PM preaching peace accommodation of unrest at home: Fakhrul

The President of the Bangladesh nationalist party Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Sunday said that the Prime Minister preached peace in the United Nations, after incitement and accommodation of unrest at home.

Fakhrul calls for Sheikh Hasina, the Prime Minister to ensure peace in the country prior to efforts for global peace.

'Its funny that the Prime Minister provides a model for global peace, while food from trash can keep the police in their country pin people on the ground with Tor and the destitute scavenging back,' he said on meeting a representative of the unit of Dhaka City Jatiyatabadi Swechchhasebak Dal Institute of diploma engineers.

Hasina on Saturday a model of peace represented, how she handle the 66 session of the General Assembly of the United Nations in New York.

"I could not my laughter keep see the news." I would like to Prime Minister initially refers to matters at home ' he added.

"We live in a country where the manifestations of political opponents a policeman stamp of the citizens in the chest, a lawyer is attacked, kidnapped from his home and beaten to death in custody." It is extremely unbecoming of the Prime Minister of this country to preach peace in the United Nations, "he said."

Fakhrul said, that he might not with political ideal Jamaat leader ATM Azharul Islam agree, but it might not be acceptable that he tortured in custody and presented before the media as a robber.

' If he violated the law, it could be trial and punishment. Why is torture?' he added.

He said that 33 percent vote in the elections 2008 give the young people had and the Awami League promised them jobs, at least for one in a family had, but the Government failed to keep his word.

Dhaka City unit of BNP Member Secretary, Abdus Salam, Swechchhasebak Dal President Habibunnabi Sohel Khan, Secretary General Mir Sharafat Ali and Organization Secretary Shafiul Bari Babu said on the program, under the chairmanship of Yasin Ali.

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Market manipulators must not be allowed to get away!

 Unless Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina checks the slide in stock markets, experts fear that the government will bear the brunt of investors? anger making it extremely unpopular among a big cross-section of voters who provide crucial support to any political party.

Directors of 46 listed companies now under SEC pressure to raise their share holding to 30 percent are trying to reduce the prices of shares so that they can buy them back at lower prices.

These directors are working against the interests of small investors by manipulating share prices so that they can pick up the required 30 percent as cheaply as possible.

These directors have a long history of cheating and deceiving small investors. A few of them were caught with their pants down in 1996. But they went scot-free. Now many other manipulators are taking a leaf out of the book of the 1996 villains.

One of the 46 companies under the SEC scanner is Beximco Pharma of Salman F. Rahman. Its directors hold only 3.8 percent of shares. They sold the rest violating SEC regulations fuelling the decline in stock index since January 2010.

Such companies are acting against the government?s initiative ? well-meaning but rather late in the day ? to stabilise the markets and bring back investors? confidence by making big companies accountable to small investors.

On Sunday the markets plunged by 308 points exposing the greed of big companies in the face of small investors? soaring expectations after Wednesday?s package of incentives announced by Securities and Exchange Commission.

Market insiders accuse the 46 companies of fleecing investors to line their own pockets by triggering panic sale of shares held by small investors.

The government has ordered 46 companies to pick up 56.71 crore shares from the market within six months. As per Thursday prices, the companies will have to spend Taka 5612 crores. Hence they are resorting to dubious means to meet SEC?s directives.

One of the best steps announced so far is to draw black money into stocks without asking questions about the source. Any delay in implementing it will trigger the exodus of Bangladesh?s undisclosed and unaccounted wealth to safe havens like Malaysia.

If small investors are cheated again and reduced to poverty, they will be forced to commit crimes destroying the law and order situation in Dhaka and elsewhere in the country. Directors with a history of cheating small investors will not be able to sleep peacefully in their air-conditioned bedrooms at night.

Announcing 21 measures is not enough. The watchdog must not only bark but it be ready to bite those working against the interests of small investors.

It?s high time to implement the recommendations of the Khandkar Ibrahim Khaled Committee and bring to justice the culprits of the 2010 share market scam to put the fear of law in the hearts of today?s scamsters.

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Govt backtracks on move to amend upazila act

Govt backtracks on move to amend upazila actChairmen to retain executive power? Kamran Reza ChowdhuryThe government has backtracked on its move to amend the Upazila Act 1998 to curtail the executive power of the upazila (local government body) chairmen.

LGRD and Cooperatives Minister Syed Ashraful Islam at a meeting of the parliamentary watchdog on his ministry on Sunday consented to the demand of upazila chairmen for retaining their executive power.

Upazila chairmen are enjoying executive power as per the Local Government (Uapzila) Act 1998 and will continue to exercise the power, the minister told the meeting.

The Local Government (Uapzila) Bill 2010, tabled in parliament on December 2 last year, proposed handing over of the executive power of upazila chairmen to the upazila council.

The council consists of chairman, two vice chairmen of a upazila and chairmen of all the union parishads under the same upazila.

Upazila chairmen and vice-chairmen in October threatened that they would resign en mass if the bill is passed in parliament. They, however, refrained from doing so as per advice from the state minister for local government Jahangir Kabir Nanak.

The Upzilla Bill 2010 proposed that the government will be able to suspend any elected chairmen and vice chairmen if the authorities take cognisance of criminal charges against them.

The parliamentary standing committee on the local government ministry also recommended that vice-chairmen should head 17 committees of the upazila council.

As per the parliamentary watchdog?s recommendation, upazila chairmen will issue Annual Performance Report (APR) on Uapzila Nirbahi Officers (UNOs).

?The upazila chairmen will enjoy executive power of the council,? Noor-E-Alam Chowdhury, a committee member who presided over the meeting of the parliamentary body, told daily sun after the meeting.

Sources at Parliament secretariat said the current session will conclude on

Monday meaning that the Upazila Bill will get through the House on the day.

Leaders of the upazila chairmen association earlier told daily sun that the bill would make the elected representatives subservient to the Upazila Nirbahi officers (UNOs).

They demanded that the elected chairmen should have the power to issue annual confidential report (ACR) ? an essential document for the promotion of the public servants?to have control over the bureaucracy.

?They (chairmen) will issue APR for the UNOs,? said Chowdhury adding that the standing committee made the suggestion to strike a balance in the upazila administration.

Ruling Awami League?s allies ? Rashed Khan Menon of the Workers? Party and Hasanul Haq Inu of the Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal?opposed curtailing the power of upzilla chairmen.

While tabling the bill in parliament around a year back, Syed Ashraful Islam rejected objection of the two lawmakers, saying that the parliamentary committee will amend the anomalies, if any, in the proposed law.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at a meeting with the leaders of the upazila chairmen association assured them of looking into their interests.

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BNP men attacked on way to Khaleda�s rallies

 At least 60 people were injured as ruling party men allegedly attacked BNP activists in Bagerhat and Jessore on their way to the opposition chief Khaled Zia?s separate rallies on Sunday.

In Bagerhat, at least 50 people, including Chitalmari UNO and OC were injured in a clash between Awami League and BNP activists in Chitalmari uapzila headquarters over taking part in a BNP rally.

Police said the clash ensued as some local Awami League activists obstructed the BNP men when they were going to Shat Gumbaj union parishad premises in Bagerhat Sadar upazila to attend the roadside rally of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia at about 11:00am.

A chase and counter-chase took place between the supporters of the two parties. At one stage, they attacked each other with brickbats, leaving at least 50 people injured,

Chitalmari Uapzila Nirbahi Officer M Sohel Hasan and thana officer-in-charge Hasan Hafizur Rahman were among the injured.

Upazila Palli Bidyut office, local Awami League office, BNP office and eight shops were vandalised during the two-hour long clash.

Later, police brought the situation under control charging batons on the rowdy activists of the two arch rival parties.

In Jessore, a motorcade of BNP leaders and workers came under attack at Bagachra Bazar and Balunda Bazar in Sarsa upazila on Sunday morning on their way to BNP chairperson?s Jessore rally.

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Govt kidney trade case sensational list

Bdnews24.com. Dhaka

The Ministry of the Interior has the authorities on the kidney case in the list of sensational cases ordered trade.

DAS, signed by Deputy Secretary Smriti Rani, the Chief of staff of the Crime Investigation Department were sent the order on 21 September.

The case was with Kalai police station on 29 in line with the organ transplant Act 1999, section 10 (1) and Bangladesh Penal Code 326 / 307 / 420 submitted.

Some unscrupulous broker have long of the underprivileged in Jaipurhat edit were to sell their kidneys for money. A recently published report by the media, said that more than 200 poor people in Kalai shortly had already sold their organs.

According to the report, police arrested six people, including the leaders of the ring of Jaipurhat, Bagerhat and Dhaka. Three of them admitted their crimes.

On 19 September, the Court ordered the Government to form a Committee of inquiry into this and report within 15 days.

Before that on September 11, recommended the Parliamentary Committee on Ministry of health, which should authorities find the illegal kidney retailer and take action against them.

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NCC Mayor Ivy, 36 councillors sworn in

 Founder Mayor of Narayanganj City Corporation Dr Selina Hayat Ivy was sworn in on Sunday morning at a high-profile ceremony at the Prime Mini-ster?s Office, completing her investiture following a memorable election win.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina administered the oath at her office to the mayor of the port city who clinched a landslide victory in a much-orchestrated election.

Earlier, LGRD and Cooperatives Minister Syed Ashraful Islam administered oath of office to the 36 NCC councillors at the same venue.

