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Was it intra- or
inter-party
feud?
Padma bridge
cost increases
by Tk3,000cr
n Asif Showkat Kallol
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n Tribune Report
The Anti-Corruption Commission will
look into the wealth of the three dismissed Rapid Action Battalion officers
and Narayanganj City Ward 4 Councillor Nur Hossain, the prime accused in
Narayanganj seven-murder case.
We are collecting all possible
information and documents related to
the wealth of Nur Hossain. We are also
inquiring into the wealth of the three
RAB officials which will enable us to
track if any financial transaction was
made before the seven murders, ACC
Secretary Faizur Rahman Chowdhury
said.
He made the disclosure while responding to reporters questions at the
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Protesting the death of their leader, supporters of slain Fulgazi upazila chairman Ekramul Haque cut off road communication with
Parshuram upazila by prying off the planks of a bailey bridge near Fenis Bandua area yesterday
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Demonstrators called a
daylong hartal for today
in Fulgazi upazila
in his car by some unidentified assailants in broad daylight.
The victims elder brother Rezaul
Haque Jasim filed a case with the Feni
Model Police Station at 1am yesterday,
accusing BNP leader Mahatab Uddin
News
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Hanif suggests
BNPs involvement
in Ekramul
killing
n Tribune Report
Awami League Joint General Secretary
Mahbubul Alam Hanif yesterday hinted
possible complicity of BNP in the killing of Fulgazi Upazila Chairman Ekramul Haque.
The killers of 1971 are still active.
Now they are with a party named BNP.
They are plotting conspiracies. A few
days back, they threatened to carry out
secret attack and it took place in Feni.
Ekramul Haque, a popular leader of
Feni, was subjected to a secret attack,
he said.
Hanif was talking to reporters while
visiting a book fair at Shilpakala Academy in the city.
The Awami League leader claimed
that the general people of the country
believe the BNP is involved in the incident because it happened after they
threatened with secret attacks. He said
BNP is blaming Awami League for the
Feni murder because it wants to hide
its complicity in the incident.
Following Ekramuls killing, BNP
acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul
Islam Alamgir alleged it was the result of an intra-party clash of Awami
League.
Masked criminals attacked Ekramul and investigators are yet to reveal their identities. So what made
him [Fakhrul] think that the murder
stemmed from Awami Leagues internal clash? It means the party is certainly involved in it, Hanif said.
Now the BNP men are blaming us
for the killing to divert peoples attention and to avoid their responsibilities,
he added. l
However, more than a dozen senior officials confirmed to the Dhaka Tribune
that there was no truth in the claims
of potential government profit, adding
that they manipulated the numbers as
per their boss demand.
The false estimations were reportedly prepared to favour the cause of
international gateway (IGW) operators.
According to the fresh proposal, the
telecom watchdog claimed that the
existing daily 3.5 crore minutes of incoming international calls volume will
cross 9 crore minutes if the termination rate is halved from the existing 3
US cents ($0.03) per minute.
The Telecom Ministry is now scrutinising the proposal after receiving it
from the BTRC last week, and it might
be forwarded to the Finance ministry
for approval today.
The latest move comes only months
after the government also cut the annual
licence fee in half for the IGW operators.
Both proposals from the BTRC
claimed that the government is now annually earning around Tk1,851.1 crore
from this sector, with a daily average of
3.5 crore minutes of incoming calls.
Although the regulator previously
claimed that the government would be
able to earn only Tk777.99 crore every
year if the rate was reduced to 1.5 US
cents per minute, it is now claiming
that the earning will be Tk2,012.72
crore as the call volume has increased.
The regulators claim of an average
3.5 crore minutes of daily calls was also
found to be false, as BTRC figures show
that the daily call volume has not gone
below four crore minutes in any month
over the past year.
The Dhaka Tribune also found that
the current volume of daily incoming
international calls is six crore minutes,
while the average for the past year was
5.04 crore minutes.
BTRC statistics showed that during
February, total incoming calls were
153.7 crore minute and the daily average was 5.5 crore minutes. In March it
was 5.9 crore minutes per day and in
April it was 5.7 crore minutes every day
on an average.
Earlier figures
- Tk1,073cr
New figures
Tk162cr
(loss)
Governments existing
share
(profit)
BTRC-proposed
government share
BTRC claims
crore
minutes per day
DT finding shows
crore
minutes per day
51.75%
3.5
40%
5.04
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Pro-BNP lawyers come out from a special court in the capital's Lalbagh yesterday after submitting a time petition on behalf of BNP
Chairperson Khaleda Zia in the Zia Orphanage Trust graft case
SYED ZAKIR HOSSAIN
The Dhaka Tribune has also contacted Joynal Hazari about the report published in his weekly.
He said: It [the allegation about
forced disappearances] is an open secret but nobody has the courage to
bring it out to people.
He then told this correspondent to
find out more clues about the murder.
According to sources, Ekram was
known as the right-hand man of Joynal
Hazari in the 1990s.
He was also a party of the steering
committee, formed by the former lawmaker that used to collect tolls, extort,
mug, manipulate tenders and carry out
other criminal activities.
After the BNP came to power in
2001, both Ekram and Joynal left Fulgazi.
After they came back, Ekram defeated Joynal become the upazila chairman
in the 2009 elections. Soon after be-
emy of Railway Sciences after restructuring and merging the assets in bridge,
road and railway construction and other civil work owned by China Zhongtie.
As per data up to June 2006, with a
total asset of $851.48 million, six subsidiary companies, nine sub-companies and a lot of offices both at home
and abroad, the China Major Bridge
possesses 2,434 sets of construction
equipment and plants and various
cranes ranging from 5t to 3,000t with
a value of $70.06 million and advanced
computerised design, construction and
management systems. With a fleet of
12,000 employees, including 5,800
engineers and technicians, the annual revenue earning of the China Major
Bridge is $2 billion. l
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News
n Manik Miazee
Leader of the Opposition Rawshan
Ershad yesterday lost her temper in the
face of a volley of questions from the
media.
It was a views-exchange meeting
with journalists on the parliament
premises. She talked to journalists for
about 40 minutes but she never gave a
direct answer.
When journalists said the Jatiya Party was a pet opposition party in the
public perception, Rawshan Ershad
snapped back.
Is it because we do not fight, we do
not throw files and boycott parliament
sessions that you people label us with
such a name? she snarled. People
have never seen an opposition like us.
The responsibility of the opposition is to help the government run its
state affairs smoothly for five years and
that is the role we are playing in the
parliament.
In response to a question she said
the January 5 election was a must for
the constitution and democracy.
When asked if they will demand any
mid-term election she said: If people
want, then there can be another election but the Jatiya Party is not taking
any initiative to this end right now.
About the seven murders in
Narayanganj, Rawshan said it was an
isolated incident. We formed a human chain there but I could not visit
Narayanganj as I was ill.
Opposition Leader Rawshan Ershad speaks at a views-exchange meeting with journalists on parliament premises
She denied answering to the questions of Narayanganj murders any further saying: It is a subjudice matter
and the case is under investigation.
On May 16, the JaPa leader said:
About 16 crore people live in Bangladesh. In a densely populated country,
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such crimes.
Responding to the question on Indian election, Rawshan said no comparison should be made between the
election of India and Bangladesh.
Bangladesh has so many things to
learn from India. l
Moudud to be charged for grabbing Zia trust cases deferred till June 19
n
Tk300cr government property
Md Sanaul Islam Tipu
n Tribune Report
The Anti-Corruption Commission will
soon submit a charge sheet against BNP
Standing Committee member Moudud
Ahmed and his brother on charge of
grabbing a government land worth
about Tk300 crore.
Following a five-month-long investigation, the ACC has found Moudud
Ahmed and his brother Manzur Ahmed,
now living in London, responsible for
occupying the government property
valued Tk300 crore since 1978 through
Prosecution in Mobarak
case stumbles
n Udisa Islam
At the end of the argument session in
the trial of Mobarak Hossain alias Mobarak Ali, the prosecution yesterday
failed to give explanations to many
questions posed by the International
Crimes Tribunal.
Later the tribunal set May 27 for further presentation of arguments in the
trial and asked the prosecution to appear with the replies to their questions.
Yesterday was set for submitting the
defence argument and rebuttal of the
prosecution. According to the usual
procedure, the case was supposed to be
kept for verdict after the rebuttal.
Defence counsel Tajul Islam submitted on legal points. He claimed that the
prosecution wanted to convict Mobarak
but they could not decide how they
could do so and therefore they became
confused. This situation has blurred
the case. He said the case was nothing
but an evil attempt to convict his client
who is a victim of the conspiracy.
Tajul claimed that the documents in
which the prosecution had relied upon
were not authentic and the accused
could not be convicted on the basis of
that. He also brushed aside the prosecutions suggestion that Mobarak had
been a razakar commander of Akhaura
during the 1971 Liberation War.
Later, prosecutor Md Shahidur Rahman stood for giving his rebuttal. There
he faced too many questions to which
he failed to give any answers.
Justice M Enayetur Rahim, chair-
Victims wife
testifies against
Qaisar
n Udisa Islam
A new prosecution witness in the case
against former Jatiya Party state minister Syed Mohammad Qaisar said yesterday that the accused and his cohorts
had burnt their house and abducted
her husband after torturing him in
front of her eyes in Habiganj during the
1971 Liberation War.
Nisamon, 71, claimed that to get
back her husband, she paid Qaisar
Tk8,000, when the accused demanded Tk10,000. The witness, Golam Rouf
Masters wife, said she had known the
accused since Qaisars uncle was her
grandfathers neighbour.
In her statement, Nisamon said the
accused and members of the Qaisar
Bahini had surrounded their house on
eighth Ashar (third month of Bangla
calendar) of 1971, seeking her brotherin-law Golam Noor.
When my husband tried to flee, Qaisar chased and caught him and started to beat him brutally. Qaisar continuously asked him about Noor and my
husband answered in the negative.
When my father-in-law came to rescue
my husband, they started to beat him
too, she stated.
She said: My father-in-law died just
16 days after the torture.
The accused and his men then burnt
the house. They took my husband,
blindfolded with his hands tied behind
his back. Following this, we went here
and there to find him but failed. My
father went to Qaisar to find out the
whereabouts of my husband and the
accused refused to do anything, she
said.
At the end of deposition, she
claimed that the accused had demanded Tk10,000 to free her husband. Golam Rouf was freed after the family paid
Qaisar Tk8,000.
Defence counsel SM Shahjahan
cross examined her. At the end of the
questioning, the tribunal 2 adjourned
the trial until Sunday.
Meanwhile,
defence
counsel
Mizanul Islam ended the crossexamination of the prosecutions
seventh witness in the case against
Maulana Abdus Subhan. l
declared illegal as no official gazette notification had been published following his
appointment. The petition also sought a
stay order on the cases trial proceedings.
