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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2016 | Kartik 23, 1423, Safar 6, 1438 | Regd No DA 6238, Vol 4, No 190 | www.dhakatribune.com | 32 pages | Price: Tk10 

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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2016 

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Millennials hold the key 

• Abu Sayeed Asiful Islam 

Millennials are about to decide 

America’s future. Who are they and 

why is winning them over such a 

challenging task for both Donald Trump 

and Hilary Clinton? 

The Millennial generation refers to 

the age cohort born between 1979 and 

1997, pollster John Zogby explained to 

the Dhaka Tribune in Washington, DC. 

Millennials constitute 31% of 

the electorate and are the largest 

independent voting bloc. Translation: 

they represent a vast slice of the 

electoral pie and aren’t affiliated with 

the major parties in America’s twoparty 

duopoly. 

In April this year, Millennials 

surpassed Baby Boomers (those born 

between 1946 and 1964) as America’s 

largest generation, according to the 

Pew Research Centre. 

In battleground states like 

Coloroado that have recently come 

back into play, millennials matter. 

But as a vote pool they aren’t just 

big and desirable, they’re complicated. 

Millennials are, for instance, 

financially conservative but socially 

progressive, making the traditional 

Democratic (financially and socially 

liberal) and Republican (financially and 

socially conservative) positions equally 

objectionable. 

Their peculiar mix of sensibilities 

make both Trump and Clinton equally 

unpalatable, the Millennial Action 

Project’s Steven Olikara explained. 

Having grown up in the shadow of 

the Iraq and Afghan Wars, Millennials 

are wary of foreign intervention, 

making Trump’s tough talk a turn off. 

But they also have a robust distrust of 

government, so Clinton’s emailgate 

Voters cast their ballots during early voting in Chicago, Illinois, US, October 14 

fiasco could prove to be disastrous. 

Indeed, 80% of Millennials want 

the political class to go – which is 

what Trump claims to offer – meaning 

Clinton’s decades of public service 

don’t serve her cause with them. 

On the other hand, Trump’s 

blustering put downs of women and 

minorities are offensive to a generation 

that has taken the demographic lead 

largely due to immigration and that 

boasts the largest number of studyabroads 

in US history. 

Forty-one percent of Millennials 

do identify as Democrat. But their 

candidate of choice was Socialist Bernie 

Sanders. His loss to Hilary Clinton in 

the Democratic primaries left already 

disaffected Millennials disillusioned and 

increasingly disinterested. 

Far fewer identify as Republican but 

a large number remain unaffiliated to 

either major party. That is where, as in 

all recent US presidential contests, the 

action will be. 

If enough undecided Millennials 

vote for third party candidates such as 

Libertarian Gary Johnson, the Green 

Party’s Jill Stein or Utah anti-Trump 

Republican-backed independent Evan 

McMullin, it could tip the polls. 

Indeed, McMullin’s gamble is to 

block both major party candidates from 

winning the necessary 270 electoral 

college votes needed to bag the White 

House by winning Utah’s six votes. 

That would send the tiebreaker poll to 

the House of Representatives. But that 

has not happened in 192 years. 

Moreover, netting Utah’s electoral 

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votes offers no guarantee of blocking 

Clinton or Trump from winning 270 

votes. McMullin’s own chances are 

slim: a third-party candidate hasn’t 

won electoral votes since 1968. 

The problem for Clinton and Trump, 

aside from being generally unattractive 

candidates because of the issues 

described above, is that this generation of 

digital natives can be hard to reach out to. 

Hilary Clinton’s now infamous 

Tweet calling on Millennials to describe 

their feelings about student debt in 

three emojis or less came across to 

Millennials as pandering and backfired, 

according to Olikara. 

For a generation that “comes to civics 

via issues and causes,” to use Olikara’s 

description, disingenuous overtures 

about key issues of concern – student 

debt, climate change, jobs, campaign 

finance reform and immigration reform – 

simply don’t work. 

After all, debt burdens in the 

hundreds of thousands of dollars 

will mean that home and even 

car ownership will be delayed for 

Millennials by years and even decades 

compared to their parents. 

Issue-based campaign ads don’t 

cut it either. Millennials’ distrust of 

traditional media – most do not watch 

television – and of the political system 

has meant that advertising and the 

ratings game are particularly disliked. 

The fact that inflammatory rhetoric 

has had traditional media outlets 

cashing in on the Trump Bump – record 

viewership translating into record 

profits – is just the kind of thing that 

convinces Millennials that the system is 

irreparably broken, according to Olikara. 

Neither big party candidate has 

much chance of looking desirable, 

apart from coming across as the lesser 

of two evils. As things stand, Caucasian 

millennials are evenly split between 

Clinton and Trump; non-Caucasians 

favour Clinton. 

Both Clinton and Trump must 

convince infamously short attentionspanned 

Millennials that they are ready 

to steer the 21st century economy – 

which for that generation has meant 

a debt-ridden gig economy – towards 

something approaching opportunity. 

They must convince them to 

actually cast their votes – because only 

45% of Millennials compared with 

60% generally turn out. 

They must convey this in the 

politician’s equivalent of 140 characters 

or less – without offending anyone. 

And they must do this in the next 

48 hours. • 

Does vote rigging take place in America? 

• Abu Sayeed Asiful Islam 

Attempts at vote rigging in the 

United States can be as brazen as in 

any Third World despotism worth 

its salt. 

If you have doubts, ask Donald 

Trump. He’ll tell you the elections 

are rigged (especially if he loses), 

but his Republican party has more 

often implicated in voter suppression 

than its rival. 

Campus political engagement 

specialists who spoke to the Dhaka 

Tribune in Washington DC said voter 

suppression was a major problem 

that tended to disadvantage 

Democrat voters. 

“The right to vote is under attack 

each and every day,” the Dhaka Tribune 

was told in a presentation given 

by Catherine Fish of ALL IN Campus 

Democracy Challenge, Emily Wirzba 

of the Friends Committee on National 

Legislation, political consultant 

Gabi Porter, and a representative 

of the New Leaders Council. 

One example of voter manipulation 

they cited was the use of flyers 

circulated in the Latino community 

to falsely claim the date of the 

elections had been changed. 

They said high conviction rate s 

of black men, when taken together 

with the fact that convicted felons 

lose their right to vote, meant the 

disenfranchisement of a significant 

community of voters. 

Technical tactics included voter 

caging, in which a partisan organisation 

sends registered mail to addresses 

of registered voters identified 

as unfriendly to their candidate. 

Returned mail is used to challenge 

the right to vote of the intended recipients 

on the grounds that if the 

voters were unreachable at the address 

listed on their voter registration, 

their registration is fraudulent. 

Roll purging, often carried out 

in a secretive manner, can be manipulated 

to affect the voter list 

in such a way that even when it 

is challenged, the remedy comes 

after the elections – and therefore 

too late. 

In North Carolina, the purging 

of black Democrats from voter rolls 

is causing the Clinton campaign 

concern. President Obama recently 

drew attention to a list of 138 

purged voters; 92 were black and 

registered Democrats. 

A New York Times article published 

on November 4 opened with 

the line: “American elections have 

always been at least a little dirty.” 

As proof of this, the article offered 

a litany of misdeeds from 

around the country aimed at manipulating 

the 2016 presidential 

elections. 

Miami witnessed mailings appearing 

to support Democrats, but 

containing recommendations for 

Republican candidates and ballot 

issues. 

The digital age’s answer to fake 

flyers – fake campaign ads on the 

internet claiming it was possible to 

Tweet votes in – drew enthusiastic 

responses from gullible voters who 

thought they’d been spared the 

hassle of standing in queue. 

More seriously, a California Republican 

campaign office and a 

Mississippi black church were firebombed 

this election season. The 

words “Vote Trump” were painted 

on the wall of the gutted church. 

The campus engagement specialists 

explained that subtle limits, 

like a Texas law that doesn’t allow 

college identification cards but 

does allow gun licenses as proof of 

identification, causes student voters 

to be turned away at the booth. 

Other impediments to mobile 

younger people casting their votes 

include the requirement for people 

moving across state lines to re-register 

as voters. 

These tactics may not affect 

a majority of the electorate, but 

could the tip the results of an election 

fought at the margins. 

Some 540,000 elected officials 

serve the American people in various 

capacities at various levels of 

government. The average citizen 

is represented by no less than 40 

elected officials, Brigade Media’s 

Jessica Dahl, a civic technology app 

maker, explained. 

Systematic attempts to rig votes 

in some constituencies, while they 

do not discredit the entire process, 

nevertheless tarnish the image of 

the United States as a beacon of democracy 

to the world. •

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Polls might be crazy, but numbers aren’t 

• Chris Jackson and 

Alanna Spurlock 

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It looks like this absurd and lurid 

presidential election will remain 

unpredictable until the end. Between 

the FBI’s on-again, off-again 

investigations of Democratic candidate 

Hillary Clinton’s private email 

server, the “you can do anything” 

comments about women from Republican 

rival Donald Trump — not 

to mention the unexpected injection 

of Anthony Weiner’s sexting 

habits — it’s hardly surprising that 

the polls seem to show wild swings 

in voters’ views. 

Our experience as pollsters, 

though, shows this isn’t so. It’s true 

that daily tracking surveys reflect 

dizzying twists and turns in the 

support for Trump and Clinton. If 

you compare the single daily tracking 

poll from Reuters/Ipsos with 

the Huffington Post/Pollster poll 

aggregator, you’ll see both show 

what looks like lots of movement 

in support for both candidates. 

Over five-day averages measured 

from July to October, the number 

of Trump backers rises from a little 

over 30 percent to around 40 percent; 

Clinton’s support fluctuates 

between 40 percent to almost 50. 

However, these momentary 

swings disappear when we instead 

look at monthly averages. The larger 

slices of time show that the rapid 

swings in voters’ views always return 

to a rough equilibrium. In fact, 

there has not been any real change 

in Trump’s and Clinton’s relative 

position over the past three months. 

In July, Clinton had a 4 percentage 

point lead over Trump; in October, 

she still had a 4 percentage point 

lead. The most recent polls show 

that her lead may have narrowed 

since FBI director James Comey 

announced last Friday that the FBI 

is investigating more emails as part 

of a probe into Clinton’s use of a private 

server, but our experience suggests 

that this gap may widen again. 

Why has support for the candidates 

been so stable? The reason 

is that most Americans already 

know – and have known for a 

while — who they support. Despite 

this election’s characterization as 

one shaped by “swing-ier voters,” 

As scandals pop up, people with strong party 

affiliation are less likely to respond to a poll 

the race has pretty much been on 

cruise control for most Americans. 

At the start of the year, an overwhelming 

99 percent of Americans 

had heard of Clinton, and 98 percent 

of Trump. Only 24 percent of 

Americans expressed neutral opinions 

on the Democratic candidate, 

and 23 percent on the Republican. 

Voters have been exposed to Clinton 

and Trump, in one form or another, 

for more than 30 years; they 

knew what they thought of them. 

However, these momentary 

swings disappear when we instead 

look at monthly averages. The larger 

slices of time show that the rapid 

swings in voters’ views always return 

to a rough equilibrium. In fact, 

there has not been any real change 

in Trump’s and Clinton’s relative 

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position over the past three months. 

In July, Clinton had a 4 percentage 

point lead over Trump; in October, 

she still had a 4 percentage point 

lead. The most recent polls show 

that her lead may have narrowed 

since FBI director James Comey 

announced last Friday that the FBI 

is investigating more emails as part 

of a probe into Clinton’s use of a private 

server, but our experience suggests 

that this gap may widen again. 

What the daily polls actually 

show is the waxing and waning of 

enthusiasm among supporters of 

the rival presidential candidates. 

They’re doing this in two ways. 

First, through use of “likely voter” 

filters. Most likely-voter filters, 

including our Reuters/Ipsos one, 

include a measure of voter enthusiasm 

(along with things like registration 

and past behavior) as a 

factor in determining whether the 

respondent will turn out to vote on 

November 8. As their enthusiasm 

increases or decreases, respondents 

are more or less likely to be classified 

as a likely voter and therefore 

reported in our “horserace” polling. 

When events excite or depress the 

base, they show in our polling. Our 

five-day rolling average of enthusiasm 

to vote among Clinton and 

Trump supporters since July shows 

that shifts in likely turnout tend to 

correlate with shifts in the polls. 

The second way polls show 

shifts in enthusiasm is (potentially) 

through “non-response bias.” 

Non-response bias is the idea 

that groups of people may be so 

discouraged by the events of the 

campaign that they do not answer 

when contacted by pollsters. We 

say potentially because this is hard 

to measure directly -- we cannot 

survey the people unwilling to be 

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surveyed. But research has shown 

that this could have a significant 

impact on temporary poll shifts. 

However, we can tease out some 

of this impact by observing the stated 

party preferences of our poll respondents 

over time.The Reuters/ 

Ipsos poll does not normally sample, 

quota or weight the partisan identification 

of its respondents. Because 

party identification is subjective 

-- a personal stated allegiance rather 

than an objective demographic 

-- there are no commonly accepted 

benchmarks for the “right” party 

composition of the electorate. That 

means we ask people how they identify, 

and they answer as they answer. 

However, the partisan composition 

of our poll -- and most other polls 

-- can fluctuate substantially over 

time. Since July, the Reuters/Ipsos 

polls show that as scandals pop up, 

people with strong party affiliation 

are less likely to respond to a poll. 

This is far from a “flat” line, and 

it underlines the extent to which 

these identities are variable, based 

on political dynamics and events. 

We need to keep all this in perspective 

in the final week of the 

campaign. Observers need to distinguish 

between whether voters 

are switching candidates or simply 

becoming more excited about their 

candidate of choice. For the candidates 

themselves, it means the 

sprint to the finish is about keeping 

their supporters fired up while demoralizing 

the other side’s base. • 

Chris Jackson is a vice president at Ipsos 

and runs the Reuters/Ipsos poll. Alanna 

Spurlock is a research analyst at Ipsos.

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SCHEDULE AT A GLANCE 

NOVEMBER 07-14 

Technical meetings 

NOVEMBER 15-18 

High level segment meetings 

VENUE 

Bab Ighli, Marrakech, Morocco 

Major agenda 

Adaptation 

Finance 

Transparency 

Technology transfer 

Mitigation 

Capacity building and 

Loss and damage 

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Principal gas responsible 

for global warming 

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the atmosphere, parts per million) 

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10 2015 

92 parties 

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to the 20th century average 

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2015 

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Surface in September, 

in millions of km2 

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*compared to the average, 1981-2010 

Keep warming “well below 

2 degrees Celsius.” 

Continue all efforts to limit 

the rise in temperatures 

to 1.5 degrees Celsius 

Aim for greenhouse gas 

emissions to peak “as soon 

as possible.” No binding 

objective set out by country 

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compared to 1993 

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Rich countries must provide 

100 billion dollars from 2020, 

as a “floor.” Amount to 

be updated by 2025 

First world report in 2023 

Reviews every 5 years, 

the first in 2025 

BNP not allowed 

to hold Nov 7 rally 

fearing anarchy 

• Mohammad Abu Bakar 

Siddique 

Awami League Publicity Secretary 

Hasan Mahmood claimed that BNP 

was not given the permission to 

hold a rally on Novemner 7 fearing 

possible anarchy. 

