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Leak postpones todays Dhaka HSC examn Ahmed ZayeefThe English second paper examination of Higher Secondary Certi cate under Dhaka board, set to be held today, has been postponed following allegation of question leak.

No new date has been xed while schedule of other exams have re-mained unchanged.

The authorities did not admit the allegation, rather mentioned that the reason was unavoidable.

But several examinee s told the Dha-ka Tribune that they had seen the ques-tion paper through mobile messages yesterday evening which spread within a very short time.

Taslima Begum, chairman of the PAGE 2 COLUMN 6

BusinessB1 Fiscal risks are rising in Bangladesh as a new report released yesterday raised the concern.

News4 When he rst joined public service in 2010 as an ad hoc assistant surgeon, Dr Abdus Salam was told that the PM had directed the health ministry to regularise thousands of ad hocdoctors for meeting the huge shortage ofdoctors.

Nation6 Cracks have developed at a government-run tourist motel in Coxs Bazar. According to sourc-es, cracks have developed in large parts of the ceiling in Motel Shoibal, posing a security threat to tourists visiting the largest beach in the world.

Entertainment12 Ananta Jalil and Barsha won the Best Actor and Best Actress awards respectively in the 14th CJFB Performance Award 2012.

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Political turmoil eats up 1% of GDPWorld Bank forecasts 5.4% growth for FY14 n Kayes SohelThe countrys economic growth story took a further hit as the World Bank yesterday forecast that the GDP for the current scal year would grow by 5.4%, the lowest among all the forecasts for the current nancial year.

The development partner revised down by 0.3 percentage point from its projection of 5.7% in January.

The Asian Development Bank last week cut the growth for Bangladesh by 0.2 percentage point and projected the

growth rate of 5.6% as against 5.8% in its October forecast.

The World Bank in its South Asia Economic Focus said the economic activities recovered in the second half of FY14 in Bangladesh, driven by re-silient exports and domestic demand, su ered in the rst half due to political turmoil.

It said a recovery in export growth and an increase in public expenditure are likely to help achieve 5.4% GDP growth in FY14, lower than last years 6%.

The growth projection is also lower than the governments revised target of 6.5%, Bangladesh Banks revised projection of around 6% and Interna-tional Monetary Funds below 6% and Bloombergs 6.3%.

Costs of political turmoil, stagnat-ing private investment and declining remittances have forced the bank to lower its growth forecast further for Bangladesh, said Zahid Hussain, lead economist of the bank, while present-ing Bangladesh Development Update April 2014.

The World Bank report said polit-ical turmoil in the last quarter of 2013 in icted a value added loss of about $1.4bn, around 1% of the countrys GDP as estimated for the current scal year.

Of the losses, about 86% was in ser-vices, 11% in industry and the remain-ing 3% in agriculture.

Hussain said growth in Bangladesh, which is currently below potential, may rise to potential capacity within a couple of years if stability prevails.

Deep and pervasive political unrest throughout the country took a heavy toll on the domestic activity, causing large and partially irreversible output, employment and asset losses.

He said with frequent non-stop general strikes and blockades to cut o Dhaka from the rest of Bangladesh,

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New guidelines to end two- nger rape testn Udisa IslamThe Health Ministry has drafted a new guideline that, if implemented, will bind police to record a rape victims statement within three hours of being approached and hospitals to conduct medical examination without police reports.

The draft also quashes the two- n-ger test, traditionally used by doctors to nd out whether someone is really raped or not. The guideline labels the test unscienti c and horrendous.

As part of its directives for the law enforcement agencies, the draft spec-i es how a trial should be approached and the victim should be dealt with. It states that a victim needs not be pres-ent at the court during every hearing

session if a case is led in connection with an alleged rape.

In October last year, following a writ petition led by a number of rights bodies, the High Court issued a ruling for the government asking why the two- nger test should not be declared illegal as it violated constitutional rights.

While ling the writ, Sara Hossain, one of the petitioners, referred to Ha-bibuzzaman Chowdhury, the then head of forensic medicine at the Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College, who was quoted in a Dhaka Tribune report as saying: If the victim is married, mid-dle-aged or has conceived multiple times, then how could this test [two- n-ger test] help nd any evidence?

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Bangladesh condemns killing of teen n Tribune ReportThe Foreign Ministry has o cially con-veyed its strong protest to Indian author-ities against the killing of a Bangladeshi national in India's Meghalaya on Tuesday.

The Indian side was requested for immediately handing over the body, in-vestigation into the incident and punish-ment of the person involved in the kill-ing, said a press release issued yesterday.

The ministry also expressed deep con-cern at the successive incidents of killing of four Bangladesh nationals within a span of three days in the bordering areas.

The teenager, Delwar Hossain, from Gwainghat upazila of Sylhet, was shot near Bichankandi border. On Sunday, three Bangladeshis, suspected to be cattle thieves, were beaten and hacked to death by a mob in Tripura. l

PM greets Ershad, Rawshan, Khaleda on Pahela Baishakh n Tribune Report Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina sent greetings for Pahela Baishakh to Raw-shan Ershad, leader of the opposition, H M Ershad, Jatiya Party chairperson and the PMs special envoy, and Khale-da Zia, BNP chairperson yesterday.

Akter Hossain, the PMs protocol o cer, sent the greeting cards to the leaders on her behalf, Ashraful Alam Khokon, the PMs deputy press secre-tary, told the Dhaka Tribune.

Shimul Biswas, special assistant of Khaleza Zia, received the card on her behalf, Khokon added. l

Hefazat to hold Islamic con ference on April 11-12n Tarek Mahmud, Chittagong The Hefazat-e-Islam is going to hold a two-day Shane Resalat Sommelan a Muslim religious conference in Chit-tagong citys Laldighi ground on April 11-12 apparently to jolt its rank and le out of depression.

The two-day religious conference will put inspiration into the leaders and activists and help them to get united again, said Hefazat insiders.

According to sources in Chittagong Metropolitan Police (CMP), a total of 24 Hefazat leaders including its secretary general and scores of others are ac-cused in 42 cases lodged with di erent police stations across the country in-cluding the capital following the may-hem in Dhaka on May 5-6 in 2013.

CMP Commissioner Md Sha qul Is-lam said that a total 200 policemen will

be deployed at the conference venue, which is located near the CMP head-quarters, Chittagong Court Building and deputy commissioners o ce, for security reason and to evade any kind of untoward incidence.

Azizul Haq Islamabadi, organising sec-retary of the Hefazate Islam, said: If the administration harasses us the govern-ment has to face a wave of movement.

We will hold peaceful programme but if we are obstructed we know how to answer that.

A high o cial of the CMP seeking anonymity said it was risky to allow the Hefazat to hold rally near so many im-portant points of the city.

Banaz Kumar Majumder, additional commissioner (crime and operation) of the CMP, said the CMP allowed the Hefazat to hold its programme on some conditions. l

Re-voting in 3 districts: AL rebel candidate wins in Gazaria n Tribune Report A ruling party rebel chairman candidate has uno cially won yesterday in the re-voting at postponed nine polling sta-tions in Gazaria upazila of Munshiganj.

On the other hand, AL, BNP, Jamaat and JaPa-blessed vice chairman candi-dates were uno cially elected in the re-voting of the aforesaid upazila, Lax-mipur sadar upazila and Barura upazila of Comilla.

Our Munshiganj correspondent says: The ruling party rebel chairman candidate, Refayetullah Khan Tota, was uno cially declared winner. Tota bagged 28,608 votes while his nearest candidate AL-backed candidate Amirul Islam got 16,101.

On the other hand, BNP rebel candi-date Asaduzzaman was elected for vice chairman post securing 26,918 votes while independent candidate Farida

Iasmin for reserved vice chairman post. On March 23, three people were killed

and 50 others injured in polls-related clashes, because of which the voting had to postpone at the polling centres.

Prior to vote counting, Executive Magistrate and Sirajdikhan Assistant Commissioner (land) Khan Moham-mad Nazmus Shoib forced out all jour-nalists from the room of Gazaria Balu-akandi Dr Abdul Ga ar High School polling centre.

Meanwhile, police arrested a youth named Babo, 28, from Kazipura Gov-ernment Primary School polling station during casting fake vote.

Our Laxmipur correspondent adds: AL-blessed vice chairman candidate Md Ha z Ullah was uno cially de-clared winner yesterday in the re-vot-ing at four postponed polling centres in sadar upazila.

Ha z bagged a total of 117,183 votes

while his nearest Jamaat-backed candi-date Nasir Uddin.

On March 31, during the fth round of upazila elections, voting at the poll-ing stations was postponed due to clashes there.

However, voting for the posts of chair-man and woman (reserved) vice-chair-man was not held as the di erence between the winner and nearest can-didates crossed the number of the total voters of the postponed polling stations.

Our Comilla Correspondent reports: JaPa-backed vice chairman candidate journalist Kamal Hossain has uno -cially won in the re-voting at two poll-ing centres in Barura upazila here.

Kamal secured 37,875 votes while his nearest BNP-blessed candidate Sayed Jahirul Hoque Swapan bagged 37,752 votes.

On March 23, voting was postponed because of sporadic clashes. l

Leak postpones todays Dhaka HSC exam PAGE 1 COLUMN 6Dhaka Education Board, last night told the Dhaka tribune: The English sec-ond paper examination of Dhaka board has been postponed for an unavoidable reason. The new schedule will be xed later.

