DCC split, in order to ensure better services: PM

Bangladesh singing bath Sangstha. Dhaka

The Prime Minister, Sheikh Hasina, said that the Dhaka City Corporation into two parts divided has been decided in order to ensure better services for their citizens.

' It is not true that we are Division Dhaka, would remain in its original form. But we are two city form companies with the enlarged areas of Dhaka City, "she said."

The Prime Minister has this taking of the oath-taking ceremony of the Mayor and city councillors of Narayanganj City Corporation in her Office on Sunday.

Hasina, said that divide a Bill Dhaka City Corporation in the current session of Parliament had been brought, such as the city now to Narayanganj in the Southeast and Tongi in the North converted to by been.

She said, was the number of city dwellers increasing day by day and it was impossible to expand services for people from one point.

'Number of the population, the Government has informed management the police in eight zones, appropriate services,' she added.

The Prime Minister said her Government wanted to strengthen the local government offices to the decentralization of power. "We are tirelessly working for the welfare of the people," she said.

She said her Government believed also in empowerment of people and it had been shown in the NCC elections.

"I had surveys in the open, fair and peaceful atmosphere at all costs to keep under the direction of the authorities, the NCC and the people had exercised their voting rights, as their choice," she said.

The Prime Minister asked the newly elected Mayor and city councillors of Narayanganj City Corporation meet the hopes and ambitions of the townspeople mandate the Corporation has carried out.

In this context, Hasina, announced that her Government full cooperation the lost honour of the port city of Narayanganj restore would extend.

In addition, she said, would special attention to the development of the NCC be given as to the Mayor of the city is a woman, because the believe in empowering women.

Prime Minister of the country, Deputy Chairman of the House and the leader of the opposition are women and the Government has empowerment of women through elections directly for women representatives in the local body polls to ensure.

Earlier, the Prime Minister manages the oath of Office newly elected Mayor Selina Hayat Ivy, while Foreign Secretary Syed Ashraful Islam administered the oath of the members of the Council LGRD and cooperatives.

Ministers, consultants, members of Parliament and defined persons from Narayanganj were carried Khan in the function of LGRD and cooperatives Secretary Abu Alam Shahid.

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Dhaka can account today, city JS share

Staff correspondent

The Parliament is all set, a bill of the Government wants to divide the city Dhaka today passed.

At a meeting on Sunday, a parliamentary Committee approved the Bill with nominal changes.

The law is to the local government changes in the law, to divide Dhaka in two cities.

The Committee approved the Bill in the record of five days, since it it for testing.

The Government introduced the local government (City Corporation) (Amendment) Bill 2001 in the House on 23 November and on the same day Parliament it sent to the Standing Committee for the control.

The Awami League led Government took the movement for the separation from the historic city in the face of stiff opposition from civil society, which opposition party as well as the Mayor even offered to withdraw the Dhaka, hastily and stay away from the nearest town surveys in its call to the regime not to divide Dhaka.

The Committee for the Ministry of local government and rural development is expected to be the Bill to the Parliament today to return.

The Bill which would authorize the Government to the historical city Dhaka divided Dhaka City South and Dhaka City North always right.

Contrary to applicable local Government Bill is law change want to silence about the provision that a new mayor of Dhaka has 180 days after expiration of the term of the sitting Mayor are elected.

After the change of the local Government Act would the Government the Mayor of Dhaka, Sadeq Hossain Khoka, share empower the Dhaka City Corporation

in two city companies and their administrators expect appoint the new mayor of the new cities.

The Bill also proposes sharing of assets and liabilities, records, documents and other materials by Dhaka City Corporation between the two companies in new city.

Parliament sources said that the meeting was probably postponed in a day or two.

Members said that the Standing Committee only a few words on the qualifications of the administrators of the two new city company for Dhaka deleted.

You said that the Committee the words ' first class' of ' first class of civil servant ' deleted which determines the qualification of civil servants, the Government would change of local government granted right power to appoint the administrators of the two new cities.

The Government on the appointment of officials or other persons would authorize law amended the local government, thinks it is competent, as administrators are elected to two Mayor for the new towns.

The Standing Committee approved the Bill in five days only-e-Alam Chowdhury said its Member States.

The meeting, he said that the Parliament would result in the law today.

Secretary of State for LGRD Jahangir Kabir Nanak introduced the Bill in the Parliament on 23.

Only-e-Alam said the Committee approved a separate invoice to took Parishad legislative changes and it would be passed also by Parliament today.

He said that the term of Office of the administrator of 90 days and a new administrator has be appointed after 90 days.

The existing local government legislation allows no removal by administrator appointed an elected mayor or his or her replacement.

The Bill left out forces from the definition of law enforcement troops in municipal elections excluded.

Following the change of the local Government would right that two new towns are divided 92 districts (ku) of the historic city of Dhaka.

After that Dhaka North City Corporation would include wards 1, 55 and Dhaka South city districts (ku) 56, 92 would include.

Justification of the distribution of the city says the Bill it was difficult crore people from a centre to voluntary services to one.

In its objectives for the Division of the city, the Bill, said that the people always were not the civic amenities.

On 31 October, the Cabinet approved the Bill for the Division of the city of Dhaka.

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No surveys without caretakers, army deployment: Khaleda

The BNP, Khaleda Zia, addresses one rally in Jessore Eidgah Maidan on Sunday on the final day of the party Street March to the southern part of the country. -New-age-photo

Khadimul Islam and Saifur Rahman. Khulna

The Bangladesh nationalist party leader, Khaleda Zia, on Sunday said that national elections without an interim Government and without deployment of army troops would be accepted.

"We will not accept any"

Vote under the Awami League Government. National elections without an interim Government and deployment of army troops may not in the country,' told a large rally in Khulna.

Khaleda, also leader who said opposition in Parliament, that the country's sovereignty is at stake was and urged the Awami League led Government withdraw, if it could accept the issue of Tipaimukh dam bold steps.

You reassured the Government that their party would extend support if it takes a tough stance against Tipaimukh dam. "If the Government can take no hard agreement, no one country would give everything," she said.

You pledged any step of the controversial dam on the River Barak to create a joint survey and technical assessment was carried out by Bangladesh and India to the Tipaimukh.

Khaleda wrapped their third road March by pressing a public rally on the grounds of Khulna circuit House. They referred to the great participation at their rallies and track meet a character of the mass awakening. 'The Earth is to turn awakening in a popular uprising against the Government,' we hope it.

The former Prime Minister invites the local opposition to a joint venture project with India coal based on Rampal in Bagerhat build for the establishment of a power plant. "We [BNP and allies] and environmentalists will be you, the movement for the construction of the power that threatens to stop the biodiversity in Sundarban," added to it.

'The Government should be ousted to save the country and democracy,' she said, calling people on the anti-Government movement.

Khaleda, addressing another rally in Jessore Eidgah Maidan, called for people to decide whether they displace the Awami League led Government or would the country lose the sovereignty.

' To the entire County is its independence and sovereignty lose when the Awami League Government in power remains. The Government is doing everything to a province of India, Bangladesh make ' it claims.

"The Government takes place loan to great interest from the neighbouring country for the construction of roads for transportation of transit of Indian goods, but no roads for the people of the country be made," she said.

Khaleda said, that people not ready, the interest rates on credits for the interest of another country to pay. They urged the Government to build roads for the development of the country by the money as a loan from India.

The BNP accused the Government of the politicization of the justice, civilian, military and police forces and criticized for it a good number axing civilian, military and police officers from jobs in political revenge.

She said that the BNP Government would reinstate-led Alliance, if elected to power 'illegal' by ends.

Khaleda claims that India planned, heavy equipment by Akhaura for gas exploration and construction of Tipaimukh dam to be transported.  "No such heavy equipment is allowed, be transported through Akharua at our expense," she said.

The BNP-led Alliance organized the road with the aim of public support for the opposition Mach central demands, including the restoration of the system to mobilize caretaker Government which was scrapped by the 15th amendment to the Constitution in June of this year.

Leaders of the BNP, Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami and Liberal Democratic Party and other components of the Alliance also has the rallies.

Khaleda area began the March Street on Saturday in the capital of Uttara. Hundreds set BNP and its allies of bows on the route of the March, to welcome the leader of the opposition.

The convoy headed by Khaleda began his journey on the second day of the Jessore circuit House 11: 25 to there to stay overnight. After the rally, the caravan of Bagerhat went where Khaleda Fateha Khan Jahan Ali Shrine offered.

It calls on the Government, take without delay measures for the procurement of paddy and rice, as the price of Aman paddy picking season harvest dramatically fell.

To create connection of Daulatdia and Paturia - said to two bridges over the River Padma - at the current location and others when BNP was elected in the next elections to power.

People tree-lined street in places like the convoy for Khulna redirected. They chanted slogans, clapped and showered petals as the caravan passed.

Khaleda led their first road March to Sylhet on 10 October and the second at Chapainawabganj on September 18.

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Call for resistance against imperialism building

Leader of the Socialist Party of Bangladesh and international anti-imperialist and solidarity coordinate the third international anti-imperialist Conference in Dhaka people's Committee opened on Sunday. -Sourav Losker

Dhaka Confce begins

Moloy Saha

A three-day international anti-imperialist Conference began in Dhaka on Sunday with a vow, global aggression to continue the fight against imperialism and capitalism.

The Conference, jointly organized by the international anti-imperialist and people solidarity Coordination Committee and the Socialist Party of Bangladesh, 12: 00 noon on the Mahanagar Natyamancha opened.

Manik Mukherjee, Secretary General of IAPSCC and a central leader of the

Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communists), said that people were all over the world against imperialism and capitalism and their movements were gaining momentum.

"Even the Americans rise against capitalism corporate greed." Wall occupy the youngest Street campaign in the financial centre of capitalism succeeded, "he said at the opening session of the Conference.