Sources said Dr Ivy will formally perform her duty from December 1, matching with the auspicious occasion of the commencement of the month of national victory at the 1971 Liberation War.

On October 30, riding a wave of popular support for a change, Selina Hayat Ivy was elected first mayor of Narayanganj metropolis in a landslide victory to carry forward her father?s mantle in a new context. Her father was the first mayor of Narayanganj municipality after independence.

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No army deployment, no polls: Khaleda

 Leader of the Opposition and BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia on Sunday laid down two preconditions for holding elections - keep electronic voting machines out and deploy the army - if the government seriously wants the outcome to be acceptable to the masses.

?Awami League cannot rig the polls if the army is around. Its other weapon for manipulating poll results is the EVM. That?s why it wants to keep the army out and press EVMs into service,? Khaleda said while addressing a roadside meeting at Jessore Eidgah Maidan.

She branded the EVM as a ?machine for vote rigging.?

Khaleda Zia also alleged that the government has left no stones unturned to turn Bangladesh into a province of India.

The former prime minister further alleged that the Awami League-led grand alliance government has failed to sign the Teesta water sharing deal with India due to lack of its bargaining capacity.

She said her party?s countrywide road-march campaign has already turned into a mass upsurge as the government has been identified as incompetent and subservient (to India).

Terming the cabinet worthless, Khaleda Zia said ministers are incapable and know nothing but how to extort money. ?There is no control within the government as well as in the cabinet,? she said.

Dwelling on the ?miserable? conditions of power and energy sectors, Khaleda said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina could not ensure adequate supply of electricity but she could cut power from the people who do not like her.

?All the mills and factories of Bangladesh are being destroyed in a planned way so that in course of time those could be taken over by India. The government has made all arrangements to make Bangladesh a country subservient to India,? she said.

The opposition leader warned if the situation continues, the country?s independence and sovereignty will be at stake.

?We have to take decision whether we will be subjected to torture or launch movement against this repressive regime,? she added.

Khaleda said an ?oust-government campaign? will be launched after Victory Day and that has to be made successful with spontaneous participation of people from all walks of life.

Organised by the BNP-led four party alliance, the meeting was presided over by the party?s acting Jessore district unit president Shamsul Huda.

After the wayside meting in Jessore, Khaleda Zia went to the mazar of Khan Jahan Ali in Bagerhat, where she offered fateha.

The BNP chairperson said establishment of Rampal Power Plant will adversely affect the ecology and natural beauty of the Sundarbans, world?s largest mangrove forest.

?So a movement should be launched to stop installation of power plant in the Sundarbans. To save the Sundarbans, I am with you and the country?s environmentalists are also with you,? she said while addressing a public meeting held at Khulna Circuit House Maidan.

Khaleda Zia also demanded construction of an embankment in the Cyclone Aila-affected areas and rehabilitation of the affected people there. She asked the government to immediately address the water-logging problem in Satkhira district and end inhuman sufferings of people there.

The former prime minister said that she had written thrice to the Indian government to stop construction work of the Tipaimukh Dam, which will cause a catastrophic impact on the ecology of Bangladesh.

Khaleda said she asked the Indian government to conduct a joint technical survey first before going for implementation of the project.

?Raise your (the government?s) voice against the construction of Tipaimukh Dam. If you do not have the courage, please step down; the people will protest and do whatever necessary to halt it,? she said.

Citing the government?s corruption spree centring construction work of proposed Padma Multipurpose Bridge, Khaleda Zia said two bridges at separate points over the Padma River would be constructed if her party is voted to power.

One of the bridges will connect Daulatdia with Paturia ghat and the other one will be built at Mawa point of the river, she said.

Khaleda alleged the government has given its party leaders the licence to set up rental power plants to commit corruption in a free-style.

The BNP chairperson pledged that if her party is voted to power, it will revitalise the industrial units in Khulna region.

The meeting was presided over by Khulna BNP unit president Nazrul Islam Manju. Senior BNP leaders and also leaders of its alliance partners and like-minded parties spoke at the rally.

After the meeting, Khaleda Zia took rest at Circuit House before leaving Khulna for Dhaka.

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Employees protest move to split DCC

 Police intercept Dhaka City Corporation officers and staff as they tried to form a human chain in front of Nagar Bhaban on Sunday, protesting the government?s latest move to chop Dhaka into two administrative areas. sun photoAt least 25 people were injured in a clash with police as employees of the Dhaka City Corporation protested the government move to split the local government body.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, however, the same day justified the government initiative to split DCC saying that the decision is aimed at ensuring better services to the citizens of Dhaka.

The proposed bill is likely to be passed in the on-going parliament session.

Witnesses said police intercepted DCC employees and assaulted them when the protestors brought out a procession under the banner of DCC Officials and Workers Oikya Parishad at 11:00am in front of Nagar Bhaban. Police charged batons on the demonstrators and dispersed them.

Traffic on the road in front of Nagar Bhaban came to a halt as the agitated employees clashed with law enforcers. The clash continued for about 20 minutes when the entrance to Nagar Bhaban remained closed.

Eight of the injured people were said to be policemen and the rest DCC employees.

The DCC officials and employees observed three-hour pen down strike and joined a scheduled human chain programme to protest the government decision to split the city corporation.

Abdul Latif, member secretary of Oikya Parishad, alleged that a group of Awami League supporters hurled brickbats at them from nearby Usmani Uddyan when they were forming a human chain in front of the DCC Bhaban.

?As we went ahead, police in riot gear swooped on us and started charging batons indiscriminately,? he said.

SM Mosharraf Hossain, a union leader of DCC, said police attacked a peaceful procession when it was entering the DCC Bhaban.

However, Deputy Commissioner (DC) of Ramna Zone Krishnapado Roy told the journalists that police had to take action against the agitating people as they were demonstrating by blocking the nearby busy road.

The incident happened only a day after City Mayor Sadeque Hossain Khoka urged the government not to divide the DCC. He also told the media that none of the public representatives and representative bodies demanded bifurcation of DCC.

?It is not true that we are dividing Dhaka, it will remain in its original shape. But we are going to constitute two city corporations with the expanded areas of Dhaka city,? Hasina said while addressing the oath- taking ceremony of the mayor and councillors of Narayanganj City Corporation (NCC) at her office, reports BSS.

Hasina also said a bill to split DCC has been placed in the current session of parliament as the city has now been expanded up to Narayanganj in the southeast and Tongi in the north.

She said the number of city dwellers is increasing day by day and it is quite impossible to extend services to people from one point.

?With the rising number of population, the government has divided the police administration into eight zones to ensure proper service,? she added.

The prime minister said her government wants to strengthen the local government bodies to decentralise power. ?We are working relentlessly for the welfare of the people,? she said.

The government on Wednesday proposed a bill to divide DCC and create two city authorities ? Dhaka North City Corporation and Dhaka South City Corporation.

The proposed DCC bifurcation law, set to be passed in the current session of parliament, will authorise the government to appoint political leaders as administrators to the planned city corporations.

The parliamentary standing committee on local government ministry on Sunday finalised its recommendations on the Dhaka City Corporation division bill tabled in parliament on November 23 with minor changes.

The parliamentary watchdog, however, stipulated that the administrators in the proposed Dhaka North City Corporation and Dhaka City South City Corporation must not stay in office for more than 90 days.

Again, the standing committee also recommended that the elections to the proposed city corporations must take place in 180 days since the passage of the Dhaka City Corporation division bill.

State Minister for Local Government Jahangir Kabir Nanak tabled the Local Government (City Corporation) (Amendment) Bill-2011 for dividing Dhaka City Corporation into two local bodies in the city of 100,000 million people.

?The bill proposed appointment of first class public servants as the administrators to the city corporations. But we have cut the word ?first class? from the paragraph,? Noor-e-Alam Chowdhury, a committee member, told daily sun after the meeting at the parliament building.

?Our recommendation will authorise the government to appoint any high ranking public servants or any competent people as the administrators to the proposed city corporations until the elections take place,? said Alam who presided over the meeting in absence of Rahmat Ali.

?The administrators may even be the political figures,? he said.

Alam, a nephew of Hasina and whip in parliament, trashed the allegations saying an administrator will only be appointed for one term: only 90 days.

?If an administrator cannot hold elections in 90 days, the government will appoint another administrator. But the elections must take place in 180 days for newly created city corporations,? he said.

?Inshallah, the bill will be passed in the current session of parliament,? said Alam.

Local Government Minister Syed Ashraful Islam and his deputy Nanak also attended the meeting.

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Magura car accident kills 11

Eleven people, including four children were killed when a speeding up of truck parked human tug rest both vehicles in a roadside waters at Saitrish in Magura SADAR shortly on Sunday afternoon.

The deceased, all the three-wheeled human hauler Magura town of Alamkhali went, was announced by the police.

Angry local put up barricade tree felling, exposed to traffic on the highway for nearly four hours.

Later, police and district officials crashed and that assures stirring mob of measures including speed breakers to include road accidents.

Magura Police Superintendent Proloy Chisim said that people were the barricade on about 19: 00, after they came to build speed breakers at various points of the highway.

Dead five Pravir Kumar Ghosh were 45, teacher for Rawtara, HM high school, as well as Suraiya Begum, 35, and her sister 12 years Sumaiya Akter, residents of Hajipur village SADAR shortly, 5 year old Madina Akter, 12-year-old Mohammad Sohag, a resident of Lokqiol village recognisable.

