Energy price hike to hit poors mostn Aminur Rahman Rasel

Starting September 1, home users will have to pay Tk200 more for using single and double gas burners and Tk0.18 more for using every unit of electricity.

The Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Com-mission (BERC) yesterday announced that the monthly bill for single gas burners will be Tk600 – instead of the current Tk400 – and that of double burners Tk650 – instead of Tk450. Thus, the average price hike for this utility stands at 26.29%.

Currently, each unit of electricity costs a retail user Tk6.15. From next month, this will be Tk6.33, which means this tari� will see a 2.93% raise. However, those domestic users who consume between 1-50 units per month – the “lifeline tari� ” slab – will continue to pay the old prices.

The BERC yesterday also announced a Tk0.23 or 4.93% higher tari� per unit for bulk consumption of electricity, propelled by a 0.05% rise in transmission charges. This means that the wholesale price of every unit of electricity will rise from Tk4.67 to Tk4.90.

There was a proposal for increasing the gas transmission charges as well but the regulator dropped that.

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PAGE 3Bandarban hills – a safe haven for Myanmar separatists

PAGE 6 Flood situation improves, people returning home

PAGE 8Virginia TV journos killed with ‘powder keg’ of anger

PAGE 57 members of abduction gang arrested

PAGE 32Another legal notice issued on section 57

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TWO NILOY MURDER SUSPECTS HELD PAGE 2

BD READYING INDC TO LIMIT EMISSIONS PAGE 32

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Ad hoc price hike can’t be a permanent solutionn Kayes Sohel and Ibrahim Hossain Ovi

Raising gas and electricity tari� s is rational under the present context, but not a perma-nent solution, analysts said yesterday.

They suggested enhancing e� ciency and stopping wastage at the operational level and investing in the energy sector to get good re-sults in the long run.

Exporters say they will lose the competi-tive edge in the world market because of the price hike.

Analysts gave their immediate reaction to the decision to increase gas and power prices. Yesterday, average power and gas prices were raised with e� ect from September 1.

“Retail price adjustment is an easy way to cut losses, but not a solution for the long-run,” World Bank lead economist Zahid Hus-sain told the Dhaka Tribune.

He said the power tari� hike will reduce the losses of the Power Development Board, who are supposed to receive Tk9,000 crore as sub-sidy, which is 78% of the total revised health sector budget for the current � scal year.

“But the bottom-line is that e� ciency needs to be enhanced and wastage needs to be stopped at the operational level for better outcomes in the future,” he said.

Backing gas price hike, he said this was long overdue as it was heavily under-priced and had been failing to attract investment.

“For rational use and attracting investment, increase of gas price was necessary. However, the government should ensure availability of gas for the industries so that the entrepreneurs can o� set losses due to price hike.”

Zahid recommended formulating a coordi-nated energy pricing policy, which could be

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Muhith to meet with BERC on oil pricesn Tribune Report

Finance Minister AMA Muhith has said he will schedule a meeting with top o� cials of Bang-ladesh Energy Regulatory Commission to re-view the price of fuel oil.

Talking to the Dhaka Tribune at his secre-tariat o� ce yesterday, he said he would � x a date for a meeting to revise the fuel oil price in light of the global prices.

However, BERC Chairman AR Khan yester-day told journalists that they were not consid-ering a reduction in the prices as many coun-tries did not reduce jet fuel prices.

Before revising the price, the government would also have to consider that Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation had been su� ering losses for a long time, the BERC chief said af-ter announcing the new power and gas tari� at the commission’s Karwan Bazar o� ce.

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Power price rises 58% in 7 yearsn Tribune Report

The average price of electricity has been in-creased by more than 58% to Tk6.33 per unit since 2009 with the retail price raised yester-day for the seventh time.

The Awami League-led alliance govern-ment � rst raised the retail price in 2009 from Tk4 per unit. The immediate past hike was done in March 2014.

The bulk power price was raised yesterday, for the fourth time since 2010, and the last one was in September 2012.

The government has been increasing the electricity prices to match the electricity gen-eration cost, which was also increased due to introduction of rental and quick rental power plants to meet the growing demand for power.

The last time the price of gas was increased in November 2008. The government only in-creased the price of compressed natural gas (CNG) several times since 2009. l

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Energy price hike to hit poors mostby the energy regulator at a press conference in Dhaka yesterday – follow separate public hearings on gas and power price hike propos-als earlier this year.

At present, there are 10 consumer groups seven slabs for domestic consumers. The BERC has not increased the minimum bills and service, demand and delay charges.

However, domestic consumers who fall in the lower usage slabs will have to pay high-er rates compared to those who belong to the higher usage slabs.

The regulator has hiked retail power tari� s – in the Tk3.83-Tk11.98 range – for the other slabs as well which apply to small industries, non-residential and commercial o� ces, me-dium voltage (11kV general use), extra high voltage (132kV general use), high tension (33kV general use), street lights and water.

The � ve power distributors – Power De-velopment Board (PDB), Rural Electri� cation Board (REB), Dhaka Electricity Supply Com-pany (Desco), Dhaka Power Distribution Com-pany (DPDC) and the West Zone Power Distri-bution Company – supply electricity to around 20 million consumers across the country.

The six companies that distribute gas across the country are Titas Gas Transmission and Distribution Company Ltd, Pashchimanchal Gas Company Limited, Bakhrabad Gas Dis-tribution Company Limited, Karnaphuli Gas Distribution Company Limited, Jalalabad Gas Transmission and Distribution System Limited and Sundarban Gas Company Limited.

At yesterday’s press conference BERC Chairman AR Khan said that the commission had made its decision after careful considera-tion of the interests of all consumers.

While � xing the new tari� for bulk power consumption, they kept in mind the impact that the hikes were going to have on people from di� erent walks of life and organisations. The retail prices were changed on the basis of the change in bulk price, he said.

However, despite the hike, the govern-ment will still have to pay as much as Tk4,300 crore in subsidy to cover up PDB’s losses this year, he added.

Regarding the hike in gas prices, the BERC Chairman said: “The authorities kept in mind that the demand for gas is increasing but re-serve has been declining. The price of gas was hiked in order to ensure energy security and adjust the costs of production, transmission and distribution.”

He also said: “The country has never cal-culated the asset value of natural gas before. The new retail price of gas was � xed in line with a government move to � x the value of natural gas at Tk25 per Mcf [1,000 cubit feet].”

However, the commission is unlikely to increase retail-level power and gas tari� s as long as the companies are making pro� t, said Shamsul Alam, energy adviser to the Con-sumers Association of Bangladesh.

In immediate reaction, Zakir Hossain Nayan, leader of the Bangladesh CNG Station and Conversion Workshop Owners Associa-tion, said raising the price of CNG (convert-ed natural gas) will only bene� t the o� cials of the gas distribution companies who are already overpaid and draw huge amount of bonus from the pro� t that these companies make.

Energy expert Prof Ijaz Hossain said the gas price hike is logical because it had

been kept unchanged for seven years, but the government’s excessive dependence on fuel-oil-based power plants will only end up putting upward pressure on electricity prices.

“The higher price of electricity will push up the cost of living, create instability in the market and at the same time narrow down people’s access to power,” said Prof Ijaz, who teaches chemical engineering at Buet.

As per current plans, when the govern-ment imports lique� ed natural gas (LNG) in the future, even this new price of gas may prove to be detrimental for the market mech-anisms, Ijaz said. l

Ad hoc price hike can’t be a permanent solutionmore rational and acceptable to the people.

CPD Executive Director Prof Musta� zur Rahman said such hike in gas and power tari� would have impact on households, producers and exporters.

“But given the current in� ation rate, the price hike is rational,” he said, adding that with this rationalisation, the government should take parallel initiatives for matching demand and supply gap.

He said falling fuel oil prices in the global market helps the government cut expenditure on subsidy – this bene� t should be translated into investment in the energy sector for increasing production and ensuring availability.

BGMEA Vice-President Shahidullah Azim said: “Power and gas price hikes will hit the export-oriented industry by pushing up production cost and forcing the sector in

the face of tough competition in the global market.”

Cost of manufacturing readymade gar-ments has already had gone up by 15% due to implementation of new wage structure and graduation of safety standards, he said.

To remain competitive in the global mar-ket, the government should o� er special rate for the export oriented sector especially for the apparel sector, he said. l

Two more Niloy murder suspects heldn Kamrul Hasan

Detectives yesterday arrested two members of banned militant out� t Ansarullah Bang-la Team for their alleged involvement in the murder of secular writer Niladri Chatterjee.

Kauser Hossain Khan, 29, and Kamal Hos-sain Sarder, 29, were arrested in separate drives. Kauser was picked up from the cap-ital’s Mirpur 10 area around 5pm and Kamal from Dholaipar area of Shyampur around 6:30pm, DB Deputy Commissioner (east) Mahbub Alam said.

The duo are charge-sheeted accused in the case � led over the attempted murder of blogger Asif Mohiuddin. They were arrested

earlier but came out on bail, the o� cial said adding that the accused would be placed before a Dhaka court today with a remand plea.

Niladri Chatterjee, better known as Niloy Neel on blogging platforms and Facebook, was hacked to death on August 7 by four un-identi� ed assailants at his Goran residence in Dhaka. He was the fourth secular blogger to be killed since February.

On August 13, detectives arrested two sus-pected Ansarullah members, Saad Al Nahiyan and Masud Rana, in connection with the mur-der. A Dhaka court placed both of them under an eight-day remand on August 14. Their two-day fresh remand starts today. l

AL-backed panel sweeps bar council polls n Tribune Report

The Awami League-backed Sammilita Ainji-bi Samannay Parishad panel has uno� cially claimed victory in Bangladesh Bar Council elections, winning 10 out of 14 posts.

The panel defeated Jatiyatabadi Ainjibi Oikya panel, backed by the BNP, in the elec-tions held on Wednesday with no reports of untoward situation arising anywhere.

As many as 43,302 lawyers cast votes to elect the 14-member body. Abdul Baset Mazumder declared the uno� cial results collected from polling stations across the country yesterday. The o� cial results are due in a few days.

Sammilita Ainjibi Samannay Parishad bagged four seats among seven general posts and the re-maining six among seven group posts.

Awami League-backed candidates who won four general posts are barrister M Amir-Ul Islam, Abdul Baset Majumdar, Abdul Ma-tin Khasru and ZI Khan Panna while pro-BNP lawyers Khandker Mahbub Hossain, AJ Mo-hammad Ali and barrister AM Mahbub Uddin Khokon won the rest.

Kazi Nazibullah Hero, HR Jahid Anwar, Ibrahim Hossain Chowdhury, Parvej Alam Khan, Mohammad Yahiya and Mohammad Rezaul Karim are the pro-Awami League can-didates who won six group posts. Kaimul Haque is the lone BNP-backed contestant winning the seventh group post.

The newly-elected 14-member executive body will elect the vice-chairman of the bar council during their � rst meeting. l

Rapist gets life term in Chittagong n FM Mizanur Rahaman, Chittagong

A Chittagong court yesterday sentenced a person life-term imprisonment for raping a 10-year-old girl in Banskhali on April 24, 2010.

Judge Md Rezaul Karim of the Chittagong Women and Child Repression Prevention Tri-bunal 1 � ned convict Salim Ullah Tk50,000.

Banshkhali police submitted the charge sheet on July 15, 2010. l

Muhith to meetoil stands at $45.04 per barrel in the global market, the BPC has proposed importing 1.3 million tonnes of fuel at the cost of $72 per barrel.

The global price has experienced a down-ward slide since the price reached as high as $115 per barrel in June last year.

Following pressure from di� erent quarters, Muhith in his budget speech hinted the local prices might be revised to match international prices.

Earlier this week, Muhith hinted at revis-ing oil prices at retail level within a month.

“First I will sit with the Energy Division, which has already prepared papers for revising oil prices. Then, I will meet the energy com-mission to set the price,” he said on August 23.

Muhith further hinted that the changes might come before his visit to New York in September. l

Rajon killer Kamrul’s repatriation in a monthn Sheikh Shahariar Zaman

In an unprecedented move, the Saudi Arabian authorities have agreed to send back Kamrul Islam, who was detained in Jeddah after the brutal killing of minor boy Rajon last month.

“The Saudi authorities contacted me and said that Kamrul will be repatriated within three to four weeks,” Bangladesh Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Golam Mosih con� rmed to the Dhaka Tribune yesterday.

“The modalities of the process will be sort-ed out during the period,” he said adding that there was no charge against Kamrul in Saudi Arabia. He was detained at the request of the Bangladesh government.

There is no extradition treaty between the two countries. “Despite that, in absence of any political element, he will be repatriated very smoothly,” Mosih said.

Police � led a charge sheet against 13 accused including Kamrul on August 16. Expatriate Bangladeshis held Kamrul on August 13 iden-tifying him from the torture video that went viral after the murder and handed him over to the police with the help of embassy o� cials.

Sheikh Samiul Alam Rajon, 13, was tor-tured to death by a group of persons includ-ing Kamrul at Kumargaon on the outskirts of Sylhet city on July 8 over a false allegation of theft against him. Locals said that Kamrul had � ed the country soon after the murder. l

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Thanchi attack motive yet unknownn Adil Sakhawat and Kamrul Hasan

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal yesterday said that some Myanmar separatist groups including the Arakan Army were oper-ating inside Bangladesh border but could not con� rm why the separatists had launched the attack on BGB personnel on Wednesday.

“Some separatists may have presence in the area as the adjacent areas along the border are mostly inhabited by the Rakhine people,” Kamal told the Dhaka Tribune after visiting the remote area of Barha Madok in Thanchi of Bandarban.

BGB chief Maj Gen Abdul Aziz, who accom-panied the minister during the visit, however, chose to di� er.

At a brie� ng in Dhaka, he said that sepa-ratist group Arakan Army might use Bangla-desh land for trespassing only as the area is surrounded by Myanmar border from three sides.

“They may enter Bangladesh when chased by the Myanmar law enforcers and then enter Myanmar through the other side. They get this scope since the border areas are unpro-

tected,” he added.Asked about the combined operations by

the members of the Bangladesh Army and the BGB, the minister said that the drives would continue until further notice.

“We have got positive response from the Myanmar Army after we requested them [through Myanmar embassy in Dhaka] to seal o� the border. They also assured us of taking strict action if the separatists try to enter My-anmar,” Kamal told the Dhaka Tribune.

Asked about the reason behind the attack, the minister said that the intelligence agen-cies were working on the matter.

He added that his ministry was scrutinis-ing a proposal paced by the BGB to set up out-posts at 107 spots along the Myanmar border.

On the other hand, the BGB director gen-eral said that around 10-12 platoon BGB mem-bers and � ve platoons of army personnel would be deployed in the area by today.

Some army men and additional BGB per-sonnel were sent to the spot immediately after the gun� ght that began around 9:30am on Wednesday. The incident took place after a BGB patrol team challenged some Arakan

Army members passing the area with 13 hors-es. The BGB members retaliated when the separatists opened � re at them.

A BGB naik was injured in the gun� ght. He was later � own to Chittagong Combined Mili-tary Hospital for treatment.

Early yesterday, the joint forces detained a person named Aung Aung Rakhine from Ra-jasthali area of Rangamati for his suspected involvement with the Arakan Army. The law enforcers said that they had recovered three uniforms of the separatist group from his pos-session.

Quoting locals, the BGB chief said that some six to seven operatives of the Arakan Army were injured in the incident.

He also refuted the claim made by the My-anmar Army that BGB provides training to their separatist groups. “Now it is clear that the claim is false. If we trained them, they should not attack us.”

During the visit, the DG said that they had found blank shells of ri� es and machine guns, empty cartridges and gun belts left on the spot. He suspect that some 50 members of the Arakan Army took part in the attack. l

Three remanded in Avijit murder casen Md Sanaul Islam Tipu

A Dhaka court yesterday paced three sus-pected members of banned militant out� t Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT) on a three-day fresh remand in the case � led over the murder of secular blogger and writer Avijit Roy.

Metropolitan Magistrate Mohammad As-aduzzaman Noor passed the order after DB Inspector Md Fazlur Rahman, also the inves-tigation o� cer of the case, produced the trio before it seeking a 10-day fresh remand for interrogation.

The remanded accused are Mohammad Touhidur Rahman alias Gama, Md Sadek Ali Mithu, and Aminul Islam Mollik. Of them, Touhidur is a Bangladeshi-born UK citizen and IT expert.

The court also rejected their bail petitions submitted by defence counsels.

They were earlier remanded for three days on the same charge.

Elite force Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) ar-rested them in connection with the cases � led over the murders of Avijit and another Muk-to-Mona blog writer Ananta Bijoy Das from

the capital’s Nilkhet and Dhanmondi areas on August 18.

After the arrests, RAB personnel at a press brie� ng told reporters that Touhidur and Sadek had confessed to planning murder of both the bloggers.

They are followers of Ansarullah chief Jasim Uddin Rahmani, now undergoing trial for instigating militancy and the murder of another secular activist Ahmed Rajeeb Haider.

Touhidur closely followed Avijit and Anan-ta before the killings, RAB claims. Moreover, the duo said that � ve members of the militant

organisation had taken part in the murder in-cidents.

Founder of Mukto-Mona blog Avijit was killed and his wife Ra� da Ahmed Bonna crit-ically injured when some youths attacked them with machetes near TSC intersection on Dhaka University campus on February 26. The couple, both US citizens, came to Bangladesh to attend Amar Ekushey Book Fair.

On the other hand, rationalist writer and banker by profession Ananta was hacked to death near his house in Subidbazar Bankala-para area of Sylhet city on May 12. l

Bandarban hills – safe haven for Myanmar separatistsn S Bashu Das, Bandarban

Over the last four and a half decades since Bangla-desh’s independence, the remote hills on the bor-der have gradually become a safe den for a number of separatist groups from neighbouring Myanmar.

Taking refuge in the deep hilly forests, these separatists have often in� ltrated human settle-ments in Bangladesh and committed crimes such as murder, rape, extortion, looting, kidnapping and arms trading.

Local say these groups have been particularly active in the hills over the last few years. In order to have the money for buying arms and ammuni-tion, they looted a bank in Rangamati and realised millions of taka in ransom by kidnapping local government and NGO o� cials and businessmen.

The Myanmar Arakan Rohingya Islamic Front, Arakan People’s Army (APA), Arakan Liberation Army (ALA), National United Party of Arakan (NUPA), Operation Army (OP), Rohingya Solidarity Organisation (RSO), National Liberation Front of Tripura (NFLT) and the Arakan Army are some of the most active groups in these bordering hills.

Over the last one year, authorities here secured an area of nearly 110km along the border with Myanmar. But, another 439km stretch has remained unguarded.

Intelligence reports have said that these separatist groups have been supplying arms and

ammunition to the militant organisations active inside Bangladesh.

In some of the raids over the years, Bangla-deshi security forces have seized lethal weapons such as AK27, AK47 and M16 ri� es, British and Chinese-made machine guns, explosives, mortars, Chinese rocket launchers, thousands of rounds of bullets and huge stashes of gunpowders.

The Arakan ArmyOn Wednesday morning, members of the

Arakan Army were scouting a consignment of 13 horses for their own use. These animals are much more convenient for transport in the hill areas than mechanical or motorised vehicles.

When a patrol team of Border Guard Bangla-desh (BGB) challenged them, they opened � re on the border guards and injured Corporal Jakir Hossain.

That night, Bangladesh Army arrested a member of the Arakan Army named Aung Kraw Ra-khaine, 25, by raiding Collegepara area of Rangamti and seized two horses and three uniforms of the separatist group. Later, a lawsuit was � led against him by the Bangladesh Army.