The former prime minister, her son
Tarique Rahman and others were indicted on March 19 in the two cases.
On April 13, Khaleda filed two petitions
with the High Court to annul the lower
court order. The court rejected the petitions on April 23. l
DHAKA TRIBUNE
News
More engagement
in place to solve
Rohingya issue
Foreign secretary terms deficit of trust
the main problem between the countries
Noorjehan
Murshids birth
anniversary today
n Tribune Report
The 89th birth anniversary of Noorjehan Murshid; a
leading
political
figure, educationist, social reformer
and writer, will be
observed today.
Noorjehan, who was born on May 22
in 1925, who worked towards establishing a democratic and secular society.
She actively took part in the movement
against the British colonial rule in this
sub-continent and also against the Pakistani military rule. Her speech delivered
at a joint session of Loksava and Rajyasava of India in 1971, as a special representative of the Bangladesh government in
exile, facilitated Indias all-out support
for the liberation of Bangladesh.
A distinguished activist for womens
empowerment, Noorjehan was elected a member of the then East Pakistan
provincial legislative assembly and became first state minister for health and
social welfare affairs of independent
Bangladesh in 1972.
Throughout her life, Noorjehan had
complete conviction in progressive
ideals for a modern and democratic
Bangladesh, clean politics, a just society and equal rights. l
Litchi growers in Gazipur has got a bumper production this year. They gathered at the Raniganj Bazar to sell their produces yesterday
134 private hajj agencies fined Tk77 crore JU student dies in road
n Moniruzzaman Uzzal
A committee of the
Religious Affairs
Ministry recommends
cancellation of licences
of eight agencies and
suspension of 22 others
Licences of United International Travels,
Cascades Travels and Tours, Humayera
Hajj Travels, Janus Travels and Tours,
Jiarot E-Kaba Tours and Travels, Al Zia
Travels, Salam Trading International,
and Munira Travels and Tours were recommended to be cancelled.
Meanwhile, agencies that were relieved from the charges include Sadek
Travels, Al-Qibla Hajj Tours and Travels, Good Way Aviation & Tourism, Mymensingh Travels Agency, Saad Uswah
Travels and Tours, Sajid Hajj Travels and
Tours, and South Asian Air Bangladesh.
BANGLAR CHOKH
Court summons
225 in arson case
n Hasibur Rahman Bilu
Japanese Ambassador Shiro Sadoshima addresses a press conference at the National Press Club yesterday
NASHIRUL ISLAM
DHAKA TRIBUNE
News
Government to empower
upazila parishads financially n
n Mohosinul Karim
The government is likely to revive the financial system of the upazila parishads
by amending the local government act
to empower them financially to enhance
their domination on the public servants.
The initiative was taken considering
the demands of the upazila parishad
chairmen and following a recommendation of the national committee for
reviewing the inconsistencies in the
upazila parishad law.
The local government ministry has
prepared a proposal for amending
the law in the light of the recommendations put forward by the national
committee led by Cabinet Secretary M
Musharraf Hossain Bhuiyan.
It would be sent to the prime minister first and then to the cabinet, ministry officials told the Dhaka Tribune.
However, Monzur Hossain, senior
1,500 such trucks are stuck on the Indian side of the border. As a result, perishable products like onion, fish and fruits
have gone bad, he added.
On the Bangladesh side of the border, about 110 trucks have also been
waiting to enter India.
SM Hayder, assistant manager of the
ports private operator Panama Port Ltd,
said: We are incurring losses worth Tk50
lakh daily and the porters who are dependent on the port activities are miserable
because they are currently jobless.
Harun-ur Rashid, the leader of the
Hili Land Port Importers Association,
blamed the Border Guard Bangladesh 3
battalion for the strike, because the local importers are protesting the system
the BGB adopted on April 27 of issuing
a pass card, the Manifesto Card (the
card states production place and date of
products), to the Indian trucks, claiming it to be a time consuming system.
Harun also threatened to go for
tougher movement unless their demands were met. l
European Union
and Oxfam
organise human
rights fair
n Tribune Report
Oxfam and the European Union jointly organised a human rights fair in
Sylhet with a festive inauguration to
celebrate the World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development,
yesterday.
Four journalists were honoured at
the event for their courageous reporting on the rights of the indigenous
people.
European Union Delegation Chief
William Hanna, Oxfam Country Director Snehal Soneji, Ethnic Community Development Organisation
Executive
Director
Lakshimkanta
Singh and many other representatives from civil society, media and local administration made speeches at
the inauguration programme. Human
rights activist Sultana Kamal was the
chief guest.
William Hanna said: Bangladesh
has a rich culture with diverse communities of ethnic minorities and indigenous peoples, but they often suffer
because their rights are violated. To
protect their rights, the whole society
must stand together.
Here in Sylhet, we have also seen
the important role the media plays in
protecting the rights of the most vulnerable.
The Human Rights Fair was organized under the project Strengthening
the Voice of Human Rights Defenders
to Protect the Rights and Entitlements
of Ethnic Minorities.
Total funding for the project, under
the European Initiative for Democracy
and Human Rights (EIDHR), amounts
to 375,000. Currently, the EIDHR is
funding more than 1200 projects in
over 100 countries. l
WEATHER
THUNDERSHOWER
WITH RAIN
THURSDAY, MAY 22
DHAKA
TODAY
TOMORROW
SUN SETS 6:37PM
SUN RISES 5:13AM
FORECAST FOR TODAY
Dhaka
39
28
Chittagong
34
27
Rajshahi
43
29
Rangpur
40
26
Khulna
40
27
Barisal
38
28
Sylhet
37
24
Coxs Bazar
34
27
43.2C
Chuadanga
25.0C
Sylhet
Source: Accuweather/UNB
PRAYER TIMES
Fajar
Sunrise
Zohr
Asr
Magrib
Esha
3:48am
5:13am
11:55am
4:35pm
6:37pm
8:02pm
Source: IslamicFinder.org
Transport workers in Rajshahi barricade the Rajshahi bus stand intersection as part of their strike, demanding withdrawal of Nosimon, Korimon and other illegal human hauliers from
the highways
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Dr Habibuzzaman says
a meeting will be held
tomorrow to make any
final adjustment to the
guidelines if needed
complex, where her medicolegal examination would be carried out by the
emergency department. The examination must be done with the victims
consent and in the presence of an NGO
worker or female police personnel.
The guideline also reads that no male
doctors will be allowed to be present
during the examination, while recommending that female doctors and nurses
must be appointed in every concerned
health facilities that are carrying out the
medicolegal examination of rape victims.
With the exception of emergencies,
doctors will not be allowed to conduct
a two-finger test, while strict confidentiality will have to be maintained
throughout the medicolegal process.
The court will also have to be sensitive
while recording the statement of the victim, while the victim is in safe custody
by the magistrate court. The judge concerned will also have to finish the proceedings of the case as soon as possible.
On October 9 last year, Justice Mirza
Hussain Haider and Justice Khurshid
Alam Sarkar of the High Court Division
Bench issued a ruling, directing the
Health Ministry to prepare a comprehensive guideline for the examination
of rape victims. l
Temperature
crosses 42 degrees
in Rajshahi
n Our Correspondent, Rajshahi
As the ongoing heat wave continues to
loom over the entire nation, residents
of Rajshahi yesterday experienced the
highest temperature recorded this year.
Temperature in the district had been
on the rise for the past few days, and
yesterday it was recorded at 42.1 degree Celsius. Anowara Begum, senior
observer at the districts met office,
told the Dhaka Tribune that it was not
only the highest temperature this year,
but in the past 14 years.
The last time the temperature
crossed 42 degree Celsius in Rajshahi was
in 2000, she said. The scorching heat has
made life miserable for the Rajshahi residents. The frequent power cuts caused
by the increased power consumption has
only worsened the situation. l
ACC questions
Muktijoddha
Council officials
n Tribune Report
The Anti-Corruption Commission yesterday questioned a deputy secretary
and five officials from Jatiya Muktijoddha Council with regard to its probe
against six secretaries who had allegedly forged freedom fighter certificates to
extend their retirement age.
Liberation War Affairs Ministry Deputy
Secretary M Nur Alam, Councils Director
General Syed Mahbub Ahsan, directors
AKM Khairul Alam and AKM Ali Ahad
Khan, Deputy Director Masudul Haque
and its Office Secretary Menhaz were
questioned at the ACC headquarters.
The ACC is currently conducting inquiries on how the six secretaries had
obtained freedom fighter certificates
prior to their retirement.
According to a circular, one has to declare himself as a freedom fighter at the
time of joining any service to avail the
benefits allotted to the freedom fighters.
Such claims may not be considered later.
The six secretaries, who are under
the ACC scrutiny, are Health Secretary
Niaz Uddin, Liberation War Affairs
Secretary KH Masud Siddiqui, Science
and Technology Affairs Secretary AKM
Amir Hossain, Housing and Public
Works Secretary Khandaker Shawkat
Hossain, Prime Ministers former secretary Mollah Waheduzzaman, and
Liberation War Affairs Joint Secretary
Abul Kashem Talukder. l
strike now and then for their own interest without considering the plight
of the commuters. Sources say the associations primary demand is stopping
of extortion by highway police. Their
other demands include stopping the
movement of three-wheelers (popularly known as nasimon, karimon), cancellation of road permits for CNG-run
auto rickshaws, reduction of renewal
fees for vehicles, and to discontinue
the BRTC bus services at upazila levels.
Rajshahi Road Transport Group
President Enamul Haque, General Secretary Munjur Rahman Pitar, among
others, spoke at the rally.
Rajshahi Deputy Commissioner
Mezbah Uddin Ahmed, however, said
he would convene a meeting immediately with the bus owners, workers,
and the officials concerned as soon as
possible to resolve the issue. l
Mango traders display their produces at Baneshwar Haat in Rajshahi yesterday. Whole sellers and retailers of mango gather at Baneshwar
Haat to buy mangoes from the farmers
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Nation
20km Sirajganj
road project in
uncertainty
n Our Correspondent, Sirajganj
A cloud of uncertainty shrouds a
20-kilometre by-lane road construction
project in Sirajganj as it is yet to be finished, even though its deadline expired
in April 2012.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina unveiled the Soydabad-Belkuchi-Enayetpur road project on April 9, 2011 after
roadwork on it had begun in October
2010.
Officials at the Roads and Highways
Department said they can neither replace National Civil Engineering Construction Limited with another contracting firm nor can they have the
project fast-tracked.
There is a risk that the project will
be delaying further or that it may be
scrapped for an uncertain period of
time in case the present contractors
cannot be replaced with another firm,
they explained.