He urged the people in South Asia to build up a strong resistance against imperialism of evil designs in the region.

He criticized the majority of the left-wing political parties not India as 'imperialist' country India for testing. "But we keep India as an imperialist country because of their anti-people role", he said.

The Conference economic, political and cultural aggression throughout the world with particular reference to his occupation and military intervention in the Middle East, Afghanistan and evil designs against democratic will discuss ways to combat imperialism Republic of Korea and progressive countries in Latin America, said the organizers.

There are also the progress of the movement in Bangladesh, its natural resources such as oil, natural gas and coal, to store, she said.

About 150 people from left-wing political parties of 25 countries including the United States, France, Italy, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Syria, Egypt, Palestine, Venezuela and Ghana, Conference participating, they said.

At the beginning of the Conference, the delegates tributes to those who laid down their lives in the anti-imperialist movements around the world paid.

Also a procession brought the organizers demoed, the different roads before returning to the venue. The procession took more than 10,000 activists of the SPB.

IAPSCC President Ramsay clerk, also a former Attorney General of United States and Kamal United Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) Chairman Puspakamal Dahal Dahal, which were scheduled to participate in the Conference, came to Dhaka due to "unavoidable circumstances", not the promoter said, adding that it messages, which the event successfully sent.

SPB Secretary-General Khalequzzaman, who said the opening session, chaired, that they were fighting is passed for the order to protect natural resources of the country by Western companies.

As America "An enemy of humanity, peace and civilization", which U.S. delegate Sara plaice said that they were fighting against their Government of imperialist aggression.

Communist Party of Bangladesh President Manzurul Ahsan Khan, SPB Central leader Mobinul Hayder Chowdhury, Subhrangshu Chakrabarty, Zahidul Haque Milu, Bazlur Rashid Firoz and Razequzzaman Ratan, among others attended the opening session.

Two meetings of delegates will take place today in the Auditorium of Mahanagar Natyamancha.

The Conference will close on 29 November with the adoption of the "Dhaka Declaration".

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Leap has triggers protest again

Capital market investors take to the streets in above of the building of Dhaka stock exchange at Motijheel on Sunday, their anger about stock price fall. vent - Sony Ramany

Staff correspondent

Dhaka stocks suffered a massive crash on Sunday, and a number of private investors, uncertain about the effectiveness of the capital market stimulus package announced by the Securities and Exchange Commission and its implementation, to go on the road.

The General benchmark index of the Dhaka stock exchange, or DGEN, is to close 5.73 percent on the day to 5,065.17 points.

Private investors staged a demonstration before the DSE building in Motijheel demanding immediate implementation of the commitments made by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina a week ago.

"We have on the Prime Minister ensure stabilization of the market and announces a mechanism for the recovery of the capital losses, which were by the retail banks." But the SEC has failed

Give such measures in the package Bail-Out' Bangladesh capital market investors Council President Mizanur Rashid Chowdhury, said.

He said if the announced measures really help, the market would then immediately to prove them to the Government, should implement its effectiveness.

Also, he claimed that "a vested quarter is deliberately spreading panic through the bulk import sale of shares and the SEC should identify".

If the market is not stabilised in the next two days, starts the small investors, he announced a tough program.

The DSE building and a human chain gathered made about 14: 10 investors from various brokerage firms. They chanted slogans against Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith, Bangladesh Bank Governor Atiur Rahman and DSE President Shakil Rizvi.

The demonstrators brought also a series of processions at regular intervals, presented by the Shapla square, Ittefaq intersection. The demonstration of the company ended at 16: 00 at the investment company: Bangladesh.

The day saw also the turnover of the stock exchange previous trading session fell to TK 451.43 crore of the TK 530.92 crore in the.

Market participants said that the reduced turnover pointed out that institutional investors still on the market be active.

"Stimulus package could not fully expectations of investors and we saw the result today," Salahuddin said Ahmed Khan, Professor of finance at the University of Dhaka, new age.

He said: "the market bail out package modifies not the scenario within a day or two and investors need to understand that."

Said the Professor, also a former Chief Executive Officer of the DSE, some relief would offer the measures announced for the banks, but she would be increasing their share of the market before the close December unable.

The SEC, in accordance with the Prime Minister instructions, announced on Wednesday a 21-point economic stimulus package with short, to stabilize Central and long-term measures to increase the participation of banks and their financial institutions to the market.

The short-term measures of the package include loosening the banks exposure system calculation and expand their individual borrowers exposure period. The income tax of imposed on foreign institutional investors and non-residents Bengali include the stimuli also retreat.

"The investors have an overnight change after the announcement of the stimulus package expected." Implementation of the measures announced will take some time, but ' DSE President Shakil Rizvi said new age.

He advised retail investors not to panic and go for long term investment and trading plan.

SEC officials refused any comment on the market situation on Sunday to make.

The DGEN won 947 points in four trading days last week after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina intervention to stability on the market get, after the index jump a 560-point in three days since the resumption of share trading on the DSU after Eid holiday.

The 254 issued traded on Sunday, only seven advanced, with all remaining 247 bag suffer a decline.

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Cleaner skeptical about NGOs, for you

An NGO employee teaches children of the cleaner in a makeshift school in the district a community at the Dayaganj in Dhaka. -Ali Hossain Mintu

Ershad Kamol

Cleaners in Dhaka complain that many are simply the NGOs in the slums 'Business' and not, work to improve their living conditions.

They said that many offer the NGOs to make it easy to profit microcredits them and not to improve their living conditions.

The cleaners, said as the sweepers are now officially called, that some small NGOs the micro-credit, with local or foreign funds programs that interests at exorbitant prices, sometimes as high as 40 percent for free.

Some of these NGOs are also education, health, and

Safe, the water projects in the slums, where Kanpuri and Madrassi cleaner life, adding

The Kanpupris and the Madrassis have been cleaner for generations, in contrast to the Bangalis, which was only recently to the occupation.

"A foreign NGO, which had no longer works in Bangladesh opened a collective savings account for our women in the Ganoktuli, but that account holders never received the money that they deposited had, if these NGOs stopped their activities" Bangladesh Harijan Oikkya Parisad General Secretary Nirmal Chandra Das said new age.

' Health and education programs by NGOs us much, not because they are often abruptly liquidated without prior notice, "he said."

"In fact, most of the NGOs, with exception of the large, for their own benefits, approach", Harijan Oikya Parishad said President Krisna Lal.

He preferred the larger NGO "support us in the negotiations with the Government", he said.

"We want to the NGOs to us available, vocational training, no loans," said Krishna Lal.

He said that the NGOs run programmes for the cleaners of the NGO Affairs or with the Government Department of social welfare are combined.

The officer said the NGO Affairs Bureau, not sector way keeps information information on health and education projects of NGOs for the cleaner.

'As each project multi dimensional, it is not possible for us to, specific statistics on funds for a specific sector for a given community', Deputy Director AKM Moazzem Hossain said new age NGO Affairs Bureau.

"And we have connected any information about the locally-funded NGOs with the Department for social prevention, running such programs," he said.

Department of social welfare could not even give any information about means of NGOs on education, health, hygiene and safe, output of water projects for the cleaners.

Welfare Minister Enamul Hoque Mostafa Shaheed new age said the Government was trying more closely with NGOs to make the programmes in improving the living conditions of the cleaner more efficient.

'We have to find a better plan for most of the cleaners and other marginal communities, discussions with the NGOs,' he said.

Managing Director of Manusher Jonno Foundation Shaheen Anam said new age that the Foundation provides technical support to the cleaners Harijan in its negotiations with the Government for their rights.

She admitted that the NGOs run programmes for the cleaners had some limitations as they were dependent on donor funding for the projects.

"they can not continue that if donors financing stop projects", she said.

Shaheen Anam, said, however, that the NGOs should take comprehensive projects instead of sector wise projects.

She also said that the cleaners have to get better living conditions to fight and rights 'we only they can forward go.'

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Muhith seeks support from WB, IMF

United News of Bangladesh . Dhaka

The finance minister. Abul Maal Abdul Muhith, stressed the need for enhanced budget support from the World Bank and Balance of Payment support from the IMF.

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

He said Bangladesh’s public investments and expenditures were carefully planned and designed for achieving core of development objectives such as brining women to the forefront of the development, creating jobs, maintaining price stability, generating power and energy, devising food and social security programme and combating climate change impacts.

He noted that all these efforts need to be supplemented through budget support under the Poverty Reduction Support Credit(PRSC)programme of the World Bank and balance of payment support under the Extended Credit Facility(ECF)of the IMF.

‘Such supports would be key in creating fiscal space and mitigating pressure on the already strained country’s balance of payment’, he added.

Highlighting achievements of Bangladesh in maintaining a stable macroeconomic situation in the face if global economic downturn, particularly in areas such as balance of payments, maintaining stable export growth, expansion of domestic demand, strong performance in rural and agricultural sectors meeting power crisis and sustaining an overall growth rate of over 6%, the Finance Minister said that Bangladesh rightfully deserved budget support from the World Bank for additional investment it had to make to achieve them.

Muhith, also the Governor of the World Bank and IMF for Bangladesh, said Bangladesh has placed poverty alleviation central to its development efforts and allocated up to 53.12 percent of the budget for poverty reducing expenditure.

Referring to the experiences of the global financial crisis, the Finance Minister urged upon the Governors for restructuring the global, financial, monetary and architecture.

He proposed that G20 or the Board of Governors should inscribe restructuring as an agenda item to initiate a meaningful restructuring of the global financial system.

He put forward concrete suggestions for considerations including giving G20 informal mechanism, some legal court, managing liquidity by the global public sector, enhanced monitoring and surveillance of the IMF.