Identifies the other could be not immediately known.

Police said Magura Jhenidah Highway at Saitrish the accident happens bus stand on about 16: 30 at Dhaka vegetables loaded truck binding the permanent human tug taken on passengers at the bus stop.

"We are trying both retrieve the vehicles from the water." We have already recovered the bodies of the human tug. So far, I came to know that killed 11 people in the accident, "he said."

He said that the driver of the truck fled the scene after the accident.

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BSF entführt 3 Jugendliche

Bdnews24.com. Panchagarh

Border security force of India has three Bangladeshi youths by Tentulia border, two days before chiefs BSF and border guard Bangladesh Dhaka met kidnapped.

"Local BSF Ansarul Haque, 16, said 'Manik', 14, and ' rubles", took 17, everything from Tentulia SADAR shortly in Panchagarh, on Saturday mornings away.

Some local residents claimed that the three youths of BSF had caught while they helped cattle smugglers.

Manik's father Chand Mahmud, however, denied the claim and said that his son not cattle smuggling were involved in.

BGB said BSF on their write on Saturday afternoon to a flag meeting on the matter did not respond.

BGB Tentulia Company Commander Subedar Moshiuzzaman told reporters, ' BSF rejected our proposal for a flag meeting. She said, were three young people on the charge of trespassing kept and passed to the Indian police.'

Issues such as murders of inhabitants of BSF and suppression of illegal access would meet in the six day border guards discussed in Dhaka.

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Saudi King's right to vote are women

Agence France-Presse. Riyadh

Saudi King Abdullah on Sunday granted women the right to vote, and run in local elections, in a historic first for the ultra-conservative country where women are subjected to by many restrictions.

"Starting with the next term, women will have the right, at the local elections run and the candidates according to Islamic principles, choose," he said in speech

Life on State television broadcast in the Shura Council.

Women's rights activists have long fought for the right to vote in the Gulf Kingdom which applies a strict version of Sunni Islam and prohibits women from driving, or without the consent of the male guardian travel.

Manal al-Sharif, a 32-year-old computer security consultant, was arrested on 22 may have been and 10 days after posting on YouTube a video of themselves driving around the eastern city of Khobar, said the King decision as "a historic and courageous."

"The King is a reformer," she said of the 86-year-old monarch, whose Land was spared a wave of protests rocking the region with the autocratic regime in Tunisia and Egypt were overthrown.

The King decision means that women take part in the elections, which take place in four years, as the next vote will be held on Thursday and nominations are already closed.

In addition to participate in the only public surveys in the country, women had the right to all appointed Shura (consultative) Council join the, he said the new term in the address the Assembly.

'We have decided that women will take part as members in the next legislature in the Shura Council,' said the King in the unexpected movement, enfranchise women.

More than 5,000 men compete in local elections on Thursday, only the second in the history of Saudi Arabia, 285 local councils to fill half of the seats in the Kingdom. Appointed the other half by the Government.

The first elections were held in 2005, but the Government extended the existing Council term for two years.

King Abdullah said his decision came because we refuse marginalization of the role of women in Saudi society in all areas and followed by 'Consultations with various scholars.'

He mentioned not about women's right to go where they need to hire male drivers, or depend on the good will of the related if they do not have the resources in the Kingdom.

However, he said that ' balanced modernization, committed with our Islamic values are a necessary demand is in an era where there no place for those who hesitate ' in moving forward.

Saudi Arabia has seen many changes because Abdullah King was in 2005.

Norah al-Fayez, who was named to the post of Deputy Minister of education for women's education in 2009, was the first woman ever named a Minister in the country.

She called over 60 intellectual and activist women exclude in may for a boycott of the round September because 'local councils the authority to carry out its role effectively is missing' and 'half of its members are appointed", than also because.

The Shura Council had recommended that women in the next local polls to vote, officials said.

In April, Samar Badawi said they Municipal Affairs Ministry of defence, the ban on women, the participation of the local poll was sued.

A complaint to the administrative court in Mecca against the Ministry of women's right as voters handed Badawi registered.

Also in April, a group of women defied the ban on women in the elections of at a registration voters in the Red Sea in Jeddah in a rare public demonstration against the male emerges only electoral system.

But they were that turned back, the head of the Center, who said were still banned them women from the vote.

The oil-rich Kingdom of Sunni has place however seen smaller sporadic demonstrations by Shiites, which took in the Eastern province.

Sahrif was the symbol of a campaign by a group of defiantly Saudi women behind the wheels of their cars drive on 17 June in calls to the nationwide action against the ban, have.

The US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, has publicly thrown their support behind the campaign, say that "what do these women, is brave, and what they are looking for is true."

' The Saudi woman, will for the first time, you become a partner in the decision-making process. I hope, it gets assigned as Minister ", said Sharif.

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25 in the village of injured in clash in Magura, 5 arrested

AppId is over the quota

Unser Korrespondent. Magura

Mindestens 25 Personen wurden verletzt, 13 davon Ernst, ein Zusammenstoß zwischen zwei Gruppen über zur Vorherrschaft im Dorf Malik Gründung in Magura Sadar Shyamnagar am Sonntagmorgen.

Einheimischen zitieren, sagte die Polizei, dass der Kampf zwischen den Anhängern von Harun Mollah und Ishak Biswas am Morgen zur Gründung Vorherrschaft im Village Malik übernahm. Beide Gruppen griffen einander mit scharfen Waffen, so dass mindestens 25 Personen verletzt.

Auf Informationen die Polizei ging an den Ort und die Situation unter Kontrolle gebracht. Die Polizei verhaftete fünf Personen in diesem Zusammenhang.

Unter den verletzten, Jahid Biswas, Dola Biswas, Uzzal Ali, Iasin, Zillur Rahman Shahabuddin, Khokon Biswas, Alauddin, Mamun, Tipu, Jakir,

Tokon und Goffar wurden in kritischem Zustand in Magura Sadar Krankenhaus aufgenommen.

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BBC News, Al Jazeera take online journalism awards

Boston. Massachusetts

BBC News, Al Jazeera und der Los Angeles Times schöpfte bis die Top-Preise als die Online News Association ausgehändigt jährlichen Awards am Samstag.

Kanadische Zeitung The Globe und Mail, Argentinien La Nacion, Frankreich OWNI und Deutschlands Zeit Online waren auch unter denen von ONA für ihre digitalen Journalismus-Bemühungen anerkannt.

BBC News nahm die Auszeichnung für allgemeine Exzellenz in online-Journalismus durch eine große Site während The Globe und Mail gewann den Preis für eine mittlere Website.

Al Jazeera wurde geehrt in der Kategorie News aktuelle für seine Berichterstattung über den Volksaufstand in Ägypten.

Die Los Angeles Times zwei Preise gewonnen: ein/e für innovative investigativen Journalismus und ein zweites für online video-Journalismus an einem großen Standort.

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3 Observed mass collect signature day agitation

The inhabitants of both Australian and Indian enclaves observed their third day programme on Sunday, out of their 10-day agitation programmes, collecting mass signature in favour of their demands for early implementation of the enclave exchange deal between Bangladesh and India.

The general secretary of India Bangladsh enclave Exchange co-ordination Committee of Bangladesh chapter, Golam Mostafa, inaugurated the campaign of mass signature collection at about 11: 00 am on Sunday at Phulbari central Shahid Minar as their third-day programs.

The leaders of India-Bangladesh enclave Exchange co-ordination Committee and the people of Dashear Chhara enclave told this correspondent that they had collected mass signature in Phulbari and Bhurungamari upazila in Kurigram in favour of their demands.

People of all the 162 enclaves inside Bangladesh and India are observing their 10-day (September 23-October 2) agitation programme demanding a specific time frame for early implementation of the enclave exchange deal in line with Bangladesh - India boundary agreement of 1974 country popularly known as Mujib Indira Pact, according to the leaders of India-Bangladesh enclave Exchange Coordination Committee.

The movement would continue until realisation of their demand, the leaders said.

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Govt obstructive campaigns for Sept 27 rally: BNP

The opposition Bangladesh nationalist party on Sunday claimed that the Awami League led Government held BNP-led Alliance campaigning for the party planned in Dhaka on 27 September hinder 'grand rally'.

Joint Secretary of the party, which the General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi at a press conference said that BNP was expelled activists of all kinds of campaigns for the rally.

"The police and the ruling party thugs are obstruction of BNP activists of what they want for the rally." You are no longer of distributing brochures, invoices, doors and the announcements on the PA systems, booking ' Rizvi said.

The Chairman of the BNP, Khaleda Zia, roll-out is expected to be action programmes of the BNP led Alliance against the Government at the rally at the BNP held power Central at Naya Paltan.

The Government on 22 informed the BNP its rejection of the BNP performance — appeal to use Paltan Maidan for the rally.

"We believe that wanted to rally in Paltan Maidan, but the Government was it not possible to use the ground." Is now trying to rally at Naya Paltan slide, "he said."

Rizvi expected, that reason should prevail the Government prevail, so that she extended their cooperation in the implementation of the rally.

The party Joint Secretary Salahuddin Ahmed, Organization Secretary Fazlul Huq Milan, international secretariat Nazim Uddin Alam and economy Secretary of Abdus Salam attended.

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UPDF Mann getötet in Rangamati

Attackers shot dead an activist of the United people's Democratic front on the Talukderpara of the Baghaichhari in Rangamati Sunday.