Meanwhile, allegations have also
been raised against the firm for not
using the right measures of bitumen
and sand and for using low-quality
brick chips to the construct part of the
road.
On Saturday, Joint Secretary of the
Communication Ministry Mahbubur
Rahman visited the project and expressed his dissatisfaction with the
construction work done on the road.
He said lower proportions of sand
and bitumen have been used under
and above the road, respectively,
and warned the Roads and Highways
engineers to monitor the project
properly.
This correspondent visited the half
of the road that has thus far been completed and found cracks and potholes.
He also found the road had collapsed
in the recent rainfall because slopes
had not been made on both sides of the
road.
When questioned, former Fisheries and Livestock Minister Abdul Latif
The Jamuna River is eroding the bank near Chandanbaish area in Sariakandi upazila of Bogra district
50 including UP
chairman injured
in clash
n Our Correspondent, Kishoreganj
At least 50 people including UP charman and women were injured yesterday in a clash between two rival groups
over previous enmity in Tarail upazila
of the district.
According to police and local sources,
two groups led by Azizul Haque and Hadis
Mia of Gojaria village in the upazila were
locked a firece clash with homemade
lethal weapons over previous enmity
around 10:30am at Gojaria area, leving 50
injured including Damiha Union Parishad
Chairman Mainuzzaman Nobab.
Of them, 30 were admitted to
Kishoreganj Adhunik Sadar Hospital
and Tarail Upazila Health Complex
while others were given first aid.
The UP chairman was injured as he
went to stop the clash. l
son of late Abed Ali of Madhpur village, left his house at around midnight
yesterday, because the miscreants had
called him out.
They then slashed at Ali mercilessly,
and left his body in nearby jute field,
said Faruque.
On receiving this information, the
police recovered the body.
The police said he might have been
killed because of an internal conflict. l
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BANGLADESH BANK
confirmed the incident.
In the Gangarampur area of the Daulatpur upazila, a young man, Mujibar, 22,
was hacked to death for allegedly plucking mangoes from an orchard.
Police sources said Mujibar was
plucking mangoes in Imtiazs orchard
in the morning. They got into a fight
over the incident and at one stage, Imtiaz hacked Mujibar to death.
On receiving this information, police recovered the body and sent it to a
hospital morgue. A case was filed. l
Husband
beats female
schoolteacher
to death
n Our Correspondent, Sirajganj
A female schoolteacher was allegedly
beaten to death by her husband and
in-laws over a family feud in the Mulkandi village of the Chauhali upazila on
Tuesday.
Locals said Hafiza Khatun, 25, assistant teacher of a local primary school,
was beaten to death by her husband
Shamim Hossain over a triviality.
Later, Shamim and his family members fled the scene, leaving the body at
home.
On receiving information about this,
police recovered the body and sent it to
the hospital for an autopsy.
Waheduzzaman, officer-in-charge
of the Enayetpur police station, said
the body bore several injury marks.
A case was filed. l
Indian national
detained
n Our Correspondent, Thakurgaon
An Indian national was detained by the
Border Guard Bangladesh in the Kochol
frontier area of the Pirganj upazila, yesterday.
According to sources, Bashonta
Roy, 45, of the Kourisingjat village in
Darjeeling, West Bengal, had entered
Bangladesh a month ago illegally.
He was arrested when he was trying
to cross the border into India and was
sent to jail.
Mohammad
Ishtiak,
officer-incharge of the Pirganj police station,
confirmed the incident. l
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Juris
Bangladeshs obligation
towards refugees
Consequences of
non-appearance of
parties in civil litigations
n Raisul Islam Sourav
JURIS QUOTE
There is no crueler tyranny than that which is
perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name
of justice.
Charles de Montesquieu
(1689 1755)
French social commentator
and political thinker
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the court at that day, only for nonappearance of the defendant and the
plaintiff will get an ex parte decree
from the court.
Further, on the date of peremptory
hearing, if the plaintiff is present but
the defendant is not then the suit
will also be decreed ex-parte on the
basis of plaintiff s claim. However,
the defendant has an opportunity to
adjourn the hearing by showing proper
reason for his/her absence. However,
to avail this opportunity, he/she needs
to pursue his/her suit by appearing in
person before the court.
BIG STOCK
It is the duty of
both the parties to
appear before the
learned court at
appropriate time
and to cooperate
with the court to
settle the dispute
effectively
Consequences of non-appearance
of both the parties
If both the contesting parties (plaintiff
and defendant) remain absent from
the hearing on the date of peremptory
or final hearing, the suit may be
dismissed by the court. In that case,
both the parties have the same remedy
that a claimant has against an order of
dismissal for non-appearance.
Finally, non-appearance of parties
in a civil litigation has a great impact
upon the whole proceedings of the
case.
It is the duty of both the parties
to appear before the learned court at
appropriate time and to cooperate
with the court to settle the dispute
effectively. l
Raisul Islam Sourav is a Senior Lecturer and
Coordinator, Department of Law at Dhaka
International University (DIU).
DHAKA TRIBUNE
World
Rescuers and residents gather at the charred scene following a bomb blast at Terminus market in the central city of Jos
AFP
Europe is Russias
largest trading partner
and therefore has huge
sway over Russias
shaky economy
The strain became clear in February,
shortly after the Ukraine unrest peaked
and the government in Kiev was overturned. A bugged phone call posted on
YouTube with Russian subtitles captured Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland dismissing the EU with a
common expletive in frustration over
Europes pace in helping Ukraine. Nuland later apologized, and the State Department described the incident as a
new low in Russian tradecraft.
The EU has been far more cautious
about sanctioning Russias economic
and energy sectors, in part because of
longstanding trade between Moscow
and European nations.
Europe is Russias largest trading
partner and therefore has huge sway
over Russias shaky economy. Yet some
European nations are reluctant to undercut their own financial stability and
endanger their main source of energy
by imposing harsh penalties against
Moscow. l
n AFP, Cairo
An Egyptian court yesterday sentenced
deposed president Hosni Mubarak to
three years in prison on corruption
charges, in one of two trials after the
2011 uprising that ended his rule.
His sons Alaa and Gamal each received four-year jail terms, and four
other defendants were acquitted.
They were accused of embezzling
more than one hundred million Egyptian pounds (about $14m, 10m euros)
earmarked for the maintenance of
presidential palaces.
Mubarak, 86, wearing a grey suit, sat
on a wheelchair in the caged dock for
the verdict. His sons, in white prison
issue clothing, stood beside him.
Mubarak had technically been a free
man after a court ordered his release last
year following the end of the permitted
detention period, but has since remained
out of sight in a military hospital.
He is now likely to be returned
to prison.
The owners of public property are
the people, said judge Osama Shaheen
Video shows
fatal shooting of
Palestinians
n Agencies
A human rights group has released
footage that it says shows Israeli security forces shooting dead two apparently
unarmed Palestinian teenagers.
The video released on Tuesday allegedly showed the teenagers, who posed
no danger, being shot during a protest
last week on Nakba Day , when the Palestinians marked the loss of their homes in
the 1948 war that resulted in the creation
of the state of Israel and the flight of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians.
Defence for Children International
(DCI) posted the two-minute video on
YouTube, which it said was edited from
six hours of surveillance footage from
fixed security cameras at a Palestinian-owned business that overlooked the
scene. The group said the video showed
that troops had committed unlawful
killings where neither child presented a
direct and immediate threat to life at the
time of their shooting.
The Israeli rights group BTselem said
the images back its findings that troops
killed the teens by firing live rounds
from more than 200 metres away. l
In this photo taken on May 19, a welcome banner for Pope Francis with his picture hangs on a building, in the West Bank city of Bethlehem.
Pope Francis will be arriving this weekend to the land where Christianity was born, and where Christians are disappearing
AP
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elections
called by
Yingluck in
December.
Opposition
demonstrators
block voting at
10,000 polling stations
May 7
May 20
Anti-government
protester, Bangkok,
April 1
Pakistani airstrikes
kill 60 militants
n AP, Islamabad
Pakistani military jet fighters and helicopter gunships pounded militant hideouts near the Afghan border yesterday,
killing 60 militants, the army said.
The airstrikes mainly targeted Mir
Ali, a town in the lawless tribal region
of North Waziristan, the army said in a
statement.
It said 60 terrorists, including some
of the important commanders and foreigners were also killed in the strikes,
which also wounded another 30.
One resident, who identified himself as Saeedullah Khan, said the army
had also been using artillery fire since
early morning. We heard big bangs,
he said. I saw some houses flattened.
The army didnt give more details on
the important commanders or the foreign who were killed.
The claims could not be independently verified. The lawless tribal
area is off limits to foreign journalists.
The army said investigation into
recent attacks against civilians and security forces had led it to the militant
hideouts that were targeted. l
the ombudsman position were the partys key aims, and Kejriwal said the party members left government because
they did not want to compromise their
principles.
Their detractors said Kejriwal and
his party quit because they were eager
to parlay their initial success into nationwide prominence.
But in the recent national election,
the party won only four seats in Indias
543-member lower house of Parliament.
Kejriwal himself lost by a wide margin to
the man who will become Indias next
prime minister, Narendra Modi. l
still exerts a huge influence, most recently through a government run by his
sister, Yingluck Shinawatra.
Yingluck was forced to step down as
premier by a court two weeks ago, but
her caretaker government remains in
power, despite the declaration of martial law and six months of sometimes
violent protests aimed at ousting it.
The turmoil has driven the country to the brink of recession and even
raised fears of civil war.
The two candidates who will face-off in the June 14 run-off vote
Official result of
April 5 election
% of votes won
45
Abdullah Abdullah
Age: 53
31.6
Ashraf Ghani
64
Foreign minister in
in the post-2001
transitional government
under Hamid Karzai,
until sacked in 2006
Finance minister in
2002-2004 and later
led the national
security transition
commission
Came fourth in
2009 with less than
3 percent of vote,
but has performed
strongly in the current
campaign
A run-off
is required
because no
candidates won
more than
50 percent in
the first round
Ethnically Pashtun
Former World Bank
worker and academic
Indonesian election
presents US with Modistyle visa headache
n Reuters, Washington
The emergence of Prabowo Subianto as
a serious contender in Indonesias election this week means the United States
faces the awkward possibility of having
to welcome another Asian leader it had
denied entry to because of alleged links
to mass killings.
The situation has arisen days after
Washington found itself having to change
course and promise a visa to Indian Prime
Minister-Elect Narendra Modi after his
landslide election win. Modi was barred
from the United States in 2005.
The possibility of another Washington U-turn became apparent after
Indonesias second-largest party on
Monday suddenly switched its support
to Prabowo from frontrunner Joko Jokowi Widodo ahead of July 9 presidential polls.
Prabowo was once one of Indonesias most reviled men, accused of kidnapping, human rights abuses and a
coup attempt after the 1998 overthrow
of his former father-in-law, the late
President Suharto.