He reiterated the need for enhanced focus by the World Bank on mediating surplus resources for investment in deficit countries, enhanced efforts to overcome poverty and hunger, devising a pragmatic trade financing system and managing volatility of commodity prices, particularly those of fooed grains and petroleum.

Muhith is leading a high level 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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NTC fighters enter Sirte

  National Transitional Council fighters prepare their weapons prior their fights in the city of Sirte on Saturday. ­— AFP photo

Agence France-Presse . Sirte

Hundreds of fighters for Libya’s new rulers thrust into Muammar Gaddafi’s hometown of Sirte from the east on Sunday, as NATO warplanes pounded the coastal city for a second straight day.

Flashing V-for-victory signs, the fighters moved into Sirte on pickup trucks and larger lorries, backed by three artillery tanks as they shouted ‘Allahu Akbar’ (God is greatest), an AFP correspondent said.

Other fighters loyal to the National Transitional Council held their ground west of the Mediterranean city, as deadly clashes also raged in the western oasis of Ghadames near the Algerian border.

And west of Sirte, NTC forces assembled outside Bani Walid for a fresh assault on the town, the only other remaining Gaddafi redoubt.

As they rolled in from Sirte’s eastern gate, two ambulances sped out with sirens ablaze, and other NTC fighters emerged from the Gaddafi bastion, where they said there were small arms firefights.

‘We are fighting with Kalashnikovs and small arms around the city centre,’ Mar’ee Saleh of the Ali Hassan Jabar Brigade said.

‘We are firing at Gaddafi’s men but their return fire is not very strong,’ he said as he exited from the eastern gate.

Saleh added that ‘NATO carried out several strikes today. I saw them myself.’

Many of the pickup trucks entering the city carried food and water supplies, as well as mattresses, an indication the fighters were planning to take positions inside Sirte, the correspondent said.

West of Sirte, however, NTC forces held their ground saying they had received instructions not to launch a fresh assault into Sirte to allow NATO to carry out operations.

On the political front, NTC chief Mustafa Abdel Jalil said an interim government would be announced next week and that Gaddafi’s internationally ‘banned weapons’ were now under its control.

Earlier, one of the fighters stationed at Sirte’s eastern gate said fighters were looking for land mines.

‘We fear that Gaddafi forces have buried land mines on the outskirts of the city. So we are careful. So far today it has been quiet after heavy clashes yesterday,’ said frontline fighter Abdul Hameed.

Fighters stationed west of Sirte told another AFP correspondent they had been told by the NATO coalition to stay put on Sunday and hold back a planned new assault on the city.

NATO aircraft launched at least a dozen air strikes around Sirte on Sunday morning, a correspondent said.

On Saturday, NATO warplanes blew up 29 armed vehicles, a firing position, two command and control nodes and three ammunition storage facilities in the area, the alliance said in an operational update.

On Saturday fighters entered Sirte in what appeared to be a pincer movement from the south and the east.

‘Our troops went seven kilometres inside through the eastern gate and there were sporadic to sometimes heavy clashes with Gaddafi’s forces,’ said commander Mohammed al-Marimi of the Fakriddin Sallabi Brigade.

Misrata Military Council spokesman Abdel Ibrahim said seven NTC fighters were killed and 145 wounded.

The fighters used tanks and pickups mounted with anti-aircraft guns to clear roadblocks set up by Gaddafi forces and drove towards Sirte city centre, erecting their own defences in advanced positions.

On a beach road surrounded by craters and pock-marked buildings, a 106mm anti-tank cannon repeatedly pounded Gaddafi positions, backed by a barrage of mortar fire and multiple rocket-launchers.

One Sirte resident who managed to flee early on Sunday said fighting subsided at around 7:00pm on Saturday.

‘There are African mercenaries roaming across the city. They are firing at houses with anti-aircraft guns in district one’ on the western edge of Sirte, he said, refusing to give his name for security reasons.

He also said he twice saw one of Gaddafi’s sons, Mutassim — once in a command centre in a hospital basement, over the past three weeks.

Front line fighters in Sirte have repeatedly said Mutassim is holed up in its southern outskirts.

Saturday’s assault came after reports of a rapidly deteriorating humanitarian situation in the city of around 75,000.

NATO forces struck at Gaddafi forces after reports emerged from Sirte of ‘executions, hostage-taking, and the calculated targeting of individuals, families, and communities within the city,’ a coalition statement said.

The assault on Ghadames, 600 kilometres southwest of Tripoli, came at dawn, killing at least eight NTC fighters and wounding 50, said Muhandes Sirajeddin, deputy chief of the local council.

‘The attack began at around 5:30am (0330 GMT). Around 100 Gaddafi loyalists, including mercenaries who came from around Algeria (across the border), and groups of Tuareg took part in the fighting,’ he said.

Sirajeddin and two other residents said clashes were still under way in Ghadames, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and home to Roman ruins.

Heavy fighting also raged in Bani Walid, the only other remaining pro-Gaddafi bastion, with NTC fighters coming under fire from inside the town, an AFP correspondent said.

NTC commander Omar Mukhtar said his men are ‘regrouping’ but would not attack on Sunday.

‘We are getting ready,’ he said, as an AFP correspondent saw five tanks rolling up to the front line.

NTC forces believe that Gaddafi’s most prominent son, Seif al-Islam, is holed up in Bani Walid. ‘We know exactly where he is,’ Mukhtar said.

Meanwhile, the remains of more than 1,700 prisoners executed in 1996 by jailers at Tripoli’s notorious Abu Salim prison have been found in a mass grave in the capital, a National Transitional Council spokesman said Sunday.

‘We found the place where all these martyrs were buried,’ said Khalid Sharif, spokesman of the NTC’s military council, adding it was proof of ‘criminal acts’ by Gaddafi’s regime.

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Police, polls officials intervene in Ivy briefing

A team of policemen and election officers on Sunday intervened when Selina Hayat Ivy, an aspirant mayoral candidate for the Narayanganj City Corporation elections, was holding a press conference on Sunday.

The press conference Ivy

was holding at the Narayanganj Press Club began at noon and about half an hour later, the police team, headed by the Sadar police officer-in-charge, Md Aktar Hossain, sadar upazila election officer Rakibuzzaman, and assistant returning officer for the city corporation elections Mosleuddin entered the press club and a heated exchange took place.

Aktar Hossain and Rakibuzzaman told Ivy that they had visited the place on information that there was an election campaign going in breach of the electoral code of conduct.

‘I went to the venue of the press conference as election officials asked us to go there,’ Aktar told New Age.

Ivy was briefing reporters on her position about the rumours that had been rife for a few days that she was joining or negotiating with the Bangladesh Nationalist Party and the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami so that she could win the elections.

She said that she was daughter of Ali Ahmed Chunka and she would never stop being with the Awami League. ‘Other aspirants have spread the rumours,’ she added.

She also told the reporters that her father was chairman of the municipal corporation and she had also been elected chairman to the now-defunct mnicipal corporation. ‘I am vice-president of the city unit Awami League and now I am a mayoral candidate of the city corporation polls.’

In reply to the question of the reporters, she said, ‘I have never left Narayanganj and I will stand by the city residents in future.’

As for visit of the policemen and election officials and intervention in the press conference, she said that it was clearly meant to thwart the citizens’ right to voting.

She also urged army deployment before the elections to stave off any untoward situations.

The district administration and the superintendent of police are serving the purpose of Shamim Osman and they need to be transferred if the elections were to be free and fair, Ivy said.

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Hasina der Stand ist "Du bist mit mich oder gegen mich": Yunus

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A leaked US embassy cable has observed that a prophet has no honour in his own country, at least as far as Nobel peace laureate Muhammad Yunus and the Awami League-led government attitude towards him is concerned.

The cable sent to Washington from the US embassy in Dhaka on November 30, 2009, said, ‘Prime minister Sheikh Hasina and foreign minister Dipu Moni made clear their distrust and suspicion of Yunus in several recent meetings with senior US government officials.’

WikiLeaks on August 30, 2011 released a number of diplomatic cables which had noted that while the government claimed Yunus was engaged in corrupt practices at Grameen Bank, his ties to the military-controlled interim administration and his brief contemplation of a role in

Bangladesh politics were more likely the reasons for Awami League’s disdain.

‘No one in Bangladesh can escape politics, however,’ said the November 30, 2009 cable.

One of the cables said Yunus wanted to resolve whatever ‘misunderstanding’ existed with Hasina over his efforts and organisation Grameen Bank and asked the US government to assist him in urging Hasina to change a long-standing rule that gave the government control over his position as Grameen Bank chairman and sought US help to resolve the problems.

Hasina signalled her displeasure with Yunus by refusing to ratify the interim regime’s ordinance that had empowered the Grameen Bank board of directors to appoint its chairman, said the November 30, 2009 cable sent by the then US charge d’ affaires Nicholas Dean.

‘Fearing [that the] government displeasure with him would jeopardise Grameen Bank and his other initiatives, Yunus requested the US ambassador to put in a good word with Sheikh Hasina on behalf of Grameen and Yunus,’ the cable read.

On November 5, 2009, when the US ambassador at a meeting with Hasina raised the Yunus issue, ‘the prime minister theatrically rolled her eyes and shook her head.  She spoke at length about her estrangement from Yunus and nodded her agreement when an advisor in the meeting characterised Yunus as ungrateful for the Grameen Phone deal that the prime minister had made possible.’

On November 11, 2009 ambassador-at-large for Global Women’s Issues Melanne Verveer met with Hasina, when the former was also interested in meeting with Yunus.

 ‘Most keenly, the prime minister felt Yunus had exercised poor judgment by courting military officers who had presented Yunus the possibility of coming to power through military backing in early 2007,’ the cable said. 