The Arakan Army was formed in April 2009. It is led by Tuan Mart Nayang.

In an announcement made in 2012, the Arakan Army, which says it wants to make the Arakan state independent and give the right of self-determina-tion to the Arakani people, claimed that they had

500 members.This group has its den in Ruma and Thanchi

areas of Bandarban and has been allegedly com-mitting various crimes from there.

The Dhaka Tribune has learned that the horse consignment – centring which the gun� ght took place on Wednesday – was collected from Chit-tagong after Eid-ul-Fitr.

Truck driver Abdur Razzak, who transported these horses, told this reporter: “These horses were brought for Rony Marma, a local headman in Thanchi.”

Allegations have it that Rony Marma sold those horses at high pro� ts to the Arakan Army. He could not be reached on his mobile phone despite repeated attempts.

After the gun� ght on Wednesday morning, reinforcements were � own in by helicopters from the Balipara BGB camp and the Ali Kadam zone of Bangladesh Army.

Maliram Tripura, union council chairman of Remakri union under Thanchi, said although the situation appears calm on the surface, the army has been continuing its raid in the area.

Yesterday, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan and BGB Director General Maj Gen Aziz Ahmed vis-ited the area where the gun� ght had taken place.

Bandarban Deputy Commissioner Mizanul Haque Chowdhury said there has been no news of any fresh gun� ght from the Baro Modok area. l

Jatiya Party (Z) chief Kazi Zafar passes awayn UNB

Jatiya Party (Z) chairman and former prime minister Kazi Zafar Ahmed passed away yes-terday morning. He was 76.

He fell ill at his Gulshan residence while pre-paring to go to Chauddagram, Comilla around 7am. He was then taken to United Hospital where doctors declared him dead around 7:30am, said his personal secretary Golam Mostafa.

He is survived by wife, three daughters and a host of well-wishers.

Kazi Zafar’s � rst namaz-e-janaza will be held at the South Plaza of Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban this morning, and later his body will be taken to Baitul Mukarram National Mosque, where the second janaza will be held after Jumma prayers, Mostafa said.

Kazi Zafar, who earned reputation as a left student leader in the 1960s, served as com-merce minister, deputy prime minister and � nally prime minister in HM Ershad’s govern-ment in the 80s.

Jatiya Party (JaPa) Chairman HM Ershad sacked Zafar from his party on November 29, 2013 as he made “derogatory” remarks against the former military ruler over partic-ipating in the January 5 election. Later, he � oated his party with Ghulam Moshi as its secretary general.

On January 25 last year, the Kazi Zafar-led faction joined the BNP-led 20-party alliance.

President Abdul Hamid has expressed deep shock at Kazi Zafar’s death. In a condo-lence message issued, the president prayed for the eternal peace of the departed soul and conveyed his sympathy to the bereaved fam-ily members.

In a condolence message, BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia also expressed deep shock at his death. l

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UN special rapporteur due on Monday n Tribune Report

United Nations Special Rapporteur Heiner Bielefeldt will carry out an of-� cial visit to Bangladesh from August 31 to September 9 to assess the state of freedom of religion or belief in the country.

“I am keen to learn more about the e� orts to eliminate root causes of vio-lence, intimidations and vigilantism in the name of religion and developments in promoting and protecting religious freedom, especially initiatives of in-ter-religious dialogues, following the

� rst country visit by my predecessor in May 2000,” Bielefeldt said in a state-ment.

“It will also be a timely opportunity for me to assess the freedom of religion or belief in relation to issues of gender, women, children, and in particular, re-ligious minorities or indigenous com-munities,” he noted.

The work of the special rapporteur, as mandated by the UN Human Rights Council, also requires him to identify existing and emerging obstacles to the enjoyment of the right to freedom of religion or belief and present speci� c

recommendations to overcome them.During the nine-day mission,

Bielefeldt will meet various govern-ment o� cials, representatives of reli-gious or belief communities, minority and indigenous representatives, civil society organisations and the UN.

The expert will share with the media his preliminary � ndings at a press con-ference on September 9 at the National Press Club.

Following his visit, Bielefeldt will present a report with his conclusions and recommendations to the UN Hu-man Rights Council in 2016. l

SC clears way to Falu’s graft case trialn Tribune Report

The Supreme Court yesterday scrapped a High Court order that had quashed the trial proceedings of a graft case against BNP leader Mosaddek Ali Falu.

Now there is no legal bar for the lower court to resume the trial proceedings of the case, said ACC lawyer Khurshid Alam Khan.

The order by a four-member bench of Appellate Division headed by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha came after the hearing of an appeal � led by the ACC challenging the High Court verdict in Jan-uary 2012 following a petition � led by Falu. The ACC � led the case against Falu on July 8, 2007 with Motijheel police station on charge of concealing information about his property worth Tk4.57 crore. l

SC stays Khandaker Mosharraf’s bailn Tribune Report

The Supreme Court has stayed BNP standing committee member Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain’s bail, granted by the High Court in a money laundering case, for two weeks.

The four-member Appellate Division bench led by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha issued the order yesterday after hearing a plea by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) to scrap the bail.

The court also asked the ACC to � le a leave-to-appeal petition within two weeks.

“Now the BNP senior leader will not be released from jail,” said ACC lawyer Khurshid Alam Khan.

The ACC � led the case in February last year, accusing Moshar-raf of siphoning o� around Tk9 crore while serving as health and family welfare minister during the 2001-2006 regime of BNP-led alliance government and sending the money to Lloyd’s TSB O� -shore Private Bank in the UK.

The High Court granted permanent bail to him on August 18 this year on condition that he had to deposit his passport to a lower court.

The court ordered him not to go abroad without its permission and not to withdraw the money from the UK bank until the dis-posal of the case. l

Shawkat Mahmud remanded in Lalbagh arson casen Md Sanaul Islam Tipu

A Dhaka court yesterday placed BNP chairperson’s Adviser Shawkat Mahmud on a one-day fresh remand in connection with an arson case � led with Lalbagh police in January this year.

Metropolitan Magistrate Md Atiqur Rahman passed the order after OC (investigation) Md Moniruzzaman of Lalbagh police pro-duced Shawkat, also a journalist leader, before the court with a 10-day remand petition.

Also investigation o� cer of the case, Moniruzzaman said that Shawkat had been shown arrested in the case for instigating the arson attacks during the anti-government movement. He needs to be interrogated for the sake of fair probe and also to trace the attackers, the IO said.

Opposing the remand plea, defence counsel Md Sanaullah Miah � led petitions seeking his client’s bail and cancellation of the remand prayer. He said that since Shawkat’s name had not been mentioned in the FIR, he was implicated in the case as part of a conspiracy to harass him politically.

The case was � led after a group of BNP led-20-party men set a bus on � re by hurling petrol bombs on January 23 in front of the Home Economics College in Azimpur and obstructed the police from carrying out their duties.

Detectives arrested Shawkat, also president of a faction of Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists, from Panthapath on August 18. l

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3 testify in Khaleda’s absencen Md Sanaul Islam Tipu

Three prosecution witnesses gave deposi-tions against BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia and three other accused in Zia Charitable Trust graft case yesterday.

Khaleda, a three-time former premier, did not appear before the makeshift court set up at Bakshibazar in the capital due to her illness, her counsels said. She skipped the case proceedings on August 10 citing the same ground.

Judge Abu Ahmed Jamadar of the Dha-ka’s Third Special Judge’s Court recorded the statements and set September 3 for further hearing in the case, � led by the Anti-Corrup-tion Commission (ACC).

At the beginning of yesterday’s hearing, Khaleda’s counsels � led two petitions for non-appearance of the prime accused saying that she could not appear before the court due to illness.

The court then directed the defence coun-sels to start cross-examination of the com-plainant, Harun-ur-Rashid, on behalf of rest of the accused in Zia Charitable Trust case. After concluding the cross-examination, the court recorded the deposition of second prosecution witness Sub-Inspector Mahfuzul Haque Bhuiyan.

Mahfuz is now working in the administra-tion department at the DMP Headquarters.

He was the on-duty o� cer at Tejgaon police station when the case was � led on August 8, 2011.

Defence counsels Aminul Islam, Md San-aullah Miah and TM Akbar Hossain cross ex-amined him.

Later, Insan Uddin Ahmed, senior o� cer of Sonali Bank’s Fakirerpool branch, and Md Shahjahan Khan, its cash o� cer, gave deposi-tions in the case. l

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7 members of abduction gang arrestedn Kamrul Hasan

Police late Wednesday night arrested seven members of an abduction gang including a teenage girl.

The gang members introduce them as members of law enforcement agency and then abduct their victims.

The arrestees are Liakat Ali, Kamrul Islam, Shahidul Islam alias kamal, Nazmul Haque Didar, Ruhul Amin alias Ripon, Obayedur Rahman Batu and lone female member of the gang Meherun Nesa Keya.

Female members of the gang build a re-

lation with men from a� uent family before they abduct them.

Police recovered improvised lethal weap-ons, two toy pistols and ten cell phones from their possession.

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Deputy Commissioner (Mirpur Zone) Kaiyumuzaman at a press brie� ng at the DMP Media Centre yesterday afternoon said they were arrested around 11pm on Wednesday night with the weapons.

He said the gang � rst targeted a man from a rich family and its the girl members built a relation with him. As the relation continued

Meherun asked the victim to meet her at a certain place.

When the victim came there to meet her he was taken captive by other members of the gang impersonating members of law enforce-ment agency and later looted the victim’s be-longings at gunpoint.

They also forcibly took nude photograph of the victim with the girl and blackmailed his family into paying money through bKash accounts.

After receiving the money, they blindfold-ed the victim and left him in a secluded place before they � ed away.

In another drive Mirpur police arrested � ve inter-district robbers when they were prepar-ing for robbery.

The arrestees are Kamaml Hossain, Badha, Asmat Ali, Rimon and Sabu.

Police also recovered three lethal weapons, a mini pickup van used for robbery from their possession.

The DC said they were arrested from Kaly-anpur area around 5pm on Wednesday after-noon.

All of them were members of an inter dis-tricts robber gang and accused in several rob-bery cases, he added. l

Father, son arrested for killing minor boyn Kamrul Hasan

Members of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested a father and his son yesterday on charge of abducting and killing a three-year-old boy in July.

The victim was Manil (03), son of Sha� qul Islam of Savar, Dhaka.

The arrestees were Akram, 60, son of late Ka� l Uddin and Akram’s son Bhasani, 30.

After Manik went missing on June 30 from in front of his house his father Sha� qul lodged a general diary with Savar police station.

Later on July 1 miscreants called over Sha� qul’s cell phone and demanded Tk5,00000. Sha� qul complained about the matter to the RAB Nabinagar Crime preven-tion camp(CPC) the same evening.

On July 6, Sha� qul’s mother found Manik’s body in a pond near their house.

Major Maksudul Alam, assistant director of the RAB Legal and Media Wing, said early yesterday the RAB arrested Akram from He-mayetpur tannery area around 2:15am.

On the basis of his information they held Bhasani from Shyamoli area around 5:15am.

Quoting Bhasani he said Milon and Min-tu masterminded the murder while Akram, Ramjan, Hanif and Bhasani executed the plan. Akram lured Manik into Ramjan’s house.

Sha� qul paid Tk21,000 as ransom but the abductors were not happy with the money and strangled the boy.

After the murder when they realised that the body started to decompose they dumped the it into the pond.l

2 confess to their involvement in cocaine smugglingn Tarek Mahmud, Chittagong

The two arrestees in the much-talked-about liquid cocaine seizure case yesterday con-fessed that they knew about the consignment sent by London expatriates Bakul Mia and Fa-zlur.

The duo said in their confessional state-ments they along with some others were in-volved in the dispatching the consignment from Chittagong port, sources in the court said.

The Metropolitan Magistrate Farid Alam recorded the statements of accused Golam Mostafa Sohel, manager of the Prime Hatch-ery which is a sister concern of alleged im-porter Khan Jahan Ali Limited, and his cousin Mehedi Alam, o� cial of a securities company.

Chittagong Metropolitan Police Addition-al Deputy Commissioner (Prosecution) Kazi Muttaki Ibn Minan said the two accused were produced before the magistrate around 3:00pm.

“After completing the recording of the con-fessional statements, the two were sent to Chittagong Central Jail,” he said.

Sohel previously in police interrogation con-fessed that he used the pad of his � rm to bring the consignment while the entire proceedings were operated by some expatriate people.

The link of a Bangladesh-origin UK citizen, Bakul Mia, was found with the smuggling from Uruguay. The consignment was on its way to Europe or North America; otherwise, it was supposed to be re-exported to India’s Kolkata.

Earlier, Sohel was placed on a 15-day re-mand while Mehedi on a 10-day remand in di� erent phases in the sensitive case over the seizure of liquid cocaine consignment in guise of sun� ower oil from Chittagong Port in June.

Apart from the two, the consignment’s C&F Agent Saiful Islam Sumon was placed on a 10-day remand and COSCO Shipping Agen-cy’s Manager AKM Azad, Mondol Group’s Commercial Executive Atiqur Rahaman and a real estate company o� cial Mostafa Kamal on a 15-day remand each in di� erent phases.

A total of six persons have so far been ar-rested in the sensitive case. However, alleged importer of the consignment Nur Moham-mad, chairman of Khan Jahan Ali Limited, is on the run.

On June 6, Directorate of Customs Intel-ligence and Investigation on police informa-tion sealed the container in Chittagong Port which was suspected to bring 2,140 kg of liq-uid cocaine. l

Sarso to set up testing labn Sheikh Shahariar Zaman

The South Asian Regional Standard Organi-sation (Sarso) is planning to set up a state-of-the-art testing laboratory in Dhaka to remove non-tari� barrier in regional trade.

“This initiative will help boost regional trade,” Foreign Secretary M Shahidul Haque told the Dhaka Tribune.

The Saarc region is the least integrated as far as trade is concerned as the eight member coun-tries’ intra-trade is only 5% of their total trade.

A Foreign Ministry o� cial said that the Sarso had already decided to procure fund from foreign sources to set up the lab. “We need the conformity assessment laboratory, which can certify the standard of any product and it will be accepted by all the Saarc coun-tries,” said the o� cial.

The headquarters of Sarso, one of the two specialised bodies under South Asian Associ-ation for Regional Cooperation (Saarc), was

set up last year in Dhaka and it has already started its operations. Bangladeshi exporters often complain that they face non-tari� bar-riers including standardisation when they export to India or some other Saarc countries.

“For the next one or two years, we will set up the standards for the priority products which will be tested in the lab,” said the o� cial.

The priority products are those which have the major share in the trading basket.

Another o� cial said that German testing organisation PTB was helping Sarso in devel-oping its capacity. Sarso has also approached ISO and International Electrotechnical Com-mission (IEC) to forge a cooperation deal.

“If Sarso can reach an agreement with them, its certi� ed products will also be accept-ed in Europe and American markets,” he said.

Sarso has already certi� ed some products including re� ned sugar, biscuit, code of hy-gienic practice for dairy products, jute and cotton related products. l

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Flood situation improves, people returning homen Tribune Report

With reduce of water level in most of major rivers across the country � ood situation has improved remarkably.

According to the Water Development Board, the major rivers have marked signi� -cant falls in their water levels following sharp reduction of onrush water from upstream and no rainfall during the period.

The improving trend will continue with further recession in water levels in the major rivers in Kurigram, Lalmonirhat, Nilphamari, Rangpur, Gaibandha, Bogra and Sirajganj soon.

The displaced people started returning homes at most places following further im-provement of � ood situation.

The Brahmaputra River was � owing above its danger mark by 2cm at Fulchhari, the Ja-muna River by 19cm at Bahadurabad, 44cm at Sariakandi and 58cm at Sirajganj points at 6am yesterday.

Besides, the Kartoa River was � owing above the danger level by 34cm at Chalk Ra-himapur and 34cm at Kanthakhali points and Atrai was � owing 151cm above its danger level at Baghabari point at 6am yesterday.

The Dharla River was � owing below its danger level by 5cm at Kurigram, the Teesta River by 10cm at Dalia and 139cm at Kawnia and the Jamuneswari River below its danger level by 70cm at Badarganj points.

The Brahmaputra River was � owing 108cm below its danger level at Noonkhawa and 20cm at Chilmari points while Ghaghot was � owing below its danger level by 34cm at Gai-bandha point this morning.

Sources with the local administrations and

public representatives said sporadic erosion of the Dharla, Teesta, Brahmaputra, Jamuna and Ghaghot continues in Kurigram, Gaiband-ha, Bogra and Sirajganj.

In Kurigram, people who are residents of low-lying areas, are yet to return home as their dwellings are still remained submerged by � ood water.

Specially, char areas people are facing scar-city of foods as well as pure drinking water. Although the district administration has allo-cated 80 tonnes of rice for distressed people, many people are yet to get rice. Sources at district administration said they had already distributed dried among � ood victims.

District Relief and Rehabilitation O� cer Abdul Mottalib said distribution of relief rice and cash money continued among the � ood- a� ected people.

Meanwhile, the district and upazila adminis-trations have further intensi� ed relief activities to the people in the � ood and erosion-hit areas.

As the Kortoa River was following 34cm above danger level, � ood situation in Kurigram deteriorated yesterday. About 150,000 people of seven upazilas in the district are left ma-rooned. But erosion has taken serious turn in Gobindaganj upazila.

Executive Engineer of the WDB Abdul Awal told the Dhaka Tribune they were trying to check erosion putting sand bags in the a� ect-ed areas.

District Relief and Rehabilitation O� cer Habibur Rahman told the Dhaka Tribune that many people had already returned their home as the � ood situation improved. The district administration has distributed 150 tonnes food among � ood a� ected people. l

RMG worker stabbed to deathn Our Correspondent, Gazipur

A RMG factory worker has been stabbed to death by his co-worker at a factory in Tongi Hossain Market area of Gazipur district.

Deceased Habibur Rahman alias Hannan, 25, was a worker at a garments factory of Pa-ci� c Group in Hossain Market area and a resi-dent of Tongi’s Bostrohara area.

Meanwhile, Habibur’s co-worker Shahadat Hossain, 22, has been detained in connection to the incident. Tongi Sub-Inspector Sumon Bhokto said: “Shahadat stabbed Habibur in the factory around 8am Thursday. Other co-workers took him to Tongi Hospital where the duty doctor declared him.” l

BCL men arrested over murder, extortionn Our Correspondent, Barisal

Police yesterday arrested three activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) for their al-leged involvement in murder, drug peddling and extortion at Swarupkathi upazila in Piro-jpur district.

The arrested are Sagar Serniabad, � nance secretary of Shahid Abdur Rob Serniabad College BCL unit, Amin Haoladar, BCL activ-ist and brother-in-law of AL backed upazila chairman Golam Mortuza and Rashed Rari, member of Agoiljhara upazila BCL unit.

Monirul Islam, o� cer-in-charge of Agoil-jhara police station, said in a drive police ar-rested the three accused from the house of Ruhul Haoladar in Atghar-Kuriana Guava Or-chard area under the upazila near the border of Barisal-Jhalakathi and Pirojpur district. l

Ruling party men interfere in paddy procurement n Our Correspondent, Magura

Paddy procurement is reportedly severely hampered in the district this year due to in-terfere in the drive by ruling party men.

According to food o� ce sources, boro pad-dy procurement has started in the district with a target of 750 metric tonne. The drive began on May 1 and it will continue till August 31. But the farmers could not sell any paddy in the o� ces till on August 27.

From the very beginning, a section of rul-ing party people have been trying to dom-inate the drive. They made force on food of-� cer to purchase paddy from them in stead of farmers.