A New York Times report in March
said that in 2000 the US State Department denied the former general a visa
to attend his sons university graduation in Boston, but has never said why.
Prabowo told Reuters in 2012 he was
still refused a US visa due to allegations
that he instigated riots that killed hundreds after Suhartos overthrow. He has
denied wrongdoing.
Indias Modi was denied a US visa
in 2005 under the terms of a 1998 US
law which bars entry to foreigners who
have committed particularly severe
violations of religious freedom.
However, after Modis party swept to
victory in elections last week, US President Barack Obama was quick to telephone his congratulations and invite the
new leader of a country he has declared a
vital strategic partner to the White House.
The State Department said Modi
would be granted an A-1 visa accorded to heads of state. Modi has also has
denied any wrongdoing and has never
been prosecuted in India.
Asked if Prabowo would be treated
the same as Modi if he won Indonesias
election, a State Department official
responded with statements similar to
those before Indias poll result - saying
the department did not discuss individual visa cases.
Applicants traveling on official business on behalf of their government are
subject to limited grounds of ineligibility under US immigration law. However,
we cannot speculate on the outcome of
any visa application, he said.
The official added that the United
States remained committed to close
relations with Indonesia and expect
that relationship to continue.
Analysts believe that Prabowo, like
Modi, would be granted a visa if he
wins the election. l
n Reuters, Kabul
Afghanistans election commission said
yesterday it had fired more than 3,000
staff accused of fraud in the first round
of the countrys presidential election,
as it sought to quell fears that it might
fail to deliver a legitimate outcome.
Afghans voted on April 5 in the first
round of the election to pick a successor to President Hamid Karzai, who is
barred by the constitution from standing for a third term after more than a
decade in power.
The winner will take charge at a
crucial time, with most foreign troops
due to withdraw by the end of the year,
the Taliban insurgency still raging and
a pact with Washington permitting
some US forces to stay hanging in the
balance.
Spokesman Noor Mohammad Noor
said the Independent Election Commission had blacklisted the fired staff,
so that they would not be hired in the
second round.
Some fraud was reported from
those polling stations, he added, referring to the sites where the fired staff
had worked. l
Firecrackers and colourful lighting are seen on the building of the BJP office in Ahmedabad
yesterday
AFP
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May 16
maksud
You people wear sunglasses and dont see the little
things under the radiant sun. You people always say
so many things about violence against women and
equal rights for women, but never see how many
women are deprived from very basic things that all
human beings need, like food, shelter, clean water,
and medicine.
Most beggars who knock on your doors are
women. They dont even have enough courage to
push the calling bell switch in your apartment (that
is, if they are able to make it as far as your front
door, as you have dogs and guards to stop them).
In posh areas, like Gulshan, Banani, Baridhara,
and Dhanmondi, many people always complain
about how many girls are deprived from access
to modern things, but they never seem to bother
about the beggars, because they never interact with
May 17
Bharat Patel
The only true, straight, reported results. No bias,
not for or against winners or losers. Well done.
Unreal city
May 17
Jiminy
The government needs to give more importance
to developing other cities so that people have
more of an incentive to move there, or stay there.
Vox Populi
Whats the big deal about this day? Is it so significant in peoples life? There is nothing to celebrate.
Delinthedesh
Will any in the government, such as ministers,
drive a hybrid? I doubt it. They should try building
roads and infrastructure suitable for modern
cars first, before the batteries start falling out of
hybrid cars. Theyll be wanting hybrid buses next.
vihan
Such tragic accidents will happen again, and again
and again, until ministers, authorities, and officials
will be held accountable for their negligence and
corruption.
Rawshan: Narayanganj
7-murder a stray incident
May 16
A Rashid
Why does the media give any prominence to
someone like Rawshan who everyone in the
country knows her to be lacking any semblance
of intelligence? She and her husband have shown
themselves to be a disgrace to themselves as well
as the whole nation! I hope to never see their
comments being published in future. If the media
does follow this, it will doing a great service to the
national Interest
Rawshan has reminded us once again, not that
we need reminding, that the political sector in
Bangladesh is Infested by people with no qualification, no common sense, or of self-respect. So, I
ask you, how can we ever establish a government
which citizens can be proud of??
CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Cowardly (6)
5 Melody (3)
7 Edge (3)
8 Picturesque (6)
11 Laundry item (3)
12 Vestige (5)
14 Oven for baking
bricks (4)
16 Trunk (5)
18 Zodiac sign (5)
20 Illuminated sign (4)
21 Long lock (5)
23 Drunkard (3)
24 Escapes artfully (6)
27 Friend (Fr) (3)
28 Prosecute (3)
29 Swift (6)
DOWN
1 Long-leaved lettuce (3)
2 Land measure (3)
3 Wine merchant (7)
4 Eastern ruler (4)
5 Electrical unit (6)
6 Area (6)
9 Coconut husk fibre (4)
10 Domestic animal (3)
13 Eat (7)
14 American state (6)
15 Small (6)
17 Part of a shoe (4)
19 Observe (3)
22 Strike with open
hand (4)
25 Pass away (3)
26 Secret agent (3)
Ronnie
Just as this woman happens to be the stray
member of parliament and a fictional leader of
the opposition. Rawshan Ershad never seems to
tire of plumbing the depths of intellectual depravity and absence of self-esteem.
Dr Ahsan Habib
I have one comment for the current commander
of RAB 11: How can you claim Shahids allegations
are baseless and, at the same time, promise to
investigate? Such a statement proves to me that
your comment itself has no basis.
SUDOKU
How to solve: Fill in the blank spaces with the
numbers 1 9. Every row, column and 3 x 3 box must
contain all nine digits with no numberrepeating.
NS
If BJP wins an absolute majority, it would be a
disaster for India.
Development in secondary
education without spending a
single taka
May 16
PEANUTS
Mawduda Hasnin
Many schools have more students than they
can hold. Some of their classes have more than
70 students, and some less than 15 students.
Recently, I saw a list of schools participating in
the JSC examination with less than 10 students.
The list was quite long.
Only a simple circular from the ministry of education can bring change and help ensure quality
education. A school cannot run a section/class with
less than 20 students or for more than 40 students.
The government should open new schools in other
divisional and district towns to even out the load.
Schools have to conduct a certain number
of classes, and are awarded on the basis of SSC
results, and also on how many classes were held,
and what other activities they offer, like games and
co-curricular activities, including debate. All class
tests should be taken according to the curriculum.
Teachers salaries are not high, so many have
taken up private tuition to survive, and find
they can make a sizeable profit from it. Emphasis should be on teaching, not tuition, and the
government should take proper initiatives so
that teachers go back to taking classes. A list of
teachers, along with their designation should be
hanged on a board in the head teachers room so
as to make sure that unqualified teachers, without
a professional degree or qualifying NCRTA are not
allowed to teach in any educational institution.
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BIGSTOCK
n Mamun Rashid
sk anyone in their 30s
or 40s. They all are
concerned about their
childrens health and education. In their 50s and
60s, they are concerned about their
own health. They want to stay away
from doctors few can afford the
costs. Health expenditure is increasing every day in Bangladesh. Very few
have access to good medical care and
most people with meager incomes do
not.
The common people of Bangladesh are being deprived of free or
low cost healthcare services as the
health budget is shrinking every
year.Though few in the large cities,
mainly the capital and port cities, now
have access to good healthcare, the
entire rural population is dependent
on the public health infrastructure,
where even increasing kitty could not
bring much of a change. The death toll
of mothers during childbirth has not
reduced significantly, malpractice by
doctors or in their absence by nurses is
also rampant in rural places.
Though budgetary allocation for
the health sector has increased over
the years, the percentage in the total
budget outlay is actually decreasing.
Bangladesh reportedly has the lowest
per capita health expenditure in South
and Southeast Asia, which makes it
more challenging for the public health
sector to offer full-fledged, free, and
People of Bangladesh
are being deprived of
healthcare as the health
budget is shrinking
every year
As per the recommendation of the
WHO, minimum per capita health
spending by the government should
be $44. It is only $27 in Bangladesh,
while India is spending $59, Nepal $33,
Sri Lanka $97, Pakistan $30, Indonesia $95, and Vietnam is spending $96
as per capita health expenditure.No
doubt, low per capita health expenditure in Bangladesh creates obstacles
to render proper healthcare services to
the poor and destitute.
Our health budget is shrinking
every year though around 2 million people are being added to our
We are as human as
anyone else. This
is before there is
consciousness of the
state, Gandhi, Nehru,
New Delhi
We are born from our mothers womb.
We are born where our mother lay
pregnant with us. When we are born,
we are as human as anyone else. This
is before there is consciousness of the
state, constitution, Gandhi, Nehru, tricolour, New Delhi, etc. Is it a pre-condition of being human that these
notions have to be built up within our
heads for an individual to be considered fully human?
Clearly not. Our bloodlines and
human consciousness predates all
flags and constitutions and gods
willing, will outlive them too. So, one
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Entertainment
Tagore
re-imagined
n
SADIA MARIUM
SADIA MARIUM
Shadma Malik
Noted artists in the country expressed their reverence towards the Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore through their
fascinating artwork. An eight-day exhibition featuring the
works and replicas of Tagores paintings is being held at the
National Art Gallery of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy.
To mark the legends 153rd birth anniversary, BSA has organised the exhibition which showcases a total of 45 replicas
and 80 artworks by 40 renowned artists.
The replicas of Tagores paintings were commissioned by
the Indian government and gifted to Shilpakala by the Indira
Gandhi Cultural Centre in Dhaka .
Among the works of the prominent artists, Qayyum
Chowdhury s Rabindranath contrasted Tagore in his
aristocracy finery in vibrant colours, alongside a brilliant
backdrop of rural Bangla. The composition depicts blue sky
with birds, green fields and floating boats are showcased. A
visual representation of Tagores popular poem Shonar Tori
has also been depicted in Qayyums canvas, as golden fibers
on a golden boat against the backdrop of a black sky.
Artist Hashem Khans painting is inspired by Tagores popular song Eidin Aji Kon Ghore Go Khule Dilo Daar. His canvas of the same title narrates the tale of rural Bangalee women
who, in harmony, cultivate crops that generate new hopes in
life.
Rafiqun Nabis artworks show Tagore sitting in an arm
chair with a pen and a notebook and images of butterfly, people and trees are revolving around his head.
Sculptor Hamiduzzaman Jocchna Rate Padma Boat
and Thakur Bari unfold the moments he spent here
in Bangladesh. The paintings aim to help the viewers
understand the way Tagore has experienced the beauty of
Bangladesh.