The decision was made at an emer-gency meeting of the authorities last night. The HSC and equivalent examina-tions began across the country on April 3.

Some examinees and parents told the Dhaka Tribune that they had got question papers of all the three previ-ous exams through mobile messages, a day before the scheduled dates. All the questions also matched with the main question papers.

Seeking not to be named, a candidate said: I got all the three [Bangla rst and second papers, and English rst paper]. A friend of mine gave me those ques-tions through SMS. I also sent the ques-tions to my other close friends.

Yesterday, the Dhaka Tribune also received an SMS. The questions were written in short form.

But Taslima Begum denied the alle-gation. She said: We also heard about the leak during the previous examina-tions, but we did not nd any proof. l

New guidelines to end two- nger rape test PAGE 1 COLUMN 5As part of the two- nger test, a doctor would insert the index and the middle ngers inside the vagina of an alleged rape victim to nd out whether her hy-men is intact or not.

The HC in that ruling also asked the government to prepare a comprehen-sive guideline within 90 days that would govern the way various parties treated a rape victim. The ministry however missed that deadline by about a month.

Rita Das Roy, a member of the com-mittee formed to outline the guide, told the Dhaka Tribune: It has been observed that rape victims are usually put under a horribly judgmental mi-croscope from the moment they call up the cops. They are often subjected to judgmental attitudes by doctors and other sta s in the hospital. The new guidelines include that every hospital must ensure security for the victim until she is t enough to lea case. It also makes it mandatory for hospitals to have designated rooms for ensuring privacy of the victim.

The 10-member committee was formed soon after the HC ruling. It is headed by an additional secretary of the health ministry. Other members include senior o cials from the min-istries of health, home, law and wom-en and children a airs, health o cials and human rights activists.

The draft has already been placed before another health ministry com-mittee, who are likely to approve it sometime soon.

According to the draft that the Dhaka Tribune has accessed, authorities must arrange training sessions for sensitising doctors and other medical sta s about the protocols, the new guideline and how to examine/report rape cases. No third person must be present inside the room when a doctor is carrying out the medical tests.

In the past, hospitals would exam-ine victims only after getting rst infor-mation reports (FIRs) from police. The new guideline nulli es that provision.

It also says that managing witnesses is not the duty of the victim anymore. If

a case is led, trial should be conduct-ed in a gender sensitive atmosphere.

It would also be mandatory for the forensic medical reports to state pre-cisely the reasons for each conclusion drawn. Everything in the report should be explained in the manner and lan-guage that the patient can understand.

Under the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights 1966 and the UN Declaration of Basic Principles of Justice for Victims of Crime and Abuse of Power 1985, rape survivors are entitled to legal recourse that does not re-traumatise them or vi-olate their physical or mental integrity and dignity.

In 1979, the United Kingdom had to give up its policy to use virginity test-ing on women who said they were im-migrating to marry their ancs, who were already living in the country.

Through a similar guideline, the In-dian government last month prohibited the two- nger test and asked all hospi-tals to set up designated rooms for their forensic and medical examination. l

Political turmoil eats up 1% of GDP PAGE 1 COLUMN 3production and distribution chains suf-fered prolonged disruptions.

The report, however, said Bangla-desh has a great potential to bounce back, but the key challenges for accel-erating growth are maintaining stabili-ty and resolving the remaining political uncertainties while boosting invest-ment in power and roads, managing well the transition in the readymade garment industry and stemming the decline in remittances.

The World Bank report also said the opposition parties enforced 85 days of nationwide general strikes and block-ades since January 2013, of which 45 days were in July-January, FY14. Unlike in the past, this time the political agi-tations were not only limited to Dhaka and a few major cities.

The disruptions lasted long enough to make it impossible for rms and workers to make up all the losses suf-fered. Although many businesses worked weekends and nights to make up the loss of working days, but there

were just too many days lost to be fully made up.

Considering a huge damage to the economy due to political unrest, the World Bank estimated that the indus-trial sectors growth is projected at 7.9% compared with last years 9%.

It said service sector that accounts for more than 54% of GDP su ered most due to the nationwide strikes and blockades with an enormous loss of in-come for a couple of months.

Against this backdrop, the sector which was expected to surpass last years performance by a signi cant margin is projected to grow at 5.3% in FY14, the report said.

In ationThe World Bank report said average

headline in ation may rise to 7.5% this year.

Cost push from supply disruptions and demand pull from expected wage increases are likely to have driven up the non-food prices, said Hussain.

External balanceAbout the external balances, the re-

port said the external balances have re-mained comfortable due to strong and weak imports which more than o set the decline in the level of workers re-mittances.

But Bangladeshs external balance may erode from the current comforta-ble level, but stability is likely to con-tinue, said the lead economist.

Remittances are expected to remain weak while imports are likely to pick up, leading to narrowing the current account surplus, these could lead to slower accumulation of foreign re-serves during the rest of FY14, he said.

Fiscal de citAbout scal de cit, the report said

even if the government cuts the ADP by Tk140-160bn, there still would be a need for some cuts in current outlays to keep the de cit within the original budget target.

Absent such adjustments, the de -cit could rise to 5.1% and domestic -nancing to 3.8% of GDP compared with the budget target of 4.6% and 2.9% re-spectively. l

MPs in uence district council o ces, says TIB n Tazlina Zamila Khan Activities of district council o ces are being in uenced by local MPs while council funds are being exploited by lo-cal leaders, a TIB (Transparency Inter-national Bangladesh) study has found.

Findings of the study styled Dis-trict councils in local government sys-tem: Challenges and solutions for good governance were revealed at a press brie ng held in the capitals New Eska-ton Road yesterday.

The study found that local MPs assert their in uence over many de-velopment projects and local leaders use council funds for personal expen-diture. They spend around Tk150-200 from the fund daily just on tea, and illegally occupy council property like trees, land, markets, roads, ponds and so on.

Speaking at the brie ng, TIB exec-utive director Iftekharuzzaman said: We need an elected body to ensure that administrator represents the peo-ple and not the political parties, which is why an indirect election is a must. Incumbent and previous governments have failed to hold elections to district councils since 2000 when a law (Dis-trict Council Act 2000) was passed con-taining the provision for indirect elec-tions to the councils.

An administrator recruited political-ly spends around Tk3,000,000 for per-sonal usage from the fund, which oth-erwise could be used for development projects. An administrator receives Tk27,500 in monthly honorarium, Tk3,000 for facilitation and Tk19,000 for car fuel, though the cars are used by politicians.

According to the District Council Act 2000, there will be a chairman, 15 members and ve reserve-seat women members. The indirect election is sup-posed to be held by city corporation authorities, union parishad mayors, upazila parishads, municipalities and deputy commissioners, Iftekharuz-zaman said.

TIB researcher Nahid Sharmin said: District councils take and implement projects according to the decision of the central government. The central government decides the role of admin-

istrators. For instance, the government has allocated Tk4,500,000 (annually) to the Natore district council o ce for development work, where the ad-ministrators were ordered to spend Tk1,100,000 (annually) on it, and the rest of the sum will be allocated for speci c projects of the MPs.

Around seven permanent commit-tees were supposed to be formed for helping the council but none had yet been formed, she added.

Speakers said the act comes with many limitations that poses a challenge when it comes to establishing good governance. They said the law contains no provision for disciplinary action in case of a lapse in duty.

The local government has not speci ed the extent of power of the administra-tors, speakers observed.

Sharmin said the administrators have to depend on government aid for implementing any development proj-ect because of limited funds.

On top of that, the lack of coordina-tion between the chief executive o cer and the administrators is a major rea-son for the ine ciency of the district councils, she added.

TIB o cials suggested an increase in council funds to lessen dependency on the government and fair distribution of work among administrators. They also recommended monthly meetings with local governments in order to form an active council. l

The study found that local MPs assert their in uence over many development projects and local leaders use council funds for personal expenditure. They spend around Tk150-200 from the fund daily just on tea, and illegally occupy council property

Main accused of engineer murder arrested n Mohammad Jamil Khan Police arrested a doctor yesterday for allegedly killing textiles engineer Sad-bin Hossain in the capital's Kalabagan on Tuesday.

Soon after arresting Dr Jahangir Na-zim, Kalabagan police produced him at the judge court and sought a sev-en-day remand for him, but the court approved three days for interrogation.

Police said in primary interrogation Nazim had confessed to having threat-ened Sadbin for not accepting his rela-tionship with Sadbins cousin.

Sources said Sadbins cousin Dr Sadia Afrin had been a colleague of Nazim at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital in 2011. They developed a good friendship, but it broke after Nazim proposed her. Nazim allegedly kept disturbing Sadia.

Sadia consulted her family about the

matter, which made Nazim more desper-ate. He kept following her everywhere and calling her on her mobile phone.

The family led three cases with Dhanmondi police station and sever-al GDs with Kolabagan police station against Nazim. Meanwhile, Sadia got married, but Nazim would not stop.

On Monday, Nazim went to Sadias Dhanmondi residence with some asso-ciates and started hurling abuse. Nazim threatened with killing if Sadia had not accepted his proposal.

