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[
"Anwar Uz Zaman",
"Billy Ahmed"
] | 2016-08-26T12:50:58 | null | 2016-02-04T00:02:54 | ASSISTED by a group of highly committed revolutionaries, among whom Samiullah Azmi was by far the most prominent (until his murder in August 1971), from the middle of 1969 to the end of 1971, Siraj Sikdar succeeded... | http%3A%2F%2Fnewagebd.net%2F199351%2Fsikdar-samiullah-and-sarbahara-epilogue%2F.json | http://newagebd.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Logo-NA-light-200.jpg | en | null | Sikdar, Samiullah and Sarbahara: epilogue | null | null | newagebd.net | ASSISTED by a group of highly committed revolutionaries, among whom Samiullah Azmi was by far the most prominent (until his murder in August 1971), from the middle of 1969 to the end of 1971, Siraj Sikdar succeeded in building a formidable network of Sarbahara Party units and bases all over what was then East Pakistan.
After the creation of the independent state of Bangladesh in early 1972, open hostilities between the Awami League and the Sarbahara Party commenced almost immediately. Accusing president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman of surrendering to what they called ‘Indian expansionism’, the Sarbahara Party began an effective guerrilla campaign against the state, seizing police stations and attacking members of the security services.
The capture and death of Siraj Sikdar on January 2, 1975 was a huge victory for the Bangladesh government. It was the beginning of the end of the Purba Banglar Sarbahara Party as a serious political organisation and guerrilla outfit. An interim committee took charge of the party and a witch-hunt began. Suspected informers and ‘deviants’ were condemned and put to death. The party’s descent into factionalism, internecine warfare and brigandage was swift.
Many factions and splinter groups now claim to be the true successors of the Sarbahara Party. Some are no more than bandit groups, others still declare their fidelity to Marx, Mao and Sikdar. Between them, they are little more than an occasional nuisance for the police. The party is dead, long live the party!
What served the party in good stead in its formative stage, namely, a highly centralised structure and unquestioned loyalty to Sikdar, later lent itself to abuse and distortions. The huge void created by the supremo’s sudden capture and death in this very centralised and secretive organisation soon resulted in a tussle for power that tore the party asunder with the loss of quite a few lives.
Highly charismatic, intelligent and persuasive, Sikdar was bold and resolute. His disarming smile concealed a personality capable of ruthlessness in the pursuit of his goal. Which is why some who knew Sikdar very well think that had he succeeded in his goal of creating a revolutionary Maoist state in Bangladesh, he may well have resembled one of his rather infamous contemporaries, namely, Pol Pot of Cambodia.
A man of extraordinary intelligence and a natural leader of men himself, Samiullah was perhaps more of an intellectual and a visionary. As such, he was happy to let Sikdar play the pivotal role in the party from their first meeting in late 1967 to his death in mid-1971.
Siraj Sikdar outlived Samiullah Azmi by over four years. It defies understanding as to why he did not avenge the pre-meditated and treacherous murder of his deputy in August 1971 by Chairman Gyasuddin (aka Gesu Chairman), a known local leader of the Awami League, at a time when the Awami League itself was under attack by the Pakistani army and other forces loyal to it.
What is even more astonishing is that, in a major report Sikdar delivered to a party congress in January 1972, the first major party conference after August 1971, there is no mention at all of Samiullah’s murder in Savar, along with his 5-7 comrades. There is not even a tribute to them even though Savar is mentioned a few times in Sikdar’s report in connection with the expansion of the Sarbahara Party’s activities.
It is true that Siraj Sikdar sent a handwritten eulogy to Samiullah’s family informing them of his death. He also wrote a little poem in his fallen comrade’s memory. But his failure to investigate or avenge his murder and even to mention it at the next party meeting are acts of omission too significant to overlook.
Comrade Khaleda (aka Bulu) soldiered on, like a good revolutionary, even though she was deeply hurt with her forced separation from Samiullah for the last few months of the latter’s life, for which she holds Sikdar responsible, and with the latter’s failure to investigate her husband’s reported murder or to punish his killers.
In 1975, Khaleda fell seriously ill while on assignment in the Chittagong hill district. When she recovered, the party was in meltdown and comrades were killing fellow comrades. Khaleda returned to her home in Cooch Bihar in West Bengal in 1976, remarried in 1983, and has a son who is now thirty.
When she is not training teachers or counselling students, Khaleda spends her time pondering, reminiscing and browsing the Internet. I should add that she remembers Samiullah with the greatest love, admiration and affection. Having grown up on a steady diet of stories from his mom about her late comrade-husband, Tanvir has a strong feeling of bonding and intimacy with a man who died over a decade before he was born.
When Samiullah paid his last visit to his family home in Dhaka in late May or early June in 1971, he would have been told by our sister that our parents had left for Karachi in West Pakistan to escape the civil strife and violence that was engulfing East Pakistan.
There they died, our father in 1984, mother in 1992. Though Samiullah remained in their daily thoughts and prayers all those long years, they never ever uttered his name in my presence, knowing I would confirm what they didn’t want to hear, that their dear son had been killed before he turned 25!
Of the original group of 10 or so who had attempted to sow the seed of a ‘Maoist revolution’ in Teknaf, Aqa Fazlul Haq Rana worked long and hard for the revolution, mainly in the party’s strongholds in Barisal and Jhalakati.
Gone is Aqa’s revolutionary fervour, along with his Stalinesque moustache. If the false dawn of revolution had not interrupted his education, he would have been an electrical engineer. He now works as a management consultant in Dhaka, giving an occasional interview about Sarbahara.
During my recent visit to Dhaka, when I complimented Aqa’s wife on her great cooking, she credited Sikdar with some of her culinary skills. And not just the culinary skills, even her marriage to Aqa she owes to the Sarbahara supremo.
As Aqa recalls, one day Sikdar abruptly asked him: ‘Oye, bia korbi (Hey, would you like to marry)?’, to which this dedicated revolutionary immediately replied in the affirmative. Sikdar already had in mind for him this lovely young woman from a revolutionary family. Theirs was a match made in the party, by the boss himself!
As we shall see, this was not the only match-making which Siraj Sikdar can take credit for.
My college friend Anwar Hossain, a revolutionary to the marrow of his bones, almost Che Guevara-like, parted company with Siraj Sikdar following the failed Teknaf and Myanmar ventures. After a bit of solo adventure, actually more than a bit, he joined his famous brother Colonel Taher (then a commando in the Pakistan army) in a separate but parallel revolutionary initiative.
Both Anwar and his brother Abu Syed Ahmad (also of the Teknaf group), who later went on an unsuccessful solo expedition to the interior of Burma, led a rather tumultuous life for a few years thereafter. A lot of turmoil and a stint in jail following the execution of Colonel Taher by General Ziaur Rahman (later president of Bangladesh) in 1976, did not deter Anwar from obtaining a PhD in biochemistry from a Japanese university.
Anwar is now a very well-known academic, activist and columnist in Bangladesh. He has very fond memories of Samiullah and refers to him as a ‘mentor’.
Many tumultuous year later, Abu Syed retreated into private business. He now leads a peaceful, retired life, much lamenting the drowning death of his brilliant son in his mid-20s.
Another of my college friends, Matiur Rahman, left us rather early. Waking up one morning in a large shared hotel room in Chittagong, where we stayed a couple of nights on the way back from Teknaf, pondering our future course of action, we found his bed empty.
Where comrade Matiur should have been sleeping, there was a brief handwritten note from him instead. Although he was sorry to leave us, the note read, he just couldn’t bear the hardships and uncertainties any more.
From the original Teknaf contingent, Enayat (aka Babar) was one of the five (or seven?) who were killed along with Samiullah in Savar. Another, Mujib, or Kala Mujib to be precise, returned to the party after a brief hiatus, to leave again after the party’s meltdown. He recently died of illness.
Among the numerous post-Teknaf recruits of Samiullah, Farooq Bhai merits mention. Soft-spoken and gentle, with a poetic bent, he better fitted the image of a romantic film hero than that of a revolutionary capable of violence. After a stint with Sarbahara and following the death of Samiullah, whom he much adores, he resumed his medical studies.
Now an ophthalmologist in Dhaka, Farooq Bhai recalls the words of the poet Mohini Choudhury (1948), which Samiullah had quoted to lure him into the revolutionary ranks: “Muktir mandir sopanatale, kata pran hala balidan, lekha achhe ashru jale (how many lives have been sacrificed, at the altar of freedom, is written in tears)’.
I will be remiss if I fail to say a word or two about Sikdar’s wife, or wives, to be exact. When we first met in late 1967, he was already married to Roshanara, a semi-literate woman from a poor rural background, much younger to him. Marrying Roshanara, in defiance of his father, was perhaps Sikdar’s first revolutionary act — an overt rejection of his family’s ‘petty bourgeoise’ class background.
Roshanara was a good-looking, kind, shy woman with no pretensions or desires other than to be a good wife to her husband. In Teknaf, she gave birth to their first child, a girl named Shikha. I was called upon to run, literally, to fetch a doctor urgently. When I returned empty-handed, metaphorically speaking, without a doctor or a midwife, Sikdar literally had his hands full — holding the new-born he had helped deliver.
When Shikha would have been about a year old, sometime in early 1969, Sikdar got introduced to a revolutionary-minded woman named Jahanara, slightly older to him. She was the wife of a senior government official and the mother of their son and daughter, both in their teens. A published writer of short stories, she had very good looks and an impressive personality.
Finding Jahanara irresistible, Sikdar in short order declared that revolutionary men needed revolutionary wives, not docile housewives. From this self-serving ‘fatwa’ it was but a short step to making Jahanara his wife and Roshanara redundant. Perhaps to somewhat mitigate his sense of guilt, Sikdar later arranged for Roshanara (aka Mukti) to marry one comrade Jhinuk (aka Baufol).
Ironically, comrade Jhinuk didn’t survive the witch-hunt in the party during the turmoil after Sikdar’s death in 1975. This second husband of Roshanara, who thus became the step-father of Sikdar’s daughter, was denounced and executed within the year by the interim party leadership, which claimed to be defending Sikdar’s ‘correct party line’ against its many ‘internal enemies’.
I have had the pleasure of meeting comrade Jahanara (aka Rahela) more than once at the party’s secret headquarters in Khilgaon. She did not fail to impress me, but I could barely conceal my displeasure at Sikdar’s discarding of Roshanara (along with Shikha). I found his attempt to ideologically justify it laughable, if not contemptible.
The Wikipedia entry on the Purba Banglar Sarbahara Party (quoting Md Nurul Amin in ‘Asian Survey’ of July 1986) says that ‘in 1967 Siraj Sikder had formed the Mao Tsetung Thought Research Centre (MTRC) in Dhaka…. On January 8, 1968 the group formed the Purba Bangla Sramik Andolan (PBSA). The founding conference, which was completed in a single day, was held in the residence of a jute mill worker in Dhaka. The conference was attended by 45–50 followers of the centre.’
The correct date for the founding of the MTRC is towards the end of 1968, months after our return from Teknaf in the spring of that year. Also, there was no ‘founding conference’ of the PBSA on January 8, 1968 ‘attended by 45–50 followers’, as mentioned by Md Nurul Amin and quoted by Wikipedia.
On this date, a small group meeting was held at Sikdar’s residence in Khilgaon in which Sikdar, Samiullah and a few others, including this writer and Aqa Fazlul Haq Rana, were present. Here we agreed upon the manifesto and our determination to implement it under Sikdar’s leadership. Even the name Purba Bangla Sramik Andolan or East Bengal Workers’ Movement was settled upon somewhat later.
Three years later to the day, on January 8, 1971, a conference of the EBWM renamed itself as the Purba Banglar Sarbahara Party (East Bengal Proletarian Party). Though a mere change of name, January 8, 1971 is taken to be the party’s (as distinct from the movement’s) official founding date.
I will finish where I began this series of articles, with Samiullah Azmi. His life may have been tragically cut short by an Awami League warlord, but the flag he (along with his comrade-wife Khaleda) had designed for an independent East Bengal was later adopted by the Awami League government as the national flag of the new country of Bangladesh.
This flag, the bottle green rectangular design with a red disc in the middle, was first hoisted by party cadres on January 8, 1970, the second anniversary of the founding of the EBWM, at a few places in the country in the accompaniment of party posters and leaflets. After this was repeated on a much greater scale on the same date of the following year, the now-defunct daily ‘Purbadesh’, published from Dhaka, carried a report on the ‘natun pataka’ (new flag) on January 14, 1971.
It is fair to say, therefore, that each time a citizen of Bangladesh proudly looks at or salutes the country’s flag, it is also a tribute to the memory of Samiullah Azmi, the son of a railway station master from Koiryapar in Uttar Pradesh (India), who laid down his life at the age of 24 for the liberation of his beloved East Bengal and its people.
Razi Azmi is a former academic with a PhD in modern history. He now lives in Sydney, Australia. | http://newagebd.net/199351/sikdar-samiullah-and-sarbahara-epilogue/ | en | 2016-02-04T00:00:00 | newagebd.net/fd75f3282b238fce050abe8f27e97d96414669fb7ca4a7c9d6ac64448392526d.json |
[
"Anwar Uz Zaman",
"Billy Ahmed"
] | 2016-08-29T12:52:20 | null | 2016-08-29T18:10:52 | The National Human Rights Commission chairman, Kazi Reazul Hoque, on Monday said the killing of Willes Little Flower School and College student Suraiya Akhter Risha... | http%3A%2F%2Fnewagebd.net%2F249107%2Frisha-killing-clear-violation-freedom-movement-nhrc%2F.json | http://newagebd.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/NHRC.jpg | en | null | Risha killing a clear violation of freedom of movement: NHRC | null | null | newagebd.net | The National Human Rights Commission chairman, Kazi Reazul Hoque, on Monday said the killing of Willes Little Flower School and College student Suraiya Akhter Risha was clear violation of freedom of free movement and life, and, over all human rights.
The NHRC chairman, in a statement expressing his deep concern, and said that panic grips in the minds of schoolchildren and their guardians and such incidents is severe threat for law and order of the country.
‘Any citizen of an independent and sovereign country has right to move freely on roads. And, the state has the responsibility to ensure the right,’ he said.
He also urged to arrest the alleged killer Obaidul Khan immediately. | http://newagebd.net/249107/risha-killing-clear-violation-freedom-movement-nhrc/ | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | newagebd.net/b301233d8bf7760e5b0b48fa390fa697642db8085b5826742b0b51998e7540af.json |
[
"Anwar Uz Zaman",
"Billy Ahmed"
] | 2016-08-30T14:50:39 | null | 2016-08-30T19:55:25 | Chairman of the Anti-Corruption Commission Iqbal Mahmood on Tuesday said passport seekers should not suffer because of police verification... | http%3A%2F%2Fnewagebd.net%2F249316%2Fpassport-seekers-shouldnt-suffer-police-verification-acc-chief%2F.json | http://newagebd.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Bangladesh-passport-500X300.jpg | en | null | Passport seekers shouldn’t suffer for police verification: ACC chief | null | null | newagebd.net | Chairman of the Anti-Corruption Commission Iqbal Mahmood on Tuesday said passport seekers should not suffer because of police verification.
‘People often suffer when they seek passports from the Department of Immigration and Passports in the name of police verification as police do not give clearance to them without money,’ he said while addressing a public hearing in the capital.
Calling upon the home ministry to take the issue into account, the commission chief said all passport seekers are not criminals or accused in cases. ‘There should be a list of criminals at the Passport Department so that innocent passport seekers don’t suffer.’
The national anti-corruption agency held the public hearing on the services provided by the Department of Immigration and Passports at LGED auditorium in the city, reports United News of Bangladesh.
Mahmood said the passport offices of the department must be free from brokers for the smooth delivery of passports and the brokers should be brought to justice.
Criticising government officials, he said after getting public jobs they just open a shop of making money as they think that they will get salary for their jobs while collect bribes for works.
‘But, gone are the days of this colonial mentality. The country’s people have changed. They are now aware of their rights,’ he said.
Around 20 people who endured sufferings or were forced to give bribes for availing of services from the head office of the Department of Immigration and Passports, its Uttara office and Jatrabari office placed their complaints during the hearing.
Director general of the Passports Department Brigadier General Md Masud Rezwan said all the allegations raised during the hearing will be resolved following the legal procedures.
ACC commissioners Nasiruddin Ahmed and AFM Aminul Islam and additional secretary of home ministry Mahibul Haque, among others, spoke at the public hearing.
The commission has already held a number of public hearings on the services of government agencies. The public hearing is being arranged as part of the commission’s graft prevention activities being carried out following the Anti-Corruption Commission Act 2004 and the National Integrity Strategy. | http://newagebd.net/249316/passport-seekers-shouldnt-suffer-police-verification-acc-chief/ | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | newagebd.net/85913b5974b83002e5237902a56a0cff0d09c1fce197bcae5af18e7fa9a4f12b.json |
[
"Anwar Uz Zaman",
"Billy Ahmed"
] | 2016-08-31T08:51:36 | null | 2016-08-31T14:06:24 | United Kingdom prime minister Theresa May is to chair a meeting of her cabinet at Chequers to discuss the UK's approach to leaving the EU and its... | http%3A%2F%2Fnewagebd.net%2F249481%2Fuk-pm-hosts-brexit-brainstorm%2F.json | http://newagebd.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Theresa-May.jpg | en | null | UK PM hosts Brexit brainstorm | null | null | newagebd.net | United Kingdom prime minister Theresa May is to chair a meeting of her cabinet at Chequers to discuss the UK’s approach to leaving the EU and its objectives in future negotiations.
The prime minister and senior ministers are gathering to debate the way forward amid reports of tensions and diverging priorities among key figures.
Those present will include David Davis, Boris Johnson and Liam Fox, each of whose departments is focused on Brexit.
May has said talks with the rest of the EU will not begin this year.
BBC political correspondent Tom Bateman said May had asked every Cabinet minister before the summer break to identify what were described as the ‘opportunities’ for their departments and she will now expect them to report back.
The prime minister has said the UK government will not trigger Article 50 – the official mechanism for beginning the process of separation – until the start of 2017 at the earliest.
From that moment, discussions over the terms of the UK’s exit will conclude in two years unless all 28 members of the EU agree to extend them.
The UK voted to leave the EU, by a margin of 51.9 per cent to 48.1 per cent, in a referendum on 23 June and May, who became prime minister in its aftermath, has insisted that ‘Brexit will mean Brexit’.
But the relationship the UK will have with the EU after its exit, in terms of access to the EU internal market and obligations in regard to freedom of movement, remains unclear.
Wednesday’s meeting at the prime minister’s country residence is being seen as an opportunity for May and senior colleagues to talk through many issues involved ahead of this weekend’s summit of G20 leaders in China.
The talks are being billed as the most significant since the referendum result and mark an end to the relative lull in proceedings over the summer recess – which ends on Monday.
May, who has held face-to-face talks with the leaders of Germany, France, Italy, Ireland, Poland and Slovakia since taking office, has said time is needed to determine the UK’s strategy as a ‘sensible and orderly departure’ is in the national interest.
But several senior Conservatives have warned against undue delay and said nothing should stand in the way of the UK triggering Article 50 as soon as possible next year.
Among those round the table with May will be Chancellor Philip Hammond, Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, International Trade Secretary Liam Fox and David Davis, Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union.
Johnson, Fox and Davis are reported to have held private talks last week amid reports of early disagreements over the shape of a future Brexit settlement and departmental responsibility for trade issues.
Speaking on Tuesday, a No 10 spokesman said the government’s focus was on establishing the UK’s negotiating position and priorities with regard to the EU.
Although MPs would have a say on the timing of talks there was no legal requirement to consult Parliament before Article 50 was activated, he said.
Downing Street has also confirmed that May will not hold a second referendum or an early general election to give voters the chance to sign off on any deal struck between the UK and the EU.
Chequers, an isolated 16th Century mansion 40 miles north-west of London, has played host to a number of historic occasions in the past 50 years and was one of Margaret Thatcher’s favourite locations to conduct high-level meetings and personal diplomacy. | http://newagebd.net/249481/uk-pm-hosts-brexit-brainstorm/ | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | newagebd.net/96d66a58adfdadab794cf0bd8e2449fcaa61e5b10b5ee5c20cdf3ce9b9a779c5.json |
[
"Anwar Uz Zaman",
"Billy Ahmed"
] | 2016-08-29T02:49:19 | null | 2016-08-29T08:15:29 | Authorities in southern China say 10 people were killed and dozens injured when a bus overturned on a highway... | http%3A%2F%2Fnewagebd.net%2F249059%2F10-killed-china-bus-accident%2F.json | http://newagebd.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/China-map-1.jpg | en | null | 10 killed in China bus accident | null | null | newagebd.net | Authorities in southern China say 10 people were killed and dozens injured when a bus overturned on a highway.
The government of the Guangxi Autonomous Region said the accident occurred Sunday when the bus flipped over as it was approaching its final stop in the regional capital Nanning.
Another 32 people aboard the 47-seater bus were injured, five of them seriously. The bus driver was among those killed and the cause of the accident remains under investigation.
Driver fatigue and poor vehicle maintenance are the usual causes of such accidents, although a greater emphasis on safety has greatly reduced the death toll on China’s roads.
Bordering on Vietnam, Guangxi is among China’s poorer and less-developed regions. | http://newagebd.net/249059/10-killed-china-bus-accident/ | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | newagebd.net/b8a569bc25646f5173f6e5616ba2742e3399183921ab5175b91050eaef87918c.json |
[
"Anwar Uz Zaman",
"Billy Ahmed"
] | 2016-08-27T08:47:55 | null | 2016-08-27T10:44:04 | Abdullah Al Mamun, father of Rio 2016 rhythmic gymnastics individual all-around gold medalist Margarita Mamun, died at his home in Russia on Friday afternoon... | http%3A%2F%2Fnewagebd.net%2F248690%2Fbangladesh-origin-olympic-gold-medalist-margaritas-father-dies%2F.json | http://newagebd.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Logo-NA-light-200.jpg | en | null | Bangladesh-origin Olympic gold medalist Margarita’s father dies | null | null | newagebd.net | Abdullah Al Mamun, father of Rio 2016 rhythmic gymnastics individual all-around gold medalist Margarita Mamun, died at his home in Russia on Friday afternoon.
He was 52.
He is survived by his wife Anna, daughter Margarita and son Filipp Al Mamun, reports United News of Bangladesh.
In a Facebook status, state minister for foreign affairs Mohammed Shahriar Alam said Mamun passed away on Friday afternoon after a long battle with cancer.
Shahriar expressed his deep shock at the death of Mamun and prayed for the eternal peace of the departed soul.
Mamun will be buried in Russia after a namaz-e-janaza there, said the junior minister.
Abdullah Al Mamun, an engineer by profession, was born at Khudra Kashipur in Durgapur of Rajshahi.
He completed his SSC from Durgapur High School and HSC from Rajshahi College.
Later, he went to Russia in 1983 on a scholarship and married Russian citizen Anna.
His elder daughter Margarita won gold medal for Russia in rhythmic gymnastics individual all-around at the Rio Olympic Arena on August 20. | http://newagebd.net/248690/bangladesh-origin-olympic-gold-medalist-margaritas-father-dies/ | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | newagebd.net/738e2c94a47544ca12e0c0b2f00d32dcf2dc8b3e576d68e97800386fea826a1f.json |
[
"Anwar Uz Zaman",
"Billy Ahmed"
] | 2016-08-29T16:50:53 | null | 2016-08-29T20:14:06 | India’s West Bengal Assembly on Monday passed a resolution for renaming the state as ‘Bangla’ in Bengali and ‘Bengal’ in English, weeks after a proposal in this regard was put forward by chief minister Mamata Banerjee... | http%3A%2F%2Fnewagebd.net%2F249118%2Fwest-bengal-assembly-passes-resolution-renaming-state-bengal%2F.json | http://newagebd.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/west-bengal-map.jpg | en | null | West Bengal assembly passes resolution renaming state as ‘Bengal’ | null | null | newagebd.net | India’s West Bengal Assembly on Monday passed a resolution for renaming the state as ‘Bangla’ in Bengali and ‘Bengal’ in English, weeks after a proposal in this regard was put forward by chief minister Mamata Banerjee.
Speaking to the reporters after passing of the resolution, Mamata said, ‘Everyone would be happy with the change of name of Bengal. The people of Bengal have accepted the name ‘Bangla’. We have given importance to that. Congress, CPM, BJP have opposed to the renaming of the state. If the opposition is doing this for the sake of it, then it is very much unfortunate.’
Mamata said the TMC Government would send the resolution to the Centre as it needs to be passed in the Parliament, reports The Indian Express.
‘Bombay has become Mumbai, Madras has been renamed Chennai and there are many other instances. The base is Bengal and we want to take everyone along with us. We are proud as Bengalis. Our intention is to make Bengal world famous. I hope this decision will be good for Bengal. There should be a brand of Bengal. We are proud that with your help, we could adopt this name,’ she added.
Taking a strong exception to the opposition parties who did not support the resolution, Mamata said, ‘Those who did not support us in this, the future won’t forgive them. It will remain as a blot. The Congress has turned into a frontal organisation of the CPM by opposing everything. They play ‘narad narad’ by seeing any issue.’
Further escalating her attack on the Centre, the West Bengal chief said the ruling dispensation there has sold themselves to the BJP workers in the House.
‘If the people of a party control the government like this, then you can understand that their intention is to oppose at every single step. Why should any middleman take its responsibility and say they won’t allow it? This is wrong and if need be, I will talk about this with the home minister,’ she added.
Mamata said she respects all political parties but they must have a responsibility.
‘Just because they could not pass the resolution, they are criticising it. I don’t think they have the right to do politics in Bengal who do not support anything for the benefit of Bengal. This is very unfortunate. We are also against the policies of the centre but we cannot allow losses of crores in the name of Bandhs,’ she added.
The proposal to pass the resolution was approved by the special session of the West Bengal Assembly, which was convened on August 26 to discuss the renaming of the state.
In 2011, the state government had sent a proposal to the Centre for renaming West Bengal as ‘Paschim Bango’, but that never got the green signal.
Another reason for changing the name of the state is that whenever there is any meeting of all states, West Bengal comes at the bottom of the list alphabetically.
After the partition of India in 1947, Bengal was bifurcated as East Bengal and West Bengal. East Bengal became a part of Pakistan.
It was rechristened East Pakistan in 1956 and later emerged as the independent nation of Bangladesh after the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971. | http://newagebd.net/249118/west-bengal-assembly-passes-resolution-renaming-state-bengal/ | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | newagebd.net/71a6ef819cbc0cb3be44460d4e8fb7960fc2d59ab635a6166d38247616700472.json |
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] | 2016-08-28T06:50:29 | null | 2016-08-28T10:10:13 | Detectives on early Sunday arrested six accused including the prime suspect in the case of killing four people including Awami Sechchhasebak League Leader Mahbubur Rahman Gama in August 2015 at Badda in August 2015... | http%3A%2F%2Fnewagebd.net%2F248880%2Fbadda-four-murder-key-accused-among-six-held%2F.json | http://newagebd.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/badda-map1.jpg | en | null | Badda four murder key accused among six held | null | null | newagebd.net | Detectives on early Sunday arrested six accused including the prime suspect in the case of killing four people including Awami Sechchhasebak League Leader Mahbubur Rahman Gama in August 2015 at Badda in August 2015.
‘DB arrested six people including principal accused of Badda four murder case with 2 pistols and four ammo,’ said Dhaka Metropolitan Police in a short message sent to media in the morning.
The message said that detailed information will be informed at about noon in a press briefing at DMP media centre. | http://newagebd.net/248880/badda-four-murder-key-accused-among-six-held/ | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | newagebd.net/7eabda4e5e36d815cde4f4808be40c5aadc2a4d97ddb896c3cf0d2dd2b86dcb5.json |
[
"Anwar Uz Zaman",
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] | 2016-08-26T18:50:05 | null | 2016-08-27T00:25:34 | Police arrested a cousin of MP Abdur Rahman Badi reportedly along with 10,000 Yaba tablets from Chowdhurypara of Teknaf municipality Thursday night... | http%3A%2F%2Fnewagebd.net%2F248648%2Fbadis-cousin-held-yaba-pills-coxs-bazar%2F.json | http://newagebd.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Logo-NA-light-200.jpg | en | null | Badi’s cousin held with ‘Yaba pills’ in Cox’s Bazar | null | null | newagebd.net | Police arrested a cousin of MP Abdur Rahman Badi reportedly along with 10,000 Yaba tablets from Chowdhurypara of Teknaf municipality Thursday night.
The arrested was identified as Mohammad Hossain Kala, 40, son of late Dudu Miah of Shah Porir Dwip Jaliyapara and a cousin of Badi.
Local people said several young men snatched a Yaba consignment from a group of smugglers on Thursday noon. Kala took away a packet of Yaba pills from Ayesha, 35, wife of Md Alkas of the area.
As the news spread around, police launched a drive to arrest the culprits, said Md Abdul Mazid, officer-in-charge of Teknaf Model Police Station.
Later, the law enforcers arrested Kala along with the Yaba tablets worth Tk 30 lakh at night.
Meanwhile, police also arrested Ayesha from the area on Friday morning.
A case was filed against four people, including the arrestees, said sub-inspector Kanchan Kanti Paul. | http://newagebd.net/248648/badis-cousin-held-yaba-pills-coxs-bazar/ | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | newagebd.net/afc8d8a83c0beb2c83d81a8eb1e0e62b07acd04332a0973dcd797aac5bb1d31e.json |
[
"Anwar Uz Zaman",
"Billy Ahmed"
] | 2016-08-26T12:49:16 | null | 2016-02-02T12:51:32 | The International Crimes Tribunal-1 on Tuesday handed down death sentences to Obaidul Haque alias Taher, and Ataur Rahman Noni of Netrakona for their crimes against humanity... | http%3A%2F%2Fnewagebd.net%2F198959%2Ftaher-noni-to-walk-to-the-gallows%2F.json | http://newagebd.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/ICT2.jpg | en | null | Taher, Noni to walk to the gallows | null | null | newagebd.net | The International Crimes Tribunal-1 on Tuesday handed down death sentences to Obaidul Haque alias Taher, and Ataur Rahman Noni of Netrakona for their crimes against humanity they committed during the war of independence in 1971.