‘Perhaps we don’t work together.  But we don’t stop him.  When I was in Sweden (recently), Yunus was there and we exchanged hands.  It is our family tradition.’ Hasina was quoted in the cable to have said. 

When ambassador Verveer met with foreign minister Dipu Moni the next day, however, the latter had a litany of complaints against Yunus. Dipu Moni presented a range of allegations against Yunus and Grameen. 

‘She complained about the high interest rates Grameen charges its customers and alleged that the bank used “vicious practices” to recruit customers and obtain loan payments,’ the cable read.

Dipu Moni said, ‘Yunus broke rules and Grameen didn’t comply with Bangladesh law, including auditing requirements.  Many people in Bangladesh were upset when Yunus won the Nobel Peace Prize given his corrupt practices.’

She also said government leaders understood the power of Yunus’ international reputation and therefore ‘bit our tongues’ when accolades were heaped upon him. 

According to the cable, on a personal note, Dipu Moni the foreign minister also complained that Yunus did not visit Sheikh Hasina in the hospital after she was injured in a 2004 bomb attack.

Ambassadors Verveer and James F Moriarty met with Yunus on November 11, 2009, when Yunus disputed all the allegations and said he and Grameen complied with all laws, including annual audits.

Yunus agreed that the prime minister likely viewed him as part of the caretaker government that tried to remove her and her rival, Khaleda Zia of the opposition BNP, from Bangladesh’s political scene. 

Yunus said Hasina’s attitude was, ‘you’re either with me or against me.’ 

 This dispute also raises questions about the long-term future of Grameen Bank.  Yunus is 69 years old.  Yunus told Moriarty and Verveer that he had offered to retire on a number of occasions, but the bank board had refused his offers, claiming there would be a run on the bank if he left. 

Yunus said he had been grooming a successor, but claimed government leaders had wooed that person into their camp and now he was working against him within the bank.

Another cable sent to Washington on August 12, 2009 by the then US ambassador James F Moriarty in Dhaka, said when the ambassador had met with Yunus on August 9, 2009 to congratulate him on winning the presidential medal of freedom, Yunus reported that tensions between him and the prime minister continued, but he hoped to meet with her soon to clear any misunderstandings over his efforts and organisation. 

Yunus said he had not yet received an appointment with Hasina despite his sending in an urgent request in late July 2009. Yunus perceived that even supportive government officials felt pressured to distance themselves from his recommendations and proposals.

Moriarty in another cable he sent to Washington on May 11, 2009 disclosed that Yunus had asked that the US assist him in urging Sheikh Hasina to change a long-standing rule giving the government control over his position as the Grameen Bank chairman.

Bangladesh’s 2007-2008 caretaker government passed an ordinance removing the GOB’s authority to select the bank chairman, but the parliament has not yet ratified that ordinance, the cable said.

In a May 10, 2009 meeting with the ambassador, ‘Yunus requested our input on the best way to request the PM reconsider her refusal,’ Moriarty said in the cable.

Yunus also discussed with the ambassador his disappointment over the AL government. He said the new government had to focus on the nation’s power needs and improve the quality of government bureaucracy in order for Bangladesh to weather the current economic turmoil, it said.

During the meeting Yunus said parliament had refused to approve an amendment to legislation that established Grameen Bank in the early 1980s; the amendment would have given the bank’s board of directors, rather than the government (as has been the practice), the authority to select the chairman of Grameen Bank, a position held by Yunus since the bank’s inception and renewed every two years.

In order to create Grameen Bank in 1983, Yunus sought support from the government to transform his micro-credit venture from a charitable organisation to a full-fledged bank, the cable said.

The government of Bangladesh passed an ordinance creating Grameen Bank, that decreed that the government would own 60 per cent of the bank and would have the authority to appoint its chairman. 

‘Since 1983, the GOB’s share of Grameen Bank has gradually declined; now the government only owns 5 per cent of the bank.’

The GOB has also continued to re-appoint Yunus the bank’s chairman.  However, Yunus has long desired to change the rule giving the GOB control of his position as chairman, the cable said. 

Over the years, Yunus told the ambassador, he had applied repeatedly to the GOB to amend the rules regarding the selection of the chairman.

The ambassador and Yunus went on to discuss more generally the prime minister’s performance during her first four months in office.

Yunus was critical of Hasina’s actions to strengthen the central government at the expense of local government.  He also criticised the AL government for exacting petty retributions against the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and its leader Khaleda Zia.  ‘This is a divisive strategy,’ Yunus said.  The prime minister ‘must build bridges.’

Moriarty commented, ‘Despite, or perhaps because of, Yunus’ international reputation, many among Bangladesh’s political elite regard the Nobel Laureate with suspicion.  In the atmosphere of Bangladesh’s cult-of-personality politics, Sheikh Hasina and others likely view Yunus’ achievements and stature as a threat to their authority; in their minds, his very brief attempt to establish a political party in the early days of the 2007-2008.’

‘Yunus and his supporters, including the United States, need to convince the prime minister that an independent Grameen Bank is in her interest,’ he concluded.

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Automatische Fahrzeug-Kontrollzentren noch in Betrieb genommen

Shahin Akhter

The Bangladesh road transport authority plans, local consultants run five automatic vehicle control centres, are to appoint idle for more than a decade.

Because the Danish International Development Agency the centres set up handed that under a joint care and rehabilitation of road schemes, to BRTA in 1999, the authorities could foreign consultants to gain operational plants.

BRTA engineering department director Mohammad Saiful Haque said new age, that under the joint project with Danida, five vehicle centers in different parts of the country in 1997-98 had set up fiscal years.

Each of the centres with a capacity of 150 vehicles per day, has been checked up, at a cost of TK one crore, he said.

"But the Danida consultants in 1999 left the country without the support of the operational side of the plants and as a result, they could work not for a single day", he said.

Saiful Haque, said that the BRTA tried to attract other foreign companies, but they showed interest in the work.

He said "So we have asked the Ministry of communication, delicate local consultant appoint, and invite the plants as soon as possible, enable".

He hoped, that the tender for local consultants this year floated would be.

Earlier, Deputy Director of the Department of Sheikh Mohammad Mahbub-e-Rabbani new age said BRTA that fitness centres would check motor vehicles, by you automatic equipment, including brake tester, testers, smoke Tester and under chassis Lady.

He said that there were two centres in Mirpur and Ekuria in Dhaka and three more in Chittagong, Khulna and Rajshahi.

BRTA sources said that on this vehicles have been manually reviewed by 57 motor vehicle inspectors all over the country.

The sources said about 16 lakh registered motor vehicles were plying the highways and all annual re-registration required.

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Police, RAB unacceptable excesses: JS Panel

Ofiul Hasnat Ruhin

The parliamentary standing committee on the home ministry on Sunday expressed concern over the stamping of a pro-hartal picket in Dhaka by the police and questioned the role of rapid action battalion in the death of a Juba Sanghati leader in Sylhet.

The committee warned law enforcers not to do excesses while on duty to maintain law and order.

The standing committee at a meeting so asked the home ministry to investigate the incidents and let the committee know about what had happened, meeting sources said.

A Jatiyo party lawmaker and member of the committee raised the issues of stamping of a picket by the police during the September 22 hartal enforced by the Bangladesh nationalist party-led opposition and the death of Monwar Hossain Monir, general secretary of Sylhet district Juba Sanghati, the youth front of the Jatiyo party, early Saturday reportedly from torture by the RAB, sources said.

"It could not be accepted that pickets or anyone would be beaten to death by the law enforcers," the committee chairman, Abdus Salam told reporters after the meeting, adding that they had discussed the incidents.

He said that the committee had earlier warned the law enforcers against doing excesses and overenthusiastic behaviour. ' Now that such incidents have taken place, the committee wants explanations after investigations.'

Salam, however, said that those enforcing hartal had

no right to unleash anarchy and damage public property in the name of political programmes.

Sources said that the committee members had also accused law enforcement agencies of tarnishing the image of the government by such activities very often.

' I asked the inspector general of police whether punitive action was taken against the police personnel responsible for stamping a picket and he said that an investigation was on,' Jatiyo party lawmaker Mujibul Haque Chunnu told new age, adding that the police was asked to submit a report on the incident to the committee after investigation.

He also said that the director general of RAB was asked about the death of Monir in Sylhet and he explained that Monir had died of cardiac arrest, which the committee did not accept.

The committee therefore asked for a detailed report from the RAB about the incident, said the JP lawmaker.

The police during the hartal hours on September 22 stamped a picket in the city's Motijheel area. The picture of the incident which published and broadcast by the media.

Sylhet unit Juba Sanghati leader Monir, RAB so president of cultural organization MohanA singing critique Sangstha what arrested by 19 and handed over to police on September. He died early Saturday in Sylhet Medical College Hospital.

His brother Altaf Hossain said that his brother had died from torture by the RAB.

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Today, oil and gas body begins road March.

Moloy Saha

The national committee to protect oil, gas, mineral will resources, power and ports begin its three-day Dhaka-Chittagong road march today to push for its seven-point demands, including the scrapping of the deal with ConocoPhillips for hydrocarbon exploration in two offshore gas fields in the Bay of Bengal.

The marchers, in three bus, will start for Chittagong this morning after holding a rally in front of the National Press Club at 10: 00 am.

The organisation's convener, Sheikh Muhammad Shaheedullah will preside over the rally. Academics Serajul Islam Choudhury and Akmal Hossain, columnist Syed Abul Moksud, the Organization's member secretary ANU Muhammad and leaders of left-leaning political parties will also speak. The march will reach Comilla today after holding rallies on its way at Sonargaon, Daudkandi and Chandina. The marchers will leave Comilla Tuesday morning and will hold rallies at Chauddagam, FeNi and Mirsarai.

