears of a terrorist attack. But it was reports over whether the plane was cials faced a grilling from a combative later revealed they were probably just Ira- spotted by Malaysian military way off crowd of journalists. nian migrants, but CIA Director John Bren- course have added to the speculation The hunt for Malaysia Airlines  ight nan said a terror link had not been totally of a hijack, which has still not been ruled 370, involving the navies and air forc- ruled out. out by investigators. es of multiple nations, had focused on Malaysia Airlines says that all its aircraft an area o Vietnam’s South China Sea Technical difficulties? are equipped with the Aircraft Communi- coast where it last made contact Satur- The sudden disappearance could also cations Addressing and Reporting System day on a journey from Kuala Lumpur point to a technical problem that could (ACARS) system – which puts out informa- to Beijing. have led to a rapid descent. Reports from tion about location and airspeed – but has But Malaysian authorities said the Malaysian authorities that the jet may so far declined to release whatever data it yesterday they were expanding the have made a sharp turn west before it lost got from  ight MH370. search to the Andaman Sea north of Students lighting candles to pray for the passengers on the missing plane in Zhuji, in China’s Zhejiang province AFP contact, possibly pointing to the pilots Indonesia, hundreds of kilometres struggling to rectify a problem, have bol- Pilot suicide? (miles) away. Meanwhile, Malaysian air force He said that the reading, taken less ed relatives gathered in Beijing and Kuala stered this theory. While rare, there have been cases in the “So right now there is a lot of infor- chief General Rodzali Daud attempted than an hour after the plane lost con- Lumpur as they endure an unbearable “To me that (the veer) suggests there past of pilots crashing planes to take their mation, and it’s pretty chaotic, so up to explain why the search zone had tact over the South China Sea, was still wait for news of their loved ones. was a stall. That doesn’t mean you lose own lives. Some experts opined that a sui- to this point we too have had di cul- been expanded, telling the press con- being investigated and they were not Frustrations boiled over in Malaysia, your engines. It means that you’re los- cide bid is possible and if that’s the case, ty con rming whether it is accurate or ference that military radar detected able to con rm it was MH370. with the country’s active social media ing your air  ow over your wings, su - there might not be a lot of debris because not,” China’s foreign ministry spokes- an unidenti ed object early Saturday The confusion has fuelled perceptions and some press outlets turning from cient speed to keep the plane in the air... the plane would have come down in rela- man Qin Gang said of accounts of the north of the Malacca Strait o Malay- that Malaysian authorities are unable to sympathy for the families of relatives it would lose altitude really dramatically,” tively structural integrity. l jet’s course. sia’s west coast. handle a crisis on this scale, and infuriat- to anger over the fruitless search. l

India vows revenge Pakistan clerics after deadly Maoist Avalanches, heavy snow 16 dead as rival gangs declare ban on child attack kill 14 across Kashmir clash in Pakistan’s Karachi marriage ‘un-Islamic’ n AFP, New Delhi n AFP, Islamabad n AP, SRINAGAR ern Kulgam and Shopian areas on the n AFP, Karachi been arrested. India’s home minister yesterday vowed India-held side, police o cer Imtiyaz Dr Seemi Jamali of the Jinnah Post- Pakistan’s top religious body has de- to exact revenge for a deadly ambush Unusually heavy snowfall has un- Hussain said. Street battles between two rival gangs graduate Medical Centre, where some clared the prohibition of child marriage by Maoist rebels, as undercover agents leashed avalanches and collapsed Avalanches are common in the moun- armed with RPGs and machine guns of the injured were taken, said three incompatible with Islam and demand- tried to track down the attackers in homes in the Himalayan region of tainous region, especially in spring when killed at least 16 people – including four paramilitary rangers and two police ed that the government amend its their forest hideouts. Kashmir, killing at least 14 people on the air has more moisture and snow is women – in Pakistan’s Karachi yester- were wounded. laws, prompting outrage from human “The way our soldiers have lost their both sides of the de-facto border be- heavier. But the region has seen an un- day, o cials said. Bashir, the police o cer, said one rights activists. lives, we will de nitely take revenge tween India and Pakistan, o cials said. usually heavy snowfall for March, with The clash, which according to police of the gangs suspected the other of The Council of Islamic Ideology, for this,” Sushilkumar Shinde told re- Ten died in the India-held portion 2 feet falling in the past three days, said also injured 39 people, mainly school- providing a tip to police that led to the which was formed in 1962 to advise porters on a visit to the central state of the territory, police said, while Pa- Farooq Ahmed Khan of India-held Kash- children, was the worst outbreak of killing of a top leader. parliament on the compatibility of laws of Chhattisgarh, a day after the attack kistan’s military reported another four mir’s Meteorological Department. criminal-related violence to plague the According to police the  ring began with Sharia, also ruled that a man does which left 16 dead. soldiers dead in an avalanche on that The last similar late-season snow- troubled city in recent months. around 4:00 am (1100 GMT) while ma- not need permission from his wife if he Shinde said members of India’s Na- side of the border. fall was in 2007, when about 2 feet It “erupted this morning when two jor blasts were heard at noon. wants to marry another woman. tional Investigation Agency (NIA) had fell during a short time in March. “It’s gangs exchanged heavy gun re” in the By Wednesday afternoon, some 200 Tahir Ashra , a member of the body already taken up positions inside the Avalanches have caused de nitely unprecedented to have such Lyari neighbourhood, senior police o - police commandos had arrived on the told AFP yesterday that Pakistan’s Pro- thick forests where the rebels are be- heavy snowfall in one single spell for cial Faisal Bashir said, adding that school scene to conduct a search operation af- hibition of Child Marriages Act, which lieved to have taken refuge. some of the heaviest three days,” Khan said. pupils had been hurt in the cross re. ter the clash had ended, senior police stipulates the age of marriage at 16 for On Tuesday morning, some 200 tolls for the Indian and The snow disrupted power and com- “Later they  red RPGs and lobbed o cial Shah Nawaz told AFP. women and 18 for men, was not in ac- rebels in the south of Chhattisgarh munication lines in India-held Kash- hand grenades at each other,” he added, Local police said Wednesday’s  ght cordance with Islamic teachings. ambushed a security patrol which was Pakistani armies mir, while cutting some areas o from saying the death toll was expected to rise. was believed to involve two splinter or- “There is no speci c age limit for on a mission to open a road in a heav- the rest of India. Authorities issued a Major Sibtain Rizvi, a spokesman ganisations – the “Uzair Baloch” and marriage in Sharia,” he said. ily-forested area, sparking a gun battle The statement from the Pakistani mili- “high danger avalanche” warning in for paramilitary troops, added that two “Gha ar Zikri” gangs – which grew out of “Sharia says an individual can mar- that lasted for three hours. tary said four soldiers were killed when many parts of the region, government gangsters had been killed and one had the once-dominant Baba Ladla group. l ry when he or she reaches puberty and Eleven members of the national 26 troops came under a huge  ow of o cial Amir Ali said. puberty cannot be de ned by age,” paramilitary Central Reserve Police snow late on Tuesday night near the Avalanches have caused some of the adding: “Family members can mar- Force (CRPF) were killed, along with northern district of Astore, about 155 heaviest tolls for the Indian and Paki- ry a child if they think he or she has four members of the state police force kilometres from Skardu. stani armies camped near the de-facto Mamata takes dig at Modi reached puberty.” and a civilian. The statement added that, despite frontier dividing their territories. “Islam allows to marry four women The attack has heightened fears of extreme weather condition, 22 soldiers In 2012, a massive avalanche on the n Agencies Hazare was not present at the rally. so there is no question of asking the unrest in the Maoists’ stronghold in the were “evacuated through heroic ef- Pakistani side of the Siachen glacier Unfazed, Banerjee said she did not consent of  rst wife if a man wants to build-up to the nationwide elections forts” by rescuers. The Pakistani mili- killed 140 people, including 129 sol- Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Ba- care who came for the rally and who did marry a second time,” he said. which begin in early April. Chhattis- tary provided no further details. diers. That same year, a wave of snow nerjee took on Bharatiya Janata Party not. “Whether somebody supports us or Activists have called on parliament garh will vote in three phases, on April On the Indian side, dozens were also buried an Indian army camp and (BJP) prime ministerial candidate Na- not, we are going to shake up Delhi.” to ignore both recommendations, 10, 17 and 24. evacuated from high-risk areas killed 16 soldiers in another place along rendra Modi yesterday, saying, “Guja- She added, “We have started from terming them a violation of women’s The Maoists, who have been de- Wednesday, after avalanches killed two the Line of Control. rat’s leader has a communal face.” Bengal, but do not forget that Delhi too fundamental rights. scribed by Prime Minister Manmohan Indian army soldiers camped in the Siachen is located on the northern The West Bengal chief minister, how- is my state, so is Punjab, so is Maharash- Zohra Yusuf, chairperson of the inde- Singh as the country’s most serious Kargil region and another three Nepal- tip of Kashmir, a Himalayan region ever, did not name her Gujarat counterpart ta…” She recited lines from Sare Jahan pendent Human Rights Commission of internal security threat, have been ese laborers working near the heavily which is divided between Pakistan and while going on the o ensive. She unveiled Se Accha (an enduring patriotic poem) Pakistan said the rulings were “against  ghting since 1967 for a communist militarised Line of Control (LoC). neighboring India. her party’s national agenda with a rally at to showcase her inclusive credentials. the spirit of the religion.” She questioned society by toppling what they call Another  ve people were killed In 2010, another 17 Indian soldiers died Ramlila Maidan in Delhi, but the much- “I don’t want individual power. I want why laws against child marriage, which India’s “semi-colonial, semi-feudal” when dozens of homes crumpled un- when a wall of snow slammed into the ar- hyped joint show of strength with social people to be empowered. We won’t al- have been in place since the country was form of rule. l der the weight of snow in the south- my’s High Altitude Warfare School. l activist Anna Hazare did not materialise. low the people to be bulldozed.” l created, were being reviewed now. l

Thousands sue WITHOUT DOCTORS S Korea, Japan hold nuclear giants over talks on mending ties Fukushima disaster n AFP, Tokyo n AFP, Seoul porters before the talks began. South Korean President Park Geun- A class action lawsuit against nuclear Top South Korean and Japanese diplo- Hye has ruled out a summit with Abe suppliers General Electric, Toshiba and mats held talks in Seoul yesterday as the until Tokyo demonstrates sincere re- Hitachi has ballooned to more than United States pushed its two key Asian pentance for “past wrongdoings” and 4,000 claimants who are seeking dam- allies to improve badly strained ties. recent surveys have shown that the ages over the Fukushima atomic disas- The meeting between South Korean Japanese leader is more unpopular ter, the lead lawyer said yesterday. Vice Foreign Minister Cho Tae-Yong and with South Koreans than North Korean The claimants, hailing from Japan and his Japanese counterpart Akitaka Saiki supremo Kim Jong-Un. 32 other countries including the United came with relations between Seoul and The rift has been viewed with grow- States, Germany and South Korea, want Tokyo at their lowest ebb for years. ing alarm in Washington. South Korea the US and Japanese nuclear power plant At the core of the current stand-o and Japan are the two major US mil- suppliers to pay compensation. are emotive, unresolved issues related to itary allies in Asia and key to the US The  ling – which asks for a largely Japan’s 1910-45 colonial rule, its wartime strategic “pivot” to the region. symbolic 100 yen ($1) per claimant – use of South Korean women in military Last week, the US assistant secre- was described as the  rst lawsuit to be brothels and an island territorial dispute. tary of state for East Asia Danny Russel brought against nuclear power-plant The situation was exacerbated by urged Seoul and Tokyo to  nd a way suppliers over the 2011 accident. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s past the current diplomatic impasse. It alleges that the  rms did not visit to a controversial war shrine in “We continue to stress the need for make necessary safety updates to the December that drew strong protests prudence and restraint, for all parties stricken site, which was swamped by from Seoul and Beijing. to take steps that will promote healing.” an earthquake-sparked tsunami. Em- “It is an occasion to test whether He held up the model of Japan and the battled plant operator Tokyo Electric Raduan, left, helps her ailing mother Noor Jahan to steady her weak body at their living room in The’ Chaung village in north of Sittwe, South Korea-Japan relations would US in overcoming the bitterness of World Power is facing massive lawsuits and Rakhine state, Myanmar. Conditions of living and healthcare in the impoverished village have reportedly detereorated after Doctors work out in the future,” Cho told re- War II to nurture a close friendship. l compensation costs. l Without Borders was expelled from Myanmar over allegations of creating tensions in the violence-scarred region AP 10 DHAKA TRIBUNE Editorial Thursday, March 13, 2014

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LETTER OF THE DAY Load shedding is Navy’s drone news is good news! March 10 It was very heartening to note the Chief of Naval Sta ’s statement: “Import of drone-like devices used still a problem to cost the Navy a minimum Tk15m (1.5 crore taka), but now there are locally-made drones, costing he claim by the state minister for power and energy, that Tk100,000!” And, perhaps with a camera installed with the drone, the cost may be between Tk200,000 the country is no longer experiencing even a single second to Tk300,000! So, instead of one drone, perhaps the Navy can buy more than 10, each with a camera! Tof load-shedding, is at odds with the di cult realities that However, was it wise for the navy to buy submarines? Our prime aim is self defence, and the submarine many Bangladeshis face every day. is basically an o ensive underwater vessel used in naval attacks. In our case, what we should do is contin- Reports suggest that a signi cant number of households and ue to maintain friendly relations with all nations. For this, the role of the foreign ministry is more important industries are still experiencing a signi cant amount of load- than all our armed forces put together. Divided by borders, shedding, or at least enough to noticeably disrupt both domestic Engr SA Mansoor life and business operations. This claim strains credulity, and united by rivers seems particularly March 10 unnecessary given the fact that it has placed Nabila Binte Zahur a high, and welcome, Interestingly, you can make out Bangladesh’s priority on increasing India or Pakistan? north and east borders by the colour of the the country’s generating March 7 land. I wonder if there is more deforestation capacity. Denial will not deliver on our side compared to the Indian side that Sam The minister makes this possible. more power As much as I enjoy cricket, I don’t think picking acknowledged that 62% sides in a cricket match has much to do in the of the people were getting Zahurul Islam creation of a saint or sinner. And I am yet to know electricity, but added that I think it is due to the nature of the terrain! of a significant religious tradition where any kind of while electricity supply The Meghalya state is the distinctive feature pathological hatred is a criterion for sainthood. Mr disruptions may occur for here. You are right ... the northernmost district, Kabir rightly points out the absurdity of equating maintenance reasons, the country was free from the sort of power Panchagarh, is supposed to have more trees something rather inconsequential like sports team outages that could be classi ed as “load shedding.” than before because of new tea estates being support with something as sublime as patriotism. Such an exaggerated claim on part of the government is established with plantations. I am rather taken damaging to its credibility. Muntasir N Chowdhury aback to see vast land covering Bihar and UP Voters may welcome the government’s promise that, by 2021, Would just like to point out, a few members of the The Turag dying a slow death! not being that green! March 10 the entire country would have access to electricity. However, if crowd did get booed off the gallery when the so- claims which seem implausible are made by senior politicians, this called Bangladeshi souls were showing their support After all that big talk by Hasina and her govern- decreases the people’s faith in promises made by public o cials. for Pakistan during the Bangladesh-Pakistan game. ment about love for the nation, there has been We need to acknowledge the reality that load-shedding is indeed no action whatsoever in putting a stop to the Joy: World Bank in the way of still a problem. Denial will not deliver more power. Ronnie dumping of chemical and non-degradable solid Bangladesh’s progress I’m a lifelong sports fanatic and a huge cricket fan The government should encourage more transparency so that waste into the Turag. March 12 accurate data on the electricity shortage we face is available to all. (though Test cricket – not ODIs and T20s – remains Babul Sarwar Only then can we approach the problem fruitfully and realistically. my mainstay in the sport). I have always liked a lot of individual Pakistani players, their highly attractive Arif Ahmed attacking  air and outsize talents. I normally support Don’t forget to show our gratitude to him! the Pakistan team against everybody (except Bang- Be Heard ladesh ;-) ). Alas, Pakistani teams are also notorious Shaquib Quoreshi for their chronic blow-outs in form and results. :-) Write to us at: Ah! I now see clearly the reason behind our There was a time, not too long ago, when our Dhaka Tribune backwardness. :-/ national team was a poor spectacle in internation- al cricket, because they were scarcely competitive FR Tower, 8/C Panthapath Paying for RMG at all – losing all the time, and losing badly. And it Sukrabad, Dhaka-1207 was obvious how many of our fans, as much out of First ever bone marrow Email us at: [email protected] despair for our lack of success, as admiration for transplant carried out upgrading superior sides, simply took to lustily cheering for Send us your Op-Ed articles: either India or Pakistan as their adopted proxies in the country [email protected] takeholders have been making concerted e orts to improve for Bangladesh. It’s exceedingly silly, though, to March 12 safety standards in the RMG sector. The Accord and Alliance con ate the support of the average Bangladeshi Visit our website: www.dhakatribune.com Congrats to the whole medical team who has cricket fan for Indian or Pakistan teams with nec- Sinitiatives are a tangible sign of commitment by major brands Come join our Facebook community: done this bone marrow transplant! Go ahead to the future of the industry in Bangladesh. essarily any sort of political or emotional leanings Bangladesh! It is important for the industry that stakeholders, particularly with those countries, per se. https://www.facebook.com/DhakaTribune Saiful Miah the government, BGMEA and BKMEA and international buyers, work in co-operation to keep ensuring progress on improving safety. Clearly, long-term thinking is needed by all stakeholders to ensure necessary that upgrades are adequately  nanced. CALVIN AND HOBBES If done correctly, a combination of improved standards, better retro-  tted factories and more modern purpose- built sites will help It is important for all to raise productivity stakeholders to ensure and ensure long-term competitiveness and necessary upgrades are sustainability. adequately  nanced This requires a mixture of e ort and investment by all the stakeholders involved. For example, the government can help factory owners ensure the speedy development of planned industrial zones. Likewise factory owners can work with stakeholders to improve training programs for workers to increase the quality and volume of outputs. Even so, with so much of the  nance and dynamism of the PEANUTS industry being dependant on overseas buyers and retailers, it is also incumbent on them to listen to factory owners’ concerns about paying for improvements. They should use the stakeholder initiatives to agree that improvement plans factor adequate time and su cient pricing to allow improvements to be implemented. With concerted e orts, all stakeholders, most of all the factory workers themselves, will bene t from long-term investments being made to ensure the improvement and growth of this crucial sector.