“The law enforcers and intelligence 

agencies scrutinised the 

possible threats ahead of any programme,” 

said the AL leader in a 

press conference at party’s Dhanmondi 

office yesterday afternoon. 

He said: “BNP can create unrest 

with hired goons in the name of observing 

November 7. Perhaps that’s 

why they were not allowed to hold 

the programme.” 

The AL senior leader claimed 

that the government is not afraid 

of BNP but people fear BNP as 

they burn people alive with petrol 

bombs. 

“No revolution took place on 

November 7 in 1975,” he added. • 

BNP to hold rally Nov 8 ‘at any cost’ 

• Manik Miazee 

BNP is taking all necessary preparations 

to hold its rally on November 

8 to mark ‘National Revolution and 

Solidarity Day’ of November 7 in 

front of the party’s Central Office at 

Naya Paltan. The Dhaka Metropolitan 

Police (DMP) is, however, yet to 

give permission for this rally. 

“Our party and all its associate 

bodies are taking full preparation 

for a peaceful rally in front of our 

Central Office,” BNP Senior Joint 

Secretary General Ruhul Kabir Rizvi 

said at a press briefing in Naya 

Paltan office yesterday. 

“The government has been unfair 

regarding our party’s scheduled rally 

on November 8”, Rizvi claimed. 

‘Cyber cafes must have CCTV cams’ 

• Ishtiaq Husain 

All cyber cafes must install CCTV 

cameras so that the government 

can closely monitor their activities, 

said State Minister of Posts and 

Telecommunication Tarana Halim 

yesterday. 

Speaking at an event in the 

GPO Headquarters in Dhaka, she 

said the government was going to 

make a decision over the matter 

to stop “offensive” content 

which are being published from cyber 

cafes. 

The event was arranged to mark 

World Posts Day. 

The state minister said they 

would sit with Bangladesh Telecommunication 

Regulatory 

Commission (BTRC) to make 

a decision about setting CCTV 

cameras. 

She said if any cyber cafe was 

found uploading any offensive 

content, law enforcing agencies 

would immediately seize the 

equipments. 

She also said the government 

would inform the necessities 

to the regulator as well as the 

BTRC, and they would inform all 

the cyber cafes. 

Different kinds of people go 

to cyber cafes to use internet 

and they upload various content, 

which requires supervision, 

Tarana said. 

With CCTV cameras, law enforcing 

agencies will be able to 

identify the individuals who are 

involved with uploading offensive 

content, she added. 

The state minister said after installing 

CCTV cameras, cyber cafe 

owners throughout the nation 

would be more conscious. 

“While a certain group has failed 

to create anarchy by using militants, 

now they are again trying to 

provoke unlawful activities using 

social media. We will not allow 

them to continue such activities as 

the government and law enforcing 

agencies are very much alert,” said 

Tarana. 

Zulfiquer Haider, president of 

Cyber Cafe Owners Association of 

Bangladesh, said a total 250 cyber 

cafes were currently operating 

their business with licence, while 

over 200 cyber cafes do not have 

any licence. • 

“We sought permission for this 

rally in Suhrawardy Udyan ground, 

but the government did not permit 

it. We don’t know why the permission 

was not given to us. We then 

sought permission to hold the rally 

in front of our Central Office at 

Naya Paltan, but we are yet to receive 

permission,” he said. 

Police is giving wrong information 

about the issue, he then added. 

The party has been observing 

National Revolution and Solidarity 

Day through a rally for the past 40 

years, but this is the first time the 

government has not given permission 

out of vengeance, said Rizvi. 

Yesterday, showing a copy of the 

letter for permission he said: “Yesterday 

we submitted our request to 

hold the rally in front of our party 

office. But the police claimed they 

did not receive the letter.” 

“It is very irresponsible the police, 

and also proves their biases by refusing 

to give us permission,” he said. 

Rizvi also claimed the government 

is using the police force to arrest 

the party members in masses 

without any reason to create panic 

amongst the general public and 

supporters and to knock down the 

party’s efforts regarding the event. 

On Saturday afternoon, police 

arrested five BNP leaders including 

Taiful Islam Tipu, Assistant office 

Secretary of BNP Central Office. 

Earlier Rizvi had said that BNP is 

committed to hold its planned rally 

on November 8 “at any cost”. • 

RU TEACHER REZAUL MURDER 

Charge sheet submitted 

• Dulal Abdullah 

Police yesterday submitted the 

charge sheet in Rajshahi University 

English department teacher Rezaul 

murder accusing eight people, six 

months after the murder. 

Investigative officer of the case 

Rezaus Sadik submitted the charge 

sheet, said Rajshahi Metropolitan 

Police spokesperson and Senior Assistant 

Commissioner Iftekhar Alam. 

He said a number of eight people 

have been accused in the case; three 

of them are dead. They are Khairul 

Islam Badal, Nazrul Islam and Usman. 

Number one accused Shariful 

Islam is still a fugitive. Rest of the 

accused– Ripon, Abdus Sattar, Rahmatullah 

and Maskawath alias Abdullah 

– are in jail now. All of them 

have given deposition under Section 

164. 

“The charge sheet has been submitted 

to Rajshahi Metropolitan 

Magistrate’s Court. They will select 

which court the case would be referred 

to,” he also said. 

Contacted, Rajshahi DB Police 

Inspector and IO of the case Rezaus 

Sadik said, “The case is a very complex 

one. That’s why the investigation 

took so much time.” 

Rezaul was brutally hacked to 

death on April 23, near his own residence 

at Shalbagan area in Rajshahi 

city. His son Riasat filed a murder 

case with Boalia police station. •

Bangladesh’s focus 

adaptation financing 

Environment and Forest Secretary Kamal Uddin Ahmed, who is the 

alternative lead of the Bangladesh delegation at the conference of parties 

(COP22) in Marrakech, Morocco, speaks to DhakaTribune’s Abu 

Siddique on the country’s expectations on implementing Paris Agreement 

What will Bangladesh’s proposals 

be in this year’s COP to implement 

the Paris Agreement? 

There are two major issues in the 

discussion - mitigation and adaptation. 

But our interest is in adaptation 

as we are the one of most 

vulnerable nations, and also emit a 

negligible amount of carbon-di-oxide 

to the atmosphere. We will try 

to address the loss and damage of 

our country as well as the people 

due to the adverse impacts of climate 

change. Our target will be to 

set a mechanism so that we can reduce 

our risk. 

But Article 52 of the decision 

chapter under the Paris 

Agreement says that the 

developed countries will not take 

any responsibility and liability 

of already affected people. Then 

how you will talk about the loss 

and damage issue? Are there any 

options to discuss the issue, to get 

the compensation? 

Yes, still there is some space to talk 

on the issue. Loss and damage issue 

is now being discussed under 

the Warsaw International Mechanism. 

Under that mechanism, an 

executive committee is working to 

prepare a 2-year and a 5-year interim 

plan on how to set up the compensation 

mechanism. 

There is no clear road map on 

climate financing in the Paris 

Agreement. Do you have any 

proposal? 

I do not think that there are no directions. 

There are some. For example, 

the Paris Agreement says 

that the finance will go towards 

mitigation and adaptation with a 

50-50 balance. 

But, according to article 9 (4) of 

the Paris Agreement, the balance 

of financing is not obligatory 

rather voluntary. 

Actually, this sort of agreement is 

always based on mutual understanding. 

You may call this a gentlemen’s 

agreement, which does not 

need to be legally binding. When 

a country ratifies an international 

agreement, it makes an obligation 

to itself to maintain that agreement. 

If you look at the Kyoto protocol, 

the countries adopted that but finally 

some of them refrained from 

signing and ratifying the protocol 

which ultimately led to a failure. 

In case of the Paris Agreement, 

this has not happened. It already 

came into force on October 5. 

Regarding loss and damage, we are 

hearing of insurance mechanisms. 

What is Bangladesh thinking about 

that? 

If the insurance mechanism ultimately 

helps us, we will take it. The 

issue is still in preparation stage 

and we are discussing it and trying 

to learning about it. 

Bangladesh is yet to have direct 

access to the Green Climate Fund. 

Yes. Not only Bangladesh, none of 

the countries which are trying to 

get funds has direct access into the 

GCF. However, we have a project 

worth US$80 million through a German 

Bank KFW. If we want to get 

resources from GCF, we need a national 

implementing agency which 

we do not have. But we are trying 

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to get direct access. That is why we 

have already designated six organisations 

to make them able to get 

direct access from the fund. 

To get direct access to GCF, 

the fund authority introduces 

a comprehensive mechanism 

including physical capacity and 

fiduciary management policies. 

What Bangladesh is doing to meet 

the conditions of the GCF? 

We are trying to enhance our capacity 

and management skills to meet 

their conditions so that we can get 

direct access from the fund through 

our own implementing agency. 

At the same time, Bangladesh 

is trying to get loans to take 

adaptation measures. The recent 

declaration of US$2 billion loan as 

climate financing in Bangladesh 

by the World Bank’s visiting 

boss creates a confusion. Is the 

government backtracking from 

demanding climate compensation? 

No, the loan from World Bank was 

not part of our plan. It was somehow 

placed to them or they have 

given that in their own interest. We 

(the Environment Ministry) did not 

approach them. 

Can you give me a summary of 

your proposal which you are going 

to place in this year’s COP? 

Firstly, we will emphasise on the financing 

so that we can get resources 

as early as possible to implement 

our projects to reduce the risk of 

global warming. 

As we are not liable to carbon-emission, 

we will not focus 

on mitigation. And in the case of 

adaptation, our financing has to be 

on grant basis. We will not take any 

loans. 

In addition, we will try to 

strengthen the Warsaw International 

Mechanism to get output for 

loss and damage. • 

Paris deal execution 

planning starts 

• Saleemul Huq from Marrakech 

The Paris Agreement to tackle climate 

change which was achieved 

at the 21st Conference of Parties in 

Paris, France last December has 

been ratified by well over fifty-five 

countries accounting for over 55% 

of global emissions (the two thresholds 

that need to be achieved for 

the agreement to go into force as 

international law). It thus went into 

force on 4th November less than a 

year after it was agreed in Paris. This 

is record speed for an international 

agreement (in contrast the previous 

Kyoto Protocol took five years to 

come into force). This shows the political 

momentum from Paris is still 

very much alive and hopefully will 

galvanise action to implement Paris 

Agreement at COP22 starting in Marrakech, 

Morocco on 7th November. 

Unlike the previous Kyoto Protocol, 

the Paris Agreement is a 

universal agreement in which all 

countries, both rich as well as poor, 

have promised to take actions to 

both reduce emissions by mitigation 

as well as adapt to the adverse 

impacts of climate change which 

are already happening . This means 

that reaching the long-term temperature 

goal of 1.5 Degrees which 

was the major achievement of the 

vulnerable countries in Paris, is 

now the responsibility of each and 

every country to set itself the most 

ambitious greenhouse gas emission 

reduction targets. 

Unfortunately, the current level 

of country commitments when 

added all up will take us to well 

above 2 Degrees so everyone will 

have to do more if we want to go 

down to 1.5 Degrees. 

Thus COP22 will be successful if 

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all countries agree to revisit their 

own emission reduction targets by 

2018 when next review will take 

place. 

Another important decision to 

be taken in Marrakech will be on 

Loss and Damage which is also an 

issue of concern to the vulnerable 

developing countries such as Bangladesh. 

At COP19 in 2013 in Warsaw, 

Poland an agreement was reached 

to set up the Warsaw International 

Mechanism on Loss and Damage 

with an Executive Committee of 

twenty members. Bangladesh was 

selected to be one of the ten from 

developing countries. The committee 

has been meeting since then 

and will present their report and 

recommendations to COP22. This 

topic is a highly politically sensitive 

one and it is expected that there 

will be heated debate around it, but 

it is to be hoped that a final decision 

will be reached that everyone can 

agree on by the end of the COP. 

Finally, the issue of finance is a 

perennial sticking point at every 

COP and this one is no exception. 

For the vulnerable countries, like 

Bangladesh, the issue is about 

delivering the promised funding 

from the developed countries to 

the most vulnerable developing 

countries to help them adapt to the 

adverse impacts of climate change 

which they are already facing. This 

issue does not require a new decision 

in COP22 but rather the developed 

Countries need to agree 

on ensuring that money that has 

been promised in previous COPs is 

actually delivered and also that it 

reaches the most vulnerable. At the 

moment the funds are flowing at a 

trickle and this needs to be speeded 

up considerably. • 

TEMPERATURE FORECAST FOR TODAY 

MODERATE RAIN 

OR LIGHT 

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7 

Dhaka 28 23 Chittagong 29 25 Rajshahi 30 19 Rangpur 29 19 Khulna 29 18 Barisal 28 22 Sylhet 29 21 

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TODAY 

TOMORROW 

SUN SETS 5:16PM 

SUN RISES 6:09AM 

YESTERDAY’S HIGH AND LOW 

32.0ºC 

16.7ºC 

Cox’s Bazar 

Tetulia 

Source: Accuweather/UNB 

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TIMES 

Cox’s Bazar 30 24 

Fajr: 5:25am | Zohr: 1:15pm 

Asr: 4:15pm | Magrib: 5:35pm 

Esha: 7:45pm 

Source: Islamic Foundation

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DT 

News 

Erosion renders 4,000 people homeless 

• Tribune Desk 

Thousands of people in Gopalganj 

and Kurigram districts have become 

homeless due to erosion. 

In Gopalganj 

Erosion by Madhumati has taken 

serious turn at different points of 

Gopalganj Sadar causing immense 

sufferings to the people living beside 

the river due lack of maintenance, 

reports Manoj Kumar Saha, 

our correspondent. 

The erosion caused by the river 

has been continuing for 25 years in 

Dubsi, Charghaga, Ichhakhali and 

Dhalaikhali areas. 

People of the areas alleged that 

thousands acres of land, homesteads, 

schools, colleges, madrasas, 

mosques and temples went 

under the bed of the river and 

3,000 people already have become 

landless due to the erosion. 

They also alleged that they oraganised 

several programmes demanding 

to save the areas from the 

clutches of the erosion but the authorities 

did not give any heed. 

Power poles, croplands and a lot 

of homesteads are now facing newly 

threat of erosion. 

Locals demanded to the authority 

to take steps immediately. 

Gazi Rafiqul of Dubsi area said: 

Erosion of the Madhumati River threatens different parts of Gopalganj Sadar upazila with destruction. The photo was taken in Dubsi area yesterday 

“We had lost already ten villages 

in the river bed. If the situation is 

going on, the total area will be lost 

in future.” 

He urged the Prime Minister to 

take steps for saving the area. 

The people of Charghaga, Ichhakhali 

and Dhalaikhali echoed the 

words of Rafiqul. 

M Suparul Alam, chairman of 

Jalalabad uion council in Sadar 

upazila said the people of Dubsi 

had been most sufferer due to the 

erosion of 25 years. 

He said he had informed the 

matter to local MP Sheikh Fazlul 

Karim Selim and the authorities of 

the Water Development Board. 

Meanwhile, Executive Engineer 

Moinuddin of the WDB said he had 

visited the areas recently and sent a 

report to the ministry of the WDB. 