The UPDF made his rival Parbattya is Jana Sanghati Samity for the kill. But PCJSS denied the real charge.

Police and the local population, said that plunged an armed group of four people at a tea stand on the Talukdarpra, where Mohanlal Chakma had tea with two other UPDF activists at 09 and opened fire on them.

Mohanlal, son of Rangachan Chakma of village Ugalchhari, died on the spot, but the other two managed to escape.

Police said the attackers left the scene immediately after their operation.

Rangamati district UPDF Organizer Alakesh Chakma claimed the henchmen of the PCJSS made the attack and killed Mohanlal.

PCJSS advertising State Secretary Sajib Chakma claimed that the party not the shooting was involved in because it has no organizational activities in this specific field. 'Area is dominated by UPDF and some people who leave us,' he said.

Banghaichhari police officer-in-charge Naimuddin said they recovered the body of Mohanlal and sent it to the autopsy. He was able to confirm not Mohanlal of identity.

In the meantime border Bangladesh area cordoned off, and led a search to find out the attackers,.

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Advanced math, statistics workshop SUST of beginning of

A four-day workshop on advanced mathematics and statistics to improve the quality of education of the faculty members began Shahjalal University of science and technology on Sunday.

SUST Vice-Chancellor, inaugurated with a request to the participants get the most from the workshop of Saleh Uddin.

The departments of mathematics and statistics of the University the program under the administration of higher education quality enhancement project for teachers in all disciplines organised, the organizers said.

Agriculture and mineral science faculty Dean Narayan Shaha, social science faculty Dean Sajedul Kaim, Jahangirnagar University math professor Satyajit Kumar Saha, SUST Statistical Department President Zakir Hossain and Associate Professor Mohammad Shahidul Islam, said at the opening session.

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Stock investors want finance minister, BB governer to go

Stock market volatility in Dhaka led small investors in Barisal to hold a demonstration on Sunday demanding the removal of the finance minister and the Bangladesh Bank governor.

They also demanded immediate steps to stabilise the stock market.

The protesters formed a human chain in Hall front of Aswani Kumar followed by a rally.

The angry protesters got together under the banner of ' small investors Forum Barisal.'

They have been agitating for last few days of losing their investment due to market fluctuations.

The forum convener Ahmed Ali presided over the rally addressed by investors Sohel Nobel, Sheikh Manirul Islam, Anwar Hossain.

The small investors demanded waiver on interest on the money they had borrowed for investing in stocks.

They also demanded a mechanism to stop the brokerage houses from forcing them to sell their shares.

Investment Corporation of Bangladesh Barisal assistant general manager in Barisal, Saidul Islam said that fear 'seems to have been removed from the investors' mind.

He advised investors to buy shares with strong fundamentals.

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Muhith sucht Unterstützung von WB, IMF

United States news of Bangladesh. Dhaka

The Minister of finance. The need for improved financial support by the World Bank and the remainder said Abul Maal Abdul Muhith, support by the IMF.

This was stressed in his statement for the 2011 annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund in Washington DC and World Bank Group on Friday, said a press release from the Bangladesh Embassy in Washington DC.

He said were carefully planned Bangladesh public investment and expenditure and for the core of the development goals to reach, such as salts women at the forefront of development, employment, price stability, generate energy, food, and programme for social security and combating climate change, impact.

He noted that budget support reduce support all these efforts must under poverty credit (PRSC) program of the World Bank and balance of payments are completed under the extended credit facility (ECF) of IMF support.

"Such support would key fiscal space and reduce pressure on the already tense country's balance of payments", he added.

Crisis makes those achievements of Bangladesh in maintaining a stable macro-economic situation in the face, when the world economy, particularly in the field of balance of payments, maintaining stable export growth, expanding domestic demand, strong performance in rural and agricultural sectors and maintaining an overall growth rate of 6%, the Finance Ministers that Bangladesh said legally earned financial support by the World Bank for additional investment had thus a, to achieve them.

Muhith, the Governor of the World Bank and the IMF for Bangladesh, said Bangladesh has placed poverty alleviation for its development efforts and associated with up to 53.12% of the budget for poverty, the reduction in spending.

On the experience of the global financial crisis, the Finance Minister urged the President to restructure the global financial, monetary, and architecture.

He suggested, that the G20 or the Board of Governors as an agenda Subscribe topic should initiate a meaningful restructuring of the global financial system restructuring.

He makes concrete proposals for reflection G20 be informal mechanism, raised some legal court, managing liquidity of the global public sector, including monitoring and control of the IMF.

It reaffirms the need for a strengthened focus by the World Bank with the mediation of surplus resources for investment in deficit, increased efforts to overcome poverty and hunger, grains and petroleum to develop a pragmatic trade, financing and administration of the volatility of commodity prices, in particular the Fooed.

Muhith leads a high Bangladesh delegation to the 2011 annual meetings of the Board of Governors of the World Bank and the IMF in Washington, DC.

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Algeria attack raises fears of militant range

Reuters. Cherchell, Algeria

A suicide attack on an Algerian army barracks left many issues such as militant succeeds to find in one of the safest places in the country and stirred dark memories of the last conflict.

Two suicide bombers hit the barracks to kill housing a renowned military school in the coastal city of Cherchell West of Algiers on Friday, 16 soldiers and two civilians.

More than 20 people were injured, Algeria APS quoted authority the Ministry of defence as talking.

"When I learned that the barracks were taken, I it, could believe" said Yahia Keriani, runs a book-stall close to the connection and is one of the explosions.

' Cherchell of the military school is the largest and the most secure in the country. How is this possible? "

Algeria, an energy exporter and a key US ally in its campaign against al-Qaida, is created by nearly two decades of conflict between security forces and Islamic militant groups, which is about 2,00,000 people killed.

Violence died himself in recent years, but the militant - operate now as Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) - ambush to carry out kidnappings and occasional bombing.

Algeria has said that it believes AQIM take advantage of the chaos in neighboring Libya and smuggling weapons from this battle zone to its base in the Sahara.

On Friday, which drove the attackers until the barracks soon after Iftar - as Muslims their daily fast break during the holy month of Ramadan.

Residents said that the first attacker exploded at the entrance before the second in the front courtyard, where officers were you to eat.

In the Centre of Cherchell assembled about 100 km west of Algiers, in the Roman ruins of the city, the news to digest small groups of people.

Many of these Cherchell had been always safe, even at the height of the Algerian violence.

In the past had focused attacks on area east of the capital, including the mountainous region of Kabylie AQIM has a stronghold.

Said "a suicide bomb attack in 2011 against the military school of Cherchell very worrying," told of Reuters an older inhabitants.

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Outlawed party leader killed in Rab

Sirajganj: A regional commander of outlawed Purba Banglar Communist Party (Lal Pataka) was killed in crossfire with Rab-12 in Kamarkhand upazila under in Sirajganj on Thursday night.

The deceased was identified as Khorshed Alam, 34, son of late Abdus Sattar of Zatibari Rasulpur village under Kamarkhand upazila.

Lt Col ATM Anisuzzaman, director of Rab-12 in Sirajganj, told journalists at a press briefing on Friday morning that a team of Rab-12 led by DAD Mafiz Uddin raided Char-Tengrail village at about 2:30am when Khorshed and his accomplices were holding a clandestine meeting.

Sensing Rab?s presence, the extremists opened fire on Rab members and they retaliated in self-defence. At one stage of gunfight Khorshed Alam was hit by bullet while his accomplices fled. His body was later recovered along with one foreign made revolver, 4 LG guns, 3 rounds of bullet, some home-made sharp weapons from the spot.

Officer-in-charge Sohrab Ali of Kamarkhand police station said that the dead body was sent to Sirajganj General Hospital for autopsy.

He added that the criminal had created a reign of terror in the upazila. He was wanted in a number of cases, including five for murder, Rab-12 spokesman Major Mustaffizur Rahman said.

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No measures to expand spice cultivation

No measures to expand spice cultivationImport bill multiplied eight times in last decade? Saidul HaqueThough demand for spices has increased significantly in the last 10 years no measures have been taken to increase their cultivation domestically, multiplying the import bill many folds for the cooking ingredients, said experts.

The spice import bill has multiplied eight times in the last decade which is around US$ 127 million in 2010-11 fiscal year against US$ 15 million in 2000-01 fiscal year, according to Bangladesh Bank data.

?The authorities concerned did not take any effective measures to increase the area of the spice cultivation, making the government more dependent on import,? said an expert of spice research centre.

Besides, sometimes farmers are being deprived of getting benefits from major spice items, including onion and garlic, due to fall of market price as unscrupulous traders bring those items from India illegally, the expert said wishing anonymity.

He said the dependency on import of spices should be reduced by expanding their cultivation domestically.

The total cultivable land in the country is 14.056 million hectares, of which spices were cultivated on some 0.39 million in 2010, as per the data of regional spices research centre (RSRC) of Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute.

The data also showed that the total production of spice items was 1.5 million tonnes in 2010 against the demand of 2.5 million tonnes.

The researchers of RSRC said there were many reasons, including fear of low market price and insufficient storage facilities, which discourage the farmers to cultivate the spice items.

Of the 109 items of spices available in the world, the people of Bangladesh consume 27 kinds of spices and farmers of the country grow some 17 kinds of spices, informed the RSRC researchers.