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n Syeda Samira Sadeque to those in the US. Many could argue that wouldn’t recent ad by American Apparel make sense as the pair of jeans was has given rise to much debate not made in Bangladesh, but really, Aand heat. It features a model, which part of the ad conveys a sensible topless, in a pair of jeans, with “Made message? Had Maks gone on to model in Bangladesh,” printed over her bare as a Bangladeshi/Bengali, the ad would chest. still have more relevance to the mes- According to fashion magazine sage it carries; but with the way it has Elle’s website, “the model’s name is been portrayed, it appears to be a mere Maks, and she’s a Bangladesh-born collaboration of the three facts which merchandiser who’s been with were lost in transition: A topless mod- American Apparel since 2010.” The el, a topless model who does not want description continues: “She doesn’t to be put within the con nes of a cul- feel the need to identify herself as tural identity, and a pair of jeans made an American or a Bengali and is not in the US. Three facts that connect at content to  t her life into anyone else’s no point except for the page where the conventional narrative” – a justi able ad has been portrayed. stance that anyone has – and should have – the freedom to take. Of freedom and fairness The ad is also likely to trigger a dis- cussion on “freedom” – a woman’s freedom to  aunt her body, American The best banking practices need to come to Bangladesh BIGSTOCK Apparel’s freedom to portray their models the way they want to, etc – and T H I R D E Y E It would be unfair these are all very reasonable argu- to attach a whole ments. But why attach a country’s country’s label to any label to it? This is not about being progressive or conservative, feminist statement, let alone or chauvinist, this is a clear violation such a controversial one of a country’s peoples’ sentiments. A country is not just one person or The best practices one girl and their ideologies of free- dom and identity. A country is full of di erent people, di erent sentiments, n Mamun Rashid (FSRP), a few senior managers in the brought in a lot of con dence among service delivery platform and a bigger and di erent ideologies. It would be state owned banks, the central bank, the private sector commercial bank pool for training and development of In this age of globalisation, national unfair to attach a whole country’s hile the entire and the  nance ministry got trained in directors/sponsors to attract more the people are commanding the agen- and cultural identities have become label to any statement, let alone such a Bangladesh banking the global banks. When those senior senior managers from foreign banks to da of the commercial bank’s boards. much more  uid in de nition and have controversial one. industry is strug- managers later joined the private join in decision-making roles in their CEOs of many of our banks spent allowed individuals to make choices In today’s world, with movements gling with increasing sector commercial banks, the market banks. And this now almost became a considerable years in foreign banks. about such issues. Maks thus has the such as FEMEN that stage topless non-performing could see some changes in the way “one way tra c.” Many of their deputies also come from right and reason to not want to  t into protests to convey their message, it Wloans, burglary, fraud, and a lack of ef- “risk” is being managed and cross-bor- Commercial banks started to foreign banks. All of them may not be a particular national – or any other – has become very easy to associate  cient people, many are thinking: How der trade is carried out. The tail end gradually embed “change” in their “world class,” or may not have clear identity. feminism to such activities and/or do we ensure the migration of best of the 90s and early 2000s saw a few growth strategies. Along with them, visibility about the destination, but The website then goes on to quote statements. practices to Bangladesh banking? dynamic young individuals with global mid and junior level o cials in those they know the importance of a peo- American Apparel as saying: “Maks This, in turn, can potentially imply When the new private sector com- outlook mostly from the foreign banks local banks also started to put in their ple-centric policy, IT driven solutions, was photographed in the High Waist another association: If you don’t mercial banks (PCBs) were allowed in operating in Bangladesh join the pri- e orts to ensure a better human re- better risk management, and establish- Jean, a garment manufactured by 23 support a woman’s right and freedom the early 80s, most of their CEOs and vate sector commercial banks. sources policy, centralised processing, ment of retail banking or transaction skilled American workers in Down- to be naked in public, you are not pro- senior management came from state- banking to diversify risk and introduce town Los Angeles, all of whom are paid gressive enough – which is dangerous. owned commercial banks. The trend e ciency to the system. a fair wage and have access to basic Being liberal should focus more on continued till the mid or late 90s. While the Bangladesh banking bene ts such as healthcare.” one’s stance on a topic than on how These people, as usual, were known system is going through a trying time they choose to express it. large private sector clients of those now, many owners and directors of Lost in transition And most importantly, being liberal banks and afterwards, the sponsors of We must invite young, energetic, capable people PCBs are thinking about attracting The controversy, if you ask me, is not should include being liberal enough the new banks. with banking experience to run the show seniors from global banks to join them in Maks being topless, but in the state- to respect, if not understand, the op- They played a major role in ex- in the next possible opportunity. They ment on her toplessness that reads posing view. I fully support a woman’s panding the country’s trade  nance have reconciled within themselves “Made in Bangladesh.” This implies, right to be naked in public, but it must business. However, their focus was that “change” is going to be the only at  rst glance, that being topless is a be looked at in context. This ad is bla- never on business process re-engineer- constant in banking, and we must Bangladeshi norm – which it is not. So tantly associating a half-naked woman ing, the establishment of a robust risk invite young, energetic, capable peo- the question that arises is: Where and to Bangladesh – a whole country, a management culture, developing a de- I would say the pressure for “change” improved service delivery platform, a ple with home-and-abroad banking how is Bangladesh relevant to any of whole culture, and that creates a mis- livery platform, integrated distribution started from there. Their spree for much improved and well-coordinated experience to run the show. this? The only way in which it is re- leading and insensitive message. channel, or even large project  nance. change was kick-started by the few sec- risk management process, an alternate Though we have yet to see sen- motely connected to this ad is through For obvious reasons, the central ond-generation foreign-educated en- product delivery and distribution iors from foreign banks driving the Maks’ Bengali origin which she does bank emerged as the only “change trepreneurs in their bank boards. This channel, and more importantly rela- “change process” in state-owned not want to be attached to. So, doesn’t driver” in the Bangladesh banking was further supported by the few at the tionship banking. banks and bring in visible changes, putting her up as a model with the sector. Reform programs initiated and central bank, who came from either the We have reasons to celebrate the there and many other developing statement defeat the whole purpose of This ad seems too supported by the development part- development partners or the foreign success of the “ rst phase” of change countries, the scenario may change both the ad and her realisation about ners through the central bank brought bank itself. The “core risk management management process in Bangladesh there too, and soon. her identity? desperate to make a in some visible change in the way guideline,” put up with the help of commercial banking. With more A success transfer is underway, American Apparel also shared in- statement and even those banks handled classi ed loans, mostly the executives working for the customised client solutions building, and must continue its journey into formation about how the pair of jeans charged interest rates to the clients, global banks, worked as “equity” in the automated teller machines (ATMS), excellence. People with global banking was made by 23 American workers that statement conveys and maintained coverage against risk entire change process. credit cards, mobile cash (M-cash), experience should be more identi ed who are paid a fair wage and have no message assets. However, information technol- With the fall of ANZ Grindlays Bank, large project loans, o shore banking, in the development process of Bangla- access to certain facilities. If the ad is ogy, modern management practices, the closing of American Express Bank, cross-border  nancing, spur in retail, desh’s banking industry and beyond. trying to bring to focus the fact that human resource development, and Banque Indosuez, and some other and SME banking, Bangladesh’s bank- Ways could be many, but best answers the manufactures of these jeans have governance did not get much priority foreign commercial banks, the market ing sector is poised to integrate well come only from a few. l all the bene ts Bangladeshi workers in their laundry list. saw some good human resources avail- with the global banking system. don’t, that’s a fair point – and in fact, To sum it up, this ad seems too During the implementation phase able. The success of the change pro- Centralised processing, higher in- Mamun Rashid is a business professor and much needed to evoke conscience in desperate – blindly desperate – with of the  nancial sector reform project cess in Eastern Bank (erstwhile BCCI) vestments in information technology,  nancial sector entrepreneur. our garment industries. an aim solely to make a statement But that has absolutely no relevance and even that statement conveys F O O D F O R T H O U G H T to a girl posing top-naked, showing no message. There is a di erence her bare breasts. If the line “Made in between being progressive and being Bangladesh” had to go anywhere in patronising, one that American the ad at all, it might as well have been Apparel clearly fails to see. l on the pair of jeans – as that would draw comparison between the status Syeda Samira Sadeque is Sta Reporter at Solidarity for  ight 370 and condition of Bangladeshi workers the Dhaka Tribune.

Our solidarity is for Malaysia and Hussein Onn, have been so candid, This is what we expect from those n Ifti Rashid Malaysians during this di cult time. forthright, and most importantly serving the public with taxpayer mon- We share your pain. We also stand by sensitive to the family members of ey. I think there is something here for hen I  rst heard the news on Malaysia Airlines in this emergency. those in the missing  ight. It was con- other countries in the region to learn Saturday, I could not be- Let us not forget MAS has so far had structive that the press conferences from Malaysia on handling emergency Wlieve my ears. It was most one of the most outstanding safety did not have the typical ambiance of situations with professionalism and depressing and unsettling to hear Ma- records in the world. I have always o cialdom normally expected, but a compassion. laysian Airlines Flight 370 on the Kuala felt at home aboard, and this will not high level of sincerity and honesty that In the meantime, our prayers go Lumpur-Beijing has gone “missing.” change for me. is truly impressive. out for Flight MH 370. Our prayers are Unfortunately, we live in a time and There have been many rumours age when many of us have become circulating online ever since the plane somewhat apathetic to media reports went missing, including the possibility on accidents. However, it always hurts of a terrorist attack. The case of at least most when it is close to home. Both two passengers who boarded the plane Bangladesh and Malaysia have had with stolen passports de nitely raises We can only imagine how traumatic this ordeal strong diplomatic, economic, edu- suspicion of foul play, it seems too must be for the family members. No words can be cational, cultural, and labour ties for much of a coincidence that both pass- decades. On a personal level, Malaysia ports were stolen in Thailand. Tickets solace for them is my country of birth and makes this were apparently booked through news even harder to digest. Southern China Airlines and pur- Foremost, our heart goes out to the chased together. Other speculation is family members of the passengers and more hopeful, for instance, claims that crew from Malaysia, China, Australia, the cell phone of one of the passengers New Zealand, United States, Canada, is still ringing. By being accessible and communica- for the passengers, crew, and family India, Russia, Indonesia, France, Neth- We don’t know the truth, but we tive, Malaysian authorities have dis- members, while we stand by Malaysia, erlands, and Ukraine. Though we are can only hope. pelled rumours, but at the same time Malaysians, and Malaysia Airlines in still hoping and praying for a miracle, As for the o cial response and addressed public concerns as much as this di cult time for all of you, in fact, we can only imagine how traumatic emergency mobilisation, one thing possible. What touched me most was for all of us. God bless us, and bring us this ordeal must be for the family that struck me is how Malaysian o - the high level of empathy and engage- some good news, please. l members. No words can be solace for cials, including Defence and Transport ment by not only the minister but every them. Minister Datuk Seri Hishamuddin Tun other civil and military o cial. Ifti Rashid is a political and security analyst. Progress, or just patronising? WIKIMEDIA 12 DHAKA TRIBUNE Entertainment Thursday, March 13, 2014 15 artists present women as larger-than-life at Gallery Cosmos n Shadma Malik Maksuda Iqbal Nipa loves to play with colour and new techniques of art. She is an artist who would go beyond a Life, a 15-day group exhibition featuring the lives of theme and subject, and make her own creation outstand- women started at Gallery Cosmos in the city on Tues- ing. The experimental artist explaining her work titled day. The exhibition tries to portray the life of women in Beneath the Surface, said: “The colours on my canvas di erent styles, forms, colours and ideas by a total of keep on evolving every moment. Working on oil on can- 15 artists. The showing vas, I tried to create an will be open till March illusion. The technique 25. is referred as optical il- The exhibition has lusion. It gives a vibrant been dedicated to three look at the surface. It is pioneering women in fun to play and perceive Bangladesh who are when two colours are Begum Rokeya, Be- merged in a new way gum Su a Kamal and and creates a whole dif- Jahanara Imam. The ferent version.” talented women artists Curator, coordinator through their works have and participiant of Life tried to acknowledge Afrozaa Jamil Konka the courage, dedication said: “I always want to AR Rahman and Akon in BCB and sacri ces of these portray the power that three women in their a woman has inside own  elds. The entire her. To mark the Inter- exhibition turns out as a national Women’s Day, Celebration Concert today message to the viewers we have brought  fteen to perceive the contribu- artists of wide range in n Limana Solaiman After reaching Dhaka, Oscar win- nob will also be present at the concert. tion in building a better one platform. The art- ning Indian composer and singer AR Another attractive part of the event will and brighter future for all ists’ endeavour di ers Music fans all across the country are Rahman paid a courtesy call on Prime be elaborate dance recitals of 90 danc- the Bangladeshi women. from one another. We anticipating great things from the BCB Minister Sheikh Hasina at the Ga- ers under the choreography of Warda An artwork named Glitz by Nazia Andaleeb Preema invited veteran artists, Celebration Concert. For the  rst time, nobhaban on Tuesday evening. Music Rihab. The dancers will perform to the Glitz by Nazia Andaleeb along with emerging international artistes AR Rahman and of the subcontinent was discussed at tune of the welcome song of the event, Preema is on display that immediately provokes the ones to showcase di erent perceptions.” Senegalese-American R&B and hip hop the meeting and AR Rahman managed Urchhe Shantir Payra, sung by Fuad Al spectator to think twice. About her work, the bold and “My series Faded Memories is about Rana Plaza. In icon Akon will perform for the audi- to impress the Prime Minister with his Muktadir and Konal. The 90 dancers dynamic artist said: “Women, all over the world are al- my work, I wanted to portray the process of woman ence of Bangladesh today at the BCB achievements and his successful pro- will also perform on four more tracks: ways challenged by the societal norms. She becomes empowerment the obstacles. I have tried to draw those Celebration Concert, scheduled to take jection of the rich music of the subcon- Shadher Lau by Runa Laila, O Majhi the victim of glamour, glitz and festivals. She always obstructions through the symbol of a crow.” place at the Bangabandhu National Sta- tinent before the world. Nao Chhaira De by Sabina Yasmin, Ek- acts in a certain way, regardless of her merit, aspira- The inaugural ceremony was accompanied by dium. All the tickets of the event are If the two renowned international tara Bajaiyo Na by Kumar Bishwajit, tion, belief and talent. Yet, she rises above all and tries Heather Cruden, High Commissioner, Canadian High sold out and now, fans of the two ar- celebrities are not enough to satisfy and Morar Kokile by Momtaz. It is con- to stand tall despite her su erings. She simply becomes Commission and eminent human rights activist Khu- tistes are buying tickets from the black the music lovers, celebrated bands of  rmed that the show will be telecasted the celebration of a stereotyped myth of womanhood.” shi Kabir. l market at elevated prices. Bangladesh: LRB, Miles, and singer Ar- live on Channel9 from 1:30pm today. l

Tareque Masud Cultural Centre staged a technical show of their  rst production Ashchorjo Sundor Ei Beche Thaka, a play adapted from The Game by Louise Bryant, at the Experimental Theatre Hall of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy on March 11. The cultural organisation, a tribute to the late  lmmaker Tareque Masud, plans on staging the premiere show on April 4 at the same venue

Mim’s tele lm airs on Maasranga Peya in item song n Entertainment Desk Watch out for sensational star of the media industry, Bidya Sinha Saha Mim n Shadma Malik like animals. Suddenly, I am abducted by aliens in today’s tele lm Bedonar Shob Kotha Manush Bole Na. Additional members who erase my memory and control my brain.” of the cast includes Azad Abul Kalam, Nazmul Kabir and many others. The The stunning beauty Jannatul Ferdoush Peya “I am also in an item song. When I am under tele lm will air on Maasranga at 7:50pm. is gearing up for her upcoming  ick The Story the control of aliens, I dance to a song titled Ma- Labonno and Ahir meets during a strike and from then on, they forge a re- of Samara, directed by Rikiya Masudo which is tal Hawa and then the story reaches its climax,” lationship. They continue to keep in touch with one another over the phone expected to release in the middle of this year. added the winner of Miss Bangladesh 2007. and sometimes meeting in person. After a while, Ahir starts to feel that even About the  lm the glamorous actor said: “In this Peya entered the ilmdom and debuted as though they are in love, Labonno seems to be holding back about being  lm, I am a researcher in a university. A fantasy an actor in 2012 through the movie Chorab- completely honest about her life. Whenever he tries to talk to her about it, horror  lm, The Story of Samara is about  ve ali and achieved best actress award in the Labonno replies “people do not talk about their grief in depth.” Frustrated friends who have certain birth signs. When the critics’ choice category in Meril Prothom Alo Ahir gets kidnapped one day by the hooligans of a gangster named Shahin. power of  ve comes together, they are transport- Award. The beautiful actor has two ilms in He is clueless about his abduction until he is questioned in detail about his ed to a di erent plane called Samara. We explore the pipe line, Gangster Returns and Probashir relationship with Labonno. He is tortured as if he is under police remand. l a complete di erent world were humans look Bhalobasha. l

Marks All-rounder all set to launch n Entertainment Desk based on their talent on dancing, singing, Taylor Swift tops money acting, drawing, recitation, quiz compe- School based talent hunt competition titions, storytelling ability (primary) and makers list Marks All-rounder 2014 is going to be extempore speech (secondary). held once again from March 28, spon- The talent hunt will start from March n Entertainment Desk sored by Marks Full Cream Milk Pow- 28 and the 7 divisions of the country der of the reputed corporate  rm of are further divided into 25 zones. Singer songwriter Taylor Swift has been named America’s high- Bangladesh named Abul Khair Group. Scholarship amounting to Tk10lacs est-earning musician over the last year. She surpassed the likes Every child is unique in his or her or a car shall be awarded to every “best of Beyoncé, Bon Jovi and even the Rolling Stones to earn nearly rights and Marks’ show provides a plat- all-rounder” of the two groups. Each of $40m from US tour dates, music sales, streaming and publishing form for the youngsters to explore their the four runner ups of the grand  nale royalties, according to Billboard’s annual Money Makers report. creative and artistic side. The initial se- will be awarded scholarships of Tk1lacs. The seven-time Grammy Award-winner tops the overall Bill- lection is divided into two groups, prima- Other prizes in di erent categories board list despite ranking only sixth in digital music sales and ry section will include participants from include 100 computers to be distributed eighth in physical album sales. What’s more, over the course of class one to  ve and the secondary sec- in schools, 42 gold, silver and bronze Swift’s 66 sold-out concerts last year, each ticket-buyer appar- tion will include participants from class medals and numerous other attractive ently spent an average of $17 (£10) on the singer’s tour. Swift was six to ten. Participants will be selected prizes are waiting for the winners of previously crowned in the Billboard rich list in 2012. l from the seven divisions of the country every round, regional and national. l

of the fact that he can act as well as sing. Ayushmann can Bollywood currently has a whole lot of young blood and when asked who he sing as well! considers as a competitor from among n Entertainment Desk the likes of Ranbir Kapoor and Ranveer Singh, Ayushmann said: “There is no Ayushmann Khurrana, who made a competitor as such. I think my biggest fruitful debut with Vicky Donor and is plus point is that I am both an actor now looking forward to Bewakoo yaan and a singer. As far as Ranbir Kapoor is says he sees no “competitor” in the concerned, he is my senior and I like his Hindi  lm industry. He further believes work,” added the multi-faceted talent, that he has a major plus point because who was earlier a video jockey. l Thursday, March 13, 2014 DHAKA TRIBUNE 13 Did you know? Chris Gayle (5,813) needs 90 runs to pass Brad Hodge (5,902) as the lead- ing run-scorer in all T20 matches