In Kurigam 

At least 200 families at Mogholpasa 

union in Sadar upazila have 

become homeless due to erosion 

caused by the Dharla River over the 

last week, reports Ariful Islam, our 

correspondent. 

Locals said erosion by the river 

had continued to devour homesteads, 

business establishments 

and crop lands. 

Besides, the only one road connecting 

the union with the district 

headquarters is at risk and may go 

into the gorge of the river. 

Abul Kabiraj, a victim, said, “I 

have lost everything as the river 

had devoured everything in the 

sudden erosion. I just managed to 

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save the tin-roof of my house and 

took refuge at the road side”. 

Dudu Mia, another victim, said, 

“I have managed to remove my 

houses but I have been starving 

with my family for the last four 

days. The local administration did 

not provide us with any money or 

food.” 

Mokhlesur Rahman, deputy-divisional 

engineer of Water Development 

Board said initiative had 

been taken to stop the river erosion. 

• 

Sand lifting from Hurasagor goes unabated 

• Aminul Islam Rana, Sirajganj 

A section of influential people and relatives of 

ruling party Awami League leaders, have been 

lifting sand illegally from the Hurasagor River in 

Sirajganj district under the nose of local administration 

causing risk to the river bank, nearby 

cultivable lands and establishments. 

Locals wishing anonymity said Belkuchi 

Upazila Chairman Mohammad Ali Akand and 

Bablu Biswas, a relative of ex-minister Abdul 

Latif Biswas, are lifting sand from Hurasagor 

River illegally and selling them to locals under 

the nose of local administration. District Fisheries 

department and upazila river preservation 

committee could not take any actions against 

them as they are so powerful. Locals 

alleged that the gang lifting 

sand from the river by bribing the 

upazila nirbahi officer. 

Due to illegal sand lifting hundreds 

of houses, schools, mosques 

and markets are at risk in several 

upazilas in the district, said several 

sources. 

Mohammad Saiful Islam, uno 

of Belkuchi upazila, said: “There 

is no legal sand quarry in Belkuchi. 

We finished dredging in Hurasagor 

River on June 2014 but local influential 

still continuing sand lifting 

illegally from the river.” 

Saiful also the president of river 

preservation committee, said: 

“Due to sand lifting flow of water 

in the river is changing courses, 

and locals are becoming subject to 

multifarious losses.” 

He alleged that Belkuchi upazila 

chairman Mohammad Ali Akand 

and Bablu Biswas, a relative of 

an ex-minister along with others 

influential controlling the illegal 

sand lifting so administration failing 

to take actions against them. 

“But recently being informed by locals we 

seized a ‘bangla dredger’, pipes and other materials,” 

said the uno. 

When contacted, Sadar upazila UNO Brainjon 

Chambugong, said: “We conduct drives against 

the sand lifters frequently and we will take actions 

against this illegal sand lifter gang.” 

Apart lifting sand from Hurasagor, this gang 

also lifting sand from Meghulla point of Jamuna 

River, which triggering erosion. 

During his visit our Sirajganj correspondent 

has found that several people were lifting sand 

from Maijhail, Someshpur, Khidromatia, Jognala, 

Baniagati and other areas of Hurasagor River 

by using bangla dredgers. 

In this time, few workers told this reporter 

that they are working for Akand chairman and 

Bablu. 

Bablu Biswas, who posing himself as a relative 

of ex-minister Abdul Latif Biswas, said: “I 

am lifting sand from my own land not from the 

river.” 

However, Mohammad Ali Akand said: “We 

are lifting sand from Hurasagor River as we won 

a tender about sand lifting from the river.” 

He also blames Bablu Biswas for illegal sand 

lifting by saying: “Bablu is lifting sand from 

Hurasagor River illegally by bribing local administration 

and upazila nirbahi officer.” 

He urged the authorities concerned to take 

action against Bablu gang to save the River Harusagor 

from the sand lifters. 

When contacted, Sirajganj Deputy Commissioner 

Kamrun Nahar Siddiqi said: “We will take 

proper actions against illegal sand lifters after 

discussing with district fisheries official.” 

Natore sugar 

mill lays off 

• M Kamal Mridha, Natore 

Sugar production had to be 

stopped in Natore North Bengal 

Sugar Mill yesterday, as farmers are 

not supplying sugar-canes to the 

mill. 

The mill authorities said they 

had inaugurated the sugar production 

of the mill on October 28 aiming 

to produce 20 thousand metric 

tons sugar from 2 lakh 50 thousand 

sugarcanes for this fiscal. But, they 

have to declare the lay off on Saturday 

noon for want of sufficient 

sugarcanes. 

The farmers did it in protest 

of introducing E-gazatte and mobile 

banking system by the government, 

which will be effective 

from this fiscal, and closing of sugarcane 

gur (molasses) producing 

business. 

The farmers demanded restoration 

of previous system of giving 

the farmers slips locally known as 

Purzi, mentioning their names and 

amount of sugarcanes they can 

supply. 

Ibrahim Khalil, president of Natore 

North Bengal Sugar Mill sugarcane 

farmers’ association, said the 

production costs of sugarcane were 

higher than the current prices of it 

at the mill gate. •

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Toxic vessel imported, beached in Chittagong 

DT 

• FM Mizanur Rahaman, 

Chittagong 

The North Sea Producer, a 

highly contaminated vessel has 

been imported by Janata Steel 

Corporation and docked at the 

shipbreaking yard in Sitakunda, 

violating national and international 

laws. 

First commissioned in 1984, 

it is a floating production storage 

and offloading (FPSO) vessel 

used by the offshore oil and 

gas industry to produce and 

process hydrocarbons for the 

storage of oil. 

Formerly owned by Maersk, 

the vessel was stationed at 

the North Sea working the 

MacCulloch oil field for ConocoPhillips. 

When the MacCulloch field 

was closed, the FPSO was 

brought to Teesport in Middleborough, 

England where it was 

laid up in 2015. 

The vessel allowed 

into Bangladesh 

on a fake 

certificate saying 

it did not contain 

any hazardous 

materials 

Having operated in the North 

Sea as an FPSO, the vessel contains 

large amounts of slops and 

residues that are contaminated 

by NORM (natural occurring radioactive 

material) and sulphur. 

Bangladeshi law dictates 

the taking of No Objection Certificate 

(NOC) from the Department 

of Environment (DoE), 

Mercantile Marine Department 

(MMD) and other concerned 

bodies. The importer, Janata 

Steel Corporation, did not take 

any NOC from DoE and MMD 

according to DoE sources. 

Rather it has been anchored 

as a “producer” in the document, 

said DoE sources. 

DoE Chittagong Region’s 

Director Md Masud Karim told 

the Dhaka Tribune that the importer 

did not obtain any NOC 

from them and they have already 

issued a show-cause notice 

to the importer taking the 

issue into cognizance. 

Expressing grave concern 

over the environment and 

health hazards of Bangladeshi 

Ship breaking workers, an organization 

named NGO Shipbreaking 

Platform and a several 

news media ran reports earlier 

this month. 

The NGO sent an official letter 

to UK Minister for Environment, 

Food and Rural Affairs secretary 

Rt Hon Andrea Leadsom MP on 

October 25 citing the illegal manner 

in which the ship was imported 

to Bangladesh via third 

party cash only company violating 

EU rules and regulations for 

hazardous waste disposal management 

of such vessels. 

The organisation has also 

sent a copy of the letter to the 

European Commission. 

According to UK based newspaper 

the Gazettelive, Maersk’s 

Head of Sustainability, Annettee 

Stube has said: “The company 

has not been good enough 

to ensure that the ship was 

sent to scrap to a secure yard. 

Maersk is really, really sorry 

that this has happened.” 

The NGO and local news reports 

also mentioned that the 

vessel allowed into Bangladesh 

on a fake certificate saying it 

did not contain any hazardous 

materials. 

According to a report by a 

Dutch research centre, Danwatch, 

the shipbreaking yards 

in Bangladesh are not equipped 

with any infrastructure that 

could safely remove and dispose 

toxic waste. 

The Danwatch report, in 

collaboration with local daily 

newspaper Politiken and 

Broadcaster TV2, also showed 

footage from Sitakunda from 

September showing that four 

workers climbing a rope ladder 

on the side of vessel without 

any safety gear. 

According to the NGO report, 

the ship was sold to cash 

buyers, Global Marketing Systems 

(GMS), one of the world’s 

largest companies that specialises 

in selling end-of-life tonnage 

via Conquistador Shipping 

Corporation, a post box 

company, in St Kitts and Nevis. 

Aman Uddin, managing director 

of Janata Steel Corporation 

said over phone: “There is 

no hazardous toxic in the vessel 

and the ship was beached in 

compliance with the law.” 

“We received permission 

from DoE, Explosive Department, 

Ministry of Industry for 

beaching the ship,” he added. 

Contacted, Chief Engineer 

and Principal Officer of DoE 

Sofiqul Islam told the Dhaka 

Tribune: “No permission was 

taken for the North Sea Producer 

to be beached and cut.” 

According to the High Court 

verdict on March 17 in 2009, 

to export a scrap ship, the 

ship-breaking yard must obtain 

NOC from DoE while waste 

should be removed or dumped 

before beaching at shore. The 

court also directed to ensure 

the occupational safety of the 

ship-breaking workers. • 

Janata Steel Corporation docks North Sea Producer, a highly contaminated vessel at a ship breaking yard violating national and 

international laws. The photo was taken at Sitakunda, Chittagong yesterday 

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DT 

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World 


SOUTH ASIA 

Panama Papers: Pak PM’s 

son-in-law files ToR in SC 

Retired Capt Mohammad Safdar, 

son-in-law of Prime Minister Nawaz 

Sharif, submitted to the Supreme 

Court on Friday a one-page terms of 

reference (ToR) suggesting that the 

proposed commission on the Panama 

Papers leaks be allowed to examine 

information relating to transfer 

from Pakistan of funds originating 

from corruption, commission and 

kickbacks and identify the individuals 

involved in such crimes. DAWN 

INDIA 

Two soldiers killed in 

Kashmir 

The Indian army said two of its soldiers 

were killed Sunday in the latest 

exchange of cross border firing with 

Pakistan along the de facto border in 

Kashmir. One soldier was killed in 

a firefight as Indian troops pushed 

back against Pakistani infiltrators 

while another died in a separate incident, 

according to Army spokesman 

Colonel N N Joshi. AFP 

CHINA 

Hong Kong police use 

pepper spray at anti- 

China protest 

Hong Kong police used pepper spray 

Sunday to drive back hundreds of 

protesters angry at China’s decision 

to intervene in a row over whether 

two pro-independence lawmakers 

should be barred from the city’s 

legislature. In chaotic scenes 

reminiscent of mass pro-democracy 

protests in 2014, demonstrators 

charged metal fences set up by police 

outside China’s liaison office in 

the semi-autonomous city. AFP 

ASIA PACIFIC 

S Korea scandal widens as 

presidential aides arrested 

South Korean prosecutors arrested 

two former top presidential aides 

Sunday in a snowballing influence-peddling 

scandal which has 

seen tens of thousands of people take 

to the streets to demand President 

Park Geun-Hye resign. Park’s approval 

ratings have hit a historic low 

of five percent – a record for a sitting 

president – over the scandal involving 

her close friend Choi Soon-Sil. AFP 

MIDDLE EAST 

10 Iranian pilgrims killed 

in a suicide attack 

Ten Iranian pilgrims were killed in 

a suicide attack in Iraq’s holy city 

of Samarra, about 125km north of 

Baghdad on Sunday. Pilgrimage official 

Mohammad Javad Daneshyar 

said the Iranians were getting off a 

bus when an ambulance carrying 

the suicide bomber approached 

them and blew up. REUTERS 

Last-minute attempts by candidates 

to shore up votes 

TOMORROW 

• Tribune International Desk 

Clinton ahead but battleground states up for grabs 

• AFP, Washington, DC 

Donald Trump barnstorms five 

states Sunday while Hillary Clinton 

implores her most fervent 

supporters to get to the polls, in a 

frenetic final 48-hour dash to the 

US presidential election. 

Last-minute campaign events – 

including a midnight rally Monday 

night by Clinton – pepper the landscape 

in the nation’s most contested 

states that will ultimately 

decide whether the United States 

maintains President Barack Obama’s 

legacy or steers a more conservative 

course. 

The bruising and unpredictable 

race that concludes on November 

8 has gripped the world and roiled 

international markets, as Americans 

decide whether to elect their first 

female commander in chief or a billionaire 

real estate tycoon whose political 

inexperience is seen by some 

as an asset and others a liability. 

National polls gave the edge to 

Hillary Clinton, with results too 

close to call in some key battleground 

states where the race will 

be won or lost. 

A final NBC/WSJ poll showed 

the Democratic White House 

THE RACE FOR THE WHITE HOUSE Oct 28 

Collated opinion polls as of November 6 

In percent 

Hillary Clinton 

Democrat 

Donald Trump 

Republican 

Source: RealClearPolitics 

55% 

50 

45 

40 

35 

30 

Donald Trump is promising to take 

his campaign into traditional Democratic 

territory as a sign that he’s 

not giving up on appealing to people 

outside the Republican Party. 

Hillary Clinton is focusing her efforts 

in the campaign’s final days 

on energizing voters who usually 

support the Democratic nominee, 

but may need an extra boost, reports 

The Associated Press. 

To do that, Clinton is pressing 

her case with music and sports 

celebrities, a strategy Trump dismissed. 

A brief scare Saturday night disrupted 

Trump’s rally in Reno, Nevada, 

when Secret Service agents 

suddenly hustled the Republican 

nominee off the stage. The agency 

later said that someone near the 

stage had shouted “Gun!” but that 

a subsequent apprehension of a 

man and search revealed no weapon. 

Trump returned a few minutes 

later to resume his remarks and declared 

“We will never be stopped.” 

As if to prove that point, Trump 

scheduled rallies Sunday in Minnesota, 

which hasn’t supported a 

Republican nominee since 1972. 

Clinton faced dark skies, intense 

rain and strong wind in Florida 

on Saturday before appearing in 

Pennsylvania with pop singer Katy 

Perry. 

Trump has courted working-class 

white voters on the 

strength of his own celebrity, having 

scared off many would-be Republican 

allies during a campaign 

July 28 

Investiture 

July 20 

Investiture 

Donald Trump shakes hands with Hillary Clinton 

Sept 2 

FBI releases files 

on Clinton’s use 

of private 

email server 

Sept 11 

Taken ill 

in public 

hopeful with a four-point lead 

ahead of her Republican counterpart 

Donald Trump, at 44 to 40% 

in a four-way national survey out 

Sunday. 

“If you only have 44% of the 

vote that means you’re vulnerable 

if most of the undecideds break in 

a certain way,” pollster Nate Silver 

of the news website FiveThirtyEight.com 

told ABC’s “This Week.” 

“In that sense both candidates 

still need a good turnout on election 

day and still have their work 

cut out for them,” Silver said. 

That was nowhere more apparent 

than in Ohio and Florida polling 

results out Sunday, where CBS 

News Battleground Tracker polls 

showed Clinton’s lead evaporating. 