When police arrived at the scene along with Sadbin and a few relatives Nazim left. Sadbin, son of Dhaka dis-trict Awami League Publicity Secretary Kazi Shawkat Hossain, later went to have tea behind the LabAid Hospital. Criminals shot him dead on his way back home from Sadias house around 12.45am on Tuesday. l

People risk their lives as they climb through iron bars on the central reservation in front of the capitals New Market yesterday. Hundreds of people cross the road by jaywalking like this every day, ignoring two footbridges on the road MAHMUD HOSSAIN OPU

Rape victim testi es in camera against Qaisarn Udisa IslamA prosecution witness testi ed at the International Crimes Tribunal 2 in camera yesterday in the case against war crimes accused Syed Md Qaisar, the chief of notorious Qaisar Bahini of Habiganj in 1971.

When the prosecution wanted to place her in camera, the tribunal told journalists and observers to leave the courtroom. After her deposition, the defence cross exam-ined her and the tribunal adjourned the proceedings until April 16.

The woman, who had been violated during the war, gave her deposition as the fth prosecution witness. Journalists were not allowed to publish her name or any information of the statement.

Qaisar, a former Jatiya Party state minister, was in the dock.

During her testimony, prosecutors Rana Das Gupta and Tureen Afroz, and the defence counsels were present in the courtroom. Defence lawyer SM Shahjahan cross examined her.

Qaisar was indicted on 16 charges of crimes against humanity he had committed.

The tribunal indicted Qaisar on two rape charges handing over a woman to a Pakistani Army camp set up at Jagadishpur High School under Madhabpur police

station on a day of mid August in 1971 and assisting in rape of another at Chanpur Tea Estate.

Meanwhile, the same tribunal yesterday adjourned the proceedings in the cases against Jamaat-e-Islami leaders Maulana Abdus Subhan and Mir Kashem Ali because of recording testimony of the witness against Qaisar.

The prosecution is set to place their last witness, the investigation o cer, in the trial against Mir Kashem, who had been the alleged al-Badr commander in Chittagong in 1971. The tribunal deferred the trial of Subhan until April 15. l

3NewsDHAKA TRIBUNE Thursday, April 10, 2014

Hall-Mark MDs bail plea rejected n Md Sanaul Islam TipuA Dhaka court yesterday rejected a bail petition of Hall-Mark Group Managing Director Tanvir Mahmud in 13 cases led for swindling Sonali Bank money.

Dhaka Senior Special Judges Court Judge Md Jahurul Haque passed the re-jection order.

On October 4, 2012, the ACC led 11 cases with Ramna police station against 27 bigwigs of Hall-Mark Group including Tanvir as well as some Sonali Bank of- cials for swindling money with forged documents and October 7 last year pressed charges in this regard.

On January 1 last year, the anti-graft watchdog led two more cases against them on charges of money laundering.

Recently the state-run Sonali Bank authorities have led 12 cases with Ar-tha Rin Adalat 1 (money loan court) against Hall-Mark Group for realising more than Tk161 crore, reaching the number of cases to 25.

The little-known group took away a to-tal of Tk2,686 crore from the bank on fake documents between 2010 and 2012. l

Sayedee defence submitted fake case documents, says AGn Nazmus Sakib Attorney General Mahbubey Alam yes-terday said the defence for death row convict Delawar Hossain Sayedee sub-mitted a fake document to prove that Sayedee was not involved in the killing of Ibrahim Kutti.

The defence earlier entered a doc-ument what they claimed was a cer-ti ed copy of the complaint made by Kuttis wife, Momtaz Begum, where Sayedees name was not mentioned as an accused. The complaint later turned into a police case, as per the defences claim.

He told the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court that it was a fake as there is no such case lodged with Piro-jpur police station.

In this regard, the attorney general said: I went to the Pirojpur police sta-tion but found no such document. As the defence claimed that police submit-ted a charge sheet in the case, it would have been transferred to the special tri-bunal formed under the Collaborators Order. I went to Barisal Judges Court but did not nd such case despite a

thorough search.In addition, the defence could not

submit a copy of the charge sheet.He said the copy of the complaint

looked fresh though it is supposed to be 41 years old. It is more proof that the document was forged and made for the purpose of saving Sayedee only.

Mahbubey was assisted by Assistant Attorney General Bashir Ahmed during the hearing at the ve-member Appel-late Division bench headed by Chief Justice Md Muzammel Hossain.

Refuting Sayedees alibi plea, the attorney general said the notorious razakar had undoubtedly stayed at Par-erhat, Pirojpur during the 1971 Libera-tion War, according to the prosecution witnesses.

Though the defence witnesses

claimed they had seen Sayedee at a Pirs house in Jessore with his two sons, it was clear from Sayedees a davit submitted to the Election Commission that the Jamaat leader had only one son before independence, he said.

Sayedees second son was born af-ter the independence, as per the said a davit. Mahbubey also said none of the Pirs descendents gave a deposition at the tribunal, even though they are alive.

So it was crystal clear that Sayedee was in Parerhat and aided the Pakistani Army to commit crimes against hu-manity, the attorney general said.

Mahbubey later told the Dhaka Tri-bune that his argument was near its end.

Defence lawyer Tanvir Ahmed Al-Amin told the Dhaka Tribune that they would start rebutting the governments argument after the attorney general completes his part. The bench will re-sume the hearing today.

The International Crimes Tribunal 1, on February 28 last year, handed Sayedee a death sentence on two charges, one of which was killing Kutti. l

Government to bring back Tariquen Mohosinul KarimThe government is likely to make a strong move to bring BNP Senior Vice-Chairman Tarique Rahman, his brother Arafat Rahman Koko and fugi-tive killers of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman back to the country to put them on trial.

The government, however, reject-ed a proposal of Canadian authority to amend the law to wipe out the provi-sion of capital punishment to get back Nur Chowdhury, one of the convicted fugitive killers of Bangabandhu.

The decisions were taken in a meet-ing of the taskforce formed to bring back all Bangladeshi criminals and accused living abroad on parole or absconding.

Themeeting was held yesterday in the law ministers o ce.

Taskforce Chief and Law Minister Anisul Haque chaired the meeting while members of the high-powered task-force State Ministers for Foreign A airs Shahriar Alam and Home A airs Asa-duzzaman Khan Kamal were present.

Other members of the taskforce the Attorney General, senior secretary of the home ministry, foreign secretary, law and justice secretary, inspector general of police and directors general of the Directorate General of Forces In-telligence(DGFI), National Security In-telligence (NSI) and several senior high o cials also attended the meeting.

The meeting sources said, the taskforce had taken the decision to strengthen its activities and start strong moves to bring back BNP Chief Khaleda Zias two sons Tarique and Koko home. They are now living abroad as fugitives after they went there on parole.

Expressing concern the minister and high o cials attended the meeting saidthe decision was taken to prevent their anti-state activities and illogical statements on Bangabandhu and the history of the Liberation War of 1971.

According to a source, the taskforce has also taken decision of seeking assis-tance from the Interpol to this end.

But, Law Minister Anisul Haque de-nied talking anything about the deci-sion in his short brie ng after the meet-ing.

Terming the decisions con dential the minister said though the meeting had taken several important decisions these could not be disclosed publicly in

the interest of the country. But, it would be visible to the people shortly. We will sit again soon to analyse the progress.

When asked if the government is going to bring back Tarique and Koko, he said:We have talked about bringing back all the convicts and fugitives living abroad. Tariqueis a fugitive of two un-der-trial cases. Koko is also a convicted fugitive. They are trying to avoid the trial.

The law and order authority and court will take decision about them whether they would be brought back or not. The government has nothing to do in this regard. We will help the author-ity to bring the fugitive criminals back home, he added.

Regarding the proposal of Canadian authority to amend the law to scrape the provision of capital punishment to get back Nur Chowdhury, Anisul said: The government has no such plan to amend the law to get them back. We will try to do so through diplomatic ef-fort.

Diagnose Tarique for brain defectAnisul Haque also slammed Tarique

Rahman for his comments on Bangab-andhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

Such statements of Tarique Rahman should be ignored, he saidadding: His (Tarique) brain should be diagnosedto make sure if he has any defects.

Tariquescomment was aimed at dentingthe image of Bangladesh. Now the questions have arisen if they want to turn Bangladesh into Pakistan by raising questions over some settled is-suesrelated to the history of the Liber-ation War.

Earlier, in a video message on the internet Tarique Rahman claimed that Bangabandhu was an illegal prime min-ister of Bangladesh.

Training his gun on Tarique in re-sponse to the claim the minister said: He has hurt the Awami League and all other pro-liberation forces. They have hurt in the heart of Bangladesh. It can-not go unchallenged.

The minister urged the media and all other pro-liberation forces to be aware of the controversy that Tariqueis try-ing to stir up from abroad.

Earlier, Tarique Rahman drew ak from Awami League leaders for claim-ing that Ziaur Rahman was the rst president of Bangladesh. l

Detained con artists are paraded in front of the media after the Detective Branch of police arrest them in a drive at the capitals Madhya Paikpara MAHMUD HOSSAIN OPU

Members of local bus owners association in Rajshahi force passengers to disembark three-wheelers known as bhotbhoti yesterday, claiming that brake-less human hauliers were frequently causing road accidents on the Rajshahi-Chapainawabganj highway DHAKA TRIBUNE

Six members of blackmailing gang held in capitaln Kailash Sarkar and Sanaul Islam Tipu

Detectives yesterday arrested six mem-bers of a gang, including two women, who used to blackmail people top government o cials, political leaders, industrialists, businessmen and expa-triates to extort money from them.