The three-member tribunal delivered the unanimous judgment by reading summary of the 268-page verdict against the duo in a crowded courtroom in the Old High Court building amid tight security.
The presiding judge of the tribunal, Justice Anwarul Haque, pronounced the verdict around 12:15pm while two other judges Justice Md Shahinur Islam, and Justice Md Shohrowardi were present.
The tribunal kept it open for the government to execute the punishment either by hanging or by shooting them.
Both Taher, 65, and Noni, 62, who were in the dock, were tried on six counts of crimes against humanity, they committed at different places of the then Netrakona sub-divisional town during the Liberation War.
The duo was sentenced to death on two charges — one for killing seven persons including Jafar Ali Talukder on October 19, 1971, and raping a woman on the same day; and, other for killing six persons including Bodiuzzaman Mukta after abducting and torturing them on November 15 and 16, 1971.
They were awarded imprisonment for life until death in two other charges — one for killing liberation war organiser Fazlur Rahman Talukder, looting Baushi Bazar and set it on fire on August 17, 1971; and, other for abducting Dabir Hossain, and torturing and killing him on October 4, 1971.
The convicts were, however, acquitted from two other charges — one from grabbing houses of Moloy Biswas and Shrish Chandra Sarkar deporting their family members in mid-May 1971; and, other from killing 15 persons including teacher Kamini Chakrabarty in early October 1971.
Prior to the verdict, the two reached the tribunal around 9:20am from the Dhaka Central Jail amid tight security.
The tribunal on Monday announced that it would deliver the verdict in the war crimes case against Taher and Noni today.
On January 10, on completion of the trial of Taher and Noni, the tribunal said that the verdict would be delivered later.
Taher and Noni came from Mokhterpara in Netrakona town.
In 1971, Taher was an active leader of Nezam-e-Islami Party.
The prosecution could not ascertain what Noni’s political identity was in 1971.
In 1971, Taher was the commander of the Razakar force at Netrakona town and Noni was its member, according to the prosecution.
Both of them were indicted on March 2, 2015 and their trial began on April 5.
The defence produced no witnesses while 23 prosecution witnesses testified against the duo.
This was the 22nd verdict in as many war crimes cases since 2010, when the first ICT was constituted. For the ICT-1 it was the 11th verdict.
The ICT-2, constituted on March 22, 2012, is not functioning since September 15. The ICT-2 delivered verdicts in 11 war crimes cases.
Until now, 24 war offenders have been convicted, mostly Jamaat leaders.
(Updated) | http://newagebd.net/198959/taher-noni-to-walk-to-the-gallows/ | en | 2016-02-02T00:00:00 | newagebd.net/d9cb4b138c7dc04844a275a96121f626ad09bd67f5ee46d2244bcb6ff7cc5ae7.json |
[
"Anwar Uz Zaman",
"Billy Ahmed"
] | 2016-08-28T08:50:57 | null | 2016-08-28T13:48:15 | Members of Border Guard Bangladesh recovered 3.25 kilograms of heroin from Raninagar area in Godagari of Rajshahi on Saturday night. BGB in a press release said on secrete information that... | http%3A%2F%2Fnewagebd.net%2F248891%2F3-25kg-heroin-seized-rajshahi%2F.json | http://newagebd.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Rajshahi-map.jpg | en | null | 3.25kg heroin seized in Rajshahi | null | null | newagebd.net | Members of Border Guard Bangladesh recovered 3.25 kilograms of heroin from Raninagar area in Godagari of Rajshahi on Saturday night.
BGB in a press release said on secrete information that a group of drug peddlers were selling heroin in the area, a team of the border force conducted a drive there at about 8:45pm, reports United News of Bangladesh.
Sensing the presence of the BGB members, the smugglers managed to flee the scene leaving behind a bag.
Later, the border force recovered 3.25 kilograms of heroin from the bag.
A case was filed. | http://newagebd.net/248891/3-25kg-heroin-seized-rajshahi/ | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | newagebd.net/35fcd1a18b6f18da080376d62e079ffc97faf54f5688cd16ad6c9e7fc6940a27.json |
[
"Anwar Uz Zaman",
"Billy Ahmed"
] | 2016-08-29T12:51:55 | null | 2016-08-29T18:37:19 | Police on Monday sent a student of Barisal Government Brajamohun College to jail as he posted a disgraceful comment against Awami League lawmaker Jebunnessa Afroj on facebook... | http%3A%2F%2Fnewagebd.net%2F249111%2Fbm-college-student-sent-jail-facebook-post%2F.json | http://newagebd.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/1669_BM-College.jpg | en | null | BM College student sent to jail for facebook post | null | null | newagebd.net | Police on Monday sent a student of Barisal Government Brajamohun College to jail as he posted a disgraceful comment against Awami League lawmaker Jebunnessa Afroj on facebook.
The accused is identified as Junayed Ahmed Sumon, a student of social welfare department and also Bangladesh Chhatra League activist of BM College unit.
BCL organising secretary of district unit Rajib Hossain said accused BCL activist Sumon is son of Kabir Farazi of Badura of Mathbaria in Pirojpur.
Officer-in-charge of Kotwali police station Shah Md Awlad Hossain said Sumon copied a photo of the lawmaker from a facebook status.
Then he cut face of the lawmaker and attached it with a body of an Indian actress, he said.
After that Sumon posted the photo on his facebook wall and commented that female lawmaker now turned into a female model.
Later Shoyeb Ahmed Sejan a city Juba League activist after seeing the photo lodged a case in this connection.
Police arrested Sujon from a student mess at Kawnia area on early Monday.
BM College principal Imanul Hakim said legal steps would be taken against the accused. | http://newagebd.net/249111/bm-college-student-sent-jail-facebook-post/ | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | newagebd.net/a1c70f3d2da1805310be98ed033574f4f9774aafc94547be43621e96d5dce16b.json |
[
"Anwar Uz Zaman",
"Billy Ahmed"
] | 2016-08-26T12:57:14 | null | 2016-08-26T17:23:13 | Yemen's rebel-run news agency says airstrikes by the Saudi-led coalition have killed 11 civilians and wounded others in the northern city... | http%3A%2F%2Fnewagebd.net%2F248527%2F11-civilians-killed-airstrikes-northern-yemen%2F.json | http://newagebd.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/yemen-map.jpg | en | null | 11 civilians killed in airstrikes in northern Yemen | null | null | newagebd.net | Yemen’s rebel-run news agency says airstrikes by the Saudi-led coalition have killed 11 civilians and wounded others in the northern city of Saada.
The agency, SABA, which is under control of the Shiite rebels known as Houthis, reported on Friday that the airstrikes destroyed two houses located in the district of Baqam in the city of Saada — a Houthi stronghold.
It says women and children are among the dead, and that subsequent flyovers of coalition planes delayed the rescue operation. Some of the wounded are in critical condition, which may lead to a higher death toll.
The strikes came a day after the United Nations demanded an international investigation in the killings of civilians in Yemen. | http://newagebd.net/248527/11-civilians-killed-airstrikes-northern-yemen/ | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | newagebd.net/a193d02426f6a28bd6371b6bba3a06f5682c24a8771d3e639ea84eaa7a6b7eb0.json |
[
"Anwar Uz Zaman",
"Billy Ahmed"
] | 2016-08-29T06:50:17 | null | 2016-08-29T11:45:44 | Seven police personnel including an officer-in-charge were injured in a ‘gunfight’ with suspected criminals along Songrampunji border at Gowainghat... | http%3A%2F%2Fnewagebd.net%2F249077%2Fseven-policemen-injured-sylhet-gunfight%2F.json | http://newagebd.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Sylhet-map.jpg | en | null | Seven policemen injured in Sylhet ‘gunfight’ | null | null | newagebd.net | Seven police personnel including an officer-in-charge were injured in a ‘gunfight’ with suspected criminals along Songrampunji border at Gowainghat in Sylhet early Monday.
Gowainghat police officer-in-charge Delwar Hossain was among the injured.
Police arrested a suspected miscreant leader Stalin Tariang, 32, of Gowainghat, at the spot.
A team of police led by the Gowainghat police officer-in-charge, on secret information that a group of miscreants joined a meeting to commit destructive activities, conducted a drive at Sangrampunji around 3:30am, said Gowainghat police sub-inspector Md Rafiqul Islam.
Sensing the presence of law enforcers, the miscreants opened fire on police prompting them to retaliate that triggered a gunfight, he said.
At one stage of the gunfight, police arrested Stalin who was attempting to flee the scene, he said, adding that his other associates managed to flee.
Police recovered two pistols, one rifle, one slipper gun, 30 rounds of bullets, and six sharp weapons from the spot. | http://newagebd.net/249077/seven-policemen-injured-sylhet-gunfight/ | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | newagebd.net/ba0a11ed8b48867ecfd4bb5e1be16c341c9219cb887daf0d0bb827e608a8f9e9.json |
[
"Anwar Uz Zaman",
"Billy Ahmed"
] | 2016-08-27T20:50:32 | null | 2016-08-28T00:33:13 | National committee to protect oil, gas and mineral resources, power and ports on Saturday said it was not the money, but the youth who are the main force behind the movement to protect the Sunderbans... | http%3A%2F%2Fnewagebd.net%2F248869%2Fyouth-main-force-behind-sunderbans-protection-movement%2F.json | http://newagebd.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Logo-NA-light-200.jpg | en | null | ‘Youth is the main force behind the Sunderbans protection movement’ | null | null | newagebd.net | National committee to protect oil, gas and mineral resources, power and ports on Saturday said it was not the money, but the youth who are the main force behind the movement to protect the Sunderbans.
It also said the movement was created by people like in the language movement, the pro-democracy movement in the 1960s, the mass uprising and the war of independence.
The committee made the observations in a statement immediately after the prime minister raised questions at a press conference about the funding sources of the Sunderbans protection movement.
The national committee to protect oil, gas and mineral resources, power and ports has been leading the movement for cancellation of the proposed Rampal coal fired power plant saying it would ruin the Sundarbans.
Expressing dismay over the PM’s statement on the Rampal power plant, the committee said her speech was influenced by the propaganda of the company.
The Bangladesh-India Friendship Power Company will implement the power plant project under a joint venture of Bangladesh Power Development Board and the National Thermal Power Corporation Limited of India.
The construction of the power plant has become a controversial issue as the mangrove forest is situated about 14 kilometres away from the proposed 1,320-megawatt power plant site.
The national committee to protect oil, gas and mineral resources, power and ports also said the PM tried to taint the Sundarbans protection movement by taking advantage of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia’s recent statement in a press conference.
It said Khaleda’s statement created confusion about the movement’s motives. | http://newagebd.net/248869/youth-main-force-behind-sunderbans-protection-movement/ | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | newagebd.net/5bde71948bf9b3a78e7956f67c5256dcae8f44d5228ce007f5f1f2d4e65038cf.json |
[
"Anwar Uz Zaman",
"Billy Ahmed"
] | 2016-08-26T20:48:03 | null | 2016-08-27T00:36:31 | Scientists who study earthquakes in Japan said Thursday they have detected a rare deep-Earth tremor for the first time and traced its location to a distant and powerful storm... | http%3A%2F%2Fnewagebd.net%2F248659%2Fscientists-detect-rare-deep-earth-tremor%2F.json | http://newagebd.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Logo-NA-light-200.jpg | en | null | Scientists detect rare, deep-Earth tremor | null | null | newagebd.net | Scientists who study earthquakes in Japan said Thursday they have detected a rare deep-Earth tremor for the first time and traced its location to a distant and powerful storm.
The findings, published in the US journal Science, could help experts learn more about the Earth’s inner structure and improve detection of earthquakes and oceanic storms.
The storm in the North Atlantic was known as a ‘weather bomb,’ a small but potent storm that gains punch as pressure quickly mounts.
Groups of waves sloshed and pounded the ocean floor during the storm, which struck between Greenland and Iceland.
Using seismic equipment on land and on the seafloor that usually detects the Earth’s crust crumbling during earthquakes, researchers found something they had not detected before—a tremor known as an S wave microseism.
Microseisms are very faint tremors.
Another kind of tremor, known as P waves, or primary wave microseisms, can be detected during major hurricanes.
P waves are fast-moving, and animals can often sense them just before an earthquake hits.
The elusive S waves, or secondary waves, are slower, and move only through rock, not liquid. Humans feel them during earthquakes.
Using more than 200 stations operated by the National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention in Japan’s Chugoku district, researchers Kiwamu Nishida and Ryota Takagi ‘successfully detected not only P wave microseisms triggered by a severe and distant North Atlantic storm, known as a weather bomb, but also S wave microseisms, too,’ said the study.
‘The discovery marks the first time scientists have observed… an S wave microseism.’
Microseism S waves are so faint that they occur in the 0.05 to 0.5 Hz frequency range.
The study in the journal Science details how researchers traced the direction and distance to the waves’ origins, and the paths they travelled.
The discovery ‘gives seismologists a new tool with which to study Earth’s deeper structure,’ said Peter Gerstoft and Peter Bromirski of the University of California, San Diego in an accompanying Perspective article. | http://newagebd.net/248659/scientists-detect-rare-deep-earth-tremor/ | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | newagebd.net/f0f24cb47e07281c2dd0a989126271cdce0bdc15aa009c81e4e235bcfb9d031c.json |
[
"Anwar Uz Zaman",
"Billy Ahmed"
] | 2016-08-27T20:49:07 | null | 2016-08-28T00:37:22 | The government has no immediate plan to reduce price of fuel oils in the local market although in April it said it would lower prices in phases, in three months’ time, if the global fuel prices remained low... | http%3A%2F%2Fnewagebd.net%2F248871%2Fgovt-no-plans-cut-fuel-oil-prices%2F.json | http://newagebd.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Logo-NA-light-200.jpg | en | null | Govt has no plans to cut fuel oil prices | null | null | newagebd.net | The government has no immediate plan to reduce price of fuel oils in the local market although in April it said it would lower prices in phases, in three months’ time, if the global fuel prices remained low.
After severe criticism, the government on April 25 reduced the price of kerosene and diesel by only Tk 3, to Tk 65 per litre, and that the price of petrol and octane by Tk 10 per litre, with no discernable impact on the market and cost of living.
Earlier in the month, the government lowered furnace oil price by Tk 18 per litre to Tk 42 to bring down electricity generation costs.
Energy division officials on condition of anonymity said the government was trying to maximise its earnings capitalising on the lower price of fuel oil in the international market as the price of Brent Crude is still less than $50 per barrel.
State minister for power, energy and mineral resources Nasrul Hamid told New Age that the government had no plans to reduce the prices of fuel oils soon.
When asked, he admitted that BPC was making huge profits.
He said that the issue of price adjustment of fuel oil was now dependent on the decision of Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission over increasing the prices of natural gas. The price of fuel oils would only come down now if the drop in earnings can be made up through a hike in gas prices.
On August 18, the commission concluded a series of hearing on the proposals of state-run utilities to raise the price of natural gas. The commission will issue its order on the proposals in 90 working days after the last day of hearing.
Consumers Association of Bangladesh energy adviser M Shamsul Alam said that the last fuel price cut only benefited the rich and the owners of transport vehicles and irrigation pumps, as the transport fares or the cost of irrigation for farmers did not come down simultaneously.
Economist and member secretary of the National Committee to Protect Oil, Gas, Mineral Resources, Power and Port Anu Muhammad said that the government and its advisers — the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund — had fooled the people by hiding its earnings from duties and taxes from the sale of fuel oils and used the sector to fill its coffers.
Till the fiscal 2014-15, the government had earned over Tk 75,552 crore in 40 years in the form of duties, taxes and other levies against net subsidy of approximately Tk 39,000 crore, confirmed officials of state-run Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation.
In the past fiscal year 2015-16, the corporation gave Tk 5,950 crore in duties and taxes and made a profit of approximately Tk 7,500 crore.
On the advice and conditions set by the IMF and the World Bank, the government raised the prices of diesel and kerosene by Tk 24 per litre – from Tk 44 to Tk 68 – and that for petrol and octane by Tk 22 per litre in four phases, between May 2011 and January 2013.
The frequent rise in fuel prices increased the cost of living through inflation, which affected every sector including transportation, kitchen market, house rent and other service sectors.
The price of Brent crude reached its peak at $117 per barrel in June, 2014, and then started falling, reaching as low as below $30, before it recently rebounded to approximately $50. | http://newagebd.net/248871/govt-no-plans-cut-fuel-oil-prices/ | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | newagebd.net/ca06817ee3d74c9ba0a76ae574163885b602d8c3ee81ecd5a9c1f8d1ddd244a4.json |
[
"Anwar Uz Zaman",
"Billy Ahmed"
] | 2016-08-27T10:47:58 | null | 2016-08-27T16:29:49 | Petrol pump and tank-lorry owners and workers called a 7-hour strike for Sunday to press home their 12-point demand, including cancellation of 'abnormal' land lease charge... | http%3A%2F%2Fnewagebd.net%2F248701%2Fpetrol-pump-tank-lorry-owners-call-seven-hour-strike-sunday%2F.json | http://newagebd.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/petrol-pump1.jpg | en | null | Petrol pump, tank-lorry owners call seven-hour strike for Sunday | null | null | newagebd.net | Petrol pump and tank-lorry owners and workers called a 7-hour strike for Sunday to press home their 12-point demand, including cancellation of ‘abnormal’ land lease charge.
All petrol pumps and tank-lorry operations will remain off from 6 am to 3 pm across the country on the day as per an announcement of Bangladesh Petrol Pump and Tank-lorry Owners-Workers Unity Council, a new body formed by the owners and workers in the sector.
The Unity Council announced the programme at a press conference at a city hotel last week.
‘Our strike will be observed all over the country as per earlier announcement as the government had not taken any step to meet our demands,’ convenor of the Bangladesh Petrol Pump and Tank-lorry Owners-Workers Unity Council told United News of Bangladesh.
One of the main demands of the council is cancellation of new ‘abnormal’ land lease charge imposed by the Roads and Highways Department for the use of its land by petrol pump owners for the operation of their pumps.
‘Our land lease charge has been raised by about 188 times through a recent order. Currently, we pay about Tk 64,000 annually for the use of a land. Once the new rate is effective, we’ll have to pay Tk 27 lakh a year,’ said Nazmul Haque, citing an example of a land in Matuail area.
The rate may vary from area to area, but the enhancement, in most cases, is nearly 188 times which is totally abnormal.
The other demands include re-fixation of commissions on the sale of petroleum, increasing the tank-lorry fares, introducing Tk 5-lakh accident-insurance coverage for tank-lorry workers, re-fixation of evaporation and operation loss at reasonable level, giving priority to tank-lorries at the ferry terminals, banning the sale of petroleum fuel by private refiners to petrol pumps to check the fuel adulteration or allowing them under necessary legal framework.
Construction of new terminals for tank-lories in new locations and renovation of old terminals, reviewing the existing policy for petrol pump set-up, and stopping police harassment on tank-lorry operation are also among the 12 demands. | http://newagebd.net/248701/petrol-pump-tank-lorry-owners-call-seven-hour-strike-sunday/ | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | newagebd.net/0a757748f60557259d769cc893e0c1cbd5784eaace8070e535c7ac4a0b081ed0.json |
[
"Anwar Uz Zaman",
"Billy Ahmed"
] | 2016-08-28T12:49:19 | null | 2016-08-28T17:01:13 | The government in Sunday suspended Barisal panel mayor KM Shahidullah after police pressed charge against him in an arms case. Shahidullah is also a vice-president of... | http%3A%2F%2Fnewagebd.net%2F248909%2Fbarisal-panel-mayor-suspended%2F.json | http://newagebd.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Barisal-panel-mayor-KM-Shahidullah.jpg | en | null | Barisal panel mayor suspended | null | null | newagebd.net | The government in Sunday suspended Barisal panel mayor KM Shahidullah after police pressed charge against him in an arms case.
Shahidullah is also a vice-president of Jatiyatabadi Swechchhasebak Dal and vice-president of Barisal city unit BNP.
Asma Begum, acting administrative officer of Barisal City Corporation, said the suspension letter signed by Khalil Ahmed, deputy secretary of the local government ministry on August 23 reached at the corporation on Sunday noon.
The letter read KM Shahidulla, the councilor of ward-12 of BCC, would be under suspension as per section 12(1) of city corporation act 2009 as police submitted charge-sheet against him.
A team of RAB-8 and police searching house of KM Shahidullah recovered a pistol with three rounds of bullets on January 16, 2016.
He was handed over to police after failed to show any legal documents against the recovered arms ammunitions and later granted bail from higher court.
Shakhawat Hossain, the then officer-in-charge of Kotwali police station, had submitted charge sheet under arms act against on June 17, 2016. | http://newagebd.net/248909/barisal-panel-mayor-suspended/ | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | newagebd.net/9be5906b220218b8979d4bebad1191d78a68858a2941969a5654d8d19f5d1de7.json |
[
"Anwar Uz Zaman",
"Billy Ahmed"
] | 2016-08-29T10:50:27 | null | 2016-08-29T16:27:22 | The students of Rahamatunnesa Hall of Rajshahi University on Monday staged a sit-in on the campus demanding removal of their hall provost Mili Jesmin as... | http%3A%2F%2Fnewagebd.net%2F249101%2Fru-female-students-demand-hall-provosts-removal%2F.json | http://newagebd.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Rajshahi-University.jpg | en | null | RU female students demand hall provost’s removal | null | null | newagebd.net | The students of Rahamatunnesa Hall of Rajshahi University on Monday staged a sit-in on the campus demanding removal of their hall provost Mili Jesmin as she allegedly misbehaved with them.
The students also demanded expulsion of the residential teacher of the hall Pak Nehad Banu.
Over hundred students of the hall staged the sit-in-programme at the main entrance of university’s administrative building for one hour to press home their demand.
The agitating students alleged that the hall provost and her staff Banu all time misbehaved with them whenever they went to her with their problems.
Instead of solving students’ problems the provost not only misbehaved with them but also threatened them, they alleged.
They said that the provost are indifferent with the students’ problems and hardly come to the hall and do not stay at the hall more than half hour.
One of the agitating students, also a physically challenged person, said that the hall authorities allocated a seat for her at the second floor of the hall and she went to the provost to change her seat from second floor to ground floor as it was difficult for her to climb up the stairs.
‘But instead of solving my problem, the provost told me that she could not do anything with my problem and I have to stay at the second floor because it is my problem, not her’, she said.
Later, Mizanur Rahman, students’ adviser of the university, assured them to meet with their demand.
They agitating students also gave a week long ultimatum to the university authorities to suspend the hall provost and his aid soon.
When contacted Mili Jesmin declined to make any comment. | http://newagebd.net/249101/ru-female-students-demand-hall-provosts-removal/ | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | newagebd.net/7a21dca30179437b69cc9d6a66f766d14846533aadb8060335ba55cf1dc3dd1b.json |
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"Anwar Uz Zaman",
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] | 2016-08-30T04:51:34 | null | 2016-08-30T08:20:31 | The Obama administration will meet its goal of admitting 10,000 Syrian refugees this fiscal year a month ahead of schedule and is working with Congress... | http%3A%2F%2Fnewagebd.net%2F249275%2Fus-meet-target-admitting-10000-syrian-refugees%2F.json | http://newagebd.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/int02-19.jpg | en | null | US to meet target of admitting 10,000 Syrian refugees | null | null | newagebd.net | The Obama administration will meet its goal of admitting 10,000 Syrian refugees this fiscal year a month ahead of schedule and is working with Congress to increase the target by a few thousand in 2017, the White House said on Monday.
The 10,000th Syrian refugee was scheduled to arrive in the United States on Monday afternoon, national security advisor Susan Rice said in a statement.
The White House had pledged to admit at least 10,000 displaced Syrians during the current fiscal year, which wraps up at the end of September.
‘While refugee admissions are only a small part of our broader humanitarian efforts in Syria and the region, the president understood the important message this decision would send, not just to the Syrian people but to the broader international community,’ Rice said.
US admission of Syrian refugees has been a hot button issue in the 2016 race for the white house, with Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump warning that violent militants could enter the country posing as refugees.
Trump has said that if he is elected he would persuade Gulf states to bankroll safe zones for Syrian refugees so they would not have to be brought to the United States.
In addition, some Democrats in Congress have pressed to toughen the screening process for Syrian refugees.
The civil war in Syria has led to a flood of millions of refugees from Syria. But so far, the United States has offered refuge to far fewer than many of its allies have. Germany has taken in hundreds of thousands and Canada admitted nearly 30,000 between November last year and May 1.
The United States took in 29 Syrian refugees in fiscal 2011, 31 in fiscal 2012, 36 in fiscal 2013, 105 in fiscal 2014 and 1,682 in fiscal 2015, according to US state department statistics.
White House spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters the administration plans to increase the number by a few thousand in fiscal 2017. Secretary of State John Kerry will hold talks with lawmakers in Congress before the administration sets the figure for that year. Obama leaves office on Jan. 20, 2017.
‘I anticipate in the next few weeks we will have some additional news on this,’ Earnest told reporters. Obama would like to see a ‘ramping up of those efforts’ but is realistic about how quickly that could happen, he said. | http://newagebd.net/249275/us-meet-target-admitting-10000-syrian-refugees/ | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | newagebd.net/9b02736a23c17a86227d78939831c4818228bd586ff020a8540822f53603746c.json |
[
"Anwar Uz Zaman",
"Billy Ahmed"
] | 2016-08-28T14:49:22 | null | 2016-08-28T20:04:13 | BNP senior leader ASM Hannan Shah on Sunday warned that their party together with people will be there in the field to stop the implementation of Rampal power plant project... | http%3A%2F%2Fnewagebd.net%2F248916%2Fbnp-resist-rampal-project-hannan-shah%2F.json | http://newagebd.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/ASM-Hannan-Shah-300x180.jpg | en | null | BNP to resist Rampal project: Hannan Shah | null | null | newagebd.net | New Age Online
BNP senior leader ASM Hannan Shah on Sunday warned that their party together with people will be there in the field to stop the implementation of Rampal power plant project.
‘The country’s people have got united against Rampal power plant, and we won’t allow this project to be implemented… BNP will surely take to the streets over the issue together with people,’ he told a discussion.
The BNP leader further said, ‘You can’t imagine how many people in Dhaka city will take to the streets responding to a call of our leader (Khaleda) and any others to stop the Rampal power plant.’
Jatiyatabadi Prajanma 71 arranged the programme at Dhaka Reporters’ Unity (DRU), reports United News of Bangladesh.
Hannan Shah alleged that the government is giving ‘mysterious and confusing’ information over anti-militancy raid in Narayanganj that killed three militants, including Gulshan café attacker Tamim Tamim Chowdhury.
Referring to media reports that Tamim fled to India after the Gulshan attack, the BNP leader voiced his doubt as to how he went to Narayanganj and get killed.
He also criticised the government for not arresting the militants alive. ‘The militants could have been arrested alive to extract information from them about the root of militancy had our law enforcers wanted it.
Hannan Shah claimed that the owner of the Narayanganj house where militants made their den belongs to a ruling party man.
Three militants, including Tamim Chowdhury, were killed during a special raid by joint forces on a militant den on the third floor of a three-storey building at Paikpara in Narayanganj Sadar upazila on Saturday morning. | http://newagebd.net/248916/bnp-resist-rampal-project-hannan-shah/ | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | newagebd.net/13ce7e9dc4a3f319aeefdb444caf116bb4be68973f4d47865a552b79af18bc6d.json |
[
"Anwar Uz Zaman",
"Billy Ahmed"
] | 2016-08-26T14:46:54 | null | 2016-08-26T18:56:04 | Police on Friday arrested a leader of Juba Dal, youth wing of Bangladesh Nationalist Party, and two local reporters for posting provocative posts on social media site face book at Bakshiganj in Jamalpur... | http%3A%2F%2Fnewagebd.net%2F248532%2Fthree-held-provocative-post-facebook-jamalpur%2F.json | http://newagebd.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Jamalpur-map-.jpg | en | null | Three held for provocative post on facebook in Jamalpur | null | null | newagebd.net | Police on Friday arrested a leader of Juba Dal, youth wing of Bangladesh Nationalist Party, and two local reporters for posting provocative posts on social media site face book at Bakshiganj in Jamalpur.
The arrestees are Juba Dal Bakshiganj unit secretary Abdullah Al Safi Lipon, son of Khalilur Rahman of village Pakhimara at Bakshiganj and local reporters Matin Rahman, son of Moezuddin of Saudagarpara and Golam Robbani Nadim, son of Abdul Karim of village Gomerchar under same upazila, reports Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha.
Police said Golam Robbani Nadim posted a status on his facebook account on August 23 triggering anger against the Rural Electrification Board among the people of Raumary and Rajibpur upazilas in Kurigram.
Posting on the facebook, he called upon the people to gather at Khoeruddin madrassa field in Bakshiganj to besiege the local office of the Rural Electrification board at 3:00pm on Friday.
Earlier on August 24, Matin Rahman also posted the same status on his facebook account while Juba Dal leader Abdullah also complied with the status.
The police later sensing the conspiracy raided the house of Golam Robbani Nadim at village Kacharipara in Bakshiganj at about 1:15am and arrested them.
Officer-in-charge of Bakshiganj police station Md Aslam Hossain said a case was filed against them under terrorist prevention act. | http://newagebd.net/248532/three-held-provocative-post-facebook-jamalpur/ | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | newagebd.net/8c4e7cf21bef835480fb58b473703d4455573b8d5684eaa73ad11de8011a8b7b.json |
[
"Anwar Uz Zaman",
"Billy Ahmed"
] | 2016-08-27T20:50:04 | null | 2016-08-28T00:36:24 | The home ministry is annoyed over sending back a proposal for improving the secretariat’s security by the finance ministry, said officials... | http%3A%2F%2Fnewagebd.net%2F248870%2Fsecretariats-security-project-rejection-annoys-home-ministry%2F.json | http://newagebd.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Logo-NA-light-200.jpg | en | null | SECRETARIAT’S SECURITY PROJECT: Rejection annoys home ministry | null | null | newagebd.net | The home ministry is annoyed over sending back a proposal for improving the secretariat’s security by the finance ministry, said officials.