The farmers of the country mainly cultivate onion, garlic, turmeric, ginger and chilly. They also grow coriander, fenugreek, black cumin and cardamoms on a small scale, said Shahana Akter, principal scientific officer of RSRC.

She said the country is totally dependent on import to meet the demand of spice items like cumin, cardamom (small), clove, plum, pistachio, nutmeg, mace and saffron.

Habibur Rahman, director general of department of agriculture extension, on Tuesday told daily sun that the demand for spice items has increased significantly for the increasing number of population in the last few years.

The government is taking an initiative to specify the different spice-cultivating region in the country, he said.

Habibur Rahman said, ?We will identify the ginger, garlic and onion cultivation zones in the country and motivate farmers to cultivate spices beside paddy.?

Iqbal Haque Swapan, senior scientific officer of RSRC, said, ?We have a scope to expand spice cultivation as we have developed many varieties of spice items, including summer onion.?

He also said major portion of the country?s land is being used for paddy cultivation. If the farmers get proper price of spice items and sufficient storage facility, they will be motivated for cultivation of the spices.

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�Change in passengers� type contributes to train delay�

AppId is over the quota
AppId is over the quota
A change in passengers? type and huge rush of home-bound people cause delay in train operations during Eid festivals, railway officials said.

They said usually young and physically strong people travel by trains all the year round. They can easily get into and get down from the trains.

But during Eid festivals, large numbers of elderly people, women and children go to their village homes to celebrate the religious festivals with their near and dear ones.

Most of them opt for train journey and take more time for getting into and getting down from the trains, causing train delay at every station, the officials said.

They said on average every home-bound passenger carries two big baggages with them during their journey for which they need additional time to load and unload.

And as per the railway rules, no train can leave any station without ensuring entry and exist of all the train passengers, the railway officials said.

?This is very usual that the elderly people, women and children will take more time than the young ones to get into the trains and get down from those,? Md Miajahan, joint director general (operation) of Bangladesh Railway, told daily sun while explaining the reasons of delayed operation of trains during the Eid festivals.

The loading and unloading of baggage also eat up a significant portion of time, he said.

Citing example, Miajahan said Ekota Express has 19 stoppages between Kamalapur and Dinajpur stations. ?If the train consumes additional five minutes at each stoppage, it will be delayed by about one and a half hours.?

He also said as per the railway?s operational manual, no train can leave the platform without ensuring exit and entry of all the designated passengers.

Bangladesh Railway authorities take a lot of flak as almost all of the passenger trains run late by one and two hours from the scheduled time during Eid rush.

?We have to bring the safety of passengers into focus instead of maintaining the schedule while operating the trains during Eid festivals,? the joint director general said.

Khalilur Rahman, BR additional director general (rolling stock), said his department had been trying to operate trains in time despite logistic limitations and huge load of passengers.

?Huge passengers travel on the train roofs. Drivers have to run the trains slowly so that no passenger falls from the roof,? said Rahman, urging people to be rational regarding delay in train operation.

He also said 137 out of total 440 stations are presently closed due to shortage of manpower. The trains have to cross the shut stations slowly as per the railway manual, contributing to the train delay.

Besides, the delay of one train affects the others as there is single rail track in many sections of the railway, said Rahman.

Railway?s operation wing sources said 106 trains (up and down) leave Dhaka for different destinations everyday.

Every year, the railway increases the number of coaches and engines to run trains ahead of the two Eid festivals.

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Irene begins destructive run as well as US Coast

People evacuated apartment building in Manhattan Battery Park on Saturday. New York City sorted by more than 300,000 people to evacuate that lives in flood-prone areas, as Hurricane Irene is forecast to reach the city. Irene blasted ashore in the vicinity of Cape Loo

Associated press. Morehead City, NC

Hurricane Irene their attack on the East coast by lashing point-the coast of North Carolina in the United States with winds as strong as 115 km/h and rapped shoreline houses with waves on Saturday open.

Further north prepared authorities a massive shutdown of trains and airports, with 2 million people out of the way ordered.

The center of the storm, which was approximately 500 miles wide, are passed over North Carolina's outer banks for its official landfall shortly after 7: 30 am EDT.

The hurricane tracks long reach the East coast of Myrtle Beach, SC, to just under Cape Cod. Tropical storm conditions smash Virginia, Maryland and Delaware, with the worst to come.

Saturday afternoon, said meteorologists Irene impact could be felt next North to Canada itself, after it weakens. Warnings extended from the US border on the South shore of Nova Scotia.

Irene weakened are easily, with sustained winds up to 85 mph about 100 a day earlier, making it a category 1, which was at least threatening on the scale. The National Hurricane Centre reported gusts of 115 km/h and storm surge waves up to seven feet.

The first death from the storm was reported in Nash County, NC, outside Raleigh, emergency officials said that a man with a large part was put down, which blew out of a tree.

Hurricane winds came close to Jacksonville, NC, at the first traffic light and wind whipped rain, the resort city struck the NAGs head. Beach covered high waves and the surf pushed as high as the back of some of the houses and the hotels fronting beach.

"There is nothing you can do now but wait." You can hear the wind, and it is scary,' Leon Reasor, who rode out the storm in the outer banks city Buxton said. "Things are against the House hammer." I hope it not worse, but I do know that it is. I hate hurricanes.'

At least two pillars on the outer banks were wiped out, the roof of a car dealership was torn, removed, and a hospital city, that run in Morehead on generators was. A total of nearly half a million people were without electricity on the East Coast.

The Red Cross had remain five shelters North Carolina opened until Saturday afternoon with more than 700 people registering.

Observed at the shelter on the campus kids yelled at Elizabeth City State University and played, while their parents develop the storm. LaToya Bryant saw their two- and four-year-old play, said, she told them they can go home, as soon as the storm was over.

"they want to play in the rain," said Bryant. "You can play in this rain."

In the Northeast, unusual tropical weather, strength the authorities made plans to bring the basic structures of the journey.

The New York City subway, made his last lines at noon the largest in the United States, and all five were area airports only accept a few last hours worth of flights.

The New York transit system has 5 million people during the week, weekend, less and has never been for weather was closed. Transit in New Jersey, Baltimore and Philadelphia announced also shut down.

Washington declared state of emergency. Building had evacuated days earlier been after an earthquake rattled the D.C. area.

New York City sorted 3,00,000 people, low-lying areas, including the battery to leave Park City close to the southern tip of Manhattan, beach Rockaways in Queens and coney Iceland in Brooklyn. But it how many people would get or how she would do it was not clear.

'How of Coney Iceland do I get?' said Abe Feinstein, 82, lives for half a century on the eighth floor of a building overlooking the seafront promenade. ' What will I do? Run with this Walker?'

Authorities in New York said she would not arrest people who decide to stay, but Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Friday warned: "If you don't follow this, may die."

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Mars mission makes earth �return�

Six men locked away in steel tubes for a year-and-a-half to simulate a mission to Mars are set to end the experiment.

The Mars500 project, undertaken at a Moscow institute, was intended to find out how the human mind and body would cope on a long-duration spaceflight.

It is a venture that has fascinated all who have followed it around the globe.

The study even saw three of the men carry out a pretend landing on Mars, donning real spacesuits and walking across an enclosed sandy yard. Mars Simulation Project

Aim was to gather knowledge and experience to help prepare for real Mars mission.

This meant probing the psychological and physiological effects of extended isolation.

Project simulated outward cruise, landing operations and return journey to Earth.

About 100 experiments were planned; crew partook in a series of medical studies.

Resources restricted at departure; crew had to manage food consumption.

Text communications only were possible with the ground; max 25min delay in round signal time.

The crew has comprised a trio of Russians (Alexey Sitev, Alexandr Smoleevskiy and Sukhrob Kamolov), two Europeans (Romain Charles and Diego Urbina), and a Chinese national, Wang Yue.

Everything changes for the men when they ?land? back on Earth at 14:00 Moscow time (10:00 GMT). That is when the hatch to their sealed home at the Institute of Biomedical Problems (IMBP) is opened for the first time since 3 June, 2010.

It is expected the crew will have a few brief moments to wave to cameras and perhaps make a quick statement before being whisked into quarantine for three days of medical checks.

For much of the Mars500 project, the six have had only limited contact with the outside world. Their ?spaceship? has no windows, and the protocols demanded their communications endure a similar time lag to that encountered by real messages as they travel the vast distance between Earth and Mars.

At its maximum, the round travel time for a question to be sent and for an answer to be received was about 25 minutes.

This meant having to resort to text media, such as email and Twitter, and video blogs.

Asked recently what he was most looking forward to when he got out, Italian-Colombian Diego Urbina told BBC News via Twitter: ?Meeting my family, calling my friends, bumping into strangers, going to the beach.?

There were many aspects of a real mission that could not be simulated in a Moscow suburb, of course - such as weightlessness and the dangers associated with space radiation.

But scientists have expressed great satisfaction with the data that has been acquired, and are looking forward to applying the lessons learned to ever more realistic scenarios.

During the 17-plus-months of their virtual voyage, the crew took part in various studies to assess the effect their isolation was having on their psychological and physiological well being. Their stress and hormone levels were monitored, as were their sleep patterns, and their moods. The men also carried out an assessment of the benefits of dietary supplements in such situations.

?I can only praise the crew for their courage and their great spirit,? said Dr Martin Zell from the European Space Agency, which was a major sponsor on the project.