On the third day on Wednesday, the marchers will leave Mirsarai in the morning and hold a rally at Sitakundu before holding the final rally in Laldighi Maidan in Chittagong.

Shadeedullah and ANU in a press statement issued on Sunday called on the people to make the programmes successful.

They demanded the scrapping of the model production and sharing contract 2008 and called on the government not to work out the production and sharing contract 2011 for hydrocarbon exploration in onshore gas fields. They alleged that the energy ministry which controlled by multinational companies and some ministry officials were serving the purposes of the foreign companies.

The Organization will hold 'a grand rally"in Dhaka on November 30 after holding to the Sunetra gas field in October a march and a national convention in November.

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Saudi king gives women right to vote

Agence France-Presse. Riyadh

Saudi-König Abdullah am Sonntag Frauen gewährt das Recht zu wählen, und führen Sie bei den Kommunalwahlen, in einem historischen ersten für die ultra-konservativen Land, wo Frauen viele Einschränkungen unterworfen werden.

"Beginnen mit dem nächsten Begriff, Frauen das Recht, bei den Kommunalwahlen auszuführen und die Kandidaten entsprechend islamischer Prinzipien, wählen haben werden", sagte er in Rede

in der Shura-Rat übertragen Leben im staatlichen Fernsehen.

FrauenrechtsaktivistInnen haben lange gekämpft, zu das Wahlrecht im Königreich Golf die gilt einer strengen Version des sunnitischen Islam und verbietet Frauen aus fahren oder ohne Zustimmung des männlichen Vormund Reisen.

Manal al-Sharif, ein 32 Jahre alte Computer-Sicherheit-Berater, wurde am 22. Mai verhaftet wurden und 10 Tage nach Veröffentlichung auf YouTube eine Video von sich selbst fahren rund um die östlichen Stadt Khobar, sagte der König Entscheidung als"eine historische und mutig."

"Der König ist ein Reformer", sagte sie des 86 Jahre alten Monarchen, dessen Land verschont blieb eine Welle des Protests Schaukeln der Region mit der autokratischen Regime in Tunesien und Ägypten gestürzt wurden.

Des Königs Entscheidung bedeutet, dass Frauen an den Wahlen teilnehmen, die in vier Jahren stattfinden, wie die nächste Abstimmung am Donnerstag stattfinden wird und Nominierungen sind bereits geschlossen.

Neben der Teilnahme an der nur öffentlichen Umfragen im Land, Frauen hätten das Recht, den All-ernannt (beratenden) Shura-Rat beizutreten, sagte er in der Adresse die Assembly den neuen Begriff.

'Wir beschlossen haben, dass Frauen als Mitglieder ab der kommenden Legislaturperiode in der Shura-Rat teilnehmen werden,' sprach der König in der unerwarteten Bewegung, die Frauen enfranchise.

Mehr als 5.000 Mann konkurrieren bei Kommunalwahlen am Donnerstag nur die zweite in der Geschichte Saudi-Arabiens, die Hälfte der Sitze in das Königreich 285 Gemeinderäte zu füllen. Die andere Hälfte von der Regierung ernannt.

Die ersten Wahlen fanden im Jahr 2005, aber die Regierung erweitert die vorhandenen Rat Bezeichnung für zwei Jahre.

König Abdullah sagte, seine Entscheidung kam, weil wir uns Marginalisierung der Rolle der Frauen in der saudischen Gesellschaft in allen Bereichen weigern und gefolgt von 'Konsultationen mit verschiedenen Gelehrten.'

Er erwähnte alles nicht über das Recht der Frauen, im Königreich zu fahren, wo sie männliche Fahrer mieten müssen, oder den guten Willen der verwandten hängen, wenn sie nicht über die Mittel verfügen.

Allerdings sagte er, dass ' ausgewogenen Modernisierung, die mit unseren islamischen Werten verpflichtet sich ist eine notwendige Nachfrage in einer Epoche, wo es keinen Platz für diejenigen, die zögern ' in voran.

Saudi-Arabien hat viele Veränderungen gesehen, da Abdullah König im Jahr 2005 wurde.

Norah al-Fayiz, die auf den Posten des stellvertretenden Bildungsminister für Frauenbildung in 2009 benannt wurde, war die erste Frau, die jemals mit dem Namen einen Ministerposten in dem Land.

Mehr als 60 intellektuellen und Aktivisten rief im Mai zu einem Boykott des Wahlgangs September da 'Gemeinderäte fehlt die Behörde ihre Rolle wirksam durchzuführen' und "die Hälfte ihrer Mitglieder werden ernannt", als auch weil sie Frauen auszuschließen.

Der Shura-Rat hatte empfohlen, Frauen in den nächsten lokalen Umfragen stimmen, sagte Beamten.

Im April sagte Samar Badawi sie Kommunalfragen Ministeriums für Verteidigung das Verbot für Frauen, die Teilnahme der lokalen Umfrage verklagt wurde.

Badawi reichte eine Klage auf das Verwaltungsgericht in Mekka gegen das Ministerium für Frauen das Existenzrecht als Wähler registriert.

Auch im April trotzte eine Gruppe von Frauen das Verbot für Frauen, bei den Wahlen von bei einer Registrierung Wähler in das Rote Meer Jeddah in einer seltenen öffentlichen Demonstration gegen das Männchen nur Wahlsystem auftaucht.

Aber sie waren die wandte sich wieder, der Leiter des Zentrums, der sagte ihnen Frauen bei der Abstimmung noch verboten wurden.

Das ölreichen sunnitische Königreich hat jedoch gesehene kleinere sporadische Demonstrationen von Schiiten, die nahm in der Ostprovinz platzieren.

Sahrif war das Symbol einer Kampagne, durch die eine Gruppe von trotzig Saudi-Frauen hinter der Lenkräder ihrer Autos am 17. Juni in Aufforderungen zur bundesweiten Aktion gegen das Verbot, fahren haben.

Die US Secretary Of-Staat, Hillary Clinton, hat öffentlich geworfen ihre Unterstützung hinter der Kampagne, sagen, dass "was diese Frauen tun, mutig ist, und was sie suchen stimmt."

' Die Saudi Frau, wird zum ersten Mal, werden Sie Partner bei der Entscheidungsfindung. Ich hoffe, sie als Minister zugewiesen bekommt ", sagte Sharif.

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AL leaders, lawmakers want Raju to explain stand

Awami League leaders and lawmakers at a rally in Narsingdi on Friday asked the posts and telecommunications minister, Rajiuddin Ahmed Raju, to explain the steps he would take to bring killers of Lokman Hossain, the Narsingdi mayor who was shot dead on November 1, to justice.

The superintendent of police in Narsingdi, Akkas Uddin Bhuiyan, and additional superintendents of police Enamul Haque and Bijoy Bashak were, meanwhile, withdrawn on Friday night.

The police officials have been withdrawn for administrative purposes, the inspector general of police, Hasan Mahmood Khandker, told New Age on Friday night.

A new additional superintendent of police has already been appointed and he will take over the charge as acting superintendent of police as soon as possible, he added.

The withdrawal order came a day after the police at midnight past Thursday recorded a case against 14 people, including Salauddin Ahmed Bachchu, younger brother of Raju, on charge of killing Narsingdi municipal mayor Lokman.

Two cases were filed early Friday against more than 500 unnamed people over train blaze and railway station vandalism in Narsingdi on November 2.

Ten compartments of the intercity Egaro Sindur Express train burned after the train had been set on fire and the railway station vandalised during a general strike enforced on the day by the Chhatra League in protest at the killing of Lokman, who was shot dead the previous night.

The Narsingdi railway station master Maran Chandra Das and the Egaro Sindur Express guard Abdul Bari filed the cases with the Government Railway Police of Bhairab for vandalism and setting fire to the train.

The complainants said that vandalism of the railway station had caused a loss of Tk 37 million and the train blaze a loss of Tk 20 million.

Lokman’s younger brother Md Kamruzzaman filed the case with the Narsingdi police against 12 Awami League and two Bangladesh Nationalist Party leaders more than 48 hours after Awami League leader Lokman, 35, elected twice chief of the Narsingdi municipality, had been shot dead by masked assailants.

Kamruzzaman filed the case against Salahuddin, telecommunications minister’s assistant private secretary Masudur Rahman Murad, former Narsingdi municipal chairman Abdul Matin Sarker, also former Narsingdi district Awami League vice-president, Narsingdi city Awami League president Montajuddin Bhuiyan, district Awami League deputy publicity secretary Mobarak Hossain Moba, local Awami League leaders Amir Hossain Amu and Manun, city Juba League president Ashraf Hossain Sarkar, local Juba League leaders Monwar Hossain Khan Moin, Hiron Mia and Kabir Sarker, and former Narsingdi Government College Central Students Union vice-president Mia Mohammad Manjur.

Narsingdi sadar upazila

BNP general secretary Nurul Islam and former district unit BNP executive committee member Tarek Ahmed, who is now in Saudi Arabia for Hajj, are also among the accused.

Former BNP lawmaker Khairul Kabir Khokan, arrested on November 2

apparently in connection with the murder and sent to jail on November 3, however, was not made accused in the case.

The police earlier arrested five local BNP activists in addition to Khairul being arrested. A Narsingdi court sent the six to jail after rejecting their bail petitions.

The superintendent of police in Narsingdi, Akkas Uddin Bhuyian, also told New Age that the case had been handed over to the Detective Branch on Friday for investigation.

Detective Branch inspector Mamunur Rashid, also the investigation officer of the case, told New Age on Friday evening that he had just received the case and he would take appropriate steps after examining the case immediately.

A close relative of the slain mayor told New Age that the filing of the case had been delayed as the family was in fear of reprisals after the ruling Awami League high command had mounted pressure on them not to sue people whom they suspect.