The housing and public works ministry demanded funding from the finance ministry for the construction of two gate houses to replace gate numbers 2 and 5 of the secretariat to strengthen its security.
The home ministry had requested the housing and public works ministry to replace the gates with gate houses to boost secretariat’s security in the backdrop of recent extremist attacks at different places.
The estimated construction cost of the gate houses with 20 turnstiles entrances was Tk 4.1 crore.
On July 26, the finance ministry sent 43 housing and public works ministry proposals including for the secretariat’s gate houses back to it on the grounds of fund shortage and also that they deserved no priority now.
The finance ministry asked the housing and public works ministry to seek funding for the construction of the gate houses later.
Officials said that the home ministry totally disagreed with the finance ministry over the issue and in a letter dated August 17 demanded funding for the construction of the secretariat’s gate houses.
In the letter, home secretary Mozammel Haque Khan told finance division secretary Mahbub Ahmed that the finance ministry did not attach due importance and priority to modernization of the secretariat’s security.
He pointed out that no improvement of the secretariat’s security was possible without the gate houses.
He made it clear that the home ministry would take no responsibility if the secretariat’s security was breached.
The home secretary said besides 7,000 government servants at least 10,000 visitors enter the secretariat every day.
Last year, the home ministry installed electronic access control systems at all the entrances and exits of the secretariat and erection of a dozen watch towers along the secretariat’s boundary walls are under construction. | http://newagebd.net/248870/secretariats-security-project-rejection-annoys-home-ministry/ | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | newagebd.net/cc8e4ef127ec66f4901adacc229e19a6b97762a61927e9873a4e66f526252e16.json |
[
"Anwar Uz Zaman",
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] | 2016-08-30T18:56:22 | null | 2016-08-31T00:41:24 | Fifty one per cent class VIII students failed to achieve the expected level of competence in English and 46 per cent students lack necessary competence in mathematics, according to a government study on the state of learning in the country.... | http%3A%2F%2Fnewagebd.net%2F249447%2Fhalf-class-viii-students-lag-behind-govt-competence-test%2F.json | http://newagebd.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Logo-NA-light-200.jpg | en | null | Half of Class VIII students lag behind in govt competence test | null | null | newagebd.net | Fifty one per cent class VIII students failed to achieve the expected level of competence in English and 46 per cent students lack necessary competence in mathematics, according to a government study on the state of learning in the country.
Forty six per cent class VIII students failed to achieve the expected level of competence in Bengali, according to the report of Learning Assessment of Secondary Institutions 2015, which came out on Tuesday in the capital.
The 2015 survey also shows that 65 per cent class VI students across the country had failed to earn the necessary competence in English, 30 per cent of them in Bengali and 23 per cent of them lacked necessary competence in Mathematics.
People carrying out the report reasoned that many schools across the country do not have qualified and trained teachers and lack appropriate educational environment, while poorly educated guardians also contribute to so many students failing to achieve the desired level of competence.
They also pointed to field level education officials like thana and upazila education officers and district education officers who did poor monitoring, contributing to the abysmal state of education at secondary schools.
Education minister Nurul Islam Nahid, while addressing thana and upazila education officers and district education officers at a workshop on the unveiling of the report, asked them to strengthen monitoring of schools.
He also asked field level officers to review the report and find out the weaknesses of the schools and subsequently chalk our plans to remove them. ‘We will take proper steps to improve the quality of education going by your review,’ he added.
He castigated field level officers for not monitoring the schools properly.
The Monitoring and Evaluation Wing of the Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education conducted both the surveys with financial assistance from the DSHE’s Secondary Education Quality and Access Enhancement Project (SEQAEP).
The 2015 study was conducted on 15,810 class VI and 15,810 class VIII students of 527 schools and madrassahs in 30 upazilas through a test held on October 27 last year.
Students answered some multiple choice questions and the rest were short questions based on the curriculum and we tried to assess the students’ competence level with questions on cognitive knowledge, assistant director of monitoring and evaluation of DSHE Shamim Ahsan Khan said.
Class VIII students in English were asked to interpret details and identify commonalities across different sections of different texts, know simple language conventions and retrieve information from dense texts.
In mathematics, class VIII students were queried on fractions in familiar context, calculate factors, multiples of given numbers in context, use estimation, percentage, using ratios in solving problems in real life context, convert between smaller to larger units.
The government released the report at a time when educationists are often critical of the falling standard of education, although the pass rates in public exams like SSC and HSC are increasing. Education secretary Sohorab Hossain said the quality of education is improving but not at a desirable rate.
Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education director general SM Wahiduzzaman presided over the workshop. | http://newagebd.net/249447/half-class-viii-students-lag-behind-govt-competence-test/ | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | newagebd.net/9880972df19122715af0b829cbde75347338a7c66ea72b91e937239f9af8af9b.json |
[
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] | 2016-08-28T18:51:40 | null | 2016-08-29T00:39:41 | Investigators found that negligence of the authorities of the state-owned Di-Ammonium Phosphate Fertiliser Company Ltd in Chittagong caused the explosion of its ammonia tank on August 22 causing huge losses to the environment and local people as well as to the factory... | http%3A%2F%2Fnewagebd.net%2F249046%2Fdap-fertiliser-factory-gas-leak%2F.json | http://newagebd.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Logo-NA-light-200.jpg | en | null | DAP FERTILISER FACTORY GAS LEAK: Negligence of authorities caused explosion, probe body finds | null | null | newagebd.net | Investigators found that negligence of the authorities of the state-owned Di-Ammonium Phosphate Fertiliser Company Ltd in Chittagong caused the explosion of its ammonia tank on August 22 causing huge losses to the environment and local people as well as to the factory.
The investigators said that five safety equipments of the gas tank were out of order or inoperative and that caused the explosion. The factory authorities did not take any effective step to make the safety equipments functional.
Government have incurred a loss of over Tk 100 crore for the explosion that damaged the factory and polluted air and water by leaking toxic ammonia gas, they said.
The head of the three-member probe committee formed by the district administration, Md Mominur Rashid, also Chittagong additional district magistrate, told New Age on Sunday that they had almost completed their investigation and would submit the report soon.
The committee, formed immediately after the accident, was asked to submit the report in seven working days.
‘We have identified the cause of the explosion. There were faults in safety machineries for a long time, which was in the knowledge of the factory authorities but they did not take proper initiative to repair those,’ said Mominur.
Bangladesh Chemical Industries Corporation also formed a ‘highly skilled 10-member technical team’ to investigate the reason and damage of the incident.
The committee, headed by corporation’s director (technical and engineering) Md Ali Akkas, was asked to submit its report in three working days.
Corporation chairman Mohammad Iqbql told New Age over phone on Monday that he received an interim report of the committee.
He, however, declined to disclose any findings of the probe body and said that the industry minister would reveal the findings at a press conference.
One of the three ammonia tanks of the country’s lone Di-ammonium phosphate fertiliser factory at Rangadia of Anwara upazila leaked all of about 250 tonne ammonia gas at about 10:00pm on August 22. The gas spread to Chittagong city’s Patenga and Halishahar neighbourhoods, about 10km and 15km away from the factory respectively.
District administration-formed committee chief Mominur said that five devices, used to control the heat and pressure of ammonia gas of the tank, were out of order or non-functional.
‘Pressure Gauge, used to measure gas stock of the tank, and a computer of the Pressure Transmitter were out of order for a long time while another computer of the transmitter was shut. The pressure transmitter was used to measure gas pressure,’ said Mominur.
‘Pressure Vent, which was used to discharge the gas while the tank became overloaded, was non-functional while another equipment, Pressure Player, was also in same condition. The Condenser, used to cool the tank, was also stopped during the incident,’ added mominur.
He said the operation department of the factory informed about the faults to the maintenance department but the maintenance department did not respond properly.
‘The engineers sent some technicians to repair the faults but the technicians failed as they have any training for this kind of job. The engineers did not go to the spot for the repairing works,’ said Mominur.
He said the cost of the exploded tank was 75 crore while it was installed in 2006. It cannot be used further. A new tank would be needed to run the factory which would cost a bigger amount. | http://newagebd.net/249046/dap-fertiliser-factory-gas-leak/ | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | newagebd.net/af39bf4d426663659f6ddd3943b6839385f7fca516cf08e8af7da92190ca3861.json |
[
"Anwar Uz Zaman",
"Billy Ahmed"
] | 2016-08-26T12:47:18 | null | 2016-01-24T00:17:57 | A grand reunion of the Dhaka University alumni was held at the university’s central playground with several thousand alumni taking part on Saturday amid much festivity and enthusiasm... | http%3A%2F%2Fnewagebd.net%2F196266%2Fan-exhilarating-reunion-at-dhaka-univ%2F.json | http://newagebd.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/new04-6.jpg | en | null | An exhilarating reunion at Dhaka Univ | null | null | newagebd.net | A grand reunion of the Dhaka University alumni was held at the university’s central playground with several thousand alumni taking part on Saturday amid much festivity and enthusiasm.
The alumni rejoiced as they met their old friends and acquaintances. They chit-chatted, posed for photographs during the daylong programme that began at 10:00am by singing national anthem.
It did not matter to them how long ago—five years or 50— they had left the campus, as they hugged each other, burst out in laughs and shared their great excitements. The enjoyment was undeniable.
They discovered how they missed the campus and its various funs, co-curriculum activities and all that interesting stuff.
There was ample time for informal conversations with friends, old and new; reunite with fellow classmates and catch up on where they are now.
The alumni had laughter over tea, coffee and pastries, caught up on each other’s live. They talked about their joys and sorrows, amazing accomplishments, and of choices they made and roads they had abandoned.
While delivering welcome speech, DU Alumni Association member Afia Dil, Professor Emeritus at Alliant International University, San Diego, California, said that the Dhaka University has produced a whole lot of talented persons who are now contributing both at home and abroad.
‘I always turn very emotional to be here. Thousands of memories flash before my eyes…’ said the nonagenarian.
He urged the former students to uphold DU’s dignity through their creative and humanitarian activities.
Speaking at the reunion, titled Hironmoyee Melbandhon, Mesbah-ul-bar Chowdhury, the association’s one of the oldest members, who completed his MA in 1940, said that the sound environment of the Dhaka University mostly attracted him.
‘The relationship between teachers and students was like father and son during our time, the atmosphere of education on the campus was so good… but the university has been losing its glorious tradition mostly due to the dirty student politics. We all should work for regaining the well past’, he said.
97 years old Mesbah-ul-bar Chowdhury, also the former Director of Public Instruction (1974-76), said he felt like going back to his student life again.
Former DU vice-chancellor Prof Emazuddin Ahamed, also a prominent political scientist, said, ‘I have spent a huge time on this campus and probably I have received the most valuable things of my life here.’
‘I want to spend rest of my life loving this university and the friends of the alma mater,’ he said.
In his speech, DU Vice-Chancellor AAMS Arefin Siddique said teachers and students of DU always pioneered searching and establishing the truth since it’s founding in 1921 and would continue to do so in the years to come to satisfy the nation’s needs.
Later, a friendly debate titled ‘Shekal’ and ‘Ekal’ was held.
Professor emeritus Serajul Islam Choudhury, Professor Ajoy Roy, Tariha Rahman participated on behalf of ‘Ekal’ while Sanjib Saha, Nobonita Chowdhury and AL Mamun delivered their speeches for ‘Shekal’. The participants who established that the days gone was brighter, became champions.
In the afternoon, participants recalled their sweet and sour memories in a discussion. The gala ended with a musical show. | http://newagebd.net/196266/an-exhilarating-reunion-at-dhaka-univ/ | en | 2016-01-24T00:00:00 | newagebd.net/2a5a1efc94f9c6cef50139ceef857a9ebd9a876d3016e6e5bafdaa41b6dc9b6e.json |
[
"Anwar Uz Zaman",
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] | 2016-08-27T18:53:34 | null | 2016-08-28T00:24:27 | The water transport workers continued countrywide indefinite strike for the fifth straight day on Saturday, forcing imported cargo to lie idle at Chittagong and Mongla ports... | http%3A%2F%2Fnewagebd.net%2F248858%2Friver-vessel-strike-continues-fifth-day%2F.json | http://newagebd.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Logo-NA-light-200.jpg | en | null | River vessel strike continues into fifth day | null | null | newagebd.net | The water transport workers continued countrywide indefinite strike for the fifth straight day on Saturday, forcing imported cargo to lie idle at Chittagong and Mongla ports.
Some passenger carriers, however, travelled on different routes from Sadarghat in Dhaka, Barisal and Chandpur, as labour leaders alleged some launch owners forced workers to run the launches.
Operation of vessels carrying goods on all routes, and launches on many routes, remained suspended since August 23 as the workers went on an indefinite strike on a 15-point demand that includes an increase in minimum monthly wage of a worker to Tk 10,000, from the existing Tk 3,900.
Their other demands include compensation to the workers who die or are injured in accidents, ensuring river navigability and controlling acts of violence and robbery on waterways.
To resolve the strike, the Nou Sramik Sangram Parishad, officials of department of labour and leaders of launch owners’ association sat in a meeting Saturday evening.
The meeting was still continuing when this report was filed at 9pm.
New Age Chittagong Office reported movement of lighter ships remained suspended for the fifth consecutive day on Saturday.
Operational activities at Chittagong Port’s outer anchorage and 16 private jetties remained suspended due to the strike.
A total of 53 working mother vessels loaded with around 18.50 lakh tonnes of imported cargo were lying idle at Chittagong port outer anchorage on Saturday, said Jafar Alam, director (administration) of the port authorities.
Thirty-five mother vessels were at the outer anchorage on Tuesday, the first day of the strike, added Jafar.
He said the port may face a crisis of congestion of ships if the river transport worker strike continues.
Water Transport Cell joint-secretary Ataul Kabir Ranju said the organisation controls movement of around a thousand lighter ships which were stranded at 16 private jetties at the river Karnaphuly and other jetties in different places in the country from the first day of the strike.
Cargo movement from Chittagong to rest of the country by sea has been almost completely suspended for the strike, added Ataul.
He said no lighter ship went to the port outer anchorage to carry goods.
New Age correspondent in Khulna reported the strike continued at Mongla seaport on Saturday.
Noujan Sramik Federation Khulna unit organising secretary Delower Hossain said that they would not call off the strike until their demands are met.
New Age Barisal correspondent reported passenger launch operation on local and regional routes started through the ‘pressure of owners’ from Friday afternoon.
Goods-carrying cargoes and fuel-carrier oil-tankers, however, remained anchored in mid-river as the workers continued their strike.
The strike might create shortage of supply of essential goods and fuels in the market, said Saidur Rahman Rintu, president of Barisal chamber of commerce and industries.
Eakin Ali Master, vice-president of the central committee of Noujan Sramik Federation and president of the local unit, said, ‘our two-lakh workers abstained from work to press home their professional demands’.
Through pressure from the government and owners, a few workers were forced to operate passenger launches on some routes, he said, adding, ‘all responsibility lies on their own shoulders for operating launches with unskilled crew members’.
Mustafizur Rahman, Barisal river port officer, said launches were plying on local routes almost regularly. Triple deck passenger launches MV Kirtankhola-1, MV Suravi-7, MV Parabat-12 and MV Tipu-7 came from Dhaka on schedule Saturday morning.
Those vessels will leave the port for Dhaka with passengers at night, he hoped. | http://newagebd.net/248858/river-vessel-strike-continues-fifth-day/ | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | newagebd.net/f9da956d49ac736329c4fd23ff9265997c39a94e969f7b2a3670fcb636be4bfd.json |
[
"Anwar Uz Zaman",
"Billy Ahmed"
] | 2016-08-31T10:51:37 | null | 2016-08-31T16:26:24 | The High Court on Wednesday approved the merger of mobile phone operators Robi and Airtel and asked to deposit Tk 607 crore with the government as... | http%3A%2F%2Fnewagebd.net%2F249492%2Fhc-approves-robi-airtel-merge%2F.json | http://newagebd.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Robi-Airtel-logo.jpg | en | null | HC approves Robi, Airtel merge | null | null | newagebd.net | The High Court on Wednesday approved the merger of mobile phone operators Robi and Airtel and asked to deposit Tk 607 crore with the government as merging fee and spectrum adjustment fee.
The company bench of Justice Syed Refaat Ahmed passed the order.
Malaysia-based Robi, the third largest mobile operator in Bangladesh, and India-based Airtel in September 2015 announced that their Bangladesh operations would be merged and they signed an agreement on January 29 in this connection.
Upon completion of the proposed merger, Robi’s parent company Axiata will hold 68.3 per cent controlling stake in the combined entity, while Bharti Airtel will hold 25 per cent and the remaining 6.7 per cent will be held by NTT DOCOMO of Japan.
At present, Axiata Group’s share in Robi is 91.59 per cent and NTT DOCOMO holds the rest 8.41 per cent. | http://newagebd.net/249492/hc-approves-robi-airtel-merge/ | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | newagebd.net/62371f8b7aa7779f6505daaedbfd361c3dadeb91ab773ef408bf7ec9990843c2.json |
[
"Anwar Uz Zaman",
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] | 2016-08-27T10:48:50 | null | 2016-08-27T15:45:20 | The United States has said that the existence of viable political parties and ensuring freedom of media and speech are essential for Bangladesh to fulfill its true potential as a vibrant, secure democracy... | http%3A%2F%2Fnewagebd.net%2F248697%2Ffreedom-speech-essential-bangladeshs-democracy-us%2F.json | http://newagebd.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/US-Bangladesh-unb.jpg | en | null | Freedom of speech essential for Bangladesh’s democracy: US | null | null | newagebd.net | The United States has said that the existence of viable political parties and ensuring freedom of media and speech are essential for Bangladesh to fulfill its true potential as a vibrant, secure democracy.
‘We share a vision for a democratic, moderate, and tolerant Bangladesh,’ the US embassy in Dhaka said in a fact-sheet released on Saturday ahead of US Secretary of State John Kerry’s visit to Bangladesh.
The shared vision, according to the US, serves as a bridge for trade and commerce between South and Southeast Asia and an anchor for stability and prosperity in the Bay of Bengal region, reports United News of Bangladesh.
Kerry will arrive in Dhaka on Monday morning to discuss the whole range of bilateral, regional and global issues.
The fact-sheet on Bangladesh-US relationship mentioned that strong bilateral relationship between Bangladesh and the US is bolstered by shared efforts to confront global challenges such as violent
extremism, climate change, health, and food security.
‘While it continues to face many challenges, Bangladesh has achieved two decades of extraordinary economic growth and made tremendous strides in reducing poverty and improving maternal and child health,’ it said adding that the US is a proud partner in assisting Bangladesh’s steady progress toward middle-income status.
In the last three decades, according to the US side, Bangladesh has emerged as a leading global player in clothing.
Bangladesh’s apparel manufacturing now accounts for nearly $25 billion in annual exports and has allowed four million women workers to take part in the country’s growing prosperity, it said.
Bangladesh is a top contributor of international peacekeepers, helping bring security to people’s lives from Ethiopia to East Timor.
Currently, Bangladesh has more than 7,000 troops deployed in 10 United Nations Peacekeeping Operations.
The US Embassy said Bangladesh has achieved extraordinary progress on health metrics. Its maternal and child health programs achieved the millennium development goals and have ensured that a higher
proportion of children get an education, receive proper healthcare, and escape the shackles of poverty.
USAID has helped Bangladesh reduce maternal and child mortality by more than 60 per cent since 1990. | http://newagebd.net/248697/freedom-speech-essential-bangladeshs-democracy-us/ | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | newagebd.net/339d4ca3ab55b3ecb680b875090c8afb9efe725193a07a3c187463c4ee111047.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T18:52:42 | null | 2016-08-27T00:29:48 | Commemorating the 10th anniversary of Phulbari upsurge, activists on Friday urged people to stand up and resist the controversial Rampal power project like the local people of Phulbari had done against open-pit coal mining in Dinajpur 10 years back... | http%3A%2F%2Fnewagebd.net%2F248652%2Fphulbari-day-observed%2F.json | http://newagebd.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Phulbari-day.jpg | en | null | Phulbari day observed | null | null | newagebd.net | Commemorating the 10th anniversary of Phulbari upsurge, activists on Friday urged people to stand up and resist the controversial Rampal power project like the local people of Phulbari had done against open-pit coal mining in Dinajpur 10 years back.
National Committee to Protect Oil, Gas, Mineral Resources, Power and Ports observed the day with placing wreaths at the Central Shaheed Minar.
While rallying on the day in 2006 to oppose Asia Energy’s open-pit coal mining, three protesters –Aminul, Tarikul and Salekin – were killed in firing by law enforcers during the then BNP-led government.
National Committee convener Sheikh Muhammad Shahidullah, who chaired a brief rally, said people’s movement for protecting national interest had never failed.
He said, ‘People also can resist hazardous Rampal coal-powered plant.’
Dhaka University teacher and founding member secretary of the national committee, MM Akash blamed both Awami League and BNP, saying that there was no difference between the two parties.
He said that the then opposition AL which condemned Phulbari killing is now taking up development projects ignoring national interests.
Different political organisations including Communist Party of Bangladesh, Socialist Party of Bangladesh, Workers Party, Revolutionary Workers Party, and left leaning student organisations attended the rally.
New Age correspondent in Dinajpur reported that the Phulbari movement organisers threatened the government with fresh movements including demonstrations and strike till November 21 unless their six-point demands are met before September 30.
Marking the day, the national committee’s Phulbari unit organised daylong programmes including placing wreath at the memorial on the bank of Choto Jamuna river.
Later at a rally held at Nimtala of Phulbari, the national committee member secretary Anu Muhammad said government should implement the long-standing demands including withdrawal of cases lodged against the protesters, compensate bullet-hit protesters and cancel all anti-national energy treaties.
BD Rahmatullah, Tipu Biswas, Moshrefa Mishu, Bazlur Rashid Firoze, Saiful Huque, Zonayed Saki, Tanzeem Uddin, Nur Ahmed Bakul, Saiful Islam Jewel, among others, addressed at the rally.
New Age correspondent from Narayanganj reported that speakers at a rally were critical of the ruling AL’s compromising attitude towards the foreign energy companies. They said that further delay to enact laws banning open-pit coal mining would be considered as a betrayal to the Phulbari martyrs.
Chaired by Rafiur Rabbi, local left leaning political leaders and cultural activists also addressed the rally. | http://newagebd.net/248652/phulbari-day-observed/ | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | newagebd.net/04028bded9de2af5574ae95da0f6b05f031c56195a267edb1de37bfb992ceeb3.json |
[
"Anwar Uz Zaman",
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] | 2016-08-26T18:51:25 | null | 2016-08-27T00:22:11 | Pirates abducted a fisherman and took away his trawler in the River Meghna at Janglar Char of Manpura upazila in Bhola on Thursday night. Local people said that a gang of pirates from Hatia attacked a fishing trawler at abou... | http%3A%2F%2Fnewagebd.net%2F248646%2Ffisherman-abducted-meghna%2F.json | http://newagebd.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Logo-NA-light-200.jpg | en | null | Fisherman abducted from Meghna | null | null | newagebd.net | Pirates abducted a fisherman and took away his trawler in the River Meghna at Janglar Char of Manpura upazila in Bhola on Thursday night. Local people said that a gang of pirates from Hatia attacked a fishing trawler at about 11:30pm and abducted a fisherman named Rakib. Manpura police subinspector Hafiz said that they were trying to rescue the victim. | http://newagebd.net/248646/fisherman-abducted-meghna/ | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | newagebd.net/1ce36efdced635b5f4c26f65d035536836127b8cc6086fc31f7c878174ad38b0.json |
[
"Anwar Uz Zaman",
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] | 2016-08-29T20:52:15 | null | 2016-08-30T00:42:10 | Several lakh people, croplands, educational institutions and cattle feeds in low-lying areas adjacent to the River Padma have been badly affected by the sudden swelling of the river because of the unilateral release of water through the Farakka Barrage by India... | http%3A%2F%2Fnewagebd.net%2F249253%2Fsudden-swell-padma%2F.json | http://newagebd.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Logo-NA-light-200.jpg | en | null | SUDDEN SWELL IN PADMA: People, croplands badly affected | null | null | newagebd.net | Several lakh people, croplands, educational institutions and cattle feeds in low-lying areas adjacent to the River Padma have been badly affected by the sudden swelling of the river because of the unilateral release of water through the Farakka Barrage by India.
The onrush of water from the upstream created strong current in the Padma, hampering ferry service on Paturia-Daulatdia route, officials have said.
Water Development Board officials have said Padma water flow maintained a rising trend and it is likely to start falling within a day or two due to steady water flow in the Ganges.
When flood water receded in early August and people felt a bit relieved, the abrupt release of Ganges water through the Farakka Barrage caused to people to suffer once again.
Thousands of the passengers are facing severe traffic
congestion at both Paturia and Daulatdia ferry terminals, New Age correspondent in Manikganj reported.
Manager (commerce) of Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Corporation at Daulatdia sector MD Shofiqul Islam said on Monday that water kept rising in the Padma at some points and the time needed for ferrying was 70/80 minutes instead of 30 minutes in other times.
The ferry service on the route was disrupted for six days from August 6 after three landing stations out of four at Daulatdia ferry terminal were damaged by strong river current.
Earlier, the ferry service was hampered for consecutive 15 days since July 20 due to strong current and shortage of ferries.
According to flood forecasting and warning center, the Padma and Surma rivers were in rising trend
The Padma is likely to start falling in the next 24 hours while Surma-Kushiyara rivers may rise in next 48 hours from Monday.
Flood forecasting center’s assistant director and duty officer Sarder Udoy Raihan told New Age that there was no possibility of flooding in Bangladesh within next three or four days as the Ganges water started to be steady.
Due to pressure on the Padma, the water flow in the Kobadak and Gorai rivers increased, he said.
New Age correspondent at Islamic University in Kusthia reported that a total of 40 villages were inundated in Kushtia’ Doulatpur, Bherama upazilas and several thousand people were running to take shelter due to the swell in the Padma.
Doulatpur’s Chilmari UP chairman Syed Ahmad said that 40,000 people of 18 villages at his union were marooned by water and classes at 18 schools were suspended.
Ramkrishnapur UP chairman Siraj Mandol said that 15,000 people in 17 villages were marooned by fresh water in last two days.
Bherama upazila nirbahi officer Shanti Chakma said due to swell of water in Padma, people were advised to go to safe places.
Kushtia WDB’s sub-divisional engineer Arifuzzaman Khan said that Padma water started to reduce but it might rise if there was rain. The water flow in branches rivers was increasing, he said.
New Age correspondent in Chapainawabganj reported that more than 1.5 lakh people, 50 educational institutions and standing croplands were badly affected at nine unions of Shibganj and Sadar upazilas by the onrush of water from upstream after the opening of the Farakka gates.
The most affected unions were Pakha, Ujirpur, Durlabpur and Narayanpur where increased water of Padma inundated low lands.
Water Development Board executive engineer Syed Shahidul Islam said that one cm of water increased in last 24 hours bur the water was flowing 6cm bellow the danger level.
New Age correspondent in Rajshahi reported that although the Padma water in Rajshahi was flowing about 5cm bellow the danger level on Monday, several thousand people were marooned in the low areas.
The flow of Padma water has posed a threat to the Rajshahi town protection embankment at Bulunpur, said WDB officials.
WDB executive engineer Mukhlesur Rahman said that there was a bend in the river at Bulunpur where the current could affect the town protection barrage. | http://newagebd.net/249253/sudden-swell-padma/ | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | newagebd.net/01b2bafc49f1b0d208f5cad8c9951c399f6190125afdd4efdaf42c78c6dedb52.json |
[
"Anwar Uz Zaman",
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] | 2016-08-30T10:51:02 | null | 2016-08-30T16:24:48 | The executive committee of the National Economic Council on Tuesday approved five crucial development projects involving an estimated cost of Tk 2,805 crore, including... | http%3A%2F%2Fnewagebd.net%2F249306%2Fecnec-approves-5-projects-involving-tk-2805cr%2F.json | http://newagebd.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Logo-NA-light-200.jpg | en | null | ECNEC approves 5 projects involving Tk 2,805cr | null | null | newagebd.net | The executive committee of the National Economic Council on Tuesday approved five crucial development projects involving an estimated cost of Tk 2,805 crore, including three projects with support from the Indian fresh Line of Credit.
The three Indian LoC projects include establishment of Jamalpur Medical College and Hospital and Jamalpur Nursing College and Procurement of double-decker, single-decker AC and non-AC buses and trucks for Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation, reports United News of Bangladesh.
The approval came from the weekly ECNEC meeting held at the NEC conference room in the city’s Sher-e-Bangla Nagar area with ECNEC chairperson and prime minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair.
Briefing reporters after the meeting, Planning Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal said a total of five projects were approved today involving an estimated cost of Tk 2,805 crore.
‘Of the total project cost, Tk 1,932.28 crore will come from the national exchequer while Tk 872.72 crore from project assistance,’ he said.
All the approved five projects are new ones, the minister added. | http://newagebd.net/249306/ecnec-approves-5-projects-involving-tk-2805cr/ | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | newagebd.net/f13713343068953f78a5905df557a448c9ee71b3e5bbc732a0671037436b9b50.json |
[
"Anwar Uz Zaman",
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] | 2016-08-31T04:52:21 | null | 2016-08-31T09:14:26 | Rapid Action Battalion on Wednesday said they detained the suspected killer, Obaidul Khan, in the case of murdering Suraiya Akhter Risha... | http%3A%2F%2Fnewagebd.net%2F249464%2Fsuspected-killer-obaidul-detained-risha-murder%2F.json | http://newagebd.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Willes-Little-Flower.jpg | en | null | Suspected killer Obaidul detained over Risha murder | null | null | newagebd.net | Rapid Action Battalion on Wednesday said they detained the suspected killer, Obaidul Khan, in the case of murdering Suraiya Akhter Risha, Class VIII student of Willes Little Flower School and College.
Md Dolan Miah, operations officer of RAB-13, said Obaidul was detained at Nilphamari on Tuesday night.
Details of the detention could not be known immediately.
Suraiya, 15, daughter of Ramjan Hossain of Siddikbazar in the capital, was stabbed in the abdomen by stalker Obaidul Khan, also a worker of a tailoring shop at city’s Elephant Road, on August 24.