?They were a brilliant team - they really will finish as a crew and not six individuals,? he told BBC News.

Tentative discussions have now begun between the partners on the International Space Station (ISS) about the possibility of doing some sort of isolation experiment in orbit.

Initially, this might simply involve introducing a delay in communications to controllers in Moscow and Houston, US. Ultimately, it could also involve removing crew members into separate modules to give them a taste of what the Mars500 participants have gone through.

Certainly, the partners want the ISS to become more of an ?exploration testbed? in the decade ahead - a platform to try out the new approaches and new technologies that will help humans move deeper into the Solar System.

?BBC Online

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Swechchhasebak Dal leader killed in Natore

Natore: A local leader of Jatiyatabadi Swechchha-sebak Dal was hacked to death by assailants at Dilalpur in Lalpur upazila Thursday night.

The deceased was identified as Bhasan Pramanik, son of Gias Pramanik and vice-president of Walia union unit Swechchhasebak Dal.

Sources said some assailants attacked Bhasan when he was returning home from local Dilalpur bazar at about 10:30 pm and hacked him to death.

On information, police recovered the body and sent it to hospital morgue for autopsy.

The motive behind the killing could not be known immediately. A case was filed. ?UNB

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Voters express lack of confidence in EVMs

Most people, who voted in Narayanganj City Corporation polls using electronic voting machines (EVMs), expressed their lack of confidence in the system as they could not see the outcome of voting in ballot papers.

Brotee, an election observer group, came up with the observation on Friday on the basis of their monitoring of the NCC elections, especially the use of EVMs. The voters reportedly said while using EVMs they could not see in a concrete and visible form the vote unlike the way they are used to vote with traditional ballot papers.

Brotee mentioned that more than 20 percent (21 percent) people said they did not know how to give vote with the EVMs before the 30 October election.

However, around 88 percent people said they wanted to give vote with the EVMs again in every upcoming election, Brotee, a non-governmental organisation (NGO), told a press conference.

Main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party and its allies are wary of the EVM system, saying that the system might provide the ruling Awami League the opportunity to rig the elections.

Brotee organised the press briefing to disseminate their observation and survey result of Narayanganj City Corporation polls in Dhaka Reporters Unity in the capital.

?We observed the EVM voting in Narayanganj City Corporation polls in 41of 58 polling centres (71 percent) and conducted a survey around 700 voters before and after poll,? said Brotee?s chief executive officer (CEO) Sharmin Murshid.

She said before the vote 54 percent people said they do not know how to give vote with the EVMs while 97 percent people know how to vote with the EVM.

Before the vote 51 percent people thought that the EVM vote is ?safe? while after the vote 82 percent people thought that the EVM vote is ?really safe,? she added.

After the vote many people said that to give vote with the EVMs is easy, took little time and is easy to count. Many people also said they had no proper idea about the EVMs before the vote and they did not take any training about it so they felt ?problems? while voting with the EVM, Sharmin Murshid said.

Before the vote 58 percent people are in favour of EVM while after vote 88 percent people are in favor of EVM, she added.

She said, ?There was no violence before and after the election as well as the minority people cast their vote without any fear.?

?The election is on of the best election we have ever observed,? she added.

Law and order in the poll was satisfactory and the law enforcement agencies were found to have played a neutral role, she added.

Ali Hossain, coordinator of Brotee, Raghunath Raha, deputy director of Brotee and Khan Ahmed Murshid, managing director of Brotee were also present in the press conference.

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Offshore gas BAPEX gains expertise to explore: JS Panel

Staff correspondent

Parliamentary Standing Committee on energy, energy and mineral resources Ministry on Wednesday exploration of inland waterway transport stressed mineral resources of the State Bangladesh petroleum exploration and production company Ltd.

It approves the plan for a new round of bids for the operation of oil and gas exploration in land and shallow sea, it is strongly recommended that the international energy companies should explore mineral deposits in the sea and other places to keep sufficient skills and expertise to the BAPEX for the exercise of the functions.

"We proposed that the Ministry inland waterways carry out exploration of the BAPEX and highly recommended, so that international companies of energy to explore natural resources, the BAPEX expertise for the work of examination at sea and in the country, and the ability to reach", Subid Ali Bhuiyan Jatiyo Sangsad said after the meeting of the body.

29Th session of the range JS congratulated the BAPEX for the exploration of gas at Sundalpur also asked to continue these efforts.

The Committee calls for the Ministry of the establishment of a new Fund for the development of gas policy based on the guidelines, framed by the energy and mineral resources to speed up Division and the energy regulatory Commi P'ssion.

He also has the gas transmission company limited their ongoing projects to set up transmission lines, maintaining transparency and adherence to implement.

The meeting has the status of implementation of its recent decisions.

Secretary of State for energy, Mohammad Enamul Huq, members of the Committee Abdush Shahid, M Abdul Kader Khan and Abdullah al Islam Jacob took part in the meeting.

The makes Department Secretary and the Secretary of energy and mineral resources Division were also present.

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Holy hajj today

Makkah: More than 2.5 million Muslim pilgrims began on Friday the rites of the annual hajj pilgrimage, leaving the holy city of Makkah for Mount Arafat, where Prophet Hazrat Mohammed (SM) had delivered his final hajj sermon.

Dressed in white, they flooded the streets as they headed towards Mina, around five kilometres (three miles) east of the holy mosque.

The day is known as Tarwiah (Watering) Day, as pilgrims traditionally watered their animals and stocked water for their trip to Mount Arafat, some 10 kilometres further on.

Many pilgrims took buses, while others set off on foot for a village that comes to life for just five days a year.

Others were using the Mashair Railway, also known as Makkah Metro, to go to Mount Arafat and its surrounding plains where they will gather for the peak Day of Arafat on Saturday.

The Chinese-built railway will operate for the first time this year at its full capacity of 72,000 people per hour to ease congestions and prevent stampedes in which hundreds have been killed in past years.

The dual-track light railway connects the three holy sites of Mina, Muzdalifah and Mount Arafat ? areas that see massive congestion during the five-day pilgrimage.

It will replace 30,000 cars previously used, said project director Fahd Abu-Tarbush.

?The train this year is restricted to the pilgrims coming from inside Saudi Arabia and Gulf states, as well as 200,000 pilgrims coming from south Asia,? Tarbush told AFP.

?Mashair Railway will transport 500,000 pilgrims from Mina, passing by Muzdalifah, reaching to Arafat, in addition to one million pilgrims on the Tashreeq days,? which are on the 11th, 12th and 13th of the Muslim month of Dhul Hijjah.

Around 1.7 million Muslims descended on Makkah from around the world while between 700,000 and 800,000 pilgrims are coming from inside Saudi Arabia.

The hajj is one of the five pillars of Islam and must be performed at least once in a lifetime by all those who are able to make the journey, and it is a dream that can take years to come true.

?To me, this is a miracle. I?ve been dreaming of going to hajj for years, and this dream is now being fulfilled,? 67-year-old Nigerian pilgrim Salahuldin Mohammed told AFP.

Another pilgrim, 58-year-old Mohammed Sadoreen from the Palestinian territories, said: ?I couldn?t believe the day has come when I would see this sacred place. This is the first time I come to hajj.?

The hajj will end on Sunday with Eid-ul-Azha, or the Feast of Sacrifice.

Coping with the world?s largest annual human assembly poses a security headache for Saudi Arabia ? guardian of the two holiest Muslim shrines in the cities of Makkah and Medina, the birth places of Islam.

Saudi authorities have numbered the buses and tents in Mina according to the countries from which the pilgrims have come to prevent chaos.

The oil kingpin has invested billions of dollars over the years to avoid deadly stampedes that have marred the hajj in the past.

In January 2006, 364 pilgrims were killed in a stampede at the entrance to a bridge leading to the stoning site in Mina, outside Makkah, while 251 were trampled to death in 2004.

In July 1990, 1,426 pilgrims were trampled to death or suffocated in a stampede in a tunnel, also in Mina.

The deaths prompted authorities to dismantle the old bridge and replace it with a multi-level with one-way lanes to ensure a smooth flow of pilgrims.

Saudi Arabia also launched a new $10.6-billion project for a new extension to Makkah?s Grand Mosque to increase its capacity to two million worshippers.

?We haven?t faced any problems. I didn?t expect all these services to be available,? said 55-year-old pilgrim Abdulhadi Badran.

Iran?s Shia pilgrims are another headache Saudi authorities are faced with during hajj season.

However, Crown Prince Nayef bin Abdul Aziz has dismissed any threat from pilgrims coming from Iran, despite rising tension between Tehran and Riyadh over an alleged Iranian plot to kill the Saudi envoy to Washington and past confrontations.

?The Iranians have always shown their respect for the hajj,? he said.

A total of 97,000 Iranians ? the maximum allowed for Iran under a Saudi system apportioning pilgrim quotas among the world?s biggest Muslim countries ? are in the holy cities of Makkah and Medina, Iranian media said Monday.

?We hope this year?s hajj (pilgrimage) will take place in a very calm and spiritual atmosphere,? the representative of Iran?s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei at the pilgrimage, Hojatoleslam Ali Ghazi Asgar, said last week.

Saudi security forces have several times in the past confronted Iranian pilgrims holding anti-US and anti-Israeli protests.

In 1987, Saudi police efforts to stifle such a demonstration sparked clashes in which 402 people died, including 275 Iranians.