CBS gave Trump a one point 

lead in Ohio (46 to 45%) and 

showed a tied race in Florida (45 

Renewed 

email probe 

Election debates 

Sept 26 

Oct 9 Oct 19 

Oct 1 

Reports 

on Trump’s 

tax records 

Oct 7 

Video of lewd 

remarks about 

women 

Nov 8 

Election 

Nov 

6 

July Aug Sept Oct Nov 

REUTERS 

46.4% 

45.0% 

marred by extraordinary gaffes 

and self-created crises. Just four 

weeks ago, a video emerged in 

which a married Trump admitted 

to kissing women and grabbing 

their genitalia without their permission. 

Clinton also faced extraordinary 

challenges of her own in recent 

days after the FBI confirmed 

plans to renew its focus on the former 

secretary of state’s email practices. 

The development is seen as 

particularly threatening for Clinton 

in states like Michigan, Pennsylvania 

and New Hampshire that 

don’t offer early voting. 

At least 41 million Americans 

across 48 states have already cast 

ballots, according to an Associated 

Press analysis. That’s significantly 

more votes four days before Election 

Day than voted early in the 

2012. • 

to 45%). 

Florida is the mother of all 

swing states, with 29 electoral 

votes in the electoral college, 

where a victor must reach 270 

votes to win the presidency. 

The Tuesday election could 

hinge on roughly a dozen so-called 

battleground states where the contest 

is particularly tight. 

Trump and Clinton have packed 

their last-minute schedules with 

campaign events, particularly in 

swing states, hoping to woo voters 

in the final 48 hours of a race that 

is too close to call. 

“The electoral college map is 

less solid for Clinton than it was 

for (President Barack) Obama four 

years ago,” Silver said. 

“You’d rather be in her shoes 

than Donald Trump’s but it’s not 

a terribly safe position,” he added. 

As of Sunday his website gave 

Clinton a 64.2% chance of winning 

the race. 

Meanwhile polling aggregates 

by tracker RealClearPolitics 

showed Clinton in the lead with 

46.6%to Trump’s 44.8%. • 

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World 

Iraq forces gain ground in Mosul 

despite fierce resistance 

• AFP, Mosul, Iraq 

Iraqi forces battled jihadists inside 

Mosul for the third day running 

Sunday while civilians risked their 

lives dodging bombs and snipers 

to slip out of the city. 

The Islamic State group put up 

fierce resistance to defend the city 

it seized more than two years ago 

and also claimed responsibility 

for deadly suicide attacks further 

south. 

The elite Counter-Terrorism 

Service has been spearheading 

the attack on the eastern front of 

the three-week-old offensive on 

Mosul, Iraq’s largest military operation 

in years. 

The jihadists have given up 

some of its bastions in Iraq and 

Syria with barely a fight in recent 

months but its men began the defence 

of their last Iraqi hub with 

anger. 

They first entered the streets 

of Mosul on Friday and were met 

with what one officer described 

as stiffer than expected resistance 

from IS jihadists. 

Perilous escape 

The assault allowed some civilians 

to flee the city, most of whose 

million-plus residents remained 

trapped inside, sheltering both 

from their jihadist rulers and incoming 

fire from government forces 

and US-led coalition aircraft. 

Some of the first civilians to 

manage to escape the city proper 

arrived at a camp near Khazir in 

Kurdish-controlled territory on 

Saturday. 

Abu Sara dodged gunfire, 

bombs, mortar rounds and coalition 

strikes to flee his neighbourhood 

of Al-Samah, such was his 

desperation to leave what many 

civilians who escaped IS rule describe 

as an open-air prison. 

While the corridors called for 

by aid groups to allow the safe 

passage of civilians have yet to 

materialise, arrivals in the displacement 

camps dotting the area 

have increased markedly. 

The government said it had 

taken in 9,000 displaced people in 

the past two days. 

The International Organisation 

for Migration said a total of about 

34,000 people had been displaced 

since the start of the offensive on 

October 17. 

Relief organisations were fighting 

the clock to build up their shelter 

capacity ahead of the feared 

mass exodus from Mosul. 

Despite IS leader Abu Bakr 

al-Baghdadi giving his fighters a 

pep talk on Thursday, urging them 

not to retreat from Mosul in a rare 

audio message, the outcome of 

the battle was in little doubt. 

Suicide bombings 

The jihadists, with an estimated 

3,000 to 5,000 fighters in Mosul, 

could hold out for weeks and inflict 

heavy casualties on government 

forces but they are outnumbered 

about 10 to one. 

The group’s ability to hit back 

with ground offensives elsewhere 

appears to be gone and IS has responded 

with a string of diversionary 

attacks, including spectacular 

operations in Kirkuk and 

Rutba. 

On Sunday, it claimed responsibility 

for three suicide attacks in 

Tikrit and Samarra, the two main 

cities in Salaheddin province 

north of Baghdad. 

Iraqi officials spoke of only two 

bombers, one who detonated an 

explosives-rigged vehicle at the 

southern entrance to Tikrit, and 

another who blew up an ambulance 

in Samarra. 

Jassem al-Jbara, the head of Salaheddin 

province’s security committee, 

said that the Tikrit attack 

killed 12 people and wounded 20, 

while six died and 12 more were 

injured in Samarra. • 

UK PM: Parliament must accept Brexit vote 

• Reuters, London 

British Prime Minister Theresa 

May said on Sunday she would deliver 

a full exit from the European 

Union, hitting back at critics of her 

Brexit strategy who have threatened 

to try to block the process in 

parliament. 

The government’s plans to 

launch a two-year divorce process 

by the end of March next year 

were thrown into disarray last 

week when a court ruled that parliament 

must be consulted on the 

decision. May has said she is confident 

of overturning the ruling. 

Nevertheless, the prospect of 

a parliamentary vote has enraged 

eurosceptic lawmakers who fear 

the ‘hard Brexit’ they want will be 

watered down, and emboldened 

political opponents who want a 

less radical split from the bloc. 

Writing in the Sunday Telegraph 

newspaper, May signalled 

she would resist any attempt to 

force her to change her approach 

Displaced people who had fled from Hammam al-Alil, south of Mosul, head to safer territory on Sunday 

to leaving the EU, a historic break 

that was approved by 52% of Britons 

in a referendum in June. 

“The people made their choice, 

and did so decisively. It is the responsibility 

of the government to 

get on with the job and to carry 

out their instruction in full,” May 

wrote. 

Half-Brexit 

Arch-eurosceptic Nigel Farage, 

who led the influential UK Independence 

Party’s Brexit campaign, 

said there was a growing 

movement to keep Britain within 

the EU’s tariff-free single market 

- a scenario he called a “half-Brexit” 

that went against the referendum 

result. 

“If the people in this country 

think that they’re going to be 

cheated, they’re going to be betrayed, 

then we will see political 

anger the likes of which none of 

us in our lifetimes have ever witnessed 

in this country,” he said. 

Parliament could in theory 

Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May 

block Brexit because most members 

supported staying in the EU in 

June’s referendum. But many lawmakers 

have signalled they would 

be willing to reverse their position 

to reflect the referendum result. 

“I think it is highly unlikely that 

parliament would not, in the end, 

back a decision to trigger Article 

50,” health minister Jeremy Hunt 

REUTERS 

REUTERS 

said, referring to the EU treaty 

mechanism for launching divorce 

proceedings. 

Last week’s court ruling could 

allow lawmakers to temper the 

government’s approach, however, 

making a “hard Brexit” - where 

tight controls on immigration are 

prioritised over remaining in the 

single market - less likely. • 

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USA 

Trump rushed off stage in 

false gun scare 

Republican presidential nominee 

Donald Trump was hustled off 

the stage by security agents at a 

campaign event in Reno on Saturday 

after a perceived threat in the 

crowd. Two security agents grabbed 

Trump by the shoulders and rushed 

him back stage. The threat was 

unclear, but a man near the front of 

the crowd was pounced on by other 

security agents. REUTERS 

THE AMERICAS 

Nicaragua vote set to 

cement Ortega rule 

Former Marxist guerilla leader Daniel 

Ortega is expected to easily clinch 

a third consecutive term as president 

of Nicaragua on Sunday. Ortega and 

his running mate, his wife Rosario 

Murillo, have nearly 70% support, 

according to a recent poll, tapping 

into strong voter approval for a drop 

in poverty in one of the poorest 

countries in the Americas since he 

took office in 2007. REUTERS 

UK 

Scotland expected to join 

Brexit legal challenge 

Scotland’s devolved government is 

expected to join a legal challenge 

against the British government’s 

plans to trigger an exit from the 

European Union, the lead claimant 

in the court case said on Sunday. 

The government said it would appeal 

against the High Court ruling 

and Britain’s Supreme Court is 

expected to consider the case early 

next month. AFP 

EUROPE 

Clinton distantly related to 

French president 

US presidential candidate Hillary 

Clinton is distantly related to 

French President Francois Hollande, 

according to a new book 

that claims they share royal blood 

from doomed kings of the 14th 

century. Clinton, whose maiden 

name is Rodham, descends on 

her mother’s side from families 

from Canada’s French-speaking 

province of Quebec, according to 

French genealogist Jean-Louis 

Beaucarnot. AFP 

AFRICA 

Boko Haram razes village, 

kill 2 soldiers 

Boko Haram jihadists killed 

two soldiers and razed a village 

adjoining the northeast Nigerian 

town of Chibok. The Nigerian army 

meanwhile said it had retaken 

some villages from the Islamist 

group in the Lake Chad region in 

operations on Friday and Saturday 

and rescued 85 people, including 

women and children. It also 

claimed nearly 40 Islamists were 

killed in other operations. AFP

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US 


DT 

Elections 2016 

FACTBOX 

Five states that will decide the election 

TOMORROW 

• Tribune International Desk 

There are 200 million registered 

voters in the United States, and 

it’s a good bet that more than 120 

million of them will cast votes in 

the presidential race on Tuesday. 

While every vote counts, not all of 

them have the same value – in an 

election that has come down to 

less than a dozen contested swing 

states, some places matter a lot 

more than others. 

Here are 5 states that will decide 

the election: 

Colorado: Colorado is one of 

the most widely swinging battleground 

states. It cast its vote for 

Republican George W Bush in 2004 

by a higher percentage than the 

nation as a whole. Four years later, 

it did the same thing — except for 

Democrat Barack Obama. 

Only termed a swing state in the 

past few elections, Colorado has 

been shifting to the left rapidly. This 

year, for the first time in decades, 

Democratic and unaffiliated voters 

outnumber Republicans. The state’s 

growing Latino population, more 

than 20% as well as the Denver area’s 

explosion of younger voters are 

among the reasons for the shift. 

Florida: The Sunshine State is 

once again the centre of the presidential 

campaign and has been 

a frequent stop for Clinton and 

Trump. Florida is essential to 

Trump’s chances. Barring big upsets 

elsewhere, failure to win here 

blocks the Republican’s path to 

the 270 electoral votes he needs to 

capture the White House. Across 

Florida, more Latinos had voted by 

Wednesday than during the entire 

early voting period in 2012, according 

to the Clinton campaign. 

Iowa: Donald Trump’s strength 

among white, non-college-educated 

voters could help swing Iowa to 

the GOP this cycle, after it voted for 

President Obama in 2008 and 2012. 

Iowa is more than 90% white. 

Trump has a five-point lead, 

according to a polling average of 

recent surveys calculated by The 

Washington Post. Iowa has just six 

electoral college votes. Still, it is a 

must-win for Trump, given his limited 

path to the 270 electoral votes 

needed to win the White House. 

Michigan: This industrial, Midwestern 

state, which dealt a surprise 

blow to Clinton in the Democratic 

primary when it backed 

Senator Bernie Sanders, could be 

poised for another upset in the 

general election. 

Michigan voters have not supported 

a Republican for president 

since 1988. With an electorate that 

is 72% white, Michigan is one of 

the least diverse states, meaning 

Clinton’s demographic advantages 

— she is strong among minorities — 

could be limited. 

New Hampshire: Tiny and independent-minded, 

New Hampshire 

figures most prominently in the 

presidential election as the site of 

the nation’s first primary vote, typically 

a few days after the kickoff 

caucuses in Iowa. With four electoral 

votes, it’s not a big prize in the 

general election, but is considered a 

battleground because of significant 

Republican strength amid solidly 

Democratic northeastern states. • 

Sources: AP, WASHINGTON POST, POLITICO 

For American women, Clinton could end a very long wait 

• AFP, Washington, DC 

Estelle Liebow Schultz, who is 98, 

was born before her fellow countrywomen 

had the right to vote. 

Now she has proudly cast a ballot 

for the candidate she hopes will 

make history as the first American 

woman elected president. 

Hillary Clinton hopes to become 

that woman on Tuesday, breaking 

the ultimate glass ceiling after 

having become, at the Democratic 

nominating convention in July, the 

first female candidate for a major 

party. 

Having cast an early vote – as several 

states permit – she hopes to see 

the inauguration in January of the 

first woman president, following 

the succession of 44 men that began 

with George Washington in 1789. 

It has been a long road, starting 

with the presidential campaign in 

1872 of Victoria Woodhull – who at 

34 was technically a year too young 

to become president – as candidate 

of the Equal Rights Party. History 

books list the vote totals won by 

her male rivals, but not hers. 

Britain, Germany, Croatia, Norway, 

Chili and South Korea have 

women leaders; Israel, Brazil, Argentina 

and Pakistan have been led 

by women. 

Only two women have made it 

onto major party presidential tickets: 

the Republican Sarah Palin, who 

was John McCain’s running mate in 

2008, and Geraldine Ferraro, who 

joined Walter Mondale on the Democratic 

ticket in 1984. Both lost. 

Some women failed to survive 

the brutal primary election process, 

chewed up by the big parties’ 

political machines. Others became 

historical footnotes in the quixotic 

campaigns of splinter parties. 

Parliamentary or multi-party 

systems are more favorable to 

women, pushing parties to establish 

diverse lists of candidates, 

which helps women climb within 

a party to top leadership positions, 

said Robert Shapiro, a political scientist 

with Columbia University in New 

York. • 

Find more stories on US presidential election at www.dhakatribune.com

World 

India, Japan to ink controversial nuclear deal 



DT 

• AFP, Tokyo 

India and Japan are set to sign a 

controversial civil nuclear deal this 

week, reports said Sunday, as the 

two Asian allies look to boost economic 

and security ties to counter 

an assertive China. 

India’s Prime Minister Narendra 

Modi and his Japanese counterpart 

Shinzo Abe are set to sign a deal 

Friday that would allow Japan to 

export nuclear technology to the 

subcontinent, the Yomiuri Shimbun 

paper reported. 

India would become the first 

non-signatory to the Treaty on the 

Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons 

(NPT) to agree such a nuclear 

deal with Japan – which was the 

victim of US atomic bombings in 

the final days of World War II. 

The two countries are also set to 

agree that if India conducts a nuclear 

test, Japan will stop cooperation, 

the Yomiuri reported. 

The expected deal comes against 

a backdrop of growing security concerns 

in the region over China’s military 

presence. 

Beijing is expanding its deep-water 

naval presence and asserts sovereignty 

over disputed areas of the 

East and South China Sea and Indian 

Ocean region, parts of which 

Japan also claims. 