The gang used to impersonate po-licemen and journalists while a young girl named Dola Akhter, 20, would irt with the target.

A team of Detective Branch of police led by Additional Deputy Commission-er Sanwar Hossain detained Dola, ring leader Abu Taleb, 68, Azahar Uddin Khan, 42, Mohammad Mostofa, 40, Shamim Sikder, 25, and Salma Begum, 45, from the capitals Madhya Paikpara.

They also recovered a wireless set, a

pair of handcu s and a digital camera from their possession.

Metropolitan Magistrate Mahabubur Rahman later placed the six on eight-day remand in connection with two cases led with Mirpur police station. DB Sub-Inspector Abul Bashar had pro-duced them before the court, seeking 20 days for interrogating them.

Earlier, acting on a tip-o , a special team of DB raided a house at Paikpara un-der Mirpur police station at about 4:30pm and arrested the six gang members.

DB Additional Deputy Commission-er Sanwar Hossain said Dola would play as a girlfriend with in uential people, thus trapping them and then black-mailing them.

He said: She would secretly take pictures of herself in compromising situations with the target person and

also make love with them in a partic-ular room where Taleb, Azahar and Mostofa would appear impersonating policemen.

The DB o cial said the imperson-ators would frighten them with arrest and demand a large amount of mon-ey to keep quiet. Shamim would also emerge as a journalist and continue blackmailing the victim.

At a press brie ng at the Dhaka Met-ropolitan Police media centre, the DB o cials said the gang had taken Tk24 lakh from a Bangladeshi expatriate liv-ing in London on August 26 last year, Tk17 lakh from a high-ranking govern-ment o cial on February 20 this year and Tk5 lakh from a veteran politician this month.

The detectives expressed hope to ar-rest the other gang members shortly. l

Two JMB men jailedn Md Sanaul Islam TipuA Dhaka court yesterday sentenced two Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) members to three-year impris-onment while it acquitted 26 others in a case led under the Arms and Explo-sive Act.

Judge Md Shahed Nuruddin of the Dhaka Speedy Trial Tribunal-1 handed down the verdict.

The convicts are Moulana Abdur Rowf and Tofazzal Hossain. They were

also ned Tk10, 000 each, in default they have to su er six months more in jail.

The convicted two accused are in jail. Of the acquitted JMB members, 20 are on bail, four are absconding, one in jail while the other died during the pe-riod of trial proceeding.

According to the case statement, on August 2, 2006, RAB in a drive arrested the accused from Jibantola Jamia Isla-mia Nurul Ulum Kawmi Madarasa un-der Bhaluka Upazila in Mymensingh. l

The attorney general argued that the defence had forged the documents to save Sayedee

BNP plans long march towards Teesta Barragen Mohammad Al-Masum MollaThe BNP is likely to hold a long-march towards the Teesta Barrage this month to press home demand for proper share of water from neighbour India.

The decision was made in a meeting of the party standing committee at its chairpersons Gulshan o ce late last night.

Meeting sources said BNP Chair-person Khaleda Zia, who chaired yes-terdays meeting, had planned to visit some of the districts around the coun-try.

Senior leaders meanwhile would hold a series of meetings with the party activists and the public in every division in the months ahead.

For the time being, the party has decid-ed not to go for any tough movement; rather push forward and announce some issue-based programmes.

Seeking anonymity, a standing com-mittee member told the Dhaka Tribune that the date for the long-march was yet to be nalised.

He also said senior leaders would visit the districts to rejuvenate the grassroots and Khaleda Zia would hold meetings in some districts. The schedules for those meetings were not nalised either.

Decision had been also made about announcing soon the Dhaka city unit committee of the party. It was unlikely that Convener Sadeque Hossain Khoka and Standing Committee Member Mir-za Abbas would be at the helm of that committee, the senior leader said.

Another standing committee mem-ber, also seeking anonymity, said Moudud Ahmed and Goyeshwar Chan-dra Roy got engaged in an altercation centring Roys recent comment that all the courts are con ned in the Mu-jib coat.

He said Moudud condemned Roy for making such a comment and also said such statements would hamper the process of getting bail for the detained leaders and activists of the party. l

It was unlikely that Sadeque Hossain Khoka and Mirza Abbas would be at the helm of Dhaka city committee

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ACC to quiz former ministers APSn Tribune ReportThe Anti-Corruption Commission will soon question ex-state minister for religious a airs M Shahjahan Miahs assistant personal secretary Soumen-dra Lal Chandra Shoilen and his wife on charges of accumulation of illegal wealth and laundering money to India, an o cial concerned told reporters.

He said ACC Deputy Director Ahsan Ali yesterday served a notice to Sou-mendra Lal Chandra Shoilen and his wife Shanta Chandra asking them to appear before the commission head-quarters at Segunbagicha on April 15.

Earlier, the commission questioned Soumendra on February 18 on the same allegation.

O cials said the commission had already collected several documents in-cluding the income tax statements and other related documents of Soumendra.

According to the allegation received by the ACC, Soumendra accumulated

illegal wealth worth Tk50 crore by giv-ing licenses to over 400 Hajj and Um-rah Hajj agents in exchange for bribe.

While working as the APS of the ex-minister, the ministry has approved at least 400 licenses to many new com-panies, usually with bribes, and Sou-mendra worked as the key player in the irregularities, the allegation reads.

Soumendra, who also holds the post of o ce secretary at Patuakhali Awami League, has made huge money from the businesses and has built a ve-sto-rey building at Patuakhali, while his wife owns several ats in the capital, the allegation also reads.

There is another allegation that the former APS has laundered a huge amount of money through his mother and siblings to India.

Meanwhile, the anti-graft body has questioned six high o cials of state-run Petrobangla and its subsidiary companies in connection with the in-quiry against its Chairman Md Hossain

Monsur for acquiring illegal wealth through appointment of employees.

ACC Deputy Director Ahsan Ali has questioned Petrobangla General Man-ager (accounts) M Abdul Khalek, Sund-arban Gas Company Limited General Manager M Khalekuzzaman, Titas Gas Transmission and Distribution Com-pany Limited Deputy General Manag-er (system operation) H.M Ali Ashraf, Manager (Operation) Sujat Ali, general managers M Nazrul Islam (Metro Dha-ka Revenue Division) and M Nizam Ra kul Islam.

Ahsan was assigned on March 9 to investigate the allegations against Petrobangla chairman for accumulat-ing illegal wealth through recruiting employees in 13 of its associated com-panies violating rules.

The allegations say the Petrobangla chairman in connivance with some of his associates had appointed a good number of employees violating the company rules.l

Awami League MP Hiron dies n Our Correspondent, BarisalShawkat Hossain Hiron, Barisal city Awami League president, uncontest-ed lawmaker of Barisal-5 constituency and former mayor of Barisal City Cor-poration, died yesterday morning at Apollo Hospitals in Dhaka. He was 58.

Hirons life support was removed at the consent of his family members and he breathed his last around 7:15am. Ad-vocate Talukder Md Yunus, AL lawmaker and district secretary and Afzal Hossain, AL city secretary, con rmed the death.

His body was taken to his Gulshan residence from the hospital and his rst funeral was held at National As-sembly Plaza following Asr prayer. The

body will be own to Barisal Bangab-andhu Udyan this noon and people will be allowed to pay their homage there.

The AL leaders last funeral will be held at Bangabandhu Udyan after the Jumah prayer tomorrow. He will be laid to rest in his mothers grave at Bari-sal Muslim Gorosthan in the afternoon.

The House yesterday adopted a con-dolence motion over Hirons demise.

Expressing heartiest sympathy for the bereaved family members of Hiron, the premier prayed for eternal peace of his departed soul.

Born in 1956, the legislator is sur-vived by his wife Jebunnesa Afroz, daughter Roshni Hossain Trina and son Sajid Hossain Rafsan. l

Minister orders action against 48 o cialsn Mohosinul KarimDepartmental actions will be taken against 48 o cials and employees of the Department of Youth Development for their absence from the o ce.

State Minister for Youth and Sports Biren Sikder yesterday ordered the di-rector general of the department to take actions against those public ser-vants.

The state minister gave the instruc-tion during his surprise visit to the headquarters of the department yes-terday.

Ministrys Public Relation O cer Sha qul Islam said the state minister did not nd those o cials and employ-ees in the o ce during his whirlwind visit.

The numbers of absentees are 48 out of total 135 o cials and employees of the department.

The minister immediately ordered the high o cials to take steps against them.

Department of Youth Develop-ments Director General Asit Kumar Mukut Moni admitting the fact said around 48 o cials and employees were absent from the o ce during the state ministers visit.

The high o cials of the ministry have jotted down the names of those absentees. We will take actions fol-lowing the instruction of the ministry, he said. l

JCD leaders remand, bail pleas rejected n Md Sanaul Islam TipuTwo Dhaka courts yesterday sent pres-ident and general secretary of Jatiyata-badi Chhatra Dal, youth wing of BNP, to jail rejecting both the bail and remand pleas in several cases led with Shah-bagh and Sutrapur police stations.