0 0 3 14 Wenger slams 15 Sammy secures Robben as WI T20 series Sport DAYS TO GO Arsenal exit against England Tigers warm-up with narrow win from the opponent bowlers until they started to open up with openers Faizan Regardless of an ir- Asif and Ali Amjad, who also impressed responsible batting in their last match against Hong Kong at display and mediocre Sharjah. Farhad Reza, in his  rst over, bowling performance, conceded two consecutive boundaries Bangladesh managed before giving his side the breakthrough to sneak in a four-wick- by dismissing Amjad (19) caught at mid et victory over Unit- on by skipper Mush qur Rahim. ed Arab Emirates (UAE) in their T20 Khurram Khan and Faizan (31) kept the warm-up match at Khan Shaheb Os- Tigers in dissatisfaction for a while before man Ali Stadium in Fatullah yesterday. the latter was dismissed by Mahmudullah Though the victory came with seven after hitting the only six of their innings. balls and four wickets to spare the Tigers Khurram’s dismissal ended UAE’s had to sweat in front of around 2000 biggest partnership o 45 runs with home crowd while chasing a modest 143 Shaiman, as the associate members runs as the batsmen failed to grab the could add only 29 runs in the last  ve chance of gaining full con dence ahead overs to post 142 for seven. Farhad of the ICC World Twenty20. gave away 25 runs in two overs and The major concern in the bowling picked up two wickets. l department remained as the bowl- ers looked bite less despite having a SCORECARD weaker opponent. After a gloomy start United Arab Emirates innings to this year, yesterday’s match was the Amjad Ali c Mushf b Reza 19 perfect platform for the Bangladesh Asif c Mominul b Mahmudullah 31 side to stamp their authority before the Khurram Khan* b Farhad Reza 44 start of the world event in four days. SP Patil† b Abdur Razzak 1 However, the batting unit also showed Anwar c Tamim b Al-Amin 19 signs of careless batting as they lost Amjad Javed b Rubel Hossain 6 wickets very cheaply in regular breaks Rohan Mustafa not out 13 to keep UAE in hunt for an upset. V Shetty run out (Mahmudullah) 4 Farhad Reza (C) celebrates taking a wicket with teammates during Bangladesh’s World Twenty20 warm-up game against UAE at Fatullah yesterday MUMIT M Anamul Haque once again returned Extras (b 1, lb 1, w 3) 5 to the dressing room with a  rst over Total (7 wickets; 20 overs) 142 duck which saw the home side get o Women’s face India to a shaky start and things were getting FoW ugly Shakib al Hasan (nine) followed 132, 263, 370, 4115, 5124, 6128, in third T20 today IPL might come to Bangladesh back. Shakib attempted to  ick Manju- 7142 la Guruge but only ended up gifting the Bowling UAE from April 16 to 30. The venues are “The BCCI’s decision to stage the left-arm fast bowler his second wicket. Al-Amin 40251, Rubel 40171, still to be decided according to the tenta-  rst part of the IPL 2014 season in the Bangladesh were 17/2 when Mush q Mahmudullah 20191, Farhad 20- Bangladesh national women’s cricket The second phase of the Indian Premier tive schedule while the second phase is UAE is great news for the people of the and his deputy Tamim Iqbal resqued 252, Shakib 40280, Nasir 10110, team will take the  eld at the at Cox’s League season seven is likely to take likely to be staged in Bangladesh. UAE and the region. It will complete the side with a 58-run partnership. Razzak 30151, Bazar’s Sheikh Kamal International place in Bangladesh from May 1 to 12 if “We have also heard that the BCCI a remarkable season of cricket in the However, quick dismissals of the Bangladesh innings Cricket Stadium for their third Twen- the Indian government rejects organis- and the IPL organizers plan to hold UAE, which has already seen the suc- two saw Bangladesh enter that danger ty20 of the three-match series against ers’ request to hold matches in speci c few games from the upcoming season cessful staging of the ICC World Twen- territory where they have been in the Tamim Iqbal c & b Rohan 43 Anamul † c Amjad b Guruge 0 India today. Already losing the series Indian states once polling there ends. A in Bangladesh. The discussion is tak- ty20 Quali er 2013 and the ICC U19 past few matches. Mush q tried to lob Shakib c Rohan b Guruge 9 2-0, the hosts will be eyeing a win to media release from the IPL organisers ing place with our president Nazmul Cricket World Cup 2014,” said Richard- over mid on but failed as he returned Mush qur* c Silva b Shazad 27 gain the momentum and avoid a three yesterday informed that India has been Hasan. I think we will be informed son in an ICC media release. with 27 o 22 balls while Tamim left in Nasir Hossain b Amjad Javed 15 nil sweep. forced to move part of its Twenty20 once it reaches a concrete decision,” “This news comes on the back of the 11th over after making 43. On his Mominul c Shazad b Javed 4 said the Bangladesh Cricket Board the on- eld success of the UAE na- return match Tamim was caught and The home side came into the series cricket competition to the United Arab Mahmudullah not out 29 having secured their maiden ODI series Emirates (UAE) and possibly Bangla- grounds committee chairman Lokman tional team which has quali ed for bowled by Rohan Mostafa after clob- Farhad Reza not out 14 victory defeating Pakistan 2-0. desh due to a clash with elections. Hossain Bhuiyan to the Dhaka Tribune both the ICC World Twenty20 2014 in bering six boundaries and one over- Extras (lb 1, w 2, nb 2) 5 However the momentum shifted The seventh IPL season will begin yesterday. Bangladesh and the ICC Cricket World boundary in 30 balls. Total (6 wickets; 18.5 overs) 146 once they faced Pakistan for the two- on April 16 just days after the begin- “The BCCI and IPL organiseres have Cup 2015 in Australia and New Zealand Bangladesh lost two more wickets match T20 series. The Bangladeshi ning of the country’s general elections. been informed that BCB has no prob- and has the potential to propel cricket’s - Nasir Hossain and Mominul Haque - FoW women lost the  rst match while the However, the Indian government has lem in hosting the matches. All of our pro le to new heights in the country,” before they strolled to victory courtesy 12, 217, 375, 482, 510, 6112 second and last match is scheduled af- informed the IPL organisers that secu- venues are ready to hold a phase from the statement mentioned. of Mahmudullah and Farhad Reza. The Bowling ter the India series at the same venue rity forces are needed for the world’s the tournament which they plan,” Lok- The third phase of the tournament duo added 32 runs for the seventh wicket Guruge 40252, Silva 30300, Am- on March 15. biggest elections, which run until May man added. after May 12 will be held in India, with from only 17 balls to land Bangladesh’s jad 40252, Kamran 31201, Rohan The series’ are mainly the part 12 and cannot be diverted for the crick- Meanwhile, ICC (International Cricket the provision that no match be organ- win. With  ve boundaries, Mahmudul- 3.50361, Khurram 1090 of build-up for the women’s World et competition. Council) Chief Executive David Richard- ised on May 16, when vote counting lah was unbeaten on 29 o 18 deliveries. Players per side 15 (11 batting, 11  elding) T20 where hosts Bangladesh will be For that reason, IPL organisers have son welcomed the decision of the Board and election results are expected to be Earlier, opting to bat  rst UAE were Bangladesh won by 4 wickets making their debut. l moved at least the  rst 16 matches to the of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). announced. l o to a decent start receiving no threat Hong Kong pull big upset Tamim hopes for improvement Afghanistan, Ireland pick easy win turn to a better position where we ear- lier were,” he said. Afghanistan v Netherlands The four-wicket win against UAE yes- The shot selection cost most of the Right-arm pacer Aftab Alam’s four- terday hardly explains the uneasiness batters and when asked if they were ICC associate mem- wicket haul allowed Afghanistan to se- the Bangladesh side went through dur-  nding it di cult to adjust to the for- ber Hong Kong pulled cure a 35-run victory over Netherlands ing the course of the warm-up match mat Tami said, “No I think every player a huge upset on the in a curtailed game in Chittagong. at Fatullah. Chasing the modest 143 knows his duty, maybe we are passing a opening day of the Mohammad Nabi’s 25-ball 40 and 39 at one point Bangladesh were looking bad time as a team and you can’t solve ICC World Twenty20 apiece from Karim Sadiq and Sha qullah to concede the game to the associate everything together and I am sure it warm-up games as they saw the Afghans register 150/7. Nether- member’s and Tamim Iqbal who re- will improve as we won the match to- handed Test playing nation Zimbabwe lands’ chase was disrupted by  oodlight turned to the side recovering from a day and gained con dence for the im- a four-wicket defeat in Chittagong yes- issues. The target was curtailed to 122 neck strain said poor start caused them portant match on March 16. terday. Meanwhile, Afghanistan and runs from 15 overs but the Dutchmen the discomfort. “But we will be looking to attack in Ireland picked wins in their respective were bowled out for 86 in the 13th over. “It would have been much better if the  rst six overs and we have given games against Nepal and Netherlands. Only four batters reached double  gures we had a good start with the ball. And the license to our top order batsmen with Michael Swart top scoring with I think we can bowl much better espe- Zimbabwe v Hong Kong 20. Left-arm spinner Hamza Hotak also cially in the  rst six overs, but we made We are taking every Riding on middle-order batsman Mark grabbed three wickets in 2.3 overs. l a good comeback at the end where at match seriously and we Chapman’s unbeaten 53 Hong Kong one stage they were looking to score reached their target of 154 in the last BRIEF SCORES 160-170 but we managed to restrict are trying to work out ball of the innings. Chapman faced 33 Ireland v Nepal them to 140 odd runs. on our mistakes balls and slammed four boundaries and “Same goes to the batting where we Nepal: 137/7 in 20 overs three sixes while he was well supported tried to be more attacking from the start. because as you know we don’t have (Malla 47, Khadka 31, Kevin 2/22) by Tanwir Afzal (37* o 21 balls). Ear- Ireland: 141/5 in 19.1 overs (Porter eld 38, We will try to improve these things on such big hitters like (Keiron) Pollard so lier, Hong Kong justi ed their decision of Wilson 31*, Mukhiya 3/24) our next match. Though T20 looks a the  rst six overs are always important  elding  rst by restricting Zimbabwe to Ireland won by 5 wickets fast game but there is still some time to for us,” said Tamim before adding that 153/7. Late surge from Vusi Sibanda (31) Hong Kong v Zimbabwe think and I hope we will sit and discuss he is fully  t now and expects to be and Chigumbura (45) helped the Zimba- Zimbabwe: 153/7 in 20 overs to improve in the next match,” said Ta- available for the coming matches. bwean’s reach the modest T20 total. (Chigumbura 45*, Raza 32, Sibanda 31, mim at the post match brie ng session. On the other hand, UAE skipper Irfan 3/25) Bangladesh seemed to be in a relaxed Khurram Khan, who was also the high- Ireland v Nepal Hong Kong: 159/6 in 20 overs mode yesterday but Tamim informed est scorer for his side with 44 runs, was Ireland claimed an easy last over win over (Chapman 53*, Afzal 37*, Utseya 3/19) they are not in a position to take their happy with his team’s performance. “I Hong Kong won by 4 wickets Nepal at Fatullah. Nepal never looked a opponents lightly. think it’s a wonderful performance to comfortable batting unit in front of the Netherlands v Afghanistan “Look we are not in a position to be honest as you know Bangladesh is an Irish bowlers as Gyanendra Malla (47) top Afghanistan: 150/7 in 20 overs take any side lightly as we lost seven experienced side and they are in the in- scored in their 137/7. Later, Ireland chased (Nabi 40, Sha qullah 39, Karim 39, Malik 3/28) matches in a row recently and we are ternational cricket for long time. Taking Netherlands: 86 all-out in 12.3 overs the target in 19.1 overs with  ve wickets taking every match seriously and we them almost to the last over was a huge (Swart 20, Aftab 4/25, Hamza 3/16) to spare with skipper William Porter eld Afghanistan won by 35 runs (D/L) are trying to work out on our mistakes achievement for us and we have a lot of Tamim Iqbal plays a pull shot during Bangladesh’s World Twenty20 warm-up game against leading the side with a 35-ball 38. and don’t repeat our mistakes and re- positives from this game,” he said. l UAE at Fatullah yesterday MUMIT M 14 DHAKA TRIBUNE Sport Thursday, March 13, 2014

Fifa prepares fresh tickets launch 'Tiger’s lost his intimidation factor' Stoke fail with Walters red card appeal

Football’s world governing body FIFA on Tuesday geared up for a fresh launch Outspoken caddy Steve Williams says former employer Tiger Woods has lost Stoke City have lost an appeal against the red card shown to forward Jona- of World Cup ticket sales from Wednesday, with 345,000 up for grabs for 60 of his intimidation factor, as the New Zealander revealed he will quit full-time golf this than Walters during Saturday’s 11 draw at Norwich City, the Football Association the 64 matches. The tickets go on sale in what is the second window of the second year. Williams, who was sacked by Woods in 2011 after helping him win all but one announced on Tuesday. Having just equalised from the penalty spot in the 73rd sales phase from 1100 GMT although the opening match in Sao Paulo, the  nal of his 14 major titles, added that he had yet to reconcile with the world number minute of the Premier League encounter at Carrow Road, Walters was shown in Rio and the semi- nals in Belo Horizonte and Sao Paulo are already sold out. one, but hopes to one day. “There’s just personal things and di erences of opinion a straight red card following a knee-high foul on Norwich mid elder Alexander The sales allocation is on a  rst-come,  rst-served basis, FIFA said on its website, about how things went down. He thinks one thing and I think another,” Williams, Tettey. Stoke tabled an appeal, but an independent disciplinary commission predicting “very high” demand through to the close of sales on April 1. –AFP who now carries the bags of Australian world number two Adam Scott. –AFP upheld referee Andre Marriner’s decision. –AFP Simeone open to all Spanish quarter- nal

but the third goal that allowed us to re- lax because it was then very di cult to Atletico Madrid come back in the tie.” coach Diego Sime- Milan boss Clarence Seedorf con- one welcomed the gratulated Atletico on a deserved win possibility of meet- over the two legs, but lamented his ing La Liga rivals Real side’s luck as Arda’s de ected goal Madrid or Barcelona came when they were having a good in the quarter- nals spell. of the Champions League after his side “Congratulations to Atletico, they thrashed AC Milan 4-1 in the second deserved this victory, especially in the leg of their last 16 tie on Wednesday to second-half. progress 5-1 on aggregate. “We lost control of the game. Their It is the  rst time since Simeone was second goal arrived when we were hav- an Atletico player back in 1997 that Los ing our best spell in the game, but that Rojiblancos have reached the last eight is football.” of the Champions League and the Argen- Seedorf has only been in charge of tine insists they must enjoy the experi- the seven-time European champions ence no matter who they are paired with. since January as he replaced the sacked “We will wait until the opponent Massimiliano Allegri. comes out of the hat. It doesn’t bother The Rossoneri’s season is now ef- me at all if it is a Spanish team. fectively over as they lie 11th in Serie “We will continue with humility A, nine points o the European places. as we always do and you can’t choose And the former Dutch international who you play. All we can do is relax and admitted he now has to build the side recuperate.” with an eye to returning Milan to their “We started better and it seemed former glory next season. like the tie was well on track, but then “I arrived to help and improve the they grew into the game. We weren’t situation. Next season we will build getting to them on the wings and it something new and better. This year complicated things for us. everything started badly and now we Bayern Munich's mid elder Bastian Schweinsteiger (L) scores against FC Arsenal during their Uefa Champions League last 16 second-leg match in Munich, on Tuesday AFP “It was not so much the second goal, are trying to  ll the holes. l Ozil out for 'a few Wenger slams Robben as Arsenal exit weeks': Wenger

ished 3-1 on aggregate. “Good luck to Bayern, but I think scoring chances – only a Olivier Giroud but we wanted to control the game and Arsenal failed to overturn their 2-0 they are a bit more vulnerable than last header and Podolski’s thunderbolt truly we succeeded. Mesut Ozil’s unhappy spell continued Arsenal manager Ar- de cit from the  rst leg three weeks ago, season.” troubled the hosts defence. “Apart from the goal, which might on Tuesday when the Arsenal and Ger- sene Wenger blamed which still riles Wenger. Robben angrily rebuked Wenger’s But Bayern’s honorary president have been whistled as a foul, but noth- many mid elder su ered an injury Wojciech Szczesny’s The Gunners  nished with ten men diving claims. Franz Beckenbauer criticised the hold- ing happened.” against Bayern Munich that manager  rst-leg red card for in London after Italian referee Nicola ers for a lack of creativity. Podolski shoved Bayern captain Arsene Wenger said is likely to keep the Gunners’ Champi- Rizzoli sent o Gunners goalkeeper Szc- RESULTS “In the end, it’ll be like Barca: un- Philipp Lahm o the ball before his sec- him out for several weeks. ons League last 16 exit zesny for conceding a spot-kick with a Bayern Munich 1 1 Arsenal watchable. They will pass the ball back ond-half equaliser, but the Germany star Local media reported Ozil had and slammed Arjen foul on Robben. Schweinsteiger 54 Podolski 57 even on the goal-line,” moaned the for- said his challenge was legitimate. sustained a hamstring injury though Robben for provoking the red card as the “Overall in the two games what made mer West Germany World Cup winning “The ref didn’t blow his whistle, so Wenger did not con rm that. Atletico Madrid AC Milan Gunners bowed out at Bayern Munich. the di erence was the decision to send 4 1 captain and coach. the matter is closed,” said Podolski. “It looks quite serious,” said Wenger. Diego Costa 3, 85, Kaka 27 Holders Bayern Munich booked our goalkeeper o ,” said Wenger. Turan 40, Raul Garcia 70 But Guardiola, whose side are look- “We can discuss these little aspects “I don’t know (how long Ozil will be their place in the Champions League’s “I felt it was not a red card as simple ing to go 50 Bundesliga games unbeaten over and over again, but at the end of missing) but for sure he is out (of the quarter- nals, despite Arsenal earning a as that. Robben is very good at getting “I expect more of great managers, against Bayer Leverkusen on Saturday, the day, we are out. It’s always di cult Tottenham Hotspur game on Sunday). 1-1 draw in Bavaria in Tuesday’s last 16, something out of nothing, he’s a good they don’t need to resort to claims like had a di erent take. coming back from 2-0 down against one “We have to make a scan tomorrow to second-leg clash. diver, but that’s part of his game. that,” said the Dutch winger. “We were able to minimise our er- of the best teams in the world. see how bad it is but he’s out for at least a A second-half Bastian Schweinstei- “I have to congratulate the (Arsenal) “I don’t want to have to defend my- rors, we played intelligently and at a “Their second goal in the  rst-leg few weeks. I hope it’s not too bad.” ger goal gave Bayern a brief lead before players for their heart and e ort. self against remarks like that.” very high level, I am very satis ed,” said killed us a bit. Ozil’s injury came just as he ap- Arsenal’s Lukas Podolski equalised with “We wanted to come out of that tie Bayern boss Pep Guardiola was the Spaniard. “We’re out and now we need to focus peared to be turning the corner follow- a thunderbolt of a shot as the tie  n- quali ed, but we came up short. pleased that his side restricted Arsenal’s “Arsenal had a chance in the  rst half, on the Premier League and Cup.” l ing a run of misfortune. l