India has a longstanding territorial 

dispute with China, and troops from 

the two countries engaged in a major 

stand-off at the border in 2014. • 

Turkey’s pro-Kurdish 

opposition party 

boycotts parliament 

• AFP, Istanbul, Turkey 

Turkey’s main pro-Kurdish 

party on Sunday said it was 

pulling out of parliament after 

nine of its MPs including the 

two co-leaders were arrested 

in an unprecedented crackdown. 

The Peoples’ Democratic 

Party (HDP), the third-largest 

party in this legislature, said it 

would no longer be taking part 

in general sessions of parliament 

or commission work. 

The arrest on Friday of the 

MPs, including charismatic 

party leaders Selahattin 

Demirtas and Figen Yuksekdag, 

added to tensions as Turkey 

wages a relentless battle 

against Kurdish militants and 

deals with the aftermath of the 

July 15 failed coup. 

The move also compounded 

concerns among Turkey’s 

Western allies that the state 

of emergency imposed after 

the coup bid is being used for 

a general crackdown against 

critics of President Recep 

Tayyip Erdogan and not just 

the suspected plotters. 

On Saturday, an Istanbul 

court ordered the jailing pending 

trial of nine executives and 

editorial staff from the opposition 

Cumhuriyet newspaper. 

Some 35,000 people have 

been arrested after the coup 

bid, which Ankara blames on 

the US-based preacher Fethullah 

Gulen, while tens of thousands 

more have been fired 

from their jobs. 

The latest arrests of the 

HDP MPs prompted the Turkish 

authorities to restrict access 

to social media and VPN 

applications and also led to 

more heavy losses for the embattled 

Turkish lira. 

‘Turning point’ 

The HDP said instead of sitting 

in parliament, its remaining 

MPs who are not under arrest 

will go from “house to house, 

village to village and district to 

district” to meet people. 

It said that at the end of 

these consultations, proposals 

will be made over how to go 

forward. 

The HDP has 59 seats in 

parliament and their absence 

could enable Erdogan to push 

through his vision of a presidential 

system which the HDP 

has always vehemently opposed. 

The HDP has always vehemently 

denied being a front 

for the PKK, which has waged 

an over three-decade insurgency 

against the Turkish 

state in search of greater rights 

and autonomy for the Kurdish 

minority. 

Integrating the Kurdish 

movement into mainstream 

politics was a key plank of the 

peace process once spearheaded 

by Erdogan which collapsed 

when a truce ruptured in 2015. 

Turkey calls in EU envoys 

Washington and the European 

Union reacted angrily to the 

arrests, with EU foreign affairs 

chief Federica Mogherini 

and EU Enlargement Commissioner 

Johannes Hahn saying 

Yuksekdag and Demirtas were 

“our trusted and valued interlocutors.” 

Following the criticism, EU 

Affairs Minister Omer Celik invited 

EU envoys to a meeting 

Monday where he will give an 

address “on the latest developments 

in our country”, the 

ministry said in a statement. 

Turkey’s bid to join the EU 

dates back to the 1960s with 

formal talks starting in 2005. 

But the process has been 

mired in problems and set 

back further by recent threats 

by Erdogan to bring back the 

death penalty. 

Turkish police used tear gas 

and plastic bullets Saturday to 

disperse a demonstration in Istanbul 

against the arrests, and 

a similar march was expected 

Sunday in the southeastern 

city of Diyarbakir. •

DT 

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Business 


TOP STORIES 

BTRC switches 

on Citycell 

Bangladesh Telecommunication 

Regulatory Commission (BTRC) has 

opened up the spectrum of Citycell 

Sunday evening. BTRC Secretary 

Sarwar Alam confirmed the matter 

to the Dhaka Tribune. The process 

to open the spectrum was initiated 

at around 6pm and was opened a 

few minutes after that, the BTRC 

spokesperson said. PAGE 13 

UK seeks to boost 

trade ties with India 

before Brexit 

British Prime Minister Theresa May 

will use her first bilateral trade trip 

since taking office to try to boost 

ties with India before leaving the 

European Union. PAGE 14 

Capital market snapshot: 

Sunday 

DSE 

Broad Index 4,672.4 -0.0% ▼ 

Index 1,119.0 0.1% ▲ 

30 Index 1,756.8 -0.1% ▼ 

Turnover in Mn Tk 4,686.9 -7.0% ▼ 

Turnover in Mn Vol 134.4 -13.9% ▼ 

CSE 

All Share Index 14,361.4 0.1% ▲ 

30 Index 12,884.5 0.1% ▲ 

Selected Index 8,732.1 0.1% ▲ 

Turnover in Mn Tk 272.2 -11.4% ▼ 

Turnover in Mn Vol 9.9 -12.6% ▼ 

Exports miss target in 

July-October period 

• Ibrahim Hossain Ovi 

Bangladesh export earnings in 

October have increased 14.39% to 

$2.71bn from a year earlier, Export 

Promotion Bureau data showed. 

The figure is 2.84% higher than 

the target of $2.63bn. 

Exports during the July-October 

period of the current fiscal 

year posted a 6.53% rise to 

$10.80bn compared to $10.13bn a 

year ago. The figure is 6.84% less 

than the target of $11.58bn set for 

the period. 

Readymade garment sector 

rose over 7% to $8.82bn during 

the first four months of the fiscal, 

which was $8.23bn a year ago. 

Knitwear products earned 

$4.53bn with an 8.75% growth, 

while woven products posted 

5.37% rise to $4.28bn. 

“There was slow growth in first 

quarter of the current fiscal year 

due to holidays of Eid-ul-Azha. 

But this time there is better performance 

by RMG sector, which 

pushed the earnings up,” Abdus 

Salam Murshedy, president of Exporters 

Association of Bangladesh 

(EAB), told the Dhaka Tribune. 

He said the upcoming US election 

and Brexit caused fall in demands 

in the markets of these two 

countries. 

“But I’m hopeful to see double-digit 

growth at the end of the 

fiscal year as manufacturers are 

planing to increase production 

Most of Bangladesh’s exports are channelled through the Chittagong port 

‘The upcoming 

US election and 

Brexit caused fall 

in demands in the 

markets of these 

two countries’ 

while more manufacturing plants 

are also being set up as they are at 

the end of remediation process,” 

Salam added. 

Bangladesh has set a target to 

reach $60bn annual export by 2021, 

of which, $50bn would come from 

the RMG sector. To achieve the target, 

Bangladesh needs about 13% 

growth in annual export figures. 

“The export performance is 

positive. But lagging behind the 

target is not a good sign,” Khondaker 

Golam Moazzem, additional 

research director of Centre for Policy 

Dialogue (CPD), said. 

He said to achieve the targeted 

growth, the government as well as 

the manufacturers platform have 

to analyse the single-market performance 

to explore potentials. 

He said more importance 

DHAKA TRIBUNE 

should be given on non-traditional 

market to enlarge volume. 

Golam Moazzem said in the 

coming months, the export will 

see better growth as the demands 

in the US market may go up after 

the election. 

Among the major sectors, leather 

and leather products earned 

$429m with 19.45% growth, frozen 

foods earned $196.62m posting 

nearly 10% growth, jute and 

jute goods fetched $296m, furniture 

posted over 15% growth to 

$12m. Plastic sector has seen 76% 

rise to $49m. •

Business 13 

BTRC switches Citycell on 

• Ishtiaq Husain and 

Ashif Islam Shaon 


Regulatory Commission 

(BTRC) 

has opened up 

the spectrum of 

Citycell Sunday 

evening. 

BTRC Secretary Sarwar Alam 

confirmed the matter to the Dhaka 

Tribune. 

The process to open the spectrum 

was initiated at around 6pm 

and was opened a few minutes after 

that, the BTRC spokesperson said. 

Earlier in yesterday morning, 

the Supreme Court asked the BTRC 

to explain why it did not comply 

with the court order of opening 

spectrum for Citycell. 

A four-member bench of the 

Appellate Division headed by Chief 

Justice SK Sinha sought the explanation 

from the telecom regulator 

Tax fair ends 

today 

• SM Najmus Sakib 

The national income tax fair has 

got a huge response from taxpayers 

with a record revenue collection. 

The National Board of Revenue 

has received Tk1727,72,07,457 till 

the sixth day yesterday as income 

tax, compared to Tk1640,60,49,686 

last year. The National Board of 

Revenue (NBR) organised the fair 

for the seventh consecutive year 

with the aim to expand tax net and 

increase revenue collection. 

A record number of people received 

service and submitted income 

tax returns, e-filing process 

at the fair and across the country. 

Meanwhile till yesterday, some 

1,49,994 submitted tax returns, 

31,781 taxpayers got user identification 

number and password to file 

their online tax returns. A total of 

7,77,194 people were provided with 

different services from the tax fair. 

State-owned Sonali Bank and 

Janata Bank set up booths to help 

taxpayers make financial transactions 

at the fair. 

NBR Chairman Nojibur Rahman 

said the tax fair had received huge 

support and attention from taxpayers 

which was beyond their expectation. 

This was to raise awareness 

among people about the significance 

and benefits of paying taxes, 

he added. 

With the view to creating awareness, 

the fair organiser was arranging 

a special event for students 

named “tax education forum” 

which was also held yesterday like 

every other day throughout the period 

of the fair. • 

Sunday afternoon. 

Earlier in the day, Citycell’s 

lawyer brought the matter to the 

court’s notice. 

Meanwhile, Tarana Halim, state 

minister for Posts and Telecommunication 

Division, yesterday said 


Regulatory Commission (BTRC) 

started the process to open the 

Citycell spectrum. 

“As the process is related with 

technical system, it takes time. 

Now, we are waiting for the certified 

copy of Supreme Court needed 

to open the spectrum,” said Tarana 

in the afternoon. 

“The court informed us verbally 

and we have to respect the court 

verdict as we are respectful to the 

court.” 

On Sunday the court wanted 

an explanation from BTRC as to 

why the regulator did not open the 

Citycell spectrum despite its order. 

On November 3, mobile operator 

Citycell got the Apex Court’s 

25 projects placed for Chinese 

fund during Xi’s visit 

• Asif Showkat Kallol 

Bangladesh placed 25 development 

projects worth $20bn for Chinese 

funds during the visit of President 

Xi Jinping, according to official 

sources concerned. 

Economic Relations Division 

(ERD) officials said both governments, 

however, signed a dozen of 

joint-venture projects of $13.6bn 

while negotiation continued for 

other 13 projects. 

Chinese President Xi Jinping 

visited Dhaka last month. 

The projects proposed for Chinese 

funds include Padma bridge 

rail link project (phase I and II), 

Dhaka-Sylhet four-lane highway 

project, Info-Sarkar project and 

Dhaka-Ashulia elevated expressway, 

marine drive expressway and 

coastal protection in Sitakunda, 

Chittagong and Cox’s Bazar. 

Finance Minister AMA Muhith 

described Xi Jinping’s visit as a 

“huge progress” in trade relation 

between Bangladesh and the economic 

powerhouse, China. 

A number of 10 Chinese-funded 

projects have already been approved 

by the cabinet committee 

on public purchase and economic 

affairs committee. 

The projects include construction 

of tunnel under the River Karnaphuli, 

Dhaka-Sylhet four lane 

highway project and two phases of 

the Padma Bridge rail link project 

and installation of double pipeline 

at the Single-Point Mooring (SPM). 

The projects under ICT Division 

include Development of National 

ICT Infra-Network for Bangladesh 

Government Phase III (Info-Sarkar). 

Power Division projects include 

the system loss reduction by replacing 

5m electro-mechanical 

nod to continue its operation till 

November 19. 

Within the date, it will have to 

pay Tk100 crore to Bangladesh Telecommunication 

Regulatory Commission 

(BTRC) to continue its operations 

and if it fails, the telecom 

regulator may cancel its spectrum 

again. 

The court also ordered formation 

of a special dispute resolution 

committee to deal with the outstanding 

bill that the CDMA network 

operator owes to the BTRC. 

A four-member bench of the 

Appellate Division headed by Chief 

Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha on 

Thursday asked the government 

to immediately reinstate the spectrum 

allocation and fix a fresh 

deadline. 

BTRC cancelled the spectrum of 

Citycell on October 20 and shut its 

offices after the operator failed repeatedly 

to pay various fees. 

Thereafter, the cellphone company 

went to the apex court, seeking 

its spectrum allocation back on 

October 24. 

BTRC had been saying that the 

company owed it Tk477.69 crore 

in spectrum renewal fee, annual licence 

and spectrum fees, plus VAT. 

But Citycell disagreed over the 

amount, saying it should be much 

less since the regulator’s method 

of determining the amount was 

flawed. 

During Thursday’s hearing, 

Citycell’s counsel told the court 

that in their view, the due amount 

is Tk216 crore, of which they have 

already paid Tk144 crore in installments 

as per a previous court directive. 

Of the money, Tk14 crore was 

paid to the National Board of Revenue. 

Citycell is the only CDMA network 

operating in the country. It 

is currently owned by Singtel with 

45% stake and the remaining 55% 

by Pacific Group and Far East Telecom. 

• 

energy meters with electronic energy 

meters and expansion and 

strengthening of power system 

network in the Dhaka Power Distribution 

Company Ltd (DPDC) area. 

The projects also include construction 

of the broad gauge rail 

track parallel to the existing metre 

gauge line in Joydebpur-Mymensing 

section. Officials said China was yet 

to respond on funding four development 

projects of Tk860.59 crore. 

The projects are construction of 

new inland container depot near 

Dhirasram Railway station and replacement 

of overloaded distribution 

transformers, among others. 

Other projects include Gazaria 

350-megawatt coal-fired thermal 

power plant, establishing digital 

connectivity and construction of 

the metre gauge railway track into 

the broad gauge railway track in 

Akhaura and Sylhet. • 

DT 


Govt to offload 

more 10% stake 

in Desco 

• Kayes Sohel 

The government is set to offload 

additional 10% stake in Dhaka Electric 

Supply Company Ltd. (Desco) 

to mobilise funds. 

According to a statement issued 

by Bangladesh Power Development 

Board (Bpdb) yesterday, the 

government would offload 10% of 

its stake in Desco. 

Once the proposed stake is listed, 

the total offloading shares will 

stand at 35%, including existing 

25% offloaded in 2006. Currently, 

the government owns 75%, according 

to the Desco website. 

“As per the government instruction, 

Bpdb is to sell 10% shares of 

Desco out of its total holding of 

293,104,259 shares of the company,” 

said the statement. 

The additional revenue gained 

from the IPOs will help the government 

increase capital infusion in 

the public sector entity. 

On Dhaka Stock Exchange yesterday, 

Desco share gained over 2% 

to Tk53.4 a share. 

Presently, another state-owned 

power company Power Grid Company 

of Bangladesh (Pgcb) is listed 

on the stock market. Along with 

Desco, the government offloaded 

23.75% of its shares in Pgcb through 

direct listing in the same year. 

Recently, the government decided 

to divest 25% shares of Liquefied 

Petroleum Gas Corporation 

Limited through stock market by 

December next. 

Titas Gas Transmission and Distribution 

Company was the last 

state-owned company that was 

listed on the stock market in 2008. 

After that, the government in 

January 2010 selected 26 state 

companies and instructed them 

to offload shares in the next six 

months. But since then, no companies 

offloaded shares, despite repeated 

deadlines and instructions 

from the finance ministry. 