The two leaders are JCD president Abdul Kader Bhuiyan Jewel and its gen-eral secretary Habibur Rashid Habib.

Separate courts of Metropolitan Magistrates Rezaul Karim and Maruf Hossain passed the order following the hearing of bail the petition and remand while the latter led by the prosecution.

Police prayed a 24-day remand to the court for Jewel in four cases while 15 days for Habib in three cases. On the other hand, defence counsel Md Sanaul-lah Miah led the bail petitions.

At last, the courts rejected both bail and remand petitions sent back them to jail.

The cases were led against them for their alleged involvement in vandalis-ing, torching vehicles and blasting crude bombs during BNP-led 18-party spon-sored hartal and blockade programmes last year demanding to have held gener-al polls under caretaker government.

On December 6 last year, DB police detained JCD president Jewel from the capitals Uttra area while plain-clothed police held Habib from Shantinagar area on November 17. l

Fate of ad hoc doctors uncertainAuthorities fail to regularise more than 4,000 doctors in over four yearsn Moniruzzaman UzzalWhen he rst joined public service in 2010 as an ad hoc assistant surgeon, Dr Abdus Salam (not his real name) was told that the then Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina had directed the health ministry to appoint and regularise thousands of ad hoc doctors for meet-ing the huge shortage of doctors.

Although four years had passed since then, Dr Salam, who earned his un-der-graduation degree from Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College, continues to hold the status of an ad hoc doctor.

Talking to the Dhaka Tribune, Dr Salam expressed his frustration at the uncertainty of his job, and said he was now planning to leave public service.

Salam is one of 4,133 doctors who were appointed on ad hoc basis in two phases; 3,551 were recruited in 2010 and 582 more in 2011.

Although many of these doctors were unsure about the fate of their jobs, around 1,000 of the ad hoc doctors had already become cadre doctors after passing the BCS exam, sources said.

Although the health ministry had recruited the ad hoc doctors, the Public Service Commission (PSC) was report-edly the legal authority to regularise them as cadre doctors.

Dr Shahabuddin Khan, medical o -cer of human resource unit of the Direc-torate General of Health Services, said they submitted necessary documents of 2,152 doctors to health ministry in 2013. The ministry later forwarded 600 les to the PSC, who then recommended the regularisation of only 180-190 doctors.

Dr Shahabuddin said: As far I know, the PSC does not have enough man-power to check the large number of documents quickly. Moreover it took more time as they scrutinised every de-tail of the documents.

Several senior o cials of the health ministry and directorate told the Dhaka Tribune that the sluggish pace of the PSCs veri cation process meant that it would take years for all ad hoc doctors to be recommended for regularisation.

Dr Shah Newaz, director (adminis-tration) of the DGHS, told the Dhaka Tri-bune that the directorate could not do much to regularise the ad hoc doctors, as the nal decision belonged to the PSC. However, personally I think the ad hoc doctors should be regularised as soon as possible, he added.

Most of the ad hoc doctors passed from private medical colleges and belonged to rich and in uential families. The doctors always try to evade rural postings as they were used to staying in villages l Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inspects di erent units of the Ahsania Mission Cancer and General Hospital following the facilitys inauguration yesterday BSS

JaPa leader Ruhul Amin Hawlader under ACC scannern Tribune ReportThe Anti-Corruption Commission yesterday decided to investigate the wealth of Jatiya Party Secretary General ABM Ruhul Amin Hawlader as it received allegation against him that he amassed wealth inconsistent with his known sources of income.

Con rming the matter, ACC public relations o cer Pranab Kumar Bhattacharya told reporters that the commission received allegations against Hawlader, also lawmaker from Patuakhali 1 constituency, on April 2 and after scrutiny, a regular meeting had decided to nd out the reasons behind illegal wealth of the JaPa leader.

He said an investigation o cer will be assigned within a couple of days to look into the JaPa leaders wealth and

alleged land grabbing.It was alleged that Hawlader

concealed information in his wealth statement he submitted to the Election Commission ahead of the 10th parliamentary elections.

ACC o cials said he allegedly amassed wealth, including land property, in Patuakhali and Kuakata in the name of KR Fashion owned by him, but he did

not mention it in the wealth statement. It was also alleged that KR

Fashion owns a lot of land in Patuakhali and Kuakata and even though Hawlader is the owner of these land properties, a tract of land was grabbed by him.

Not only KR Fashion, the JaPa leader also had many business rms with which he had earned a fortune.

It also said even the lawmaker grabbed the lands owned by Water Development Board in Patuakhali.

According to his wealth statement submitted to the Election Commission, he had Tk18 lakh in cash in 2008 which jumped to over Tk6.66 crore in 2013.

In 2008, the JaPa leader earned Tk13.09 lakh from house and business establishment rents which stood at Tk1.63 crore in 2013. l

Move afoot to curb extremism in combatn Rabiul IslamThe government plans to carry out moti-vational programmes in educational in-stitutions to combat religious extremism in the country.

We will conduct mass awareness programmes at educational institutions and religious centres to combat extrem-ism, State Minister for Home Asaduz-zaman Khan told reporters after a meet-ing of an anti-extremism committee at his ministry yesterday.

The state minister remarked that stu-dents of schools, madrasas, colleges and universities were easily in uenced by extremist organisations.

Thus, the government has introduced programmes, mostly using audiovisual materials such as short lms, at educa-tional institutions to motivate students to shun extremism, Asaduzzaman said.

The mass media would also be used to highlight the negative sides of extrem-ism, while intelligence agencies would re-main alert to counter the scourge, he said.

A ministry o cial who attended the

meeting said steps would be taken to amend textbooks to remove any materi-al that might incite extremism.

The meeting also decided to co-opt an o cial from the nance ministrys banking division in the committee to trace the sources of funding of extremist groups, the o cial added.

The 17-member extremism resis-tance and elimination committeewas formed in 2009.

The government already banned ve organisations, including Jamaatul Muja-hedeen Bangladesh (JMB), Harkat-ul-Ji-had-al-Islami (Huji) and Hizb-ut-Tahrir.

Senior home secretary CQK Mustaq Ahmed, Inspector General of Police Has-san Mahmud Khandker and RAB Director General Mokhesur Rahman were also present at yesterdays meeting, the rst to be held during this governments tenure.

Meanwhile, in replying a question, the state minister said law enforcers had identi ed the perpetrators behind the snatching of three convicted JMB mil-itants from a prison van in Trishal, My-mensingh in February. l

Energy research council likelyn Tribune report An energy research council would be established in the country for the sake of development of science and technology and overall improvement of the energy sector of the country, said Energy Advisor to the Prime Minister, Taw q-e-Elahi Chowdhury in a national seminar titled Renewable energy policy implementation held in the capital yesterday.

The advisor also said scientists should work hard in order to reduce the crisis of energy. That is why a solar energy stove is needed to be discovered soon.

The seminar was jointly organized by the Institute of Renewable Energy of Dhaka University and Bangladesh Solar Energy Committee. A three-day exhibition centring solar powers also started yesterday at the Mokarram Hossain Khandakar Science Building in Dhaka University.

Some 32 scienti c books were presented at the seminar. The exhibition would continue till April 11 and remain open for all from 10am to 6pm.

Professor AAMS Are n Siddique, vice chancellor of Dhaka University said: Most of the time, the people of this country remain in the sunlight. If we can utilise it, the unmet demand of electricity of a greater community can be ful lled.

He added that coordination should be established between industrial organizations and the researchers of Dhaka University in order to spread the bene ts of the research. He called for saving water and electricity and to make the renewable energy popular.

Among others, Director of the institute Professor Md Sekul Islam, President of the committee Professor Mohammad Ib rahim were present at the event. l

As per his wealth statement submitted to the Election Commission, he had Tk18 lakh in cash in 2008 which jumped to over Tk6.66 crore in 2013

Participants at the two-day long Saarc artist camp pose for a picture in Bandarbans Nilachal. The camp is being organised by the Cultural A airs Ministry and Shilpakala Academy DHAKA TRIBUNE

A new look for this years Pahela Baishakh n Tazlina Zamila KhanThe mongol shova jatra, one of the main attractions of Pahela Baishakh celebrations, would be presented with a new look this year to commemorate the 100th birth anniversary of artist Zainul Abedin.

Preparation for the traditional pa-rade to welcome Bangla New Year 1421 are in full swing at Dhaka Universitys Faculty of Fine Arts.

With the theme, resist fear and rise to create a prosperous Bangladesh, the 26th shova jatra will start at 9am on Monday from the DU campus at Shahbagh.

We will create a likeness of Zainul Abedin sir to present in the rally. Be-sides, we decided to make eleven mod-els this year, instead of the usual ve or six, Abdul Malek Saju, a Masters stu-dent of the painting department told the Dhaka Tribune yesterday.

Several students were busy making giant statues with natural materials, like straw, cane, cork and paper, under the watchful eyes of their teachers.

Depictions of a woman and child, a fawn, an owl, sh and ducks symbol-ising prosperity; a prawn in the mouth of a cat and peacocks representing folk culture; and a tiger and the legendary hunter, Gazi, embodying peoples pow-er during bad times would be carried in the parade.