Spurs under pressure ‘Very happy’ Lippi says no chance of ahead of Ben ca clash China job The form guide suggests Antonio Conte’s Juve are the clear favourites - The pressure is on Totten- they beat La Viola 1-0 in Serie A at the World Cup-winning manager Marcello ham Hotspur to perform in weekend to go 14 points clear at the top Lippi has dismissed the possibility of the  rst leg of their Europa of the table and leave Fiorentina with one day coaching China’s national team League last-16 tie against just one win in six games. after signing a new deal with Asian Ben ca on Thursday, while There is also a derby in store in champions Guangzhou Evergrande. there are two enticing der- Spain, with bitter city rivals Sevilla and The 65-year-old Italian, who inked a bies on the cards elsewhere. Betis meeting at the Sanchez Pizjuan. three-year extension at the end of Feb- This is a big week for Tim Sher- Unai Emery’s team are seventh in La ruary amid speculation he could take wood’s Tottenham side as they look Liga and won their last two home games the China job, said: “No, no, no. It’s not to bounce back from a thumping 4-0 against Betis by four-goal margins, while possible. There is absolutely no possi- defeat at Chelsea, the meeting with Betis lie bottom of their domestic league. bility of coaching the national team.” the Portuguese league leaders at White “I have just signed a new contract with Hart Lane coming ahead of Sunday’s FIXTURES Guangzhou and I’m very happy at the north London derby against Arsenal in Porto (POR) v Napoli (ITA) club,” the former Juventus manager said. the Premier League. “I’m comfortable here and we have Basel (SUI) v Salzburg (AUT) Spurs capitulated in the second half a great team spirit. So I don’t want peo- at Stamford Bridge and the defeat dam- Razgrad (BUL) v Valencia (ESP) ple to think there is any chance of me aged their prospects of qualifying for Tottenham (ENG) v Ben ca (POR) coaching the Chinese national side go- Atletico Madrid's Brazilian-born forward Diego da Silva Costa celebrates after scoring against AC Milan during their Uefa Champions next season’s Champions League while Alkmaar (NED) v Anzhi (RUS) ing forwards.” l League quarter- nal second leg match at the Vicente Calderon stadium in Madrid on Tuesday AFP also turning up the pressure on their Lyon (FRA) v Pilsen (CZE) rookie manager. Sevilla (ESP) v Betis (ESP) It has been suggested that Totten- Juventus (ITA) v Fiorentina (ITA) Spalletti to carry ham will look to replace Sherwood Ozil’s vanishing act worry for Arsenal with experienced Dutchman Louis van on living in St Gaal in the summer, but a good result Elsewhere, the 2011 Europa League He has not scored in the Premier toll and Ozil struggling to maintain his against an in-form Ben ca would help winners Porto, who recently sacked League since before Christmas and, form, Arsenal’s failure to bolster their Petersburg the current incumbent’s cause. coach Paulo Fonseca in response to When Arsenal paid a club record 42 mil- more tellingly, his ability to in uence ranks, particularly in attack, during Ben ca travel to England on a run their unsatisfactory form in the Por- lion pounds ($69.84 million) for Mesut games with a range of passing that the January transfer window could ul- of 23 matches undefeated in all com- tuguese Super League, could  nd life Ozil last August it was with nights like made him “king of the assists” earlier timately prove to be their undoing yet petitions. Last season’s Europa League tough against Napoli. Tuesday in Munich in mind. in the campaign has waned. again. Italian coach Luciano Spalletti, who  nalists have won eight consecutive Benitez also won the UEFA Cup in Trailing 2-0 from the  rst leg of the His penalty miss against Bayern in The addition of the injured Kim was sacked by Zenit St Petersburg last games, all without conceding a goal, 2004 with Valencia, the Spanish club Champions League last 16 tie against the  rst leg at the Emirates appeared Kallstrom on loan from Russian side week, said Wednesday he intended to and are currently seven points clear at who go to Bulgaria this week to face holders Bayern, it was the perfect stage to drain his already fragile con dence Spartak Moscow was hardly a state- settle permanently in the Russian city. the top of their domestic Super League. surprise package Ludogorets Razgrad, for Germany playmaker Ozil to deliver and the way he was jeered by Bayern’s ment of intent from the Gunners who “I have spent four wonderful years The tie evokes memories of the who have already beaten PSV Eind- a grandstand performance. fans on Tuesday summed up a horror at the time were going toe-to-toe with in Saint Petersburg,” Spalletti wrote in clubs’ meeting in the semi- nals of the hoven and Lazio this season. What transpired, however, was a tie for the former Real Madrid man. Chelsea and Manchester City. his letter to the club posted on Zenit’s European Cup in 1962, when the late Lyon host Czech champions Vik- brief cameo as Ozil vanished at half- Paying so much money for Ozil With a tough-looking run of  xtures o cial site. Eusebio’s Ben ca prevailed en route to toria Pilsen, AZ Alkmaar face Anzhi time with a hamstring niggle after be- was always going to be something of a to come, they are now behind a free- “The love that surrounded me in lifting the trophy. Makhachkala, and Swiss champions ing virtually invisible for the opening gamble but when he began the season scoring Liverpool side and defeat in Saint Petersburg all the time has made Meanwhile, one of the great rivalries Basel, semi- nalists last season, take 45 minutes in the Allianz. in scintillating form it looked as though the north London derby at  fth-placed me its true resident, its citizen. Pe- in the Italian game will be translated to on Salzburg, who have won 14 con- Ozil’s worrying loss of form will be the investment could spur Arsenal to Tottenham Hotspur on Sunday would tersburg is my home and I will stay on the European stage as Juventus take on secutive games, including beating Ajax as perplexing for the Frenchman as his silverware. leave them looking anxiously over here.” Fiorentina in Turin. over two legs in the last round. l likely three-week lay-o . However, with injuries taking their their shoulders. l Last Tuesday Zenit sacked Spalletti. l DHAKA TRIBUNE Sport Thursday, March 13, 2014 15

QUICK BYTES SCORECARD England Roman Sana Sammy secures WI T20 M. Lumb lbw b Santokie 4 A. Hales c Simmons b D.J. Bravo 40  nishes 7th in Asian M. Ali lbw b Santokie 5 Archery Grand Prix E. Morgan c Simmons b Badree 3 Roman Sana of Bangladesh  nished series against England J. Buttler c Sammy b Santokie 67 7th scoring 650 out of720 among the R. Bopara c D.J. Bravo b Santokie 14 L. Wright not out 7 56 archers in the quali cation round ertheless proved far more competitive and although both failed to of the 1st Asian Archery Grand Prix in than in the  rst match on Sunday, al- carry on to the end, their rate T. Bresnan c Ramdin b D.J. Bravo 7 Extras (b-1,lb-3, w-1) 5 Bangkok yesterday. However, Emdadul West Indies rallied from a middle-order though their poor start with the bat of scoring eased the burden Haque Milon, the top ranked archer wobble to romp to a series-clinching and inability to sustain the e ort in the on the batsmen who fol- Total (7 wickets, 20 overs) 152 of the country  nished 8th scoring  ve-wicket victory over England in the  eld eventually cost them dearly. lowed. Fall of wickets 648, Sheikh Sajib was positioned 29th second Twenty20 International of the “I though we were about 15-20 runs Ravi Bopara’s medi- 113 (Lumb), 221 (Ali), 326 (Morgan), scoring 626 and Prennoy Murong um-pace - he conceded three-match series at Kensington Oval short at the end,” stand-in England 4102 (Hales), 5137 (Buttler), 6143 scored 572 to  nish 51st. Sana, Sajib and in Barbados on Tuesday. skipper Eoin Morgan conceded. We just ten runs from four (Bopara), 7152 (Bresnan). Milon’s score of 1924 saw Bangladesh Jos Buttler’s career-best 67 saw the showed a lot of  ght though, which is overs for Gayle’s wicket  nish  fth among the 13 countries at tourists’ to a total of 152 for seven bat- good heading into the World Cup.” - and James Tredwell’s Bowling the team event. Women archers Mathui ting  rst with left-arm seamer Krish- They were labouring at 26 for three left-arm spin gave Eng- Badree 40161, Santokie 40214, Pru Marma totaled 622 of 720 to  nish mar Santokie justifying his inclusion in the  fth over after Morgan chose to land hope of a  ght- Samuels 20170, Rampaul 30300 15th among 43 archers while Beauty in place of injured spinner Sunil Narine bat  rst before Buttler joined back while Tim (1w), Sammy 10170, D.J. Bravo 40- Roy was 26th scoring 588, Shyamoli by claiming four for 21 to earn the “Man opening batsman Alex Hales 342, Russell 20130. Roy grossed 569 to  nish 31st. Bangla- of the Match” award. in putting on 76 for the West Indies desh women’s  nished 7th amongst Cruising at 111 for two in the 15th fourth wicket. D. Smith c Bresnan b Dernbach 30 the 11 teams totaling 1272. In the mixed over, the hosts lost three wickets for The wicketkeeper-batsman needed C. Gayle b Bopara 36 doubles, Roman Sana and Mathui Pru  ve runs before captain Darren Sammy more than a bit of luck but was particu- Bresnan’s M. Samuels c Hales b Bresnan 28 Marma scored 1272 to  nish 8th. belted an unbeaten 30 o just nine de- larly impressive, hammering  ve fours double-strike L. Simmons c wkpr Buttler b Wright 19 –Tribune Desk liveries to take his team to 155 for  ve and three sixes o 43 balls to put his in removing Mar- lon A. Russell c Hales b Bresnan 2 with seven balls to spare. team in position to post a competitive Samuels and Andre Russell D. Sammy not out 30 Top seed Amol With an unbeatable 2-0 lead going total. o successive balls in the 17th D.J. Bravo not out 8 into the  nal match on Thursday at the However Hales’ dismissal for 40 over lifted the prospect of a tight Extras (w-2) 2 upset by Dipu Lal same venue, the World T20 title-hold- just before a rain interruption proved  nish. Total (5 wickets, 18.5 overs) 155 Dipu Lal of Nordic Club upset top seed ers are looking for a strong  nish in the critical in limiting England’s progress However Sammy, in partner- Amol Roy Of Engineers Club in Run- Caribbean before heading o to Ban- on the resumption as Santokie’s clev- ship with Dwayne Bravo, killed Fall of wickets ner Group Independence Day Open gladesh for the defence of their crown. er variations over his  nal two overs o England’s chances and al- 148 (Smith), 275 (Gayle), 3111 (Sim- Tennis at the National Tennis Complex “This is all about building proved extremely e ective. lowed the home fans in another mons), 4116 (Samuels), 5116 (Russell). yesterday. In the pre-quarter nal, Dipu towards the T20 World Cup,” said a de- “I just try to vary the pace, and it full-house at Kensington to savour Bowling Lal showed superb form to oust Amol lighted Sammy. worked on this occasion,” said Santo- the rarity in recent times of a West Bresnan 3.50512, (1w), Dernbach Roy 63, 75 and cruise through to the “It’s good that all the guys are  ring kie. I just stick to the basics and just Indies series victory. l 30301 (1w), Tredwell 40270, quarter- nals. Anwar Hossain of British and when you sit down and plan, then seek to improve every time I get the Bopara 40101, Parry 20170, Wright High Commission overpowered Zami execute on the  eld, it feels good.” opportunity to play.” West Indies' Darren Sammy leaps to celebrate 20201. of Mymensingh 75, 62 and Akhtar Handicapped by the absence of In contrast to their opponents, after the West Indies won their second T20I against England at Kensington Oval in West Indies won by 5 wickets Hossain of BKSP outplayed Chanu Lal regular captain and key bowler Stuart Dwayne Smith (30) and Chris Gayle West Indies lead 3-match series 20 Bridgetown on Tuesday REUTERS of Navy Club 62, 62 to move into the Broad because of injury, England nev- (36) gave the West Indies a  ying start, quarter- nals. In the men’s doubles, Delwar Hossain and Mamun Bepari defeated Laxman Lal and Biplob Ram 63, 61, Anwar Hossain and Rustom Pistorius court Ali prevailed over Zami and Badal 60, 60, and Asmtaullah and Munir Hossain Djokovic and Li advance at Indian Wells shown damaged overpowered Niranjan Ram and Arif Hossain 64, 60 to move into the Djokovic’s next opponent is the took her tally of double-faults for the bat, door from quarter- nals. big-serving Croatian Marin Cilic, who match to nine before she  nally sealed –Tribune Desk Normal service resumed at the BNP Pa- recorded his 20th win this season with the win. death scene “I only can say: Welcome to the cra- Navy, PDB reach semis ribas Open in Indian Wells on Tuesday a 6-4 6-3 over Spain’s Tommy Robredo. when Novak Djokovic safely booked “I obviously cannot allow myself zy women’s tennis tour,” she told the Bangladesh Navy and Power De- his place in the fourth round of the to have these particular concentration crowd in a courtside interview. velopment Board secured last four men’s draw and Li Na moved into the lapses in the match at this level espe- “I think all the match I was feeling A forensics expert on Wednesday places in the Minister Independence women’s quarter- nals. cially in the next match when I’m play- pretty good, except the last game,” Li staged a dramatic re-enactment of how Day Volleyball, winning their respective Djokovic had a little hiccup when he ing Cilic, a guy who is in really good was quoted as saying on the WTA web- Paralympian Oscar Pistorius broke quarter nals at the volleyball stadium dropped the second set of his match form and I think has gotten better in site (www.wtatennis.com). down the door of the toilet where he yesterday. The spikers of the Navy team with Colombia’s Alejandro Gonzalez last couple of months working with “The funny thing was that in the shot dead his girlfriend. beat Border Guards Bangladesh 2519, but was otherwise untroubled in win- (Goran) Ivanisevic.” beginning of the game I was feeling Police Colonel Gerhard Vermeulen 2523, 2325, 2513 while PDB had to ning 6-1 3-6 6-1. Li, promoted to the women’s top tight, nervous, and then I was like, brought before the South African court  ght hard to oust Bangladesh Air Force “I thought I played really well from seed after winning the Australian Open “What’s going on? Why can’t I  nish both the door and the cricket bat -- 2517, 1925, 2518, 2125 and 1506. the start,” said Djokovic, a two-time and in the absence of Serena Williams, the match?” and she wasn’t giving up, two pieces of physical evidence which Bangladesh Army and Titas Gas secured champion at Indian Wells. beat Canada’s Aleksandra Wozniak 6-1 and was defending so well. It was really could hold the key to the case. the other two semi nal slots on Tuesday. “Then suddenly I just had a big 6-4 but only after a extraordinary  nal tough. In opening testimony Vermeulen The semis will be played today while the loss of concentration and allowed him game where she struggled to close out “All I can say is wow, she saved a lot demonstrated how the door was struck  nal is billed to take place on Friday. to win the second set for no reason. I the match. of match points. She’s pretty good.” with the bat, which was in turn used to –Tribune Desk bounced back better in the third.” Li raced through the opening set in While Robredo lost to the tower- wedge open a gap between a panel and While the Serbian was not at his just over half an hour then recovered ing Cilic, three of his compatriots all the inner frame. ‘Small’ signs of hope best, Djokovic did at least survive to from 3-0 down to serve for the match advanced with Fernando Verdasco “The bat went through the door and  ght another day in the Californian at 5-4 when she suddenly got the upsetting world number nine Richard there’s actually marks on the tip of the for Schumi: family desert after the shock losses of world wobbles. Gasquet of France 7-6 (7-5) 6-1 to leave bat which correspond with what hap- Michael Schumacher is showing “small, Li Na of China celebrates her victory at number one Rafa Nadal and Maria The  nal game lasted 20 minutes Djokovic as the only top-10 player left pened,” said Vermuelen, a forensics ex- encouraging signs” of recovery from Indian Wells Tennis Garden on Tuesday AFP Sharapova on Monday. as Li squandered 10 match points and in the bottom half of the men’s draw. l pert with three decades of experience. l injuries sustained in a ski accident, his family said Wednesday, while acknowl- edging the Formula One legend faced a long battle ahead. The family voiced Clemon Naryanganj con dence the 45-year-old would pull through after 11 weeks in a medically induced coma but declined to give win 4H Group cricket further details of his condition. “We are and Hasanuzzman Jhoru. Eight acad- and remain con dent that Michael will emies participated in the meet. l pull through and will wake up,” said the Clemon Naryanganj Cricket Academy statement. “There sometimes are small, clinched the title of the 4H Group SCORECARD encouraging signs, but we also know Cricket Tournament organised by Clemon Naryanganj Academy that this is the time to be very patient.” Mountain Sports by beating Body Line –AFP Cricket Academy by 40 runs at the Mir- 153/6 in 20 overs (Rony 85 (63, 6X5, pur City Club Ground yesterday. 4X4), Emon 0, Sumit 5,Masum 2, Su- mon 9, Sarif 12, Rajon 13, Shahjahan 6*, Batting  rst, Clemon Naryanganj Azim 1/29, Tarek 1/23, Khairul 1/16, Milon Cricket Academy posted a total of 153/6 DAY’S WATCH 1/27, Rasel 2/23. with Rony, the eventual man of the Sony Six match blasting 85 o 63 balls. Later the Body Line Academy NBA 2013 14 Naryanganj based academy bowled their 113/10 in 18.3 overs (Rana 8, Pappu 3, 5:30AM opponents out for 113 with Rony claiming Tomal 0, Antu 1, Ali 21, Milon 8, Tarek 1, Boston v New York 4/19 and Ashraful 3/16. Rasel’s 54 gave Rasel 54, Nazrul 0, Khairul 4, Azim 11. 8:30AM some decency to the Body Line’s total. Masum 2/6, Rony 4/19, Ashraful 3/16) LA Clippers v Golden State The tournament was the brain child Result of former national cricketers Habibul Clemon Naryanganj Cricket Academy captain Sharif receives the 4H Group Cricket trophy from the chairman of the 4H Group Mamunur Ten Cricket Clemon NCA won by 40 runs Bashar, Sanwar Hossain, Javed Omar Rashid Chowdhury at the City Club Ground yesterday COURTESY 12:15PM West Indies v England 3rd T20 Ten Sports Ispahani Corporate Badminton starts today Uefa Europa League, R 16 try starts at the O cer’s Club today. (two teams), Bando Design, Eastern 12:00AM The participating teams are Ispahani Bank, GPIT, Brac Bank Limited, ULAB, Ludogorets v Valencia The 2nd Ispahani Corporate Badminton group, Securex, Banglalink, bkash, Hol- Intersto and O cers Club Limited. 2:00AM Grand Slam with the participation of 19 cim, City Schools Limited, Kazi Farms It’s the second consecutive year Juventus v Fiorentina renowned corporate houses of the coun- Limited, Pioneer Insurance, Qubee Ispahani Group has stepped up to spon- 4:00AM sor the tournament. Dhaka Tribune is Indian Wells 2014 the newspaper partner, SATV is the TV Quarter Finals partner, Colors FM is the radio partner while Design Matra will be working as Ten Action the PR partner. O cers Club are the UEFA Europa League, R 16 venue partners in the tournament or- 12:00AM ganised by Excalibur Entertainment. Porto v Napoli The total of 100 shuttlers will be tak- 2:00AM ing part across the four events - men’s Tottenham v Ben ca and women’s singles, men’s doubles and mixed doubles. Ten HD Head of marketing of Ispahani Group UEFA Europa League, R 16 Ismail Hossain said pepped up by the 12:00AM response of the last year’s edition his Basel v Salzburg company decided to continue the 2:00AM sponsorship. Excalibur Entertainment Dell, the champions of the Smart Cricket League celebrate their triumph with the chief Sevilla v Real Betis Ismail Hossain, the head of marketing of Ispahani Group speaks at the press conference of chief executive o cer Farhan Quddus guest state minister for telecommunications Junaed Ahmed Palak at the Kalabagan Club Corporate Badminton yesterday COURTESY was also present on the occasion. l ground recently COURTESY 16 DHAKA TRIBUNE Back Page Thursday, March 13, 2014 Fake cancer hospital busted in capital, two jailed n Kailash Sarkar A mobile court yesterday busted and sealed o a fake cancer hospital run by a number of doctors, o cials and employees of the National Institute of Cancer Research and Hospital (NICRH) and Directorate General of Health Ser- vices (DGHS) in Mohakhali of the cap- ital. The court also sentenced two em- ployees of the hospital named ‘Doc- tors’ Chamber’ to two years in prison and  ned them Tk2 lakh each. In de- fault, they would have to su er anoth- er three months in jail. Convicts Beauty Begum, 38, and Shahadat Hossain, 24, were sent to jail while a total of 12 patients, who had been undergoing treatment at the hos- pital, were admitted to the NICRH for into getting admitted at the hospital, proper treatment. saying the service o ered would cure Patients lie in bed at a makeshift The convicts said a person their cancer rapidly. illegal cancer hospital busted named Tayabur Rahman, along with Executive magistrate AHM Anwar yesterday by a mobile court Mahbub-ul-Alam and Nayan Hasan, Pasha who led the mobile court told at Mohakhali. Right, a patient had been running the hospital with the Dhaka Tribune: “During primary the assistance of two NICRH doctors interrogation, convicts Shahadat and assisted by a relative leaves the Golam Mostofa and ARM Ra qul Beauty admitted that some unscrupu- fake hospital after the RAB drive MAHMUD HOSSAIN OPU HOSSAIN MAHMUD Islam. The mobile court found lous NICRH and DGHS sta teamed up prescriptions and other documents to run the hospital.” tory to operate a 20-bed hospital, but that showed involvement of the two The magistrate said during the the hospital, with only four cabins and Karim, Nur Begum, Md Golam me to get admitted to ‘Doctor’s Cham- asked to purchase medicines from with the hospital. drive, they had found Beauty, having 18 beds, had no doctor, technician or Mostofa, Parul Akhter, Jahanara ber’, saying there was no vacant seat at ‘Mayer Doa’ medicine shop located on The convicts also disclosed that no expertise or training, applying che- nurse.” Begum, Bul Hossain, Altaf Hossain NICRH at the time.” the ground  oor of the building”, said Mahbub Alam, a leader of the ward motherapy to patients. He said after the hospital was and Kashem Miah. “I’ve been taking treatment here for Kabir. “In the last 30 days, my expense boys at the NICRH and Abul Hasan, a “The hospital neither had any reg- sealed off, all 12 patients were shifted Speaking about the fake hospital, the last one month. The doctors would stood at Tk 30,000.” stenographer at the DGHS, were the istration nor any doctor”, said Pasha, to the NICRH. They were identiied patient Kabir Hossain of Jhalakathi visit me twice a day in exchange for Tk Major Md Asif Kuddus, a deputy di- key people of the fake institution. They adding: “At least three doctors, six as Lalu Miah, Abul Hashem, Kabir said: “I visited Dr ARM Ra qul Islam 2000 a day while I was charged Tk 300 rector of RAB-1, and Dr Yogesh Chandra said they would entice NICRH patients nurses and three cleaners are manda- Hossain, Maleka Begum, Abdul over a month ago but he suggested for seat rent per day. Besides, we were Roy accompanied the mobile court. l