Mohammed Yunus Onek Robir Alok Dharai portrays
Tagores face-- in different ages from young to veteran-- showcases the versatile genius who developed an acute sensibility
towards literature, poetry, dance and music, painter. l
n Entertainment Desk
Shadhonas
experimental
production Chompaboti is
based on poet Jashimuddins
play Beder Meye and has
been adapted into a dance
drama by the renowned
playwright Syed Shamsul
Haq. Watch out for the production, which gives newlife to the age-old narrative,
this evening at the Shilpakala Academy in the capital.
Choreographed by Shabbir Ahmed Khan Biju, the
recital is an entertaining folk
dance presentation drawn
from our traditional game
lathi-khela and different folk
dance genres of the subcontinent such as jhumur, raibeshe, chhau, mayurbhanj, and kalaripayettu.
Mehajabien
two timing
in Ekti
Anakankhito
Premer
Golpo
TODAY IN DHAKA
Exhibition
Mukh O Mukhosh 5
Time: 11am 8pm
Galleri Kaya, Sector- 4, Uttara
Theatre
Film
Bornil Pandulipi
Time: 12pm 8pm
Shilpangon Gallery
Goodnight Ma
Time: 7:30pm 9:00pm
Ranbir Kapoor
takes up boxing
lessons
n Entertainment Desk
I, Frankenstein
Children of War
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (3D)
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
(3D)
STAR Cineplex
Level 8, Bashundhara City
13/3 Ka, Panthopath
n Entertainment Desk
n Entertainment Desk
GODZILLA
at Blockbuster Cinemas
n Entertainment Desk
Grameenphone is going to release
Hollywood flick Godzilla tomorrow
at Blockbuster Cinemas in Jamuna
Future Park.
The 2014 American science fiction monster film is a reboot of the
Godzillafilm franchise. It retells the
origins of Godzilla in contemporary
times as a terrifying force of nature.
The highly anticipated movie released in USA on May 16.
oldest actor in the Rich List, has an estimated personal fortune of $370 million, making him the 9th wealthiest
actor on the list.
Bill Cosby stands 8th in the list with
$ 380 million while Adam Sandler is
10th being worth $ 340 million. l
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Naveed demands
professional
hockey set-up
n
Naveed Alam, the head coach of Bangladesh national hockey team has
urged the hockey federation to ensure
his as well as the players mental peace
in order to produce a satisfactory result
in the upcoming Asian Games which is
scheduled to be held at Incheon, Korea
in September next.
Naveed, whose current contract
expires on June 30 this year and is set
to renew his contract with Bangladesh
Hockey Federation, has also placed a
number of demands to the federation.
First of all, I made it clear that the level of competition in the Asian Games
are far higher than the qualifiers and I
would take all the responsibility of the
success and failure if a number of demands are met, said Naveed.
The federation must form a panel
of coaches who will work with specific
sections. The formation of the national
team also goes through some changes.
The team also needs a good video analyst, the plan of preparation including
the tours and the warm-up matches,
Farashganj eye
BPL promotion
n
Englands Jack Wilshere (2L), Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain (C), Frank Lampard (2R), Ross Barkley (R) attend a training session in Vale do Lobo, near Almancil, southern Portugal, yesterday.
England will play the World Cup in Brazil in Group D with Uruguay, Costa Rica and Italy
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University
of
Liberal Arts Bangladesh (ULAB)
has made it to
the finals of the Walton Refrigerator
University Challenge Cup 2014. They
registered a convincing nine-wicket
victory over Bangladesh Agricultural
University (BAU) in the first semifinal
of the tournament at BKSP yesterday.
ULAB will face American International University Bangladesh (AIUB)
in the final today at the same venue.
AIUB emerged as the other finalist after
defeating Rajshahi University by nine
wickets.
BAU won the toss and opted to bat
first but could only manage 89 runs losing all of their wickets due to a top-order failure. Utshos 30-ball 20 was the
highest in the BAU innings. Ratul and
Shuvrato scored 18 runs each.
Morsalin Bin Mortaja scalped four
wickets for ULAB and was later adjudged player of the match. Anjam
Ahmed and Avishek Mitra took two
wickets each.
In reply, ULAB chased down the
target in 7.5 overs with nine wickets
to spare. Skipper Hasanuzzamans 26ball 49 upfront propelled the chase. He
hammered six fours and two sixes and
added 83 runs with Avishek Mitra for
the opening stand.
Avishek was unbeaten on 30 off
20 balls. His innings included three
boundaries and a six. Oni picked up the
only wicket for BAU.
In the other semifinal, Rajshahi batted first and garnered only 83 runs.
Wicketkeeper-batsman Himel scored
the highest, 16. Towfiqul Haq grabbed
four wickets for AIUB while Tanvir
Haider took two.
Chasing the target, AIUB reached
the target in 9.2 overs despite an early
hiccup, that of opening batsman Mehrab Hossain Jr who departed in the third
ball of the innings.
Anamul Haque guided the chase
with authority scoring an unbeaten 37ball 70. He hammered eight boundaries
and five sixes. Tanvir was unbeaten at
the other end on 10 runs. l
University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh players celebrate winning the Walton Refrigerator
University Challenge Cup 2014 semifinal against Bangladesh Agricultural University at
BKSP yesterday
COURTESY
n
The womens cricket league titled the
Metropolitan Womens Cricket League,
scheduled to get underway in less than
a week, will be following the same
by-laws as the mens Dhaka Premier
League. However, with less than a week
remaining to the start of the league, the
clubs are yet to know the bylaws.
Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) womens wing chairman Abdul Awal Chowdhury Bulu though informed that the bylaws will be prepared within the next two
days. We have made a huge change in
the bylaws but we are yet to complete the
new bylaws. I am hopeful about finishing
it by one or two days and then I will forward it to the clubs, said Bulu.
The womens cricket league was
originally set to begin from May 25 but
it was pushed back by two days as BCB
president Nazmul Hasan is not in the
Nuns, backed by
pope, warn of
human trafficking
n
Sheikh Md Maruf Hasan (C), the chairman of the Cute Primer Handball organising
committee, speaks at a press conference at BOA auditorium yesterday
COURTESY
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Radamel Falcao, Colombias big hope for the World Cup, but also a major injury
doubt, will join their squad in Buenos Aires in preparation for the tournament
in Brazil, the Colombian Football Federation (FCF) said on Tuesday. That ended
rumours that the striker was set to travel to Bogota to announce that he would
not be going to Brazil, having failed to fully recover from knee ligament surgery.
Radamel Falcao Garcia will join his team mates in Buenos Aires. At present, the
forward is continuing with his physical work at his club Monaco, the FCF said in a
statement.
Reuters
France star Franck Ribery declared on Wednesday that the 2014 World Cup finals
would be his last but the Bayern Munich forward left the door open to compete
at Euro 2016. Ribery, 31, who burst on to the international scene at the 2006
World Cup in Germany, told broadcaster RTL: This will be my final World Cup.
Assessing his chances of leaving the World Cup stage on a high in Brazil the European footballer of the Year said: We have to go there to achieve something, to
try to win the World Cup, quite simply. French football chief Noel Le Graet said
Ribery was jumping the gun announcing his World Cup retirement.
AFP
FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke took to the pitch Tuesday with
Brazilian great Ronaldo in a Rio de Janeiro favela to launch a project promoting
sporting opportunities for disadvantaged youths during the World Cup. Valcke,
best known in Brazil for haranguing local World Cup organizers to pay more
attention to deadlines, showed a lighter side as he kicked the ball around a small
pitch with Brazilian Sports Minister Aldo Rebelo, two-time World Cup winner
Ronaldo and a group of children and teens at the Football for Hope launch
event.
AFP
Prandelli plays
down racist taunt
aimed at Balotelli
n
Italy coach Cesare Prandelli played
down a racist incident aimed at striker Mario Balotelli at a pre-World Cup
training camp but striker Ciro Immobile said players have to help stamp out
the scourge.
Costa gets
horse placenta
for CL race
n
Atletico Madrid sent star striker Diego
Costa to Serbia for special horse placenta treatment in a bid to get him ready
for Saturdays Champions League final,
media reports said.
Costa, who will also be a key player
in Spains World Cup squad, is a major
doubt for the Lisbon final against Real
Madrid because of a right hamstring
injury.
Manager Diego Simeone said he will
give Costa every chance to be ready for
the match. And Atletico sent him on a
private plane to Belgrade for treatment
by Marijana Kovacevic, AS newspaper
and other media reported. l
centre intervened and although the incident did not appear to faze Balotelli
the striker hit out afterwards.
Only in Rome or in Florence do you
here these kinds of things, said Balotelli, who has been subjected to racist
taunts sporadically during his Serie A
career.
Italian football federation (FIGC)
president Giancarlo Abete called the
incident unacceptable.
It was an isolated incident from
someone who should not even have
been there, but its unacceptable, said
Abete, speaking from Milan.
Immobile, one of seven strikers at
the 30-strong training camp and hoping to make Prandellis final 23-man
squad, said the incident was symptomatic of widespread racism and discrimination in the country.
The Torino forward, who with 22
goals finished the season as Serie As
top striker, is from Napoli, a city which
sits in the shadow of the Mount Vesuvius volcano and whose fans are regularly taunted by rival fans.
Asked if he bearing witness to such
an incident made him feel ashamed
to be Italian, Immobile said: No Im
not ashamed to be Italian when I hear
things like this being said.
But it saddens me. Were in 2014
and to be hearing racist insults from
people, whether youre yellow, black or
white is just unacceptable.
Im from Napoli and to hear fans
shouting, wash them with the lava
from Mount Vesuvius isnt very pleasant.
Fortunately, Mario let it pass over
him and he got on with his training. But
we as players should do more to help
stamp this out. l
Banners of the Real Madrid and Atletico de Madrid football clubs hang on the facade of the Madrid City Hall on Tuesday. The two football teams of Madrid will play the Uefa Champions
League final in Lisbon on May 24
AFP
1-0 down.
The goal had been scored by Atleticos greatest player of all-time, Luis
Aragones, just six minutes from the
end of extra time, but the Spaniards
were denied when Miguel Reina -- father of current Napoli goalkeeper Pepe
Reina -- let Hans-Georg Schwarzenbecks hopeful effort slip through his
grasp.
In the days before penalty shootouts, Bayern went on to win 4-0 in the
replay in Brussels just two days later.
On Sunday an estimated 200,000
Atletico Madrid fans crowded round
An employee adjusts outer panels on a football inside the factory that produces official
match balls for 2014 World Cup in Brazil, in Sialkot, Punjab province on Friday REAUTERS
It usually takes six months to set up a production line, but the factory only had a month
- Adidas, the German sports equipment maker, was in a hurry. So Khawaja designed, made
and moved the equipment into place within 33
days. Everything had to be done from scratch.