Besides, hundreds of paper masks have been made for parade participants.

The students, meanwhile, have been collecting funds for the event by selling their own paintings, pottery, masks and trinkets.

We do not have any sponsors. So, we collect funds by selling our art work. Due to the recent political cri-sis, we could not sell as many painting as expected. But we have overcome the problem now, and the shova jatra would be held this year in a big way, Saju said.

Many people were seen roaming around the faculty premises to pur-chase the art work.

Prices of paintings ranged from Tk400 to Tk3,000, while painted terra-cotta items started at Tk500.

I am very excited this year. This is the rst Pahela Baishakh rally where I am actively taking part. We have been working for the past 25 days, said Nishat Jahan Hira, a rst-year student who was selling terracotta pottery.

Syed Abul Barq Alvi, dean of the ne arts faculty and convener of the Pahela Baishakh celebration committee, said this years theme was set in regards to the countrys culture and present polit-ical climate.

The students have been working hard for many days to make the rally a success. A new dimension will be add-ed this year to mark Zainul Abedins 100th birth anniversary, he said.

Shilpacharya Zainul Abedin, who died in May 1976, was the founding principal of the then art institute which opened in 1948. l

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THURSDAY, APRIL 10Photography competition on ethics launchedn BSSBangladesh Bioethics Society (BBS) is launching an art and photography competition on ethics aiming to create awareness among the people to devel-op ethical values.

The theme of the competition is Ethics and life. Ethical aspect of any subject matter can be included in this-competition, BBS general secretary Prof Shamia Parvin Lasker told BSS yesterday.

Undergraduate and postgraduate student of age between 18 to25 years can participate in this competition, she added.

All participants will be honored by certi cate, she said adding crest, book and certi cate will be given to top three winners in the completion.

The BBS sources said the competi-tion will be on three categories: ne art, photography and cartoon. Inter-ested participants have been invited to send their art and photography works with CVs through email: write2nupa@yahoo.com l

Journalist S Ali Muhammad diesn Our Correspondent, BarisalS Ali Muhammad, a senior journalist, writer and cultural activists of Barisal, passed away at 3:00pm yesterday after-noon in his residence at Line Road area of the city.

He was 96. Ali left ve daughters, two sons, number of relatives, admir-ers, followers to mourn his death. He was su ering from old age complica-tions for long days, told his eldest son S Sunny Muhammad.

Sheikh Ali Muhammad, popular-ly known as Ali-Bhai in the city, was born to Sheikh Jaban Ali and Dulaijan Bibi on January 10, 1918 at Meur village under Garuria union of Bakerganj upa-zila in Barisal.

S Ali Muhammad would be laid to rest at Barisal Muslim Gorosthan after paying mass tributes from di erent corners of the society and subsequent Namaj E Janaza, family sources said. l

Updated building code likely in Mayn Abu Hayat MahmudThe updated Bangladesh National Building Code 2013 is likely to be pub-lished this May, ve months behind its publication deadline.

O cials at the Housing and Build-ing Research Institute (HBRI) said most of the chapters in the code have been modi ed as information on technolo-gy, product standard and procedures have been changed.

Md Abdus Salam, senior research engineer of the HBRI, told the Dhaka Tribune: Although the building code was supposed to be published by De-

cember last year, it was not possible as we had to revise the 1,500-page long code.

He also expressed hopes that the building code would be published in May after all necessary revisions are completed.

However, earlier in February, Salam had told the Dhaka Tribune that the building code would be published in March.

The HBRI had been entrusted with the task of providing secretarial service to a steering committee of the housing ministry and providing project assis-tance to the Bureau of Research, Test-

ing and Consultation at Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technol-ogy (Buet).

HBRI sources said the updated building code has been divided into ten parts, with each part having di erent chapters and appendices.

In 1993, the Bangladesh National Building Code was formed to regulate the technical details and maintain the standard of building construction.

It came into force as a regulation un-der the Building Construction Act 1952, while it was rst updated in 2006 and also later in 2008. l

CMCH sta protest upgrade decision n Tarek Mahmud, Chittagong Employees of Chittagong Medical College Hospital (CMCH) yesterday demonstrated on its premises against the decision to upgrade the medical college to a university.

They held a protest rally, brought out procession and staged a token strike from 11am to 1pm. The activities were organised by CMCH Karmakar-ta-Karmachari Oikya Parishad.

Romena Akhter, president of the or-ganisation, addressed the protest rally while Ratan Ali Mia, member secretary; Rukhma Chowdhury, joint secretary; and Ratan Kumar Nath, general sec-retary of Diploma Nurse Association, spoke among others.

Calling the decision to upgrade to a university self-destructive, Rome-

na said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina might have been in uenced by bureau-crats to take such a decision.

If CMCH is upgraded to a univer-sity, it will be run by an autonomous body. This could mean that nearly ve crore people, from Teknaf to Comilla, who depend on the hospital for low-cost treatment, will be deprived of that facility as numerous fees will be hiked up, protesters said.

They said CMCH would su er the same fate as Dhakas PG Hospital if an autonomous body was allowed to run it.

We also want a medical university but it has to be established elsewhere, they observed.

The demonstrators said they would continue their protest, no matter what stands in their way, till their demands were met. l

S Alam group ned Tk1.8 crore for pollutionn Tushar Hayat, ChittagongThe Department of Environment yes-terday ned ve industries of business conglomerate S Alam Group with Tk1.8 crore for causing pollution through re-leasing untreated wastes into the River Karnaphuli.

During a visit on February 26, a team of the regulator found the ve factories engaged in causing severe pollution.

Mosta zur Rahman Akand, depu-ty director at the DoE in Chittagong, said a sugar mill was ned for not hav-ing an E uent Treatment Plant (ETP) while the four others for keeping the ETPs nonoperational. The nes were slapped after a hearing.

S Alam Re ned Sugar Mill has been ned Tk1.22 crore, S Alam Steel Mills and Chemon Ishpat Limited Tk33.7 lakh, S Alam Vegetable Tk1.04 lakh

and S Alam Cold Rolled Steels Limited Tk22.56 lakh.

On April 6, the DoE slapped ne on SA Pulp and Paper Mills Limited and Sa-mannaj Product, both owned by the business conglomerate, Tk25.5 lakh for operating without clearance certi cate, not having E uent Treatment Plant (ETP), and polluting the sea. l

Man killed by neighbours over land in Rajshahin UNBA man was chopped to death allegedly by his neighbours over a land-related dispute at Bhatapara Krishnapur vil-lage in Puthia upazila yesterday night.

The deceased was identi ed as Sad-han Kumar, 35, son of Bhobesh of the village. The victims wife Joytsna said there had been a longstanding dispute between her husband and their neigh-bour Nitai over the ownership of a piece of land.

On the fateful day, Sadhan had an altercation with Nitai over the issue around 10:00pm.

At one stage, Nitai along with his wife, daughter and son attacked Sad-han and chopped him with sharp weapons indiscriminately, leaving him dead on the spot.

O cer-in-charge of Puthia Police Station Abu Obaida said on information, police recovered the body and sent it to hospital morgue for an autopsy. l

Nasrul for preparing a roadmapn BSS State Minister for Power,Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid asked the o cials concerned to prepare a roadmap for implementation of coun-trys renewable energy targets by 2020.

During a meeting with Climate Par-liament network of MPs, the minister said that he would soon take a decision to ensure the implementation of Sus-tainable and Renewable Energy Devel-opment Authority (SREDA).

Sharing the concerns with Climate Parliament network of MPs about the delay in the implementation of SREDA, Hamid said that the ministry would take into consideration this roadmap to prepare the budget for SREDA and this should re ect in the national budget for scal 2014-15.

The new Steering Committee of the Cli-mate Parliament network of MPs consists of Tanvir Shakeel Joy and Saber Chowd-hury (Advisors), Junaid Ahmed Palak and Abdullah Al-Islam Jacob (Patrons), Nahim Razzaq (Convener), Mahjabeen Moshad (Co-convener), Razee Fakhrul, Pir Mez-ba, Golam Farooq Prince, AKM Arusunal Chowdhury Duke. l

Customs seize 16 gold bars in Ctg airport, 1 held n Tarek Mahmud, Chittagong Chittagong Customs authorities at Shah Amanat International Airport seized 16 gold bars yesterday morning and detained a Dubai-returned passen-ger for illegal possession of these bars.

Moshiur Rahman Mandal, assis-tant commissioner (AC) of Chittagong Customs House in the airport, told the Dhaka Tribune that they seized the bars from Azizul Munir Mahfuz which were hidden in the passengers shoes; when they conducted the drive at a Bangla-desh Biman ight after its landing at the airport around 10:30am in the morning.

The seized bars weighed around 1.866 kg and their value is estimated at Tk80 lakh, he said adding that the seized bars were handed over to the Bangladesh Bank.

The ight was returning from Dubai to Dhaka via Chittagong, said the cus-toms o cial.

Existing law allows a person to carry highest 200 gramsof goldfrom abroad paying necessary duties at the airport, said the AC.