The activists of ruling party entered the food o� ce with � rearms everyday and tried to dominate the o� ce authority, said the of-� ce sources.

Requesting anonymity, an o� cial of the food o� ce, said a local Awami League lead-er was killed in a clash at Shatrijitpur village under Sadar upazila on July 23 over paddy procurement drive at Binodpur food godown.

He also said more murder could take place in the district over paddy procurement if the

concern authority would not take steps.Reza Elahi a boro farmer of Shibrampur

village said: “We were waiting for paddy pro-curement drive by government so that we can get fair price. But due to political interference, we are being deprived of our right.”

Moniruzzaman of Doarpar village said that he went to local food o� ce to sell his paddy. But the o� cers said they were yet to take any decision to buy paddy.

Hapizer of Vina village said: “As I have heard that political leaders and workers dom-inate over paddy procurement depriving the farmers, I did not go to godown.”

Magura district unit AL general secretary Pankaz Kundu said that he did not know about the involvement of AL men with the incidents.

If there was such case, the party would take decision, he said.

Contacted, Sadar Upazila Food Controller Anwarul Moniruzzaman of Doarpar village said: “Due to interference of ruling party lead-ers and workers, paddy procurement drive is facing set back in the district this year.”

“If the farmers come to us with a com-plaint, we will consider the matter,” he said. l

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RMG worker stabbed to deathn Our Correspondent, Gazipur

A RMG factory worker has been stabbed to death by his co-worker at a factory in Tongi Hossain Market area of Gazipur district.

Deceased Habibur Rahman alias Hannan, 25, was a worker at a garments factory of Pa-ci� c Group in Hossain Market area and a resi-dent of Tongi’s Bostrohara area.

Meanwhile, Habibur’s co-worker Shahadat Hossain, 22, has been detained in connection to the incident. Tongi Sub-Inspector (SI) Su-mon Bhokto said: “Shahadat stabbed Habibur in the factory around 8am Thursday. Other co-workers took him to Tongi Hospital where the duty doctor declared him.” l

Quader: Stern actions if un� t vehicles run on highwaysn Tribune Report

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader yesterday the government would take stern action against drivers and owners, if any un� t vehicles were seen on highways.

The minister said this while visiting con-struction works on Newjersey central reser-voir on the Dhaka-Rajshahi Highway in the western side of Bangabandhu Multipurpose Bridge in Sirajganj yesterday, reports our Sir-ajganj Correspondent.

He said: “Actions would be taken against the driver and the owner, if any such vehicle is found on the road. This has been decided at an inter-ministerial meeting on preparations for Eid recently,” he said.

The minister also said no cattle market would be allowed on or around any highway before the forthcoming Eid-ul-Azha. “Actions would be taken, if anyone violates this order,” he warned.

Obaidul Quader said the highway would be expanded at four accident-prone areas in Sirajganj and the central reservoir was being constructed on Newjersey road at a cost of Tk8 crore. Besides, there will be no tra� c jam

at Chandra during the Eid because of the con-struction of 450-meter-long Chandra by-lane at a cost of Tk2.5 crore, he added.

Earlier, the minster distributed lea� ets among drivers and passengers at Tokia, Natore Sadar upazila and said with a view to reducing road accident across the country, the govern-ment was renovating 144 accident-prone are-as on highways across the country.

Then, the minister said: “We should re-member that life comes � rst, then livelihood.”

He said 1,752 kilometers of highways across the country would be upgraded to four lanes and 144 curves on highways expanded to avert road accidents.

The government has taken right decision to ban three wheelers and CNG-run vehicles on highways because plying of this types of vehicles on highways was risk for both pas-sengers and drivers.

“After the ban on three wheelers plying on highways, road accidents across the country has remarkably declined,” he said.

He said the government was also considering to construct by lane for slow motion vehicles from Hattikumrul to Banpara bypass area. l

Task force for transport sector demandedn Tribune Report

The government should form a special cell or task force to remove disorder in transport sec-tor, said discussants at a roundtable meeting yesterday at National Press Club in the capi-tal.

Bangladesh Passengers Welfare Associa-tion organised the roundtable titled ‘Public Transport Crisis: Way forward to end passen-gers’ su� erings’ at the press club where Urban transport expert Salehuddin Ahmed, column-ist Syed Abul Maksud, Bangladesher Sama-jtantrik Dal Member Razekuzzaman Ratan, Communist Party of Bangladesh member Ru-hin Hossain Prince, among others spoke.

The welfare association secretary general Mozammel Haque said more than 90 percent of public transport including bus, minibus, CNG-run auto rickshaws, taxicab, Nasiman, Kariman and Bhatbati are rundown and un� t. Beside, 50 percent drivers are operating pub-lic vehicles with fake license.

Abul Maksud said the government should form a high-powered special cell for develop-ment of the sector. l

Slaughter grounds for sacri� cial animals � xedn Abu Hayat Mahmud

The government has � xed speci� c points for slaughtering of sacri� cing animals during Eid-ul-Azha in the capital and the port city to avoid pollution and dirtiness.

The slaughter of sacri� cial animals will be limited to 513 designated spots in Dhaka North City Corporation, Dhaka South City Corporation and Chittagong City Corporation.

Muslims were requested to slaughter sacri-� cial animals at 493 spots in two city corpora-

tion areas, Dhaka and at 20 points in the port city during forthcoming Eid-ul-Azha.

Secretary of Local Government and Ru-ral Development Abdul Malek yesterday told journalists 285 places had been � xed in Dhaka south, 208 in Dhaka north and 20 places in the port city as slaughter grounds.

He, however, said the number of slaugh-tering spots might rise, but no one would be forced to use those designated places to slaughter animals.

Malek said the slaughter places had been

� xed because every year animal waste and blood pollute cities’ roads and playgrounds during Eid-ul-Azha.

“To raise awareness among city dwellers the authorities concerned, including coun-cillors of each city corporation will run cam-paign about the matter just three days before the Eid,” Malek said.

The designated slaughtering grounds will have butchers and cleaning sta� s. Moreover, an Imam will be available for each spot who will slaughter sacri� cial animals following Is-

lamic rituals.Last year, the Dhaka South City Corpora-

tion ran only two slaughter houses at Hazari-bagh and Kaptan Bazar, while the north city corporation operated three slaughter grounds at Mohammadpur, Mirpur 11 and Gulshan kitchen market. The LGD secretary further informed the newsmen that 16 spaces were designated to set cattle market this year.

Already the Dhaka north city has declared that no cattle market would be set up in the city corporation area. l

Intercepting a car Hijras realise extortion from it at Panthapath in the capital yesterday. Nuisance of hijras has mounted nowadays to a great extent as many of them are now getting involved in criminal activities SYED ZAKIR HOSSAIN

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Virginia TV journalists killed by suspect with ‘powder keg’ of angern Reuters, Moneta

Two television journalists were shot to death during a live broadcast in Virginia on Wednes-day, slain by a former employee of the TV sta-tion and who called himself a “powder keg” of anger over what he saw as racial discrimination at work and elsewhere in the United States.

The suspect, 41-year-old Vester Flanagan, shot himself as police pursued him on a Vir-ginia highway hours after the shooting. Fla-nagan, who was African-American, died later at a hospital, police said.

The journalists who were killed were re-porter Alison Parker, 24, and cameraman Adam Ward, 27. Both journalists were white, as is a woman who they were interviewing. The woman was wounded and was in stable condition, a hospital spokesman said.

Social media postings by a person who ap-peared to be Flanagan indicated the suspect had grievances against the station, CBS a� l-iate WDBJ7 in Roanoke, Virginia, which let him go two years ago. The person also posted video that appeared to show the attack � lmed

from the gunman’s vantage point.Flanagan sent ABC News a 23-page fax

about two hours after the shooting, saying his attack was triggered by the June 17 mass shooting at a black church in Charleston, South Carolina, the network said. Nine peo-ple were killed, and a white man has been charged in that rampage.

The network cited Flanagan as saying he had su� ered racial discrimination, sexu-al harassment and bullying at work. He had been attacked by black men and white wom-en, and for being a gay black man, he said.

“The church shooting was the tipping point ... but my anger has been building steadily,” ABC News cited the fax as saying. “I’ve been a human powder keg for a while ... just waiting to go BOOM!”

The on-air shooting occurred at about 6:45am EDT (1045 GMT) at Bridgewater Plaza, a Smith Mountain Lake recreation site about 200 miles (320 km) southwest of Washington.

Hours after the shooting, someone claim-ing to have � lmed it posted video online. The videos were posted to a Twitter account and

on Facebook by a man identifying himself as Bryce Williams, which was Flanagan’s on-air name. The videos were removed shortly af-terward. In one video, a handgun was clearly visible as the person � lming approached the female reporter.

The person purporting to be Williams also posted, “I � lmed the shooting see Face-book” as well as saying one of the victims had “made racist comments.”

ABC News said Flanagan called the net-work shortly after 10am Flanagan said he had shot two people and that police were after him, and then hung up.

Flanagan shot himself as Virginia State Police were closing in on a rental car on In-terstate 66 in Fauquier County, WDBJ7 said. State police said the suspect refused to stop when spotted by troopers and sped away.

Minutes later, the suspect’s vehicle ran o� the road and crashed, police said in a statement, adding that troopers approached the vehicle to � nd the driver with a gunshot wound. He was taken to Inova Fairfax Hospi-tal near Washington, where he died. l

Poll: Trump lead grows, Clinton slipsn AFP, Washington

Billionaire Donald Trump extended his lead yet again atop the Republican presidential � eld, with front-running Democrat Hillary Clinton slipping and Vice President Joe Biden faring better than her against Republicans, poll results revealed yesterday.

Trump, the combative real estate mogul, leads the 16 other Republican candidates with 28 percent support among registered voters nationwide, up from 20 percent in a similar July 30 survey by Quinnipiac University.

Yesterday’s lead marks the widest margin for any Republican so far in the election cycle, the survey said.

Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson placed a distant second with 12 percent, followed by former Florida governor Jeb Bush, Senator Ted Cruz and Senator Marco Rubio, each with seven percent.

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker was next with six percent, and Ohio Governor John Ka-sich and businesswoman Carly Fiorina each registered � ve percent.

“Other GOP hopefuls seem to disappear. Trump proves you don’t have to be loved to be the leader,” said Quinnipiac poll assistant director Tim Malloy.

Trump’s abrasive style, including his caustic criticism of rivals, has led some observers to say he does not have the temperament to be presi-dent, but he has dominated the race essentially since he declared his candidacy in June.

On the Democratic side, Clinton’s support has shrunk, to 45 percent now compared with 55 percent on July 30, while her main rival Senator Bernie Sanders is polling at his high-est level, 22 percent.

Biden, who is not a declared candidate but is mulling jumping into the race, earned 18 percent in the poll. Signi� cantly, Biden “has the best appeal in general election matchups against top Republicans,” Malloy said.

Biden beats Trump by eight points, Bush

by six points, and Rubio by three points.Clinton beats them too but by smaller

numbers: four points, two points and one point respectively.

Despite Trump’s Republican lead, he has the highest negative favorability numbers in the � eld, at 36 percent to 54 percent. Bush is underwater as well, at 32-41, while Clinton’s negative 39-51 matches her worst favorability rating ever.

Biden’s favorability rating was positive, at

48-39, while Rubio’s was 41-27 and Sanders 32-28.

Trump and Clinton are also seen as the least honest and trustworthy of the � eld.

Trump also tops the “no way” list, with 26 percent of Republicans saying they de� nitely would not support him.

Clinton tops the “no way” list among Dem-ocrats, at 11 percent.

The August 20-25 poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 2.5 percentage points. l

Arrest warrant issued for former Pakistani PMn AFP, Karachi

A Pakistani anti-corruption court yesterday is-sued arrest warrants for former prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani as well as one of his senior ministers in a dozen graft cases against them.

The court ordered the Federal Investiga-tion Agency (FIA), which probed the cases, to apprehend Gilani, who was prime minister from 2008 to 2012, along with ex-commerce minister Makhdoom Amin Fahim and pro-duce them before a judge on September 10.

“Yes, the court has issued the arrest warrants against them and to produce them into the court on the next hearing,” an FIA o� cial said.

Gilani can appeal to a higher court to allow him to post bail to avoid arrest before the hear-ing, but Fahim is unlikely to appear because he is receiving cancer treatment in Britain.

The court orders came after the pair failed to appear in court to defend themselves against 12 fresh corruption cases presented by the FIA, which took the total number of charges against them to 24.

Both Gilani and Fahim are senior leaders of the opposition Pakistan Peoples Party. l

India deploys army to stop caste-related violence in Gujaratn Reuters, Ahmedabad

The Indian army patrolled riot-hit areas of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state of Gujarat yesterday after the death toll rose to seven in two days of caste-related violence.

Clashes spread after police arrested a young leader of the in� uential Patel clan who led a huge rally on Tuesday to demand more government jobs and college places for mem-bers of his community.

The breakdown of law and order revived memories of serious rioting in 2002 in which more than 1,000 people, most of them Mus-lims, died. Modi, chief minister of Gujarat at the time, has faced criticism for doing too lit-tle to halt the bloodshed.

“Six protesters and a police o� cer have lost their lives and 18 people are critically in-jured,” said Keshav Shah, a senior police of-� cer in the state capital Gandhinagar.

“Schools, business and private o� ces will not open today. The mood is tense and no one should venture out,” he said, adding that a curfew would remain in force.

Modi has called for calm in the state that he ran for more than a decade before leading his nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to victory in last year’s general election.

The Patels, or Patidar community, make up 14 percent of the population in Gujarat. A relatively a� uent group of land- and busi-ness-owners, they had been a bulwark of sup-port for Modi.

Members of the Patel community said they will continue to demand changes to policies that, they argue, unfairly favour groups at the lower end of India’s social order.

“We will not let the government suppress our demands. They can kill as many Patels as they want,” said 21-year-old activist Hardik Patel. l

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks to guests gathered for a campaign event at the Grand River Center on August 25 in Dubuque, Iowa. Trump leads most polls in the race for the Republican presidential nomination AFP

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Up to 50 refugees found dead in lorryn Reuters, Vienna

As many as 50 refugees were found dead in a parked lorry in Austria near the Hungarian border yesterday, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel said the discovery had shaken European leaders discussing the migrant cri-sis at a Balkans summit.

Police made the grisly discovery in the 7.5-tonne lorry stopped on the A4 motorway near the town of Parndorf, apparently since Wednesday, Hans Peter Doskozil, police chief in the province of Burgenland, told a news conference.

He said he could not put an exact � gure on the number of victims, whose bodies had begun to decompose. “We can assume that it could be 20 people who died. It could also be 40, it could be 50 people,” he said.

Merkel told a news conference at the sum-mit on the West Balkans in Vienna: “We are of

course all shaken by the appalling news. This reminds us that we must tackle quickly the issue of immigration and in a European spirit - that means in a spirit of solidarity - and to � nd solutions.”

Tens of thousands of people, mainly from Africa and the Middle East, have put to sea this year in the hope of reaching Europe, of-ten dangerously packed into small vessels that were never designed to cross the Medi-terranean.

Those who make it ashore and others trav-elling by land have increasingly tried to make their way north via the Balkans, causing ten-sion among countries along the route.

Hungary plans to reinforce its southern border with helicopters and mounted police, and is considering using the army as record numbers of migrants passed through coils of razor-wire into Europe.

Investigations were underway in Aus-

tria and Hungary after the bodies were dis-covered. The truck had Hungarian number plates, a Hungarian o� cial said.

Janos Lazar, Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s chief of sta� , said a Romanian citizen had reg-istered the number plate in the eastern Hun-garian town of Kecskemet.

Police limited the motorway to one lane while forensic experts checked over the lorry parked on the hard shoulder.

Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann told the summit: “The refugees who died wanted to save their own lives by � eeing, but instead lost their lives at the hands of tra� ckers. It shows once again how necessary it is to save human lives by � ghting criminal tra� ckers. It shows that we must take responsibility and give asylum to those people who are � eeing.”

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European Commissioner Johannes Hahn reiterated that Brussels would propose within weeks a fresh look at the situation.

“We will have another go at quotas. I hope that in the light of the most recent develop-ments now there is a readiness among all the 28 (member states) to agree on this,” he said.

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, whose country expects 800,000 asylum seekers this year, said a fair distri-bution of refugees was needed to ensure support in countries taking in the bulk of migrants. l

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Greece’s top Supreme Court judge was named caretaker prime minister yesterday to lead the country to elections next month, ending a week of political deadlock after leftist leader Alexis Tsipras resigned.

Vassiliki Thanou, an anti-austerity advo-cate who has argued against wage cuts for judges and court o� cials, was scheduled to be sworn in as the country’s � rst female prime minister at 8pm local (1700 GMT).

Her administration is scheduled to take of-� ce today.

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The announcement marks a monumental victory for Finance Minister Natalie Jaresko – a US-born � nancial expert whom President Petro Poroshenko plucked from a Kiev invest-ment � rm in December and tasked with sav-

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Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk de-scribed the agreement as a blow to “enemy” Russia.

“I think it’s a historic success for Ukraine, I think for emerging markets generally,” Jaresko told AFP in an interview conducted shortly before Yatsenyuk made the formal announcement at a televised government meeting. l

2 senior Iraqi commanders killed in Ramadi attackn Reuters, Baghdad

Two senior Iraqi military commanders were killed yesterday in suicide car bomb attacks claimed by Islamic State in Anbar province.

Deputy commander of Anbar Operations Command Major-General Abdel Rahman Abu Ragheef and Brigadier Safeen Abdel Majeed, head of the tenth division, were killed in the at-tack in the Jerayshi area north of Ramadi along with three other people, said joint operations

spokesman Brigadier General Yahya Rasool.He told state TV the military had inter-

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The Netherlands government has expressed interest in the development of Paira and Chittagong ports.

Ministry of Shipping o� cials report that a Danish-Dutch consortium has been formed to seek to help fund and construct the proposed Paira

deep seaport in Patuakhali district. This is just one of over 10 expressions of interest, including from companies in China and the UAE,

It is welcome to see international expertise and funding on o� er to support plans to develop our port sector.

A seven-member committee of the Paira Port Authority has reportedly short-listed four companies and forwarded them for selection, but as yet no � rm decision has been made.

It is vital that the government and Board of Investment priotitise consideration and decision-making on this matter, to aid progress on building a deep-sea port.

Bangladesh sorely needs new deep-sea port facilities to develop the economy. Increasing the capacity and e� ciency of our ports is essential to meet the growing needs of our own exporters.

Building a new deep-sea port is also imperative to sustain competitiveness. The huge potential from improving regional connectivity and taking forward initiatives such as BIMSTEC and the BCIM corridor can only be realised if we invest in improving and increasing our port facilities.

While it is right for the government to give due consideration to the various alternative locations and o� ers which have been discussed over the years, Bangladesh needs to speed progress in implementing these plans.

A deep-sea port is a huge and critical investment for Bangladesh. It must be based on commercial considerations of where this infrastructure will be most pro� table for Bangladesh.

The wide interest being expressed in helping develop port facilities is a re� ection of con� dence in the future growth of our economy and in the huge bene� ts o� ered by our key location between the growing markets of South and Southeast Asia. The government should build on this interest to press ahead more quickly in building new port facilities.

Potential from initiatives such as BIMSTEC and the BCIM corridor can only be realised if we invest in improving and increasing our port facilities

Don’t delay on deep-sea port decisions

Coast to coast misery

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Divided over a birthdayKhaleda’s e� ort to delay her birthday, even by 20 hours, raises some ques-tions. Is this a sign of hope that one day she will walk the last mile and her birthday will be celebrated a day after, on August 16?