She died from her injuries at Dhaka Medical College Hospital on August 28.
Students of Willes Little Flower School and College continued to protest on the school premises and its adjacent road since August 28 demanding that the suspected killer be brought to justice.
Meanwhile, a team of Ramna police with the help of Birganj police in Dinajpur detained a sister and brother-in-law of Obaidul from his village home at Miratongi under Birganj on Monday night.
The detained were identified as Khadiza Begum, 36, and her husband Khadimul Islam, 46, of the village, said Birganj police officer-in-charge Abu Akkas Ahmed. | http://newagebd.net/249464/suspected-killer-obaidul-detained-risha-murder/ | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | newagebd.net/c44f9f145dbd8211dbaa89b739693957ce068d5a7be7504bd42e211feea8b7e6.json |
[
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] | 2016-08-31T08:52:31 | null | 2016-08-31T14:40:39 | Supreme Court police arrested an assistant sub-inspector of police on Wednesday for demanding bribe from the wife of a Supreme Court judge for... | http%3A%2F%2Fnewagebd.net%2F249473%2Fcop-held-for-demanding-bribe-from-sc-judges-wife%2F.json | http://newagebd.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Abdus-Salam.jpg | en | null | Cop held for demanding bribe from SC judge’s wife | null | null | newagebd.net | Supreme Court police arrested an assistant sub-inspector of police on Wednesday for demanding bribe from the wife of a Supreme Court judge for passport verification.
The ASI, Sadequl Islam, was arrested after he was taken to the High Court to explain his position over the matter.
After hearing the matter on suo moto, a single-member bench of Justice Quazi Reza-Ul Hoque ordered police to arrest him and take departmental action against him for demanding bribe from the wife of Justice Abu Taher Md Saifur Rahman.
Sadequl earlier identified himself before the bench as Abdus Salam. Later, his real name was disclosed while filing a case against him. Sadequl was now working at Special Branch of police in city.
The court said that the police assistant sub-inspector came to the residence of Justice Abu Taher Md Saifur Rahman at Dhanmondi in the city around 5:00pm on Tuesday for verification of his daughter’s passport and demanded bribe to his wife.
On her refusal, the policeman denied to verify the passport.
The Supreme Court judge afterwards informed the matter to his colleague Justice Quazi Reza-Ul Hoque who later asked the police headquarters to bring the ASI before the High Court bench led by him today.
Abdus Salam, however, sought apology for the crime and relief as well on the charge.
(Updated) | http://newagebd.net/249473/cop-held-for-demanding-bribe-from-sc-judges-wife/ | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | newagebd.net/deffacb6b9e1974e4571371f69b47edd9addeaf95a955d5904074af140580059.json |
[
"Anwar Uz Zaman",
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] | 2016-08-30T18:55:05 | null | 2016-08-31T00:42:27 | Two more Bangladeshi expatriate workers accused of planning to join the Islamic State group were jailed Tuesday in Singapore for raising money to fund attacks in their homeland... | http%3A%2F%2Fnewagebd.net%2F249451%2Fterrorist-financing%2F.json | http://newagebd.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Logo-NA-light-200.jpg | en | null | TERRORIST FINANCING: S’pore jails two Bangladeshis | null | null | newagebd.net | Two more Bangladeshi expatriate workers accused of planning to join the Islamic State group were jailed Tuesday in Singapore for raising money to fund attacks in their homeland.
Zzaman Daulat, 34, and Mamun Leakot Ali, 29, were jailed for two years and two and a half years, respectively, after admitting terrorist financing charges in a district court.
Court documents said the men contributed between Sg$200 ($146) and Sg$500 to help fund a terror campaign in Bangladesh, and plotted to overthrow the government there to set up a caliphate.
They were the second set of Bangladeshi workers to be jailed under a Singaporean law against terrorist financing.
In July four Bangladeshi workers were jailed for between two and five years for the same offence.
The six were among a second group of Bangladeshis rounded up in Singapore after 27 were arrested in late 2015, also over alleged plots in their homeland. All from the first group have since been deported.
Most of the workers were in the construction and marine sectors.
Zzaman and Mamun had initially intended to contest the charges but decided to plead guilty. They were represented by local lawyers for free.
One of their lawyers, Noor Marican, told the court both men were deeply apologetic and had committed the offence in a moment of foolishness, local media reported.
Muslim-majority Bangladesh has seen a spate of brutal attacks on secular bloggers and religious minorities recently, with gunmen killing 20 hostages – mainly foreigners – at an upmarket restaurant in the capital Dhaka last month. The attack was claimed by the Islamic State group.
Singapore is highly dependent on foreign labour in sectors such as construction. It hosted 1.38 million foreign workers last year, many of them from South Asia. | http://newagebd.net/249451/terrorist-financing/ | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | newagebd.net/58a65894b121f535b69f8b83b1da5c6792786bbef67acfc284766eb59336571b.json |
[
"Anwar Uz Zaman",
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] | 2016-08-26T18:48:13 | null | 2016-08-27T00:27:50 | The Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Friday criticised the government for its move to withdraw Shwadhinata Padak conferred on late president Ziaur Rahman... | http%3A%2F%2Fnewagebd.net%2F248651%2Fbnp-criticises-govt-move-withdraw-zias-swadhinata-padak%2F.json | http://newagebd.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Logo-NA-light-200.jpg | en | null | BNP criticises govt move to withdraw Zia’s Swadhinata Padak | null | null | newagebd.net | The Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Friday criticised the government for its move to withdraw Shwadhinata Padak conferred on late president Ziaur Rahman.
BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir at a briefing at the party’s central office said that the party and entire nation were ‘stunned’ and ‘concerned’ reading a news headline in a Bengali daily that ‘Swadhinata Padak’ conferred on Ziaur Rahman was being withdrawn.
He said that legally elected BNP government led by Khaleda Zia conferred the highest state honour on late Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in 2003. At the same time Shwadhinata Padak was given to ‘Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’ and late president Ziaur Rahman, Fakhrul said, adding that this was a bright example of political generosity.
BNP had taken the decision for establishing politics of unity, he said.
He said that the present ‘controversial’ Awami League government was making decision to withdraw the award given by a totally legally elected government.
He said that a cabinet committee meeting decided to cancel Shwadhinata Padak given to Ziaur Rahman.
He said that Zia had proclaimed independence, led the war and fought in the liberation war.
People of Bangladesh knew Zia from proclamation of independence, he said
Zia consolidated the independence through ‘November 7 Sepahi-Janata Revolution’ in 1975, freed the nation from one-party rule and introduced multiparty democracy, Fakhrul said.
He said that the government was walking on the way of politics of division by taking this decision.
Fakhrul urged the government to return to path of unity leaving dangerous path of politics of division.
He said that after independence, the Awami League had constitutionally prohibited conferment of any state gallantry award, medal on any local and foreign national as mark of recognition to any areas of merit, achievement, quality and leadership, except for courageous role in military field. They had also imposed condition of approval from the president to attain any honour from abroad except academic honour, he said.
Fakhrul said that Ziaur Rahman lifted the restriction from the state honours and introduced Shwadhinata Padak and Ekushe Padak in 1977.
In reply to a question, Fakhrul expressed hope that the prime minister Sheikh Hasina at her press conference today would announce that coal-fired power plant would not be set up at Rampal within 25 kilometres from the Suderbans. | http://newagebd.net/248651/bnp-criticises-govt-move-withdraw-zias-swadhinata-padak/ | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | newagebd.net/04d8c93bcfb76f9f77423df80d80f773ecdc1157f2ac220af1ee454dfc36a690.json |
[
"Anwar Uz Zaman",
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] | 2016-08-29T16:50:26 | null | 2016-08-29T21:27:10 | Police on Monday recovered the body of an unidentified woman from a drain at Dhanmondi area in the capital... | http%3A%2F%2Fnewagebd.net%2F249120%2Fwomans-body-recovered-dhanmondi%2F.json | http://newagebd.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Dhanmondi-Dhaka.jpg | en | null | Woman’s body recovered in Dhanmondi | null | null | newagebd.net | Police on Monday recovered the body of an unidentified woman from a drain at Dhanmondi area in the capital.
Dhanmondi police station sub-inspector Moshiur Alam said that on information from the locals they recovered the body this afternoon from a drain of road no 9/A of Dhanmondi residential area.
The dead woman wore black colour salwar and kameez.
He said that they sent the body to Dhaka Medical College and Hospital for post-mortem examination.
The cause of her death could not be known immediately, he said | http://newagebd.net/249120/womans-body-recovered-dhanmondi/ | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | newagebd.net/0cfe6675aa6ccc8d20025d27e063efe0ebb9b1b5884a0f165fc4d40db29bbb5b.json |
[
"Anwar Uz Zaman",
"Billy Ahmed"
] | 2016-08-27T06:47:48 | null | 2016-08-27T11:55:24 | Bangladesh-origin Canadian citizen Tamim Ahmed Chowdhury and two other suspected Islamist extremists were killed in an anti-militant drive... | http%3A%2F%2Fnewagebd.net%2F248682%2Fterror-attack-mastermind-tamim-two-others-killed-in-anti-militant-drive%2F.json | http://newagebd.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Tamim-Ahmed-Chowdhury.jpg | en | null | Terror attack mastermind Tamim, two others killed in spl drive | null | null | newagebd.net | Bangladesh-origin Canadian citizen Tamim Ahmed Chowdhury and two other suspected Islamist extremists were killed in an anti-militant drive carried out by the Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime unit in Narayanganj on Saturday.
Tamim was one of the masterminds of the attacks at Holey Artisan Bakery in the city’s Gulshan, and Sholakia police checkpoint near Eid congregation in Kishoreganj.
The CTTC started the hour-long ‘Operation Hit Strong 27’ around 9:30am at a den of banned militant outfit Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh in a two-storey building at Paikpara adjacent to Bara Kabarsthan area.
Monirul Islam, chief of CTTC, said among the victims one resembles Tamim.
At a press briefing, inspector general of police AKM Shahidul Hoque said there was no arrest in the operation.
Only three bodies were recovered. One of them resembles Tamim and identities of others could not be known immediately, the police chief said.
A pistol, an AK-22 assault rifle, and several live grenades were also seized, he added.
Before the operation, the counter terrorism unit of DMP, acting on secret information, took position before the militant hideout since early morning.
Narayanganj district police, Rapid Action Battalion-11 and other law enforcers laid siege to the building for the sake of security.
One Nuruddin Dewan is the owner of the building where the militants used to stay on the top floor.
On July 26, nine suspected extremists were killed during a special drive of the joint forces in Dhaka’s Kalyanpur.
Police on August 2 named Tamim Ahmed Chowdhury and sacked army major Syed Md Ziaul Haque, alias Major Zia, as masterminds of the recent two attacks.
The inspector general of police announced Tk 20 lakh in bounty for specific information about each of Tamim and Zia.
Among the masterminds, Tamim was directly involved in the Gulshan attack and he briefed the five attackers of the Gulshan incident at a residence in Bashundhara which was taken rent before the attack, said the police chief, adding that he even took the attackers with him to Gulshan on day before the attack.
The police chief said their investigation found that the duo was members of home-grown Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh though they themselves claim to be associates of West Asia-based militant group Islamic State.
Tamim, 30, son of Shafique Ahmed Chowdhury, of Baragram Sadimapur under Biyanibazar in Sylhet, came to Bangladesh from Dubai by a flight of Ittehad Airlines on October 5, 2013, and Major Zia, son of Syed Md Jillul Haque of Mostafapur under Moulvibazar was sacked from Bangladesh army in 2011, according to police sources.
A group of extremists attacked a Gulshan restaurant, Holey Artisan Bakery, and killed 20 hostages, mostly foreign nationals, during a 12-hour siege at the restaurant in Dhaka’s diplomatic zone on the first day of July. Two police officers were also killed.
On July 7, another group of extremists attempted to attack the country’s largest Eid congregation at Sholakia. Two policemen and a housewife were killed in the incident.
(Updated) | http://newagebd.net/248682/terror-attack-mastermind-tamim-two-others-killed-in-anti-militant-drive/ | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | newagebd.net/c081f85de6e383283e1e4a9aab36ba65c6407881a847a0e1df1f748d9b6559ae.json |
[
"Anwar Uz Zaman",
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] | 2016-08-31T10:52:31 | null | 2016-08-31T15:58:41 | The online application process for enrollment in first year honours courses at Islamic University in Kushtia under 2016-17 academic sessions will start on September 15 and conclude on October 20... | http%3A%2F%2Fnewagebd.net%2F249487%2Fislamic-univ-online-admission-process-begins-sept-15%2F.json | http://newagebd.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Islamic-University.jpg | en | null | Islamic univ online admission process begins on Sept 15 | null | null | newagebd.net | The online application process for enrollment in first year honours courses at Islamic University in Kushtia under 2016-17 academic sessions will start on September 15 and conclude on October 20.
University’s acting director of information, publication and public relation office M Ataul Haq confirmed the matter to New Age on Thursday.
The decision came after a meeting of university admission test committee with IU vice chancellor M Harun-Ur-Rashid Askar in the chair.
The intake test will start from November 19 to 24.
The more information about the intake test is available to the university website at www.iu.ac.bd. | http://newagebd.net/249487/islamic-univ-online-admission-process-begins-sept-15/ | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | newagebd.net/eb146afc89305a10c69231fa6d17bebc8e631c9ae0b391625938c5471d7d0b28.json |
[
"Anwar Uz Zaman",
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] | 2016-08-31T04:51:29 | null | 2016-08-31T10:15:58 | At least nine elderly people were killed when their nursing home was flooded in northern Japan after Typhoon Lionrock dumped heavy rains on the area... | http%3A%2F%2Fnewagebd.net%2F249468%2Fnine-dead-typhoon-hits-northern-japan%2F.json | http://newagebd.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/TYPHOON-JAPAN.jpg | en | null | Nine dead as typhoon hits northern Japan | null | null | newagebd.net | At least nine elderly people were killed when their nursing home was flooded in northern Japan after Typhoon Lionrock dumped heavy rains on the area.
The bodies of all nine residents were found at a nursing home in the town of Iwaizumi in Iwate prefecture, when police were checking another facility in the flooded neighborhood, said Takehiro Hayashijiri, an official at a prefectural disaster management division.
Hayashijiri said identity of the bodies or other details, including whereabouts of their caretakers, were not known. NHK said the nursing home was for the residents with dementia.
Japan’s NHK national broadcaster said authorities have found two more bodies in another town in Iwate.
Its footage showed the nursing home partially buried in mud, surrounded by debris apparently washed down from the mountains. A car by the home was turned upside down.
‘We’re making a government-wide effort to assess the extent of damage,’ chief cabinet secretary Yoshihide Suga told reporters.
The government sent Self-Defense Forces to help in the rescue and cleanup of the damage caused by the typhoon.
At least two rivers swollen by the typhoon broke through their banks, flooding areas in northern Japan.
The embankments gave way before dawn on Wednesday on the northern island of Hokkaid, said NHK, quoting Japan’s ministry of land, infrastructure and tourism.
Authorities in the town of Minami-furano are reporting many people trapped in houses and shelters by flooding from the Sorachi river, NHK said.
Aerial photos from Kyodo News service also showed serious flooding south of Hokkaido in Iwate prefecture on Honshu, Japan’s main island.
Typhoon Lionrock slammed into northern Japan on Tuesday evening, hitting an area still recovering from the 2011 tsunami.
The fire and disaster management agency said at least three people were injured in three northern prefectures — Aomori, Akita and Miyagi since Tuesday.
It made landfall near the city of Ofunato, 500 kilometers (310 miles) northeast of Tokyo late Tuesday before moving away from Japan. It’s the first time a typhoon has made landfall in the northern region since 1951, when the Japan Meteorological Agency started keeping records.
More than 170,000 people were subject to evacuation, including 38,000 in Ofunato, according to the fire and disaster management agency. More than 10,000 homes in the northern region were without electricity, with power lines damaged from the winds.
The scene of large parts of northern Japan covered with muddy water was a shocking reminder of the tsunami disaster that struck the region five years ago.
Iwate, hardest-hit by the typhoon, is one of the areas still recovering from the tsunami damage.
The March 2011 earthquake and tsunami left more than 18,000 people dead in the wide swaths of Japan’s northern coast, including 340 in Ofunato.
At the Fukushima nuclear power plant, decimated by the 2011 disaster, some outdoor decommissioning work was suspended as a precaution. | http://newagebd.net/249468/nine-dead-typhoon-hits-northern-japan/ | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | newagebd.net/4a85cbd3d65861359673567523ed97b4ecab86a1ab7f08c43f9a6cab75102e19.json |
[
"Anwar Uz Zaman",
"Billy Ahmed"
] | 2016-08-29T08:50:27 | null | 2016-08-29T14:11:42 | The National Committee to Protect Oil, Gas, Mineral Resources, Power and Ports on Monday said it had no intention to go for movement along with Bangladesh Nationalist Party over... | http%3A%2F%2Fnewagebd.net%2F249085%2Fno-movement-bnp-rampal-issue-oil-gas-committee%2F.json | http://newagebd.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Oil-gas-committee-press-conference.jpg | en | null | No movement with BNP over Rampal issue: oil-gas committee | null | null | newagebd.net | The National Committee to Protect Oil, Gas, Mineral Resources, Power and Ports on Monday said it had no intention to go for movement along with Bangladesh Nationalist Party over the issue of Rampal power plant.
BNP is the political party that did make anti-state decision in past when it was in power and accomplished anti-state activities, said Anu Muhammad, member secretary of the national committee.
He was speaking at a press conference at Mukti Bhaban in the city following the speech of prime minister Sheikh Hasina who held a press briefing at Ganabhaban on Saturday.
The constitution of the national committee stipulates that no unity can be forged with a person, group, or any political party having previous or current involvement in the process of any event or decision which goes against national interest, Anu Muhammad explained.
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday reiterated her government’s firm stand for coal-based power plant at Rampal saying the power plant would not cause any harm to the world heritage famous for home of Royal Bengal Tigers and rich biodiversity.
At a press conference at her Ganabhaban residence, the prime minister ruled out the claim of a certain quarter that the power plant would destroy the mangrove forests.
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Saturday night refuted the prime minister’s claim. | http://newagebd.net/249085/no-movement-bnp-rampal-issue-oil-gas-committee/ | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | newagebd.net/c6ba261f19eab32f2bfd7ce2d3a4f150fcdd577ff16ffe325dd87cbd18914ecd.json |
[
"Anwar Uz Zaman",
"Billy Ahmed"
] | 2016-08-31T10:54:15 | null | 2016-08-31T15:27:29 | Nearly 10 days after Bashundhara City Shopping Mall was shut down following a devastating fire, the shopping complex was opened on... | http%3A%2F%2Fnewagebd.net%2F249484%2Fbashundhara-mall-reopens-fire%2F.json | http://newagebd.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Bashundhara-city-shopping-mall.jpg | en | null | Bashundhara mall reopens after fire | null | null | newagebd.net | Nearly 10 days after Bashundhara City Shopping Mall was shut down following a devastating fire, the shopping complex was opened on Wednesday morning.
The gate of the market was opened around 10:00am, said an employee of the mall’s information desk, wishing anonymity.
Most of the shops of the market were opened, excluding those of the C-blocks on the 6th, 7th and 8th floors, reports United News of Bangladesh.
However, a few visitors were found roaming around the market complex.
Arif Hossain, a salesman at fashion outlet Monsoon Rain, said they were yet to sell any product since the morning.
The number of buyers will increase in the afternoon, he expected.
Workers and stuff of the markets were seen busy repairing the damage.
The lifts of the building were running while technicians were found to check the escalators before their operation.
Besides, the electric connections at most of the shops of Block B on the 6th floor were snapped during the fire.
A few shops of the food court on the 8th floor were opened and the employees were cleaning those.
On August 21, a devastating fire broke out in the shopping mall when a total of 70 shops out of 100 on level 6 were completely or partially damaged.
Some 150 firefighters, assisted by firemen of Bashundhara City Shopping Mall, doused the flame after nearly nine hours of frantic effort. | http://newagebd.net/249484/bashundhara-mall-reopens-fire/ | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | newagebd.net/9dfcfe6a41145adbaf9ef0e3470acc6a357c42731ce4e6c4e25145ab825263df.json |
[
"Anwar Uz Zaman",
"Billy Ahmed"
] | 2016-08-29T18:51:21 | null | 2016-08-30T00:13:59 | South Asian Games gold medallist, Shakil Ahmed of Bangladesh Army earned his maiden gold medal at domestic level when he won the men’s 10-metre air pistol event of the 28th National Shooting Championship on Monday... | http%3A%2F%2Fnewagebd.net%2F249209%2Fshakil-wins-gold-10-m-air-pistol%2F.json | http://newagebd.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Logo-NA-light-200.jpg | en | null | Shakil wins gold in 10-m air pistol | null | null | newagebd.net | South Asian Games gold medallist, Shakil Ahmed of Bangladesh Army earned his maiden gold medal at domestic level when he won the men’s 10-metre air pistol event of the 28th National Shooting Championship on Monday.
Shakil, who won gold medal in the men’s 50-metre air pistol event of the 2016 SA Games in India earlier this year, outshone his team-mate and holder Shahadat Ahmed by shooting 192.3 points.
‘After winning the gold medal in SA Games, I have always been under pressure to produce a good score,’ said an ecstatic Shakil whose favourite event, 50-metre air pistol, will be held on August 31.
In the junior event of 10-metre air pistol event, Anwar Hossain and Sabbir Alamin won gold and silver medals respectively.
In the 50-metre rifle three position, Towfiq Shahriar won gold medal firing 1,143 points while Abdullah Hel Baki and Yousuf Ali won silver and bronze medals scoring 1,123 and 1,121 points respectively. | http://newagebd.net/249209/shakil-wins-gold-10-m-air-pistol/ | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | newagebd.net/47fd6b24140603455406cb78ffef2dd495542fd8c1fe8ff34a60666765a01725.json |
[
"Anwar Uz Zaman",
"Billy Ahmed"
] | 2016-08-30T10:52:43 | null | 2016-08-30T16:43:02 | A Dhaka metropolitan magistrate court on Tuesday issued summon for Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia in a case filed for celebrating... | http%3A%2F%2Fnewagebd.net%2F249310%2Fcourt-summons-khaleda-celebrating-fake-birthday%2F.json | http://newagebd.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Khaleda-Zia-1.jpg | en | null | Court summons Khaleda for celebrating fake birthday | null | null | newagebd.net | A Dhaka metropolitan magistrate court on Tuesday issued summon for Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia in a case filed for celebrating fake birthday on August 15.
Metropolitan magistrate Mazharul Islam ordered the former prime minister to appear before the court on October 17 after taking cognizance of the case.
Former joint secretary of Dhaka Union of Journalists Gazi Jahirul Islam filed the case with chief metropolitan magistrates court.
According to the case statement, Khaleda Zia has been celebrating her fake birthday since August 15, 1996 intentionally.
In this programme, Bangabandhu and his family, who were assassinated on August 15, were defamed through libelous and false speech.
And thus it led the country to an unstable condition by misleading the country and celebrating the birthday with anti-independence people and war criminals which goes against the sovereign country’s law and constitution, the case statement said.
Reports had been published in the Daily Ittefaq on August 22, 1997, and in the Daily Sangbad on August 27, 1997, over the birth dates of Khaleda Zia.
In the reports, the date of birth of the former prime minister was September 5, 1946, according to the failed Khaleda’s Secondary School Certificate mark-sheet.
A biography was published in the Daily Banglar Bani while Khaleda Zia was in power in 1991. The date of birth was then August 19, 1945. During her marriage settlement, the date of birth was August 9, 1944.
In 2011, the date of birth was August 5, 1946 according to her machine readable passport, the case statement added. | http://newagebd.net/249310/court-summons-khaleda-celebrating-fake-birthday/ | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | newagebd.net/22688d10a5d70fcadca9be35a0c1c6ca78714d358d401a33e288b69b9895efe9.json |
[
"Anwar Uz Zaman",
"Billy Ahmed"
] | 2016-08-29T04:50:17 | null | 2016-08-29T08:50:22 | A team of six people have completed a Mars simulation in Hawaii, where they lived in near isolation for a year... | http%3A%2F%2Fnewagebd.net%2F249065%2Fnasa-ends-year-long-mars-simulation-hawaii%2F.json | http://newagebd.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/NASA-Mars-simulation-1.jpg | en | null | NASA ends year-long Mars simulation on Hawaii | null | null | newagebd.net | A team of six people have completed a Mars simulation in Hawaii, where they lived in near isolation for a year.
Since August 29, 2015, the group lived in close quarters in a dome, without fresh air, fresh food or privacy.
Experts estimate that a human mission to the Red Planet could take between one and three years.
The NASA-funded study run by the University of Hawaii is the longest of its kind since a Russian mission that lasted 520 days.
Having survived their year in isolation, the crew members said they were confident a mission to Mars could succeed.
‘I can give you my personal impression which is that a mission to Mars in the close future is realistic,’ Cyprien Verseux, a crew member from France, told journalists. ‘I think the technological and psychological obstacles can be overcome.’
Tristan Bassingthwaighte, a doctor of architecture at the University of Hawaii, praised research done into the human element of space travel.
‘The research going on up here is just super vital when it comes to picking crews, figuring out how people are going to actually work on different kinds of missions, and sort of the human factors element of space travel, colonisation, whatever it is you are actually looking at,’ he said.
The team consisted of a French astro-biologist, a German physicist and four Americans – a pilot, an architect, a journalist and a soil scientist.
The experiment dealt with the human element of exploration.
Whilst conducting research, the six had to live with limited resources, wear a space-suit when outside the dome, and work to avoid personal conflicts.
They each had a small sleeping cot and a desk inside their rooms. Provisions included powdered cheese and canned tuna.
Missions to the International Space Station normally only last six months. | http://newagebd.net/249065/nasa-ends-year-long-mars-simulation-hawaii/ | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | newagebd.net/5f6501cacc3fc0d2f0149d0764b7cc91ccfbbb65c2446076796ce07a09f9c93d.json |
[
"Anwar Uz Zaman",
"Billy Ahmed"
] | 2016-08-26T12:51:31 | null | 2016-01-17T16:30:16 | The activists of Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Sunday chased away a group of people claiming to be activists of ‘real BNP’ in front of the party’s central office at Naya Paltan... | http%3A%2F%2Fnewagebd.net%2F194274%2Fchhatra-dal-juba-dal-chases-away-real-bnp-again%2F.json | http://newagebd.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Logo-NA-light-200.jpg | en | null | Chhatra Dal, Juba Dal chases away ‘real BNP’ again | null | null | newagebd.net | The activists of Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Sunday chased away a group of people claiming to be activists of ‘real BNP’ in front of the party’s central office at Naya Paltan.
Witnesses said some 70 followers of Kamrul Hasan Nasim, who claims to be leader of reconstruction in BNP, marched towards the BNP office from Nightingale crossing and reaching the party’s office faced resistance from BNP-backed student organisation Chhatra Dal and youth organisation Juba Dal activists triggering a brief clash at around 3:45pm.
They approached with a front running pick up van where some people carried a banner inscribing ‘Showdown of Party’s Revolution’, witnesses said.
Both the groups chased each other triggering panic in the area. During the clash, some people set fire to a pick-up van of ‘real BNP’, said Paltan police officer-in-charge Morshed Alam.
He said none was injured.
BNP joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi in a press conference at the party central office after the incident said, ‘The government wanted to capture the BNP office unleashing some street boys’.
When contacted, Nasim told New Age that they had a programme of ‘cultural showdown’ today when some goons from BNP office attacked them.
‘Our men wanted to march the road [in front of BNP office] carrying some books and printed poems of me as part of the cultural showdown of party’s revolution’, he said.
(Updated) | http://newagebd.net/194274/chhatra-dal-juba-dal-chases-away-real-bnp-again/ | en | 2016-01-17T00:00:00 | newagebd.net/946643937e35d3e2c0687b91275569c801130751a47f22b02a3c532097321778.json |
[
"Anwar Uz Zaman",
"Billy Ahmed"
] | 2016-08-29T04:49:22 | null | 2016-08-29T09:43:03 | Two suspected members of banned militant outfit Jamaatul Mujahedeen Bangladesh were killed in a reported gunfight with police in Noylapara area of Sherpur in Bogra... | http%3A%2F%2Fnewagebd.net%2F249063%2Ftwo-jmb-men-killed-bogra-gunfight%2F.json | http://newagebd.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Bogra-map.jpg | en | null | Two ‘JMB men’ killed in Bogra ‘gunfight’ | null | null | newagebd.net | Two suspected members of banned militant outfit Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh were killed in a reported gunfight with police in Noylapara area of Sherpur in Bogra early Monday.
One of the deceased was identified as Md Khaled Hassan alias Badar Mama, 30, son of Enamul Huq of Hanifpur at Nachol in Chapainawabganj. He was the southern regional commander of the militant outfit, police said.
Acting on a tip-off that a team of five or six JMB members led by Badar Mama would pass through Sherpur to commit big destructive activities anywhere in the country, police took position at Noylapara, Bogra assistant superintendent of police (B circle) Md Gaziur Rahman told New Age.
Around 3:30am the JMB members approached the area and sensing presence of the law enforcers, they opened fire on the police car, he said.
Police also retaliated with gunshots triggering a gunfight that lasted about 15 minutes. After the gunfight, they found two bullet-wounded people in a roadside bush.
The duo was taken to Shaheed Ziaur Rahman Medical College Hospital where on-duty physicians declared them dead.
Two police constables also got injured in the incident and they were now undergoing treatment at Bogra Police Lines Hospital, the assistant police super claimed.
Police also recovered one foreign made pistol, four bullets, and grenade making materials from the spot. | http://newagebd.net/249063/two-jmb-men-killed-bogra-gunfight/ | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | newagebd.net/a19fb1119ce862a9aab649f166fcc2a4c140464878741c4d8cfdaa293b7283b5.json |
[
"Anwar Uz Zaman",
"Billy Ahmed"
] | 2016-08-28T06:49:09 | null | 2016-08-28T11:11:50 | The US Republican presidential nominee, Donald Trump, has said he will develop a tracking system to help authorities control immigration... | http%3A%2F%2Fnewagebd.net%2F248885%2Ftrump-details-plans-track-immigrants%2F.json | http://newagebd.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Donald-trump-roast-and-ride.jpg | en | null | Trump details plans to track immigrants | null | null | newagebd.net | The US Republican presidential nominee, Donald Trump, has said he will develop a tracking system to help authorities control immigration.