The customs sources said with this recovery around 1,700 gold bars worth about Tk84 crore were seized from the airport in more than 50 drives in the year 2014 while 686 gold bars worth Tk35.30 crore were seized from a total of 16 drives in 2013. l

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Students of Dhaka Universitys Institute of Fine Arts display their decorative items, made to be sold at fairs celebrating Pahela Baishakh, on the institute premises yesterday SYED ZAKIR HOSSAIN

Flouting tra c rules, private cars are seen haphazardly parked in front of the citys New Market yesterday. The indiscriminate parking practice causes the busy street to clog up, resulting in long tailbacks MAHMUD HOSSAIN OPU

A sugar mill was ned for not having an E uent Treatment Plant (ETP) while four others for keeping the ETPs nonoperational

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35th ICT Week and Digital Fair startsn Our correspondent, Munshiganj State Minister for Science and Technol-ogy Architect Yeafes Osman inaugu-rated a two-day long 35th National Sci-ence and Technology Week Celebration Fair and Digital Fair 2014 at the prem-ises of District Shilpakala Academy in Munshiganj yesterday.

A total of 45 stalls were set up in the fair. Students from di erent schools and colleges set up 20 stalls in the fair while district administration, upazila administration, some computer train-ing centres and private institutions ex-hibited the rest of 25 stalls. The stalls

would remain open for visitors from 10am to 6pm today.

State minister went around the fair and talked to the students who participated in the fair. After inaugu-rating the fair, the minister said we fought our liberation war in the name of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rah-man while his daughter, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has ensured smooth de-velopment through digitalizing the na-tion. The new generation has achieved much progress using digital methods and they will work as soldiers in build-ing modern Bangladesh in future. The government is working to reach that

goal so that digitalization could reach the doorsteps of common people.

Before that, Architect Yeafesh Os-man attended a discussion programme as a chief guest organised by the dis-trict administration at the auditorium of District Shilpakala Academy. The meeting was presided over by Deputy Commissioner Md Saiful Hassan Badal. Chief Executive O cer of Zila Parishad Md Mosta zur Rahman, Additional Deputy Commissioner (Education & ICT) Sagorika Nasrin, Assistant Po-lice Super (Sadar Circle) Kutubuddin, Shahedul Kabir, principal of Govt. Haraganga College. l

Two arrested with rearmsn Our Correspondent, Lakshmipur

Border Guard Bangladesh yesterday arrested a local Chhatra League and a Juba League leader from in front of Fatema High School upazila poll centre in Mandari union of Sadar upazila yesterday.

The arrested were identi- ed as Sourav Hossain Rubel, organizing secretary of the district unit BCL and Ati-kul Alam, a ward level Juba League leader.

Police sources said the BGB had arrested them with 3 LGs, 26 bullets and two motorcy-cles while they were moving suspiciously in the area. l

Cracks appear in state-run beach motel n Our Correspondent, Coxs BazarCracks have developed at a govern-ment-run tourist motel in Coxs Bazar.

According to sources, cracks have developed in large parts of the ceil-ing in Motel Shoibal, posing a security threat to tourists visiting the largest beach in the world.

The estab lishment was constructed in 1973 along the Coxs Bazar beach un-der Bangladesh Parjatan Corporation, the governments tourism body.

In 1983, Motel Shoibal and Probal, Upal and Laboni were constructed on 185 acres of land.

The government had to incur losses every year. So the motels had been handed over to the private sector.

In the past, repair works of these motels were limited to plastering and paints.

No basic structural repairs were made.

So, the Parjatan Corporation appoint-ed an engineer to deal with the beauti -cation and repairing of the motels.

Of the motels, Shoibal is especially attractive for its traditional etiquette.

The motel manager Nurul Islam said the cracks were not serious.

The pillars of the restaurant were in perfect condition, he said.

Deputy Commissioner and Beach Management Committee chief Mo-hammad Ruhul Amin said he was not informed of the cracks. The engineer Syed Ullah visited the spot. l

Smuggled drugs seizedn Our Correspondent, Dinajpur

The members of Border Guard Bangladesh yester-day recovered huge quan-tity of Indian smuggled drugs, worth about Tk 2 crore, from Ismailpur eld, a frontier area of the district.

According to sources, acting on a tip-o , a team of the BGB conducted a drive in the area and recovered the contraband. l

KHDC sta assaultedn Our Correspondent, KhagrachhariAt least three sta members at Kha-grachhari Hill District Council (KHDC) were allegedly physically assaulted by contractors yesterday afternoon.

The three were identi ed as Jibo Jyoti Chakma, o ce assistant, Mo zur Rahman Molla, his assistant, and Mintu Das, o ce peon.

According to KHDC sources, the scu e was the result of a show-cause notice sent by the KHDC to Ashutosh Tripura, a contractor. Ashutosh was given a contract to supply food to Mo-halchhari Residential School, run by the KHDC. The district council o ce sent him the notice as he was not following all the conditions in the contract. An-gered, Ashutosh, along with his associ-ates Swapan and Sultan Ahmed, went to the KHDC o ce around 11:30am demanding to know why he had been served with the notice.

They physically assaulted us as we asked him to talk with the concerned o cer, said Mo z, one of the victims.

When contacted, Ashutosh admit-ted to being involved in the incident and said they had punished the KHDC sta because they had demanded bribe in order to withdraw the show-cause notice.

Mohammad Mizanur Rahman, OC at Khagrachhari Sadar police station, said they knew about the incident and the victims had been taken to Khagrach-hari Sadar Hospital for primary treat-ment.

Protesting the assault, the KHDC sta staged a strike starting from 12pm-4pm on the same day, but they re-turned to work following the assurance of justice from KHDC Chairman Chai Tow Aung Marma, Mizanur added.

The ling of a case with the police station in this regard was in progress, the OC con rmed. l

Slaughtered body recovered in Bhairab, two arrestedn Our Correspondent, Kishoreganj

Police recovered a mans slaughtered body from Chondiber area in Bhairab upazila, Kishoreganj yesterday, arresting two in connection with the murder.

The deceased was iden-ti ed as Humayun Mia, 22, from Mollapara village under Kishoreganj Sadar upazila.

According to police and local sources, Humayun worked at an iron factory in Chondiber and lived in a rented house in the same area with neighbours Anis, his wife Mukta and brother-in-law Litan. Mukta had run away with a man named Nay-an, who also worked in the factory, a week before. But Anis suspected Humayun was the reason his wife had left him for. Furious, Anis slit Humayuns throat in his sleep at early hours yester-day and ed the scene imme-diately.

Hearing noises from Hu-mayuns house, the locals rushed there and sent him to Bhairab upazila health complex in critical condi-tion, where he succumbed to death around 6am.

Later, locals con ned Litan and his wife Sanoara when they tried to ee from the house and handed them over to police.

Sharafat Ali, OC at Bhairab police station, said a case had been led with the police in this regard and the arrestees were being interrogated. l

Cracks have developed in the ceiling in Motel Shoibal, posing a security threat to tourists DHAKA TRIBUNE

The estab lishment was constructed in 1973 along the Coxs Bazar beach under Bangladesh Parjatan Corporation

BANGLADESH BANKCOMMON SERVICES DEPARTMENT-2

HEAD OFFICEMOTIJHEEL C/A,

DHAKA, BANGLADESH.Website: www.bangladeshbank.org.bd

INVITATION FOR TENDERS THROUGH WEB

Tender no: CSD2:5/EES/JACH/97/2014 Date: 07-04-2014

Tenders through electronic media (e-Tenders) are invited form the bona de contractors/ rms/authorized suppliers or their local agent/Distributor /reputed manufacturers Supply, installation, testing & commissioning of brand new Sound system for Jahangir Alam Conference Hall at 4th oor of Main building, Bangladesh Bank, Head Of ce, Dhaka. Necessary information are given below:

01 Procuring Entity : Common Services Department-2, Bangladesh Bank, Head of ce, Dhaka.

02 Source of Funds : Bangladesh Banks own fund.

03 Invitation for Tender No. : CSD2:5/EES/JACH/97/2014

04 Method of Procurement. : Open Tendering Method (OTM), National.

05 Eligibility of Tenderer : a) General Experience: The Tenderer (contractors/ rms/ authorized Suppliers or their local agent/Distributor/reputed manufacturers) having minimum 05(Five) years in supply & installation of sound system business experience.

b) Speci c Experience: Having the experience in supply, installation, testing & commissioning of 01 (One) sound system consisting of at least 01 no. ampli er, 05nos. Wireless microphone with receiver and 15w speakers under a single contract in the last 03(three) years in any Govt./Semi-Govt./Autonomous organization in Bangladesh. The Tenderer shall have to furnish certi cate in this respect from the Of ces not below the rank of Executive Engineer/managing Director or equivalent and shall meet all other criteria, terms & conditions as speci ed in Tender document.

c) liquid Assets/Credit Facilities: Minimum liquid assets/credit facility shall be 8.0 lac. In case of credit facilities Bank ensures that the above mentioned credit limit will be given if the said work is awarded to the contractor.

06 Address of the Web Receiving Tender Document

: Submit in Web: www.bangladeshbank.org.bd www.bangladesh-bank.org (e-Tender)

07 Name & Address of the Of ces Receiving Tender Security & Other Documentary Evidence.

: General Manager, Common Services Department-2 (6th oor of 30-storied Building), Bangladesh Bank, Head Of ce, Dhaka.