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n Garga Chatterjee

The idea of an academic institution or a college building or a university campus being something outside the general milieu of society is a

romantic notion that has strong currency among socio-economic elites (many of whom like to call themselves the “middle-class”) of West Bengal.

Therein lies the shock value of the murder of a student by fellow-students in a college campus during college-hours when the principal is in his o� ce. This is “allegedly” what happened in Sabang Sajanikanta Ma-havidyaloy on August 8, when Krishnaprasad Jana, a second year student of the college, was killed by iron rod-wielding goons who also double up as students of the same college and again, “allegedly,” members of the Trinamool Chhatra Parishad (TMCP), the student organisation associated with West Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Congress.

The speed with which the chief minister (who also doubles up as home minister and hence, is responsible for law and order) gave a clean-chit to the TMCP even before inves-tigations had ended (or seriously started), is a strong hint to the rest of us about the truth-value of the allegations.

This wasn’t the � rst death of a student activist during the TMC regime. The death in police custody of SFI activist Sudipto Gupta was a high-pro� le case from 2013. But death is only one end in the spectrum of political violence. Of late, West Bengal has been “in the news” about a spate of violent incidents.

The TMC government plays them down, especially when some complicity of some TMC functionary is alleged. This is not surprising -- that has been standard practice in West Bengal for decades. The notion “vis-ibility” of violence, especially of the political kind, is a complex phenomenon. The � rst question is, who makes it visible?

Largely, the media does, since the opposition parties in West Bengal have all but abdicated. Hence TMC’s fulminations

against certain sectors of the media and its amateurish attempts at creating thinly-veiled pro-TMC media outlets (largely funded by chit-fund money). Ever since Mamata has refused to budge on the land acquisition question, she has lost the adulation of media houses that used to portray her as the � ery change-maker.

Secondly, who does the violence and how many degrees of separation exist between the goon and the leader? The larger the separation, lesser is the culpability of the party. During the Left Front regime, political violence was quite wide-spread and I am not only talking about the closing years when the Singur killings, and the Nandigram and Netai massacres took place. But CPI(M) leaders, at whichever level, largely managed to keep its goons from being serious political aspirants and hence becoming the visible face of the party.

A centralised authority and co-ordination helped this. In the TMC, the CPIM’s arti� cial di� erence between the bhodrolok mask and ru� an face, has evaporated in many places. Political violence has always been a very small fraction of all violence that happens in the West Bengal. The more explicit is the connection of the violence with the ruling party, greater is the news value.

The typical TMC middle-rung leader has less entrenched social capital than an erstwhile CPI(M) leader of a similar rank. This relative lack of training in obfuscation, of not being able to maintain “correct” documents, shows. TMC cannot draw upon the cultural capital and the sophistry of the CPI(M). That doesn’t make the actions of TMC’s goons any less criminal. However, in this context of unprecedented violence, it may be remem-bered that National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) data in the TMC years does not show a spike in rate of violent crimes compared to the CPI(M) years. That rate is actually slightly lesser than the pan-Indian average.

All political violence is also political action, however condemnable. O� ensive political violence is typically employed with

political gain in mind. Violence employed in the name of politics has always been an integral part of the Indian establishment. Its full “law and order” wrath is reserved only for speci� c kinds of political violence -- those employed explicitly in the name of secession, class, and minority religions.

Otherwise, political violence is assumed to be one of the dominant modes of grass-roots political contestation. In fact, political violence, when employed by the ruling party (and I am not speaking of internal feuds here), is typically the most direct proof of an organised and entrenched political opposi-tion. A decrease in rate of inter-party political violence, as has been the case in West Bengal under TMC rule, is a sign of a crumbling opposition organisation.

This is also attributed to allegations that the TMC has co-opted large sections of those who constituted CPI(M)’s � repower. Clashes are widely seen as a sign of contest, with the ruling groups needing to push more violently

as the opposition can stand some ground.This was largely true during many years of

CPI(M)’s regime. The high-esteemed human rights group Association for Protection of Democratic Rights (APDR) lists more than 7,000 instances of political killings includ-ing all sides during the CPI(M)’s rule. This was only a partial list that didn’t include the closing years of the Left Front, infamous preciously for political violence.

The idea of a historically less violent Ben-gal, engaging non-violently with progressive values is an idea that is not borne out by reality. West Bengal’s separated twin, Bang-ladesh, has a very similar culture of endemic political violence, including many fatally violent clashes involving student activists. The primacy of violence as a political weapon is the surest sign of a lack of democratic political contestation at the grassroots. This too has a long past but it’s still instructive to understand the nature of West Bengal’s two major powers on this question.

Mamata Banerjee’s political origin lies in the ethos of West Bengal mid-1970s Chha-tra Parishad (the name of Indira Congress’s student wing NSUI in West Bengal) and Youth Congress. In West Bengal, these two organi-sations had strong-armed democracy busting written into the core of their DNA.

This time also included the Emergency.

They dominated college and university campuses during the Emergency by snu� ng out almost all opposition. Student Union elections became days of one-sided terror that simply needed to display its unsheathed sword in order to be e� ective. When the CPI(M) led Left Front took-over, its student wing, the SFI, soon learnt the “democratic” trick of making sure candidates don’t � le their nomination papers or getting them dis-quali� ed by committees of teachers and o� -cials, who were invariably loyal to the CPI(M) and hence, shamelessly partial to the SFI.

This started the great decades of “uncon-tested wins” of SFI with the SFI giving “revo-lutionary greetings” to the student communi-ty, who hardly ever turned up to colleges on election day, from a mixture of fear, apathy, and the pointlessness of voting in an election with a single contender. Thus, the space to develop the culture of non-violent democrat-ic political contestation got severely eroded. This erosion has long-term consequences, as is evident now in West Bengal.

From Partition to the beginning of the Congress-era suppression of the Naxalbari uprising, left-wing student organisations dominated democratically contested and elected student unions, but with not an insig-ni� cant number of democratically contested and elected Congres site student unions too. Many in� uential teachers, professors, and college principals were known to harbour anti-ruling party views, but they retained the positions of in� uence. So, not all eras are the same. It is not necessarily the same old story. However, this is not the time from where the image of a progressive West Bengal emerges.

For decades, West Bengal has been eco-nomically stagnant. That makes its unem-ployment crisis very acute. There may be some honesty in politics, and not all party workers are there to personally gain, but one cannot deny the overwhelming backdrop. There are youths, many, many of them, who are unemployed or under-employed, who jostle to curry favour with a leader of some in� uence.

The leader then uses them in exchange for some morsels of whatever favour he can give back, in return for these hired bodies. The proliferation of criminal (in the real-estate sec-tor) and quasi-criminal (“protectors” of street hawkers) extortion rackets are mere symp-toms of a larger disease that is infecting the political class, making it look more and more like a pyramid with complex patronage links.

It really doesn’t matter much whether the tip of the pyramid is covered by a humble white dhoti or a humble white cotton sari. What matters is how those garments and their power to signify frugality is used to cover heinous crimes. The APDR report mentions thousands on victims of political killing. No points for guessing who primarily were the victims when the reds ruled. The situation has reversed. The want and unem-ployment fuelled patronage structures have not changed. l

Garga Chatterjee. Garga Chatterjee is a political and cultural commentator. He can be followed on twitter @gargac.

Violence in the name of politicsThe primacy of violence is a sure sign of a lack of democratic contestation

West Bengal’s separated twin, Bangladesh, has a very similar culture of endemic political violence, including many fatally violent clashes involving student activists

Mamata Banerjee’s background with Chhatra Parishad and Youth Congress may shed light on the present activities of the Trinamool Congress REUTERS

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n Moazzem Hossain

The cake-cutting ritual when cele-brating birthdays certainly does not belong to the culture of this part of the world, originally. It has

been imported from the West. Having lived in the West for more than three decades, I have observed, � rst hand, the signi� cance of the candle-lit cake to numerous individuals every year, young or old.

Birthdays have become a key occasion for individuals from all walks of life, be they rich or poor. But when one’s birthday falls on a black day -- such as a death anniversary -- it is seen as being inauspicious.

One may, as a result, ask what the proper etiquette is when wanting to celebrate birth-days under this circumstance. In these cases, I believe, the celebration should take place either a day early or a day late.

One of our nation’s leaders has been cel-ebrating her birthday on August 15 (coinci-dentally, our National Mourning Day) in the company of her followers, and, in celebra-tion, cuts several cakes every year. I have not seen any leader in the world do this publicly, even in the West.

Of course, we all know is that this celebra-tion, one of controversy and debate, is po-litically motivated. I will, for the sake of my

readers, refrain from that debate today. This year, political leaders, columnists, and com-mentators, including Sayed Ashraful Islam and Bangabir Kader Siddique, requested BNP leader Begum Khaleda Zia not to observe her birthday on the day of national mourning.

This call fell on deaf ears. However, unlike other years when she would celebrate it at the stroke of midnight on August 15, this year, she observed it at eight at night. One of her followers suggested that she had celebrate her birthday this year, delaying it by more than 20 hours, to show respect to Bangabandhu.

Indeed, she did a good thing, but one can’t help but ask: Why couldn’t she wait another four hours, past midnight, on August 16? If she had, this nation would have been grateful to her for her whole-hearted compliance.

Delaying by another four hours could have paved the way to assuage the problems which have plagued this bi-partisan political landscape, and could have been the begin-ning of the end of trust issues in the political arena. Unfortunately, this is not going to happen. Bangladesh’s reputation as a country of misfortune and disaster -- both man-made and nature-made -- will continue to persist. However, in this respect, Sayed Ashraf, Bangabir Siddiqui, and others ought to be applauded for their e� ort and courage in making a stand to change the status quo. This could have been a game changer if they had indeed been successful in convincing Begum Zia to wholly change her mind.

Khaleda’s e� ort to delay her birthday, even by 20 hours, raises some questions. Is this a sign of hope that, one day, she will walk the last mile and celebrate her birthday a day after, on August 16? In the current con-text, BNP has been keeping its political foes at bay for taking part in the celebrations and wishing her a very happy birthday. No doubt, by doing so, BNP has kept the nation divided.

After struggling for 40 odd years, our na-tion has found an economic momentum, and prosperity is in sight in an era of global uncer-tainty, both � nancially and environmentally. As a result, at this moment, political and economic stability are key pre-conditions for sustained economic growth.

This is the � rst time in recent history that Bangabandhu’s dream of a “Sonar Bangla” is within reach. In a democracy, the opposi-

tion has a crucial part to play, and the goal of “Sonar Bangla” is not a goal of one political party alone.

It is, in fact, a bi-partisan goal, a goal of achieving economic freedom for all. One must, however, remember that, under no circumstances should a leader allow anarchy to grip the nation with a view to dislodging a sitting political government before its term expires. If it does, this will, indeed, set a bad precedent for the years to come. l

Moazzem Hossain is an Associate Professor in the Business School at Gri� th University, Australia.

Divided over a birthdayPublicly celebrating on a day of mourning shows poor etiquette

Khaleda’s e� ort to delay her birthday, even by 20 hours, raises some questions. Is this a sign of hope that one day she will walk the last mile and celebrate her birthday a day after, on August 16?

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n Fahmida Afroz

Despite having all the prospects of development, coastal zones are noticeably some of the most vulnerable and poverty-prone

regions in Bangladesh. This zone, however, is a hub of diversi� ed natural resources. Its geographical setting has also added strength to its prospects of growth, with the scope of harbours, airports, land ports, and tourism opportunities.

Even after such conducive geographical features, the reality of the coastal regions dis-plays a di� erent scenario. The zone is highly vulnerable to natural disasters like cyclones, storm surges, and � oods. Apart from these, the social and economic advancement of this region is adversely a� ected by river erosion, water-logging, water and soil salinity, and other risks from climate change.

These persisting conditions have a hostile in� uence over the lives and livelihoods of the people, subsequently being responsible for the high rate of poverty and low growth of regional economic development. Further-more, such obstacles also encourage people for migration to urban areas without any signi� cant skills and add a layer of burden to the already existing complexities of urban development. Relevant government policies are in place, but a lack of policy coherence is primarily responsible for slowing down the pace of development and the persisting poverty in the coastal zone.

To bring substantial change in the poverty status of a coastal region, one of the e� ec-tive interventions can be exploring di� erent avenues of livelihood. Traditionally, people had been engaged in shrimp and crab cultiva-tion and, on a minor scale, crop cultivation. People involved in these industries, however, need to work as labourers since the invest-ment required is not a� ordable to them.

These might be pro� table in terms of in-come, but are accessible only to the a� uent and, as a result, do not have any impact in changing the fate of the extremely poor. On the other hand, crop cultivation requires less capital compared to shrimp and crab cultiva-tion, and are a� ordable to the poor farmers. But then again, salinity intrusion and other

associated problems make it much harder for them to take advantage of this option. Due to soil salinity and lack of irrigation, poor farm-ers cannot take up crop cultivation.

These scenarios project that the livelihood options are very limited in this region, and people are trapped in poverty without a way out. Though government policies prioritise the importance of creating job opportunities and diversi� ed livelihood options, no signif-icant progress is visible in practice that can help increase the income of the poor people.

Therefore, feasible options for livelihood need to be explored, taking into consider-ation the physical barriers and economic limitation in a coastal context. Some NGOs are working to introduce innovative agricul-tural approaches, but their coverage needs to be broadened and the government’s involve-ment is also important for the implementa-tion of such projects.

Salinity is one of the major issues con-stantly jeopardising lives in the coastal areas. Due to frequent cyclones and river erosion, saline levels in freshwater bodies and lands are increasing. Another environmental con-cern is water logging. Sedimentation and the rise in the river and canal beds are causing continuous water logging and, eventual-ly, greatly limiting agriculture, � sheries, forestry, livestock production, and physical infrastructure development.

This zone is not only vulnerable to natural disasters, but also to man-made ones. Man-made disasters exacerbate the miseries of the communities of the region, such as the oil spill incident of December 2014 in the Sunda-rbans. A tanker carrying fuel oil collided with another vessel and was partly submerged in the Shela river. The incident raised concerns about the future impact of the oil spill to the mangrove eco-system, and the livelihoods of the adjacent communities who depend on the river.

The government tackled the situation by engaging community people to collect the oil manually from the river and provided

guidance in this respect. With regard to the Coastal Zone Development Policy 2005, Bangladesh is a signatory to international conventions and thereby abides by and takes steps to handle issues like the discharge of bilge water from the ship and the oil spill. But it is unfortunate to see that no concrete mechanism has been developed to deal with such unforeseen incidents, even after a sub-stantive period of time has passed since the policy was formulated.

The fact cannot be denied that the coast is a zone of vulnerability, but its richness in terms of minerals, natural resources, bio-diversity, eco-systems and, of course, the commercial aspects of its geographical location cannot be ignored, since all of these have the potential to accelerate the low pace of development of this region. We already have a policy and the integrated coastal zone management plan in place, but for any change to happen, signi� cant e� ort needs to be deployed.

Plans and policies pave the way, but only execution can bring results. The ICZM plan has a provision of co-management, and the Coastal Zone Policy 2005 has emphasised on co-management for the empowerment of the community. This can play a vital role in bringing signi� cant change. The local gov-ernance institutions have co-management committees, but their e� ectiveness needs to be visible.

Therefore, policies, plans, and formation of committees can bear fruit only when exe-cution is ensured. Even after around 10 years of having the policy, the condition of the region has not changed signi� cantly. Lack of policy coherence is a signi� cant cause of the implementation gap amongst them. Every policy needs to be aligned with other nation-al policies and prioritised to keep synergy in the development process and eventually make them truly e� ective. l

Fahmida Afroz is Advocacy O� cer, Concern Worldwide.

Coast to coast misery We need to work together with the government to reduce the impact of climate change in coastal regions

Policies, plans, and formation of committees can bear fruit only when execution is ensured. Even after around 10 years, the condition of the region has not changed signi� cantly

People in the coastal regions are the most susceptible to climate change REUTERS

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BB cuts lending rate for onion imports n Tribune Report

Bangladesh Bank has cut the lending rate to 11% against the � nancing for onion import.

The decision has been taken to prevent the recent price hike of onion and to ensure ade-quate supply of the goods to the market, said a circular Bangladesh Bank issued yesterday.

Currently, the average lending rate in the � nancial market is 11.67%.

The central bank set the highest rate of in-terest at 11% as there has been shortage of on-ion supply to consumers’ level in the market.

The instruction will remain e� ective till December 30, 2015, according to the circular.

The circular explained that the price of on-ion in the local market went up due to price hike in the international market.

The rising price of onions has triggered an outrage among the high-end consumers.

The Commerce Ministry, worried over the spiralling price, has asked wholesalers to supply onions at less than Tk50 per kilogramme.

Due to a supply shortage following sever-al days’ rain, the price of Indian onion rose sharply to Tk90 although it was only Tk60 in the last week.

Another reason for the soaring prices of imported onion is that the Indian government has recently increased its export price to $700 from $450.

Amitav Chakravarti, additional secretary

to the Commerce Ministry who also head of international market monitoring team said 11,000 metric tons of onion entered into the

country from Malaysia, China, Myanmar and Egypt in last seven days.

The price of onion in the Indian market has

already gone down and it will impact posi-tively on Bangladesh’s kitchen market soon, he expected. l

A onion vendor sits idle at a Karwan Bazar shop yesterday. Onion price gets spicy in recent days SYED ZAKIR HOSSAIN

Setting up RMG units may be needed to open warehouse in Indian Ibrahim Hossain Ovi

Bangladeshi RMG makers may have to set up manufacturing units if they want to establish any warehouse in India.

The India auhority hinted at setting up of manufacturing units by the RMG business leaders during a meeting held in Gujarat be-tween the two parites.

“The Indian government hinted us at es-tablishing manufacturing units for the sake of its interest, creating employment, if we want to open our warehouse there,” BGMEA Vice-President Shahidullah Azim told the Dhaka Tribune.

Azim said, “We’ve to move forward with the policy of building some warehouses as well as some manufacturing units as the In-dian counterpart wants us to establish manu-facturing units there � rst.”

Azim, who has returned home after a two-day visit in India’s westernmost state of Gu-jarat to see the prospect of setting up a ware-house for grabbing the local market there, was talking to the Dhaka Tribune.

During the trip, a � ve-member delegation visited three economic zones including San-

and Industrial Estate under Gujarat Industrial Development Corporation, Amitar Green Hi-Tech Textiles Park Private Limited and Viraj Integrated Textile Park to see whether it is � tting to set up a warehouse in India.

“Based on the facilities o� ered by the zones’ management, we’ve selected Sanand Industrial Estate for setting up a warehouse,” said Azim.

He also disclosed that the estate o� ered uninterrupted power connection and other facilities while there is no obligation of allow-ing trade union there.

According to the o� er, Bangladesh can get land at a cost of Rs3,500 per square metre while per unit electricity price will be Rs6.5.

Regarding the high land prices, Azim stated that though the o� ered land price is much high-er, we have to get it at a reasonable price through bargaining at the high level G2G meetings.

There is a domestic market of US$32b in India, which o� ers duty-free access and if we can establish a warehouse and distribution center there, it will help us to grab more mar-ket there, said Azim.

On the restriction by Bangladesh Bank on investing abroad, Azim also said, “As we’ve

recently talked to Bangladesh Bank (BB) gov-ernor about this issue, he has shown a posi-tive attitude as the government is now much more liberal in this regard.”

In response to the invitation of Indian Prime Minister, a team of Bangladesh’s RMG manu-facturers and FBCCI President Matlub Ahmad visited Gujarat to know about the possible chal-lenges and prospects of setting up a warehouse and distribution center there on August 22.