70,000 workers Kidney Institute Hospital lags in become illegal Block 7 deal with transplant procedures in Oman Santos-Kris signed n Moniruzzaman Uzzal to run the institute and gain patients’ dialysis; while the costs for a kidney n Rabiul Islam n Aminur Rahman Rasel After participating in an internation- con dence. transplant was Tk3.5 lakh to Tk7 lakh al tender, Santos and Kris Energy ob- The National Institute of Kidney Dis- However, Professor Zamanul Islam and over 1 lakh taka was also needed At least 70,000 Bangladeshi migrant Bangladesh yesterday signed a deal with tained the exploration rights to block 11 ease and Urology (NIKDU) Hospital Bhuiyan, director of NIKDU, denied the annually for medicine. workers have become illegal in Oman a joint venture of Australia-based San- and ConocoPhillips got block 7. has been lagging behind in carrying allegation and said: “We are not getting Professor Dr Harun-Ur-Rashid, as they have  ed from their workplaces tos and Singapore-based Kris Energy to On February 17, Bangladesh signed out kidney transplant procedures, with enough donors for the transplant for chairman of Kidney Foundation Hos- without the permission of their spon- start oil and gas exploration in o shore two deals with India’s state-owned only 27 kidney transplant procedures the end-stage kidney failure patients.” pital and Research Institute, told the sors. shallow block 11 in the Bay of Bengal. ONGC Videsh Limited and Oil India taking place at the hospital since it was He said the number of kidney Dhaka Tribune that the government A four-member delegation led by The government and Petrobangla Limited to start oil and gas exploration established in 2001. transplants across the country had had enacted the human organ trans- Saleh Aayel Al Amri, adviser to the together signed the production-shar- in o shore shallow blocks 4 and 9. The number is a stark contrast to decreased since the illegal business plant act in 1999, but was yet to formu- Omani manpower ministry, disclosed ing contract (PSC). Yesterday during the signing with more than 100 kidney transplants be- of kidney transplant was exposed in late the rules and regulations. it at a joint committee meeting held at The contract period for the block is Santos and Kris, Finance Minister ing carried out during the last two years Joypurhat in 2011. Several cases were A national committee, formed fol- the expatriates’ welfare and overseas eight year, with the  rst  ve years for AMA Muhith, Prime Minister’s Advis- at the Kidney Foundation Hospital and lodged against specialist doctors, nurs- lowing the Joypurhat scandal in 2011 employment ministry in the city on initial exploration and the rest for sub- er Taw q-e-Elahi Chowdhury, State Research Institute and the Bangaband- es and locals who were involved with and headed by Dr Harun, prepared a Tuesday. sequent exploration. Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral hu Sheikh Mujib Medical University. the illegal practice, Zamanul added. set of rules and regulation and submit- Expatriates’ welfare secretary Khon- Santos and Kris Energy o ered to Resources Nasrul Hamid, and Energy Several kidney specialists told the Saying that relatives of kidney fail- ted it to the health ministry more than daker Showkat Hossain led the Bangla- invest $32m to conduct 2D seismic sur- and Mineral Resources Division Secre- Dhaka Tribune that chronic kidney dis- ure patients were afraid to donate their a year ago. However, the law ministry desh side at the third joint committee vey of 887 line-km, 3D seismic survey tary Md Mozammel Haque Khan were eases have emerged as a deadly threat kidneys, the NIKDU director added recommended that the rules be revised meeting. of 300sq-km and drill a well. The pro t present. to Bangladesh. that it would take more time to achieve before forming an updated act. A senior o cial of the ministry told share ratio of the government would be Senior Assistant Secretary for En- Around two crore people su er from the con dence of the patients. Dr Harun said the number of do- the Dhaka Tribune that the delegation 55%-80% for both gas and oil. ergy and Mineral Resources Division some sort of kidney disease, with 16%- He, however, admitted that it was nors had decreased because of legal at the meeting expressed concern as If the company goes into commer- Khadiza Naznin, Petrobangla Secretary 18% of those patients su ering from partially true that the number of trans- barriers. In order to save thousands of the rate of runaway workers was very cial operation, then Bapex will bear Imam Hossain, Secretary of Bangladesh chronic kidney disease. plants was low at the national institute, patients su ering from kidney failure, high. 10% of the total investment cost. Petroleum Exploration and Production Around 40,000 people reportedly but added that the NIKDU had been the government should launch a mass Bureau of Manpower, Employment “We will also sign a PSC for a shallow Company Limited (Bapex) Sawkat Os- die each year from chronic kidney dis- providing healthcare services to thou- awareness programme for the relatives and Training (BMET) Director General block with the US-based ConocoPhil- man, President of Santos Sangu Field eases, while 20,000-30,000 more pa- sands of kidney and urology patients in of brain-dead patients to donate their Begum Shamsun Nahar told the Dha- lips next month,” Petrobangla Chair- Limited Andrew De Garis, and General tients su er from acute kidney failure. its hospital. organs, he added. ka Tribune that the migrant workers man Hossain Monsur told the Dhaka Manager (Bangladesh) of Kris Energy The NIKDU o ers cabin, medicine With the existing situation persist- However, it was not possible under left their workplaces in search of better tribune yesterday. (Asia) Limited Edwin G Bowles signed and all medical investigation at the ing, Bangladesh will join the rest of the existing law, and new rules and reg- jobs that would pay more wages. Some- ConocoPhillips has o ered to invest the deals on behalf of their sides. hospital free of cost to all chronic kid- the world in celebrating World Kidney ulations needed to be formed, he also times they failed to recover migration $23.5m to conduct 2D seismic survey Muhith said: “We are giving ney failure patients, while patients Day 2014 today. The theme this year said. cost and left their original sponsors to of 2,347 line-km, 3D-seismic survey of importance to exploration for the reportedly need around Tk50,000 for is: “Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) and Professor Dr Ra qul Alam, president work elsewhere to earn more, she add- a 500sq-km area and drill one explo- energy sector as it has been the key to additional diagnostic tests that are not ageing.” of Renal Association of Bangladesh, ed. ration well in block 7. The pro t-shar- any development of the civilization. available at the hospital. On the other Professor MA Samad, president of told the Dhaka Tribune that the health The DG said Oman would not send ing ratio for the government would be We will continue e orts to achieve hand, patients require Tk3.5 lakh to Tk7 Kidney Awareness Monitoring and Pre- ministry should take necessary steps to back these Bangladeshi workers. l 55%-80% for both gas and oil. energy security.” l lakh for treatment at private hospitals. vention Society (KAMPS), said patients  nalise the rules and regulations of the The low costs, however, have failed who su er kidney failure had to live existing human organ transplant act of to encourage patients to seek service at on regular dialysis (haemodialysis or 1999. the national institute. peritoneal dialysis) or by transplanting The lack of rules was discourag- Operation of 6 fertiliser factories put Seeking anonymity, several kidney their kidney. ing potential donors, he said, and es- specialists told the Dhaka Tribune that He said patients had to spend timated that the number of kidney political intervention had prevented around Tk4-6 lakhs annually for hae- transplants had halved in the last three on hold to save power for T20 WC the appointment of the right person modialysis, Tk4-5 lakh for peritoneal years. l n Aminur Rahman Rasel tagong Urea Fertiliser Limited. The T-20 World Cup Cricket will be “We have no alternative but to shut held in Bangladesh from March 16 to The Petrobangla has decided to halt down the fertiliser factories for a cer- April 6. The seven fertiliser factories are operation in six fertiliser factories out tain period of time to ensure supply now being supplied 243 mmcfd of gas of seven except for Jamuna Fertilizer of gas to power plants,” Petrobangla against their demand for 289 mmcfd, Company Limited from tomorrow until Chairman Hossain Monsur said. according to the Petrobangla o cial. further notice. He said the decision was taken on KAFCO is a 100% export-oriented The decision was taken to increase the instruction of Prime Minister’s Ad- international joint venture company gas supply to power plants to ensure viser Taw q-e-Elahi Chowdhury and while the rest are state-owned. uninterrupted electricity supply for the State Minister for Power, Energy and Most of the sectors like industries, upcoming T-20 Cricket World Cup and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid. CNG stations, households, power ongoing Boro-irrigation. “We will be able to supply an addi- plants and fertiliser factories are now Petrobangla will suspend gas sup- tional 200mmcfd (million cubic feet facing gas crisis due to shortfall of over ply to Karnaphuli Fertiliser Company per day) of gas after halting operation 500mmcfd gas forcing Petrobangla to Limited (KAFCO), Asuganj Fertiliser in those six factories,” he said. go for rationing the fuel. and Chemical Company Limited, Urea KAFCO Corporate Planning Wing’s Currently, the CNG stations remain Fertiliser Factory Limited, Polash Urea Deputy General Manager Kamal Uddin closed for four hours every day with a Fertiliser Factory Limited, Natural Gas said if gas supply was suspended the com- gas supply of 110mmcfd against the de- Fertiliser Factory Limited and Chit- pany would count a daily loss in Tk5 crore. mand for 130 mmcfd. l