Some other non-listed stateowned 

power companies include 

Dhaka Power Distribution Company 

and West Zone Power Distribution 

Company. • 

Caab to remove all grounded aircraft of United Airways 

• Ishtiaq Husain 

Civil Aviation Authority, Bangladesh 

(Caab) has taken a decision to remove 

all grounded aircraft of United 

Airways (BD) Ltd immediately. 

“We are facing accommodation 

problem as the currently functional 

several airlines are bringing new 

aircraft one after another. That is 

why we have take the decision,” 

said Air Vice-Marshal Ehsanul Gani 

Chowdhury. 

If the United Airways management 

doesn’t take immediate step 

to remove its aircraft, Caab will go 

for action according to the rules, 

added Ehsanul. 

The country’s largest private 

carrier, United Airways, suspended 

its operation in January this year 

due to insufficient aircraft and financial 

crisis. 

The airline, which has achieved 

a number of awards since its inception 

in 2007, had to suspend operations 

in September 2014 due to 

fund crunch. 

According to its website, the 

private carrier with 11 aircraft in 

its fleet operated flights to eight 

domestic and seven international 

destinations. All the aircraft of the 

airline are grounded now due to 

technical glitches. 

The last flight the airline operated 

was an MD 83 aircraft that flew 

to Kuala Lumpur in mid-January 

which finally returned to Dhaka 

after one of its engines was shut 

down at mid-air. 

Earlier, Mizanur Rahman, member 

(finance) of the Civil Aviation 

Authority, told the Dhaka Tribune 

that the United Airways had not 

paid its dues of aeronautical and 

non-aeronautical charges worth 

over Tk125 crore. 

“Its management did not pay 

heed to the repeated notices we 

have issued. At one stage, they took 

the issue to the court,” he said. •

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CORPORATE NEWS 

Business 

UK seeks to boost trade ties with India before Brexit 

• Reuters 

British Prime Minister Theresa May 

will use her first bilateral trade trip 

since taking office to try to boost 

ties with India before leaving the 

European Union. 

May’s office said the visit starting 

yesterday night would focus 

on breaking down barriers to trade 

and investment and paving the 

way for a free trade deal as soon as 

possible after Brexit, which is not 

expected to happen before 2019. 

Explaining the choice of India, a 

government official said: “It matters 

now more than ever. India is the 

fastest-growing major economy.” 

May said the trip was about 

seizing the opportunities of Brexit 

and “expanding our horizons and 

forging stronger partnerships with 

Foreign investors in Asian shares 

turn net sellers in October 

• Reuters 

Foreign investors net sold Asian 

stocks, except in South Korea, 

in October as uncertainty over 

the Nov 8 US presidential election 

and prospects of an interest 

rate hike as early as next 

month dampened sentiment. 

South Korean markets saw 

$258m of net inflows while 

Thailand, India, Indonesia 

and Taiwan saw outflows of 

$516m, $644m, $174m and 

$68m, respectively. 

MSCI’s broadest index of 

Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan 

fell by 1.7% in October - its 

first monthly fall in five months. 

South Korea has the second 

lowest forward P/E ratio of 

10.1 in the Asia-Pacific region, 

according to Thomson Reuters 

StarMine. • 

countries around the world”. 

“This is a partnership about our 

shared security and shared prosperity. 

It is a partnership of potential. 

And on this visit I intend to 

harness that potential, rebooting 

an age-old relationship,” she said 

in a statement ahead of the visit. 

While Britain cannot sign trade 

deals with third countries until it is 

outside the EU, the government is 

keen to hold preparatory discussions. 

May, accompanied by trade ministers 

Liam Fox and Greg Hands 

and around 40 business representatives 

mainly from small- and medium-sized 

technology and healthcare 

firms, will address a technology 

summit, have a working lunch with 

Indian Prime Minister Narendra 

Modi and meet businesses. 

Among representatives of larger 

firms joining her on the trip are 

David McMillan, CEO of insurer 

Aviva, Ivan Menezes, the CEO of 

drinks firm Diageo and the chairman 

of Asia-focused bank Standard 

Chartered, John Peace. 

May will visit New Delhi and 

outsourcing hub Bengaluru before 

leaving on Tuesday. Her office said 

commercial deals to be signed during 

the trip were expected to create 

a total of 1,370 jobs in the UK. 

One potential area of difficulty 

is her plan to curb the annual level 

of net migration to under 100,000 

from its rate of more than three 

times that. India is keen for Britain 

to welcome more of its students 

and skilled workers. 

“We want to attract the brightest 

and the best while also doing more 

to control migration,” the official 

said. “When we get to ... looking 

at these bilateral deals we are confident 

that we will be able to do 

strong and ambitious deals.” 

May and Modi will also launch 

a partnership on smart cities and 

urban development which could 

generate business worth up to 2bn 

pounds for British firms over the 

next five years, her office said. 

Britain will press India to allow 

its law firms to operate there, and 

will also offer its government expertise 

in areas such as deregulation 

and tax to help make India a more 

attractive business environment. 

The official declined to say 

whether May would specifically 

raise with Modi the issue of Tata 

Steel Ltd, which put its British steel 

operations up for sale earlier this 

year but suspended it in July due 

to uncertainty over the Brexit vote. 

The government has not given 

away much detail about its Brexit 

plans, with May only saying it wants 

the best deal to “trade with and operate 

within” the EU’s single market. 

Some have suggested that if the 

UK stays in the EU’s customs union 

it will not be able to strike trade 

deals with third countries such as 

India, but the British official disputed 

this. 

“Turkey is in the customs union 

but has trade agreements with 

third countries,” the official said. 

Turkey has free trade agreements 

with 18 countries including in Asia, 

north Africa and South America, 

while another 12 including Japan 

and Mexico are actively under discussion, 

according to the Turkish 

economy ministry website. • 

SHS Abu Zafor 

Md Motiur Rahman 

SHS Abu Zafor and Md Motiur Rahman have recently been promoted as 

general managers of Sonali Bank Limited, said a press release. Abu Zafor 

was previously serving as the bank’s DGM of vigilance division while Md 

Motiur Rahman was DGM of the bank’s general advance division 

BKash Limited has recently signed an agreement with Apex Footwear 

Ltd on facilitating the customers to pay through bKash while purchasing 

footwear and leather goods from Apex stores, said a press release. 

Chief commercial officer of bKash, Rezaul Hossain and Syed Gias Uddin 

Hossain, additional managing director of Apex Footwear have signed 

the agreement

Kuwait launches foreign 

bond sale to finance deficit 

• AFP, Kuwait City 

Kuwait will issue billions of dollars worth of 

bonds in international markets to finance a 

budget deficit resulting from low oil prices, 

a report said . 

Finance Minister Anas al-Saleh said Kuwait 

will issue US dollar-denominated sovereign 

bonds of up to $9.6bn during the 

2016/2017 fiscal year which ends March 31, 

Al-Qabas newspaper reported. 

This comes on top of a $6.6bn domestic 

debt programme which is already underway. 

Kuwait, like other energy-rich Gulf Cooperation 

Council (GCC) states, has already 

taken on tens of billions of dollars in foreign 

debt to finance budget shortfalls. 

Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Oman and United 

Arab Emirates have sold bonds or took syndicated 

loans to plug their deficits. 

The minister’s decree did not specify the 

share of Islamic sukuk bonds in the planned 

issue. 

It will be the country’s first foreign debt in 

around two decades. 

Kuwait recorded a budget deficit of $15bn 

last fiscal year, breaking a 16-year run of surpluses. 

Oil income contributed around 95% of public 

revenues in those years. During the past 

two years, oil has lost around 60% of its value. 

The emirate, home to 1.3 million Kuwaitis 

and 3 million foreigners, is also projecting a 

budget shortfall of $29bn this fiscal year. 

During surplus years, Kuwait piled up 

around $600bn in its sovereign wealth fund 

in holdings mostly in the United States, Europe 

and Asia. • 

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Health 

Fitness routines to 

do at home 

• Reaz Fiem 

As we labour away with 

our everyday jobs and 

envelope ourselves in 

all the responsibilities 

that come with being independent 

adults, we may sometimes 

overlook the importance of leading 

a healthy lifestyle. One of the 

major problems behind this, is that 

most of us have jobs that involve 

us being stuck to the office desk all 

day, with very little opportunity to 

move around. As a solution to this, 

many decide joining a gym is the 

only viable option. Unfortunately 

for most, joining is one thing, and 

going there regularly, is another 

thing entirely. Due to so many 

other things that demand our 

attention everyday, going to the 

gym slides lower and lower on the 

list of priorities. 

Fortunately, visiting the gym 

isn’t the only option to staying fit. 

Here are a few things we can do on 

our own at home: 

The mindset 

It all starts with a mindset. If you 

believe that only the gym can 

make you fit then you already have 

a predetermined mindset. What 

can help you build a fit physique 

is the determination to workout 

regularly, it does not matter where 

and with what equipment. So, the 

first thing to do is set a regular 

time to exercise. There is no set 

timing for when to exercise – 

whether you do a bit of workout 

early in the morning, or in the 

evening after you’re back from 

work – this should solely be based 

on a time that is convenient for 

you. So set a fixed time to do it for 

at least four days in a week. 

Equipment 

Yes, it is true you do need some 

equipment to stay fit, therefore 

start off by investing in a few. But 

it need not be full-on expensive 

gear. To start off, just buy a pair 

of dumbbells and a mat and 

with this, you can follow a high 

intensive burn-out routine. 

The routine 

The key to building a great 

physique is of course an affective 

routine. In my opinion, home 

workouts should be of high 

intensity – that is, keeping your 

muscles under constant tension 

as you perform moves with less 

resting time. Also, a great home 

routine will see you targeting all 

the body parts with just a pair 

of dumbbells. So let see what 

workouts can be performed with 

free hands and the addition of just 

a pair of dumbells. 

Standing shoulder press: This 

workout is needed to improve the 

shoulders. This is a multi-joint 

pressing movement with the 

dumbbells for extra resistance. 

If you can master the form then 

this can definitely help you build 

a great pair of shoulders. A note of 

caution is that you should always 

perform it with the correct form to 

keep the tension on the shoulders, 

rather than on joints, to avoid 

injury. 

Lateral raises: Another shoulder 

workout to incorporate with 

dumbbells. This should be done 

along with the shoulder press. 

This helps to shape up the 

shoulder muscles. Once again the 

form and tempo should be key. 

Squats with dumbbells: Squatting 

while holding dumbbells on 

both sides is another multi-joint 

exercise that works on the entire 

lower body. Think of building 

a house, a base is built first. In 

case of your fitness journey, the 

philosophy is the same. You need 

to build a strong pair of legs to 

support your upper body. 

Lunges with dumbbells: If you 

are bored of squatting then try 

lunging while holding dumbbells. 

Lunges are performed by 

alternating leg movements and 

can help build strong legs. So it 

should also be added to the entire 

routine. 

Dumbbell rows: You can perform 

row exercise with dumbbells to 

build your back muscles. Two 

types of rows can be performed 

with dumbbells – one is bent over 

rows and the other is a one-arm 

dumbbell row. 

Pushups: This is a free hand 

exercise for the chest. You can 

bring in two variations. Flat pushups 

and the other is incline pushups. 

This is the staple of any chest 

routine and is a good addition to 

your daily workout session. 

Bicep exercises with dumbbells: 

Regular dumbbell curls and 

hammer curls are two variations 

on exercises for your biceps that 

can easily be sone at home. 

Triceps extension with 

dumbbells: This is an effective 

exercise to incorporate for a full 

arm workout. 

The above workouts with 

10 repetitions for five sets can 

actually provide a proper burnout 

workout routine. By performing 

them at least four times a week, 

along with a proper diet, you will 

see changes in your physique 

within no time.• 

Reaz Mahmud Fiem is a 

nutrition and fitness advisor 

who makes it his business to 

help you stay fit

Health 

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Home remedies to heal ulcer 

• Sabiha Akond Rupa 

Ulcers are caused by 

corrosive gastric acids 

in our stomach. It can 

also occur in the mucous 

membranes of the stomach or the 

upper portion of the intestine. 

One of the most common 

symptoms of a stomach ulcer is 

a burning sensation or pain in 

the area between your chest and 

belly button. The pain can last for 

a few minutes to several hours. 

The symptoms vary from person 

to person – most people feel after 

meals while others feel worse 

during eating. The pain may be 

severe enough to cause insomnia 

and can be triggered by stress. 

Fortunately, there are many 

home remedies that help fight 

against stomach acid. But it is 

advisable to consult with a doctor 

before you start employing home 

remedies. 

bacteria. Making a habit of taking 

two tablespoons of raw honey 

early in the morning will help 

cleanse the bowel, strengthen the 

stomach lining and prevent ulcers. 

Banana 

Both ripe and unripe bananas are 

very effective for stomach ulcer 

treatment as they have certain 

antibacterial compounds that 

inhibit the growth of ulcers. It 

protects the system by negating 

the acidity of gastric juices, 

reducing inflammation and 

strengthening the stomach lining. 

If you dislike eating bananas, 

you may try drinking banana 

milkshake. 

Honey 

Raw honey has potent properties 

that help a lot in the treatment 

of stomach ulcers. It has glucose 

oxidase which produces hydrogen 

peroxide and kills harmful 

bacteria that can contribute to the 

development of ulcers. There is 

other antibacterial substances in 

honey that help eliminate harmful 

Milk 

An effective stomach ulcer 

treatment is drinking unsweetened 

cold milk because it helps reduce 

acid formation. It will give you 

relief from the burning sensation. 

Also, raw goat milk has been 

proven to be an effective drink for 

treating ulcers. 

Cabbages 

Among all other effective 

methods, cabbage juice is the best 

way to treat stomach ulcers. It is a 

reliable source of vitamin C, which 

has been found to be lower in the 

gastric juice in ulcer patients. This 

during the day ease inflammation 

in the stomach. • 

Do’s & don’ts : 

• Follow a diet rich in 

fiber and low in fats. Eat 

steamed green vegetables 

more. 

• Avoid coffee, alcohol, citrus 

juices, sugar, hot and spicy 

foods. 

• Drink aloe vera juice 

diluted with water. 

• Amla is very good for 

treating stomach ulcers. 

• Drink cold water. 

• Eat raw cucumber or 

drinking cucumber juice is 

known to help. 

inexpensive and safe remedy grow 

close to the soil and it is rich in 

beneficial lactic acid bacteria. It 

produces an amino acid which 

helps boost blood flow to the 

stomach lining. 

Garlic 

Yes, garlic can help treating 

stomach ulcers. According to one 

research at the Fred Hutchinson 

Cancer Research Center in Seattle, 

garlic has antibacterial and 

antimicrobial properties that keep 

the level of H. pylori bacteria in 

check which ultimately contribute 

to the development of stomach 

ulcers. Two or there crushed 

cloves followed by a glass of water

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Feature 

Safe guarding our minds 

• Abdullah Omar Saif 

Psychiatric patients among adult 

people are on the rise in the 

country, according to a new study 

of National Institute of Mental 

Health (NIMH) Bangladesh. The 

preliminary report further says 

that about 31 percent of adultsjust 

under 1 in 3 - suffer from some 

form of mental illness, which 

is almost double the previous 

survey’s result conducted in 

2005 (Source: Daily Prothom Alo, 

October 10, 2016). Recently, the 

World Health Organization (WHO) 

announced that one in four people 

in the world will be affected by 

mental or neurological disorders 

at some point in their lives. It 

placed mental disorders among 

the leading causes of worldwide 

ill-health and disability. 