Speaking on the campaign trail in Iowa, he outlined what he called an ‘entry-exit’ programme, which would track those who overstay their visas.
He also reiterated his support for building a wall along the southern border with Mexico.
And he said he would stop illegal immigrants getting welfare benefits.
‘I am going to build a great border wall, institute nationwide e-verify, stop illegal immigrants from accessing welfare and entitlements, and develop an exit-entry tracking system to ensure those who overstay their visas are quickly removed,’ Trump said.
‘If we don’t enforce visa expiration dates, then we have an open border – it’s as simple as that,’ he added.
Instead of deporting all 11 million people living illegally in the US as he had suggested before, he said only criminals would go.
He was immediately criticised by the right of the Republican party, with former Alaska governor Sarah Palin warning him of ‘massive disappointment’ if he backed down on his plan to deport undocumented immigrants. | http://newagebd.net/248885/trump-details-plans-track-immigrants/ | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | newagebd.net/f3c8cfc8921445e18228879b0e09e33db070ffa82711876d301c059c304f00b3.json |
[
"Anwar Uz Zaman",
"Billy Ahmed"
] | 2016-08-26T16:47:35 | null | 2016-08-26T20:20:01 | Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Friday voiced deep concern over government’s alleged move to take away the Swadhinata Padak given to its founder Ziaur Rahman posthumously... | http%3A%2F%2Fnewagebd.net%2F248539%2Fwithdrawing-zias-swadhinata-padak-raises-bnps-concern%2F.json | http://newagebd.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/BNP-flag.jpg | en | null | 'Withdrawing' Zia's Swadhinata Padak raises BNP's concern - New Age | null | null | newagebd.net | Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Friday voiced deep concern over government’s alleged move to take away the Swadhinata Padak given to its founder Ziaur Rahman posthumously.
‘Newspapers on Friday ran a news item that Ziaur Rahman’s Swadhinata Padak (Independence Award) to be taken back. The entire nation has got worried and surprised with it,’ he said, reports United News of Bangladesh.
Speaking at a press briefing at BNP’s Nayapaltan central office, Fakhrul further said, ‘The BNP-led government awarded late Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and Ziaur Rahman with the Swadhinata Padak in 2003, and it is a glorious example of political generosity in Bangladesh history.’
Asked whether BNP has any information in this regard from any source, Fakhrul said, ‘We have somehow came to know that a cabinet meeting has decided to withdraw Ziaur Rahman’s Swadhinata Padak. It’s a suicidal and unbecoming decision of the cabinet.’
‘Ziaur Rahman had led the war of independence from the front. He had been awarded the gallantry award of Bir Uttam by the post-liberation government in 1972 for his contributions to the Liberation War,’ he said.
Swadhinata Padak is the highest state award given by the government in recognition of any person’s outstanding contributions any field.
The BNP leader said the ruling party can dishonour him by withdrawing his award, but will not be able to erase his achievements.
The BNP secretary general said they are observing with frustration that the ruling party is trying to divide the nation instead of uniting it. ‘They’re doing it in a planned way to make their political gains.’
He alleged that Awami League is pushing the country towards destruction through its negative politics.
Mentioning that their party believes in the politics of unity, he said there is no alternative to ‘restoring’ democracy and forging unity to overcome the country’s current problems, including militancy one.
He called upon the government to restore democracy in line with people’s hopes and aspirations shunning its negative and destructive politics.
Or else, he said, ‘People won’t forgive you and you have to be accountable to them some day,’ | http://newagebd.net/248539/withdrawing-zias-swadhinata-padak-raises-bnps-concern/ | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | newagebd.net/fe6cd6b5216c49332b0a3930085023705fa6f2f3c88ba330fae8e845866aa55f.json |
[
"Anwar Uz Zaman",
"Billy Ahmed"
] | 2016-08-28T18:49:54 | null | 2016-08-29T00:38:53 | Information minister Hasanul Haq Inu on Sunday said that India has not done right by taking unilateral decision to release water through the common cross-boundary river... | http%3A%2F%2Fnewagebd.net%2F249045%2Finu-slates-india-opening-farakka-gates%2F.json | http://newagebd.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Logo-NA-light-200.jpg | en | null | Inu slates India for opening Farakka gates | null | null | newagebd.net | Information minister Hasanul Haq Inu on Sunday said that India has not done right by taking unilateral decision to release water through the common cross-boundary river.
New Age correspondent in Kushtia reported that while distributing relief among the flood affected people at Bheramara of Kushtia, information minister said that India did not take the right decision by opening the Farakka gate as excessive water in Padma had inundated many parts of the country.
Inu also said that it was essential to inform the Indian authorities about the damages caused by the floodwater after making a proper assessment.
The onrush of water from upstream left at least 40 villages in Doulatpur and Bheramara upazilas in Kushtia district inundated with several thousand people rendered homeless.
Meanwhile, in a statement conflicting the statement of the information minister, disaster management and relief minister Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya said that if India opened the Farakka barrage fully, there would be no damage to Bangladesh.
New Age correspondent in Feni reported Maya came up with the remarks while speaking at a monthly meeting at the Chandpur deputy commissioners’ conference room.
Maya said Farakka was once considered a death trap for Bangladesh but it has now become a death-trap of India.
The water level at the Padma river is still below the danger level and the water from Farakka will not create problems in Bangladesh.
But there is a possibility of rising waters late in the rainy season, he said.
The ministry has taken preparation to face the floods and would provide assistance to the affected people until November, Maya said.
According to media reports, as the Ganga River swelled, the Indian Central Water Resources Ministry has recently directed that all flood gates of the Farraka Barrage in West Bengal be opened to relieve the danger to Bihar. | http://newagebd.net/249045/inu-slates-india-opening-farakka-gates/ | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | newagebd.net/38aa612ef16e2ca5cda851fd7f8664168e54197140c1313904827442bf2eaff2.json |
[
"Anwar Uz Zaman",
"Billy Ahmed"
] | 2016-08-31T04:51:58 | null | 2016-08-31T09:44:38 | North Korea has executed its vice premier for education and rebuked two high-ranking officials, South Korea said on Wednesday... | http%3A%2F%2Fnewagebd.net%2F249463%2Fnorth-korea-executes-vice-premier%2F.json | http://newagebd.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Logo-NA-light-200.jpg | en | null | North Korea executes vice premier | null | null | newagebd.net | North Korea has executed its vice premier for education and rebuked two high-ranking officials, South Korea said on Wednesday, which, if true, would mark a new series of measures by leader Kim Jong Un to discipline top aides.
Kim took power in 2011 after the death of his father, Kim Jong Il, and his consolidation of power has included purges and executions of top officials, South Korean officials have said.
South Korea’s unification ministry spokesman Jeong Joon-hee said the government had confirmed the execution of the education official, Kim Yong Jin, ‘through various channels’ but declined to provide details.
Kim Yong Chol, the influential head of the North’s United Front Department which handles inter-Korean relations, was made to undergo ‘revolutionary measures,’ Jeong told a briefing.
Another ruling party official in the propaganda department was also reprimanded, Jeong said.
It is difficult to independently verify news about top officials in the North or the inner circle around the leader. Some previous reports of executions and purges in the reclusive state have proven inaccurate.
Vice premier Kim Yong Jin was executed for not keeping his posture upright at a public event, a South Korean government official later told Reuters. Kim Yong Chol was punished for his overbearing demeanour, the official added, but gave no details.
The execution, by firing squad, took place in July and Kim Yong Chol was re-educated at a rural farm for a month until mid-August, South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency said.
The South’s comments follow a news report on Tuesday that the North had executed two high-ranking officials for disobeying leader Kim Jong Un.
Kim Yong Jin was promoted to vice premier in 2012 after serving as education minister, according to a South Korean government database on key officials of the North.
Army general Kim Yong Chol headed the North Korean intelligence agency before taking his current position this year.
News of the reclusive state’s new purges comes after the South said North Korea’s deputy ambassador in London had defected and arrived in the South with his family, dealing an embarrassing blow to Kim’s regime.
North Korea rarely announces purges or executions, although state media confirmed the 2012 execution of Kim’s uncle, Jang Song Thaek, widely considered the country’s second most powerful man, for factionalism and crimes damaging to the economy.
A former defence minister, Hyun Yong Chol, is also believed to have been executed last year for treason, according to the South’s spy agency. | http://newagebd.net/249463/north-korea-executes-vice-premier/ | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | newagebd.net/232d3b19138e8f235ee3279808d39f106f3cf28ac440abf3584db1b30ff238d8.json |
[
"Anwar Uz Zaman",
"Billy Ahmed"
] | 2016-08-31T12:53:06 | null | 2016-08-31T18:00:51 | The Anti-Corruption Commission on Wednesday arrested four people, including a union parishad chairman, from the capital and Kishoreganj, in... | http%3A%2F%2Fnewagebd.net%2F249499%2Facc-arrests-four-graft-suspects%2F.json | http://newagebd.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ACC-anti-corruption-commission.jpg | en | null | ACC arrests four graft suspects | null | null | newagebd.net | The Anti-Corruption Commission on Wednesday arrested four people, including a union parishad chairman, from the capital and Kishoreganj, in separate graft cases.
ACC deputy assistant director Noor-e-Alam Siddiqui of its Mymensingh office arrested Mamun Chowdhury, chairman of Badla union parishad, Itna, from Kishoreganj town, ACC public relations officer Pranab Kumar Bhattacharya said, reports United news of Bangladesh.
On April 19, 2015, the national anti-graft agency filed a case against him with Itna police station for allegedly plundering Tk one lakh from LGSP project-2 preparing fake bills and vouchers during the 2012-13 fiscal year.
ACC deputy assistant director Nazim Uddin of its Dhaka office detained Arifur Rahman, Md Selam and Md Momon of Keranigani from the city’s Segunbagicha area for allegedly grabbing 1.23 acres of land preparing fake land deed. | http://newagebd.net/249499/acc-arrests-four-graft-suspects/ | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | newagebd.net/3761b943321cd41629b6e65e3848220aca5bb1cc2f115f5dc020dde3ec71222f.json |
[
"Anwar Uz Zaman",
"Billy Ahmed"
] | 2016-08-26T20:47:37 | null | 2016-08-27T00:46:32 | The National Board of Revenue in order to achieve hefty revenue target set for the current financial year broadened and tightened its tax enforcement tools on both businesses and city dwellers in the capital... | http%3A%2F%2Fnewagebd.net%2F248669%2Frevenue-from-dccs%2F.json | http://newagebd.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Logo-NA-light-200.jpg | en | null | Revenue from DCCs: NBR tightens grip | null | null | newagebd.net | The National Board of Revenue in order to achieve hefty revenue target set for the current financial year broadened and tightened its tax enforcement tools on both businesses and city dwellers in the capital.
The board sent letters to both Dhaka north and Dhaka south city corporations in the past week asking them to comply with 16-point tax instructions on income tax and value added tax on their services, a revenue official said.
The tax instructions include new tax measures introduced from the beginning of the current financial year, as well as old ones that remained largely unimplemented, the official added.
‘We have given instructions to both the city corporations following a meeting with corporations’ officials that has briefed them regarding tax measures they are supposed to implement on both business and city dwellers in Dhaka,’ a member of the board told New Age on Thursday.
‘The government will be able to earn more than Tk 10,000 crore this year if the corporations apply all 16 types of revenue measures properly,’ he said.
The budget for the current financial year fixed a target of Tk 2,03,152 crore as revenue income from the NBR head, a 35.8 per cent projected growth from the past year. Above 70 per cent of the estimated revenue income is to come from income tax and VAT, as their purview has been widened and enforcement streamlined, board officials said.
According to the instructions, officials of the two city corporations must examine the income tax and VAT registration certificates of businesses while issuing and renewing trade licenses.
The instructions include proper vetting of income tax records during determination of the values of houses
by the corporations and ensuring the deduction of advance income tax before payment of salaries of the officials concerned at both the city corporations.
The instructions also said that tax at source should be regularly deducted from the consultant fees, contractors’ or suppliers’ bills, Tk 500 as advance income tax should be collected on renewal of trade license, a 5 per cent advance income tax must be added with the rents of convention halls and community centres owned by the city corporations and a 7.5 per cent advance income tax must be slapped on auction money.
The instructions asked the city corporations to collect another 5 per cent advance income tax on rent of city corporations’ land, deduction of VAT on 38 types of services and deposit the revenue to the state exchequer.
Another revenue board official who attended the meeting early this month said that officials of the two city corporations had assured them of compliance with the tax instructions. | http://newagebd.net/248669/revenue-from-dccs/ | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | newagebd.net/914eff33039c6d2cffde399bf00afb367d6c4df1af48bd7086c3ed0685891f58.json |
[
"Anwar Uz Zaman",
"Billy Ahmed"
] | 2016-08-29T20:52:41 | null | 2016-08-30T00:46:07 | The United States would consider Bangladesh’s request for duty-free and quota-free access for Bangladeshi products to the US market, US secretary of state John Kerry said in Dhaka on Monday... | http%3A%2F%2Fnewagebd.net%2F249264%2Fdhaka-wants-market-access-return-mujib-killers%2F.json | http://newagebd.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/United-States-secretary.jpg | en | null | Dhaka wants market access, return of Mujib killers | null | null | newagebd.net | The United States would consider Bangladesh’s request for duty-free and quota-free access for Bangladeshi products to the US market, US secretary of state John Kerry said in Dhaka on Monday.
The United Sates was also reviewing the scopes of extradition of the condemned fugitive killers of Bangladesh’s founding president Sheikh Mujibur, he said.
Kerry also expressed the US interest in working with intelligence agencies in Bangladesh and cooperate Bangladesh in sharing information and best practices in containing terrorism and countering violent extremism.
‘We talked about security in very broad frame,’ John Kerry said replying to a query after speaking to a select group of civil society members, labour leaders and journalists in Dhaka.
Sharing information and best practices and expertise on dealing with terror financing and taking preventive measures and maintaining transparency and accountability ‘are most important weapons’ to combat terrorism, he said, adding that the United States would work with Bangladesh in this areas.
Kerry, in his meeting with prime minister Sheikh Hasina at her office, expressed the US interest in working closely with intelligence agencies of Bangladesh to fight terrorism, prime minister’s press secretary Ihsanul Karim told reporters, according to the state-run news agency Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha.
Hasina said her government required information from the United States in nabbing the extremists since the United States had technological advancement. ‘It would help arrest the terrorists and there should be reciprocity or two way traffic in this regard,’ she said.
AS the prime minister requested the United States ‘to extradite Bangabandhu’s killers’ living in the country, Kerry said he ‘understands’ the concern of Hasina.
‘The issue [of extradition] is under review by the US government,’ the press secretary quoted Kerry as telling Hasina.
Law minister Anisul Huq recently said that the government had located two out of six condemned fugitive killers of Mujib – Noor Chowdhury in Canada and AM Rashed Chowdhury in the United States.
As the prime minister wanted to know the source of money of the terrorist outfit Islamic State, Kerry said the group was earning money by selling oil from the fields that it captured and imposing levy on general people in IS-dominated regions.
Sheikh Hasina also described Bangladesh’s success in the fields of education, healthcare and food security, etc.
In a tweet after the meeting with the prime minister, Kerry said that Bangladesh ‘has an extraordinary development story. [I was] pleased to meet prime minister Sheikh Hasina.’
Kerry led the US delegation in the official talks with the Bangladesh side at the state guest house Padma.
In the talks, Bangladesh ‘strongly’ made a pitch for duty-free and quota-free access for Bangladeshi products to the US market and for the extradition of the condemned fugitive killers of Sheikh Mujib, while the United States was pursuing for cooperation between the two countries on security issues and the fight against violent extremism, said officials present in the talks.
In a tweet after the official talks, Kerry said, ‘Important discussions today in Bangladesh incl. on security issues & our strong support in fighting against violent extremism.’
He also emphasised the importance of upholding human rights and democratic values as effective measures in counterterrorism and countering violent extremism efforts, the US Department of State said in a release.
Foreign minister AH Mahmood Ali, who led the Bangladesh delegation in the talks, said at a briefing that it was a ‘fruitful discussion.’
Asked if the issue of duty- and quota-free access of Bangladeshi products came up in the discussion, the commerce minister, Tofail Ahmed, also a member of the Bangladesh delegation, said that Kerry ‘agreed to consider the request.’
Mahmood Ali also said that the issues of cooperation in combating ‘terrorism and militancy’ largely dominated the talks but he declined to elaborate the details immediately.
Home minister Asaduzzaman Khan, foreign secretary M Shahidul Haque and Bangladesh ambassador to Washington Mohammad Ziauddin, were, among others, present on the Bangladesh side in the talks.
In his first engagement on his arrival at about 10.15am on an eight-hour-long visit, Kerry went to the Bangabandhu Memorial Museum, which was the residence of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, at Dhanmondi in Dhaka.
Kerry paid a rich tribute to Sheikh Mujib and went around the museum to see the marks of August 15, 1975 assassination with deep attention and grief, BSS reported.
‘What a tragedy to have such brilliant and courageous leadership is taken from the people of Bangladesh in such a moment of violence and cowardice,’ Kerry wrote in the visitor’s book, ‘the United State is proud to be friend [of Bangladesh] and strong supporter of the fulfilment of his [Sheikh Mujib] vision. We look forward for growing and working together for peace and prosperity.’
Rezwan Siddique Bobby, son of Sheikh Mujib’s youngest daughter Sheikh, Rehana, received Kerry at the museum.
Trade between Bangladesh and the United States rose 8.5 per cent to almost $7 billion in 2015. Exports from Bangladesh accounted for $6 billion of the total, and 90 per cent of that was clothing.
The US investment in Bangladesh rose to about $2 billion in 2015 from $1.5 billion the year before, including an investment of more than $1 billion by energy firm Chevron.
Foreign minister Ali received Kerry at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on his arrival from Geneva by a special aircraft. Kerry visited an apparel factory at Mirpur.
Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia called on Kerry at the US embassy at Baridhara. Leader of the opposition in parliament Raushan Ershad made a brief exchange with Kerry at EMK Centre at Dhanmondi.
The US assistant secretary of state for South and Central Asian Affairs, Nisha Desai Biswal, and the US ambassador in Dhaka, Marcia Bernicat, accompanied Kerry in his programmes.
Kerry left Dhaka at about 6.00pm for New Delhi. Foreign secretary M Shahidul Haque saw him off at the airport. It was Kerry’s first visit to Bangladesh. | http://newagebd.net/249264/dhaka-wants-market-access-return-mujib-killers/ | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | newagebd.net/2ad3f3c9aa824392f919673e57b3468502b8b7b67411e5e0498760ce261a5290.json |
[
"Anwar Uz Zaman",
"Billy Ahmed"
] | 2016-08-28T08:51:23 | null | 2016-08-28T14:23:32 | Jagannath University unit of Bangladesh Chhatra League, the ruling party student wing, attacked the agitating students while observeing the first spell of two-day fresh... | http%3A%2F%2Fnewagebd.net%2F248894%2Fbcl-men-attack-protesters-jagannth-univ%2F.json | http://newagebd.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/JnU-wounded.jpg | en | null | BCL men attack protesters at Jagannth univ | null | null | newagebd.net | Jagannath University unit of Bangladesh Chhatra League, the ruling party student wing, attacked the agitating students while observeing the first spell of two-day fresh strike on the campus on Sunday to press home their demands for constructing residential halls on the vacated land of Dhaka Central Jail on Nazimuddin Road.
Witnesses said that a group of Chhatra League men led by the university unit Chhatra League general secretary SM Sirajul Islam swooped on the agitating students at around 9:45am on the campus.
The students alleged that at least 15 agitators were injured in Chhatra League attack while the students started bringing out procession from the campus in the morning.
They were rushed to nearby private clinic and hospital.
The agitating students that the leaders of Chhatra League were on conspiracy to veer off their movement.
However, BCL’s university unit president Shoriful Islam denied the allegation and told New Age that Chhatra League did not attack anyone.
‘We will continue our movement unless we get any definite answer from the government,’ said Raisul Islam Nayan, an organiser of the movement.
When asked about BCL attack on the hall agitators, the university proctor Noor Muhammad told New Age that he had no comment over the matter.
Meanwhile, the university authorities on August 21 formed an 11-member body led by business studies dean Moniruzzaman to talk with the agitators.
The authorities on August 11 wrote a letter to the government seeking permanent ownership of the former jail property.
The students have been staging demonstrations since August 1, boycotting classes and examinations and blocking roads in support of their demands. | http://newagebd.net/248894/bcl-men-attack-protesters-jagannth-univ/ | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | newagebd.net/3e0be8687913ebff99a4ce1f510157457a094d7ffe36c99fabb5e065bae50227.json |
[
"Anwar Uz Zaman",
"Billy Ahmed"
] | 2016-08-27T16:48:41 | null | 2016-08-27T21:08:00 | Heavy rain has swamped several areas of Kansas City in India on Saturday, prompting high-water rescues and a temporary stoppage of the city's downtown streetcar service... | http%3A%2F%2Fnewagebd.net%2F248729%2Fflash-flooding-prompts-rescues-closures-kansas-city-in-india%2F.json | http://newagebd.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Severe-Weather.jpg | en | null | Flash flooding prompts rescues, closures in Kansas city of India | null | null | newagebd.net | Heavy rain has swamped several areas of Kansas City in India on Saturday, prompting high-water rescues and a temporary stoppage of the city’s downtown streetcar service.
KMBC-TV reported that Friday night’s storms caused Brush Creek, which runs through the south side of the city, to rise 10 feet in an hour.
The Kansas City Star reports that the Johnson County Emergency Management office said there were more than 10 water rescues before 11:00pm due to the flash flooding.
The streetcar service was suspended for an hour downtown due to flooding, and highways around downtown took on water, too.
The National Weather Service in Kansas City tweeted Saturday that 4.56 inches of rain fell in a 24-hour period. | http://newagebd.net/248729/flash-flooding-prompts-rescues-closures-kansas-city-in-india/ | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | newagebd.net/8fe183eb081988c099d4c96fc66138a486b57ae11d0105e4b23e10f420b305b3.json |
[
"Anwar Uz Zaman",
"Billy Ahmed"
] | 2016-08-26T20:49:21 | null | 2016-08-27T00:39:43 | The nation will observe the 40th death anniversary of National Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam today.
Socio-cultural organisations, television channels and radio stations have planned elaborate programmes to observe the day... | http%3A%2F%2Fnewagebd.net%2F248664%2Fnazruls-death-anniv-today-3%2F.json | http://newagebd.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Kazi-Nazrul-Islam.jpg | en | null | Nazrul’s death anniv today | null | null | newagebd.net | The nation will observe the 40th death anniversary of National Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam today.
Socio-cultural organisations, television channels and radio stations have planned elaborate programmes to observe the day.
The day’s programme will begin with placing wreaths at the poet’s tomb beside Dhaka University Central Mosque in the morning.
Nazrul Institute has organised a two-day programme that began on Friday at the Institute where CDs featuring 500 Nazrul songs in its original tunes were launched, besides discussion and a cultural show.
Today, the institute will observe the day through conferring Nazrul Award 2015, discussion and cultural show at the main auditorium of Bangladesh National Museum.
Nazrul Academy has taken up a three-day programme that began on Friday at the academy complex at Mogbazar in the capital.
Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy will hold a special programme featuring cultural show and discussion at National Theatre Hall of the academy on the occasion.
Bangla Academy will hold a programme tomorrow at Shamsur Rahman Hall of the academy to observe the day.
On the occasion, president Abdul Hamid and prime minister Sheikh Hasina in separate statements conveyed their honour to the poet and prayed for his departed soul.
Kazi Nazrul Islam (1899–1976), known as the rebel poet, contributed to almost all genres of literature in his career.
In his short artistic career of just over 20 years, before be lost his speech, Nazrul penned 3,174 songs, 600 poems, three novels and 43 essays, according to Nazrul Institute.
Born into a poor family on May 24, 1899 or 11th Jaishthya, 1306 in village Churulia under Asansol of Burdwan in India’s West Bengal, Nazrul had to leave his study at an early age for earning his living.
At nine, he had to join a Churulia-based professional leto troupe to earn his livelihood. While working for the troupe, he was introduced to works of Bangla and Sanskrit literature. A year later, he resumed education and got enrolled into Matharun English School but dropped out from Class VI for poverty.
This time, he worked with a Kabi Gaan troupe and subsequently took up a job at a bakery shop. At this stage of his life, Nazrul started writing poems and his talent soon grabbed the attention of a police officer named Kazi Rafizullah, who gave him shelter in his house at Trishal in Mymensingh in 1914, and enrolled him in Class VII at the Darirampur School.
In 1917, Nazrul joined the British Army as a soldier. While serving the army, for two years and a half, the young poet was introduced to Persian literature and learned to play different instruments and music following notation.
During his tenure as a soldier, Nazrul’s literary practice took a formal shape: his first poem Mukti, first story Bounduler Atmakahini, and a number of other writings such as Byathar Dan and Meher Nigar were published in this period.
From 1920, Nazrul got himself totally into literature writing in abundance. Many of his famous poems appeared during this time. In 1922, Nazrul started a fortnightly named Dhumketu.
For his political poem Anondomoyeer Agomone, Nazrul was sentenced to a one-year jail term. While in prison, the poet wrote his masterpieces Aji Srishti Sukher Ullase, Abhishap, Jater Namey Bajjati, Bhangar Gaan and Shikal Para Chhal.
In his creative life, Nazrul also worked as a music composer for popular music brand HMV (His Master’s Voice). He acted in a film, Bhokto Dhrubo, for which he also penned, composed and directed the music. Nazrul also worked for another film, Patalpuri (1935), as a music director. He joined the All India Radio Kolkata sometime between 1938 and 1939.
In 1972, an ailing Nazrul was brought with state honours to Bangladesh. He was awarded Ekushey Padak in 1976.
Nazrul died in Dhaka on August 29, 1976 (the 12th Bhadra of Bangla calendar). | http://newagebd.net/248664/nazruls-death-anniv-today-3/ | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | newagebd.net/293dfb8d5cc722c47caf681e604fb2cba3facf024eb6ddcee6191c3fcdb4a012.json |
[
"Anwar Uz Zaman",
"Billy Ahmed"
] | 2016-08-30T20:51:41 | null | 2016-08-31T00:36:29 | Standing crop in about 10,000 hectares in Rajshahi, Kushtia, Norail and Chapainawabganj have been inundated and washed away by the new spate of Padma water increase, according to Department of Agricultural Extension... | http%3A%2F%2Fnewagebd.net%2F249433%2Ffresh-padma-flooding%2F.json | http://newagebd.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Logo-NA-light-200.jpg | en | null | FRESH PADMA FLOODING: Standing crop in 10,000 hectares washed away | null | null | newagebd.net | Standing crop in about 10,000 hectares in Rajshahi, Kushtia, Norail and Chapainawabganj have been inundated and washed away by the new spate of Padma water increase, according to Department of Agricultural Extension.
The sudden rise in water level in the Padma was triggered by the abrupt release of the Ganges water through the Farakka Barrage by the Indian authorities since August 22.
The DAE officials have said that although the country is passing through big floods, people felt a bit relieved as the flood water started to recede recently but the new spate of inundation by the Padma water renewed their sufferings.
They also have said that the standing crops including aus, aman and vegetables have been badly affected in the four districts due to the onrush of water through the Farakka barrage.
DAE field service wing deputy director for monitoring Mohammad Abduhu told New Age that they were yet to get the full data of croplands inundated anew by the swelling of Padma water this time.
He, however, said that the first phase of floods that affected more than 30 districts in early August affected more than 1.58 lakh hectares of croplands.
DAE officials, wishing not to be named, have told New Age that standing crop in around 10,000 hectares in the four districts have been inundated and washed away by the new spate of Padma swelling.
According to Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre, the Ganges and the Brahmaputra-Jamuna rivers are in the falling trend while the Padma and the Surma-Kushiyara rivers are still in the rising trend.
The Ganges might continue to fall in the next 48 hours from Tuesday morning while the Padma might start falling from today morning.
The Surma-Kushiyara rivers might continue rising due to heavy rainfall in the Barak basin, said flood forecasting centre’s officials.
Several lakh people, educational institutions and cattle feeds in low-lying areas adjacent to the River Padma have also been badly affected by the sudden rise in the river water level because of the unilateral release of water through the Farakka Barrage by India.
The onrush of water from the upstream created strong current in the Padma, hampering ferry service on Paturia-Daulatdia route, officials have said. | http://newagebd.net/249433/fresh-padma-flooding/ | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | newagebd.net/9338b1f1c644f2c7ba10a8313c54a73d867ac7d42a40457c25094c1cce7ebfb2.json |
[
"Anwar Uz Zaman",
"Billy Ahmed"
] | 2016-08-27T20:49:35 | null | 2016-08-28T00:39:59 | A Bangladesh origin Canadian national wanted in Gulshan attack case and two other extremism suspects were killed in ‘gunfight’ with police inside an apartment in Narayanganj city during a raid on Saturday... | http%3A%2F%2Fnewagebd.net%2F248873%2Fgulshan-attack-25%2F.json | http://newagebd.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Plotter.jpg | en | null | GULSHAN ATTACK: 'Plotter', aides killed - New Age | null | null | newagebd.net | A Bangladesh origin Canadian national wanted in Gulshan attack case and two other extremism suspects were killed in ‘gunfight’ with police inside an apartment in Narayanganj city during a raid on Saturday.
The 31-year-old, Tamim Ahmed Chowdhury, and two others were found killed in two rooms at their rented apartment in the city’s Paikpara in the morning after the police headquarters-guided 45-minute operation Hit-Strong 27 ended at about 9:30am.
The police branded Tamim as the leader of banned Islamist outfit Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh and one of the ‘masterminds’ of the Gulshan attack.