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B3 How China’s o cial bank B4 WeChat revolution: Chi- card is used to smuggle na’s ‘killer app’ speaks to money the masses THURSDAY, MARCH 13, 2014 www.dhakatribune.com/business Local food importers searching for Muhith: Risks remain in achieving 7.2% GDP new sources following Ukraine crisis target CHALLENGES WEIGHING ON GDP TARGET Wheat price jumps 15% following the trouble in the east European country n Asif Showkat Kallol n Kayes Sohel The country has some risks towards Worried over the ongoing crisis in achieving 7.2% GDP growth target in Ukraine, Bangladeshi importers are the current  scal year, Finance Minister Disrupted supply of fuel now searching for new sources across AMA Muhith told parliament yesterday. the globe to purchase food grains, most- He said the growth target would ly wheat, to meet the local demand. not be di cult to achieve if “the pri- Despite the peak season for import- vate sector investment was not ham- ing food grains from the troubled east pered by the destructive political pro- European country, all the advance sale grammes and the expected agricultural Hampered private o ers has almost been halted due to growth can be achieved.” sector expenditure the unrest. The minister mentioned as possible As a result, the country’s food grain risks that the insu cient fuel supply importers are not being able to place which could hurt a ect private sector any purchase order to import any prod- investment and the current negative uct from Ukraine.  ow of remittance which might restrict Bangladesh imports a large volume the expansion of private consumption Depressed agricultural output of wheat from Ukraine, which is up to expenditure. 30% of the total imported wheat while He was placing  rst quarter (Ju- quarter expenditure target was achieved. two other grains--oil seed and yellow ly-September) report on the implemen- The amount spent in the July-Sep- peas -- are also imported from Ukraine, tation of the current  scal budget. tember of last  scal was Tk28,638 crore. according to the importers. Revenue target also could not be For the current  scal, the total outlay “Now Ukrainian and Russian trad- achieved in the current  scal due to of budget was announced Tk222,483.15 ers are not o ering any advance sale,” A tractor makes pits next to a check point in Chongar, Ukraine blocking the entrance to Crimea recently. Spreading out from the road political instability and ongoing global crore. In  rst quarter, Tk25,826 crore said Abul Bashar Chowdhury, chair- by the checkpoint there is a perfect row of holes dug into the earth, each about half-a-metre wide, in what looked like the  rst steps recession, said AMA Muhith in reply to of revenue budget was spent, up 9.5% man of Masud & Brothers, a Chittagong of installing a border fence. Signs nearby warned of mines and were marked "Stop! Danger to Life!" with a skull-and-crossbones. In a question of Awami League MP Mus- from one year ago. based-company, which has long been Chongar, lives have paused lately due to fear of any possible violence AFP ta zur Rahman. The annual development pro- purchasing grains from Ukraine. The major challenge during the rest gramme (ADP) implementation rate in- Following Ukraine crisis, local im- in Ukraine are also rising as its farmers ing May rose by 6% to $6.38 a bushel on sia’s occupation of the Crimean region. of the  scal would be to boost private creased by 20.2% this year compared to porters are also fretted over rising pric- held back grain to protect themselves the Chicago Board of Trade–the biggest Commodity price moves up since sector investment and maintain mac- previous year’s  rst quarter. es of wheat, oil seed and yellow peas in against the country’s falling currency. rise for almost 18 months, according to Russia alarmed the Western world by roeconomic stability, he added. This  rst quarter, ADP expenditure the global market. “Almost all the deals are short-term, Mohammad Ali, another food import- stepping up its military presence in Muhith however said despite the amounted to Tk6,064 crore while it Since the beginning of the tension which badly hinders the  ow of trades, er at Imam Group. Corn for delivery in Crimea, a peninsula at Black Sea, but risks, the government had decided not to was Tk5,046 crore one year ago. in Ukraine, prices of wheat jumped by as they are not at all committed to main- May rose by up to 3.7% to a six-month mainly in the soft commodities of wheat revise down the economic growth target. In the quarter 1 this  scal, 10 big 15% to US$360 a tonne, yellow peas tain the supply chain now,” he said. high of $4.81, he said. and corn, where prices have in the past “The industrial development indi- ministries and divisions spent only rose to $410 a tonne from nearly $370 “Though it is the right time to pur- “Under the prevailing condition, we week risen 9% and 8% respectively. ces have already showed uptrend, and 14% of their allocation. These minis- and oil seed to $600 a tonne from $530, chase food grains, traders from both - are looking for new sources but it is re- According to the New Zealand based if it continues along with a good har- tries and divisions received 44.1% allo- according to the local importers. Russia and Ukraine - have almost halt- ally di cult for getting competitive al-  nancial service provider ANZ’s com- vest of Aman-Boro, GDP target could cation of total ADP oulay. Ukraine was the fourth biggest seller ed their o er. As a result, we are unable ternative sources especially for wheat modities desk, Russia and Ukraine - be attained.” Of them, Power Division spent 7%, of corn in last year and is set to be the to place any purchase order.” procurement.” long referred to as the bread basket of Earlier, the international Monetary Road Division 9% and Bridges Division sixth largest wheat supplier in 2014. Usually, exports from Ukraine and Bangladesh government, however, Europe - are forecast to export 26.5mn Fund had forecasted Bangladesh’s GDP 17.7%, Local Government Division 12.28% “As the global grain prices are peak- Russia begin in June-July, each year. has no contract with the Ukraine side tonnes of wheat in the 2013-14 market- to grow at 5.5% this  scal while the and Ministry of Primary Education 14%. ing up faster, we are now looking for But brokers normally start contacting on the wheat deal, according to food ing season, accounting for 17% of world World Bank projected 5.7%. The railway ministry spent 51%, the high- new sources for purchasing our prod- with the potential buyers well before department sources. supply. The total budget expenditure during est among others during the quarter. The ucts to meet the local demand,” said the period start (January-February) for Buyers across the globe are worried And in case of corn, Ukraine itself is the  rst quarter stood at Tk31,890 crore, country paid a total of Tk2,758 crore loans Chowdhury. advance sales. whether the Ukraine will keep up its large a top  ve corn producer, meeting about which was 11.4% more than the same in the  srt three months of the  scal. Last The prices of agricultural outputs Prices of wheat for delivery in com- exports of wheat and corn following Rus- 16% of global supply. l period last  scal. Only 14.3% of the  rst year’s quarter 1, it was Tk1,677 crore. l IMF review mission Citycell pays Tk26.5cr, due on March 19 BB to step up bank vault monitoring seeks more time for rest n Jebun Nesa Alo Sonali Bank’s decision to While talking with the Dhaka Tri- n Tribune Report bune, Pradip Kumar Dutta didn’t an- Bangladesh Bank has decided to launch step up security measures swer to the question if any additional A review mission of the International outstanding a massive monitoring to ensure securi- To install closed-circuit camera inside and security steps were taken after the Monetary Fund (IMF) will visit Dhaka n Muhammad Zahidul Islam tor issued a show cause notice to City- ty of bank vaults across the country. outside the vault and bank buildings; Kishorganj incidence in January. from March 19-26 under its Extended Cell asking why its license should not Actions will be taken against respec- To install security alarm system inside the Rather, he talked about the insurance Credit Facility (ECF) programme. Citycell, the country’s oldest mobile be cancelled following its failure to pay tive banks if the inspection teams  nd vault room in next 15 days; coverage of the vaults and relocation of O cials fear that the IMF mission is phone operator, has so far deposited Tk255.3 crore as dues. any breach of safety directives made by To build steel wall around the vault; branches as part of security e orts. coming to Dhaka to tag a condition for Tk26.5 crore, out of an outstanding BTRC had issued the notice under the central bank, it said. “Sonali Bankcancelled insurance To increase security manpower; slashing down the total subsidies un- amount of Tk249 crore, which has the Telecommunication Act asking the In the wake of two recent burglaries policy for its vault safetyafter the gov- der its ECF programme. been lying pending with the company operator to explain the matter within in Sonali Bank, the central bank came To appoint a retired army o cer for ernment’s instruction as premiums It also wanted to increase the price during the few quarters. 30 days. up with the decision at a meeting yes- monitoring security measures; were costing huge amounts to the of the gas and electricity before the The outstanding amount includes Later on, the mobile operator held terday held at its o ce in Dhaka. To warn all branches to ensure security. bank,’’ said Pradip Kumar Dutta said. budget of the next  scal year 2014-15. spectrum charges, revenue sharing meetings with the high-ups of the The bank inspection department of He said letter was to the government During the visit, three-member IMF and social obligation fund (SoF), 2G government and subsequently, the Bangladesh Bank will check vault safe- didn’t follow the central bank’s instruc- to revive insurance coverage, and the review mission led-by ECF mission license renewal fee and other unpaid Citycell got more time for paying the ty measures. tion on safety of depositors’ money matter had been discussed with Sadha- chief Rodrigo Cubero, is scheduled to dues. The unpaid amount has amount- dues for 2G renewal fees only if they The inspection will be conducted in kept at vaults despite repeated warn- ran Bima Corporation too. meet  nance minister AMA Muhith, ed to Tk255.3 crore including the late deposit the unpaid amount of the rev- addition to the department’s regular ings from Bangladesh Bank. As far as insurance coverage is con- Bangladesh Bank governor Atiur Rah- payment fees. enue sharing and other charges. inspection to  nancial activities of dif- Thus, the negligence in safety steps cerned, the insurance on the money man, and Chairman of National Board “On Monday last, we deposited some Citycell has claimed that they are ferent bank branches. had resulted in looting of depositors’ deposited at the vaults has to be cov- of Revenue Ghulam Hossain. money to the mobile regulator, exclud- yet to get the full spectrum, which "If any branch is found vulnerable money breaking into the bank vaults, ered completely. The mission will examine the ing the 2G license renewal fee and the BTRC allocated to them and that’s why and not complying with the Bangla- the central bank added. Sonali Bank MD said to ensure vault proposal of increasing energy price, late payment fee, seeking more time for they will not pay the full money for it. desh Bank directive on safety issue, pu- If Sonali Bank stepped up vault se- security they would need torelocate risk of budget management, reduce the the payment of the whole outstanding “BTRC allocated 10 Megahertz spec- nitive action will be taken," said Deputy curity after the Kishoreganj branch many branches and it involved a long subsidy of the Bangladesh Petroleum amounts,” Mehbub Chowdhury, Chief trum for us for 15 years but we are get- Governor SK Sur Chowdhury. heist, the following incident of same process. Corporation and appointment of the Executive O cer (CEO) of Citycell told ting only 6.5 Megahertz even after two Bangladesh Bank issued a circular kind at a Bogra branch of the bank “We have already begun it (reloca- foreign auditor and control of hard core the Dhaka Tribune yesterday. years,” a senior executive informed. on January 27 asking all the banks to could have been avoided, according to tion process). But for this interim pe- loans and development of the state- Citycell hopes that Bangladesh Tele- Citycell renewed its 2G license on take every necessary stepto ensure Bangladesh Bank. riod, we will have to increase securi- owned banks including the security of phone Regulatory Commission (BTRC) August 2012 and received the license their vaults’ safety. On Tuesday, the central bank served tyguards.” vaults. will give them more time to pay the to operation for the next 15 years. Following the burglary in Sonali a notice to Sonali Bank’s managing di- Under the structural security Those conditions will be examined rest of the dues including 2G license The op erator had 13.65 lakh sub- Bank’s Kishorganj branch, the circular rectorPradip Kumar Duttato let it know measures set by Bangladesh Bank, for the release of  fth tranche of loan, renewal fee and other dues. scribers till the end of December last was issued. what safety steps were taken after the banks are to set up security-tested according  nance ministry o cials. l On February 3, the telecom regula- year. l It mentioned that most of the banks Kishoreganj branch burglary.  B3 COLUMN 5 Diploma engineers to be Banks asked to pay Padma Cement wraps up business import bills on time n Kayes Sohel Padma Cement with proper documents It produced only port-land cement. entitled to proposed Tk100cr before March 21, 2014. The production capacity of the compa- n Tribune Report Padma Cement, a junk company listed Nobody from the company and its ny stood at 720 metric tonnes per day. on the Dhaka Stock Exchange, has de- liquidator M Moksadul Islam were The brand name of the product was entrepreneurship fund The scheduled commercial banks have cided to wrap up its business after in- available for comments even after “DOLPHIN.” n Tribune Report 1,000 new entrepreneurs within the been asked to pay the bills on maturity curring losses over the years. sending text messages. The DSE had In 2009, Bangladesh Securities and year 2015 will be also entitled to get  - of the import letter of credit (LC) they “The company is going to be wind- sent the stock to the OTC (over the Exchange Commission detected  nan- The diploma engineers who are inter- nance from the fund, said the governor. opened. They were also reminded of ing-up,” it said in a statement yester- counter market) in 2010 after its pro- cial statement anomalies and asked to ested to become small and medium en- The DCCI and Bangladesh Bank are the penalty applicable as per law in day. This is the  rst listed company in duction suspension. explain their position. trepreneurs will be entitled to the re - working to  nd out future entrepre- case of default in payment. Bangladesh to be winding up. Later, its land was rented out to AR During the year, the net operating nance fund of Tk100 crore Bangladesh neurs throughout the country. This Bangladesh Bank issued a circular Around nine years into its commer- Cement, but later in 2011 banks con s- loss was reduced to some extent but Bank decided to form for development project has created hype across the yesterday, asking the banks to comply cial operation since April 2001, the cated its land and sold to Deshband- the accumulated loss of the company of new entrepreneurs. country and DCCI gets huge response with the LC payment obligations amid company located at Baghabari in Sir- hu Cement. The company owed Tk40 as of September 30, 2008 stood at Tk26 Bangladesh Bank Governor Atiur especially from the young people. allegations that some banks were mak- ajganj has suspended its production. crore to banks. crore. Rahman made the announcement yes- “We formed some re nance fund ing unwanted delays in payment. The winding up of a company re- Since 2003, the company gave no div- Though the total assets of the com- terday at the Entrepreneurship Devel- for entrepreneurs with policy support. As a result, the image of the country’s quires the termination of legal exis- idend to its shareholders, but in listing pany was higher than that of total lia- opment Workshop arranged by Insti- There is a re nance fund of Tk600 crore. banks is being tarnished abroad as well tence through stopping its current year 2002 it announced dividend payout. bilities, the then existing liabilities of tute of Diploma Engineers, Bangladesh New entrepreneurs could take loan up to as imports are becoming expensive due business. For this reason the assets of Incorporated in 1998 as a private the company was more than Tk11 crore (IDEB) in Dhaka. Recently, Dhaka Cham- Tk50 lakh from the fund. Under the re - to increased interest and foreign bank the company will be distributed among limited company, it subsequently con- against assets of Tk3.7 crore. ber of Commerce and Industry (DCCI) nance fund of SME sector, 15% has been con rmation charges, said the circular. the shareholders as well as creditors as verted into public limited company These factors raised question as to took a project of developing 2,000 new dedicated for the women,” Atiur said. “The increased import costs due to laid down in the company act. with an authorised capital of Tk30 whether the company will be able to entrepreneurs while Bangladesh Bank BB has another re nance fund of this type of irregularity directly a ect The company asked its sharehold- crore. After completion of its IPO the continue as a going concern in the near supporting with the re nance fund. Tk200 crore for agricultural products the prices of goods, which hampers the ers to contact with o cial liquidator of paid up capital stood at Tk 27.6 crore. future. l The IDEB project that aims to make and green banking, he said. l public interest,” it said. l B2 DHAKA TRIBUNE Stock Thursday, March 13, 2014

DSE GAINERS DSE key features Aver- Closing (% Closing Turnover Latest Latest Company age (% Closing Daily high Daily low March 12, 2014 change) average in million EPS PE change) Stocks stay  at Turnover 4,507.60 Samorita Hospital -A 9.94 9.28 103.98 105.10 105.10 92.00 24.272 2.74 37.9 (Million Taka) Eastern Cables-Z 9.83 11.30 149.92 150.90 151.10 143.30 16.356 1.40 107.1 Hakkani P& Paper -B 9.60 7.76 32.51 33.10 33.20 31.00 2.715 0.28 116.1 Turnover 73,205,749 Apex SpinningA 9.21 8.64 102.88 104.30 105.00 98.00 17.449 1.85 55.6 (Volume) Standard Ceramic -A 7.94 6.39 49.65 50.30 51.10 43.00 1.317 1.06 46.8 with persisting Republic Insu.-A 6.78 6.14 45.48 45.70 47.00 40.00 16.720 3.03 15.0 Number of Contract 99,169 Monno Ceramic -B 6.23 5.66 36.00 35.80 36.60 31.00 7.842 0.38 94.7 Samata LeatheR -Z 6.07 7.29 30.04 29.70 30.80 29.00 0.826 -0.04 -ve Traded Issues 289 Anlima Yarn -A 5.69 6.23 26.07 26.00 27.00 23.00 3.053 0.80 32.6 volatility Eastern InsurA 5.64 4.69 40.88 41.20 42.50 37.00 1.683 2.60 15.7 Issue Gain 469 (Avg. Price Basis) CSE GAINERS Aver- Tribune Report crore, recovering well from previ- Closing (% Closing Turnover Latest Latest n Company age (% Closing Daily high Daily low ous session’s two month low turn- Issue Loss 110 change) average in million EPS PE change) Stocks closed flat further with over and was 34% higher over the (Avg. Price Basis) Eastern Cables-Z 9.94 9.52 147.42 149.30 149.30 142.00 0.486 1.40 105.3 persisting volatility yesterday as previous session. Unchanged Issue (Avg. Apex SpinningA 9.69 7.61 103.61 106.40 98.10 103.00 0.166 1.85 56.0 late selling pressure mainly on “Coupled with ongoing volatili- 10 Price Basis) Samorita Hospital -A 9.27 9.72 103.69 103.70 104.30 100.00 1.452 2.74 37.8 banks and textiles issues cut early ty and apparent lack of directions, Hakkani P& Paper -B 7.67 7.52 32.30 32.30 33.00 30.10 0.598 0.28 115.4 gains. market continued mimicking last Market Capital Equity 2,304.53 Kay & Que (BD) -Z 7.43 8.60 18.95 18.80 19.00 18.80 0.038 -0.89 -ve Although the market began the several sessions. Resultantly, the (Billion. Tk.) Aziz PipesZ 7.33 7.33 20.50 20.50 20.50 20.50 0.010 0.59 34.7 session on a positive note but lat- bourse ended  at once more time, Samata LeatheR -Z 7.14 7.00 29.96 30.00 30.80 28.60 0.375 -0.04 -ve er it saw a downward movement approaching the same scenario for Market Capital Equity 27.93 CVO PetroChem RLZ 7.11 5.70 887.91 889.00 892.00 885.00 1.021 -4.06 -ve especially in the last 90 minutes of eighth session,” said IDLC Invest- Standard Ceramic -A 7.10 7.84 49.77 49.80 49.90 49.50 0.075 1.06 47.0 (Billion US$) Republic Insu.-A 6.50 6.08 45.72 45.90 46.30 43.80 0.297 3.03 15.1 trade. ment in its daily market analysis. After rising around 20 points, Marginal selling pressure in the benchmark DSEX was down 12 some mid cap scrips, especially points or 0.3% to close at 4,660, bank sector, pulled down the mar- after edging higher in the previous ket at the later part of trading, it session. It is its lowest since Janu- said. ary 22 this year. Among other major sectors, tele- Shariah Index, DSES, gained communications had the highest marginally over 3 points or 0.4% gain of 0.8%, followed by power to 1,015. The blue-chip comprising 0.5% and pharmaceuticals 0.5%. DS30 ended at 1,681 with fractional Financial institutions and food and rise of 0.6 points. allied sectors closed almost  at Chittagong Stock Exchange Se- with no signi cant movement. lective Category Index, CSCX, fell Padma Oil continued to top 37 points to close at 9,099. turnover leader with shares worth Heavyweight banks were down Tk44 crore changing hands, fol- by 1.7%, led by United Commercial lowed by Bangladesh Shipping Bank that dropped almost 10% due Corporation, Meghna Petroleum, to adjustment of its cash dividend. Square Pharmaceuticals, Olympic CSE key features Textile sector also lost its luster Industries, Bangladesh Submarine with a loss of 1.2%. Cable, Grameenphone and Singer March 12, 2014 News, analysis and recent disclosers Turnover at DSE stood at Tk450 Bangladesh. l Turnover (Million Taka) 405.95 PRIMEINSUR: The Company has informed RUPALILIFE: Subscription 06.04.2014 to 08.04.2014, Record Date for EGM and Turnover (Volume) 7,114,046 that the Board of Directors of the Company 05.05.2014. Record date for entitlement of AGM: 18.03.2014. Daily capital market highlights Number of Contract 14,918 has approved to purchase  oor space rights share: 16.01.2014. BRACBANK: Subscrip- BANKASIA: 10% stock, AGM: 31.03.2014, measuring gross  oor area of 4,236 sft. tion 20.04.2014 to 15.05.2014. Record date Record date: 16.03.2014. DSE Broad Index : 4660.52575 (-) 0.26% ▲ Traded Issues 226 along with 2 car parking spaces at Unique for entitlement of rights share: 10.02.2014. ULC: 5% cash & 10% stock, AGM: Heights (10th  oor), 117, Kazi Nazrul Islam GENNEXT: Subscription 18.03.2014 to 10.04.2014, Record date: 18.03.2014. Issue Gain 129 Avenue, Ramna, Dhaka at a total cost of Tk. 09.04.2014, Record date: 25.02.2014. PRIMEBANK: 12.50% cash, 30.03.2014, DSE Shariah Index : 1015.15777 (+) 0.34% ▲ (Avg. Price Basis) 5,30,30,656.00 only. Record date: 13.03.2014. Issue Loss 92 REPUBLIC: As per Regulation 30 of DSE IPO Subscription: Far Chemical Industries UNIONCAP: 10% stock, AGM: 31.03.2014, DSE - 30 Index : 1681.76077 (+) 0.03% ▲ (Avg. Price Basis) Listing Regulations, the Company has Limited subscription date 1016 February Record date: 13.03.2014. informed that a meeting of the Board of 2014, NRB upto 25 March 2014. At per, SOUTHEASTB: 16% cash and 5% stock, Unchanged Issue (Avg. 4 Directors will be held on March 16, 2014 at face value taka 10 and market lot 500. The AGM: 31.03.2014, RD: 13.03.2014. CSE All Share Index: 14441.7696 (-) 0.23% ▼ Price Basis) 3:30 PM to consider, among others, audited Peninsula Chittagong Limited subscription DUTCHBANGL: 40% cash dividend for the Market Capital Equity 2,202.87  nancial statements of the Company for the date 30 March-03 April 2014, NRB upto General Public Shareholders and Foreign 12225.2691 (-) 0.41% CSE - 30 Index : ▼ (Billion. Tk.) year ended on December 31, 2013. 12 April 2014. @ taka 30, face value taka 10 Sponsors/Shareholders, AGM: 30.03.2014, and market lot 200. Shahjibazar Power RD: 13.03.2014. Market Capital Equity 26.70 9099.6542 (-) 0.41% ▼ From BIASL Desk: Co. Limited subscription date 0604 April LAFSURCEML: No dividend, AGM: CSE Selected Index : (Billion US$) Price Correction after Record Day: 2014, NRB upto 19 April 2014. @ taka 25, 10.06.2014, RD: 07.04.2014. BRACBANK’s price correction was 14.98% face value taka 10 and market lot 200. UTTARAFIN: 30% cash, AGM: 30.04.2014, DSE LOSERS (taka 4.30) against 10% cash and 10% stock Record date: 12.03.2014. Aver- Closing (% Closing Turnover Latest Latest Dividend (1+2.87=taka 3.87 per share ap- Dividend/AGM EBL: 20% cash, AGM: 31.03.2014, RD: Company age (% Closing Daily high Daily low change) average in million EPS PE change) prox.). After record day restated EPS is taka ARAMITCEM: 10% cash, AGM: 10.04.2014, 11.03.2014. UCBL - A -9.82 -8.92 25.13 24.80 26.70 24.80 60.001 3.66 6.9 2.91 and NAV per share is taka 25.80. Record Date: 20.03.2014. PRIMEFIN: 15% cash, AGM: 30.03.2014, Eastern Bank - A -8.77 -9.44 28.12 28.10 28.80 27.90 5.258 4.15 6.8 MTBL: 10% stock, AGM: 10.04.2014, RD: 11.03.2014. Midas Financing-Z -7.57 -7.43 29.42 29.30 29.30 28.70 0.071 -5.96 -ve RIGHT SHARE: Record date: 20.03.2014. UCBL: 20% cash, AGM: 17.04.2014, RD: EBL NRB M.F.-A -6.33 -3.80 7.60 7.40 7.50 7.40 0.019 0.44 17.3 ARAMITCEM: Subscription 23.03.2014 to SAFKOSPINN: 10% stock, AGM: 11.03.2014. Prime Finance-A -4.92 -3.95 23.59 23.20 24.20 22.00 18.554 1.10 21.4 17.04.2014. Record date for entitlement of 12.04.2014, Record Date: 20.03.2014. PUBALIBANK: 10% stock, AGM: Envoy Textiles Ltd-N -3.91 -2.56 52.57 51.60 54.00 50.00 33.585 1.12 46.9 rights share: 09.01.2014. UNIQUEHRL: 25% cash, EGM and AGM: 25.03.2014, RD: 10.03.2014. Northern G Insur-A -3.85 -2.84 45.58 45.00 47.00 42.20 2.910 3.04 15.0 Mithun Knitting -A -3.84 0.34 100.53 97.70 105.00 93.00 37.420 2.42 41.5 AB Bank - A -3.81 -0.74 28.24 27.80 29.00 26.50 10.870 1.65 17.1