He alleged that the government had threatened them that they would be implicated in the case of setting fire to the

train if they did not comply with the AL leaders’ instructions in filing the murder case.

The district unit Awami League on Friday held a rally at the district Awami League office protesting against Lokman’s killing.

Addressing the rally, local lawmakers and ruling AL leaders said that the minister must explain his stand.

Raju has to say who has killed Lokman and what will be his role in bringing the killers to justice, AL lawmaker Zahirul Haque Mohan said. ‘We need to see what steps he takes.’

Lawmaker Nurul Majid Humayun urged the minister to take necessary measures to find out the killers.

Lawmaker Nazrul Islam Hiru said that the killers must be punished no matter how powerful they are.

Another lawmaker, Anwarul Ashraf Khan, demanded a proper and thorough investigation of the killing. ‘Killers can never be our friends.’

Several thousand leaders, activists, supporters and common people, wearing black badges, attended the rally, chaired by the party’s district unit president Ahaduzzaman.

The minister, now on an official tour abroad, however, claimed that the murder was part of a ‘deep-rooted conspiracy’ against the Awami League.

In a statement issued on Thursday, he also said, ‘Vested interests are creating confusion to hide the real culprits.’

Lokman’s younger brother Shamim Newaz, also the Narsingdi district Chhatra League general secretary, and SM Quaiyum, a close aide to Lokman and former central vice-president of the Chhatra League, are likely to meet the prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, in the capital today.

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3 fall off train roof, die in Tangail

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Staff Correspondent

Three homebound passengers of Silk City Express died and four others were injured after falling from the roof of the speedy train at Dewbhog under Mirzapur upazila in Tangail Friday night.

‘The victims fell on the ground from roof of the train after hitting an overhead electric cable at about 7:30pm,’ Golam Mostafa, subinspector of the Mirzapur police station, told New Age.

Two of them died on the spot while another died at Mirapur Kumudini Medical College Hospital.

Two of the deceased were identified as Al Mamun of Pabna and Jahrul of Chapainawabganj.

One of the injured said they, along with a huge number of people, climbed to the roof of the Rajshahi-bound train which left the

Kamlapur railway station Friday afternoon.

He said they opted for the risky train journey as the exorbitant bus fare was beyond their capacity and, what is more, the bus tickets were not available.

In another incident, two passengers were injured after they had fallen from the roof of a Dinajpur-bound train at the same place at Dewbhog.

They were admitted to the local hospital, but their identity could not be ascertained immediately.

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EC awaits govt response on army non-deployment

The Election Commission has sought explanation from the Armed Forces Division asking why the government did not deploy the army during the Narayanganj City Corporation polls, despite a requisition.

The chief election commissioner, ATM Shamsul Huda, on Friday said, ‘We have sent a letter officially in this regard. Let’s see what they have to say.’

The EC sent the letter to the division in the late hours on Thursday.

He said there was a ‘gap’ between the EC and the government with regard to the army deployment.

The commission in a letter to the Armed Forces Division on October 16 sought four companies of troops for the first ballot of the newly-formed Narayanganj City Corporation, but received no response.

The government’s decision to not deploy the army during the election disappointed several quarters. Rebel Awami League candidate Selina Hayat Ivy who eventually won the vote with a landslide slammed the EC.

BNP-backed Taimur Alam Khandaker pulled out from the election at the last minute on orders of his party to protest against the non-deployment of the army.

The BNP also demanded the resignation of the CEC over the matter.

Forced to announce that there would be no army deployment for the October 30 vote a frustrated Huda had said even though it was the government’s constitutional obligation to do so, it did not met the EC’s demand.

However, the prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, on Thursday claimed that ‘there had been no violation to the constitution’ because the army was not deployed.

Hasina stated that the army was under the command of the government head [prime minister], who is also the defence ministry chief. ‘Only the government head can decide whether the army will leave the barrack or not.’

After the voting of the NCC polls ended, CEC Huda had said the commission would sit with the government over the issue.

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Magura road accident kills 11

Our correspondent. Magura

Eleven people including four children were killed when a speeding truck hit a parked human hauler hurtling down both the vehicles into a roadside water body at Saitrish in Magura SADAR shortly on Sunday afternoon.

The deceased, all passengers of the three-wheeled human hauler, were going to Magura town from Alamkhali, police said.

Angry local people put up barricade felling trees that suspended traffic movement on the highway for nearly four hours.

Later, police and district administration officials rushed in and assured the agitating mob of taking measures including building speed breakers to contain road accidents.

Magura police superintendent Proloy Chisim said people withdrew the barricade at about 7: 00 pm after they agreed to build speed breakers at different spots of the highway.

Among the deceased, five were identified as Pravir Kumar Ghosh, 45, a teacher of Rawtara HM high school, Suraiya Begum, 35, and her sister 12-year Sumaiya Akter, residents of Hajipur village of sadar shortly, and 5-year old Madina Akter, 12-year old Mohammad Sohag, a resident of Lokqiol village.

Identifies of the others could not be known immediately.

Police said the accident occurred on Magura Jhenidah highway at Saitrish bus stand at about 4: 30 pm when Dhaka bound vegetables load truck hit the standing human hauler waiting to pick up passengers at the bus stand.

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

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

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Mumbai outraged by ‘eve-teasing’ murders

The Indian city of Mumbai has been stunned after two young men were killed by a gang of knife-wielding thugs when they tried to stop their female friends from being sexually harassed.

Keenan Santos, 25, died on the spot when he was stabbed outside a bar in the northern suburbs of India’s financial and entertainment capital on October 20, while

Rueben Fernandes, 28, died in hospital this week.

Four people have been arrested on suspicion of murder and are in custody, police said. But the nature of the crime has sparked public outrage in the metropolitan city.

Now, friends, family and associates of the two victims have taken to the Internet to try to ensure that the tragedy is not repeated, amid concern about increasing violence.

Tribute pages have been set up on the social networking site Facebook and on the micro-blogging site Twitter, all gathering widespread support and expressing revulsion at what they said was a senseless crime.

A group of activists is also trying to use the deaths as a spur to tighten laws against sexual harassment, or ‘eve-teasing’ as it is widely known in India.

‘There have been a number of cases wherein girls have been molested and sexually harassed at some stage but the laws are not strong enough to deal with them,’ said Sagar Bekal, of the Zero Tolerance Campaign.

‘There’s no kind of strict vigilance from the government and the machinery is so weak. We are looking for a reform of the laws. If we have stringent laws, maybe the perpetrators will think twice,’ he said.

As well as spreading the message on the web, activists from the campaign, which Bekal said has the backing of the victims’ families, are mounting a petition campaign outside city nightspots starting this weekend.

The petition will be sent to the state government.

‘This is an extreme case that has actually got people up in arms but because we’ve got this anger, we can make a difference rather than people venting it out for nothing,’ said Bekal.

The campaigns are part of wider moves in India and South Asia to change public attitudes towards ‘eve-teasing’, a term which women’s rights campaigners say trivialises the issue of sexual harassment and molestation.

According to the National Crime Records Bureau, crimes against women rose from 2,03,804 in 2009 to 2,13,585 last year, although it is thought that many more incidents go unreported.

Supporters of Fernandes and Santos have slammed police for not doing enough to stamp out the practice but Mumbai police rejected the criticism.

‘This is an isolated incident. It’s not a pattern. The police are in control. We have patrolling and beat marshals on the road. People should not be worried,’ said force spokesman Nisar Tamboli.

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Mamata threatens to pull out of UPA

West Bengal chief minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee accused the Congress of keeping her party in the dark and of not giving it a voice in the Union Cabinet.

In a virtual rebellion against the UPA government, its largest ally Trinamool Congress on Friday threatened to pull out over the petrol price hike. The party has sought an appointment with the prime minister Manmohan Singh before taking ‘any vital decision’.

‘Our withdrawal of support may result in fall of the government. But since the prime minister is away, we want to discuss with him and have sought an appointment with him,’ Trinamool

Congress chairperson Mamata Banerjee told reporters at the State Secretariat here. Her party’s Parliamentary wing has submitted a resolution calling for pullout from the UPA.

Mamata, in the first ever attack on the Congress since the formation of the UPA-II government in 2009, said her party would seek an appointment with the Prime Minister sometime between November 8 and 10.

It was unacceptable that such a crucial decision on petrol price hike had been taken in the absence of the Prime Minister, she said.

Mamata said an emergency meeting of the Trinamool Congress parliamentary party was in favour of quitting the UPA for the unilateral decisions of major ally Congress, without consulting allies and keeping them in the dark, she said.

‘We have been silenced and not heard in the Union Cabinet. Our only cabinet minister Dinesh Trivedi, when he raises any issue concerning the people, is told to keep quiet.

We have tolerated so much and adjusted,’ Mamata said, adding there was lack of coordination and cooperation in the UPA.

Pointing out that Congress was dependant on support of allies like the Trinamool Congress, NCP and DMK to run the UPA government, she added, ‘But we are not dependant on Congress.’

‘They may be a big party, and we may be smaller parties. But they do not have the majority of their own at the Centre. They are dependant on the support of the allies for survival,’ Mamata said.

While maintaining that she was not trying to blackmail the government, the Trinamool chief said the rise in fuel prices so frequently was ‘unacceptable’.

‘We want the government to run for five years. We follow the coalition dharma. This was our commitment when the government was formed. We are not trying to blackmail the government.

‘In West Bengal, we are in power with two-thirds majority and we are not dependant on Congress to run the government. We can run the government in this state on our own even if Congress is not with us, but we take the partner in confidence in the policy decisions of the government,’ she said.

‘I want to appeal to the Centre to please take care of the people. Eleven times price rise of petrol and petroleum products in 12 months is unacceptable. Price hike may not affect the Central government, but it affects us in the States...We have a commitment to the people and we will never compromise on the question of imposing economic hardship on the masses,’ she asserted.