But it was a success, and the firms previous
investment in thermal bonding technology paid
off. Only thermally bonded balls - made using a
glue that reacts with heat - are round enough
Beckham suffers
fresh blow to Miami
stadium plans
n
David Beckhams hopes of seeing his
new Miami football team play at a
prime spot at the port of Miami were
Tuesday all but blown out of the water
in a major setback for the former Manchester United idol.
The ex-Real Madrid and England
midfielder wants to build a $250 million
state-of-the-art open-air stadium with
25,000 seats for his recently acquired
MLS team. His preferred site, at PortMiami, would have spectacular sweeping
views of Biscayne Bay and downtown
Miami. But shipping interests and local
authorities have opposed the proposal,
fearing it will disrupt port operations. l
Brazil football players David Luiz (R) and Paulinho shave their beards during a promotional
event in Sao Paulo on Tuesday
REUTERS
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Ex-Bremen coach
Schaaf takes over at
Frankfurt
Heat re-group to
snuff out Pacers
n
The International Cricket Council will
investigate how evidence given to a
matchfixing probe had been leaked
to the media and take action against
anyone employed by them if involved,
chief executive Dave Richardson said
on Wednesday.
The latest matchfixing scandal broke
last December when New Zealand media reported that three former international cricketers had been linked to an
investigation by the ICCs Anti-Corruption Security Unit (ACSU) into alleged
matchfixing.
Last week, British newspapers published excerpts of confidential statements from former New Zealand batsman Lou Vincent, who had earlier said
he was co-operating with the ACSU, and
current captain Brendon McCullum.
Richardson said the ICC deeply regretted the leaks and re-iterated that
McCullum was not under investigation.
We are taking all steps available to
us to urgently investigate how certain
information in the form of statements
has come to find its way into the media, he said in a statement.
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LeBron James and Dwyane Wade combined for 45 points as the Miami Heat
rallied to beat the Indiana Pacers 87-83
on Tuesday and even their NBA playoff
series at 1-1. James and Wade scored
or assisted on the last 33 points for the
Heat who re-grouped from an embarrassing 107-96 loss in Sundays game
one of the best-of-seven Eastern Conference final series. Wade said he had
great chemistry with James on Tuesday
night. What we envisioned coming in
here is having two guys who are able to
be dynamic. We just make plays that feel
right, Wade said. I always know where
number six is on the floor. Him touching
the ball, or me touching the ball, is the
best thing for our team, Wade said.
Wade shot 10-for-16 en route to a teamhigh 23 points, while James tallied 22
with seven rebounds, six assists and
three blocked shots. Norris Cole came
off the bench to score 11 points.
AFP
Sport
BRIEF SCORE
Sri Lanka 183/7 (20 ov)
Thisara 49, Thirimanne 40, Vithanage 38,
England 174/7 (20 ov)
Hales 66, Bopara 28*, Malinga 3/28
Result: Sri Lanka won by 9 runs
MoM: Thisara Perera (SRI)
I really enjoy it, it doesnt matter, I
used to say to captains to give me the
ball.
Sri Lankas innings had been ticking
along at a steady pace with Kithuruwan
Vithanages 38 runs from 26 balls
and Lahiru Thirimanne, who was
eventually dismissed for 40, helping
them to 122-5 when Perera came to the
crease. l
England captain Alastair Cook (L) and Sri Lanka captain Angelo Mathews pose for a picture
with the ODI series trophy at the Oval cricket ground in London yesterday
AFP
In the circumstances, Vaughan believes Cook will be desperate for a successful series against Sri Lanka and India, Englands opponents in their home
international programme this season.
The pressure is on him. Any failure,
any disappointment will be jumped on
by a lot of people, Vaughan, who led
England in 51 Tests from 2003 until
2008, told BBC Sport.
Even though hes won an Ashes and
won in India, Cook will probably feel
like this is a fresh start, what hes going
to be judged on as an England captain.
He has made some tough calls.
He has got rid of his best pal -- batting
coach Graham Gooch -- although I believe it was a management decision
and a Peter Moores coaching decision
as much as Alastair Cooks.
He has got rid of the man who has
scored more runs for England than
anyone else in Kevin Pietersen so, although the public will be behind him,
there will also be more pressure on the
England side.
Cook is set to lead England in the first
one-day international against Sri Lanka
at The Oval on Thursday and former
off-spinner Graeme Swann, who dramatically retired during the Ashes, said
an early win would do wonders for the
morale of both players and fans alike.
Alastair Cook will be desperate for a
couple of new heroes to emerge and really stamp their names on proceedings
for the summer and become the new
faces of English cricket, Swann told
BBC Radio Five.
We need to play in front of full houses, we need to play exciting cricket, but
most importantly we just need to win.
Three or four wins at the start of this
summer and all will be forgotten. l
Supreme court
restores Sethi
n
Barcelonas new coach Luis Enrique (R) pose with club president Josep Maria Bartomeu
after signing his contract at the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona yesterday
AFP
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It was mango
mealybug,
not giant
Bangladeshi scientists do not agree
with the USDA finding
n Kamran Reza Chowdhury
US scientists have said the alien insect
that Bangladeshi professionals have
identified as the dangerous giant mealybug is actually a mango mealybug.
A swarm of the insect, said to have
originated in Africa, recently scared
the students of a college in Dhaka, forcing authorities to shut the it down for
a while. Before that, a large number of
these insects were first reported at a
naval base in the city.
A birds eye view shows a boat plying on Buriganga water that has turned pitch-black from years of pollution. The photo was taken recently in the citys Babubazar
25 days to respond.
The TSM declined to comment as it
is a sub-judice issue.
The consortium sources said they
would involve Bangladesh Football
Federation in the process and would
approach Fifa authorities as well if
necessary.
Another source said every stateowned TV channel reserves priority
to broadcast Fifa World Cup with
a concessional rate and BTV could
have it as private channels are locked in
legal battle. l
Meghalaya HC:
Pre-1971 Bangladeshi
settlers are Indians
and can vote
n Tribune Report
A group of young boys takes a dip in Padma River to get relief from a scorching 42.1 degrees Celsius temperature recorded in Rajshahi
yesterday
DHAKA TRIBUNE
Maldives
concerned about
undocumented
Bangladeshis
n Rabiul Islam
A seven-member delegation from the
Maldives yesterday alleged that a large
number of undocumented Bangladeshi
migrant workers were in the island
country.
The delegation expressed its concern
at a meeting with the representatives of
the Bangladesh Association of International Recruiting Agencies (Baira).
Alia Hirji, programme manager of
the IOM Maldives, said there were
100,000 migrant workers in the country
and most of them were Bangladeshis.
Hassan Khaled, chief principal immigration officer of the Maldives, claimed
a large number of undocumented Bangladeshis were staying in the country.
However, Baira Senior Vice-President
Ali Haider Chowdhury said people from
villages could not differentiate between
recruiting agencies and travel agencies.
With the assistance of travel agencies, innocent people went to the Maldives using visitor visas and tourist visas, he noted.
The Maldives delegation also held a
meeting with the officials of the Bureau
of Manpower, Employment and Training (BMET). l
n Hitler A Halim
When has one last seen a Tk1 coin?
Although, one of the DGs of the central
bank says they have a huge stock of metal
coins, people who need them every day
say the coins cannot be found anywhere.
With allegations rife that these coins,
made of a metal alloy, are being smuggled
across the borders, economists say the
absence is hurting peoples micro savings
habit, which may end up damaging the
countrys economy in the long run.
The journey from the capitals
Farmgate to Paltan intersection on a
local bus costs a commuter around
Tk6. If the commuter gives the conductor of the bus Tk7, the conductor will
not return the change.
He will say: I do not have Tk1
change.
If one buys a product for Tk7 from a
local grocery and gives a Tk10 bill, the
shopkeeper would inevitably give him a
Tk2 note and a Tk1 candy in return. His
reason is the same as the bus conductor.
Even about a year or so ago, small vendors could be seen selling coins in small
sacks in the capitals Mirpur, Farmgate,
Gulistan and Motijheel areas. Their main
customers were the bus conductors.
However, these coin sellers are
hardly seen these days.
Jasimu Uddin, the conductor of a
bus that runs on the Banani-Motijheel
route, told the Dhaka Tribune: There
was a time when our pockets used to
overflow with coins. Now you see, I do
not have a single coin in my pockets.
When we go to the banks, they say they
do not have them.
Md Saiful Islam Khan, a director general of the Bangladesh Bank, said: We
have sufficient coins in stock and can
entertain demands of any amount...
We have seen in our investigation of
banks that they
need
separate
counters for dealing with coins.
But,
because
the commercial
banks have limited space and
manpower, they
are reluctant to
exchange coins.
Sources said at
present, the central bank has a
stock of 4.47 crore
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B4 Obama discusses US
investment with
corporate executives
n Kayes Sohel
A company could now save a substantial amount of money on the expenses
for initial public offering (IPO), following introduction of the new subscription system for public shares.
Presently, the IPO expense eats up
on an average 4% to 6% of the total issue depending on the IPO size, shrinking available fund for investment, according to industry people.
Our best estimates suggest the IPO
expenses will come down to 30% of
the present expenditure once the new
system becomes effective, said MA
Hafiz, a director of AAA consultant a
leading issue manager.
He said bigger IPOs cost less and
smaller ones higher.
Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC) will make
new application process for IPO subscription effective from July 15 next.
Under the new system, retail investors will have to apply for IPO shares
allotment through their respective
brokerage firms and merchant banks,
and deposit money to their beneficiary
owners (BO) accounts.
The money will be transferred from
the investors account to the issuer companys escrow account if the investor
gets share allotment after IPO lottery.
As per the present procedures, investors need to submit money with
their applications for IPO shares to
their bank accounts where hours wasted standing in queues.
The new system will substantially reduce post-IPO management cost
Kay Telecom
vanished with
Tk125cr dues
n Muhammad Zahidul Islam
The telecom regulator has found no
existence of IGW operator Kay Telecommunications Ltd in its registered
address.
The International Gateway (IGW)
company owes Tk91.5 crore to Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory
Communication (BTRC) and around Tk35
crore to different mobile phone and Interconnection exchange (ICX) operators.
Ruling party lawmaker of Narayanganj
Shamim Osman owned the company before the recent sale of his stock to another person. He, however, claimed all dues
were paid before selling the company.
Shamim Osman got the IGW licence
in 2012 and launched Kay Telecommunications at the end of that yea.
BTRC blocked the firm last year as
its outstanding bills increased to nearly
Tk100 crore. But the IGW operator paid
only Tk9 crore to the regulator, said official sources.
BTRC recently sent a notice to Kay
Telecommunications official address
as registered. But the office was not
found in the address.
The telecom watchdog has now
decided to publish a notice on newspapers before taking any legal action
against the company.
Shamim Osman reportedly transferred his shares in the company to another person few months back.