CSE LOSERS Aver- Closing (% Closing Turnover Latest Latest Company age (% Closing Daily high Daily low change) average in million EPS PE change) Eastern Bank - A -9.94 -9.23 28.33 28.10 29.00 28.10 0.193 4.15 6.8 UCBL - A -9.78 -8.80 25.19 24.90 26.60 24.90 19.712 3.66 6.9 Islami Ins.BDA -9.37 -9.31 30.00 30.00 30.00 30.00 0.030 1.60 18.8 Sa o Spinning-A -5.23 -5.07 29.03 29.00 29.20 29.00 0.784 1.14 25.5 Prime Islami Life -A -5.00 -2.52 112.10 112.10 112.10 112.10 0.011 4.95 22.6 IFIC Bank - A -4.49 -3.36 32.18 31.90 32.80 31.80 1.766 4.33 7.4 Prime Finance-A -4.49 -6.15 23.64 23.40 24.00 23.30 2.630 1.10 21.5 PragatiLife Insu. -A -4.41 -4.08 229.50 229.50 229.50 229.50 0.115 2.38 96.4 AB Bank - A -3.46 -0.07 28.12 27.90 29.40 27.70 0.885 1.65 17.0

Marginal selling pressure in some mid cap scrips, especially bank DSE TURNOVER LEADERS Volume Value in % of total Daily Price Daily Daily Daily Daily ANALYST Company sector, pulled down the market at shares million turnover closing change opening high low average Padma Oil Co. -A 1,297,637 448.32 9.95 349.30 3.53 337.40 350.00 308.50 345.49 BSCA 362,075 230.88 5.12 638.75 2.57 622.75 644.75 623.00 637.66 the later part of trading Meghna Petroleum -A 740,033 213.56 4.74 287.70 0.74 285.60 292.00 260.90 288.58 Square Pharma -A 714,993 206.08 4.57 288.20 1.09 285.10 294.00 278.30 288.23 Olympic Ind. -A 713,391 159.13 3.53 223.20 1.50 219.90 225.70 205.00 223.06 BD Submarine Cable-A 620,318 137.61 3.05 221.40 1.56 218.00 227.00 200.00 221.83 Grameenphone-A SECTORAL TURNOVER SUMMARY 591,441 126.93 2.82 214.30 0.70 212.80 216.60 202.00 214.61 Singer BD -A 548,287 121.64 2.70 223.20 4.15 214.30 225.50 214.30 221.85 DSE CSE Total Sector Jamuna Oil -A 514,000 121.01 2.68 235.10 0.94 232.90 236.60 225.00 235.43 Million Taka % change Million Taka % change Million Taka % change LafargeS Cement-Z 2,450,080 115.47 2.56 47.70 4.15 45.80 48.00 45.10 47.13 Bank 398.54 8.84 40.70 9.85 439.24 8.93 Southeast Bank-A 4,915,417 108.47 2.41 21.90 -2.67 22.50 22.50 20.50 22.07 NBFI 153.65 3.41 12.29 2.97 165.94 3.37 Square Textile -A 803,767 92.51 2.05 113.90 -1.98 116.20 117.80 108.00 115.10 Investment 73.52 1.63 3.48 0.84 77.00 1.56 Delta Life Insu. -A 352,050 90.74 2.01 256.30 -0.93 258.70 261.40 255.90 257.76 Engineering 447.35 9.92 28.14 6.81 475.49 9.66 UCBL - A 2,387,378 60.00 1.33 24.80 -9.82 27.50 26.70 24.80 25.13 Food & Allied 288.67 6.40 25.69 6.22 314.36 6.39 LankaBangla Fin. -A 798,414 51.22 1.14 64.10 3.39 62.00 65.60 56.00 64.15 Fuel & Power 968.05 21.48 71.34 17.27 1039.39 21.12 Jute 8.86 0.20 0.00 8.86 0.18 CSE TURNOVER LEADERS Textile 430.38 9.55 36.00 8.71 466.38 9.48 Volume Value in % of total Daily Price Daily Daily Daily Daily Company Pharma & Chemical 443.71 9.84 52.51 12.71 496.22 10.08 shares million turnover closing change opening high low average Paper & Packaging 2.72 0.06 3.01 0.73 5.72 0.12 BSCA 65,840 41.96 10.37 639.00 2.93 620.80 646.00 622.00 637.30 Service 36.41 0.81 3.17 0.77 39.58 0.80 Padma Oil Co. -A 116,505 40.35 9.97 349.80 3.71 337.30 350.40 341.00 346.33 Leather 85.43 1.90 7.98 1.93 93.41 1.90 Square Pharma -A 83,448 24.02 5.94 288.50 1.02 285.60 289.30 285.50 287.87 Ceramic 22.13 0.49 2.79 0.68 24.92 0.51 BD Submarine Cable-A 103,700 23.01 5.69 221.90 1.56 218.50 225.30 212.00 221.93 Cement 227.42 5.05 18.86 4.57 246.28 5.00 UCBL - A 782,662 19.71 4.87 24.90 -9.78 27.60 26.60 24.90 25.19 Information Technology 31.88 0.71 3.58 0.87 35.46 0.72 Square Textile -A 109,400 12.68 3.13 114.10 -1.64 116.00 117.50 113.00 115.91 General Insurance 78.12 1.73 2.21 0.53 80.32 1.63 LafargeS Cement-Z 249,000 11.73 2.90 47.50 3.49 45.90 47.90 46.00 47.11 Life Insurance 205.46 4.56 8.83 2.14 214.29 4.35 Jamuna Oil -A 47,953 11.31 2.79 235.90 1.46 232.50 237.80 234.00 235.89 Telecom 264.54 5.87 31.09 7.52 295.62 6.01 Beach Hatchery -A 309,296 9.81 2.42 31.70 5.67 30.00 32.30 30.20 31.72 Travel & Leisure 48.07 1.07 7.35 1.78 55.42 1.13 Singer BD -A 42,812 9.50 2.35 222.20 3.45 214.80 226.00 215.00 221.98 Miscellaneous 292.02 6.48 54.12 13.10 346.13 7.03 BEXIMCO Ltd. -A 252,488 8.23 2.03 32.30 -0.62 32.50 33.10 32.20 32.61 Debenture 0.71 0.02 0.04 0.01 0.75 0.02 Grameenphone-A 37,600 8.07 1.99 214.40 0.70 212.90 216.50 213.70 214.70 Beximco Pharma -A 148,945 7.84 1.94 52.00 -1.70 52.90 53.50 51.10 52.60 Prepared exclusively for Dhaka Tribune by Business Information Automation Service Line (BIASL), on the basis of information collected from daily stock quotations and Meghna Petroleum -A 24,243 7.00 1.73 288.30 1.12 285.10 292.00 286.00 288.72 audited reports of the listed companies. High level of caution has been taken to collect and present the above information and data. The publisher will not take any responsibility if any body uses this information and data for his/her investment decision. For any query please email to [email protected] or call 01552153562 or go to www.biasl.net Delta Life Insu. -A 26,850 6.93 1.71 256.80 -1.12 259.70 261.30 255.60 258.01 DHAKA TRIBUNE Business Thursday, March 13, 2014 B3 How China’s o cial bank card is used to smuggle money n Reuters, Macau former president, Xu Luode. They de- dering, Yan says, “but it’s a major tool.” clined requests to be interviewed. Macau is a prime gateway for this Growing numbers of Chinese are us- UnionPay dominates the card mar- activity. It is the only place in China ing the country’s state-backed bank- ket in China thanks to a central bank where casino gambling is legal, and so cards to illegally spirit billions of dol- decree that requires all card issuers, Chinese gamblers bring vast sums of lars abroad, a Reuters examination has including foreign ones, to process money here. Because Macau is admin- found. their yuan-based transactions through istered separately from the mainland, This underground money is  ow- UnionPay’s electronic payment net- there are restrictions on how much ing across the border into the gambling work. All Chinese merchants and au- currency mainland Chinese can take hub of Macau, a former Portuguese col- tomated teller machines are required into the gambling haven. But gamblers ony that like Hong Kong is an autono- to process their yuan transactions  nd ways of skirting currency controls mous region of China. And the conduit through UnionPay. The World Trade when they cross into Macau. And much for the cash is the Chinese government- Organization in July 2012 ruled that of the money these mainlanders osten- supported payment card network, Chi- China was discriminating against for- sibly take to Macau for gambling, Chi- na UnionPay. eign card brands, but it made no spe- nese authorities believe, is actually go- In a warren of gritty streets around ci c recommendations. Foreign card ing abroad into bank accounts. Macau’s ritzy casino resorts, hundreds brands still have to use UnionPay for Any steps to clamp down on Union- of neon-lit jeweler, watch and pawn settlements in China. Pay cashback transactions would shops are doing a brisk business giving UnionPay’s increasing use overseas likely rattle Macau, because the cash mainland Chinese customers cash by is part of Beijing’s multi-pronged strat- also feeds the casino sector on which allowing them to use UnionPay cards to egy to eventually open up China’s capi- the territory’s $43.6bn economy over- make fake purchases - a way of evading tal account and internationalize the whelmingly depends. Macau is now China’s strict currency-export controls. yuan, which is formally known as the the world’s biggest gambling hub, with On a recent day at the Choi Seng renminbi or yuan. Beijing also eased revenues seven times those of Las Ve- Jeweler and Watches company, a mid- restrictions on many kinds of capital gas. Last year, gambling revenue rose dle-aged woman strode to the coun- transfers as it gradually loosens up con- 19% to $45.2bn. Nearly 40% of that ter past dusty shelves of watches. She ties also fear the UnionPay conduit legally into Macau. Tam Chi Keong, an become one of the biggest card brands trol over the currency, making it easier went to the government in taxes. handed the clerk her UnionPay card is being used by corrupt o cials and assistant professor at the Macau Uni- and payment networks in the world, for money to leave China’s borders. Beijing is particularly concerned and received HK$300,000 ($50,000) in business people to send money out of versity of Science and Technology, puts accepted in 142 countries. There are The e orts have paid dividends. The about the role of this capital  ight in cash. She signed a credit card receipt the country. the total at HK$1.57tn ($202bn) a year more UnionPay cards in circulation renminbi has already overtaken the the country’s endemic government describing the transaction as a “general It’s unclear why the central bank, the through various channels.. Tam says now than any other brand - 3.53 billion, euro to become the second-most used corruption scandals. An internal re- sale”, stu ed the cash into her handbag Peoples Bank of China (PBOC), hasn’t his estimate is based on his analysis of or nearly a quarter of the world’s total, currency in trade  nance, according to search report in 2008 by the PBOC and strolled over to the Ponte 16 casino cracked down harder on the practice, Macau’s  nances and interviews with according to the industry newsletter, data from global transaction services identi ed UnionPay cards as one of the next door. although the documents Reuters re- gambling industry participants. the Nilson Report. Visa remains the organization SWIFT. main tools for corrupt individuals to fa- The withdrawal far exceeded the viewed show the bank was aware it had A senior UnionPay executive said world leader by transaction value with “(China) may be happy to see Union- cilitate cross-border transfer of funds. daily limit of 20,000 yuan, or $3,200, become a growing problem. the Shanghai-based company has long $4.6tn in card transactions in the  rst Pay sweeping di erent markets across The central bank report said the prac- in cash that individual Chinese can le- Industry experts point to a weak been aware of the payment card abuse half of 2013; UnionPay was second with the world in di erent countries and tice was growing rapidly. gally move out of the mainland. “Don’t enforcement culture in China, a reluc- in Macau and elsewhere, but was lim- $2.5tn. territories,” said Yan Lixin, head of Many card users follow their money worry,” said a store clerk when asked tance to hurt Macau  nancially with 80 ited in its ability to act. That’s because If UnionPay poses a problem for Fudan University’s China Centre for abroad. Since the mid-1990s, an esti- about the legality of the transaction. percent of the city’s revenues drawn the primary responsibility lies with au- Chinese authorities, it is a problem of Anti-Money Laundering Studies in mated 16,000 to 18,000 Communist “Everyone does this.” from gambling, and a willingness to thorities in Macau or any other country their own making. The card brand is Shanghai. “It is backed up by the gov- party o cials, businessmen, CEOs and Internal discussion documents tolerate some capital  ight - especially where the fraud is taking place, he said. often seen as an arm of Chinese state ernment. It is the real son of the gov- other individuals have “disappeared” prepared by UnionPay and by  nan- if it can be tracked through names on “The problem you are talking about policy. ernment.” from China, according to a separate cial authorities in Macau and China bank cards. Moreover, the rapid growth has existed for several years,” said the UnionPay was established in 2002 At the same time, these changes PBOC report prepared in 2008 - taking show these fake sale cash-backs are of UnionPay, including the spread of executive, who spoke on condition of by the PBOC and the State Council or have vastly complicated the compli- with them some 800bn yuan ($133bn). widespread in such retail stores. The its terminals at retail stores across the anonymity. “We have continuously Cabinet. Its founding shareholders ance challenges for UnionPay. While But the practice isn’t limited to cor- practice violates China’s anti-money- world, is playing a key role in China’s taken measures.” were 85 Chinese banks, led by the  ve the card system is helping monetary rupt o cials. The ubiquitous UnionPay laundering regulations as well as re- strategy for making the yuan a global biggest state-owned banks. Former authorities open up the capital account, card, with its instant access to piles of strictions on currency exports, accord- currency. The government’s son senior PBOC o cials still  ll the com- it is also enabling people to funnel their cash, has made the task of whisking ing to Chinese central bank documents No one knows for sure how much Though relatively unknown in the pany’s top ranks, including UnionPay’s ill-gotten gains out of China, said Yan. money out of China far easier for ordi- reviewed by Reuters. Chinese authori- Chinese money is being channeled il- West, UnionPay has quietly grown to current chairman, Su Ning, and its “It’s not the only tool” for money laun- nary Chinese. l Dollar weakens Japan  rms raise wages as consumers prepare for tax hike in Asian trade n AFP, Tokyo Among other  rms raising wages cycle - bigger pro ts leading to bigger n AFP, Tokyo were Nissan, Panasonic, Hitachi and investment, pay hikes..and better eco- Major Japanese  rms, including Toyota Toshiba. nomic sentiment, which then leads to The dollar softened against the yen in and Panasonic, yesterday said they The focus would now shift from even larger corporate earnings,” he said. light Tokyo trade Wednesday, following would boost employees’ salaries for the blue-chip  rms to see if small and mid- “This year’s labour negotiations the Bank of Japan’s decision to stand pat  rst time in years, heeding a call from sized companies, which employ the focused more on that macro point of on any fresh monetary easing measures. the prime minister ahead of a sales tax bulk of Japanese workers, follow the view.” The greenback stood at 102.87 yen, rise next month. lead on pay. But concerns gathered pace this from 102.94 yen in New York and well The deal came as companies wrap The seemingly small wage hikes are week as revised growth data showed down from the 103.30 yen seen in To- up annual labour talks known as Shun- a major development in a country that the world’s third-largest economy ex- kyo Tuesday. to, or the “spring o ensive”. has su ered de ation for years, with panded at a slower pace than initially And the euro was at 142.68 yen The usually low-key negotiations consumers rarely facing higher prices thought last year. against 142.73 yen in US trade, also were being closely watched to see if for everyday goods. Yesterday, a key consumer con - sharply lower than 143.30 yen earlier cash-rich  rms would put more mon- Abe’s growth blitz, dubbed Abe- dence indicator dropped in February, Tuesday in Asia. The single currency ey in workers’ pockets, amid worries nomics, is aimed at reversing falling with the data likely to stoke further bought $1.3853 against $1.3863. about the tax hike slamming the brakes prices and recent data suggest Tokyo concerns about spending. Bank of Japan governor Haruhiko on growth. is making headway in stoking lasting “Any recovery in consumer con - Kuroda said he saw “no need for now to Japan’s car sector was a key target, in ation, which would mean higher dence ... will be strongly dependent make adjustments to monetary policy” with all eyes on the world’s biggest au- prices. on an acceleration in wage growth,” after a two-day meeting. tomaker Toyota which - along with oth- Consumers are also getting set for London-based Capital Economics said. “It was kind of expected but it is a er exporters - posted big pro ts on the a sales tax rise to 8% next month, up Japan’s number-two automaker Nis- con rmation from him that additional back of sharply weaker yen since Prime from 5%. The move is seen as crucial to san said its employees would get 3,500 easing is not imminent,” a senior dealer Minister Shinzo Abe swept to power in shrinking Japan’s massive national debt, Workers assemble the front bumper of Toyota's Aqua compact hybrid vehicle on the yen more a month, and a bonus worth at a major bank in Tokyo said. late 2012. but there are fears it could weigh on assembly line of the Kanto Auto Works plant in Kanegasaki, Iwate prefecture, about 5.6 months of regular pay. However, analysts expect the bank Toyota said it would raise employ- consumer spending and slow growth. 500km north of Tokyo AFP The electronics sector, hammered is holding back until it can assess the ees’ pay by an average of 2,700 yen Threat of intervention by losses in recent years, also moved impact of a sales tax increase that is ($26) a month, while they would also Abe has been calling on  rms to that don’t jack up wages. aggressive tactics of Japan’s notorious with six major  rms hiking wages by due to take e ect next month and get an average bonus worth about 6.8 raise salaries so workers would have The government “will react in some yakuza gangsters. 2,000 yen a month, their biggest-ever which some warn could impact the months of their base wage - a common more money to spend, a move seen as way” against  rms which are “unco- Hideshi Nitta, a labour relations increase. Convenience store operator country’s economic recovery. pay structure in Japan. crucial to making his growth bid work. operative with our policy of creating a manager at top business lobby Keidan- Lawson has agreed to its  rst wage rise Nomura Securities said in a note It was the Camry and Corolla mak- On Tuesday, Abe’s point man on virtuous economic cycle,” he told re- ren, said  rms recognised the need to in 12 years. to clients that they believed the BoJ er’s  rst wage hike in six years, and the economy, Akira Amari, raised the porters. reverse years of tepid growth. Bonuses are usually paid out in a would “will engage in additional mon- amounted to about a 0.8% rise above stakes with an apparent threat to take Tabloid newspaper Nikkan Gendai “For the economy to grow sustain- lump sum twice yearly, but it’s not etary easing in July”. l current pay. unspeci ed action against companies compared Amari’s comments to the ably, (Japan) needs to create a virtuous guaranteed compensation. l