Mamata, who till recently was Railway Minister before being elected to the State Assembly, said, ‘I am grateful to my Parliamentary party that they have taken this bold decision to quit UPA.’

She said she held discussions with union commerce minister Anand Sharma during the day.

‘I have spoken to Union minister Jairam Ramesh following the latest hike in petrol price. My party colleague Mukul Roy last night also contacted Union Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee who pleaded helplessness in the matter.’

Source: newagebd.com/newspaper1

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Govt likely to sign drilling deals with Gazprom by Nov

The government is likely to sign a deal with Russia by November on the drilling of 10 wells in different gas fields, the Petrobangla chairman, Hossain Monsur, said.

He told New Age that Russian state-run gas corporation Gazprom was willing to mobilise its two drilling rigs heading to Bangladesh in December.

‘In the past few days we discussed terms and conditions of the contract. After Eid-ul Azha, the proposal will be placed at the cabinet committee on purchase after the approval of the prime minister [also the energy minister],’ he said on Friday evening.

The Energy Division and the state-run Oil, Gas and Mineral Resources Corporation (Petrobangla) in the past week held a series of meetings with a visiting high-powered Russian delegation which includes Gazprom’s head of legal department Alexander Nikiforov, head of tax and insurance Pert V Oleynik and head of economic and finance department Emirlan T Toromyrzaev.

Monsur said that they had discussed the terms and conditions of the contract including drilling costs, performance guarantee, insurance, etc.

In the negotiation, Petrobangla agreed to pay $193.55m to Gazprom for drilling 10 gas wells, a Petrobangla official said.

He said, ‘Gazprom reduced 2 per cent of its earlier demand for the drilling of gas wells.’

Gazprom sought $102m for drilling five wells in the Titas and Rashidpur gas fields and $95m for drilling five other gas wells.

Gazprom would deposit 5 per cent of the project cost in performance guarantee and bear the charges for insurance of the transport of drilling rigs and other materials in line with international laws. Gazprom estimated the amount of insurance around $10m, he added.

In the earlier proposal, Gazprom did not include any provision to deposit performance guarantee and introduce insurance for the project as it would be a state to state contract.

The official said that Gazprom would complete drilling 10 gas wells in 18 months after the signing of the deals. Drilling will begin from the Titas gas field.

Gazprom’s delegation arrived in Dhaka on Sunday and left on Thursday.

Under the scheme, Petrobangla has planned to drill 10 gas wells, including four wells in the Titas field, two wells each in Shahabajpur and Semutang gas fields and one each in Begumganj and Rashidpur gas fields.

The drilling of five wells in the Titas and Rashidpur gas fields was under a fast-track programme adopted by the government in 2009 and rest five gas wells are under the gas extraction enhancement programme of the state-run petroleum exploration and production company Bapex.

But the Polish oil company Poszukiwania Naftyi i Gazu Krakow (Oil and Gas Exploration Company Cracow), contractor of the project, informed Petrobangla earlier in February that it would not drill five wells in the Titas and Rashidpur gas fields claiming that the Titas was leaking gas.

Petrobangla hopes to supply around 250 million cubic feet of natural gas to the national grid by drilling 10 gas wells by the end of 2012.

Source: newagebd.com/newspaper1

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Travellers tangled in tailback

People get onto a truck at Gabtali in the capital on Friday to reach their destinations. The government banned truck carrying people after the Mirsarai traffic accident that killed 43 people.— Sony Ramany

Tapos Kanti Das and Mohiuddin Alamgir

Rundown roads and streams of traffic triggered miles of tailbacks on all national highways on Friday causing thousands of passengers long and agonising wait on their way home to celebrate Eid-ul-Azha.

All buses and trains left Dhaka two to ten hours late forcing many train passengers to return home.  Overcrowded trains forced many passengers to cancel the journey home.

A goods train derailed in Comilla halting trains running between Dhaka and Chittagong for about four hours and increasing the commuters’ troubles.

Defying all the hassles, people left the capital for their ancestral homes, on roofs of launches, trains and buses and by trucks risking their lives to celebrate Eid which falls on Monday.

Passengers at Mahakhali, Gabtali and Sayedabad inter-district bus terminals alleged that transport operators were making windfall profits by forcing them to pay extra

for tickets and keeping them waiting in queues for hours.

A 30-kilometre-long tailback between Daudkandi and Chandina on Dhaka-Chittagong Highway and 40-kilometre traffic congestion on Dhaka-Jamuna highway in Tangail persisted from early Friday.

An increase in the number of vehicles and delay in toll collection at Tora in Manikganj led to a tailback on Dhaka-Aricha highway. A similar tailback was created in Gazipur on Dhaka-Mymenshing highway on the day.

Abdur Rashid, assistant station master at Comilla railway station, told reporters that train communication on the route came to a halt around 3:00pm on Friday after a wagon of a Chittagong-bound boulder-carrying goods train derailed.

A rescue train from Laksam put the wagon back on the track around 7:00pm, he added.

The rush of traffic on highways and frequent schedule failures of buses take the journey home at least three times what it usually requires.

Many passengers were seen waiting for buss at Kalabagan, Kalyanpur and Rajarbagh, where most of the bus counters are located, till late into the night.

Overcrowded launches were seen sailing from Sadarghat terminal mostly for southern districts. At the Kamalapur railway station passengers swarmed every train that left Dhaka for different destinations.

‘I could not get in the train with my family. There is no space left. I am returning home with my wife and child cancelling the trip,’ said Anwar Sadat Robi, an official of the Bangladesh Television, at Kamlapur railway station after failing   to board the Rajshahi-bound Silk City express train.

Home-bound passengers had to wait for hours for transport at Gabtali, Sayedabad and Mahakhali bus terminals, Kamalapur railway station and Sadarghat launch terminal.

Men at counters of Sohag, Greenline, Eagle, Hanif Paribahan Sky Line, Shyamali, and other transport agencies at Kalabagan, Kalyanpur and Rajarbagh told New Age that every bus was leaving the terminals 10-12 hours late due to traffic congestions in Comilla, Tangail and at Paturia-Daulatdia ferry terminals.

A number of passengers at Kamalapur railway station told New Age that the trains bound for different destinations, including Chittagong, Sylhet, Kishoreganj, Rangpur and Dinajpur, had left the station three to five hours late.

Kamlapur station master Sitangsu Chakrabarty said the trains were behind the schedule because people protesting at the killing of Narsingdi mayor Lokman Hossain had set fire to a Dhaka-Kishoreganj passenger train in Narsingdi on Wednesday.

Twenty-three trains and five Eid special trains, left Kamalapur station on the day.

Rafiqul Islam, deputy director of Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority at Sadarghat, told New Age that about 80 launches had left the terminal on the day. ‘We are trying to check overcrowding of vessels.’

Source: newagebd.com/newspaper1

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Govt ‘indifferent’ to HC directives

Safety campaigners are alleging that government agencies are indifferent to their responsibilities laid down in High Court’s directives, issued two months ago, which set out the steps they should take to ensure that riverine passengers can travel safely during the two Eids and other festivals.

However, the director general of shipping, Zubair Rahman, dismissed these concerns and told New Age that the government has in fact complied with all the directives of the High Court.

‘We can stop the overloading of passenger launches if garment factory workers get leave at least two days prior to Eid,’ he said. ‘The garment sector workers overcrowd the terminals as they get leave just one day before Eid.’

In its August 25 order, the High Court bench of Justice Mirza Hussain Haider and Justice Md Nuruzzaman ordered the Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Corporation to inspect launches to check their river-worthiness, and ensure that any vessel that does not comply with the legal requirements does not ‘under any circumstance’ operate on the rivers.

It also ordered the BIWTC to ensure that the vessels have properly qualified crew and appropriate life-saving equipment on board, and required the government to deploy a sufficient number of law enforcement personnel to prevent overloading of passenger launches.

The court issued the directives after hearing a supplementary petition filed by the Bangladesh Environmental Lawyers’ Association in the furtherance of a writ petition that it had initially lodged along with the Consumer Association of Bangladesh.

In the original writ petition, the High Court had issued a series of directives in 2003, 2005 and 2009 for preventing launch disasters.

The court on 25 August, 2011 issued the fresh directives since the petitioners argued that the previous directives had not been complied with.

When the case again came up before the court on October 18 to compel the government bodies to provide

the court a compliance report, the judges strongly criticized the deputy attorney general, Al-Amin Sarker, when he sought further time to implement the directives.

When he submitted the government’s compliance report seven days later, the court said that it was not satisfied with the report as it did not detail how the authorities had responded to each of the court’s August 25 directives.

The court again ordered the government to comply with all its directives in the upcoming Eid ul-Azha that is to be celebrated in the country on November 7, and to submit a further compliance report on November 15.

The Consumer Association of Bangladesh’s president, Kazi Faruk, told New Age that the government has not acted as the High Court directed.

‘The authorities concerned act as though they do not have to stand in the dock if they fail to obey the directives,’ he added.

Iqbal Kabir, a lawyer from the Bangladesh Environment Lawyers Association, said, ‘The government’s failure to provide a proper explanation of how it had complied with the court’s directives shows a lack of interest on its part.’

He pointed out that the government had failed to disseminate information on launch safety through the media as required by the court.

Source: newagebd.com/newspaper1

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PM-Regeln Gespräche mit Oppositionsführer

Sagt der nächste allgemeine Wahlen unter EG

Bangladesch-Sangbad-Sangstha. New York

Der Premierminister, Sheikh Hasina, hat die Notwendigkeit der Sitzung für Gespräche mit dem Oppositionsführer über 'verschiedene Probleme im Land ausgeschlossen.