During a meeting with Indian Prime Minis-ter Narendra Modi’s visit on June 7, the BGMEA President informally sought a 50-acre land in India for a ware-house and a distribution centre.

On June 14, the BGMEA submitted a formal proposal to the Indian High Commissioner in Dhaka Pankaj Saran to con-vey the message to the Indian authorities concerned.

According to the proposal, the land will be procured in the name of the company to be formed by BGMEA, BKMEA and others.

The trade bodies will make

an investment of approximately $25m to set up the warehouse and distribution centre.

The apparel makers will open 1,000 retail stores in di� erent Indian cities to display and sell their products to earn a sum of $1b in the next few years, reads the BGMEA proposal.

In FY2014-15, Bangladesh exported appar-el products of $104.25m to India, which was $96.26m in the previous � scal year. While, Bangladesh’s overall exports to India risen by 15.45% to $527m compared to$456.63m in FY2012-13. l

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China rate cuts welcome, but not enoughn AFP, Beijing

China’s latest interest rate cut - the � fth since November - is not enough to reverse slowing growth in the world’s second-largest econ-omy, analysts say, urging authorities to em-brace lower taxes and other more aggressive measures.

Increasing anxiety about weakness in Chi-na’s economy, which is undergoing a di� -cult transition, has sent domestic and global � nancial markets into a tailspin and raised questions about the grip its Communist Party rulers have on policy.

China accounts for more than 13% of worldwide gross domestic product (GDP) and is the planet’s biggest trader in goods, making the health of its economy key to global growth.

After the benchmark Shanghai stock index slid 22% over four days the People’s Bank of China on Tuesday cut lending and depos-it rates by 0.25 percentage points each, and banks’ minimum reserve levels by 0.50 per-centage points.

That took its lending rate to a record low 4.6%, which should make it easier for indi-viduals, companies and local governments to borrow - essential as China tries to wean its economy o� exports and investment and move towards a consumer-driven model.

But four previous cuts since November have failed to add any sparkle and analysts said the impact of the latest adjustments would be limited without structural changes to accompany them.

China’s state-controlled banks - the vast majority of the o� cial banking system - pre-fer to lend to state-owned companies, deny-ing access to funds for private � rms, which are a more e� ective driver of growth.

The central bank needs to “make sure the money can go to the real economy”, ANZ economist Liu Li-Gang told AFP.

ANZ said reforms to the bond market were also needed to ensure � rms and authorities can issue debt more easily, giving them an al-ternative source of borrowing.

Economists at China International Capital Corporation said reducing taxes, especially for the corporate sector, could be a more ef-� cient way to boost the economy and prof-itability by freeing up funds for productive investment.

Chinese infrastructure spending has pri-marily bene� ted state-owned companies where some of it has been squandered.

‘Down the drain’The ruling Communist Party needs to ensure continued growth to create a steady � ow of jobs and raise living standards in the world’s most populous nation, a key element of its claim to legitimacy.

But GDP grew 7.4% last year, its worst for nearly a quarter of a century, and slowed further to 7% in both the � rst two quarters this year.

O� cial concerns about economic weak-ness go back to 2013, with authorities deploy-ing what economists dubbed a “mini stimu-lus” including tax breaks for small companies, targeted infrastructure outlays and selected cuts to banks’ minimum reserve levels.

But from November the pace picked up with more reserve reductions and interest rate cuts - also designed to reduce high consumer saving rates and free up funds to replace in-vestment as the country’s economic driver.

Another target for reform is China’s stock market, which has plummeted more than 40% since a spectacular debt-fuelled rally peaked in mid-June, with broad government interventions failing to halt the decline.

Analysts point out that its rise - fuelled by

enthusiastic but ill-informed “mom and pop” investors - was not driven by fundamentals, and that the fall is similarly disconnected.

“The stock market is sliding, but the econ-omy is not,” the Global Times tabloid, which has close ties to the communist party, stressed in an editorial, while acknowledging that the falls had “made many people lose heart”.

Despite the white-knuckle ride from the popping of the China bubble, which triggered huge losses on global markets, some hope the government’s failure to prop up overvalued shares will teach authorities a valuable lesson.

ANZ’s Liu described the two trillion yuan ($312bn) they are estimated to have spent in ef-forts to support the market as “down the drain”.

“If they had used it to support the real econ-omy, China’s economy would be much better now, so would the stock market,” he told AFP.

‘What it had to do’In theory, China still has ample room to re-duce borrowing costs, unlike the major econ-omies of the US, Japan and the eurozone, where rates are at or near zero.

But interest rate cuts put more downward

pressure on China’s yuan currency, which was devalued in a shock move earlier this month and which authorities have since promised will remain stable.

While that makes Chinese exports cheap-er abroad, a potential economic boost, it also makes imports more expensive - and raises competition worries for other countries’ ex-porters. US o� cials, for example, have long argued that the yuan is undervalued.

Yao Wei, Paris-based economist at Societe Generale, said in a note that the central bank “did what it had to do”, but that the impact of the interest rate and bank reserve cuts would depend on whether authorities continue spending foreign reserves to defend the unit.

China may have used more of its reserves to prop up the currency since the August 11 devaluation than the almost 700bn yuan of added liquidity expected from the bank re-serve cut - neutralising the impact.

The People’s Bank of China should either defend the currency to the hilt or let it � oat freely, she said.

“The PBoC has to decide its currency strat-egy � rst.” l

Dhaka Regency Premier Club, an exclusive membership programme of Dhaka Regency has signed an agreement with Edison Group to provide “Best Value” o� ers to its mutual customers. The agreement was signed by Shahid Hamid FIH, executive director of Dhaka Regency Hotel & Resort and Jakaria Shahid, MD & CFO of Edison Group

Jamuna Bank Limited has recently arranged a meeting to exchange views with its branch and operation managers of Chittagong city branches. The bank’s chairperson, Md Sirajul Islam Varosha attended the programme as chief guest, among others

Islamic Banks Consultative Forum (IBCF) has recently held its 46th at the meeting room of Bangladesh Association of Banks. Chairperson of IBCF and Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited, Engr Mustafa Anwar presided over the meeting

An investor chats in front of an electronic board showing stock information at a brokerage house in Beijing REUTERS

BUSINESS 17D

TFRIDAY, AUGUST 28, 2015

FX pegs under pressure in emerging markets as commodity prices falln Reuters, London

Plunging commodity prices are testing the vi-ability of emerging currencies’ long-standing pegs to the dollar, with some already aban-doned as countries balk at the cost of clinging to � xed exchange rates.

Kazakhstan unshackled its tenge last week, and bets are growing that from Hong Kong to Saudi Arabia, dollar pegs are at risk.

“Markets are now questioning the sustain-ability of other dollar pegs, wondering which will be the next domino to fall,” Deutsche Bank told clients.

A peg � xes the value of one currency rela-tive to another and uses central bank reserves to enforce the relationship. Pegs are relatively rare these days among the bigger economies, partly because of the 1997-2002 emerging market crises that were exacerbated by the cost of clinging to � xed exchange rates.

Kazakhstan’s tenge has fallen 30% KZT= since it was depegged last week under pres-sure from falling commodity prices and steep depreciation in neighboring Russia’s rouble.

Russia ended its own � exible or “crawl-ing” peg to the dollar after burning billions of dollars in reserves to defend the rouble RUB= while Ukraine and Belarus followed suit earli-er this year UAH= BYR=.

Now pressure is mounting on others, es-pecially “petro-pegs” such as in Azerbaijan, Saudi Arabia and Nigeria.

Justifying the cost of clinging to them will become increasingly di� cult for those reli-ant on commodities and exposed to China’s weakening economy, says Simon Quijano-Ev-ans, chief EM strategist at Commerzbank.

That’s especially so as commodity export-

ers with � exible exchange rates such as Brazil and South Africa start to bene� t from their currencies’ 10-20% depreciation this year.

Dollar pegs made some sense for countries whose revenues, either from tourism as in the Caribbean or from oil as in the Gulf, are mainly in dollars, especially when commod-ity prices were high and the dollar was weak.

Now the opposite is true.“Your economy is going to su� er if your

main trade partner is su� ering and you cannot allow your currency to adjust while other coun-tries are adjusting theirs,” Quijano-Evans said.

China this month devalued the yuan, wid-ened its trading band to the dollar and pledged to give markets a greater say in setting daily exchange rates. The yuan’s 3 percent fall since then CNY= prompted Vietnam to devalue the dong and widen its own trading band to the dollar VND=.

Mindful of past crises, policymakers will be reluctant to sharply run down reserves to support overvalued currencies.

What’s more, the investment � ows and export revenues that fed reserve growth are dwindling and current account surpluses have almost vanished.

“Pegs are sustainable only as long as you run a big current account surplus and there are in� ows that allow central banks to sup-port their currencies,” said Cristian Maggio, a strategist at TD Securities.

OvervaluedThe tenge may provide a clue as to who is next. It looked overvalued prior to its � oat, standing 11% above its average over the dec-ade, Deutsche Bank calculated.

By this measure, Deutsche says, four cur-

rencies appear overvalued: the Saudi riyal, the United Arab Emirates dirham, the Nigerian naira and the Egyptian pound, all of them tied to the dollar via “hard” or soft, � exible pegs.

Analysts see the naira and pound as vulner-able, because both countries have limited re-serves and are keeping o� cial exchange rates steady only by rationing hard currency. Both have weakened in parallel markets NGN= EGP=.

Traders meanwhile are testing Gulf central banks’ by pushing currencies down in forward markets - one-year dollar-riyal forwards for in-stance are at 12-year highs SAR1Y= as traders lock in rates to protect against riyal devaluation.

Saudi reserves of $660bn mean the author-ities can easily defend its 30-year old peg for years, though prolonged oil weakness and rising US interest rates will seriously squeeze � nances.

“You have to distinguish between willing-ness and the ability (to defend pegs). Sau-di, Qatar and UAE have a real safety net, far stronger than in African and some (ex-Soviet) countries,” said Michael Bolliger, head of EM asset allocation at UBS Wealth Management.

Venezuela, Angola and Algeria, oil pro-ducers with managed currencies and lacking deep pockets, are also facing pressure.

Pegs to the euro have been tested too, includ-ing the Danish crown’s three-decade-old link EURDKK=, after Switzerland scrapped its ex-change rate cap in January. The di� erence here is that pressure has been upward, with central banks forced to buy euros to hold the pegs.

Similar bets are now evident against the Hong Kong dollar’s peg to the greenback. But while Hong Kong may su� er from China’s slowdown, it still enjoys large capital in� ows, imports ener-gy and has seen reserves rise by $12bn this year. Few therefore expect it to lose its peg. l

A teller counts Indonesian rupiah notes for a customer at a money changer in Jakarta, Indonesia REUTERS

Tofail urges Singaporean entrepreneurs to invest in Bangladeshn Tribune Report

Commerce Minister Tofail Ahmed yesterday called upon the Singaporean entrepreneurs to invest in Bangladesh as it o� ers business friendly environment along with tax holiday for foreign investors.

The minister came up with the call at a business summit titled “Bangladesh: Trade and Investment Summit 2015” organised by Bangladesh High Commission in Singapore in association with Bangladesh Business Cham-ber of Singapore as well as MIDAS Touch Asia.

“Bangladesh is an unparalleled and envi-able investment destination for foreign in-vestors as there are skilled and semi-skilled workers available at low cost,” said Tofail.

Bangladesh o� ers tax holiday, investment friendly environment, 100% foreign equity, plus full repatriation of dividend and rein-vestment of dividend to be treated as new capital, said the minister.

Investors from developed countries can avail themselves of these opportunities while manufacturing their goods in Bangla-desh whether in the Export Processing Zones (EPZs) or outside the environs, he added.

Bangladesh has adopted a very liberal in-dustrial policy to attract foreign investment and 100% foreign equity is allowed.

It o� ers the most � exible Foreign Direct Investment Policy and has proved itself to be the most attractive destination in the South Asian region, Tofail continued.

“We have ensured improved connectivity with Nepal, Bhutan and India, and setting up of new connectivity with China is underway.” l

Tom Cummings arrives in Dhaka todayn Tribune Report

World renowned management con-sultant Tom Cum-mings arrives in Dhaka today.

During his visit to Dhaka, he will con-duct a value-based workshop and man-agement discussion at BRAC Bank Lim-ited.

Tom Cummings is an Executive Board and Senior Manage-ment Advisor. Currently, he is a board mem-ber of the Tallberg Foundation, a member of the Nyenrode Business University Corporate Governance Initiative.

He draws on 25 years of working with lead-ers and teams across a range of academic disciplines, industries and � nancial services. Tom has served as Global Head of Learning and Organization at Unilever; as Executive Vice President for Leadership Development at ABN AMRO Bank; and as project leader and adviser on Planning and Learning in compa-nies such as Shell, Compass Group, Fortis, Marakon, and BUPA. l

BUSINESS18DT

FRIDAY, AUGUST 28, 2015

SECTORAL TURNOVER SUMMARY

Sector DSE CSE TotalMillion Taka % change Million Taka % change Million Taka % change

Bank 422.94 9.80 26.85 9.81 449.79 9.80NBFI 252.33 5.84 6.90 2.52 259.23 5.65Investment 70.66 1.64 3.26 1.19 73.93 1.61Engineering 653.97 15.15 33.00 12.06 686.96 14.96Food & Allied 246.90 5.72 9.91 3.62 256.80 5.59Fuel & Power 564.65 13.08 47.97 17.54 612.62 13.34Jute 5.87 0.14 0.00 5.87 0.13Textile 566.40 13.12 19.72 7.21 586.12 12.77Pharma & Chemical 715.77 16.58 39.18 14.32 754.95 16.44Paper & Packaging 9.64 0.22 4.31 1.58 13.96 0.30Service 121.08 2.80 7.82 2.86 128.90 2.81Leather 131.09 3.04 13.77 5.03 144.86 3.16Ceramic 37.98 0.88 1.97 0.72 39.95 0.87Cement 109.48 2.54 13.62 4.98 123.10 2.68Information Technology 30.33 0.70 2.11 0.77 32.44 0.71General Insurance 21.98 0.51 4.08 1.49 26.05 0.57Life Insurance 39.14 0.91 2.11 0.77 41.24 0.90Telecom 93.83 2.17 7.08 2.59 100.91 2.20Travel & Leisure 60.76 1.41 7.90 2.89 68.66 1.50Miscellaneous 162.60 3.77 22.01 8.04 184.61 4.02Debenture 0.15 0.00 0.02 0.01 0.17 0.00

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News, analysis and recent disclosuresAPEXFOODS: With reference to their earlier news (disseminated by DSE on 24.08.15), the Compa-ny has further informed that, the EPS for the � nancial year ended 30 June, 2015 increased due to the substantial gain of Tk. 146.57 million made from the sale of immovable property.RUPALILIFE: The Company will be placed in ‘A’ category from ex-isting ‘B’ category with e� ect from August 27, 2015 as the Company has reported disbursement of 10% stock dividend for the year ended on December 31, 2014.Dividend/AGMAPEXFOODS: 20% cash, AGM: 30.09.2015, Record date: 13.09.2015. APEXTANRY: 45% cash, AGM: 04.10.2015, Record date: 09.09.2015. GRAMEENS2: 10% cash 15% Unit Dividend, Record date: 07.09.2015. GRAMEEN1: 82% Unit Divi-dend, Record date: 07.09.15.GREENDELMF: 4.50% Cash Dividend. Record date: 06.09.2015. ABB1STMF: 15% Unit Dividend. Record date: 07.09.2015. EBLNRBMF: 6% Unit Dividend. Record date: 07.09.2015. PHPMF1: 7.50% Unit Dividend Record date: 07.09.2015. POPULAR1MF: 12% Unit Divi-dend. Record date: 07.09.2015.FBFIF: 9% Unit dividend. Record date: 03.09.2015. TRUSTB1MF: 8% Unit divi-dend. Record date: 03.09.2015. EBL1STMF: 7% Unit Dividend Record date: 03.09.2015. EXIM1STMF: 8% Unit Divi-dend. Record date: 03.09.2015.

IFIC1STMF: 10% Unit dividend. Record date: 03.09.2015 1JANATAMF: 12% Unit divi-dend. Record date: 03.09.2015 RELIANCE1: 11% cash dividend. Record date: 06.09.2015. AIMS1STMF: 175% Unit Divi-dend. Record date: 07.09.2015 DBH1STMF: 4% Cash Dividend. Record date: 06.09.2015. ICBSONALI1: 10% cash divi-dend, Record Date: 02.09.2015. IFILISLMF1: 10% cash dividend, Record Date: 02.09.2015. ICB3RDNRB: 5% cash dividend, Record Date: 02.09.2015. EPU= Tk. 0.51, NAV per unit of Tk. 7.58. PF1STMF: 5% cash dividend, Record Date: 02.09.2015. PRIME1ICBA: 7% cash divi-dend, Record Date: 02.09.2015. ICBEPMF1S1: 7.5% cash divi-dend, Record Date: 02.09.2015. ICBAMCL2ND: 5% cash divi-dend, Record Date: 02.09.2015. ICB2NDNRB: 10% cash divi-dend, Record Date: 02.09.2015. EPU= Tk. 0.87, NAV per unit of Tk. 10.99. ICB1STNRB: 32% cash divi-dend, Record Date: 02.09.2015. ATCSLGF: 7.50% Cash and 2.50% Unit Dividend Record date: 01.09.2015. SEBL1STMF: 12.50% cash, Record date: 31.08.2015. NLI1STMF: 13.00% cash, Record date: 31.08.2015.8THICB: 140% cash. 7THICB: 150% cash 6THICB: 120% cash 5THICB: 250% cash. 4THICB: 300% cash. 3RDICB: 300% cash. 2NDICB: 450% cash. 1STICB: 1,000% cash. Record date: 12.08.2015.