08 Last Date and Time for Submission of Tender Document through web.

30-4-2014 up to 3:00 PM

09 Last Date and Time for receiving Original Tender security and Tender Submission Letter.

: 30-4-2014 up to 3:15 PM

10 Date, Time and Place for Tender Opening

: All Tenders will be opened at Common Services Department-2 (6th oor of 30-stored Building), Bangladesh Bank, Head Of ce, Dhaka on 30-4-2014 at 3:15 PM (Intending Tenderers or their authorized representatives are allowed to attend the Tender Opening).

11 Brief Description of the goods and Services

: Supply, installation, testing & commissioning of brand new Sound system for Jahangir Alam Conference Hall at 4th oor of Main building, Bangladesh Bank, Head Of ce, Dhaka to be completed on Package/Turn-Key job basis including 12(twelve)months full warranty obligations.

12 Time for completion of the work : 45(Forty Five)days from the date of issue of Contract Award.

13 Tender Security : TK 30,000.00(Taka thirty thousand) only.

14 Special Instruction : i) The Tenderer shall submit tender and scanned copy of documentary evidence with Pdf. format through Bangladesh Bank Web site (e-Tendering) & must have valid e-mail address for participation through e-Tendering.

ii) Original PO/BD/Bank Guarantee as Tender Security along with original Tender Submission letter (G-1 form) must reach at General Manager, Common Services Department-2, within stipulated date and time of TDS.

iii) Tenderer should provide documentary evidence etc. (attested or original whichever necessary) when requested, failing which the Tender may be considered as non-responsive.

iv) G-1 form should be completed and signed by the Authorized Signatory on the Letter-Head Pad, attached by scanning during submitting tender and original should be sent to General Manager, CSD-2 within scheduled time as per TDS.

v) Furnishing of any false, misleading documents may result in rejection of tender and may lead to action under Rules 127 of PPR 2008/ Reg 12 of BBPR 2004.

vi) Bangladesh Bank authority reserves the right to accept in full/in part or to reject any or all tenders without assigning any reason whatsoever.

(Md. Mohoshin)DCP: 48/2014-1206, Date: 09-04-2014 General ManagerDG-67/14(124) Common Services Department-2

Knowing our constitution: The smart way

n Abdullah Al Arif

Protection of the Rights of the Persons with Disabilities Act, 2013 was passed with a view to ensuring the rights and dignity of persons with disabilities. The newly enacted law will abolish the former Bangladesh Persons with Disability Welfare Act, 2001. The aim of the act is to guarantee the educational, physical and mental improvement of disabled persons and to support their participation in social and state activities by removing all sorts of discrimination. Bangladesh has enacted this legislation to comply with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Persons with Disabilities, of which Bangladesh is a party to.

Who is considered as disabled?According to the law, any person su ering from the follow-ing forms of disorders are considered as disabled: autism or autism spectrum disorders, physical disability, mental illness leading to disability, visual in rmity, speech impair-ment, intellectual disability, hearing in rmity, deaf-blind-ness, cerebral palsy, down syndrome, multiple disability, and other disabilities.

The national coordination committee for the protectionof the rights of the disabled personsA national coordination committee shall be formulated, it will be headed by the minister of ministry of social welfare and comprised of secretaries of various ministries. The primary function of the committee is to coordinate the ac-tivities undertaken by the government, constitutional and national non-government entities with a view to protecting the rights of the persons with disabilities.

Rights accorded to the disabled personsThe law stipulated 21 rights for the disabled persons. The disabled persons must get the national identity cards, and be listed in the voters roll. Even, they will be able to contest in the polls. The new law will help make the people with disabilities capable of contributing to the countrys devel-opment and welfare. According to the newly enacted law, another 19-member national executive committee, headed by the social welfare secretary, will work for national imple-mentation of the law, and ensures the following rights:

1. To survive and grow in full 2. Legal recognition in every sphere of life, and access to

justice3. Right to inheritance4. Freedom of expression and opinion, and access to in-

formation5. To live in a society with parents, legitimate or legal

guardian and children, and to have marital relations and to form families

6. Accessibility7. To participate fully and e ectively in social, economic

and state activities according to the type of disability8. To attend every level of education and educational in-

stitutions either special or integrated, subject to the receipt of appropriate bene ts

9. To be employed in government and private institu-tions

10. If disability occurs while in service, to continue in ser-vice, or to get appropriate rehabilitation

11. To get a safe and healthy environment and protection from persecution

12. Subject to availability, the highest quality of health services

13. To have congenial environment for the convenience and reasonable accommodation in all areas including education and work

14. To get appropriate service and rehabilitation to attain physical, mental and technical capacity in order to fully integrate in all aspects of the society

15. To obtain safe housing and rehabilitation, as far as pos-sible, for individuals with disabilities who are depen-dent on the parents and subsequently isolated from parents

16. To participate in culture, entertainment, tourism, lei-sure and sporting activities

17. According to the desire of hearing-impaired and speech-impaired persons, as far as possible, Bengali sign language to be accepted as the rst language

18. To have con dentiality of personal information 19. To form self- supporting organisations and welfare as-

sociations 20. To receive national identity cards, inclusion in the list

of voters, to give vote and to participate in elections 21. Any other rights prescribed by the government by no-

ti cation in the o cial gazette

Reservation of seats for persons with disabilities in public transportAccording to the law, ve percent of the total number of seats in any public transport shall have to be reserved for persons with disabilities within the period speci ed by the govern-ment by noti cation in the o cial gazette. If the owner or the authority of any public transport contravenes this provi-sion, or if any driver, supervisor or conductor does not help a disabled person to take a seat in the reserved seats, the registration of that public transport shall be cancelled upon investigation and recommendation by the committee.

Admission of disabled person in educational institutions No educational institution shall reject the application for admission of any person only because of the disability of such person despite having all other quali cations. If any educational institution breaches this provision and dis-criminates against any the disabled person, the agrieved may lodge a complaint to the concerned committee.

If any such complain is received by the committee, the committee may take necessary measures against the head of the institute or the concerned authority after giving the head or the authority an opportunity to be heard.

Ensuring accessibility for disabled persons in public structuresTo ensure accessibility for disabled persons in all public structures, Building Construction Act, 1952 and rules made thereunder shall be followed. After the commencement of this Act, necessary facilities have to be installed in all public structures for the disabled people to ascend, move and to make those easily accessible as soon and as much as pos-sible. Here, public buildings mean all public and private buildings, parks, stations, ports, terminals and roads.

Non-discrimination in employment due to disability Despite being quali ed for a position, which is suitable for a disabled person according to the type of disability, no dis-abled person shall be deprived of or discriminated against in getting such position.

If any question arises as to whether any position is suit-able for any disabled person, the national coordination committee shall provide necessary instruction and the in-struction provided by the national coordination committee shall be nal.

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Bangladesh ConstitutionThe Bangladesh Constitution app in Bengali pro-vides an easily searchable and readable format which contains all the essential parts of the constitution. It will enrich the peoples knowledge of their nations laws. It ensures that a majority of the countrys citi-zens know the constitution. With this knowledge, we can intelligently hold our leaders accountable for the violation of our constitutional rights. The Constitu-tion provides the legal foundation for the existence of Bangladesh, sets out the rights and duties of its citizens, and de nes the structure of the government, and many more. This app is developed by MCC Ltd and has a 4.3 star rating on Google Play. The size of the app is 2.1MB.

Constitution of BangladeshThis is another Android app on the Bangladesh constitution which has been developed with the aim to familiarise Bangladeshi citizens with the very document that treasures their rights and obligations. The app provides our future nation-builders with easy access to the nations constitution. Be it for academic purpose or just to browse through dur-ing a long commute, one may use this application to help them be more informed. Tech Volunteerism has developed this application which has a 4.4 star rating on Google Play. The size of the app is 629KB.

Bangladesh Constitution-BanglaThis is a very useful app for those who are keen on knowing the provisions of the constitution in Bengali. This application is developed in light of the latest 15th amendment of the constitution, the supreme law of the land. Through this application, users will get a working knowledge of the constitution in an easily accessible and user-friendly style. This app was developed by Mr Rayan Marzan and supported by the education, research and public interest (ERP) wing of Amir and Amir Law associates. Version 2.1.4 of the app is available now. The size of the application is 1.2MB and currently has a 4.4 star rating on Google Play.

Many people are using Smartphones nowadays and they want everything to be in the form of apps. Good news for them. A couple of Android apps on the constitution of Bangladesh are now available on Google app store. One can download and install any of these to have the constitution of Bangladesh at their ngertips. Here are three Android apps that may come in handy.

Thursday, April 10, 2014DHAKA TRIBUNE World8

UNWRAPPING MUMMIES ANCIENT MYSTERIES Archie will be killed o in upcoming comic book!n Agencies American television channel CNN broke the news about the impending death of Archie Andrews, the happy-go-lucky redhead from Riverdale and star of Archie comics. But the truth of his demise is complicated.

Archie will meet his end in Life With Archie, a ash-forward series that depicts two possible futures for the character as an adult: one in which he marries Betty and one in which he is wedded to Veronica.

The cover of issue No. 36 of Life with Archie shows him in a pool of blood, cra-dled by the two most important women in his life, with his eyes closed and shirt soaked red. (The real Archie, who is eternally a teenager, and whose ad