Auf ein "Meet the Press" Programm sagte mit Journalisten an Bangladesch der ständigen Vertretung bei den Vereinten Nationen in New York am Samstag, der Premierminister die wichtigsten

Anforderungen der BNP-Führer wurden 'beschädigt Söhne", beenden Prozess gegen Kriegsverbrecher und Aberkennung der Geldwäsche-Fällen, die gegen ihre Söhne freigeben.

"Würde nicht der Prozess gegen Kriegsverbrecher in unrechtmäßige Interessen einer politischen Kraft stattfinden? Das korrupte freigegeben werden sollte? Würde nicht die Personen, die Menschen durch Granate Angriff Stand in das Dock und diejenigen, die Waisen Geld unterschlagen geholt zu buchen?,' sie die Fragen gestellt.

Hasina, sagte das Land seit 40 Jahren befreit wurde und der Awami-Liga seit 10/11 Jahren an der Macht war. "Die Entwicklung und das Wohlergehen der Menschen nur gemacht wurden, wenn der Awami-Liga, die an der Macht war, aber andere des Landes-Eigenschaft geplündert,", sagte sie.

Gesundheitsministerin AFM Ruhal Haque, Dipu Moni, Außenminister Mijarul Quayes, Bangladesch des Außenministers ständiger Vertreter bei der UN Abdul Momen, PM Pressesprecher Abul Kalam Azad und Bangladeschs Presse-Minister in Washington Swapan Kumar Saha anwesend bei der Gelegenheit.

Am Anfang des Programms markiert der Premierminister verschiedene Programme ihrer 11-Tage-Tour von New York.

Sie sagte, dass der US-Präsident, Barack Obama, Bangladesch erkundigt hatte, und den Austausch von Grüße mit ihr an den Rezeptionen, veranstaltet von der UN-Generalsekretär, Ban Ki-Moon und US-First Lady Michelle Obama. "Der US-Präsident ausgedrückt auch sein Interesse an Bangladesch zu besuchen,", sagte sie.

Der Premierminister hat ihre Regierung hatte machen starke Anstrengungen wieder Dhaka-New York Flug von Biman Bangladesh.

Der Premierminister hat die Arbeit der Vereinten Nationen war jetzt nicht nur beschränkt auf Frieden. "Wir wollen den Welt Körper effektiver zu sehen. Wir wollen nicht sehen, widersprüchliche Welt... wollen wir verlassen, eine ruhige Umgebung für die neue Generation, "sagte sie.

Hierzu sie äußerte, die Vereinten Nationen hätte eine besondere Rolle spielen.

Über das 'Frieden Modell' sie in ihrer Rede in 66. Generalversammlung der Vereinten Nationen am Samstag enthüllt, sagte Hasina, Frieden in der Welt kommen würde, wenn die Angelegenheiten, die gemäß des Frieden-Modells implementiert wurden.

Der Premierminister sagte, dass ihre Regierung das Volk die Quelle aller Macht oder Besitzer machen wollte. ' Das Volk würde durch Abstimmung regierenden würde entscheiden, das Land und die Menschen sind die größte Stärke ihrer Macht.

Über die Wirtschaft des Landes sagte sie, dass der Einkauf bis zu den Personen angestiegen, während die Armut, das größte Hindernis für Entwicklung, reduziert wurde.

Betonen die Notwendigkeit für Frieden und Stabilität des Landes zur Verbesserung des Lebensstandards der Menschen, sagte sie alle hatten vereint arbeiten, um Armut zu beseitigen.

Über die regionale Konnektivität sagte Hasina des gegenwärtigen globalen sozialen und wirtschaftlichen Systems kein Land isoliert bleibt. "Dafür, regionale Konnektivität ist ein muss," sagte sie, fügte hinzu, dass ihre Regierung für das Wohlergehen der Menschen gearbeitet hat, durch die Festlegung von freundlicher Beziehungen zu allen Nachbarländern.

Der Premierminister sagte weiter für die Einrichtung von regionalen Konnektivität Indien vereinbart hatte Transit, Nepal und Bhutan während Manmohan Singh den letzten Besuch in Bangladesch.

"Die Frage der Zusammenarbeit über Wasserkraft in der Region auch während seiner diskutiert wurde,", sagte sie.

Über Beziehungen zwischen Bangladesch und Indien sagte sie, dass freundliche Beziehungen zwischen den beiden Nachbarn existiert. "Diskussionen im Gange sind über das Wasser teilen die gemeinsame Flüsse, einschließlich Teesta", sagte sie.

Sie sagte auch, dass Diskussion, ob eine vorläufige Vereinbarung über das Wasser Teilen des Teesta hergestellt sein könnte. "Wenn wir ein kompliziertes Problem wie Wasser Teilen des Ganges beheben könnte, wir auch in der Lage, eine Einigung über das Wasser Teilen des Tista Tinte wäre," hoffen sie.

Über Khaleda Zia-Kommentare, die die BNP Wahl ohne die geschäftsführende Regierung nicht gehen würde, sagte der Premierminister, dass Wahlen stattfinden würde, wenn die Zeit kommt, und alle politische Parteien würde beteiligt ist.

Leinen meldet Hasina sagte, würde den nächsten Parlamentswahlen unter der Aufsicht der Wahlkommission stattfinden und alle politische Parteien würde auch in den Umfragen teilnehmen

"Die Regierung wird nicht Eingreifen in nichts von den Wahlen,", sagte sie.

Der Premierminister sagte, dass ihre Partei zunächst eine Bewegung für die Übergangsregierung geschmiedet. ' Die BNP wollte es nicht... sondern sie sagte, gab es keine neutrale Person im Land mit Ausnahme von mad Personen und Kinder.

Dann, sie wurden gezwungen, sich den Hausmeister: Regierungsvorlage im Parlament um Mitternacht.'

Erwähnen die besonderen Erfahrungen sie über die geschäftsführende Regierung Justiz Latifur Rahman, der Premierminister sagte, dass er (Latifur) 13 Sekretärinnen entlassen, zwischen einem halben Stunde Eid zu sprechen und zu dieser Zeit, die anderen Beratern nicht ernannt wurden und Besprechung des Kabinetts fand nicht statt.

Sie sagte, dass die BNP Präsident Iajuddin Ahmed als Hausmeister Regierungschef in 2007 nach gegen das Gesetz, umrahmt von der Partei.

Erwähnen, dass alle Köpfe der vorherigen Übergangsregierung von der BNP erstellt wurden, sagte sie, dass sie (BNP) dachte, dass sie in der Lage wäre, aus Geld im Ausland zu siphon, die sie während ihrer Herrschaft geplündert.

Hasina, sagte, dass ihre Regierung nicht möchten, das geschäftsführende Regierungssystem zu stornieren. Aber sie sagte, das Gericht ausgesprochen Urteil deklarieren illegal das geschäftsführende Regierungssystem.

"Wie würden wir legalisieren Hausmeister Regierungssystems, die durch das Apex-Gericht für illegal erklärt wurde?,' sie in Frage gestellt.

Der Premierminister sagte, dass der Awami-Liga nicht berechtigt war, im Jahr 2001 an die Macht kommen, wie die Partei nicht zustimmt, Gas im Ausland zu verkaufen.

"Sheikh Hasina Politik verkaufen die Interessen des Landes für die Gier der macht nicht," sagte sie.

Erwähnen, dass BNP Leistungs-Bewegung würde nie erfolgreich sein, Hasina sagte, die Menschen des Landes würde nicht stehen für die korrumpiert. "sie (BNP) nicht die Entwicklung und den Fortschritt des Landes behindern könnten,", sagte sie, drängen die BNP nicht, etwas zu tun, die die Menschen leiden zufügt.

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Jurists say govt violated constitution

Senior jurists on Friday differed with the prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, saying that there had been no violation of the constitution by not deploying the army in the Narayanganj City Corporation elections despite an Election Commission requisition.

Sheikh at a discussion marking Jail Killing day in the Bangabandhu International Conference Centre on Thursday said that the constitution had not been violated by not deploying the army in the Narayanganj City Corporation elections.

Dr Kamal Hossain, who led the drafting of the constitution in 1972, said that avoiding deployment of the army in Narayanganj despite the Election Commission’s requisition was a clear violation of Article 126 of the constitution

‘Article 126 says, “It shall be the duty of all executive authorities to assist the Election Commission in the discharge of its functions” and the Awami League-led government did not conform to the obligation,’ he said.

Supreme Court lawyer Shahdeen Malik, also director of the school of law at BRAC University, said, ‘From the prime minister’s comment, it seems that the executive does not have a clear understanding of its obligation under the constitution in assisting the Election Commission.’

‘It would have been better if the prime minister had been advised by legal experts before making whimsical comments about constitutional obligations,’ he said.

The Supreme Court Bar Association president, Khandker Mahbub Hossain, said that the prime minister had violated a constitutional obligation that is clearly stated in Article 126.

‘The article clearly says that it is the executive’s duty to assist the Election Commission. So the government did violate the constitutional obligation by ignoring a formal requisition from the Election Commission,’ he said.      

Mahbub also said that the prime minister at the same programme had also violated the constitution by making remarks maligning the army.

‘She said that the opposition was expecting to rig the elections with the help of the army. It proves the prime minister’s no confidence in the army which is the symbol of our sovereignty. It is clearly an act of sedition,’ he said.

The chief election commissioner, ATM Shamsul Huda, meanwhile, said that the commission had sought an explanation from the Armed Forces Division for the non-deployment of the army in the Narayanganj polls.

‘We have sent a letter officially in this regard. Let us see what they say,’ he told news agency bdnews24.com.

Shamsul resented non-deployment of the army saying that it was against the constitutional obligation.

Source: newagebd.com/newspaper1

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