CSE GAINER

Company Closing (% Change)

Aver-age (%

Change)

Closin-gAvg. Closing DHIGH DLOW Turnover

in MillionLatest

EPSLatest

PE

Fine Foods A 9.57 5.78 10.06 10.30 9.90 10.00 0.301 -0.27 -vePhoenix Insur -A 9.33 9.33 24.60 24.60 24.60 24.60 0.017 3.96 6.2Rahima Food -Z 8.70 7.07 41.81 42.50 42.50 41.00 0.110 -0.47 -veICB AMCL 1st NRB -A 8.70 9.65 22.50 22.50 22.50 22.50 0.001 2.61 8.6Shurwid Ind. -N 8.25 5.57 22.19 22.30 22.50 21.20 3.189 0.53 41.9Khan Brothers-N 7.58 4.70 28.05 28.40 28.50 27.20 9.638 1.52 18.5Anwar Galvanizing-B 7.34 6.04 50.71 51.20 51.90 49.50 0.857 0.68 74.6Standard Ceramic -A 7.33 8.01 48.16 48.30 49.50 45.50 1.230 0.49 98.3Aziz PipesZ 5.85 5.80 21.69 21.70 21.70 21.60 0.098 -2.12 -veIBBLMPB-A 5.05 4.37 1009.64 1009.50 975.00 1005.00 0.111 0.00 -

DSE GAINER

Company Closing (% Change)

Aver-age (%

Change)

Closin-gAvg. Closing DHIGH DLOW Turnover

in MillionLatest

EPSLatest

PE

Standard Ceramic -A 9.76 7.70 49.25 50.60 50.70 46.10 15.908 0.49 100.5Meghna PET Ind. -Z 9.26 10.90 5.90 5.90 5.90 5.90 0.178 -0.53 -veMeghna Con. Milk -B 9.09 6.37 8.18 8.40 8.40 7.80 1.571 -4.49 -veSamata LeatheR -Z 8.77 8.77 31.00 31.00 31.00 31.00 0.000 -0.05 -veShurwid Ind. -N 8.25 7.53 22.14 22.30 22.50 21.00 17.890 0.53 41.8Khan Brothers-N 7.58 6.21 28.06 28.40 28.70 26.70 112.762 1.52 18.5BD. Autocars -Z 7.25 8.80 35.49 35.50 36.20 33.60 1.699 0.19 186.82nd ICB M F -A 6.91 6.75 293.55 294.00 297.00 289.00 0.273 55.89 5.3Rahima Food -Z 6.35 4.43 41.06 41.90 42.90 39.40 1.016 -0.47 -veFine Foods A 6.25 5.50 10.16 10.20 10.50 9.60 1.210 -0.27 -ve

CSE LOSER

Company Closing (% Change)

Aver-age (%

Change)

Closin-gAvg. Closing DHIGH DLOW Turnover

in MillionLatest

EPSLatest

PE

Pioneer Insur -A -10.00 -10.00 30.60 30.60 30.60 30.60 0.002 3.44 8.9EBL NRB M.F.-A -10.00 -10.00 4.50 4.50 4.50 4.50 0.016 0.43 10.5ICB AMCL 2nd NRB -A -7.14 -1.76 7.83 7.80 8.00 7.80 0.212 0.87 9.0Brac B.C. Bond-A -7.11 -7.11 915.00 915.00 915.00 915.00 0.014 0.00 -Apex SpinningA -5.61 -7.13 79.10 79.10 79.10 79.10 0.051 2.52 31.4Janata Insur -A -4.17 -4.17 11.50 11.50 11.50 11.50 0.001 0.84 13.7Alltex Industries -Z -4.05 -3.66 21.58 21.30 22.10 21.10 2.033 1.89 11.4Bank Asia -A -3.77 -3.52 15.34 15.30 15.40 15.30 0.241 1.74 8.8Sa� o Spinning-A -3.74 -3.50 20.67 20.60 21.00 20.40 1.554 1.00 20.7Marico BD Ltd-A -3.40 -1.48 1,420.00 1,420.00 1,420.00 1,420.00 0.010 57.68 24.6

DSE LOSER

Company Closing (% Change)

Aver-age (%

Change)

Closin-gAvg. Closing DHIGH DLOW Turnover

in MillionLatest

EPSLatest

PE

Kay & Que (BD) -Z -6.61 35.41 11.28 11.30 13.10 10.90 0.093 -0.24 -veEastern Lubricants -A -5.89 -5.64 374.00 374.00 374.00 374.00 0.015 2.48 150.8Northern Jute -Z -5.44 -2.81 323.29 312.70 335.00 310.00 1.255 1.75 184.7Apex Foods -A -4.16 -2.84 176.29 172.90 183.00 172.00 49.689 12.60 14.0Alltex Industries -Z -4.05 -3.27 21.57 21.30 22.30 21.20 20.665 1.89 11.4National Tea -A -3.14 -3.40 625.00 626.30 630.00 625.00 0.025 -25.06 -veThe Ibn SinaA -2.94 -1.97 139.90 138.60 142.60 138.00 36.844 4.82 29.0Asia Pasi� c Insu. -A -2.67 -2.73 14.63 14.60 15.40 14.50 0.313 2.32 6.3Apex Tannery -A -2.54 -3.09 158.61 157.50 162.00 156.90 56.475 6.25 25.4National Bank - A -2.52 -1.17 11.84 11.60 12.00 11.50 61.871 1.46 8.1

DSE key features August 27, 2015Turnover (Million Taka)

4,215.88

Turnover (Volume)

103,525,568

Number of Contract

97,048

Traded Issues 324

Issue Gain (Avg. Price Basis)

177

Issue Loss (Avg. Price Basis)

136

Unchanged Issue (Avg. Price Basis)

11

Market Capital Equity (Billion. Tk.)

2,709.10

Market Capital Equity (Billion US$)

32.84

CSE key features August 27, 2015Turnover (Million Taka)

297.84

Turnover (Volume)

9,125,990

Number of Contract

13,173

Traded Issues 243

Issue Gain (Avg. Price Basis)

122

Issue Loss (Avg. Price Basis)

117

Unchanged Issue (Avg. Price Basis)

4

Market Capital Equity (Billion. Tk.)

2,609.09

Market Capital Equity (Billion US$)

31.63

BUSINESS 19D

TFRIDAY, AUGUST 28, 2015

Stocks continue to edge highern Tribune Report

Stocks continued to rise marginally amid persistent volatility yesterday as in-vestors were cautious due to lack of direction.

Like every other day, the market moved between negative and positive as in-vestors played both sides of fence.

The Dhaka Stock Ex-change benchmark index, DSEX, inched 7 points or 0.2% up to 4,812, hitting highest 4,823 in the morning and 4,797 in mid-session.

The Shariah index, DSES, was slightly up 3 points or 0.3% to 1,186.

The blue chip comprising index, DS30, rose nearly 3 points or 0.2% to 1,840.

The Chittagong Stock Ex-change Selective Category Index, CSCX, gains margin-ally 8 points to 8,970.

After marginal rise in pre-vious session, power stocks gained highest 1.4% ahead of their earnings deceleration.

State-owned Power Grid Company of Bangladesh performed well among pow-er companies soaring more than 4%.

Food and allied, banks, pharmaceuticals closed marginally higher while en-gineering, telecommunica-tions, life insurance and tex-

tiles lost marginally. Cement sector remained unchanged.

Participation remained almost same like the previ-ous days’ lackluster perfor-mance.

Turnover at DSE stood at Tk421 crore, down more than 2% over the previous session.

Pharmaceuticals and power sectors accounted for more than 35% of the total turnover.

Lanka Bangla Securities said index crept up on the closing day of this week with muddled perception about the market direction.

All the blue-chip stocks closed the day � at or red as those lost the zeal, while some small cap stocks reig-nited, it said.

IDLC Investments said investors were observing macro-economic landscape and searching for lucrative spreads to quick pro� t over the day’s volatilities. Conse-quently, micro- and mid-caps attracted the investors most.

Square Pharmaceuticals was the most-traded stocks with shares worth nearly Tk30 crore changing hands.

It was followed by Islami Bank, Titas Gas, Shahjibazar Power Company Limited, Lafarge Surma Cement and Khan Brothers PP Woven Bag Industries Limited. l

Investors were observing macro-economic landscape and searching for lucrative spreads to quick pro� t over the day’s volatilities. Consequently, micro- and mid-caps attracted the investors most

ANALYST

Daily capital market highlightsDSE Broad Index : 12503.72200 (+) 0.15% ▲

DSE - 30 Index : 1840.88602 (+) 0.16% ▲

CSE All Share Index: 14733.22510 (+) 0.10% ▲

CSE - 30 Index : 12503.72200 (+) 0.33% ▲

CSE Selected Index : 8970.61570 (+) 0.10% ▲

CSE TURNOVER LEADERS

Company Volume-Shares

Value in Million

% of Total-Turnover ClosingP Change % ClosingY DHIGH DLOW AvgPrice

United Power-N 157,392 24.01 8.06 152.30 0.00 152.30 153.90 151.90 152.53LafargeS Cement-A 121,020 13.85 4.65 114.30 -0.26 114.60 115.20 113.80 114.42Shahjibazar Power-N 62,168 12.12 4.07 196.50 2.77 191.20 197.60 192.00 194.88UNITED AIR-A 1,059,541 10.68 3.59 10.10 0.00 10.10 10.20 10.00 10.08Khan Brothers-N 343,645 9.64 3.24 28.40 7.58 26.40 28.50 27.20 28.05National Bank - A 786,040 9.11 3.06 11.50 -1.71 11.70 11.90 11.40 11.59BSRM Ltd. -A 75,786 8.58 2.88 113.00 -1.05 114.20 114.80 112.20 113.22BEXIMCO Ltd. -A 261,503 8.16 2.74 31.10 -0.32 31.20 31.50 31.10 31.22Islami Bank BD - A 253,340 7.78 2.61 30.50 0.33 30.40 31.30 30.20 30.72Khulna Power-A 108,217 7.78 2.61 71.80 0.42 71.50 72.20 71.50 71.91FAR Chemical-N 129,115 7.15 2.40 55.20 -0.18 55.30 56.20 54.80 55.35SummitAlliancePort.-A 111,449 6.21 2.09 55.80 2.95 54.20 56.30 54.90 55.74National Feed-A 225,630 5.95 2.00 26.40 0.76 26.20 27.10 26.00 26.37Apex Tannery -A 36,875 5.85 1.96 157.20 -2.36 161.00 161.10 156.80 158.57Tosrifa Industries -N 186,833 5.18 1.74 27.70 0.36 27.60 27.90 27.50 27.71

DSE TURNOVER LEADERS

Company Volume-Shares

Value in Million

% of Total-Turnover ClosingP Change

% ClosingY DHIGH DLOW Avg-Price

Square Pharma -A 1,482,237 366.61 8.70 247.80 -0.04 247.90 248.60 245.70 247.33Islami Bank BD - A 4,759,140 146.26 3.47 30.60 0.66 30.40 31.40 30.20 30.73Titas Gas TDCLA 1,868,641 139.14 3.30 74.80 2.75 72.80 75.50 72.20 74.46Shahjibazar Power-N 706,206 138.11 3.28 196.90 3.09 191.00 198.00 192.10 195.56LafargeS Cement-A 1,075,919 123.86 2.94 115.20 -0.09 115.30 115.50 114.70 115.12Khan Brothers-N 4,018,807 112.76 2.67 28.40 7.58 26.40 28.70 26.70 28.06Grameenphone-A 330,899 105.90 2.51 319.90 -0.06 320.10 348.00 318.20 320.03UCBL - A 3,950,353 83.51 1.98 21.10 -0.94 21.30 21.50 21.00 21.14United Power-N 530,673 81.21 1.93 152.90 0.13 152.70 154.50 152.40 153.04FAR Chemical-N 1,240,302 68.86 1.63 55.50 0.00 55.50 56.40 54.80 55.52Beximco Pharma -A 1,018,629 67.25 1.60 66.20 0.30 66.00 66.30 65.70 66.02Baraka Power-A 1,849,132 63.08 1.50 34.10 0.29 34.00 34.50 33.90 34.11National Bank - A 5,227,290 61.87 1.47 11.60 -2.52 11.90 12.00 11.50 11.84SummitAlliancePort.-A 1,097,007 61.03 1.45 55.80 2.76 54.30 56.30 54.50 55.63BSRM Ltd. -A 517,481 58.48 1.39 112.70 -1.05 113.90 114.90 112.00 113.01

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BTRC forms bodies to ensure service qualityn Ishtiaq Husain

Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) has formed two separate committees for making decisions on the pur-chase of modern equipment to ensure Quality of Service (QoS) for data and voice services.

At a recent meeting held at the BTRC o� ce, the telecom watchdog had decided to form the two separate teams with seven members each.

The two committees are-Tender Evalua-tion Committee and Tender Drafting Commit-tee and both the team will be led by Director General of the Engineering and Operations Department (E&O).

The telecom watchdog will buy bag pack/hand held/portable and static/� xed based QoS measurement tools for data and voice service for 2G/3G/LTE/CDMA with scanner for 2G/3G/LTE/CDMA.

According to a BTRC o� cial, it will help a cus-tomer to select his or her operator. This sys-tem will also ensure an atmosphere congen-ial to healthy competition among the service providers.

Against the backdrop of increasing call drops, poor networks coverage and unsatis-factory customer supports, BTRC had issued a directive for ensuring quality service last year.

“It is observed that all the operators are not giving due attention to the quality of service network as the customers’ complain has also been increased,” reads the BTRC directive.

The directives also said, “Although cus-tomers’ dissatisfaction is increasing over the years, in some cases, operators are imple-menting new features in their networks with-out any prior trial, which is also a reason for the poor QoS.”

The BTRC formed the two committees while a team of the regulatory body is con-ducting a survey throughout the country to monitor the speed of mobile internet from 16 August to measure the quality of data services.

A total of the three teams comprising 5 members each are conducting this survey in 45 Upazilas under 15 selective districts. Rep-resentatives from the top three mobile opera-tors will accompany the BTRC team.

After getting lot of complaints for low-speed from the subscribers, especially in ru-ral areas, the regulatory body planned to con-duct this kind of survey to see the real picture on ground.

An o� cial of the regulatory body said, based on the survey reports, BTRC would soon introduce a ranking of internet services quality.

Despite those initiatives from the BTRC, mo-bile operators didn’t take any e� ective meas-ures to improve their respective services. l

‘A clear roadmap needed in telecom sector to make progress’n Ishtiaq Husain

Robi, Bangladesh’s second largest mobile phone operator in terms of revenue earnings, claims to have covered 99% of the country’s population and have widest international roaming service among other local operators. As of June 2015, the operator has 27.4m sub-scribers.

Dhaka Tribune has recently interviewed Robi’s chief operating o� cer, Mahtab Uddin Ahmed who would like to share the operator’s present stand in the 3G market of Bangladesh along with future expansion plans.

Dhaka Tribune: It’s been almost one year since Bangladesh stepped into third generation mobile broadband service. Has the country been able to reap benefits of the high-speed service? Which areas Robi focuses on for 3G penetration?Mahtab Uddin Ahmed: Robi now concentrates on expanding 3G network to all 64 districts targeting all levels of users. It will be expanded from upazila to union level gradually to reach rural population. For this we urgently need to increase 3G-enabling devices. However, it takes time to take 3G service to rural areas.

Robi o� ers packages for data subscribers. But the major obstacle is the lack of 3G-enabling handsets to make them successful. Robi is work-ing to increase the use of 3G-enabling devices. E� orts have been taken with handset vendors Samsung and Nokia, which will hopefully help to improve the situation. Robi o� ers handset with attractive data packages and these types of o� er are encouraging for the subscribers.

In operators’ perspective 3G investment is not yet feasible. There is no protection for data prices. There is an unhealthy competi-tion prevailing in the market. But in consum-ers perspective the users are bene� ting from the service.

It is not possible to see the success of 3G in just a few years. Investments should con-tinue while the regulator has a lot of things to do. The regulator can intervene in pricing the service through launching a guideline. The whole market can go down only due to an of-fer by a small operator. There is a minimum o� er in voice services with an operator o� er-ing minimum 25%. Another bar is needed in data prices to keep the market stable.

DT: Do you think 3G services have attracted new customers? What was your expectation about 3G customer-base here?

Mahtab Uddin Ahmed: Consumers are bene-� ting from the service. We have already seen a revolution among young generation in the use of 3G services. Robi is campaigning a lot to expand data service consumption.

Progress in 3G customer-base is good and encouraging. But there is a need to increase it to a certain level. If 3G/4G-enabling devices are manufactured locally, the prices will come down.

DT: Will 5 MHz spectrum be enough for the provision of 3G service in Bangladesh?Mahtab Uddin Ahmed: 5 Mhz spectrum is standard up to a certain level to provide good quality service. In the long run we need more than 5 Mhz depending on the customer growth.

Robi continues to invest heavily to fast-track its 3.5G network expansion and to im-prove 2.5G customer experience both in voice and data services.

The company has deployed network cover-age in all 64 districts in Bangladesh through 8,119 sites, of which over 2,450 are 3.5G sites.

DT: What are the new aspects of mobile services the consumers will experience through 3G services? Mahtab Uddin Ahmed: We can’t depend only on voice service. We will have to ful� l all needs of the customers. Di� erent value-added services are gaining popularity. Now, mobile � nancial service is very much popular. In near future everything will be in a mobile handset. We have a huge scope to work on education. We’ve just started our works. Robi has taken an initiative to build apps which will work as

a platform. The operator is acting as a catalyst. But we have to focus on our customers need.

DT: As we know, usage of internet on mobile devices has increased significantly. Do you think it is a good sign for the market? Mahtab Uddin Ahmed: Undoubtedly its a good sign for market. But it’s not good enough. In operators perspective 60-75% of customers should be brought under 3G ser-vice if we want to make our operation feasible and pro� table.

DT: Are there any obstacle against the 3G service in Bangladesh? Mahtab Uddin Ahmed: The government and operators have to work together especially on the spectrum auction matter. There should have a clear road map in the telecommunica-tions sector.

DT: What is the potential time line for Robi to launch 4G in Bangladesh?Mahtab Uddin Ahmed: As a company we are ready to launch the new services. But before that some pending issues should be resolved. We have to make 3G pro� table before intro-ducing 4G. Besides, there are many disputed issues that are not resolved yet. We expect it’s a matter of time to resolve them.

DT: What is the plan to educate the potential customers?Mahtab Uddin Ahmed: We organised school competition and ICT fair in every upazilla, and launched a modern e-library recently in Dhaka university. We also launched free Wi-Fi in Dhaka College, and are also taking a lot more initiatives to expand the service. We are happy to provide this kind of supports. These will help to create a knowledge-based society. In building a digital Bangladesh, mobile oper-ators making a huge contribution. Robi intro-duced free internet service through internet.org. It demonstrates our commitment to facil-itate a� ordable internet for the masses. l

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Proposal to import fuel oil from Kuwait okayedn Tribune Report

Cabinet Committee on Public Purchase ap-proved energy division’s proposal to import of 570,000 tonnes of fuel oil from Kuwait at $324.337m.

The approval came at a meeting of the committee yesterday with Finance Minister AMA Muhith in the chair.

According to the proposal, diesel and jet fuel will be imported from Kuwait Petroleum Corpo-ration for the second half of current � scal year.

However, other three proposals of energy

division to import fuel oil were turned down at the meeting asking for further review and addition of more data and information before placing them at the committee’s next meeting.

Malaysia’s PETCO Trading Labuan Com-pany Ltd, PNOC Exploration Corporation and UAE-based Emirates National Oil Company (Singapore) Pte Ltd were named in the reject-ed proposals as suppliers of 835,000 tonnes of fuel oil.

Proposed average import price is $72 a bar-rel while fuel oil was selling $45 a barrel in the global market yesterday.

When asked about the price gap, Finance Minister AMA Muhith claimed that local pric-es were still lower than those in internation-al market, but inclusion of tari� and other freight charges caused the real hike.

He said the government had earlier � xed the fuel oil price at $40 a barrel and had to in-crease to $60 when the price went up in the international market.

Bangladesh Petroleum Cooperation annu-ally imports 1.4m tonnes of crude oil from 10 countries under state-to-state deals and re� nes it at the state-run Eastern Re� nery Limited. l

Against the backdrop of increasing call drops, poor networks coverage..., BTRC issued a directive to ensure quality service last year

Progress in 3G customer-base is good and encouraging, but there is a need to increase it to a certain level

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NBL’s half yearly conference held in Sylhet

LL6: Jolputul Puppet workshop

Standard Chartered CEO encourages youth to take initiatives at BYLC event

Fresher’s reception programme held at European University of Bangladesh

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The Half Yearly Managers’ Conference 2015 of National Bank Limited was held at their regional o� ce in Sylhet. Syed Mohammad Bariqullah, deputy managing director of the bank inaugurated the conference as chief guest. Md Lutfor Rahman, regional head of Sylhet presided over the meeting.

All managers and executives under the Sylhet region of the bank were also present.

Syed Mohammad Bariqullah, deputy managing director of the bank, expressed his gratitude to the board of directors and thanked the managers and executives for their hand in the bank’s success. l

Bangladesh Youth Leadership Center (BYLC) recently hosted an event titled BYLC Talks. Abrar A Anwar, the chief executive o� cer of Standard Chartered Bangladesh, attended the event as the chief guest.