Though connected 

globally with all our advanced 

communication technology, many 

of us, nonetheless, feel lonely, 

desolate and hopeless. Experts 

think that depression is one of 

the most common mental health 

problems. A big portion of our 

world population feels alienated 

deep inside. 

Cultural identity of a person 

plays one of the most crucial 

roles for the development of a 

healthy mind. We believe that 

regular participation in cultural 

practices and celebrations helps 

young individuals to form their 

own identities. A mind without 

identity is often confused, 

restless and prone to chronic 

subversion. Depression can be 

observed among individuals 

who fail to respond socially. It 

has been widely observed that 

depressed and alienated people 

usually show low moral standards. 

Many prominent psychologists 

have been trying to understand 

the connection between 

degradation of moral standards 

and the advent of globalization. 

Some skeptics even consider 

globalization as a disguised form 

of cultural domination. Among 

some of the urban people who 

are experiencing the influence of 

globalisation directly, a backlash 

against globalization has begun, 

with Western influences blamed 

for a decline in moral standards 

(Esposito, 1997). 

Research done by Dasen (2000) 

and Schlegel (2001) shows that 

adolescents play a pivotal role 

in the process of globalisation. 

Adolescents have enough 

maturity and liberty to seek for 

information and experiences 

outside the territory of their 

parental authority. They tend to 

have more interest than either 

children or adults in global media, 

which act as the leading purveyor 

of globalisation (Schlegel, 2001). It 

is also true that they are mentally 

susceptible and unlike adults, they 

have curiosity towards what is 

new and strange. 

In some of the sub Saharan 

countries, the rates of premarital 

sex and pregnancy are increasing 

as traditional systems of sexual 

control through rituals and 

folklore lose their relevance in the 

eyes of the young people. This 

problem is sometimes blamed 

on the introduction of Western 

media with their relentless sexual 

stimulation (Songue, 1998). 

Adolescents get utterly confused 

when they get alienated from their 

native culture. Their fight with 

growing frustration may result 

in an inability to differentiate 

between good and evil. This 

phenomenon can be observed 

everywhere in the world. For 

the last few years, some Middle 

Eastern terrorist groups have been 

targeting confused and vulnerable 

youths as their overseas recruits. 

These youngsters are mentally 

stressed about their identities and 

lack proper defense mechanism to 

cope with social challenges. Their 

depressed minds start seeking 

solace in violence. 

Excessive engagement in online 

social media and a reluctance to 

participate in communal activities 

is one of the major contributor to 

this break in communication. We 

need to accept 

and embrace 

our own culture and avoid creating 

the field for identity crisis. We 

must work to build an inclusive 

society where all voices are heard. 

We need to make a combined 

effort to eliminate depression in 

the young generation. 

WHO is now urging to 

integrate mental health care into 

community health care system 

more efficiently. In some societies, 

mental illness is perceived as a 

matter of embarrassment. We 

need to work together to change 

this view. By setting up integrated 

community health systems, we 

can start to properly address 

mentally isolated youth and 

provide proper medical care. • 

The writer is manager, Biz 

development at Mango 

Teleservices Limited. He 

can be contacted through 

abdullahomarsaif@gmail. 

com

| event | 

Biz Info 

Canadian University and Edbase jointly 

arranged “High Achiever’s Award Ceremony” 

| health | 

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Successful knee replacement 

operation done on 

Bangladeshi patient 

DT 

Canadian University of 

Bangladesh (CUB) hosted a “High 

Achiever’s Award Ceremony” 

on November 5 to recognise the 

success of students in their O’ 

and A’ level exams. The event was 

held to commemorate the launch 

of CUB’s Spring Admissions-2017. 

Chowdhury Nafeez Sarafat, 

Founder and Chairman, Board of 

Trustees, Canadian University of 

Bangladesh was the Chief Guest 

at the event. 79 students from 

Edbase (English Medium Tuition 

Provider) participated in this 

event along with their parents 

and siblings. 

During the event, Dr James 

Gomez, Pro-Vice Chancellor, 

Canadian University of 

Bangladesh highlighted key 

developments in higher 

education. He said that students 

have to combine practical 

experiences through internships 

as well as acquiring classroom 

knowledge at the university. He 

welcomed the top achievers to 

enroll at Canadian University of 

Bangladesh to pursue their higher 

studies. 

The High Achiever Award 

Ceremony was an opportunity 

for both students and parents 

to visit the campus and consult 

with university counsellors 

about opportunities in higher 

education. The event was cohosted 

with Edbase. • 

Osteoarthritis is the most common 

reason behind knee replacement 

treatment. Patients with severe 

damage in the knee joint, which 

is accompanied by progressive 

pain and impaired function, 

may be candidates for full knee 

replacement. 

Recently a successful knee 

replacement procedure was 

carried out on 

Bangladeshi 

patient ADV 

Anima Abbas 

by Dr Lee Woo 

Guan at Kuching 

Specialist 

Hospital, 

Malaysia. After 

the operation 

in September 

this year, Abbas 

made full 

recovery and 

| business | 

Florista.Delivery 

has nearly complete relief from 

pain. Abbas was a patient at Sheikh 

Fazilatunnessa Mujib Memorial 

KPJ Specialization Hospital. 

Dr Guan hopes to provide the 

same treatment in Bangladesh 

for other Osteoarthritis patients 

suffering from this condition. 

The hospital can be contacted 

at: 02 4407 7030 31 • 

| welfare | 

Free eye treatment camp for CEPZ 

employees 

An eye camp was organised 

on November 5, to provide eye 

treatment services to employees 

of Chittagong Export Processing 

Zone (CEPZ). This camp was 

organised in association with 

Lions Club of Chittagong Voice, 

at the Chittagong EPZ Hospital. 

About three hundred CEPZ 

employees availed eye treatment 

and medicine, free of cost. 

Among them, 28 were selected 

for free surgery, at Chittagong 

Lions Eye Hospital. 

The general manager of CEPZ, 

Md Khorshid Alam inaugurated 

the eye treatment camp. He 

appreciated the noble initiative 

taken by Lions Club, and thanked 

them for organising the free eye 

camp in CEPZ. He said CEPZ is 

the biggest EPZ of the country, 

and around two lac workers are 

working there. 

District Governor of Lions 

Club International, District 

315-B4 Ln Shah Alam Babul said 

that, Lions Club International is 

a service-oriented institution. 

It has been working to help 

distressed humanity. He urged 

the workers who suffer from 

ophthalmic problems to avail the 

free treatment, and advised those 

with more critical problems to 

contact the Chittagong Lions Eye 

Hospital for higher treatment and 

operation. 

Among others, Chief Medical 

Officer of CEPZ Hospital Dr Abu 

Taslim, Ln Osman Gani, Ln 

Showkatul Islam, Ln Iftekhar 

Saimul Chowdhury, President 

of Linons Club of Chittagong 

Voice Ln Tapan M Chowdhury, 

including officials of Lions Club 

International & BEPZA, were 

present at the event. • 

Sometimes just the presence of a 

beautiful flower can brighten your 

mood, relieve tension, and even 

change the course of your day. 

Everybody loves flowers, but 

when it comes to world class floral 

designs, we don’t have many 

options in Bangladesh. To serve 

this need, one of the very first online 

floral websites named Florista. 

Delivery has come forward with 

a one stop solution for all flowerloving 

people. 

Florista.Delivery has 

established itself as the premier 

floral delivery and gifting service 

in Bangladesh. Sending flowers is 

a delightful way to express your 

love, affection, gratitude and 

so many other sentiments that 

matter. 

Having flowers delivered to 

your loved ones is always a good 

way to brighten their day. It’s also 

a great way to decorate your home, 

when you don’t have the time to 

stop by the local florist. 

However, people who have 

never ordered flowers online 

before may be hesitant because 

they’re unfamiliar with the 

process. The process is very simple 

at Florista.Delivery - you can chose 

the bouquet from their website - 

www.florista.delivery and order it 

by calling on the hot number given 

on the site. You can pay for your 

order on the site through your 

Visa, or Mastercard. You can also 

use Bkash or pay cash on delivery. 

Florista.Delivery ensures the best 

delivery service at your door step 

free of cost. 

You may also download the app 

from Google play store and Apple 

I-store. For more information, 

visit www.facebook.com/florista. 

delivery. 

Express your feelings through 

Florista.Delivery! •

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Editorial 


TODAY 

Up in the air 

Anyone who deliberately attempted 

to sway the election though 

misinformation will go down in history 

as a villain as vile as the Revolutionary 

war traitor Benedict Arnold 

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The Sri Lankan 

paradigm 

There is much happening in our South 

Asia. I came back from Sri Lanka feeling 

that they have discarded many of the 

habits that add unnecessary stress to 

modern day living 

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BIGSTOCK 

A little more action, 

please 

The parties should take forward what 

was raised at the Bonn Climate Change 

Conference this May to the upcoming 

22nd session of the COP in Marrakesh 

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Now is the time to act 

With Bangladesh being one of the countries most susceptible to climate 

change, the upcoming Conference of the Parties (COP22) is a good 

opportunity for the world to come up with long-term solutions to its 

adverse effects. 

Bangladesh is rapidly losing significant amounts of arable land to rising sea levels 

and increasing water salinity. This could have disastrous results, not the least of 

which is the loss of livelihoods for millions and a possible famine. 

Last year, the conference in Paris, despite pledging to keep global temperature 

rise between 1.5 to 2 degrees Celsius, short-changed many developing nations such 

as ours. 

Developed nations need to do more. 

It is grossly unjust that industrial countries have produced most of the pollution 

which is causing climate change, but the greatest suffering will be inflicted upon lowlying 

poor countries like Bangladesh which have hardly produced any pollution. 

As a result, the presence of climate-vulnerable countries such as Bangladesh 

should be felt at the upcoming conference in Marrakech, Morocco. Pushing for 

taxation on fossil fuels and investing in renewable energy should be higher on the 

agenda. 

Additionally, it should be made clear to the rest of the world that more well-off 

nations need to participate in improving the climate that they have created. 

Financial and political contributions to countries such as ours would go a long 

way in battling the effects of climate change. 

Otherwise, we are slated to have a disaster in our hands. 

The world needs a clean energy revolution that will allow for continuous 

economic growth while simultaneously ensuring that pollution isn’t a factor. 

The COP22 at Marrakech is where this needs to be done. And there’s no better 

time than now. 

The world needs a clean 

energy revolution that 

will allow for continuous 

economic growth while 

simultaneously ensuring 

that pollution isn’t a factor

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Up in the air 

With Hillary, Obama’s legacy lives, and with Trump, it dies 

LETTER 

FROM 

AMERICA 

• Fakhruddin Ahmed 

It is hard to tell whether we are 

experiencing the calm before 

the storm, or the storm before 

the calm. 

With only a day to go before 

the election, the presidential 

candidates and their surrogates 

are crisscrossing the battleground 

states at breakneck pace, and 

bombarding the air waves and TV 

screens with relentless negative 

ads. 

A race Hillary Clinton led by a 

comfortable 6 points pre-Comey 

letter,has morphed into a tossup 

post-Comey. Clinton’s current 

2-point lead has dispatched her 

chances into the margin-of-error 

territory. 

People are wondering if destiny 

is on Trump’s side. On August 

22, Time magazine put Trump 

on its cover with the caption: 

“Meltdown.” On October 24, Time 

did it again, this time with a more 

definitive: “Total Meltdown.” 

Didn’t quite happen that way, 

did it? It is not only the world’s 

premier weekly that got the Trump 

phenomenon wrong, just about 

everyone else did. 

Since we cannot interview 

“destiny” to ascertain her 

intentions, let us try and divine 

ourselves what has happened, and 

is likely to happen. 

Providence did come to 

Trump’s aid anytime he was in 

danger of being blown away. The 

first rescue was after the two 

party’s national conventions in 

July. 

The Republican convention was 

erratic, and Trump’s acceptance 

speech dark. Democratic 

convention was flawless, and 

Hillary’s speech inspiring. Hillary 

raced to a 89% chance of victory 

according to Nate Silver by August 

14. Hence, Time’s first cover. 

Then the Russians hacked 

into the Democratic Party’s and 

Clinton’s campaign manager’s 

websites, and WikiLeaks began 

releasing unsavory information. 

By September 26, the contest 

was even. The presidential debates 

(September 26, October 9, October 

19) which Clinton won handily, 

and the release of the Access 

Hollywood recording on October 

7, sent Trump’s campaign into 

another tailspin. Clinton’s chances 

soared to 88% by October 17, 

resulting in Time’s second cover 

predicting Trump’s imminent 

doom. 

With the Access Hollywood tape 

and Trump’s poor performances 

in the debates receding in the rear 

view mirror, the race settled into 

a comfortable 6 to 7 point national 

lead for Clinton. It appeared 

that Clinton would coast to a 

comfortable 350-Electoral College 

vote victory. 

On October 26, Trump 

surrogate, former New York City 

Mayor Rudy Giuliani, boasted on 

Fox News that an imminent event 

was going to shake up the election 

campaign and turn the election in 

Trump’s favour, adding that even 

“liberal polls” will show its impact. 

Two days later, on October 28, 

came the bombshell in the form 

of a letter from FBI Director James 

Comey to Congress, informing 

them that new emails have been 

found that could be “pertinent” 

to the Clinton email investigation 

that the FBI had concluded in July. 

The director’s cryptic, Clintonincriminating 

letter omitted 

several exculpatory facts: 

1. The emails were not found on 

Hillary Clinton’s computer, but on 

the laptop her aide, Huma Abedin 

shared with her former husband, 

Anthony Weiner. 

2. The director had not read any 

of the emails, and therefore, did 

not know if they were pertinent to 

the email investigation. 

3. Since the FBI had no idea 

about the content of the emails, 

no voter, or Trump campaign 

official, should assume that there 

is anything incriminatory about 

Clinton in the emails. 

Republicans and Democrats 

beseeched Mr Comey to explain 

his letter. Harvard law Professor 

Alan Dershowitz even composed 

a short letter that Comey could 

use that would be fair. He and 

Republican Professor David 

Gergen of Harvard’s Kennedy 

School, among thousands of 

others, warned Mr Comey that 

his silence was unacceptable -- 

because it would harm Clinton, 

and help Trump. 

As Comey remained silent, the 

Trump campaign seized upon his 

Which way will America swing on November 8? 

Anyone who deliberately attempted to sway the election though 

misinformation will go down in history as a villain as vile as the 

Revolutionary war traitor Benedict Arnold 

letter to paint Hillary as a criminalin-waiting. 

They are running ads 

saying that America must not 

elect someone president who will 

be indicted for crimes after the 

election. 

When Rudy Giuliani was 

a federal prosecutor in New 

York, James Comey was his 

subordinate. In a radio interview, 

Giuliani bragged that he had 

received information about the 

“bombshell” from retired and 

active FBI agents. 