An Iranian official told AFP that Iranian pilgrims are this year going to hold their demonstrations within the boundaries of their own camps as they did in the past few years, to avoid confrontations with Saudi security forces. ?AFP

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Govt plans major NGO clean-up

Aiming to make the country?s non-government organisations (NGOs) an effective force to propel social and financial development, the government is planning a major clean-up in this sector with revoking licences of wrongdoers and inactive ones.

The authorities concerned are also considering necessary reform in rules and regulations to address the issues those are not specifically covered by the existing policy and guidelines to effectively regulate this sector.

The regulator of this sector has already cancelled few thousands licences of such NGOs while it is also reviewing the activities of thousands of others to make the clean-up process beneficial to all concerned.

?We have cancelled licences of 4,530 NGOs in the past 10 years on various types of proven allegations and now examining licences of 11,047 more NGOs for taking necessary steps to ensure discipline in this sector,? Director General of NGO Bureau Nurun Nabi Talukdar told BSS.

Currently the country has 78,022 NGOs. Among them, many are allegedly involved in different activities ignoring the respective guidelines and the rules, prompting the regulator consider the major clean-up process. ?Some NGOs even do not have any registration while some others are carrying out devious activities only to make their own fortune,? the chief of the NGO watchdog said.

Among the illegal activities, microcredit operations by some NGOs came to the notice of the authorities concerned and eventually they decided to take legal steps against them to ensure discipline and transparency in this sector, Talukdar said.

Deputy Director of Social Welfare Department Zillur Rahman said the NGOs registered with his department are not allowed to carry out activities like microcredit though there are such allegations against many of them.

Referring to a government?s decision, which makes permission from NGO Bureau and Bangladesh Bank (BB) mandatory for all NGOs for microcredit operation, he said the authorities found many NGOs flouting rules in doing such activities.

The authorities also found some other allegations against many NGOs such as not carrying out any activities or maintaining offices, non-submission of annual reports and refraining from taking approval of their committee in every two years, stipulated in the rules and regulations.

Last year the government decided to cancel registration of over 20,000 NGOs that remain inactive for several years.

The official said there are also allegations of money laundering, gross financial irregularities and even links with terrorist activities.

Executive Director of NGO Bureau AKM Moazzem Hossain said the NGOs those are receiving fund from overseas should renew their registration in every five years with report on five years? activities, annual activity reports and audit reports. Otherwise, they lose their licenses.

Director of Federation of NGOs in Bangladesh (FNB) Tajul Islam said many NGOs did not renew their licenses and eventually lost their registrations.

He said the NGOs who failed to get any fund from overseas or local resources subsequently became inactive.

He admitted the fact that some NGOs are operating microcredit at their own fund or from local donors. ?BSS

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Congestion mount misery of the people home

For hours, untold suffering people on different lines caused congestion on Monday, reaching a sweet home before the Eid ul ETA Eridani, one of the two largest Muslim festivals were on their way to their home.

Tens of thousands of people from Dhaka are now offers various outputs, including Gabtali, Sayedabad, and Mohakhali bus terminal, Kamalapur start Terminal station and Sadarghat, to go home to celebrate the Festival with their kith and kin in their village.

In the meantime derailed a tray of Chittagong-bound freight train SADAR Rasulpur station on Friday last train communication from Chittagong, Dhaka, Sylhet and Mymensingh and Dhaka to Noakhali when about 15: 30.

Through the heavy traffic their objectives or this can rely on time that passengers inflicting indescribable suffering to achieve congestion on all important motorways bus terminals.

A bus, which was adopted, you leave at 07: 00-12: 00 noon leave, while the bus left 15: 00 to 10: 00.

Ruhul Amin, Chuadanga-bound passenger is waiting with his family in Gabtali terminal said: ?My bus is supposed to leave Dhaka, at 10: 30 (Friday) but it is now 14: 00, and no one could tell me when the bus will leave.

How were Ruhul Amin seen thousands of passengers at bus terminals.

During a visit to various bus stations correspondents found hustle home-bound people in Mohakhali, Gabtali, Kallyanpur and Mazar road.

Thousands of passengers were on Shyamoli Paribahan, TR Paribahan, Hanif Paribahan, SR travels, Agomoni Express, SR travel press. Many of them sat on the sidewalks.

Basudeb Ghose, supervisor of Suryamukhi-Paribahan, between Dhaka and Faridpur, said due to heavy traffic of the terminals do not reach jam buses in the near future.

Shamsunnahar, passengers Sohag Paribahan, claims that it three hours at Gabtali bus terminal for the bus had been waiting for with her two kids, supposed to leave for Jessore at 09: 00.

Babu, the Manager of the Eagle Paribahan, said on Friday afternoon, the buses, for different objectives of the Northern District towns on Thursday evening still the capital through the traffic jam to reach.

The carrier blamed illegal roadside parking and unauthorized cattle markets on the streets for nagging congestion.

Meanwhile a 30 km-long queue of vehicles from Daudkandi to Chandina in the bustling streets of Dhaka and Chittagong indescribable suffering oath added passengers.

?Our bus took seven hours cross Comilla?s Daudkandi bridge area usually two and a half hours, Sarwar Alam, a senior reporter of Dainik Jugantor said.

Their dissatisfaction with the traffic management, the journalist expressed all passengers pointed out.

Gouripur, Madhaiya and Chandina to the same congestion experienced, he added.

In addition to delayed journey and tailback had many passengers by a lot of trouble in the gathering of cards go. Some of them could not manage even a ticket.

I am very happy as I could cards and now I can go to celebrate the Eid with my family home, a passenger said.

Rajib a counter attendant of Shaymoli Paribas on the Gabtali, said the bus, the Kustia left for Dhaka on Thursday at 22: 00 which could reach the capital to 14: 00 on Friday because of heavy congestion on the highway.

After passengers of the various of the inter-district buses could the ongoing traffic police administration traffic to control nuisance on various streets and highways.

DMP sources, but said a large contingent of police and RAB were used in and around the terminals, to avoid undesirable incidents.

The old town from the capital to learn about the two-kilometre tailback of Gulistan to Sadarghat on Friday. Many passengers, mainly women and children, have been found, direction Sadarghat start Terminal on foot.

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Sales on pace to collect

A cow jumps from a trawler, the implementation of the sacrificial animals from the region around the capital to the sale of Aricha. The photo was taken on Friday. Syed Zakir HossainSales of sacrificial animals in the capital still momentum on Friday, just two days before the Eid-ul ETA Eridani, much to the suffering of the dealer to get.

Thin presence of the buyer has the Traders? hope of a sale boom on permanent Cattlehead markets, including 13 makeshift dashed.

M., a trader at Gabtoli Cattlehead market, said that sales have registered poor of his cattle, as most of his animals remained unsold.

?There could an aggressive sales pitch by Saturday, ?, that he hoped.

The number of injured cows, camels and goats in the markets higher than that of last year Lokman, a different dealer, said daily Sun.

?We expects big sales from today (Friday), ?, he said.

Visit various makeshift markets in different areas this correspondent found poor sales of the sacrificial animals.

Dhaka City Corporation has allowed 13 makeshift cattle markets in the capital this year.

The markets are in the Jhigatala-Hazaribagh-ground, bus stop Taltala (Khilgaon), Agargaon (next to LGED Bhaban), Dhupkhola playground, Khulna playground, Banarupa housing project Khilkhet, Uttar Shahjahanpur, Azampur (Uttara) Government primary school playground, Purbachal, Balurmath (next to Brothers? Union Sporting Club in Kamalapur), Meradia Bazar playground, Armanitola (next to Chittra cinema) and Banani Kakoli level crossing.

Many see that two more (Saturday and Sunday) before Eid the main reason behind bad sales needs. People will buy, frenetic cattle at the time said dealer Abdul Matin Taltala market.

Cattle traders Jabbar Ali, the Khilgaon market from Barisal with eight cows, expressed frustration and said, ?I just sold, ?, he added five cows to retailers with low profits.

Dealers fear that large losses to score, if more Indian cows the metropolis must be communicated to the remaining days.

But buyer Hossain Ali, claimed that merchants free of charge high prices for cattle despite the large presence of sacrificial animals on the market this year.

As the border between Bangladesh and India remain quiet this year, more Indian cows are projected, the local markets, which is a decrease in prices for local cows to flood.

Many merchants have the markets with a price of TK almost 4 lakh Indian cows brought larger size.

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Climate Summit in Bhutan unlikely

The regional climate summit in Bhutan is uncertain what the Prime Minister of two neighbouring countries that are ? ? Bangladesh and India in a dilemma it due to the tight schedule join, a highly placed source said.

?The Prime Minister is still in a dilemma, whether they regional summit or not to join are the source, with reference to the Foreign Ministry said ?.

The Indian premier is also behind its schedule to the six-day summit is to begin on 14 November.

Bhutan, the host of the Conference with Bangladesh, India and Nepal, is still optimistic about the event.

In the meantime, several meetings at a high level between the parties were ahead of the Summit.

Also, a 10-year plan, as adopted at the Summit on food, water, energy and biological diversity are declared.

The Himalayan Nations decided to take the timetable in the ministerial meeting of August 2010 adaptation of people to the effects of climate change in Nepal.

The roadmap contains adaptation to climate change in the Eastern Himalayan sub-region to food, to ensure water and energy security, respecting biodiversity and ecosystem services.