In his keynote address, Abrar A Anwar shared his personal leadership journey and emphasised the importance

of self-development and teamwork as instrumental tools in practicing leadership. He also gave invaluable career advice to BYLC graduates in an engaging Q&A session. “Focus on taking the work forward. Perform ethically and value your team’s opinions,” Anwar stated. l

A reception was held for freshers from summer semester 2015 at European University of Bangladesh. The programme was held and arranged by the EEE club in the auditorium of the engineering campus at Mirpur. Vice-chairman of European University and a great freedom � ghter Dr Mokbul Ahmed Khan was the chief guest and pro-vice chancellor, Professor Dr Prafullah Chandra Sarkar was present as special guest. The function was presided over by Professor AOM Abdul Ahad, chairman of EEE department.

Among others, president of EEE club Sarwar Hossain Tuhin Sarkar, senior vice-president Md Imran Hossain, general

secretary Taw� qul Islam, joint general secretary Md Ridoy Parvez spoke on the occasion. The meeting was concluded with a cultural function. l

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As part of their latest endeavour, Longitude Latitude 6 (LL6) is bringing to the limelight Jolputul Puppet, a group that holds workshops that teach children skills to make handmade puppets.

During the two workshops they have planned, children will be taught to make puppets out of everyday objects ranging from ice-cream wrappers to plastic spoons, pencils as well as plastic balls.

Jolputul Puppet was founded in 2005 and initially held informal performances and workshops. As the demand for their shows grew, they took on a full-time role.

Shahriar Shaon, one of the founders of Jolputul Puppet, stated that there is an environmental angle to it since children recycle daily household items to make these puppets.

This workshop is part of a four-month long event titled “LL6.” LL6 is an open space that encourages various forms of creative expression and features artists from di� erent backgrounds. Curated by Shehzad

Chowdhury, they are open from 2pm to 9pm everyday at Bay’s Bellavista, Road 11, Block C, Banani. The Dhaka Tribune is a media partner for the event.

The workshop is divided into two sections, detailed as follows:

First segmentTime: 10:30am to 1:30pmOpen for children in the 4-7 year age bracket. Children are requested to bring materials such as plastic spoons, plates, balls and wooden sticks.

Second segmentTime: 2:30pm – 5:30pm Open for children in the 7-15 year age bracket. Children are requested to bring materials such as plastic spoons, plates, balls, wooden sticks as well as coloured papers, colourful pieces of cloth and fabric beads. Adults are allowed to participate in both sessions.

For further information, visit their page: www.facebook.com/LaitudeLongitude6. l

Bancassurance seminar held at Prime Islami Life Insurance Ltd (PILIL)A seminar on “Bancassurance” organised by Prime Islami Life Insurance Limited was recently held in Dhaka. Lawrance Yew, eminent banker, insurance and regional director, southeast Asia and Indian sub-continent CEO, Retakaful SCOR Global Life SE, Singapore, presented the keynote paper.

Yew analysed the various issues of banccassurance such as the types of banccassurance products, its operational model as well as the bene� ts of banccassurance.

The seminar was chaired by Nazrul Islam, member, executive committee of Bangladesh Insurance Association. Dr Mohammad Sohrab Uddin, chairman, Sadharan Bima Corporation, Md Fazlul Haque, Additional Secretary (Admin and Insurance), Bank and Financial Institution Division, Ministry of Finance; Md Quddus Khan, member, Insurance Development and Regulatory Authority were present as guests of honour. Other senior executives from the banking and insurance sector were also present at the seminar. l

A classic snack made easy for your next movie night

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Crispy, buttery and full of feel-good � avours, popcorn is the ultimate lazy food. Whether you want to spend a day lounging in front of the TV or want to silence your kids as they hanker for an evening snack - popcorn comes to the rescue. While store bought alternatives sound easier to prepare, once you’ve mastered the art of making perfect popcorn at home, your homemade version will quickly become the ultimate companion for everything from movie nights in to a lazy day out. Glazed with honey, mixed with nutella or even topped with garlic - there seems to be a variation for every craving.

Un� avoured popcornWarm 2 unpopped corn kernels in a large lidded saucepan with a glug of oil over medium heat. When the kernels start popping, add the rest of the corn kernels to the pan. Shake the pan to coat the corn kernels with oil and keep the lid on. Shake the pan occasionally, until the popping slows. Take o� from heat immediately. Usually ½ a cup of unpopped corn kernels makes about 10-12 cups of popcorn.

Caramel popcorn• ½ cup butter• 1 cup brown sugar• ¼tsp salt • A pinch of baking soda• Sprinkling of cinnamon powder

In a saucepan, melt butter over medium heat. Add in the brown sugar and salt. Shake the pan and bring it to a boil while scraping the bottom of the pan continuously. Remove from pan and stir in baking soda.

Place the popcorn in a large bowl and drizzle over the caramel immediately. Toss to combine. Dust cinnamon powder to get the extra bit of sweetness!

Garlic popcorn• 3tbsp olive oil• 4-6 cloves of garlic• ½tsp salt• 1tbsp parsley• Sprinkling of Parmesan

In a saucepan, add a glug of olive oil. Saute garlic over medium heat. Add in the salt and parsley. Remove from heat and toss in the popcorn to combine. Sprinkle in some Parmesan cheese or any other cheese of your choice. l

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5 ways your boss is killing you

n Khan N Moushumi

You have � nally landed your dream job that anyone and everyone would kill for. Your colleagues and workplace are fantastic but something about your boss, that you can’t quite put your � nger on, has been bothering you. One or more of these phenomenons may drive you nuts if not dealt with on time.

When your boss is not a good leaderHe may have all the degrees in the world, but that doesn’t make him a good leader if he’s indecisive, doesn’t appreciate you enough, practices nepotism or picks favourites. He may even go as far as taking credit for something you have achieved and is quick to � nd someone (and on many occasions that someone is you) to blame when things hit south. Experiencing any of these could seriously make you feel let down and lose focus of your corporate objectives.

When the two of you have contradicting ethical valuesIf you like transparency but your boss takes the opposite route, you may have some serious trouble dealing with these di� erences. No need to frustrate yourself by sticking around. Find someone better to work for.

When there’s no room for improvementThe pay might be great as well, but if your boss isn’t knowledgeable enough and there’s

nothing you can learn from him, this could be a major downer.

When he doesn’t know where to draw boundariesA boss is someone the employees look up to; someone who is well-balanced in terms of respecting personal space and keeping things professional. It could be considered seriously unprofessional if your boss is making inappropriate jokes or going overboard with those compliments about your long legs. No one likes a grumpy cat for sure, but an over-friendly boss who passes inappropriate comments is equally unbecoming.

When he has anger management issuesYour heart skips a beat every time your boss is around, not because they’re sweeping you off your feet with their suave and smooth moves (which, by the way, would be immensely inappropriate even if they did and you should in no way condone it), but because they lose their temper every two minutes and throw things at you. They may even set unrealistic deadlines to put you under a lot of pressure just because s/he can. Abuse of authority and bullying employees are not news anymore, are they? l

All that demotivation might be sprouting from one or more of these reasons

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It was not any regular day at job for Shopon. The rickshaw-puller dropped o� a passenger at the Sher-e-Bangla National Staidum in Mirpur where he spotted Soumya Sarkar and promptly asked the photographer (who was waiting at the gate for the cricketers) in awe, “Is it the same Soumya we see in TV?” Upon learning it is indeed the same person, Shopon, who hails from Noakhali, requested the Bangladeshi star for a sel� e. Soumya, who was just about to leave in his new car, stepped out and full� lled the priceless wish for Shopon –MAINOOR ISLAM MANIK

No, Bangladesh Test captain Mush� qur Rahim did not sign for

any action movie. The picture was captured when he visited the

Gulshan Shooting Club for the opening of the Youth Shooting

Championship yesterday–DHAKA TRIBUNE

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ABAHANI NAME NABIL AS ACTING DIRECTOR-IN-CHARGE

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South Africa superstar AB de Villiers has smashed the record for the fastest 8000 ODI runs with his

� fty against New Zealand in Durban on Wednesday

FASTEST TO 8000

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Lightning Bolt beats Gatlin to world 200m goldn AFP, Beijing

Jamaican speedster Usain Bolt easily out-stripped American rival Justin Gatlin to claim his fourth consecutive world 200m title yesterday and add to the 100m gold he won at the weekend. Bolt clocked a world-leading 19.55 seconds to extend his domination of sprinting since taking the world by storm at the 2008 Beijing Olym-pics at the same Bird’s Nest stadium.

Gatlin, who has served two doping bans, clocked 19.74sec, with South Af-rican Anaso Jobodwana taking bronze with a national record of 19.87sec.

The victory meant Bolt has now re-markably won 11 of the last 12 individu-al Olympic and world sprint titles since shooting to fame at the Beijing Games, his only blip coming after a false start in the 100m at the 2011 worlds in Daegu.

Huge cheers greeted Bolt, wearing ly-cra shorts and singlet in the green, gold and black colours of Jamaica, placed in lane six, with Gatlin on his inside in lane four of the nine-lane track.

Applause also rang out for Gatlin, in a red one-piece suit, the tannoy presenters

building up the atmosphere to mirror a boxing match at a packed Bird’s Nest.

The American, as in the 100m, suf-fered from a slower start than Bolt, who shot out of his blocks. Gatlin, a renowned

fast starter who hasn’t lost over 200m since 2013 and has set personal best of 19.57sec this season, looked threatening coming o� the bend. But sandwiched between Britain’s Zharnel Hughes and Jobodwana, Bolt, in fult tilt after an elec-trifying bend, responded by moving into

his famed “drive phase”, unleashing the full power from his long legs.

Unlike the 100m, when it came down to one-hundredth of a second to sepa-rate Bolt from Gatlin, there were no such doubts this time.

And Bolt, also reigning double Olym-pic champion and world record holder over 200m, knew it, thumbing himself in the chest as he crossed the line in a mes-sage to the many doubters he has had this season after pelvic joint pain kept him out of competitive action for six weeks.

Gatlin, in the form of his life at the age of 33, previously won world 200m gold in Helsinki before testing positive for testosterone and serving a doping ban between 2006-2010, something he cred-its with having extended his longevity having sat out four years of hard, com-petitive racing.

And for a sport mired in doping al-legations in the build-up to the worlds, Bolt, one of athletics’ most tested stars, again stepped up to the mark not only to help boost the integrity and credibility of track and � eld but also cement his leg-endary status.l

Jamaica’s Usain Bolt celebrates after winning the men’s 200m � nal at the World Athletics Championships at the Bird’s Nest stadium in Beijing yesterday AP

200m MEN (FINAL)Athlete Country Mark1 Usain Bolt JAM 19.552 Justin Gatlin USA 19.743 Anaso Jobodwana RSA 19.874 Alonso Edward PAN 19.875 Zharnel Hughes GBR 20.026 Ramil Guliyev TUR 20.117 Femi Ogunode QAT 20.278 Nickel Ashmeade JAM 20.33

Bangladesh Under-19 ousted in sudden death n Tribune Report

Bangladesh crashed out of the Sa� Under-19 Champion-ship after going down against India in a thrilling penalty shootout in the second semi-� nal at the ANFA Complex in Lalitpur, Nepal yesterday. After a goalless 90 minutes, both teams were tied 3-3 from the � rst � ve spot kicks before In-dia sneak away with the game at sudden death.

In the � rst semi-� nal earlier on the day, hosts Nepal beat Afghanistan 3-2 to enter their � rst ever � nal in the tourna-ment’s history. The � nal will be played tomorrow.

India’s Lalram missed the � rst penalty to give the Ben-gal Tigers an early hope but Mohammedan winger Moham-mad Ibrahim’s failed in the third kick to allow their oppo-nent get back. India made good use of the opportunity as Emon’s lousy e� ort was saved to see the Indian’s a goal away from victory.

However, the drama did not end there. India’s Sarthak Gauli rattled the left bar post as Mannaf Rabby converted the � fth to grab the lifeline for Bangladesh. But that hardly made a di� er-ence as Rahmat � red the ball over the crossbar to gift India a 4-3 win in the tie-breaker. Mannaf, Masuk Mia Joni and Rohit Sarkar were the successful penalty takers for Bangladesh.

The 90-minute encounter, earlier, was played more con-servatively by both the sides. None were able to create any clear-cut opportunity as both looked more reserved com-pared to their attacking approach in the group stage.

The two notable attacks of the game came in the � rst-half when Anisur managed to grip a grounder of Lalram in his second attempt in the 13th minute. Three minutes later, Mannaf failed to control a long ball of Rahmat having only the Indian keeper ahead. l

BOLT IN WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS

Year Venue Event Medal

2015 Beijing 100 m

2015 Beijing 200 m

2013 Moscow 100 m

2013 Moscow 200 m

2013 Moscow 4×100 m relay

2011 Daegu 200 m

2011 Daegu 4×100 m relay

2009 Berlin 100 m

2009 Berlin 200 m

2009 Berlin 4×100 m relay

2007 Osaka 200 m

2007 Osaka 4×100 m relay

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Jessore win, Dhaka heldJessore district beat Thakurgaon 4-1 in the � nal round of the Sailor-BFF National Under-15 Foot-ball Championship at the Abahani Club Ground yesterday. Arif scored twice in the 51st and 87th minute of the game while another brace from Sorgo came in the 12th and 55th minute. Maruf netted the consolation for Thakurgaon in the 72nd minute. Meanwhile in the day’s other game at the Bangabandhu National Stadium, Dhaka dropped points for the � rst time in the tournament after the hosts were held to a goalless draw by Narayanganj.

–TRIBUNE REPORT

Nadal vows passionate return to US OpenRafa Nadal has sounded a philosophical note about a season well below his accustomed stan-dard of excellence, but the 29-year-old Span-iard insists the � re is still burning. “The passion is there,” Nadal told reporters on Wednesday before taking the court against Australian Lleyton Hewitt at a fundraiser to support young New York area tennis players at John McEnroe’s tennis academy on Randall’s Island.

–REUTERS

Real Madrid, Monaco agree Coentrao loan dealReal Madrid and Monaco have agreed a deal under which Real’s Portugal left back Fabio Coentrao will go on loan to the Ligue 1 side for the 2015-16 season, the two clubs said on Wednesday. Coentrao, 27, joined Real from Ben-� ca in 2011 for a fee of 30 million euros.

–REUTERS

Roma’s Strootman facing third knee opInjury-hit Roma forward Kevin Strootman is facing a career-de� ning decision after being advised to undergo a third operation on his troublesome left knee, reports said Wednesday. It would be his third in the space of 17 months, and could end his season. Strootman initially damaged his knee in March 2014 in a 1-0 defeat to Napoli, ruling him out for the remainder of that season.

–AFP

Sevilla signs LlorenteSevilla have completed the signing of forward Fernando Llorente from Juventus and the 30-year-old former Spain international has agreed a three-year contract. Sevilla announced late on Wednesday Llorente was in the Anda-lusian capital for a medical and he returns to La Liga, where he made his name with Basque club Athletic Bilbao, after two years in Turin.

–REUTERS

Neymar not going anywhereBarcelona have dismissed any speculation linking Brazilian star Neymar with a world-record trans-fer to Manchester United. The Catalonian side will o� er the 23-year-old a new contract and hope he stays until he retires. Manchester United do have the wage structure and transfer funds available to sign Neymar, according to various sources, but they have been told the forward is unavailable after making initial enquiries last week.

–AGENCIES

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Abahani name Nabil as acting director-in-chargen Tribune Report

Abahani Limited has nominated Kazi Nabil Ahmed, MP, as the acting director-in-charge of the club during a governing body meeting on Wednesday.

The meeting was presided by club chair-man Salman F Rahman. During the meeting, the board directors prayed for the good health of director-in-charge Lt Colonel Kazi Shahed Ahmed (Retd), who has not been well for some time now.

During the meeting, the directors of the club decided in principle to give one of the di-rectors Kazi Nabil Ahmed, also the vice pres-ident of Bangladesh Football Federation, the responsibility of acting director-in-charge. l

Faruk emphasises upon strong Bangladesh A teamn Mazhar Uddin

Not so long ago, there was a time when the Bangladesh selectors had to struggle to form a squad due to the unavailability of su� cient back-up players in the pipe-line.

However, things have changed drasti-cally in the last year or so with a number of youngsters announcing their grand arrival in international cricket. In recent times, the se-lection panel has had the luxury of replacing any injured or out-of-form cricketer with an exciting youngster or a national discard who is eager to script a comeback to the side.

Bangladesh Cricket Board recently an-nounced the formation of the Elite Players’ Conditioning Camp, comprising 27 cricket-ers, where almost every single member of the squad possesses the quality to feature for the national side in di� erent formats. Besides the elite players’ camp, the BCB has also formed the High Performance squad recently with the inclusion of some talented youngsters.

And ahead of the upcoming away series’ against South Africa A and Zimbabwe A lat-er this year, national selection panel chief Faruk Ahmed informed that the Bangladesh

A squad will be drafted with the inclusion of several cricketers from the HP unit.

“We are going to form the Bangladesh A team by taking players from the HP squad. We will not take players from the elite play-ers’ camp. We want to build a strong A team for both the four-day and limited-over match-es in South Africa and Zimbabwe,” Faruk told the media yesterday.

The 49-year old former Bangladesh cap-tain also stated his intention of preparing a genuine Bangladesh A side in order to pro-vide valuable back-up options for the nation-al team in the future.

“The Bangladesh national team have been playing brilliant cricket recently. Earlier, there were times when we had to include quite a few national players in the A team but now we have enough cricketers,” he said.

Faruk added that they will consult with Tigers’ head coach Chandika Hathurusingha, who is currently enjoying his vacation, before naming the squad for the two Australia Tests this October. The chief selector also noti� ed that there is a six-seven month gap after the Australia Tests so the time will be utilised to hold the Elite Players’ Conditioning Camp.l

Mahmudullah enlightens American Centren Minhaz Uddin Khan

Bangladesh all-rounder Mahmudullah has joined hands with the US Embassy in Dhaka in order to empower youth through sports. The 29-year old cricketer attended a session, titled “Real Time With Riyad”, at American Centre, Dhaka yesterday where the Mymens-ingh lad shared his life experiences with some 50 youths and encouraged them to pursue their ambitions in life with dedication and hard-work.

“I am very much honoured to have been able to be a part of this programme. The youths are the future of our country. Bang-ladesh depends on them and it is our job to bring them up well and strong,” Mahmudul-lah said during the programme yesterday.

While giving the speech, Mahmudullah had a script in his hands but hardly took a look at it.

“I am trying to give the speech from my heart and not by looking at the paper because you can have the best output if you do any-thing from your heart.

“I love cricket from childhood and used to spend my time playing with my elder brother in the � eld. But to be honest, I never thought of playing for the country. So you can see it this way – I loved the game from my heart and in return, it gave me the highest honour, which is to represent my country,” said Bang-ladesh’s back-to-back World Cup centurion.

Mahmudullah also talked about the im-portance of education and discipline in life.

“You cannot always be the best. But what

is actually important is to keep following your passion. It is very important to keep your dream alive and pursue knowledge. I personally believe there is no alternative of education and by education, I mean knowl-edge. If you have proper knowledge you can turn your passion into a profession,” the for-mer vice-captain said before adding, “One thing that I have learned from experience is to never give up. If life comes hard on you, you should try to give it back harder and stick strong to your motive.”