As per the current document, he has
no stock in the Kay Telecommunications. This is not my concern anymore
as I have sold all the shares last year,
Shamim Osman told the Dhaka Tribune yesterday evening.
The MP said he sold the company
with a huge loss and paid all dues to
BTRC. BTRC, however, didnt send any
notice in this regard to Shamim Osmans Narayanganj address.
According to telecom sources, the
vanished company owes Grameenphone Tk15.48 crore, around Tk15 core
to other mobile phone operators and a
few crores to ICX operators. l
n Tribune Report
Investors are seen trading at a broker house in the capital amid a debudant stock in the country's two bourses after its initial public
offerings recently
TAHMIDUR RAHMAN
that is bigger than any other charges or
fees, said MD Muniruzzaman, managing director of IDLC Investments.
He said some Tk3 or Tk4 per application is charged from lottery draw to
refund warrant.
Now-a-days, people prefer to apply
in the primary market rather than secondary market, leading to increased
IPO applications and thus shooting up
He suggested the tax should continue for more one or two years as
there was a 50% reduction in the current fiscal year.
After 1-2 years, we will consider if
the tax should be in effect or not, but
not now.
Former finance adviser of a caretaker government AB Mirza Azizul
Islam suggested following international standard rate of tax on mobile
SIM cards.
As the VAT on SIM card could be
subjected to a universal VAT structure, we should analyse the rates of
other countries.
At different meetings and press
conferences recently, the telecom
operators urged the National Board
of Revenue (NBR) to cut Tk300 tax
on SIM saying the tax is against the
growth of mobile penetration.
It contradicts the governments
vision of building Digital Bangladesh,
they said.
At present, the operators pay a total of Tk300 tax for a SIM card sale,
which includes Tk109.96 value added
B2
DHAKA TRIBUNE
61,160,829
66,582
Traded Issues
288
Issue Gain
(Avg. Price Basis)
212
Issue Loss
(Avg. Price Basis)
68
2,261.07
27.41
235.88
Turnover (Volume)
2,713.52
Number of Contract
Company
Turnover
(Million Taka)
Turnover
(Volume)
5,884,956
Number of Contract
8,373
4410.63295
(+) 1.08%
Traded Issues
212
982.64411
(+) 1.11%
Issue Gain
(Avg. Price Basis)
157
1604.61517
(+) 0.93%
Issue Loss
(Avg. Price Basis)
49
13615.13450
(+) 0.95%
CSE - 30 Index :
11179.46010
(+) 0.83%
2,166.27
8472.38960
(+) 0.84%
26.26
Square Textile -A
GeminiSeaFood-Z
Imam Button -Z
Midas Financing-Z
Progressive Life-A
Reliance Insur -A
Standard Ceramic -A
Apex Footwear-A
-10.58
-6.55
-4.94
-4.88
-4.11
-3.28
-2.94
-2.80
Average (%
change)
-11.97
-6.55
0.00
-4.68
-4.14
-3.36
-2.91
-1.18
-2.22
-1.79
-1.11
-0.89
Company
Closing (%
change)
CSE LOSERS
Apex Footwear-A
Popular Life Insu. -A
Square Textile -A
Midas Financing-Z
Nitol Insurance -A
Peoples Insur -A
Mercantile Insur -A
BGIC -A
-27.01
-18.13
-11.23
-9.96
-7.79
-7.41
-7.27
-6.02
Average (%
change)
-27.02
-18.12
-11.88
-9.96
-7.79
-7.41
-7.27
-6.02
-4.44
-4.14
-4.37
-0.82
Company
Closing (%
change)
ANALYST
Closing
average
Closing
Bank
NBFI
Investment
Engineering
Food & Allied
Fuel & Power
Jute
Textile
Pharma & Chemical
Paper & Packaging
Service
Leather
Ceramic
Cement
Information Technology
General Insurance
Life Insurance
Telecom
Travel & Leisure
Miscellaneous
Debenture
DSE
Million Taka
257.52
63.87
56.84
325.74
138.66
282.06
0.89
359.47
513.33
0.87
68.75
35.31
11.18
335.27
14.85
30.77
47.88
107.91
16.92
45.39
0.06
Turnover
in million
Daily low
Latest
EPS
Latest
PE
87.17
135.50
8.00
19.54
114.33
64.76
43.00
343.26
87.90
135.50
7.70
19.50
114.30
64.80
42.90
339.80
88.20
135.50
7.80
20.50
116.50
65.00
44.90
359.00
84.00
135.50
7.70
19.00
112.10
61.00
42.40
337.10
14.548
0.108
0.016
0.127
0.343
0.327
0.215
16.957
6.60
-11.90
-1.85
-6.91
2.30
5.84
1.32
-11.44
13.2
-ve
-ve
-ve
49.7
11.1
32.6
-ve
4.46
11.13
4.40
11.00
4.70
11.30
4.10
10.20
1.401
21.207
-1.12
0.92
S. Alam CR Steel -A
BSRM Steels-A
GPH Ispat Ltd-A
Premier Cement-A
MeghnaCement -A
Appollo Ispat CL -N
ConfidenceCement A
AramitCementA
SummitAlliancePort.-A
Global Heavy Chemicals-N
Closing (%
change)
9.80
9.34
8.44
7.10
6.75
6.13
5.95
5.83
5.45
5.10
CSE GAINERS
Company
MeghnaCement -A
S. Alam CR Steel -A
BSRM Steels-A
Global Heavy Chemicals-N
GPH Ispat Ltd-A
ConfidenceCement A
Argon Denims Limited-A
AramitCementA
SummitAlliancePort.-A
Appollo Ispat CL -N
Closing (%
change)
10.00
10.00
9.86
7.35
7.17
6.61
6.42
6.08
5.94
5.30
Average (%
change)
7.80
7.56
7.21
4.89
5.70
4.39
4.16
4.92
4.74
5.00
Average (%
change)
8.72
8.97
7.60
5.94
4.28
4.89
3.13
5.04
4.24
3.76
Closing
average
32.05
70.71
47.86
87.35
127.08
27.37
126.04
43.08
23.00
44.92
Closing
average
128.29
32.55
70.61
44.75
47.97
126.89
55.39
43.17
22.87
27.31
Closing
32.50
72.60
48.80
89.00
128.10
27.70
128.30
43.60
23.20
45.30
Closing
129.80
33.00
72.40
45.30
49.30
129.10
58.00
43.60
23.20
27.80
Daily high
32.50
73.00
49.50
89.90
131.40
28.20
129.40
44.00
23.50
46.00
Daily high
129.80
33.00
72.40
45.90
50.00
130.00
58.00
43.90
23.30
28.20
Daily low
28.00
66.00
45.00
84.90
122.40
26.20
112.00
38.00
20.00
43.70
Daily low
125.00
29.90
62.00
44.00
46.00
122.50
50.00
41.60
21.80
26.50
Turnover
in million
14.681
91.263
33.350
8.683
21.540
44.826
23.691
9.942
7.446
25.831
Turnover
in million
0.513
1.745
6.632
1.163
1.241
1.690
0.028
1.382
1.580
10.307
Latest
EPS
1.90
4.72
2.42
3.67
7.00
1.69
8.52
0.68
1.08
2.48
Latest
EPS
7.00
1.90
4.72
2.48
2.42
8.52
4.04
0.68
1.08
1.69
Latest
PE
16.9
15.0
19.8
23.8
18.2
16.2
14.8
63.4
21.3
18.1
Latest
PE
18.3
17.1
15.0
18.0
19.8
14.9
13.7
63.5
21.2
16.2
-ve
12.1
Closing
average
Closing
Daily high
Turnover
in million
Daily low
Latest
EPS
Latest
PE
332.05
203.23
87.18
20.80
29.60
25.00
20.40
23.40
332.10
203.20
87.70
20.80
29.60
25.00
20.40
23.40
345.00
205.00
87.70
20.80
29.60
25.00
20.40
23.50
319.10
201.10
86.20
20.80
29.60
25.00
20.40
23.00
0.133
1.016
2.105
0.010
0.030
0.010
0.010
0.043
-11.44
17.00
6.60
-6.91
3.24
2.28
2.40
1.36
-ve
12.0
13.2
-ve
9.1
11.0
8.5
17.2
60.34
81.08
60.30
81.10
63.00
81.10
60.00
81.00
0.272
0.105
5.05
3.00
11.9
27.0
Daily high
DSE GAINERS
Stocks rebound
on buying binge
n Tribune Report
Stock
% change
9.49
2.35
2.09
12.00
5.11
10.39
0.03
13.25
18.92
0.03
2.53
1.30
0.41
12.36
0.55
1.13
1.76
3.98
0.62
1.67
0.00
Million Taka
22.45
6.58
2.51
28.83
10.17
20.45
39.44
62.55
12.11
3.25
12.84
1.41
22.57
1.32
0.78
3.41
11.83
3.26
6.14
0.00
CSE
% change
8.26
2.42
0.92
10.60
3.74
7.52
0.00
14.50
23.00
4.45
1.20
4.72
0.52
8.30
0.49
0.29
1.25
4.35
1.20
2.26
0.00
Million Taka
279.98
70.46
59.34
354.56
148.83
302.51
0.89
398.90
575.88
12.98
72.00
48.15
12.59
357.84
16.17
31.55
51.29
119.74
20.18
51.52
0.06
Total
% change
9.38
2.36
1.99
11.88
4.99
10.13
0.03
13.36
19.29
0.43
2.41
1.61
0.42
11.99
0.54
1.06
1.72
4.01
0.68
1.73
0.00
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Volume
shares
756,662
2,604,500
343,140
2,192,000
1,290,707
320,308
994,963
115,550
975,727
1,254,400
2,988,565
752,500
1,637,600
172,169
742,000
Volume
shares
167,790
287,000
168,500
377,400
38,975
93,924
110,200
17,800
14,500
7,800
53,000
329,565
52,000
175,472
254,498
Value in
million
199.10
178.18
97.85
96.51
91.26
83.66
69.85
59.52
59.26
58.83
50.92
44.84
44.83
37.69
36.66
Value in
million
44.37
12.62
11.52
10.31
7.17
6.63
5.17
4.66
4.15
4.03
3.72
3.70
3.11
2.96
2.95
% of total
turnover
7.34
6.57
3.61
3.56
3.36
3.08
2.57
2.19
2.18
2.17
1.88
1.65
1.65
1.39
1.35
% of total
turnover
19.30
5.49
5.01
4.48
3.12
2.89
2.25
2.03
1.80
1.75
1.62
1.61
1.35
1.29
1.28
Daily
closing
261.80
69.20
283.70
43.60
72.60
260.40
70.30
518.60
60.20
46.50
17.10
59.10
27.70
219.10
49.00
Daily
closing
263.30
43.50
69.60
27.80
184.00
72.40
46.50
260.40
284.00
520.50
70.10
11.10
60.10
17.00
11.60
Price
change
-0.80
3.13
0.75
0.93
9.34
-0.34
2.63
3.70
-0.99
0.43
Daily
opening
263.90
67.10
281.60
43.20
66.40
261.30
68.50
500.10
60.80
46.30
Price
change
Daily
opening
3.64
0.51
6.13
1.76
1.24
-0.34
1.16
4.66
5.30
1.15
9.86
1.09
-0.42
0.78
4.20
2.64
-0.89
1.69
3.66
0.00
16.50
58.80
26.10
215.30
48.40
264.20
43.00
66.50
26.40
181.90
65.90
46.00
261.50
281.80
499.50
68.30
11.20
59.10
16.40
11.60
Daily
high
267.00
70.00
287.00
44.70
73.00
263.50
71.50
521.00
63.00
47.50
Daily
low
258.00
67.10
260.00
43.20
66.00
240.00
63.50
504.00
57.10
46.20
Daily
average
263.13
68.41
285.17
44.03
70.71
261.20
70.21
515.08
60.73
46.89
Daily
high
Daily
low
Daily
average
17.40
60.50
28.20
220.00
50.00
266.00
44.60
69.90
28.20
185.00
72.40
47.50
264.00
288.00
521.90
71.30
11.40
60.80
17.20
11.70
14.90
58.50
26.20
210.00
48.80
263.00
43.10
66.90
26.50
182.50
62.00
46.00
260.00
280.00
507.10
69.00
11.10
58.10
16.50
11.00
17.04
59.59
27.37
218.91
49.41
264.44
43.99
68.39
27.31
184.00
70.61
46.88
261.72
285.96
516.36
70.16
11.24
59.80
16.89
11.60
DHAKA TRIBUNE
Business
B3
n AFP, Tokyo
US President Barack Obama talks to international business leaders at a meeting in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington
REUTERS
the many advantages of locating, growing and hiring in the United States, said
Jeff Zients, director of the White House
National Economic Council, in a conference call with reporters on Monday.