The police later in the day identified two others as Fazle Rabbi of New Town in Jessore and Tausif Hossain of Ramchandrapur in Rajshahi. The bodies of the three were sent to the Dhaka Medical College morgue at night amid tight police protection.
‘With the elimination of the mastermind of the Gulshan cafe attack, the confidence of the people would be further increased as Bangladesh does what it says and the anti-militancy role is strictly maintained in Bangladesh,’ prime minister Sheikh Hasina said, report news agency Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha.
She made the comments responding to a question at a press conference at Ganabhaban.
‘With the killing of the mastermind of the recent militant attacks, the country was freed from another curse,’ she said and extended her sincere thanks to the law enforcement agencies.
According to the police, Tamim of Biyanibazar upazila of Sylhet came to Bangladesh from Canada at the end of 2013.
The police said they seized an AK-22 rifle, the similar weapon seized after Gulshan attack, and a .22bore pistol along with improvised explosive device from the apartment located on the top-floor of the three-storey rode-side building, beside a graveyard.
Some photographs, collected by New Age, showed the body of Tamim was lying with face downwards on a pool of blood with a black T-shirt and Khaki trousers while bodies of two others were laying closely in another room on a pool of blood. One AK-22 rifle was on the body of them.
‘The episode of Tamim Chowdhury is closed. He was one of the key persons,’ announced the police’s Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime unit additional deputy commissioner Sanwar Hossain.
There were no casualties of the cops.
It was not confirmed whether any person was captured while escaping. The police, however, picked the landlord and his four family members, among others, for ‘screening.’
Tamim was wanted from early August and a Tk 20 lakh bounty was announced after his alleged connection was found in the July 1 Gulshan café attack, which left at least 29 people including 20 local and foreign hostages killed.
Investigators said that they had conducted the raid based on leads from a detained suspect in an attack on a prison van at Trishal in Mymensingh.
Sanwar claimed that they had conducted the raid after a long waiting and the gunfight erupted after the extremists rejected repeated calls for surrender to the law enforcers.
‘We hit them when we saw that they were burning something inside the apartment,’ he said, adding that they found two together and Tamim little away.
He said that at about 2:30am, they confirmed the whereabouts of the extremists’ hideout in Naranyangnaj and they started preparation from 6:30am for the raid in coordination with the other agencies.
He said that the final operation started at about 8:45am and lasted for about 45 minutes with ‘exchange of bullets.’
The extremists also hurled crude-bombs targeting the cops, claimed Sanwar.
Assistant inspector general of police Md Moniruzzaman told the reporters that the militants had burned some personal belongings including laptops, mobile phone sets and documents.
He said initially the landlord requested the ‘tenants’ to surrender to the police and later the police requested them.
Home minister Asaduzzaman Khan said, ‘They paid no heed to our call.’
Sanwar said five people lived in the apartment on an average since July 5. ‘But, we found only three inside the apartment,’ he said. They used the house as a ‘command post.’
The landlord, Nuruddin Dewan, also the brother of Narayanganj Awami League general secretary Kamal Uddin Dewan, said two people — Rana and Murad — rented the apartment in July for monthly rent of Tk 7,000 introducing themselves as the sales representatives of a leading group of companies.
He said that he asked for submitting their identity cards but they were buying time. Whereabouts of Rana and Murad could not be established.
The police later on the day took Nurunddin and his four family members into their ‘safe custody’.
The police also cordoned the building and none were allowed to enter the building.
Witnesses said the law enforcers started deployment since morning encircling the building. At about 8:30am, the cops entered nearby buildings and asked the residents to stay inside.
‘I was curious but police forbade us to see what was happening,’ said Amir Hossain, a nearby resident.
Another neighbour Mohammad Bulu said police with weapons entered their house and took position targeting at the building where suspects were living.
‘They also asked us not to see them rather go to another room for safety,’ said Bulu, a resident of nearby four-storey building.
A neighbour, Shahidullah, also a local Awami League leader, however, said he saw a white microbus parked in front of the building at about 3:00am and two people came out of the building.
The microbus left the house hurriedly. ‘I bought some bread from a nearby bakery which runs over night and went to my house,’ said the elderly man.
Criminal Investigation Department officials entered the crime scene few hours after the operation for forensic collection.
Narayanganj police station officer-in-charge Md Asaduzzaman said the preparation of filing a case was underway. The bodies were sent to district government hospital for post-mortem examination.
Home minister Asaduzzaman Khan, inspector general of police AKM Shahidul Hoque and other senior police officials visited the spot.
The minister said that the number of such extremists was a few and they would be ‘crushed.’
The operation came two days before the scheduled arrival of US secretary of state John Kerry, who would visit Dhaka on the August 29 to discuss the way to strengthen bilateral relations between the two counties in the field of curbing extremism and protecting human rights.
In the Gulshan attack on July 1, the attackers killed 20 hostages — nine Italian, seven Japanese, two Bangladeshis, one Indian and one Bangladesh-born US citizen — and two police officers. Five attackers were also killed in a military operation that ended the hostage crisis on July 2. | http://newagebd.net/248873/gulshan-attack-25/ | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | newagebd.net/71aa8adb26a4f8b0198eea1b57503dc147c3bd90e0d56e2924e4d5ccfb274267.json |
[
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] | 2016-08-28T12:48:53 | null | 2016-08-28T18:46:49 | One of the two militants killed in Narayanganj operation has been identified as Fazle Rabbi while another might be Tausif, said Additional Commissioner and... | http%3A%2F%2Fnewagebd.net%2F248911%2F248911%2F.json | http://newagebd.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Narayanganj-map.jpg | en | null | Police identify another militant killed in N’ganj drive | null | null | newagebd.net | One of the two militants killed in Narayanganj operation has been identified as Fazle Rabbi while another might be Tausif, said Additional Commissioner and head of DMP’s Counter Terrorism and Trans-national Crime Monirul Islam.
‘One of them has been identified as Fazle Rabbi, hailing from Jessore. Police also found a national identity card of Rabbi from their den,’ he said while talking to reporters at DMP media center on Sunday, reports United News of Bangladesh.
‘We’re also suspecting that another deceased might be Tausif Hasan Khan, who studied in a Malaysian university and went missing from Dhanmondi,’ he added.
Law enforcers are conducting drives in search of 8-9 other militants who were involved in the recent militant attacks, including Gulshan café and Sholakia attacks, said Monirul.
‘The new JMB has lost its strength substantially with the death of Tamim Chowdhury who was killed along with two other militants during a special police operation in a den of ‘New JMB’ in Narayanganj,’ he said.
He also expected that the activities of militants groups will soon be stopped following the constant drives of law enforcing agencies. | http://newagebd.net/248911/248911/ | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | newagebd.net/dc9e29b3c4e81e99c7c228b50d6f05a4d0f36c065cee7085769783d479301fa8.json |
[
"Anwar Uz Zaman",
"Billy Ahmed"
] | 2016-08-29T18:52:38 | null | 2016-08-30T00:36:10 | An Islamic State group militant rammed his explosives-laden car into an army recruiting centre in Aden Monday, killing 71 people in the deadliest jihadist attack on the Yemeni city in over a year... | http%3A%2F%2Fnewagebd.net%2F249231%2Fsuicide-bomber-kills-71-army-recruits-yemen%2F.json | http://newagebd.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Logo-NA-light-200.jpg | en | null | ‘IS suicide bomber’ kills 71 army recruits in Yemen | null | null | newagebd.net | An Islamic State group militant rammed his explosives-laden car into an army recruiting centre in Aden Monday, killing 71 people in the deadliest jihadist attack on the Yemeni city in over a year.
The army, supported by a Saudi-led coalition, is training young recruits to join its nationwide war against Shia Huthi rebels and their allies, as well as Sunni jihadists.
Aden is the temporary base of Yemen’s internationally recognised government, which was forced into exile after Iran-backed insurgents seized Sanaa and other parts of the war-torn country.
Security officials said the attacker drove the car bomb into a gathering of recruits at a school in the north of the port city.
The recruits were among 5,000 newly enrolled soldiers being trained to fight the Huthi rebels in the north along the border with Saudi Arabia, military sources said.
Although the complex was locked as recruits registered inside, the attacker drove in when the gate was opened for a delivery vehicle, officials said.
Witnesses said some recruits were buried when a roof collapsed after the blast which left a gaping hole on the building’s facade.
Debris was scattered around the complex and nearby buildings were damaged.
The assault killed at least 71 people and wounded 98, medical sources said.
They could not immediately verify whether all those who died were army recruits.
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said on Twitter that its hospital in Aden ‘received 45 dead and at least 60 wounded’ following the explosion.
Aden has experienced a wave of bombings and shootings targeting officials and security forces.
Attacks in the city are often claimed by jihadists from either al-Qaeda or IS, which have both taken advantage of the chaos in Yemen to make gains in the south and southeast. IS claimed Monday’s bombing on its official propaganda outlet, Amaq.
Earlier this month, a suicide bomber drove his vehicle into a large group of army reinforcements sent from Aden to fight jihadists in neighbouring Lahj, killing five soldiers, military officials said.
No group has claimed that attack.
But on July 20, four policemen were killed in a bombing attack in Aden that was claimed by IS.
And in May, twin suicide bombings in Aden claimed by IS killed at least 41 people.
Yemeni authorities have trained hundreds of soldiers in the city over the past two months as part of operations to retake neighbouring southern provinces from jihadists.
Earlier this month, government forces backed by a Saudi-led coalition entered Abyan’s provincial capital of Zinjibar.
Troops retook other towns across Abyan but have been met by fierce resistance in the key al-Qaeda stronghold of Al-Mahfid, security sources said.
The militants still have a presence in areas surrounding the recaptured towns and control large parts of neighbouring Shabwa province, the sources say.
The Arab coalition battling the rebels and their allies in Yemen has also been providing troops with air cover throughout their war against the jihadists.
The United States has carried out numerous drone strikes against al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) operatives in Yemen.
The Saudi-led coalition intervened in Yemen in March last year and have helped government forces push the rebels out of Aden and four other southern provinces since July 2015.
The war in Yemen has also impacted security in Saudi Arabia, where shelling from the kingdom’s impoverished neighbour killed three Saudi children and wounded nine other people on Sunday.
Cross-border attacks from Yemen have intensified since the suspension in early August of UN-brokered peace talks between the rebels and the Saudi-backed government.
The Arab coalition has also stepped up its air raids in Yemen since peace talks collapsed. A coalition air strike north of Sanaa on Monday killed eight civilians including a child, rescuers and witnesses said.
More than 6,600 people, mostly civilians, have been killed in Yemen since March 2015 and more than 80 percent of the population has been left needing humanitarian aid, the UN says.
A plane chartered by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) landed at Sanaa airport on Monday, carrying insulin for thousands of people suffering from diabetes.
‘Yemen’s health sector is in a terrible state,’ said the head of the ICRC in Yemen, Alexandre Faite.
‘Less than 30 per cent of the required medicines and medical supplies have entered Yemen in 2015,’ he added. | http://newagebd.net/249231/suicide-bomber-kills-71-army-recruits-yemen/ | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | newagebd.net/18fe6d3e53641065917256d2e8a825698d821d41c5be8dc45ed6dd1fda28c324.json |
[
"Anwar Uz Zaman",
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] | 2016-08-26T14:48:07 | null | 2016-08-26T20:15:47 | The students of Jagannath University, who were demanding new residential halls, announced a fresh strike for Sunday and Monday... | http%3A%2F%2Fnewagebd.net%2F248537%2Fjnu-students-announce-strike-two-days%2F.json | http://newagebd.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/JnU-protest1.jpg | en | null | JnU students announce strike for two more days | null | null | newagebd.net | The students of Jagannath University, who were demanding new residential halls, announced a fresh strike for Sunday and Monday.
The announcement came from a solidarity rally held at central Shaheed Minar in the capital this evening.
‘We will observe two-day strike from Sunday and will announce our next course of actions then,’ Mahidul Islam Mahi, a coordinator of the demonstrators told reporters after the rally.
‘The demonstration will continue until we get a specific order from the prime minister in this regard,’ said Mahi.
Earlier, hundreds of JnU students, academics, right activists, politicians, civil society members and students from different public and private university gathered at central Shaheed Minar to show their solidarity with the students, who were campaigning for residential halls.
The speakers at the programme said that the countrywide extremism issue had added extra sufferings to the students, who are living in rented houses in city.
They also condemned the police attack on JnU students, who were marching towards prime minister’s Office.
JnU students had been demonstrating since August 2 demanding the construction of new residential halls at the spot where the Dhaka Central Jail was previously situated on Nazimuddin Road in Old part of Dhaka. | http://newagebd.net/248537/jnu-students-announce-strike-two-days/ | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | newagebd.net/976c0fe3418f8b6a15500f763a22ec91f459a17c0c6f306286affe0cb9f59a61.json |
[
"Anwar Uz Zaman",
"Billy Ahmed"
] | 2016-08-26T16:47:05 | null | 2016-08-26T21:00:10 | A top French court on Friday suspended a ban on full-body burkini swim suits that has angered Muslims, feminists and civil liberties campaigners... | http%3A%2F%2Fnewagebd.net%2F248540%2Ftop-french-court-suspends-burkini-ban%2F.json | http://newagebd.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/burkini1.jpg | en | null | Top French court suspends burkini ban | null | null | newagebd.net | A top French court on Friday suspended a ban on full-body burkini swim suits that has angered Muslims, feminists and civil liberties campaigners.
The ruling by the Council of State relates to the Mediterranean resort of Villeneuve-Loubet, one of more than a dozen French towns that have imposed such bans.
The burkini ban has shone a light on secular France’s long-standing difficulties integrating its Muslim population and dealing with the aftermath of a series of Islamist attacks.
The court said in a statement the decree to ban burkinis in Villeneuve-Loubet ‘seriously, and clearly illegally, breached the fundamental freedoms to come and go, the freedom of beliefs and individual freedom.’
The lawyer representing the League of Human Rights campaign group which had challenged the ban in Villeneuve-Loubet told reporters the ruling meant all town halls would need to reverse their bans. The group argued the bans contravened civil liberties.
But one mayor in Corsica said he would not suspend his own ban, showing that the ruling will not put a quick end to the heated controversy that has already filtered into early campaigning for the 2017 presidential election.
‘There’s a lot of tension here and I won’t withdraw my decree,’ Sisco mayor Ange-Pierre Vivoni told BFM TV.
The issue has also made French cultural identity a hot-button issue along with security in political debates ahead of next April’s presidential election.
Prime minister Manuel Valls robustly defended the burkini ban on Thursday while some ministers criticised it, exposing divisions within the government as campaigning begins.
Former president Nicolas Sarkozy said on Thursday he would impose a nationwide ban on burkinis if elected as he seeks to position himself as a strong defender of French values and tough on immigration.
‘This is a slap for the prime minister and a kick up the backside for Sarkozy,’ Abdallah Zekri, secretary general of the French Muslim Council said of the ruling. ‘We’re satisfied with this.’
Socialist Party spokesman Razzy Hammadi told BFM TV he hoped the ruling ‘will put an end to this nasty controversy’. | http://newagebd.net/248540/top-french-court-suspends-burkini-ban/ | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | newagebd.net/c8ecbfb849b0269b16d442814d976e1971f35b04151372a623f212a26423516b.json |
[
"Anwar Uz Zaman",
"Billy Ahmed"
] | 2016-08-29T06:51:09 | null | 2016-08-29T08:05:19 | The Dhaka Metropolitan Police in a statement on Sunday night protested and condemned the remarks of Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia on... | http%3A%2F%2Fnewagebd.net%2F249073%2Fdmp-protests-khaledas-remarks-anti-extremist-raids%2F.json | http://newagebd.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/DMP-logo.jpg | en | null | DMP protests Khaleda’s remarks on anti-extremist raids | null | null | newagebd.net | The Dhaka Metropolitan Police in a statement on Sunday night protested and condemned the remarks of Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia on the ongoing anti-extremist drives in the country.
The DMP, in its statement, described the BNP chairperson’s statement as indecent and motivated.
During her exchanging greetings on the occasion of Janmastami, the BNP chairperson had said extremist issues were brought to light to cover the government’s misdeeds.
She also had alleged that there was no advancement in Gulshan attack probe and everything was unclear to the people.
She, referring to photos of Kalyanpur raid published on different media, said that all those killed there were assumed to be educated youths and had alleged that the Kalyanpur incident was a ‘prepared’ one.
She had questioned whether they were not caught alive if they were ‘true extremists’ and was of the opinion that if they could be arrested alive, ‘true information’ could be extracted from them.
Regarding Gulshan attack, the metropolitan police statement said that two police officers sacrificed their lives and 20 people, mostly foreigners, were brutally killed and all the extremist attackers were killed in the joint forces’ drive and 32 hotages were rescued alive.
It said that police had got many important information about the attackers, their residences, financers and arms providers and identified the masterminds of the attack.
‘All the attackers were self-declared extremists and remained detached from their families for long,’ it said.
‘One of the masterminds, Tamim Chowdhury, was killed during exchange of fires with SWAT in Narayanganj,’ it said.
Regarding Kalyanpur raid, the statement said that nine extremists were killed and one, Rakibul Hassan alias Regan, was arrested alive and the evidences recovered from their den were proofs of their involvement in extremist activities.
Besides, during investigation, it was found that they too remained detached from their families for long.
‘If the incident was ‘prepared’, Rakibul Hasan Regan would not be allowed to be alive,’ it said.
The DMP statement said that the raids in Gulshan, Kalyanpur and Narayanganj were happened in broad daylight and local people witnessed the activities and thanked the police force for their success.
Besides, the print and electronic media in home and abroad covered the incidents and praised police force for their role and success, it said.
The statement said the police as well as the whole nation have become hopeless through ‘such a remark from a responsible person like BNP chairperson’ while police force members had sacrificed their lives while performing their professional duties.
The statement said that questing the 100 percent successful anti-extremist raids by giving false and self-invented information was tantamount to help the extremists’ activities and sheltering them.
It mentioned that the families of killed extremists had denied to take their bodies denouncing their involvement in extremist activities. | http://newagebd.net/249073/dmp-protests-khaledas-remarks-anti-extremist-raids/ | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | newagebd.net/eb4d262aae43fa5b3b1e3bbd891b888c64c5ef318e49ebda5e9e34576fd0bf27.json |
[
"Anwar Uz Zaman",
"Billy Ahmed"
] | 2016-08-28T18:52:06 | null | 2016-08-29T00:22:09 | The Rapid Action Battalion-5 arrested a ‘drug peddler’ along with 2,000bottles of Phensedyl at Chaknamaju of Porsha in Naogaon on Sunday... | http%3A%2F%2Fnewagebd.net%2F249025%2Fman-held-phensidyl-2-4%2F.json | http://newagebd.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Logo-NA-light-200.jpg | en | null | Man held with Phensidyl | null | null | newagebd.net | The Rapid Action Battalion-5 arrested a ‘drug peddler’ along with 2,000bottles of Phensedyl at Chaknamaju of Porsha in Naogaon on Sunday. The arrested was identified as Ayub Ali, resident of Bankpara in Bogra. RAB-5 camp commander Major Hasan Arafat said acting on a tip-off, they conducted a drive in the area and arrested Ayub along with the drugs. | http://newagebd.net/249025/man-held-phensidyl-2-4/ | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | newagebd.net/f13022215ac725e09751d2587f23a1111e085c2efa8aa0e3046cc58869291ffc.json |
[
"Anwar Uz Zaman",
"Billy Ahmed"
] | 2016-08-27T04:48:26 | null | 2016-08-27T08:50:48 | At least five people were killed as a microbus fell into a roadside ditch losing control on Noakhali-Dhaka highway at Laksam in Comilla early Saturday... | http%3A%2F%2Fnewagebd.net%2F248679%2Ffive-killed-comilla-road-accident%2F.json | http://newagebd.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Comilla-map-02.jpg | en | null | Five killed in Comilla road accident | null | null | newagebd.net | At least five people were killed as a microbus fell into a roadside ditch losing control on Noakhali-Dhaka highway at Laksam in Comilla early Saturday.
The victims were identified as Md Yunus, 61, Samena Begum, 57, Faruk, 32, Nurunnabi, 28, and Latu Mia, 39. They are from Noakhali and Lakshmipur districts.
Laksam highway police outpost in-charge sergeant Md Ibrahim Khalil said the Dhaka-bound microbus from Noakhali met the accident when it reached at Dakhkhin Khilunia around 12:30am leaving its five passengers dead on the spot.
The unidentified driver managed to flee, said the highway police sergeant.
The bodies were sent to Comilla Medical College Hospital morgue for post-mortem examinations. | http://newagebd.net/248679/five-killed-comilla-road-accident/ | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | newagebd.net/114b3f9603348ccce62ac15af2b3042a1fefdc98dc8e019d7553750207fea0d0.json |
[
"Anwar Uz Zaman",
"Billy Ahmed"
] | 2016-08-29T14:49:57 | null | 2016-08-29T19:00:59 | Narayanganj court on Monday put the Paikpara house owner Nuruddin Dewan, on a three-day remand who was arrested over concealing information about three tenants, including Gulshan café attack mastermind Tamim Chowdhury... | http%3A%2F%2Fnewagebd.net%2F249115%2Fnarayanganj-house-owner-three-day-remand%2F.json | http://newagebd.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Sanaul-narayanganj.jpg | en | null | Narayanganj house owner on three-day remand | null | null | newagebd.net | Narayanganj court on Monday put the Paikpara house owner Nuruddin Dewan, on a three-day remand who was arrested over concealing information about three tenants, including Gulshan café attack mastermind Tamim Chowdhury.
Narayanganj Senior Judicial Magistrate Mehedi Hasan passed the order after police produced Nuruddin before the court seeking a seven-day remand after he was shown arrested under Section 54, reports United News of Bangladesh.
Dhaka Metropolitan Police counter terrorism and transnational crime unit unearthed a fresh JMB’s den on the third floor of a three-storey building at Paikpara early hours of Saturday.
A joint team from CTTC unit, police headquarters and Narayanganj district police jointly carried out the operation titled ‘operation hit strong 27.’
Three militants, including Gulshan café attack mastermind Tamim Chowdhury, were killed in a gunfight with the joint team as the militants hurled grenades at and opened fire on the law enforcers during the operation.
Later, a team of Narayanganj police station arrested 10 people, including the house owner, from the area on the day and later released nine people, except Nuruddin,
Police also filed a case against Nuruddin with the sadar police station for concealing information about the tenants. | http://newagebd.net/249115/narayanganj-house-owner-three-day-remand/ | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | newagebd.net/fa073ac894719df0646be90dcefb6a05916ef011bc87ea44ddf060ca8fe330de.json |
[
"Anwar Uz Zaman",
"Billy Ahmed"
] | 2016-08-27T14:48:40 | null | 2016-08-27T19:20:05 | Narayangang police on Saturday evening took away the owner and his family members of the building, where three Islamist extremists were killed in a police raid in the morning, for screening. ... | http%3A%2F%2Fnewagebd.net%2F248716%2Fpolice-takes-away-paikpara-house-owner-family-screening%2F.json | http://newagebd.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Sanaul-narayanganj.jpg | en | null | Police takes away Paikpara house owner, family for screening | null | null | newagebd.net | Narayangang police on Saturday evening took away the owner and his family members of the building, where three Islamist extremists were killed in a police raid in the morning, for screening.
The law enforcers have called the building owner Nuruddin Dewan and four other members of his family including his wife for screening, Detective Branch officials said.
Bangladesh-origin Canadian citizen Tamim Ahmed Chowdhury and two other suspected Islamist extremists were killed in an anti-militant drive carried out by the Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime unit in the Narayanganj building this morning.
Tamim was one of the suspected ‘masterminds’ of the attacks at Holey Artisan Bakery in the city’s Gulshan, and Sholakia police checkpoint near Eid congregation in Kishoreganj.
The CTTC started the hour-long ‘Operation Hit Strong 27’ around 9:30am at a den of banned militant outfit Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh in a two-storey building at Paikpara adjacent to Bara Kabarsthan area. | http://newagebd.net/248716/police-takes-away-paikpara-house-owner-family-screening/ | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | newagebd.net/18d07739189e43a10b67c2375c5224903f609695bd7f8a4020fbb73c635d9145.json |
[
"Anwar Uz Zaman",
"Billy Ahmed"
] | 2016-08-30T12:51:02 | null | 2016-08-30T17:27:40 | Police arrested a sister and brother-in-law of Obaidul, the suspected killer of Willes Little Flower School and College student Suraiya Akhter Risha, from... | http%3A%2F%2Fnewagebd.net%2F249311%2Fsister-brother-law-rishas-suspected-killer-held%2F.json | http://newagebd.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/handcuffs-arrested.jpg | en | null | Sister, brother-in-law of Risha’s suspected killer held | null | null | newagebd.net | Police arrested a sister and brother-in-law of Obaidul, the suspected killer of Willes Little Flower School and College student Suraiya Akhter Risha, from Niratongi in Birganj of Dinajpur on Monday evening.
The arrestees were identified as M Khadiza Begum, 36, and her husband Khadimul Islam, 46, of the village, reports United News of Bangladesh.
Officer-in-charge of Birganj Police Station Abu Akkas Ahmed said a police team of Ramna Police Station under Dhaka Metropolitan Police, led by sub-inspector Mosharraf Hossain, conducted a drive at the Niratongi village and arrested the couple.
Later, the arrestees were taken to Birganj Police Station for interrogation, he said.
Suraiya Akhter Risha, 14, daughter of Md Ramzan Ali of Bangshal of old Dhaka and an eighth-grader of Willes Little Flower School and College, was stabbed by Obaidul in front of her educational institution at Kakrail in the capital on August 24.
She succumbed to her wounds at Dhaka Medical College Hospital on Sunday morning. | http://newagebd.net/249311/sister-brother-law-rishas-suspected-killer-held/ | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | newagebd.net/bf3803b5f44b2d8f21da523a68f4b1688d30560d98088a9fbc9f06c1b7b40f30.json |
[
"Anwar Uz Zaman",
"Billy Ahmed"
] | 2016-08-29T20:50:05 | null | 2016-08-30T00:40:51 | The government on Monday fixed Tk 1,65,000 as the maximum cost for the migration of each male worker bound for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia... | http%3A%2F%2Fnewagebd.net%2F249154%2Fmigration-cost-ceiling-fixed-ksa-bound-male-workers%2F.json | http://newagebd.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Logo-NA-light-200.jpg | en | null | Migration cost ceiling fixed for KSA bound male workers | null | null | newagebd.net | The government on Monday fixed Tk 1,65,000 as the maximum cost for the migration of each male worker bound for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Bureau of Manpower, Employment and Training in a notice prohibited charging money in excess of the rate fixed.
The notice warned that punitive action would be taken against any individual or recruiting agency charging fees in excess of the rate fixed.
The government fixed the maximum migration cost following reports that since the KSA recently began recruiting skilled male workers they were being charged excess fees for migration.
Carpenters and other skilled workers said that high migration cost made the Saudi job market prohibitive for them.
Black marketing of Saudi job visas increased the cost of migration for Bangladeshi workers, they said.
Recruiting agents in both the countries have been blamed for black marketing Saudi job visas.
As neither the Saudi nor the Bangladesh authorities took any interest to address the issue Bangladeshi male workers are finding the Saudi job market, reopened to them recently, beyond their reach.
Officials and recruiters, however, said that they would expect large number of Bangladeshi workers to leave for Saudi Arabia as it lifted the ban on hiring Bangladeshi male workers.
But migrant rights campaigners dismissed their optimism saying high migration cost would virtually keep the Saudi job market closed to Bangladeshi workers.
Manpower export market observers told New Age that a Saudi job visa, though officially given free of charge, could cost between Tk six lakh and Tk 10 lakh in Bangladesh.
Bureau of Manpower, Employment and Training officials called it ‘good news’ that Saudi Arabia lifted the ban on hiring workers from Bangladesh.
BMET director general Salim Reza told New Age Tuesday that Bangladesh embassy in Riyadh had been flooded with requests for Bangladeshi workers.
He said that he would expect massive recruitment of Bangladeshi workers by Saudi Arabia to start soon.
Asked about high cost of migration, he said that though it was challenging issue efforts would be made to bring down the migration cost.
‘We will keep watch to ensure that the recruiters can’t charge excessively,’ he said.
Al-Rabeta International proprietor Md. Abul Bashar told New Age told New Age that the cost of migration would come down to between Tk three lakh and five lakh per worker with the start of large scale recruitments.
Former president of Bangladesh Association of International Recruiting Agencies Abul Bashar said that large scale recruitment might begin after Eid-ul Azha as Saudi Arabia started hiring skilled workers from Bangladesh.
Syed Saiful Haque, chairman of WARBE Development Foundation, a migrant rights organization said that the cost of migration to Saudi Arabia can in no way be over Tk one lakh per worker as the only expenditures involved were payment of medical test and visa processing fees in Bangladesh.
He said that the ministry of expatriates welfare and employment should immediately fix the visa processing fee to be charged by recruiting agencies.
He said that the ministry should publicize the rate through the mass media for the benefit of the migrants.
A returnee migrant and chairman of Obibhasi Enterprise Al Amin Noyon said that the high migration cost could encourage workers to look for jobs in risky destinations.
About 13 lakh Bangladeshis work in the KSA including nearly 60,000 housemaids. | http://newagebd.net/249154/migration-cost-ceiling-fixed-ksa-bound-male-workers/ | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | newagebd.net/02d494ccaf5d699b65cdb0acafaa429c5566b85196c45d337c5f5906266f22cd.json |
[
"Anwar Uz Zaman",
"Billy Ahmed"
] | 2016-08-29T18:53:30 | null | 2016-08-30T00:34:00 | A 10-day Bangladesh Book Fair-2016 is set to begin in Kolkata on September 1 aiming to promote healthy growth of the publishing industry in both countries... | http%3A%2F%2Fnewagebd.net%2F249225%2Fbangladesh-book-fair-begin-kolkata-sept-1%2F.json | http://newagebd.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Logo-NA-light-200.jpg | en | null | Bangladesh book fair to begin in Kolkata Sept 1 | null | null | newagebd.net | A 10-day Bangladesh Book Fair-2016 is set to begin in Kolkata on September 1 aiming to promote healthy growth of the publishing industry in both countries.