Director of American Centre, Ann B Mc-Connell, and other o� cials were present in the programme where Mahmudullah was be-stowed with an honorary membership of the American Centre. Imago Sports Management Agency managed the programme. l

Tharanga in for retired Sangakkaran Reuters, Colombo

Left-handed batsman Upul Tharanga will re-place retired Sri Lankan great Kumar Sanga-kkara for the third and � nal Test against India, captain Angelo Mathews said yesterday.

Sangakkara, arguably the greatest Sri Lan-kan batsman, � nished his 134-Test career last week during the second Test in Colombo which India won to tie the series at 1-1.

The 30-year-old Tharanga played the � nal Test of the series against Pakistan but made way for Sangakkara for the � rst two matches against India.

“In his last match he hit a couple of 45s. He went out only because Sangakkara came in,” Mathews told reporters ahead of the Test starting on Friday.

O� -spinner Tharindu Kaushal, the most successful bowler for the hosts with 12 wickets, was doubtful for the third Test with a thumb injury on his bowling hand, Mathews said.

But paceman Nuwan Pradeep, who missed the second Test with a hamstring injury, was � t and available for selection.

With the retirement of Sangakkara, Mathews said Sri Lanka were still undecided on their batting order.l

Bangladesh all-rounder Mahmudullah (R) signs the honorary membership of the American Centre, Dhaka yesterday as director Ann B McConnell (C) looks on COURTESY

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RESULTSAPOEL (CYP) 1-1 Astana (KAZ)Stilic 60 Maksimovic 84

Astana qualify 2-1 on aggregate

P Belgrade (SRB) 2-1 BATE Borisov (BLR)Zhaunerchyk 74-o.g., Stasevich 25Saponjic 90+3BATE win on away goals rule after tie � nished 2-2 on aggregate

CSKA Moscow (RUS) 3-1 Sporting Lisbon (POR)Doumbia 49, 72, Guttierez 36Musa 85

CSKA qualify 4-3 on aggregate

Club Brugge (BEL) 0-4 Man United (ENG) Rooney 20, 49, 57, Herrera 63

Manchester United win 7-1 on aggregate

Leverkusen (GER) 3-0 Lazio (ITA)Calhanoglu 40, Mehmedi 48, Bellarabi 88

Bayer win 3-1 on aggregate

Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney shoots to score against Club Brugge during their UEFA Champions League qualifying play-o� second leg at Jan Breydel Stadium, Bruges on Wednesday REUTERS

De Bruyne closer to Cityn AFP, Berlin

Kevin de Bruyne’s transfer from Wolfsburg to Manchester City is set to be completed for a new Bundesliga record of 74 million euros ($83.64m, £54m), according to German re-ports on Thursday.

German daily Bild, football magazine Kicker and local paper the Wolfsburger All-gemeine Zeitung all report the deal is set to be � nalised once De Bruyne passes a medical check in Manchester.

The transfer fee quoted, which could rise to 80m euros with bonuses, is set to smash the previous Bundesliga record when Liver-pool paid Ho� enheim 41 million for Brazil striker Roberto Firmino in July.

City have been chasing the signature of the 24-year-old De Bruyne, a Belgium interna-tional attacking mid� elder, for weeks.

Germany’s footballer of the year for 2014/15 played a key role in helping Wolfsburg win the German Cup last season as they

� nished second only to Bayern Munich in the Bundesliga after he scored 16 goals and 29 assists. l

Nolan leaves West Ham by mutual consentn Reuters

West Ham United have con� rmed that mid-� elder and former skipper Kevin Nolan has left the club by mutual consent, bringing an end to a four-year spell at the Hammers.

The 33-year-old scored 31 goals in 157 games for the club since joining from New-castle United in June 2011.

He captained West Ham to promotion via a Championship playo� � nal in his � rst season and � nished as the Hammers’ leading scorer in the 2012-13 and 2013-14 seasons.

However, Nolan has found his appearances limited under new manager Slaven Bilic and did not start any of the club’s three Premier League games this season, with mid� elder Mark Noble taking the armband instead.

“I’ve thoroughly enjoyed my time at West Ham United and will take some great memories with me. I’m now looking forward to the next challenge playing for a new club,” Nolan said. l

CL quali� cation worth over £40m for Unitedn Agencies

Manchester United’s thumping win over Club Brugge in the Champions League play-o� s could be worth over £40m by the time the season � nishes in May.

By merely negotiating the two-legged tie with Brugge, United have earned £9.92m for reaching the group stage.

A further £6.4m is on o� er, depending on performances, in the group stage, with another £3.9m to be won for advancing to the last 16. If United repeat their achievement from two seasons ago by reaching the quarter-� nal stage, they will gain a further £4.3m.

Reaching the last four would see United earn an extra £5m, with the winners of May’s San Siro showpiece earning another £10m.

United will also receive even more money from television rights, with the amount they gain dependent on how far they go in the competition. l

Rooney hat-trick � res United to Champions League, Lazio outn AFP, Paris

A Wayne Rooney hat-trick � red Manches-ter United back into the group stage of the Champions League with a 4-0 win, 7-1 on aggregate, in their play-o� second leg at Club Brugge on Wednesday as Lazio crashed 3-0 at Bayer Leverkusen, 3-1 on aggregate.

Rooney’s treble was also a timely return to form for the England striker, who had gone 10 games without a goal for United prior to Wednesday. United -- who missed out on Cham-pions League football last season -- will discover

their group opponents in Thursday’s draw.“To go through to the group stage after

being out of it last year is a great result. We look forward to the draw now tomorrow,” said Rooney.

“It was a big disappointment last year not to challenge in it. We didn’t think it would be as comfortable as it was, but it was vital we went through any way we could.

In Germany, Lazio had gone to Bayer Leverkusen hoping to defend a one-goal ad-vantage and reach the main draw for the � rst time since the 2007/08 season.

But the Italians were trailing following goals from Hakan Calhanoglu (40) and Ad-mir Mehmedi (48) and faced an uphill battle as they played the last 20 minutes with ten men when Brazilian Maurício was sent o� for a second yellow card.

Astana made history as they became the � rst Kazakh team to qualify for the main com-petition with a 1-1 draw at Cypriot side Apoel in a 2-1 aggregate victory.

The Kazakh club had taken a 1-0 lead to the Cypriot capital Nicosia for their second leg against 2012 quarter-� nalists APOEL. l

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BRIEF SCORESouth Africa283 for 7 (de Villiers 64, van Wyk 58, Milne 3-71)New Zealand221 (Latham 54, Wiese 3-58, Rabada 2-33)

South Africa win by 62 runs and win series 2-1

De Villiers stars as South Africa win series decidern AFP, Durban

AB de Villiers hit a rapid 64 which provided the momentum for South Africa to gain a series-clinching 62-run win in the third and � nal one-day international against New Zea-land on Kingsmead on Wednesday.

The win enabled South Africa to leapfrog New Zealand into third place in the world one-day rankings, behind Australia and India.

It also provided a measure of revenge for their heartbreaking defeat to the Kiwis in the World Cup semi-� nal earlier this year.

De Villiers hit his runs o� 48 balls to enable South Africa to reach 283 for seven on a pitch which o� ered some assistance to the seam bowlers throughout the match.

New Zealand were bowled out for 221 in reply. l

South Africa’s cricket team celebrates with the trophy after winning the 3rd ODI and series against New Zealand in Durban, South Africa on Wednesday AP

From Balotelli to Cuadrado, Premier League rejects � nd solace in Serie An AFP

Mario Balotelli Some “tifosi” might be licking their lips, but for some pundits AC Milan fans got the raw-est deal on Tuesday when Mario Balotelli became the latest Pre-mier League � op to re-turn home to Serie A in a quest to resurrect his career.

Of them all, Balotelli’s return to Milan on a one-year loan deal following a disastrous � rst season with Liverpool is by far the most con-troversial.

Loved and hated in equal measure, the 25-year-old continues to divide fans and mys-tify the pundits who believe there is still so much more to come from a player whose con-troversies far outweigh his true achievements in the game.

“Let’s stop talking about him, he’s never achieved anything,” former AC Milan mid-� elder Zvonimir Boban, now a respected pun-dit for Sky Sport Italia, said last season.

And not many Liverpool fans would disa-gree – after a season in which Balotelli failed to spark and, with memories still fresh after three notorious years at Manchester City, cre-ated headlines for all the wrong reasons.

He took 13 games to hit his � rst league goal for Liverpool and Balotelli was then suspended for one game and � ned £25,000

(Dh143,760) for posting an image on social media which appeared to contain anti-Semit-ic and racist references.

Now, Milan have taken a gamble that Ba-lotelli will morph into “Super Mario”.

Like many of his international peers, Ba-lotelli is keen to secure regular football ahead of next summer’s Euro 2016 tournament in France. And he must have got the chills when reading the reaction in Italy to his return.

Edin DzekoO u t - o f - f a v o u r Manchester City striker Edin Dze-ko, bought from Wolfsburg for £27m in January 2011, has signed a one-year loan deal with AS Roma, where he joined up with Chelsea-owned Mohamed Salah following the Egyptian’s loan move to the capi-

tal club from Fiorentina.Dzeko, tied to City until 2018, was partly

lured by Bosnian teammate Miralem Pjanic’s praise of Roma, and regular football.

The Bosnian has scored 72 goals in 189 games in all competitions at the Etihad Sta-dium but had a mixed season with Manuel Pellegrini’s side last year.

Stevan Jovetic City teammate Stevan Jovetic is also out on loan, at Inter Milan, having fallen out with Pellegrini when omit-ted from City’s Cham-pions League squad last season, when he started only 11 games.

Jovetic, sold by Fiorentina to City for £22m in July 2013, rescued Inter’s blushes on Sun-day with a late winner that is among the pick of the weekend’s goals.

Juan CuadradoAnother ex-Fiorentina player, Juan Cuadrado, is the latest to fail the EPL acid test.

The � eet-footed Co-lombian forward joined Chelsea for £26.8m last February – a deal in which Salah, bought by Chelsea for a reported

£11m in January 2014, went the other way.While Salah went on to sparkle for the

Florence-based club, Cuadrado’s game time at Stamford Bridge was limited. Months after Mourinho claimed: “I do believe that he’ll be amazing next season”, Cuadrado is now at Ju-ventus on a loan deal. But contrary to Balotel-li, his welcome was far warmer – the Colom-bian welcomed by hundreds of fans at Milan’s Malpensa airport on Monday evening. l

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Understanding dance with Sharmila Banerjee n Showtime Desk

Bengal Foundation was delighted to present chapter six of the monthly series “Understanding Dance with Sharmila Banerjee, Chapter 6: Folk and Tribal Dance (Part I)” on Tuesday, August 25, 2015 at the Daily Star-Bengal Arts Precinct in Kawran Bazaar.

The event was curated and presented by celebrated artist, choreographer and educator, Sharmila Banerjee. It was an evening of lectures and demonstrations complimented by audio-visual content and practical demonstrations of various forms

of folk and tribal dances from Bangladesh and its neighbour West Bengal, in India. The programme featured spirited performances of a variety of Bengali folk dances such as Pata nach, Paik nach, Mayurbhanj Chhau, Tripura, Jum nach and Raibenshe, all of which were very strongly applauded by the attending audience. Sharmila Banerjee also presented a clear and informative introduction to the history and evolution of folk and tribal dance forms in Bangladesh. Sarwar Jahan Chowdhury, senior arts programme manager of Bengal Foundation, said a few words on the occasion.

Performers included Afsana

Islam,Sudeshna Swayamprabha, Mehraj Haque Tushar, Ira Bala, Krishna Roy, Falguni Sen, Sha� qul Islam, Farhad Ahmed Shamim, Jasimuddin, Chandra Tripura, Jhilik Chakma, Sudha Chakma, Nai aye sing Tutu, Ashainu, Marma and Bipasha Chakma.

Sharmila Banerjee graduated from Visva-Bharati University at Shantiniketan, India with a Bachelor of Music degree in dance. She received training in the Kathakali and Monipuri forms at Shantiniketan. She was bestowed with the title of “Nartan Visharad” after completing Post-Graduate courses in Manipuri, danced at the Manipuri Nartanalaya in Kolkata under the renowned Manipuri teachers, Guru Bipin Singh and Srimati Kalavati Devi. Sharmila Banerjee is also trained in Bharata Natyam, Odissi and di� erent forms of folk dance. She is currently head of the dance department at Chhayanaut and is the founder/director of her own dance institution of Nritya Nandan in Dhaka. l

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n Showtime Desk

A war drama Meghmallar is set to hold its world premier at the “Discovery” section of the 40th Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), which begins on September 10. Adapted from Akhtaruzzaman Elias’ acclaimed work, the � lm is a directorial debut for Zahidur Rahim Anjan.

It depicts a survival story of a middle class family in time of the Liberation War and eschews the typical war � lm, including horrors, su� ering and upheaval.

TIFF’s Discovery section — showcasing new directors from around world — added 25 titles alongside Meghmallar, including notable feature bows: Maris Curran’s Five Nights in Maine, starring David Oyelowo (Selma), as a recently widowed man seeking out his estranged mother-in-law (Dianne Wiest); Irish � lmmaker Michael Lennox’s comic, psychological thriller A Patch of Fog, starring Stephen Graham (Al Capone in Boardwalk Empire) and Game of Thrones actor Coneth Hill; and Martha Marcy May Marlene producer Josh White’s 2015

Sundance audience-award-winning James White.

Noting on Meghmallar and its director, an extolled statement was posted at TIFF’s o� cial website, which reads, “Directed with remarkable maturity for a � rst feature, Meghmallar marks the arrival of a signi� cant new talent in South Asian cinema. Anjan blends political insight with astute human observation, and shapes his � lm with a disciplined, cinematic eye.”

The � lm casts Shahiduzzaman Selim, Aparna Ghosh, Jayanta Chattopadhyay, Zara, Aminur Rahman Mukul, Mosharraf Karim and Aditi in major roles. Winner of the National Filmmaking Grant in 2013, it is produced by Bengal Entertainment Ltd.

The 40th Toronto International Film Festival runs from September 10 to 20. l

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BD readying INDC to limit emissionsn Abu Bakar Siddique

Bangladesh is set to prepare its Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC) with the projection of cutting more than 5% of greenhouse gas emissions by 2030.

According to the draft INDC, the county will cut its greenhouse gas emission by 5% of the total emissions by 2030 under busi-ness-as-usual scenario without any condition.

And it could cut up to 14% of total emis-sions during the period, if it gets cooperation such as modern technology and � nance from the developed nations.

INDC is a document, which is supposed to be submitted to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) by October this year, just ahead of the COP21.

The concept was taken in COP 19 at War-saw with an aim to know the emission plan of

the countries under UNFCCC by 2030, so that the global leaders could come to a decision whether it would be possible to reach the two degrees Celsius limit of greenhouse gas emis-sion target by 2050.

The draft says Bangladesh considers three sectors – power, transport and industries – as the major sources of carbon emission.

The information came from the National Consultation on INDC of Bangladesh held at Cirdap Conference Centre in Dhaka yesterday organised by the Ministry of Environment and Forest.

As per the business-as-usual scenario in Bangladesh, greenhouse gas emissions are likely to increase by 118% by 2030 compared to the 2015 level.

Bangladesh accounts for only 0.35% of the global emissions but is highly vulnerable to climate change.

At the same time, there are plans to achieve the middle income status by 2021 which re-quires increased emission but Bangladesh also intends to play its part in an ambitious global climate deal.

In addition, Bangladesh will not cross the av-erage greenhouse gas emission level of the de-veloping countries, said Dr Kamal Uddin, secre-tary of the Ministry of Environment and Forest, yesterday while addressing the consultation.

With an aim to reach its goal to ensure electricity for all, Bangladesh has taken sev-eral initiatives such as setting up a number of coal-� red power plants including the Rampal and Matarbari projects.

However, these mega power projects would not result in more emissions as all of these will be run with super critical technologies, said energy expert Prof Ijaz Hossain, who is also involved with the INDC preparation.

According to the 5th Assessment report of the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Bangladesh is identi� ed as being at speci� c risk due to its exposure to sea-level rise and extreme events like salinity intrusion, drought, erratic rainfall and tidal surge which will hamper the country’s food as well as livelihood security.

A World Bank study says Bangladesh needs $170m annually to adapt to the changing pat-tern of global climate from 2010 to 2050.

According to the ministry o� cials, the draft INDC will be � nalised in the next con-sultation meeting and later submitted to the UNFCCC in October.

Apart from mitigation plans, the INDC will also incorporate the country’s current adap-tation scenario as well as future adaptation plans, and required means of implementation of those plans. l

US-based � rm � nds Bangladesh ‘least emotional’ countryn Tribune Desk

Bangladesh has been termed the country with “least emotional” people on a global ranking recently published by a US-based research and consulting company.

An article published by the Time Magazine yesterday said although Eastern Europe pre-dominantly has the “least emotional” coun-tries, Bangladesh has marked the lowest score of 37% on the Gallup survey which measured experience of emotions across 148 countries in 2014.

Gallup is a data-driven � rm that provides news service based on US and world polls, dai-ly news tracking and public opinion research.

The results of the survey are based on telephone and face-to-face interviews with approximately 1,000 adults, aged 15 and old-er. In these interviews, Gallup asked people whether they experienced � ve positive and negative emotions the previous day.

The positive emotions were feeling well-rested, being treated with respect, en-joyment, learning or doing something inter-esting, and smiling and laughing a lot. The negative ones were anger, stress, sadness, physical pain and worry.

The least – and most – emotional country was then measured with the average number of “yes” responses to these questions, where Bangladesh scored the lowest at 37%.

Countries from Latin America scored high-est on this index, with Bolivia and El Salvador as “most emotional” country at 59%, and the region leading the index overall.

Questions for measuring positive and neg-ative emotions make the Positive Experience and Negative Experience Indexes respective-ly, and the two are not inversely related. l

Another legal notice issued on section 57n Tribune Report

Eleven citizens, including university teachers and activists, sent a legal notice to the govern-ment yesterday requesting it to scrap section 57 of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Act since it contradicts the country’s constitution.

Supreme Court lawyer Jyotirmoy Barua served the notice to the secretaries of law, ICT and home ministries by post on behalf of the citizens.

The notice says that legal procedures will be initiated if the respondents do not reply within

24 hours to inform what steps have been taken to scrap the provision, the lawyer said.

The citizens who signed the notice are Dha-ka University history teacher Ahmed Kamal, journalism department’s Gitiara Nasreen and Fahmidul Haq, international relations teachers Akmal Hossain and Tanjim Uddin Khan, social science’s Samina Lutfa, Jahangirnagar Univer-sity economics teacher Anu Muhammad, writ-er Rakhal Raha, Biplobi Workers’ Party General Secretary Saiful Haque, cultural activist Arup Rahee and Dhaka resident Abdus Salam.

The notice says that section 57 of the ICT Act contradicts article 39 of the constitution,

which ensures freedom of speech.On Wednesday, a writ petition was � led

and a legal notice served asking the govern-ment to scrap the controversial provision amid severe criticisms regarding its alleged abuse by the law enforcement agencies.

The ICT Act was passed in 2006 and amend-ed twice – in 2009 and 2013. In the latest amendment, o� ences under section 57 were made non-bailable and the maximum punish-ment was extended to 14 years’ imprisonment.

O� enders can be punished by minimum seven years imprisonment and the � ne can be as high as Tk1 crore under the Act. l

Kamal Mia, who lost one of his legs in an accident, gets a custom-made prosthetic limb � tted to his knee at the capital’s Agargaon yesterday. While readymade prosthetics often do not match the needs of the amputees, shops such as this one provide a crucial service by manufacturing prosthetics that are personalised for their clients MAHMUD HOSSAIN OPU

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