Facebook to expand
video ads to seven
countries outside US
n Reuters, San Francisco
covered or re-discovered that industrial jobs are creating value, that you
need to attract those investments into
the country, he told Reuters in an interview after the meeting. l
DHL, a logistics provider has provided its support to World Red Cross and Red Crescent
Day in Bangladesh by organising an annual blood donation campaign as part of its annual
Global Volunteer Day initiative. DHL Global Forwarding Bangladesh Country Manager
Nooruddin Chowdhury was present on the occasion
Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited Bogra Zone recently organised a daylong workshop on
women entrepreneurship development in Bogra. General manager of Bangladesh Bank,
Mizanur Rahman Jodder inaugurated the workshop as chief guest while workshop was
presided over by Md Mosharraf Hossain, Executive vice president and head of Islami Bank
Bogra zone
Trust Bank Limited CEO and managing director, Ishtiaque Ahmed Chowdhury seen
attending a national seminar on international financial regulations at BIBM Auditorium
in Dhaka. Md Abul Quasem, deputy governor of Bangladesh Bank was chief guest at the
seminar
Modhumoti Bank Limited recently signed a participation agreement for the refinance
scheme called Brick Kiln Efficiency Improvement Project. Abul Mansur Ahmed, general
manager and project director of Green Banking and CSR department of Bangladesh Bank
and Md Mizanur Rahman, MD and CEO of Modhumoti Bank signed the agreement
Japan's economy
was gathering speed,
despite fears that an
April 1 sales tax rise
will dent consumer
spending
The dollar was higher against other
Asia-Pacific currencies.
It rose to 58.82 Indian rupees from
58.59, to 11,502.50 Indonesian rupiah
from 11,446.30 and to 43.77 Philippine
pesos from 43.69.
The greenback also climbed to
1,027.15 South Korean won from 1,021.94
won, to Sg$1.2531 from Sg$1.2508, and
to Tw$30.17 from Tw$30.13.
The Australian dollar sank to 92.30
US cents from 92.93 cents and the
Chinese yuan dropped to 16.19 yen
from 16.24 yen. l
is now expected to go into partial operation in July next year. The full operation has also been delayed by one year
and is expected to begin in March 2016.
Officials said 60% works of the project have already been completed.
The joint venture of Isolux Ingenieria SA and Samsung C&T Corporation, a
Spanish-Korean consortium, obtained
the EPC (engineering, procurement
and construction) contract and started
work in August, 2012.
Isolux signed a contract with American General Electric in Dhaka to get
equipment supply for the power plant.
But following the start of the work,
when the contractor went to do the
heavy piling work, it found a huge water body at a depth of just 12-15 meters
beneath the construction site.
The state-owned Electricity Generation Company of Bangladesh (EGCB)
is implementing the project with joint
funding from World Bank and the government.
The fund is $339m for the power
plant along with 230 KV S/S and 11 km
230 KV transmission line and 60 km
Gas Pipe Line from Bakhrabad to Siddhirganj.
Earlier, the EGCB signed a contract
with its EPC contractor on 28 May, 2012
to set up the gas-based combined cycle
plant. About the EPC contractor, Isolux,
the envoy said its already a well-established company in South Asia.
The company has signed a contract
with the American General Electric
for supply of equipment for the power
station.
Besides this Siddhirganj plant,
Bangladesh
Telecommunications
Company Limited (BTCL) will implement the project by June, 2017.
Under the project, two core networks will be set up in Dhaka while
300km optical fibre will be laid in seven divisional headquarters, districts
and upazila levels with the installation
of 670 base transceiver stations (BTSs).
The planning minister said the project will expand the ICT related services
through ensuring high speed Internet.
The ECNEC also approved projects
including Construction of Divisional
and District Shilpakala Academy involving Tk193.97 crore and Uttara Lake
Development Project at Tk37 crore. l
National Bank Training Institute recently organised a foundation course for its 27
probationary officers. A K M Shafiqur Rahman, managing director and CEO of National
Bank Limited inaugurated the course
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Sacred cows
Exporting Modinomics
In Gujarat, Modi centralised control and
gained a reputation for browbeating Indias
notoriously slow bureaucrats.
He was known as a tough taskmaster
and reports say his office has already
begun sounding out chief secretaries in
various ministries asking them why stalled
infrastructure or industrial projects have
been held up.
But the challenge is greater on the national stage, where high consumer inflation
has kept interest rates elevated, discouraging consumer spending and investment.
Meanwhile, a hefty fiscal deficit means
the new BJP administration has no fiscal
firepower to spur an economy growing at
4.9% - half the level notched up as recently
as 2011.
Serious structural economic problems complete Modis difficult hand, as
A Mikado drone of German Federal Armed Forces Bundeswehr is operated during the
International Air Show ILA in Schoenefeld near Berlin. According to the organisers, 1,203
exhibitors from 40 countries will attend the aerospace trade show running until May 25,
2014
AFP
Politics of shopping
Though the weaker yen and its attractions appear set to drive Japans popularity as a destination, its ambition of
moving up in the world rankings for
inbound visitors has not been without
hiccups beyond local retailers control.
Visitors from mainland China, by far
the top spenders per head, fell 7.8 percent last year after Japans dispute with
China over islands they both claim ignited anti-Japanese sentiment.
South Koreans were scared away
towards the year-end by media reports
highlighting radiation fears left over
from the March 2011 nuclear disaster,
which in turn caused a big drop in overall visitors that year.
If you look at whats happening
now with Vietnam and China, things
can take a turn overnight, said Mitsukoshi Ginzas Murakami, referring to
the anti-Chinese riots in Vietnam this
month, also over territorial issues.
But if you take a really long view,
inbounds offer the biggest hope
to fill the hole of Japans shrinking
population. l
Yahoo! looking
to buy video
streaming
startup
n AFP, New York
Microsoft takes aim at laptops with new Surface tablet Google overtakes Apple as
n AFP, New York
Microsoft on Tuesday unveiled a new
Surface Pro tablet designed as a powerful all-purpose computer fit to replace
a laptop.
Surface Pro 3 was touted as slimmer, bigger and more powerful than its
predecessor and crafted for a world in
which people want to work as well as
play on tablets.
We want products and technologies that enable people to dream and get
stuff done, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella said at a press event in New York.
Pro 3 has a high-resolution screen
that is 12 inches (30.5 centimeters)
measured diagonally, weighs approximately 28 ounces (800 grams) and is
slightly more than a third an inch (0.9
centimeters) deep.
The tablet has the Surface trademark keyboard cover, but modified to
let users tilt it as they wish and more
securely anchor the device while being
used, say, in a persons lap.
It also comes with a pen that can
be used to remotely activate Pro 3 with
clicks or to write on it as though it were
a notepad.
We are super proud of Surface Pro
3, Microsoft corporate vice president
Panos Panay said while introducing the
tablet at the event.
I am sure that this is the tablet that
can replace the laptop.
Available mid-year
There is a lot of elegance in the device, but they have to prove they can
communicate that, Silver said at the
unveiling event.
If everything works as good as it
looks, you are getting pretty close to
a device that can replace a notebook
computer for a high percentage of
people.
which built its software empire working with partners who make computing
hardware, wants to pioneer a merging
of laptops and tablets and not to compete with device manufacturers.
We clearly are not interested in
building refrigerators or toasters; we
are not building hardware for hardwares sake, Nadella said.
The motivation is to create new
categories; we want to build productivity experiences.
Microsoft in March released Office software tailored for iPads, and it
soared to the top of the charts at Apples online App Store.
While Office applications for iPad
are free, subscriptions to Microsofts
online Office 365 service are needed
to be able to create or edit documents,
spreadsheets or presentations.
More than a billion people use Office, according to the Redmond, Washington-based technology titan.
The Pro 3 signals that Microsoft
has decided to play into its strengths
in business software and avoid going
head-to-head with bargain-priced tablets powered by Googles free Android
software, according to analyst Jack
Gold of J. Gold Associates.
Further, Microsoft finally seems to
understand it can not go head to head
with Apples iPad, Gold added in a research note, saying the Pro 3 is a superior business device for work. l
US search engine Google has overtaken rival technology titan Apple as the
worlds top brand in terms of value,
global market research agency Millward Brown said yesterday.
Googles brand value shot up 40% in
a year to $158.84bn (115bn euros), Millward Brown said in its 2014 100 Top
BrandZ report.
Google has been extremely innovative this year with Google Glass, investments in artificial intelligence and a
range of partnerships, said Benoit Tranzer, the head of Millward Brown France.
Google Glass is Internet-linked eyewear for which the firm has joined
hands with Luxottica, a frame giant
behind Ray-Ban and other high-end
brands, to sell the new product in the
United States.
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