Academic and Creative Publishers’ Association of Bangladesh in cooperation with Jatiya Granthakendra, Export Promotion Bureau, and deputy high commission in Kolkata is organising the book fair, cultural affairs secretary Aktari Mamtaz told a press conference at her ministry on Monday, an official release said.
Aktari Mamtaz said the present government is working to establish a knowledge-based, cultural-minded and non-communal Bangladesh. | http://newagebd.net/249225/bangladesh-book-fair-begin-kolkata-sept-1/ | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | newagebd.net/b01c9a72580c845bf3cd2ac9ed90e70f41476e8c6b593e8db132e7544d6af852.json |
[
"Anwar Uz Zaman",
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] | 2016-08-26T20:49:47 | null | 2016-08-27T00:38:08 | The home minister, Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, on Friday in an anti-militancy rally in the capital said some 150 ‘brainwashed’ youths in hiding were behind the recent crisis of militancy and accused ‘anti-liberation forces’ for being behind the attack on the Gulshan café on July 1... | http%3A%2F%2Fnewagebd.net%2F248663%2Ftargeted-attacks-foreigners-minorities%2F.json | http://newagebd.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Logo-NA-light-200.jpg | en | null | Targeted attacks on foreigners, minorities: Home minister hints at BNP | null | null | newagebd.net | The home minister, Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, on Friday in an anti-militancy rally in the capital said some 150 ‘brainwashed’ youths in hiding were behind the recent crisis of militancy and accused ‘anti-liberation
forces’ for being behind the attack on the Gulshan café on July 1.
‘They had made many attempts. Not only did they take part in militancy or propaganda, they also tried to foil the ongoing trial and execution of war criminals…such quarters are united in causing hindrance to the progress carried out by the prime minister,’ said the minister at the rally in Mirpur.
After the Gulshan café attack, he said, they had tried to identify the root of the attackers and found that the people who opposed the creation of Bangladesh were behind the attack.
Indicating to the Bangladesh Nationalist party chairperson Khaleda Zia, the senior minister also said as people had continued their livelihood amid arson-attacks ordered by one leader, they then started the targeted attacks with the killing of Cesare Tavella in Gulshan.
He said the country has experienced many such attacks, including the killing of Japanese national Hoshi Kunio in Rangpur, and attacks on temples and mosques.
‘We have identified many people… our security and intelligence agencies are continuing their effort to capture them.’
The cabinet member said he travelled across the country but nowhere had he found the existence of IS. He reiterated that there was no organisational structure of IS in Bangladesh and said ‘I wish I would meet their leadership.’
‘They have taken the new name as IS [Islamic State]. Well, it is a Muslim-majority country. Our prime minister has said that she will not do anything which goes against the Al-Quran and Sunnah,’ he said.
Around 100-150 youths in hiding are brainwashed and behind the recent attacks, the minister said, adding ‘many of the youths have already returned from hiding.’
Addressing as the chief discussant, the inspector general of police, AKM Shahidul Hoque, told the large gathering that different courts had awarded death penalty to 57 militants.
‘Many of the cases are pending in appeal. Once the appeal is disposed, the death penalty will be executed,’ the police chief said.
The police chief said that youths are getting brainwashed through wrong interpretation of Islam. But, he admitted that if anyone has already been brainwashed, it is difficult to bring him or her back from his path of so-called Jihad.
Shahidul Hoque also said Yahood (Jews) and Nasara (Christian) were behind the rise of IS.
About the upcoming visit of United States’ secretary of state John Kerry to Dhaka on August 29, he said America is happy with the actions Bangladesh has taken against militancy.
‘He is coming with a proposal of assistance [to Bangladesh],’ he added.
He castigated those who – both on social media and through their reporting– had raised questions about the police operation in Kallayanpur just one month ago that left nine suspected militants dead.
‘Are we supposed to kiss them when they were attacking us with cocktails?’ said the police chief, adding ‘they wanted to see the government in trouble…but we wish good sense will prevail.’
The Dhaka Metropolitan Police commissioner, Asaduzzamn Miah, said ‘local and international known-collaborators’ were conspiring in the name of IS.
‘And we will uproot the germ of terrorism,’ he vowed.
Those who took part in the Gulshan café attack during the prayer of Tarabi on July 1 and the others who took part in the attack in Sholakia in Kishorganj on July 7 could not be Muslims, he said.
‘They are the agents of Yahood and Nasara,’ he added.
Awami League lawmaker Aslamul Haque and lawmaker AKM Rahmatullah, president of Dhaka North City unit Awami League, among others, spoke at the rally chaired by the DMP’s Mirpur division deputy commissioner Masudur Rahman. | http://newagebd.net/248663/targeted-attacks-foreigners-minorities/ | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | newagebd.net/6dd5c06a13a468b64c0c84c836e00b714d256038a03316a5ff90a3f7cbda1a79.json |
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] | 2016-08-27T18:49:14 | null | 2016-08-28T00:32:01 | The United States on Saturday said the existence of ‘viable’ political parties and ensuring freedom of speech and freedom of media were essential for Bangladesh... | http%3A%2F%2Fnewagebd.net%2F248868%2Fviable-political-parties-freedom-speech-essential-us%2F.json | http://newagebd.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Logo-NA-light-200.jpg | en | null | ‘Viable’ political parties, freedom of speech essential: US | null | null | newagebd.net | The United States on Saturday said the existence of ‘viable’ political parties and ensuring freedom of speech and freedom of media were essential for Bangladesh.
‘We believe the existence of viable political parties and ensuring freedom of media and speech are essential for Bangladesh to fulfil its true potential as a vibrant, secure democracy,’ the US embassy in Dhaka said in a fact sheet released on Saturday.
The fact sheet on US-Bangladesh relationship, dated August 26, was released about 48 hours before the arrival of the US secretary of state, John Kerry, in Dhaka. Kerry is scheduled for Monday to arrive in Dhaka on a one-day official visit.
‘We [Bangladesh and the United States] share a vision for a democratic, moderate, and tolerant Bangladesh that serves as a bridge for trade and commerce between South and Southeast Asia and an anchor for stability and prosperity in the Bay of Bengal region,’ the US embassy said.
The bilateral relations were bolstered by shared efforts of the two countries to confront global challenges such as violent extremism, climate change, health, and food security, it said.
The United States also appreciated Bangladesh’s role as a top contributor to international peacekeepers and regularly contributing to humanitarian operations in different countries including Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Japan, Philippines and the Maldives.
The United States also described Bangladesh as a key partner country for its three major development initiatives: Feed the Future for addressing global food insecurity, Global Climate Change and the Global Health Initiative.
Secretary Kerry would arrive in Dhaka on Monday morning by a special flight from Geneva on his maiden visit to Bangladesh and leave the capital in the evening.
He would join official talks with his counterpart foreign minister AH Mahmood Ali and call on prime minister Sheikh Hasina.
His meetings with Bangladesh officials are likely to focus on strengthening the longstanding bilateral partnership between the two countries on democracy, development, security and human rights, the US Department of State said in a statement on Wednesday.
Leader of the opposition in the parliament Raushon Ershad and Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia are likely to call on Kerry. He is likely to hold a meeting with a select group of representatives of the civil society. | http://newagebd.net/248868/viable-political-parties-freedom-speech-essential-us/ | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | newagebd.net/d5abc8af342309705832eef83761cfc5aa4e305edf3f17b01b62353c6d6edadb.json |
[
"Anwar Uz Zaman",
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] | 2016-08-26T12:53:41 | null | 2016-01-30T13:02:10 | The man infected with rare tree-man disease has been admitted to Dhaka Medical College and Hospital physicians there would examine him constituting a medical board... | http%3A%2F%2Fnewagebd.net%2F198112%2Fman-infected-with-rare-tree-man-disease-admitted-to-dmch%2F.json | http://newagebd.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/80.jpg | en | null | Man infected with rare tree-man disease admitted to DMCH | null | null | newagebd.net | The man infected with rare tree-man disease has been admitted to Dhaka Medical College and Hospital physicians there would examine him constituting a medical board.
The patient, Abul Bajandar, 25, from Khulna, has been shifted to the DMCH on Saturday morning with tree like roots growing from his hands and legs.
A rickshaw-van puller from Khulna, Bajandar has been suffering from this disease called Epidermodysplasia verruciformis for the past six to seven years.
His pictures went viral on social media sites.
Samanta Lal Sen, of the burn and plastic surgery unit of the hospital, said experts would examine Bajandar and then begin treatment. | http://newagebd.net/198112/man-infected-with-rare-tree-man-disease-admitted-to-dmch/ | en | 2016-01-30T00:00:00 | newagebd.net/12f68cf014147c8c6106a696cc6ae6eae0a753369a348a0ae8c7c6bc66b96b13.json |
[
"Anwar Uz Zaman",
"Billy Ahmed"
] | 2016-08-30T18:51:38 | null | 2016-08-31T00:39:30 | Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday said Ziaur Rahman and Khaleda Zia should be tried in public for inducting convicted war criminals into their cabinets... | http%3A%2F%2Fnewagebd.net%2F249442%2Fzia-khaleda-need-tried-public-pm%2F.json | http://newagebd.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Logo-NA-light-200.jpg | en | null | Zia, Khaleda need to be tried in public: PM | null | null | newagebd.net | Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday said Ziaur Rahman and Khaleda Zia should be tried in public for inducting convicted war criminals into their cabinets.
‘Today, we have to create awareness for holding the trial of Zia and Khaleda Zia in public for making convicted war criminals ministers,’ she said while addressing a reminiscence meeting at Krishibid Institution, Bangladesh in the capital.
Awami League’s Dhaka north and south units arranged the meeting on the occasion of National Mourning Day.
The prime minister regretted that Khaleda Zia had awarded the national flag, which was earned through the blood of millions of martyrs, to the war criminals. ‘Those who had been made ministers by Khaleda Zia were hanged as convicted war criminals,’ she said.
Posing a question, Sheikh Hasina said, ‘What should be the punishment of those who made the war criminals ministers. Country’s people will have to think about it. Today, we’ve to create awareness among all that Zia and Khaleda Zia need to be tried in public for making war criminals ministers.’
Talking about extremism, she said Bangladesh will surely be free from this social menace.
She also quipped that the BNP chief sheds crocodiles’ tears whenever intelligence agencies find out extremists, and law enforcement agencies take prompt action and whenever they are killed.
‘What will she do if they are caught alive? Would she worship them?’ she said.
As the BNP chairperson stressed the arrest of extremists alive to know their roots, the prime minister said there is no need to find their roots. ‘Instead, it has to be inquired whether the root came from the person who is vocal in favour of them.’
She also observed that those who patronised and awarded the killers of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and those who can make the war criminals ministers are involved in extremism. ‘They won’t be spared. People will put them on trial one day, Inshah Allah.’
Describing various measures taken during the brief tenure of the Sheikh Mujib after the independence, she said if he had lived three to four years more, the situation of Bangladesh would have been very different.
In an emotion-charged voice, the prime minister said Ziaur Rahman had promulgated indemnity ordinance to protect the killers, and awarded them with posting in Bangladesh missions abroad. He rehabilitated the war criminals and gave them opportunity to do politics in Bangladesh, she said.
Hasina said her only aim is to bring smile to the faces of poor, distressed and oppressed people of the country for whom her entire family sacrificed their lives.
She said called upon all to work together to turn Bangladesh into a golden country as dreamt by Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
The prime minister urged the leaders and workers of her party to take a vow to strengthen it and build a nation which will be free from poverty, hunger, illiteracy free digital as dreamt by Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
AL presidium member Sahara Khatun MP, AL joint secretary Jahangir Kabir Nanak, AL Dhaka north city unit president AKM Rahmatullah, MP, food minister Qamrul Islam, home minister Asaduzzaman Khan, Dhaka South City Corporation mayor Sayeed Khokan, AL Dhaka north city unit general secretary Sadek Khan and south city unit general secretary Shahe Alam Murad, among others, also spoke at the discussion. | http://newagebd.net/249442/zia-khaleda-need-tried-public-pm/ | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | newagebd.net/d39672c356169b62c9994314f66c7b2e76e74205817d7b23e067e68c4180737c.json |
[
"Anwar Uz Zaman",
"Billy Ahmed"
] | 2016-08-29T18:53:56 | null | 2016-08-30T00:33:49 | The West Bengal Assembly on Monday passed a resolution for renaming the state, weeks after a proposal in this regard was put forward by chief minister Mamata Banerjee, reports Zee News... | http%3A%2F%2Fnewagebd.net%2F249220%2Fwest-bengal-renamed-bangla%2F.json | http://newagebd.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Logo-NA-light-200.jpg | en | null | West Bengal to be renamed as ‘Bangla’ | null | null | newagebd.net | The West Bengal Assembly on Monday passed a resolution for renaming the state, weeks after a proposal in this regard was put forward by chief minister Mamata Banerjee, reports Zee News.
According to news agency ANI, West Bengal will now be called ‘Bangla’ in Bengali, ‘Bengal’ in English and ‘Bangal’ in Hindi.
The proposal was approved by the special session of the West Bengal Assembly, which was convened on August 26 to discuss the renaming of the state.
‘We have taken the decision. Bangla and Bengal. We had told the Centre to please accept the decision of the assembly. We would like it to be passed in parliament next session,’ Banerjee said after a resolution was passed in the assembly.
Stating that the Left had opposed the name-change, she added, ‘The Left also tried to get the name changed, they failed. They are now opposing the name change…Those who have opposed the move, history will not forgive them.’
Earlier, major metros like Gurgaon and Bangalore had been renamed.
The Mamata Banerjee government had earlier proposed to rename West Bengal as just ‘Bengal’, dropping ‘West’ from its name.
‘For the sake of the people of the state, its heritage and culture as well as to promote and protect its interests at the national level, we have proposed to rename West Bengal as Bengal in English and ‘Bango’ or ‘Bangla‘ in Bengali,’ parliamentary affairs minister Partha Chatterjee had said then.
In Bengali, the state is currently referred to as ‘Paschim Banga’ or ‘Paschim Bangla’.
In 2011, the state government had sent a proposal to the Centre for renaming West Bengal as ‘Paschim Bango’, but that never got the green signal. | http://newagebd.net/249220/west-bengal-renamed-bangla/ | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | newagebd.net/548dc559bc14d8c58a22e5749d7d9b95dac6d6f578d877c9a70f2b33c7c33765.json |
[
"Anwar Uz Zaman",
"Billy Ahmed"
] | 2016-08-31T06:51:06 | null | 2016-08-31T12:15:02 | The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Wednesday granted bail to detained senior journalist Shafik Rehman for three months or until submission of... | http%3A%2F%2Fnewagebd.net%2F249470%2Fsc-grants-shafik-rehmans-interim-bail%2F.json | http://newagebd.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/shafik-rehman.jpg | en | null | SC grants Shafik Rehman’s interim bail | null | null | newagebd.net | The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Wednesday granted bail to detained senior journalist Shafik Rehman for three months or until submission of charge sheet in a case of plotting to abduct and kill prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s son Sajeeb Wazed Joy in the United States.
More to follow… | http://newagebd.net/249470/sc-grants-shafik-rehmans-interim-bail/ | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | newagebd.net/5e0526df3886680e170aef97b08d08101508fc0fec51702936ed6a4c60b79176.json |
[
"Anwar Uz Zaman",
"Billy Ahmed"
] | 2016-08-27T08:50:04 | null | 2016-08-27T13:55:30 | Two minor girls drowned in the River Lauhajang at Baimhati Adalotpara under Mirzapur in Tangail on Saturday noon... | http%3A%2F%2Fnewagebd.net%2F248693%2Ftwo-children-drown-tangail%2F.json | http://newagebd.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/tangail-map.jpg | en | null | Two children drown in Tangail | null | null | newagebd.net | Two minor girls drowned in the River Lauhajang at Baimhati Adalotpara under Mirzapur in Tangail on Saturday noon.
The victims were identified as Yasmin, 6, daughter of Abdul Jalil of Aaut Para at Savar in Dhaka, and her cousin Jannat Ara, 8, daughter of Ismail Hossain, a resident of village Baimhati Adalotpara.
Locals said three girls including one Pushpa, 11, were playing nearby their house beside the river around 11:30am.
They went to the river to wash their cow dung-stained legs and fell into it, and disappeared.
Pushpa, somehow, managed to rescue herself, rushed to home and informed all.
Relatives came to the spot and found the two girls floating in the river.
They were taken to Kumudini Medical College Hospital where on duty physician declared them dead. | http://newagebd.net/248693/two-children-drown-tangail/ | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | newagebd.net/43c20ab63cd41803b0e43f2de84d7adae3ab76bf5935944910b5265ac74fc789.json |
[
"Anwar Uz Zaman",
"Billy Ahmed"
] | 2016-08-31T12:52:46 | null | 2016-08-31T18:05:14 | The inspector general of prisons, Syed Iftekhar Uddin, on Wednesday said death-row war crimes convict Mir Quasem Ali will get reasonable time for... | http%3A%2F%2Fnewagebd.net%2F249501%2Fquasem-get-maximum-7-days-seek-mercy-ig-prison%2F.json | http://newagebd.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Logo-NA-light-200.jpg | en | null | Quasem to get maximum 7 days to seek mercy: IG Prison | null | null | newagebd.net | The inspector general of prisons, Syed Iftekhar Uddin, on Wednesday said death-row war crimes convict Mir Quasem Ali will get reasonable time for seeking presidential clemency.
‘We’ve asked Mir Quasem whether he’ll seek presidential mercy and in reply he sought time to think about it. We’ll give him reasonable time but not more than seven days,’ said the IG prison while talking to reporters at the department of prisons in city, reports United News of Bangladesh.
The verdict copy has been sent to Kashimpur Jail on Tuesday night and the jail authorities read out the copy to Quasem Ali around 7:30am on Wednesday morning, he said.
Already some family members of the condemned Jamaat-e-Islami leader met him at the jail, he added.
Replying to a question, Iftekhar Uddin said necessary steps about executing the verdict will be taken as per the jail code after knowing the decision of Quasem Ali about presidential mercy.
Responding to another question in which jail the verdict will be executed, the IG Prison said no decision has been taken yet about it. | http://newagebd.net/249501/quasem-get-maximum-7-days-seek-mercy-ig-prison/ | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | newagebd.net/493ac8f30b491ebdee8b60ca3ad6030dc1dae820ae336d9c7e2e3350ad28dc9e.json |
[
"Anwar Uz Zaman",
"Billy Ahmed"
] | 2016-08-30T10:54:26 | null | 2016-08-30T12:01:49 | The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed the review appeal filed by Jamaat-e-Islami leader Mir Quasem Ali over an earlier verdict that upheld his death penalty for... | http%3A%2F%2Fnewagebd.net%2F249271%2Fsc-clears-way-of-mir-quasems-execution%2F.json | http://newagebd.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Mir-Quasem-Ali_V.jpg | en | null | SC clears way of Mir Quasem’s execution | null | null | newagebd.net | The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed the review appeal filed by Jamaat-e-Islami leader Mir Quasem Ali over an earlier verdict that upheld his death penalty for crimes against humanity in 1971 Liberation war.
The dismissal cleared the way of war crimes convict Mir Quasem Ali’s execution.
The Appellate Division earlier on Sunday heard the review petition of war crime death-row inmate Mir Quasem Ali and said it would give the decision on Tuesday.
A five-judge bench chaired by Chief Justice SK Sinha set the schedule after hearing both the sides for over two hours.
The chief justice reminded during Sunday’s hearing that in its full verdict rejecting Mir Quasem’s appeal, the apex court had found that he was the commander of the torture cell at Dalim Hotel in Chittagong and that the occupation army of Pakistan had no role there.
The chief justice said that the apex court also found that as the commander of the torture cell at Dalim Hotel Mir Quasem bore superior responsibility in the war crimes committed there.
He said that the apex court found Mir Quasem’s direct involvement in the abduction, murder and dumping the body of teenage freedom fighter Jasim in the Karnaphuli River.
Mir Quasem’s lawyer Khandker Mahbub Hossain prayed for reducing his client’s death sentence on humanitarian ground as he runs many charity institutions.
On November 2, 2014, the International Crimes Tribunal-2 handed down the capital punishment on 63-year-old Jamaat-e-Islami leader Quasem over crimes against humanity.
The Appellate Division upheld the verdict on March 8 this year and released the full text on June 6, hours after which the ICT had issued a death warrant against him.
Later on June 19, Quasem submitted the petition to the apex court through his lawyers seeking review of the verdict.
(Updated) | http://newagebd.net/249271/sc-clears-way-of-mir-quasems-execution/ | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | newagebd.net/711512eb1623b4aba950a43030b77257604209725d06d86d5eef61f5a00c1711.json |
[
"Anwar Uz Zaman",
"Billy Ahmed"
] | 2016-08-29T18:55:16 | null | 2016-08-30T00:12:37 | The authorities of Rajshahi University on Sunday night expelled a female student who earlier brought an allegation of sexual harassment against a teacher of the university... | http%3A%2F%2Fnewagebd.net%2F249234%2Fallegation-against-teacher%2F.json | http://newagebd.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Logo-NA-light-200.jpg | en | null | ALLEGATION AGAINST TEACHER: RU female student expelled over false claim | null | null | newagebd.net | The authorities of Rajshahi University on Sunday night expelled a female student who earlier brought an allegation of sexual harassment against a teacher of the university.
The expelled student, Shapla Sultana Safia, was a second year student of linguistic department of the university, and also an activist of Bangladesh Chhatra League RU unit, student wing of the ruling Awami League.
The decision was made at a university’s syndicate meeting in the night with RU vice-chancellor professor Muhammad Mizanuddin in chair.
The student was expelled as per the rules of the university’s sexual harassment prevention committee as she brought a false allegation of sexual harassment against a teacher of the university, RU pro-vice-chancellor professor Chawdhury Sarwar Jahan told New Age.
On December 20 last year, Shapla, also a resident student of the university’s Begum Rokeya hall, submitted a written complaint against ATM Rafiqul Islam, a house tutor of the hall, to RU vice-chancellor, demanding exemplary punishment of the teacher for assaulting her sexually.
On December 26, RU authorities formed a three-member probe body, led by RU students’ adviser professor Sadequl Arefin, to investigate into the allegation.
The body submitted a probe report recently where they had stated that they did not find any evidence that substantiated the allegation against the teacher.
After that, the authorities served a show cause notice to her over the false complaint.
Besides, the university authorities also took punitive action against two staff of the university.
The increment and promotion of Ruhul Amin, RU central library section officer, would remain withheld for five years as he tried to make a credit card using the indentity card and bank statement of another library staff, Ruhul Amin.
Roksana Begum, Munnuzan Hall senior deputy director (sports), was fined Tk 40,000 as she sold some trees of the hall without authorisation. | http://newagebd.net/249234/allegation-against-teacher/ | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | newagebd.net/22a64d35ff2a39601723128d6022f08fdb1aff6db1629d8a012710eb1bc6a62a.json |
[
"Anwar Uz Zaman",
"Billy Ahmed"
] | 2016-08-27T10:49:41 | null | 2016-08-27T15:40:08 | Bangladesh Railway authorities will begin sale of advance train tickets from Monday to ensure a smooth journey for the home-bound holidaymakers on the occasion of Eid-ul-Azha... | http%3A%2F%2Fnewagebd.net%2F248696%2Feid-advance-train-tickets-monday%2F.json | http://newagebd.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/train-bss.jpg | en | null | Eid advance train tickets from Monday | null | null | newagebd.net | Bangladesh Railway authorities will begin sale of advance train tickets from Monday to ensure a smooth journey for the home-bound holidaymakers on the occasion of Eid-ul-Azha.
Bangladesh Railway joint director general (operation) S M Murad Hossain told that authority concerned took all-out preparations to ensure a smooth distribution of train tickets amid adequate security measures, reports Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha.
‘The officials of Dhaka and Chittagong Railway stations will supervise the selling of advance train tickets amid adequate security surveillance,’ he added.
He said sale of tickets will begin at 8:00am every day and each passenger will be allowed to purchase four tickets but no ticket once sold could be returned.
Bangladesh Railway will distribute train tickets of September 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11 respectively on August 29, 30, 31, and September 1 and 2, he mentioned.
He said the return tickets of the railways will be available at Rajshahi, Khulna, Rangpur,Dinajpur and Lalmonirhat rail stations after the Eid-ul-Azha.
‘Return tickets will be distributed on September 5, 7, 8 and 9 for September 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 respectively,’ he added.
Seven pairs of special trains will be added to the existing ones in order to facilitate the holidaymakers ahead of the Eid, Hossain said.
Earlier on August 21 at a press conference, Railways minister Mohammad Mujibul Hauqe said seven pairs of special trains – including two pairs for Sholakia Eid congregation will be added to facilitate the holidaymakers on the Eid occasion, he mentioned.
He said a total of 1,146 passengers’ bogies including 140 repaired ones will be added to the fleet while 220 railway locomotives (engine) will be there on the occasion of Eid.
Meanwhile, the railways minister said no train service to and from Dhaka-Kolkata would ply on September 11 and 12 on the occasion of Eid. | http://newagebd.net/248696/eid-advance-train-tickets-monday/ | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | newagebd.net/1e8f430f9cfcdd147109b951f5256e8a6ebd40c2d201ada47c0929571b1deb03.json |
[
"Anwar Uz Zaman",
"Billy Ahmed"
] | 2016-08-30T10:54:01 | null | 2016-08-30T14:15:22 | India and the United States on Monday signed an agreement to use each other's land, air and naval bases for repair and resupply, taking a step toward reinforcing... | http%3A%2F%2Fnewagebd.net%2F249294%2Findia-us-sign-deal-share-military-assets-bases%2F.json | http://newagebd.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/India-US-1.jpg | en | null | India, US sign deal to share military assets, bases | null | null | newagebd.net | India and the United States on Monday signed an agreement to use each other’s land, air and naval bases for repair and resupply, taking a step toward reinforcing defence ties as they seek to counter an ‘aggressive’ China.
‘The US has agreed to elevate defence trade and technology sharing with India to a level commensurate with its closest allies and partners,’ said a joint statement after the pact was signed, reports NDTV.
At a press conference with US defence secretary Ash Carter, Indian defence minister Manohar Parrikar said the agreement will allow the Indian and US navies to have an easier time supporting each other in joint operations and exercises and when providing humanitarian assistance.
The agreement is seen as a milestone in the India-US defence relationship because of the outsized political importance it had taken on in India, where concerns were raised over whether the country’s autonomy would be undermined. But both leaders made it clear that the logistics agreement did not allow the basing of US troops in India.
The signing of the agreement will ‘make the logistics of joint operations so much easier and so much more efficient,’ said Carter.
Washington’s desire for deeper security cooperation with India had been complicated without the signing of the logistics agreement as well as two other pacts that would allow secure communications and the exchange of nautical and other data.
Parrikar’s visit to Washington this week marks his sixth interaction with Carter, who has made closer military ties with India a priority and also established a special unit within the Pentagon last year for this.
Without naming China, both leaders mentioned the importance of the free flow of trade to both countries.
‘India and the United States have a shared interest in freedom of navigation and overflight and unimpeded commerce as part of rule-based order in (the) Indo-Pacific,’ Parrikar said. | http://newagebd.net/249294/india-us-sign-deal-share-military-assets-bases/ | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | newagebd.net/a3c78a76eb95257bb3effe2180b1952bf825a7e3ee60b988b9c317d7b1ac870a.json |
[
"Anwar Uz Zaman",
"Billy Ahmed"
] | 2016-08-30T18:50:47 | null | 2016-08-31T00:38:25 | Students of Willes Little Flower School and College on Tuesday continued to protest on the school premises and its adjacent road for the third consecutive day, demanding that the suspected killer of the school’s Class VIII student, Surayia Akhter Risha, be brought to justice... | http%3A%2F%2Fnewagebd.net%2F249438%2Frisha-killing%2F.json | http://newagebd.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Willes-Little-Flower.jpg | en | null | RISHA KILLING: Willes’ students continue to protest | null | null | newagebd.net | Students of Willes Little Flower School and College on Tuesday continued to protest on the school premises and its adjacent road for the third consecutive day, demanding that the suspected killer of the school’s Class VIII student, Surayia Akhter Risha, be brought to justice.
Surayia, 15, daughter of Ramjan Hossain of Siddikbazar in the capital, who was stabbed in the abdomen by a stalker Obaidul Khan, also a worker of a tailoring shop at city’s Elephant Road, on August 24, died from her injuries at Dhaka Medical College Hospital on August 28.
At about 12pm, the students began demonstration, blocking the road adjacent to the school at Kakrail intersection, halting traffic and triggering severe tailbacks in the area.
The students also continued their demonstration inside their campus.
They wore black badges as a mark of mourning and chanted slogans demanding the arrest of the suspected killer, his exemplary punishment and to ensure safety of all the students on their way to and from school.
The students also carried posters reading ‘we want justice for Risha’ and ‘arrest the killer’.
The agitating students said that they called off the blockade from the intersection about 2pm as police promised them they would arrest the killers in a short time and that two of his relatives were detained to uncover his whereabouts.
They, however, said that they would resume their movement on Wednesday if the killer was not arrested by the time.
The school’s acting principal, Md Abul Hossain, said that all the scheduled classes and examinations of the morning shift were held on Tuesday.
He however said that though all the scheduled examinations were held on time, some of the classes were interrupted as the students joined the demonstration.
Meanwhile, a team of Ramna police station with the help of Birganj police in Dinajpur detained a sister and brother-in-law of the suspected killer Obaidul from his village home at Miratongi under Birganj in Dinajpur Monday night.
The detained were identified as Khadiza Begum, 36, and her husband Khadimul Islam, 46, of the village, said Birganj Police Station officer-in-charge Abu Akkas Ahmed.
Akkas said that the couple was being interrogated at the police station, around 7:30pm on Tuesday, when this report was filed.