The four countries have already submitted their individual timetable for food, water, energy and biological diversity in the host country.

The Summit should also accept from partner countries, ensure institutions and individuals for funds and cooperation in the implementation of the roadmap.

It effective regional expert groups will set up also, to advise Governments in implementing the roadmap and new challenges.

Some cross-cutting issues such as health and disaster risks to climate change in the region are to dominate the agenda also.

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Infrastructure dev needed for transit trade: Muhith

United States news of Bangladesh. Dhaka

The Finance Minister, AMA Muhith, said on Wednesday that infrastructure in the transport sector must be developed before the start of cross-border business and trade in the region.

' We have serious problems in our waterways, roads and railways. We should according to India, go Nepal and Bhutan, but it seems not possible now because of a lack of facilities in infrastructure. These need to be developed, "he said."

The Finance Minister said at the opening session of "public private dialogue for the improvement of trade facilitation in South Asia" held in a local hotel.

The Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and industry in cooperation with the International Finance Corporation and UKaid organized a full-day dialogue.

FBCCI President AK Azad the welcome delivered during Anil Sharma, head of the IFC advisory services in South Asia, an overview of the objectives which were public private dialogue.

As chief guest said, Muhith, that infrastructures developed prior to the start transit economy and trade, and until should be fixed.

He said that many works to be done to enhance trade in the region, and it must also a move to Myanmar, China and Thailand.

The Finance Minister said that unless investment and trade go together, there will be no development.

It is worth mentioning that growth and trade developed relationship of these South Asian countries, he said that growth should be facilitated by investment and trade.

Muhith said, that in the region, good alignment in standardised rules of origin, customs standard and handling and Office discipline. "Otherwise, will trade is frustrated."

He informed that the work in progress are to improve the quality control of the Bangladesh standards and testing institutions to better access to the neighbouring countries.

In his welcome speech, President FBCCI AK Azad, said that despite the geographical proximity of intraregional trade of the country's only about 5% it is although much opportunity available.

"More regional connectivity by road, air and waterways, enables industrial economies to take advantage of."

He said that it captured while markets for Bangladesh in northeastern of India, it still is untapped. If trade and boost up, it opens a larger market.

Azad calls the SAARC Governments committed to company liberal facilitation services, investment, energy cooperation and connection, were friendly trade policy with a focus on integration with regional trade, to speed up infrastructure for regional connections and promote socio-economic uplift of the South Asian countries.

FBCCI Director MA Momen said more effectively Bangladesh and improved facilitating trading system for the effective integration of South Asian countries must play a central role.

It is important to note that in the last 20 years from the South Asian countries, we doubled the $100 billion, while exports of East Asia rose 10 times in the same period, he said.

The workshop is part of a series of IFC-led initiatives in South Asia on effective trade partnerships between public and private stakeholders in Eastern and northeastern India, Nepal and Bangladesh help to identify areas where reform efforts have maximum effect on cross-border projects in the private sector.

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Ball out how top bulls DB�s Court booted

Gloom and despondency envelops the home of the killed Narsingdi Mayor Lokman Hussain on Friday after the men for the mosque for prayers, while Sekt widow Nusrat Tamanna and the Mayor?s Justice wait children.The sensational Lokman of murder of Hussain Salahuddin Ahmed Bachchu, as the Prime accused brother of post and telecommunications Minister Rajiuddin Ahmed Raju, was chosen as detective branch passed on Friday.

Sources said that DB and RADIUS, which police have been ordered, together to unravel the mystery and arrest of a flight, accused in particular Salahuddin Bachchu, whose political rivalry with Lokman, the cruel murder led according to the Victim?s family.

Clearly Narsingdi Superintendent of police Dr Akkas Uddin Bhuiyan and additional Superintendent of police Enamul Kabir from their posts allegedly for dereliction of duty removed. The removal of the top police shows the Government?s complaints about shoddy investigations so far.

Police conducted raids on Friday the alleged killers, the name in the case of Lokman?s brother Mohammad Qamruzzaman on Thursday night against 14 persons NAB filed.

?We are confident that we all names in the case including Salahuddin Bachchu, ? officer-in-charge of Narsingdi police station which Anwar Hossain told reporters in the location, on Friday to arrest.

Mamunur Rashid Sebastian, DB Inspector in Narsingdi, was appointed officer of the politically sensitive matter, the headlines in the print and electronic media investigation.

?We try best arrest the accused, who are now on the run. But we are they rather sooner than later, ?, said he.

The Narsingdi Mayor?s is widely yet further proof of the criminalisation of politics is seen as murder. Others consider it the politicisation of crime.

Complainant Qamruzzaman said that his older brother Lokman virtually was a dying declaration, while he hurried Dhaka Medical College Hospital is was he succumbed where bullet injuries.

?My brother was a candidate for the post who said Secretary-General within next Awami League Committee, ? Qamruzzaman, adding that Salahuddin Ahmed Bachchu, brother of Raju, also the same site was viewed.

Qamruzzaman accused named also Matin Sarker and Tarek Ahmed. The duo against slain Mayor Lokman in local elections earlier this year.

Shamim Newaz, another brother of Lokman, insisted 14 persons on the basis of concrete evidence that their family throws the case about their involvement in the assassination had filed.

Shamim, Vice President of Narsingdi Government College Student Union and Secretary General of the district unit of AL-backed Bangladesh Chhatra League, also said that the Administration continued to exhume more evidence conspirators and nail it could have.

In the meantime the headquarters of the police on Friday moved his negligence of duty, Superintendent of police (SP) Dr Akkas Uddin Bhuiyan and him free closed. Additional police Super (DB) Enamul Kabir was closed also on the same grounds.

Additional police Super (DSB) Phillip Basak were police Super

(current cost) of the district. Additional police Super of Faridpur Gopal Chandra Saha was transferred as ASP Narsingdi. Inspector-General of police of Dr. Hassan Mahmood Khandker confirmed the action to the daily Sun.

Before registration of the case, President of the opposition Bangladesh nationalist party Khairul Kabir Khokon and a few other BNP activists on suspicion were arrested unit.

However, in the case, the plaintiff, Qamruzzaman, named most local leaders and followers of the Awami League and people close to the telecommunications Minister, his brother and private Secretary. Two BNP leaders, without Khokon were sued also.

So far, six people including Khokon from different parts of which was picked up to interrogate district and its surroundings said the police.

A protest rally took office in Narsingdi on Friday, twice elected arrest and punishment of the killers of Lokman, the Mayor (previously Chairman) Narsingdi town Awami League.

Prominent accuses, according to the statement Matin Sarker (55), the municipality of Chairman and Vice Chairman of the District of AL, Mobarak Hossain (41), Deputy advertising included, Salahuddin Ahmed Bachchu (52), brother of the Telecom Ministers, Abdul Secretary of district AL, Montazuddin Bhuiya (50), President of the city of AL, Nurul Islam, SADAR shortly BNP Secretary-General, Tarek Ahmed (46), BNP District Chief, Masudur Rahman Murad (40) APS Telecom Ministers, Mia MD Manzhouli (40), former Vice-President of the Narsingdi Government College Student Union and Asraf Hossain Sarker (38), President of the city unit of the Jubo League.

Others have involved in the case are Monwar Hossain main (40), AL followers and printing machine, Hiron Miah (40), AL followers, Kabir Sarker (42), AL followers, Amir Hossain Khan alias alias AMU (45), AL, supporters and complainant Manik Commissioner murder case and Mamun (25), followers of the al.

Two proceedings against 500 people

Railway authorities submitted two cases early Friday with Bhairab railway police raises more than 500 unidentified persons in torching of 10 bogies of a train by violent demonstrators on Wednesday after the killing of Narsingdi town mayor Lokman Hossain on Tuesday night.

Hundreds of people on the ground put up a barricade on the Dhaka-Sylhet Highway and a number of train bogies lit.

The demonstrators torched the Kishoreganj-bound train at the Bashail in the town.

Narsingdi railway station master Moran Chandra Das, said in his written complaints, a group of undisciplined men 400-500 with deadly weapons numbering the platform entered and plundered relay room and damaged signal and electric machine. It caused damage to properties, including the building in the value of TK 44 million.

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Narsingdi mayor shot dead

Narsingdi municipality mayor and local Awami League leader Lokman Hossain was shot dead by unknown criminals in the district town on Tuesday night.

Sources said the mayor received three bullets in his chest, head and abdomen and he was rushed to Dhaka Medical College Hospital after the attack. He succumbed to his injuries at DMCH, party and medical sources said.

His companion Shyamol who also suffered bullet injuries in the attack was sent to Dhaka for treatment.

Witnesses said the mayor, also Narsingdi town AL general secretary, was talking to party men at about 8:30pm when a gang of three gunmen wearing masks entered the AL office and opened fire, leaving them critically injured.

Police confirmed the incident but could not immediately ascertain the motive behind the killing. No one was arrested till 9:00pm.

Locals suspected that the attack might be a sequel to the internal conflict of local Awami League.

As the news spread, AL activists brought out processions in different parts of the town. They were chanting slogans demanding immediate arrest of the killers. On information, huge contingents of police and elite-force RAB were deployed in the district headquarters as tensions mounted in the town.

?Panic gripped the common people of the town following the incident. Shops and markets were soon shut down,? says an eyewitness account of the scenes. Additional police super of the district Bijoy Bosak said, ?We are trying to track down the miscreants involved in the incident.?

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