BB to step up bank vault monitoring  B1 COLUMN 6 connectivity between the bank’s central doors with steel wall around the vault information system and the vault’s secu- space of the banks. The  oors and roofs rity system. Automated  re extinguish- of around the vaults also have to be ers also must be set up into the vaults. certi ed by an engineer. An amount of around Tk16.4 crore As part of technical security mea- was looted from Kishoreganj Sadar sure, there must be an alarming system branch of Sonali Bank in Januarywhile round the clock along with a closed- more recentlyanother burglary hit a circuit television camera at the vaults. Bogra branch of the state-owned bank There should be an uninterrupted looting over Tk30 lakh. l Pakistan  nance minister optimistic BASIC Bank Limited participated in School Banking Conference-2014 at Chittagong for building A school banking conference was held in the Bangladesh Bank colony ground in Chittagong awareness among the school going children to develop their savings habit and introduce them recently. Governor of Bangladesh Bank, Dr Atiur Rahman was present as chief guest in the after rupee recovery with banking services. The Bangladesh Bank governor, Dr Atiur Rahman distributed the BASIC conference and visited the stall of Pubali Bank Ltd in the presence of Pubali Bank’s DMD, n AFP, Islamabad Wednesday, Dar said: “The price of school banking gift bags among the school going children at BASIC Bank’s stall recently Saiful Alam Khan Chowdhury and GM, Syed Abdul Mazid onions, tomatoes and dollars has been Pakistan’s  nance minister Ishaq Dar brought down to the level when Prime on Wednesday said he was optimistic Minister Nawaz Sharif took oath.” about an economic recovery after the “It is a positive development for the rupee breached the psychologically economy and will boost investors’ con- important 100 to the dollar mark.  dence into Pakistan,” Dar said, adding The currency had been losing its value the government was not resorting to against the greenback since Sharif’s injecting reserves from the state bank PML N government came to power in in order to stabilise the currency. June last year, sliding from 97 rupees to “We did not use State Bank money the dollar to a low of 108 in December. to strengthen the rupee, but persuaded Since then it has mounted a recov- exporters to bring back their money to Bangladesh IT Talent Contest 2014 held on Tuesday to develop skilled manpower. Real estate developer, Sheltech celebrated its 26th anniversary yesterday. Sheltech ery and as of Wednesday evening the Pakistan and checked currency specu- Overseas Employment attended the award giving ceremony of the contest as chief guest chairperson Engr Kutubuddin Ahmed, founder-MD Dr Tou q M. Seraj and director rupee was trading at 97.90 to the dollar. lation, which resulted in the rising val- at DIU auditorium (development) Tanvir Ahmed have cut a cake to mark the anniversary Addressing a press conference ue of the rupee,” he added. l B4 DHAKA TRIBUNE Back Page Thursday, March 13, 2014 ADB punishes individuals, rms in $1bn fraud probe n AFP, Manila not to be named, said companies re- ceiving sanctions would be “black- The Asian Development Bank has im- listed” and barred from taking part in posed sanctions on 30 people and 31 ADB projects for between three and 10  rms for “integrity violations”, follow- years. ing a 2013 fraud investigation into $1bn Sanctions can be imposed on indi- worth of projects it funded, the lender viduals “inde nitely” depending on said. the circumstances, the sources added. The ADB said it investigated a re- The allegations investigated cord 250 allegations of corruption, col- included an agricultural project in the lusion, coercion and fraud last year, 10 Ningxia autonomous region in China more than in 2012, the bank said in a that was funded by a $100m loan and a report published yesterday. $4.545m grant and an Azerbaijan road The investigation included six proj- project backed by an $500m ADB loan, ects operational between 2006 and it said. 2010 in China, Azerbaijan, Pakistan, Investigators also looked into a Paki- Nepal and Laos, which were probed stan power transmission project sup- for “procurement-related” issues, ADB ported by $358.747m in ADB loans, as said in the report. well as three smaller projects in Nepal “Fraud related to work experience, and Laos that obtained $92m in ADB quali cations, and technical and  nan- loans and grants. cial capacities of consulting  rms or The ADB sources said that in extreme consultants continues to be the most cases, the lender also operates under a common type of integrity violation re- “cross debarment” system in which it ported,” the ADB’s O ce of Anticorrup- and other multilateral institutions will tion and Integrity chief Clare Wee said all enforce each other’s blacklists. in a statement. The report said 525 entities have The names and nationalities of the been subjected to this type of sanc- companies and individuals punished, tion by the ADB, the World Bank, the as well as the nature of the sanctions, European Bank for Reconstruction and were not disclosed in the report by the Development and the Inter-American Manila-based ADB. Bank representa- Development Bank since 2010. tives declined to comment further The ADB lent $9.4bn in 2012, Engineer Christoph Amma demonstrates "Air Writing" with a sensor wristband at the 2014 CeBIT computer technology trade fair in Hanover, central Germany. Developed by the when contacted by AFP yesterday. according to the latest data released by Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, the sensor attached to the wrist records hand movements and a computer system captures the signals and translates them into text. Great Britain is However, ADB sources, who asked the bank. l partner country of the fair considered as the world's biggest high-tech fair running from March 10 to 14 AFP WeChat revolution: China’s ‘killer app’ speaks to the masses n AFP, Shanghai “WeChat is an extremely people- the companies have denied. friendly platform, something consum- China’s Communist rulers maintain When condom maker Durex wants to ers frequently use every day,” said Fay a huge surveillance network of their send an intimate message to customers Zhao, senior brand manager for Durex, own in the country, including online, in China, it uses a homegrown instant which has asked its 200,000 followers where the so-called Great Firewall of messaging platform called WeChat to transmit “love stories” over WeChat China blocks access to sites deemed which has taken the country by storm in its latest campaign. sensitive, and a vast censorship ma- in just three years. Analysts say WeChat has eroded the chine deletes objectionable weibo WeChat - known as “weixin”, or popularity of another form of Chinese posts and other content. micro-message in Chinese - has simi- social media - microblogs or “weibo”, Meanwhile, Chinese Internet  rms larities to WhatsApp, the Silicon Val- the equivalent of Twitter - which have and foreign  rms operating in China ley start-up that Facebook bought for been hurt by a government crackdown have in the past provided user infor- $19bn last month. on content and users. mation to authorities in cases ruled to Now the CEO of its parent company WeChat is now the country’s second involve state security. hopes the service can go global, brand- most popular instant messaging tool on Some Western users might have ing it China’s “most hopeful product mobile devices, according to consul- concerns over Internet security and the for internationalisation” - but concerns tancy Analysys International - behind protection of personal data with We- about cybersecurity could hamper its the venerable QQ platform, launched in Chat, analysts said. ambitions. 1999 and also owned by Tencent - and “American and European countries WeChat is more versatile than What- is unlikely to be dislodged. always have concerns over the safety sApp, allowing its more than 300 mil- “WeChat, as a ‘killer app’ of Tencent and personal privacy issues of Chinese lion users to send text, photos, videos on mobile Internet, has experienced a products,” said iResearch analyst Lu and voice messages over smartphones, rapid increase in its user base since it Jingyu. “This might be an obstacle for  nd each other by shaking their devic- commercialised in 2013,” consultancy its overseas development.” es - a common dating technique - and Analysys International said in a re- Other global players include Japan’s even book and pay for taxis. search report in February, referring to service. boom town of Shenzhen, Tencent is But global concerns about cyberse- Line, with more than 300 million Its popularity has gone beyond in- when it started charging for some ser- Tencent acquired a 20% stake in one of China’s largest Internet compa- curity could put a damper on its ambi- registered users, and South Korea’s dividuals, with corporations and even vices. Chinese restaurant listing platform nies and rivals Alibaba and domestic tions, analysts say. Kakao Talk with over 100 million, the government using the application “Killer app” is technological termi- Dianping.com in February and started search engine Baidu. Before former US National Security which together dominate other Asian developed by Chinese Internet giant nology for a unique and wildly popular o ering dining coupons through Now the  rm’s founder and CEO Agency contractor Edward Snowden’s markets. Tencent for their internal and public product. WeChat. Pony Ma is putting high hopes on ex- revelations of widespread electronic “There are already some well-estab- communications. WeChat is free to use, but charges Its latest deal, announced this panding WeChat abroad, budgeting surveillance by the organisation, Wash- lished instant messaging products in Since the WhatsApp deal was an- for products such as emoticons and week, sees Tencent take a 15% stake in $200m for overseas marketing last year ington and Beijing traded accusations the global market... forming a natural nounced, Hong Kong-listed Tencent’s special features in games. Chinese online direct sales company and hiring football superstar Lionel of cyberspying for months. barrier for the internationalisation of shares have risen 9.4 percent, giving To retain users, WeChat has intro- JD.com, in a bid to better compete with Messi for advertisements. US lawmakers have expressed wor- WeChat,” said Dong Xu, an analyst for it a market capitalisation of $150bn, duced new services alongside basic e-commerce giant Alibaba. State media quoted Ma as calling the ries over the security of telecommu- Analysys International. approaching Facebook’s monumental communication, including gaming, Overseas expansion plans service “China’s most hopeful product nications equipment sold by Chinese On Tuesday, Tencent’s shares closed $180bn. online payments and the taxi booking Founded in 1998 in the southern in terms of internationalisation”.  rms such as Huawei and ZTE, which up 0.16% at HK$617.50 ($80.19). l World Cup brings trouble to Brazil’s economy Oil prices ease in n Reuters, Brasilia as a leader of the main opposition party. mand in the short term - perhaps not just as the economy was slowing, re- Asian trade An o cial close to Rousse , speak- quite enough to cause a recession, of- acted by making a series of targeted tax With the World Cup in June and July ing on condition of anonymity, broadly  cials and economists say, but enough cuts worth approximately 1.5% of GDP, n AFP, Singapore economic data from the United States and a presidential election in October, concurred: “Few people are talking to result in another lost year in terms of while also keeping  scal spending ro- and China. many Brazilians aren’t thinking beyond about 2015 right now. But it will be GDP growth. bust to stimulate the economy. Oil prices fell in Asian trade yesterday “In the short term, a lot of it has 2014. But next year is likely to be mem- hard, no doubt.” “2015 is going to be the big year of Her actions may have prevented ahead of the weekly US stockpiles re- to do with (uncertainty over) the US orable for all the wrong reasons in Latin The biggest and most disruptive task adjustment,” said Marcelo Salomon, a sharper slump. The economy grew port that will give an indication of de- economy ... and China showing a slow- America’s biggest economy. will be trimming Brazil’s  scal de cit, chief Brazil economist for Barclays in 2.3% in 2013, and de ed predictions of mand in the world’s biggest economy. down,” Teoh told AFP. President Dilma Rousse , or whoev- which investors and ratings agencies New York. “What needs to happen is a minor recession during the second New York’s main contract, West Tex- Beijing said Saturday it had seen an er wins the election, will have to make say has been too high in recent years. a credibility shock so that the govern- half of the year. as Intermediate (WTI) for April deliv- unexpected trade de cit of $22.98bn deep budget cuts, raise taxes and take No one expects Rousse , a pragmat- ment shows it isn’t just thinking in the But priming the  scal pump has ery, dipped 61 cents to $99.42 in after- in February as exports dived, fuelling other painful steps to address Brazil’s ic leftist, to make painful budget cuts short term.” carried a cost: The budget de cit is ex- noon trade, and Brent North Sea crude fears about growth in the Asian eco- growing  nancial imbalances. while campaigning for re-election. As pected to hit nearly 4% of GDP in 2014, for April eased 27 cents to $108.28. nomic gia nt. The fallout will likely be more dam- a result, the cuts will need to be even Country stuck in traffic a percentage point above the past de- The US Department of Energy will Investors are also keeping an eye on aging than many investors anticipate, deeper when the next presidential The seeds of Brazil’s current predica- cade’s average. release its report later in the day and political developments in oil-producer resulting in a fourth straight year of term begins on Jan. 1, 2015 - especially ment were sown during the good years. That’s not a huge budget gap by analysts expected inventories to have Libya after the country’s parliament disappointing growth - a big fall back if Brazil’s sovereign credit is downgrad- Thanks to strong demand for its soy global standards. But investors hold risen two million barrels in the week ousted Prime Minister Ali Zeidan. to earth for a country that last decade ed in the interim by Standard & Poor’s and iron ore from China, plus smart Brazil to a tighter standard than most ending March 7 as the severe winter The vote of no-con dence in parlia- was one of the world’s most dynamic to its lowest investment-grade rating,  scal management and social welfare countries because of its history of run- weather draws to an end, leading to ment came after a North Korean tanker emerging markets. as many in Brasilia now anticipate. policies under Rousse ’s predecessors, away spending that resulted in hyper- weaker demand for heating oil. laden with oil from a rebel-held termi- Economists currently expect Brazil’s Tax hikes are also likely. So are ad- Brazil has managed to pull some 35 in ation in the 1980s and early 1990s. Kelly Teoh, managing director at IR nal in eastern Libya broke through a na- gross domestic product to grow 1.68% justments to bus fares, gasoline costs million people out of poverty since the At the slightest sign of  scal slippage Resources, said that with the Ukrainian val blockade and escaped to sea despite this year, and 2% in 2015, according to and other prices administered by the mid-1990s. It also became a top market or an uptick in in ation, it’s not just rat- crisis and the cold winter weather in the government’s threats to block it by a weekly survey by the central bank. government, which Rousse has held for foreign automakers, retailers and ings agencies that get worried. Anyone the US easing, investors would focus on force if necessary. l Yet the latter forecast is somewhat mis- in check to prevent in ation, running telecom companies. over age 40 or so remembers watching leading, because many economists ad- around 6%, from rising even higher. But economists say that, generally their salary get decimated. DILBERT mit their estimates are based on com- If done properly, belt-tightening speaking, Brazil sold too many cars “There’s been a very large worsen- puter models that don’t fully account policies could restore balance to the during the boom while not building ing in expectations” among business- for what politicians will do after the economy and rebuild Brazil’s tattered enough roads. es and consumers alike, said Aloisio election. credibility with the private sector. That is, it channeled too much of the Campelo, who runs economic surveys “No matter who wins (the election), That, in turn, could set the stage for an windfall toward consumption and not for the Getulio Vargas Foundation, a it’s going to be a di cult year, worse eventual return to the good old days enough on investment. The result is an Brazilian business school. than many believe,” said Fernando last decade when GDP often grew bet- economy now plagued by infrastructure “The incoming government will Henrique Cardoso, who was president ter than 4% a year. bottlenecks and low productivity - and, have to hold the line on  scal austerity from 1995 to 2003 and still retains con- Yet, even in a best-case scenario, the thus, high in ation and slow growth. to bring credibility back,” Campelo siderable in uence in  nancial circles measures will smother domestic de- Rousse , who took o ce in 2011 said. l