Locals said Obaidul was seen at Laterhat bazaar near their house until Monday afternoon. | http://newagebd.net/249438/risha-killing/ | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | newagebd.net/72072ce512516b5c4b9e4126a05a26bf2b753b479310de1238c12211dc84dc98.json |
[
"Anwar Uz Zaman",
"Billy Ahmed"
] | 2016-08-27T02:47:51 | null | 2016-08-27T08:20:02 | Hopes of finding more survivors from Italy's powerful earthquake faded on Friday, with the death toll rising to 281 and the rescue operation in some of the stricken areas called off... | http%3A%2F%2Fnewagebd.net%2F248677%2Fitaly-quake-death-toll-hits-281%2F.json | http://newagebd.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Logo-NA-light-200.jpg | en | null | Italy quake death toll hits 281 | null | null | newagebd.net | Hopes of finding more survivors from Italy’s powerful earthquake faded on Friday, with the death toll rising to 281 and the rescue operation in some of the stricken areas called off.
Three days after the quake struck the mountainous heart of the country, sniffer dogs and emergency crew continued to scour the town of Amatrice, which was levelled in the disaster, but there was no sign of life beneath the debris.
‘Only a miracle can bring our friends back alive from the rubble, but we are still digging because many are missing,’ town mayor Sergio Pirozzi told reporters.
In nearby villages, such as Pescara del Tronto, rescuers pulled out after all the inhabitants had been accounted for.
Italy plans to hold a state funeral for around 40 of the victims on Saturday, which will be held in the nearby city of Ascoli Piceno. A day of national mourning was announced, with flags due to fly at half mast around the country for the dead, who include a number of foreigners.
The civil protection department in Rome said 388 people were being treated for injuries in hospitals, and 40 of them were in critical condition. An estimated 2,500 people were left homeless by the most deadly quake in Italy since 2009.
Survivors with nowhere else to go are sleeping in neat rows of blue tents set up close to their flattened communities. The government has promised to rebuild the region, but some local people feared that would never happen.
‘I’m afraid our village and others like it will just die. Most people don’t live here year round anyway. In the winter time the towns are virtually empty,’ said Salvatore Petrucci, 77, who came from the nearby hamlet of Trisunga.
‘We may be the last ones to have lived in Trisunga.’
More than 1,050 aftershocks have hit the area since the 6.2 magnitude quake early on Wednesday, bringing fresh damage to structures still standing. These included a bridge leading to Amatrice, which had to be closed on Friday, further complicating the rescue operation.
The original quake was so strong that the town nearest the epicentre, Accumoli, sank by 20 cm (7.87 inches), according to Italy’s geological institute.
By Friday, most of the outlying communities were quiet and empty, buildings lying in crumpled mounds, the innards of private homes exposed to the skies and belongings scattered in the debris.
‘We have removed the last bodies that we knew about,’ said Paolo Cortelli, a member of the Alpine Rescue national service who helped to recover about 30 bodies from Pescara del Tronto.
‘We don’t know, and we might never know, if the number of missing that we knew about actually corresponds to the people who were actually under the rubble.’
The foreigners who died in the disaster included six Romanians, a Spanish woman, a Canadian and an Albanian. Three British holidaymakers, including a 14-year-old boy, also died.
The area is popular with vacationers and local authorities were struggling to pin down how many visitors were present when the quake hit.
The Romanian foreign ministry said 17 Romanians were still missing. Italy has a large Romanian community, and some of the victims were residents in the country.
The first funeral of a victim was held in Rome on Friday, for Marco Santarelli, the 28-year-old son of a senior state official, who died in the family’s holiday home in Amatrice.
‘I cannot find the words to describe the grief of a father who outlives his own children. Perhaps there are no words,’ Marco’s father, Filippo Santarelli, told Corriere della Sera newspaper.
Later in the day, a funeral service for six other victims, including an 8-year-old boy and two girls aged 14 and 15, was held in their hometown of Pomezia, south of Rome.
Officials said 181 of the victims had been identified, including at least 21 children. The youngest was just 5-1/2 months old. The eldest was 93.
Hardly a single building was left unscathed in Amatrice, which was last year voted one of the most beautiful old towns in Italy and is famous for its local cuisine.
‘Amatrice will have to be razed to the ground,’ said mayor Pirozzi, who urged youngsters not to leave the area, saying that would mean the end of their community.
‘No night can last so long that the sun never rises again. I am convinced that Amatrice will rise again. We owe it to the people who died here.’
Prime minister Matteo Renzi has declared a state of emergency for the region, allowing the government to release an immediate 50 million euros ($56 million) for the relief work.
He has promised to rebuild the shattered homes and said he would also renew efforts to bolster Italy’s flimsy defences against earthquakes that regularly batter the country.
‘We want those communities to have the chance of a future and not just memories,’ he told reporters in Rome on Thursday.
Italy has a poor record of rebuilding after quakes. About 8,300 people who were forced to leave their homes after a deadly earthquake in L’Aquila in 2009 are still living in temporary accommodation.
This latest disaster represents a major political challenge for Renzi, who has been in office for two-and-a-half years. Former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi was widely criticised for what was perceived to be a botched response to the L’Aquila calamity.
Renzi called for national unity and declined to predict when the homeless might be rehoused. ‘This is not about setting challenges and making promises. We need the pace of a marathon runner,’ he said.
Insurance association ANIA estimates that less than one per cent of Italy’s 33 million homes have private quake coverage, meaning the bill for insurance companies was likely to be low.
That means that the reconstruction bill will have to be paid by the heavily indebted state. Infrastructure minister Graziano Delrio said on Friday he did not think rebuilding costs would reach the 14 billion euros earmarked for L’Aquila.
Most of the buildings in the Amatrice area were built hundreds of years ago, long before any anti-seismic building norms were introduced, helping to explain the widespread destruction.
Cultural minister Dario Franceschini said all 293 culturally important sites, many of them churches, had either collapsed or been seriously damaged.
Italy sits on two fault lines, making it one of the most seismically active countries in Europe. Almost 30 people died in earthquakes in northern Italy in 2012 while more than 300 died in the L’Aquila disaster. | http://newagebd.net/248677/italy-quake-death-toll-hits-281/ | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | newagebd.net/464fa06df36cdf20580ae435d3ab3bd2b584739a1caa877b2d4b13f61fb9f1a5.json |
[
"Anwar Uz Zaman",
"Billy Ahmed"
] | 2016-08-31T10:52:58 | null | 2016-08-31T16:29:46 | The police on Thursday disclosed a fresh list of 40 missing people who were suspected to be involved with militancy. The inspector general of... | http%3A%2F%2Fnewagebd.net%2F249493%2Fpolice-discloses-list-40-missing-people%2F.json | http://newagebd.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/IGP.jpg | en | null | Police discloses list of 40 missing people | null | null | newagebd.net | The police on Thursday disclosed a fresh list of 40 missing people who were suspected to be involved with militancy.
The inspector general of police, AKM Shahidul Hoque, at a press conference at the police headquarters this afternoon said there is an updated list of about 40 missing persons and they were continuing efforts to trace them.
He said earlier Rapid Action Battalion disclosed a list of missing people later with help of special branch and after talking to the families of missing persons the new list was prepared.
‘It is our duty to find them. If anyone wants to return to the normal life we are willing to give him all legal support.’ He said.
On August 27 the mastermind of Gulshan attack Tamim Chowdhury, and two other suspected militants were killed in a drive at a militants’ den in Paikpara area of Narayanganj. | http://newagebd.net/249493/police-discloses-list-40-missing-people/ | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | newagebd.net/0f18d7adbf6431c2f3f3d00a50957616433df28b934dfa4abb9253e41ed6d22e.json |
[
"Anwar Uz Zaman",
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] | 2016-08-27T10:50:33 | null | 2016-08-27T16:31:40 | The people affected by water-logging at Bhabadah of Abhaynagar and Monirampur on Saturday put blockade on Jessore- Khulna highway at Nawapara industrial area... | http%3A%2F%2Fnewagebd.net%2F248702%2Fbhabadah-affected-people-block-jessore-khulna-highway%2F.json | http://newagebd.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Logo-NA-light-200.jpg | en | null | Bhabadah affected people block Jessore- Khulna highway | null | null | newagebd.net | The people affected by water-logging at Bhabadah of Abhaynagar and Monirampur on Saturday put blockade on Jessore- Khulna highway at Nawapara industrial area for two hours demanding the immediate and permanent solution to the water logging problem in the areas.
The agitators formed a human-chain that turned into the blockade as several hundred people took to the street this afternoon.
The blockaders threatened the government of tougher movement if the authorities fail to solve the water logging problem within a week.
Sundali union council chairman Bikash Roy said that the water is continuously increasing along with the miseries of affected people.
People of the water logged areas are suffering from scarcity of pure drinking water as all the tube-wells went under water, he said.
The protesters said the water resources ministry and water development board did not take any effective initiative, and they demanded prime minister’s intervention over the matter.
Nawapara municipality mayor Sushanta Kumar Das Shanto, councilor Jakir Hossain, Rabin Adhikary Becha, chairman of Sundali union council Bikash Roy, spoke during the blockade. | http://newagebd.net/248702/bhabadah-affected-people-block-jessore-khulna-highway/ | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | newagebd.net/fbd1cceae7a0dbe442cacfae52ba3974c21038b0f0b147f37619c18b9fcf6596.json |
[
"Anwar Uz Zaman",
"Billy Ahmed"
] | 2016-08-29T08:51:21 | null | 2016-08-29T13:38:32 | The minister for education, Nurul Islam Nahid, on Monday visited Willes Little Flower School at Kakrail in Dhaka and assured the demonstrating students of... | http%3A%2F%2Fnewagebd.net%2F249080%2Fnahid-visits-willes-little-flower-school-assures-justice-risha-murder%2F.json | http://newagebd.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Nurul-Islam-Nahid-Willes-Little-Flower-School.jpg | en | null | Nahid visits Willes Little Flower School, assures justice to Risha murder | null | null | newagebd.net | The minister for education, Nurul Islam Nahid, on Monday visited Willes Little Flower School at Kakrail in Dhaka and assured the demonstrating students of justice to the murder of their fellow Suraiya Akter Risha.
Risha, a class-VIII student of the school, died at Dhaka Medical College Hospital on Sunday, four days after she was stabbed by a stalker in front of the school.
The minister said the killer would be traced and would be given exemplary punishment.
Students of Willes Little Flower School started their demonstration on Sunday as the death news of Risha reached the school.
Several hundred students of the school on Monday again went out on demonstration on the school campus carrying placards and posters with various slogans like ‘Justice for Risha’ and ‘We want justice for Risha’.
Risha’s mother Taniya Akter said a youth Obaidul Khan from a tailoring shop on Elephant Road ‘stalked’ her daughter over phone around three months ago. | http://newagebd.net/249080/nahid-visits-willes-little-flower-school-assures-justice-risha-murder/ | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | newagebd.net/ad6f9838456e60eb47542517416eb317d7cd6af84cbfdcd77ef0149ea10b3cbb.json |
[
"Anwar Uz Zaman",
"Billy Ahmed"
] | 2016-08-29T16:50:00 | null | 2016-08-29T21:13:10 | Turkish armed forces have carried out 61 artillery strikes around the northern Syrian town of Jarablus in the past 24 hours, hitting 20 targets, Turkey's military said on Monday... | http%3A%2F%2Fnewagebd.net%2F249119%2Fturkish-military-launched-61-artillery-strikes-syria%2F.json | http://newagebd.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Syrian-Turkey-border.jpg | en | null | Turkish military launched 61 artillery more strikes in Syria | null | null | newagebd.net | Turkish armed forces have carried out 61 artillery strikes around the northern Syrian town of Jarablus in the past 24 hours, hitting 20 targets, Turkey’s military said on Monday.
The military said in a statement it was ‘taking all measures and showing maximum sensitivity’ to prevent harm to civilians.
Turkey-backed forces pushed deeper into northern Syria on Monday, drawing a rebuke from NATO ally the United States, which said it was concerned the battle for territory had shifted away from targeting Islamic State. | http://newagebd.net/249119/turkish-military-launched-61-artillery-strikes-syria/ | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | newagebd.net/6cef484923625c43c4a643e891e89f7f6f785706a900511993a703082e3e7bb7.json |
[
"Anwar Uz Zaman",
"Billy Ahmed"
] | 2016-08-30T10:53:35 | null | 2016-08-30T13:20:41 | The High Court on Tuesday granted bail to Nagarik Oikya convener Mahmudur Rahman Manna in a sedition case and set hearing for bail petition in another case of... | http%3A%2F%2Fnewagebd.net%2F249289%2Fmanna-gets-bail-sedition-case%2F.json | http://newagebd.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Mahmudur-Rahman-Manna.jpg | en | null | Manna gets bail in sedition case | null | null | newagebd.net | The High Court on Tuesday granted bail to Nagarik Oikya convener Mahmudur Rahman Manna in a sedition case and set hearing for bail petition in another case of instigating military to topple the government on October 24.
The bench of Justice Syed Muhammad Dastagir Husain and Justice Md Mozibur Rahman Miah passed the order.
Mahmudur Rahman Manna was arrested on February 25, 2015. Two cases were filed with Gulshan Police Station on February 24 and March 5, 2015 on charges of provoking the army and sedition, respectively. | http://newagebd.net/249289/manna-gets-bail-sedition-case/ | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | newagebd.net/a48aa3cb88c57de1cf5d16ef05078b0628fcc4943d457e1a0809978ca24ed30b.json |
[
"Anwar Uz Zaman",
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] | 2016-08-28T14:49:48 | null | 2016-08-28T19:54:00 | Police arrested a student of Rajshahi University for making derogatory remarks on prime minister Sheikh Hasina and Awami League on his Facebook page, from the campus here on Sunday.... | http%3A%2F%2Fnewagebd.net%2F248915%2Fru-student-held-derogatory-remarks-pm-al%2F.json | http://newagebd.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/facebook-instragam-hack-300x169.jpg | en | null | RU student held for derogatory remarks on PM, AL | null | null | newagebd.net | New Age Online
Police arrested a student of Rajshahi University for making derogatory remarks on prime minister Sheikh Hasina and Awami League on his Facebook page, from the campus here on Sunday.
The arrestee was identified as Dilip Roy, general secretary of RU unit Biplobi Chhatra Moitree and a 4th year student of Economics Department.
Humayun Kabir, officer-in-charge of Motihar Police Station, said a team of police arrested Dilip at noon from the central library of the university.
Meanwhile, RU unit Progotishil Chhatra Jote brought out a procession on the campus protesting the arrest.
Meanwhile, a group of BCL activists brought out another procession demanding punishment of Dilip. | http://newagebd.net/248915/ru-student-held-derogatory-remarks-pm-al/ | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | newagebd.net/1f50bef3710e1c291e28d54206e840701b97f8b0479f97646b5bccc466ca6952.json |
[
"Anwar Uz Zaman",
"Billy Ahmed"
] | 2016-08-28T10:49:42 | null | 2016-08-28T16:36:29 | Laying emphasis on exploring newer export markets, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday said her government will continue to do whatever necessary for gearing up... | http%3A%2F%2Fnewagebd.net%2F248905%2Fpm-assures-support-boost-trade-investment%2F.json | http://newagebd.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/PM-sheikh-hasina.jpg | en | null | PM assures all-out support to boost trade, investment | null | null | newagebd.net | Laying emphasis on exploring newer export markets, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday said her government will continue to do whatever necessary for gearing up trade and commerce, industrialisation and attracting more investment to the country.
‘We’ve not assumed office to do business…our government rather will continue to work to ensure all sorts of facilities for businesspeople to spur trade and commerce, industrialisation and woo more investment. Our government has been working to this end,’ she said, reports United News of Bangladesh.
The Prime Minister was addressing a function after distributing the National Export Trophy for 2011-12 and 2012-13 to some 113 export organisations for the their significant role in overseas trade and thus earning foreign currency.
The awards were distributed at a programme jointly organised by the Ministry of Commerce and the Export Promotion Bureau at Osmani Memorial Auditorium in the city.
A total of 52 export organisations received gold medals, 37 silver medals while 24 bronze medals for the fiscal years 2011-12 and 2012-13.
Sheikh Hasina said she always strongly advocates for having newer export markets across the globe as demands are increasing day by day in many countries throughout the world. ‘You’ll (exporters) have to find out which products have demand in which countries as well as diversify our export items.’
Mentioning that Bangladesh has already attained the capacity for exporting various products and items, she suggested the exporters to find newer markets of various products. ‘We’ll extend all-out cooperation to this end.’
Presided over by commerce minister Tofail Ahmed, the function was addressed, among others, by chairman of the parliamentary standing committee on commerce ministry Md Tajul Islam Chowdhury, senior secretary of the commerce ministry Hedayetullah Al Mamun and FBCCI president Abdul Matlub Ahmad. EPB vice-chairman Mafruha Sultana delivered the address of welcome. | http://newagebd.net/248905/pm-assures-support-boost-trade-investment/ | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | newagebd.net/c216aa2aaa0512d455f83bc75617c66d50b4646a1cfa44c1d7db61f1295681d8.json |
[
"Anwar Uz Zaman",
"Billy Ahmed"
] | 2016-08-30T18:55:31 | null | 2016-08-31T00:45:48 | The Jamaat-e-Islami on Tuesday called a countrywide dawn-to-dusk general strike protesting at what they called ‘the government’s conspiracy to kill Jamaat-e-Islami’scentral executive member, Islami economist, social worker and media personality Mir Quasen Ali.’... | http%3A%2F%2Fnewagebd.net%2F249455%2Fjamaat-calls-hartal-2%2F.json | http://newagebd.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Logo-NA-light-200.jpg | en | null | Jamaat calls hartal | null | null | newagebd.net | The Jamaat-e-Islami on Tuesday called a countrywide dawn-to-dusk general strike protesting at what they called ‘the government’s conspiracy to kill Jamaat-e-Islami’scentral executive member, Islami economist, social worker and media personality Mir Quasen Ali.’
Jamaat’s acting secretary general Shafiqur Rahman said this in a statement emailed to media houses hours after the Appellate Division rejected Quasem’s petition seeking a review of its March 8 sentence that upheld his death sentence awarded by the trial court, the International Crimes Tribunal-2, earlier.
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, headed by chief justice SK Sinha, on Tuesday morning rejected Quasem’s petition and upheld his death sentence for committing crimes against humanity in Chittagong during the Liberation War in 1971.
‘In protest against the government’s conspiracy to kill Mir Quasem Ali and demanding release of all leaders of Jamaat, I, on behalf of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, am announcing a general strike for Wednesday from 6am to 6pm across the country,’ reads the emailed release.
The release claimed that the court sentenced him to death based on false charges and tutored witnesses.
It said that the ambulances, corpse carrying vehicles, hospitals, fire service cars, vehicles carrying hajj pilgrims and newspapers will remain out of the purview of hartal. | http://newagebd.net/249455/jamaat-calls-hartal-2/ | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | newagebd.net/629a957d987002832fbbb955ea24806ad3bde6fe8cd43b7051f3ecfb93a3a258.json |
[
"Anwar Uz Zaman",
"Billy Ahmed"
] | 2016-08-31T08:53:48 | null | 2016-08-31T11:30:17 | The Kashimpur jail authorities read out the verdict of his review petition to death row war criminal Mir Quasem Ali on Wednesday morning. The 63-year-old Jamaat-e-Islami leader, who... | http%3A%2F%2Fnewagebd.net%2F249475%2Freview-verdict-read-mir-quasem%2F.json | http://newagebd.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/mir-quasem-ali.jpg | en | null | Review verdict read out to Mir Quasem | null | null | newagebd.net | The Kashimpur jail authorities read out the verdict of his review petition to death row war criminal Mir Quasem Ali on Wednesday morning.
The 63-year-old Jamaat-e-Islami leader, who now in a condemned cell of the Kashimpur Central Jail Part- 2, heard the review verdict around 7:30am, said the jail superintendent, Prosanta Kumar Bonik.
Mir Quasem sought time to think whether he will seek presidential clemency or not, officials said.
Earlier, copy of the 29-page verdict of the apex court reached the Kashimpur Central Jail Part- 2 around 12:50am.
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed Mir Quasem Ali’s petition seeking review of its verdict upholding his death sentence for war crimes.
Rejection of his review petition by a five-judge bench chaired by Chief Justice SK Sinha paved the way for Mir Quasem’s execution.
As a notorious Al-Badr commander in 1971, Mir Quasem committed various war crimes in the port city of Chittagong and particularly at a torture cell he ran in the Dalim Hotel.
He was sentenced to death for abducting and killing teenage freedom fighter Jasim Uddin in confinement at Dalim Hotel based torture cell and dumping his body in the Karnaphuli River.
In recent years he emerged as a business and media tycoon and ran business establishments of Jamaat.
Copies of the review verdict had been sent to the International Crimes Tribunal-1 and the office of Dhaka district magistrate, Supreme Court Registrar general Syed Aminul Islam said on Tuesday.
On receipt of the verdict’s copy at 6:15pm, ICT-1 officials said that they immediately forwarded it to the Dhaka Central Jail.
Dhaka Central Jail received the copy of the apex court’s verdict at 9:05pm and immediately sent it to the Kashimpur Central Jail Part 2, said Dhaka Central Jail senior superintendent Md Jahangir Kabir.
On March 8, the same bench of the Appellate Division had rejected Mir Quasem’s appeal against his death sentence handed by the ICT-2 on November 2, 2014 finding him guilty of abducting, torturing and murdering teenage freedom fighter Jasim Uddin at Al-Badr’s torture centre at Dalim Hotel.
The apex court upheld Mir Quasem’s death sentence only for Jasim’s murder.
It set aside Mir Quasem’s death sentence on the charge of abducting and torturing five persons and killing two of them, Tuntu Sen and Ranjit Das Latu, at Dalim Hotel and their houses were set on fire in November 1971.
The apex court upheld six sentences handed to Mir Quasem by the ICT-2 each for 20-year jail for abducting and torturing freedom fighters and pro-independence people in confinement.
The apex court set aside two other sentences involving jail for various terms handed to Mir Quasem by the ICT-2.
Until now, 24 war offenders have been sentenced to death and 18 others to jail of various terms.
Mir Quasem would be the sixth top war criminal to die. | http://newagebd.net/249475/review-verdict-read-mir-quasem/ | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | newagebd.net/566d6bcec56c7f61367f727987feb760595695d5c8cd658503eb5922d91805da.json |
[
"Anwar Uz Zaman",
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] | 2016-08-28T18:54:16 | null | 2016-08-29T00:40:59 | The river Padma continued to swell due to onrush of water from upstream as all gates of Farakka barrage were reportedly opened by India, putting Bangladesh’s north western parts in fear of further aggravation of the flood situation... | http%3A%2F%2Fnewagebd.net%2F249047%2Fpadma-continues-swell-2%2F.json | http://newagebd.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Logo-NA-light-200.jpg | en | null | Padma continues to swell | null | null | newagebd.net | The river Padma continued to swell due to onrush of water from upstream as all gates of Farakka barrage were reportedly opened by India, putting Bangladesh’s north western parts in fear of further aggravation of the flood situation.
Thousands of people at the low lands areas in the districts adjacent to Padma were marooned due to swelling of water on Padma for the past few days, said officials.
Although flood water had receded in early August, the releasing of Ganges water through Farakka barrage by opening all gates was causing sufferings to the flood affected people in Bangladesh.
According to media reports, the central water resources ministry of India recently directed the authority concerned to open all the 106 gates of the Farakka Barrage in West Bengal to relieve Bihar of flood.
The decision came after reports published in Indian media on August 21 that Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar reiterated the demand to open the gates.
Padma water in the Hardinge Bridge point was flowing near danger level and would soon cross the level, if water flow increased slightly, according to Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre.
Several thousand people living in 40 villages in Daulatpur and Bheramar upazilas in Kushtia were inundated due to swelling of the river, reports New Age correspondent in Kushtia.
The Padma water was flowing near the danger level at Rajshahi point on Sunday and many people living in low lands and different chars at Bagha, Charghat and Godhabari upazilas were marooned.
Many of the affected people have taken shelters on the high lands, reports New Age Correspondent in Rajshahi.
In Chapainawabganj, more than one lakh people living in low lands under seven unions of Shibpur and sadar upaziuas were marooned as Padma water was swelling since August 22, New Age correspondent in Chapainawabganj reported.
At least 185 hectares of croplands were affected by the inundation, said department of agricultural extension officials in the district.
Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre said that the Padma River across Chapainawabganj, Rajshahi, Pabna, Kushtia and Magura were flowing at warning level of floods.
When asked forecasting centre assistant director Ripan Karmaker told New Age that Padma water flow might start falling after two days.
He said that the rainfalls and swelling of rivers created water logging in many areas in Jessore while heavy rainfall in Barak basin newly swelled Surma-Kushiyara river system.
According to the forecasting centre outlook, the Ganges-Padma and Surma-Kushiyara rivers were in the rising trend while the Brahmaputra-Jamuna rivers would continue to fall for 48 hours from Sunday morning.
The Ganges River was supposed to rise slightly till this morning. Ganges at Pankha, Rajshahi and Hardinge Bridge points were flowing 7cm, 4cm and 12cm below their
danger level respectively and Mahananda at
Chapainawabganj point was flowing 10cm below the danger level at 9:00am on Sunday. | http://newagebd.net/249047/padma-continues-swell-2/ | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | newagebd.net/bc1f8339379cd8f392d3156a94fb979015b00918e2b80f4467f975e5c33b2fc8.json |
[
"Anwar Uz Zaman",
"Billy Ahmed"
] | 2016-08-26T12:55:05 | null | 2016-08-26T16:49:32 | A new bus service named ‘Royal Coach’ on Brahamanbaria-Kolkata of India route started on Friday, aiming to boost up the connectivity between the residents of... | http%3A%2F%2Fnewagebd.net%2F248521%2Fnew-bus-service-brahamanbaria-kolkata-route-starts%2F.json | http://newagebd.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Logo-NA-light-200.jpg | en | null | New bus service on Brahamanbaria-Kolkata route starts | null | null | newagebd.net | A new bus service named ‘Royal Coach’ on Brahamanbaria-Kolkata of India route started on Friday, aiming to boost up the connectivity between the residents of the two neighbouring countries.
Brahamanbaria-3 lawmaker RAM Ubaidul Muktadir Chowdhury inaugurated the bus service this morning at Municipal Bus Terminal in Brahamanbaria, reports United News of Bangladesh.
Two buses will leave the town every day for Kolkata while two others will leave the West Bengal capital for Brahamanbaria, said Obaied Hossain, a representative of ‘Royal Coach’.
Every bus can carry 34 passengers and each passengers has to pay Tk 1600-1800 for travelling to Kolkata and vice versa. | http://newagebd.net/248521/new-bus-service-brahamanbaria-kolkata-route-starts/ | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | newagebd.net/6341f53565717810f85009e28fbeccd1009947eaf211dc637552f08e600ec5c8.json |
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"Anwar Uz Zaman",
"Billy Ahmed"
] | 2016-08-26T18:53:08 | null | 2016-08-27T00:24:17 | A mobile court in Rangpur sentenced a ‘Jiner Badsha’ to one-year imprisonment at Gangachara on Friday for cheating common people. Gangachara police officer-in-charge Zinnat Ali said that they arrested so called Jiner Badsha Zakir Hossain, 42, resident of village Godown Para in Faridpur, at Gangachara Bazaar in the afternoon... | http%3A%2F%2Fnewagebd.net%2F248644%2Fnews-brief-122-7%2F.json | http://newagebd.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Logo-NA-light-200.jpg | en | null | News in BriefJiner Badsha’ jailed in Rangpur | null | null | newagebd.net | A mobile court in Rangpur sentenced a ‘Jiner Badsha’ to one-year imprisonment at Gangachara on Friday for cheating common people. Gangachara police officer-in-charge Zinnat Ali said that they arrested so called Jiner Badsha Zakir Hossain, 42, resident of village Godown Para in Faridpur, at Gangachara Bazaar in the afternoon. Later, the court of executive magistrate and Gangachara upazila nirbahi officer Aminul Islam handed down the verdict, the OC said, adding that the convicted was sent to Rangpur Central Jail. | http://newagebd.net/248644/news-brief-122-7/ | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | newagebd.net/a27af7e80d5252819581a1b27a18bf71a7f83a616096a76b29d3e065b3e3544e.json |
[
"Anwar Uz Zaman",
"Billy Ahmed"
] | 2016-08-29T12:52:46 | null | 2016-08-29T17:17:33 | Extending all-out support to Bangladesh in fighting terrors, US secretary of state John Kerry on Monday underscored the need for information sharing, constant... | http%3A%2F%2Fnewagebd.net%2F249103%2Fdhaka-cafe-attack-clearly-designed-divide-bangladesh-kerry%2F.json | http://newagebd.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/John-Kerry.jpg | en | null | Dhaka cafe attack clearly designed to divide Bangladesh: Kerry | null | null | newagebd.net | Extending all-out support to Bangladesh in fighting terrors, US secretary of state John Kerry on Monday underscored the need for information sharing, constant communication and good governance to defeat terrorism for shared benefits.
‘We’ve to stand together,’ Kerry said mentioning that the US is standing with Bangladesh in its fight against terrorism and prevent violent extremism, reports United News of Bangladesh.
He laid emphasis on fighting terrorism from a number of fronts that include financing front, communication front, prevention front. ‘No nation can succeed without information sharing and communication.’
The US secretary was addressing civil society representatives, media, labour leaders and youngsters at EMK Center in the city’s Dhanmondi area.
In his 35-minute speech, Kerry said security and stronger civil society are essentials to ensure the continuation of development.
The attack on July 1 was ‘clearly designed’ to divide Bangladesh and it was an attack on rich Bangladesh culture.
‘We’ll do all we can to help Bangladesh, ‘ he said adding, ‘We know we’re living in a very different and complicated time.’
Kerry said he had a very broad discussion on security cooperation, climate change and workers right and regional and global issues.
Opposition leader in parliament Raushan Ershad was also there and had a very brief discussion.
Earlier, he tweeted and mentioned, ‘Important discussion today in Bangladesh on security issues and our strong support in fighting against violent extremism.’
He said Bangladesh has an extraordinary development story.
Kerry said though the attackers in Bangladesh are homegrown but they have connection with global terror groups. | http://newagebd.net/249103/dhaka-cafe-attack-clearly-designed-divide-bangladesh-kerry/ | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | newagebd.net/e70659ef1303f488f398ccc96407670aae0c38476cd76f09ff1d7ac37693a5c0.json |
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