Democrats are pointing out 

that the FBI is dominated by white 

males, the only segment of the 

population Clinton is not winning. 

No one is accusing Mr Comey of 

personally leaking the information 

about the “bombshell” to Mr 

Giuliani. 

But, as its director, he is 

responsible for any leak emanating 

from the FBI that could swing the 

election. 

Currently, the Democrats are 

focused on winning the election. 

Win or lose, after the election, 

Democrats will focus on the FBI 

leaks that attempted to tamper 

with the will of the American 

people. They will get to the bottom 

of this. Anyone who deliberately 

attempted to sway the election 

through misinformation will go 

down in history as a villain as vile 

as the Revolutionary war traitor 

Benedict Arnold, and Aaron Burr, 

the man who shot Alexander 

Hamilton. 

Trump supporters have 

demonstrated that his perjury, 

racism, bigotry, misogyny, 

debauchery, and xenophobia do 

not matter to them whatsoever. 

The Comey letter is their latest 

excuse to come home and vote 

for the Republican candidate, 

regardless of how obnoxious he is. 

Thanks to them, America will elect 

the president it deserves. 

America’s is not a national 

election; it is a state by state 

election. 

Post-Comey, state races have 

tightened considerably. Polling is 

unreliable at this stage because 

early voting has been taking place 

for the last few weeks in many 

states. 

Thirty four states allow noexcuse 

early voting. Three states 

allow voting by mail. In only five 

states, voting takes place only 

on election day. It is in three of 

these states -- New Hampshire, 

Michigan, and Pennsylvania -- the 

polls are tightening the most, and 

Trump is spending most of his 

time. 

Pennsylvania is so critical to 

Clinton’s chances that she and 

President Obama will make a joint 

appearance at her campaign finale 

in Philadelphia on election eve. 

One major concern for the 

Clinton campaign is the lack of 

African-American enthusiasm 

for early voting, which is down 

8% from 2012. Young African 

Americans have not forgiven 

President Bill (and Hillary) Clinton 

for enacting the 1994 Crime 

Bill that has resulted in mass 

incarceration of blacks for petty 

crimes and minor drug offences. 

The Clintons have since 

apologised for the bill. 

President Obama is 

campaigning his heart out for 

Hillary, and attempting to energise 

African-Americans by reminding 

them that his legacy is on the line: 

With Hillary, his legacy lives; with 

Trump, it dies. 

According to Nate Silver, as 

of writing, Clinton has a 65.8% 

chance of victory, with 293 

Electoral College votes. The 

chances of Democrats regaining 

Senate control is 50.2%. 

Prediction of turmoil in the 

election’s aftermath is overblown. 

America loves a winner. The 

loser is quickly forgotten. Electoral 

College is predicated on the 

winner taking all. 

George W Bush won only 537 

more votes than Al Gore in Florida 

in 2000, but won 100% of the 

Electoral College votes. 

If Donald Trump loses, he will 

huff and puff, but, nobody will listen 

to the loser Trump anymore. • 

Dr Fakhruddin Ahmed is a Rhodes 

Scholar. 

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Opinion 

The Sri Lankan paradigm 

South Asian countries like Sri Lanka have a lot to offer the tourist 

There is much happening in our South Asia. I came back from Sri 

Lanka feeling that they have discarded many of the habits that add 

unnecessary stress to modern day living 

SERPENT 

IN EDEN 

• Towheed Feroze 

I 

Cathartic Colombo? 

firmly believe that unless 

you have visited a country, 

refrain from making any 

comments on that nation’s 

socio-economic situation. Yes, 

we can form an idea about a state 

based on what news we get on 

the media, but, honestly, a few 

news items can never give the real 

picture. 

Just before I left for Sri Lanka 

for an official visit, asked a 

neighbor if he wanted something, 

to which he just responded, with 

a slight hint of denigration: What 

can you get in Sri Lanka? 

I was hurt. 

This is not the first time such 

a derogatory comment was made 

by someone about a South Asian 

country. Some time back, when 

the Maldives was still not officially 

stamped as a high-end tourism 

spot, one of my acquaintances 

called it a third world country. 

The belittling tone in her voice 

was too pronounced to miss. 

Once someone asked me: “How 

is Bhutan?” I told him that if there 

is one place where peace prevails 

with immaculate mountainous 

beauty, then Bhutan is it. 

A Switzerland in South Asia, 

I added, to give more potency to 

what I had just said. 

Of course, that person would 

rather visit Switzerland because 

it’s in Europe and once you are in 

Europe, the region of wealth, the 

impact of the photos on Facebook 

is bigger. Sri Lanka, I found, to 

be a country where politeness is 

inextricably mixed with discipline 

and cleanliness. 

And yes, since many will want to 

compare, the country is just as 

attractive as any first world state. 

As part of the official tour, we 

were taken to the sea side city of 

Hambantota; “Ambalantota” in 

their language. 

Long time ago, read about this 

place in the Masud Rana book: 

Bisshoron, which was later adapted 

for the big screen in 1975, starring 

Sohel Rana in the eponymous role. 

With foreign filming unheard of 

in the early days after liberation, 

Hambantota was recreated on the 

Cox’s Bazar beach. 

So, naturally, I had a special 

interest in seeing the actual place. 

Windy, cool, filled with coconut 

trees and tranquility -- these are 

the words that come to mind in 

describing this city kissing the sea. 

On the way from Hambantota to 

Colombo, the first things to admire 

were the perfect highways and 

noiseless traffic. 

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Hardly anyone honked, and, 

when needed, our bus used a very 

mellow form of horn, which did 

not startle others on the road. 

During our four-hour plus bus 

journey to the capital, passed 

several small towns and noticed 

how immaculate they appeared. 

Everywhere there was a sign of 

order. No, not the clinical sort, but 

the type associated with pristine 

living, or something which we call 

“chhimchham” in Bengali. 

The churches, mosques, 

temples looked as if they are 

cleaned regularly, the CNGs, 

in a variety of colours, added 

exuberance to the towns with 

the suburbs blessed with an air of 

serenity. 

They say, if you want to find 

out about a nation, go and take a 

look at their toilets. We stopped 

at a large highway shopping 

area and there were two types of 

washrooms: One, which charged 

a fee, and the others, which were 

free for all. 

In the latter section, one could 

sleep near the toilet. 

The same has to be said for 

washrooms at malls in Colombo. 

Colombo is a mixture of old 

colonial period architecture and 

the new, which means that the 

city retains much of its historic 

character. 

Once more, I was struck by the 

small things that make a city first 

class -- neat steel scaffolding for 

construction sites, adequate public 

warning through fluorescent 

signboards, placards, horn-free 

traffic, and general cleanliness. 

Modern amenities that make a 

cosmopolitan city are there along 

with plenty of religious spots for 

all faiths. 

Near the port, large 

construction was underway. 

Again, in such orderly fashion, 

that even looking for faults in 

storing building materials, I failed 

to find any. 

It’s amazing that nowhere could 

I find anyone lamenting the ill 

impact of the long-drawn civil war. 

Either they have decided to forget 

a turbulent past or are too busy 

making a better future. 

As for a future, from the capital 

city, it becomes clear that this 

country is moving forward fast. 

Many top range hotels are found in 

Colombo with more coming up -- a 

sure sign that there is demand for 

luxurious accommodation. 

Gastronomically, this city is 

adventurous, with an array of 

fresh sea food available from the 

high to the affordable end. 

Colonial impact is visible with 

many fast food stores selling 

devilled kidneys and liver. 

As I said earlier, there is a 

common (bizarre) trend to look 

at South Asian successes with 

disdain and, in some cases, 

without even seeing these 

achievements. 

For shoppers, this country 

offers gems and spices. Those who 

are impressed by large shopping 

malls with brand names won’t be 

disappointed either. 

There is much happening in 

our South Asia. I came back from 

Sri Lanka feeling that they have 

discarded many of the habits that 

add unnecessary stress to modern 

day living. 

By the way, there are foot and 

head massage centres everywhere 

with glass windows, so rest 

assured, the happy ending is 

purely spiritual. 

No wonder, these people seem 

so relaxed. 

Incidentally, their lager 

is terrific; far better than the 

imported European ones. So, as an 

impressed visitor, I would suggest: 

For once, leave the common 

preferences and drop over at 

Colombo by the sea. Or, should I 

say, cathartic Colombo? • 

Towheed Feroze is a journalist currently 

working in the development sector.

Opinion 23 

A little less conversation, 

a little more action, please 

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Unsuprisingly, corporate lobbyists are still a major problem in the fight against climate change 

• Shaila Mahmud 

With Paris Agreement 

coming into full 

effect, just before the 

next meeting of the 

Conference of Parties’ (COP) is all 

set to kick off, it has opened the 

floor for implementation talk in 

this year’s UN Climate Conference 

in Marrakech at its 22nd session. 

All the same, parties shall not 

overlook addressing concerns 

regarding the inclusion and 

influence of big polluters in UN 

negotiations. 

The inclusion of corporate 

organisations in the UN system has 

an extended account. 

In the United Nations 

Framework Convention for 

Climate Change (UNFCCC), 

the inclusion of non-state 

organisations is well established 

under Articles 6 and 7 which allow 

non-governmental bodies to be 

approved as observers. 

It is mentioned in an interview 

on European Commission’s social 

sciences and innovation column 

that UNFCCC admission process 

requires applicants to provide a 

certificate of non-profit and/or tax 

exempt status, de facto excluding 

individual companies to be 

involved in the process. 

Thus, business companies 

are represented through their 

respective business associations 

under the broad category of civil 

society and non-governmental 

organisations (NGOs), allowing the 

business groups with conflict of 

interest to participate in UNFCCC 

conference every year. 

Even the landmark Paris 

Agreement has welcomed 

participation of business-interest 

groups and corporations -- 

irrespective of conflict of interest 

between big polluting industries’ 

action with the global goal of 

limiting temperature rise. 

A peer-reviewed research, 

published in the science journal 

Climatic Change, points out that 

90 companies are responsible for 

two-thirds of total global carbon 

pollution, and five companies 

-- Chevron, Exxon, BP, Shell, and 

Conoco Phillips -- have emitted 

12.5% of total global emissions. 

These companies have been 

making profits over many decades 

while constantly denying climate 

change. 

However, their active 

presence at global climate change 

negotiations every year shows how 

tactfully they have entered into a 

regime which supports substantial 

reduction in global warming -- 

that is, to limit greenhouse gas 

emissions from burning fossil fuels 

such as natural gas, oil, and coal. 

According to a report by Jesse 

Bragg this May, during the first 

treaty negotiations since the Paris 

Agreement’s adoption, parties 

sought to rectify this problem 

by calling for the study of other 

multilateral and UN bodies’ 

conflicts-of-interest policies and 

approaches. 

This call was made with a 

single objective to introduce an 

internal policy to the UNFCCC for 

assessing, and directing, conflict 

of interest among business interest 

non-governmental organisations. 

A policy as such is not new to 

the UN system. 

Realising conflict of interest 

due to involvement of tobacco 

industry in UN health conferences, 

WHO undertook the legally 

binding treaty, known as the 

WHO Framework Convention on 

Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) 

to “call for a limitation in the 

interactions between lawmakers 

and the tobacco industry” under 

Article 5.3. 

In the last few years, corporate 

lobbyists have been more active 

at the sessions of COP than ever 

before. One of the most debated 

events of corporate infiltration at 

global climate change negotiations 

was witnessed in Warsaw at COP19 

in 2013. 

The Polish government not only 

allowed some of the giant climate 

change skeptic corporations like 

General Motors and BMW, but 

also, co-sponsored a coal industry 

summit during the talks. 

Last year, in Paris at COP21, 

a large number of fossil fuel 

company sponsors among other 

corporate groups were actively 

Must we appease the offenders at climate change negotiations? 

The parties should take forward what was raised at the Bonn Climate 

Change Conference this May to the upcoming 22nd session of the 

COP in Marrakesh -- introducing effective policy to screen and assess 

corporations with conflicting interests 

participating. 

The corporate groups organised 

several off-site events, business 

summits during COP21 such as 

Sustainable Innovation Forum 

2015, Caring for Climate Business 

Forum, World Climate Summit 

2015, to name a few. 

Corporate groups like Exxon 

Mobil, BP, Shell, Chevron, Anglo 

American, and others have been 

held legally responsible for human 

rights violations in countries like 

the USA and the Philippines. 

Yet, they have been allowed 

access to the climate negotiations 

because of their close ties with 

business and industry NGOs 

(BINGOs) such as National Center 

for Public Policy Research (Exxon 

Mobil), Business Roundtable 

(Chevron and Conoco Philips), 

and European Chemical Industry 

council (Exxon Mobil and 

Chevron), and other BINGOs. 

Most business corporations and 

associations now have adopted a 

progressive stance toward climate 

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negotiation and have also been 

actively pursuing the world to 

introduce new technologies to 

work in line with the global goal 

of limiting global temperature rise 

below 2°C. 

Nevertheless, no matter how 

innovative and efficient the 

technology would be, power 

generation from fossil fuel like 

coal, gas, and oil will produce 

emission -- since, they are limited 

in nature, they will become extinct 

in the near future. 

Thus, the parties should take 

forward what was raised at the 

Bonn Climate Change Conference 

this May to the upcoming 22nd 

session of the COP in Marrakesh 

-- introducing effective policy to 

screen and assess corporations 

with conflicting interests 

and effectively exclude their 

presence from all sorts of climate 

safeguarding decisions. • 

Shaila Mahmud is working in the field of 

climate change and development.

DT 

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Sport 


TOP STORIES 

All BPL franchises 

agree to rematches 

All the seven BPL franchises have 

agreed for rematches during 

an emergency meeting of the 

governing council on Saturday. 

The GC also decided to restart the 

tournament from tomorrow owing 

to rain in the last few days. PAGE 25 

Ancelotti plays down 

Robben spat 

Bayern Munich boss Carlo 

Ancelotti dismissed Arjen 

Robben’s sideline spat as just 

something “from the media” after 

the Dutchman was substituted in 

the Bundesliga leaders’ 1-1 draw 

with Hoffenheim. PAGE 26 

Magnificent Murray 

on top of the world 

When Novak Djokovic ruthlessly 

swept aside Andy Murray to 

lift the French Open title and 

complete a career Grand Slam in 

June, it seemingly reinforced the 

yawning chasm between the Serb 

and his long-time rival. PAGE 27 

Conte: Chelsea can 

get better 

Antonio Conte claimed Chelsea 

can still improve, despite 

recording his best win as manager 

of the club so far, describing his 

side’s 5-0 thrashing of Everton as 

“fantastico”. The Italian had been 

pressed to offer a word from his 

own language. PAGE 28 

Bangladesh fast bowler Mustafizur Rahman is on the road to recovery 

Walsh hopeful of quick 

Mustafiz recovery 

• Mazhar Uddin 

Bangladesh fast bowler Mustafizur 

Rahman is recovering well 

after his shoulder operation, 

informed Tigers bowling coach 

Courtney Walsh. 

Walsh added that they will get 

to know further details of his recovery 

process any time between 

this Friday and Sunday. The West 

Indies great said this after assessing 

the left-arm paceman in Mirpur’s 

Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium 

yesterday. 

Walsh also said Mustafiz is expected 

to start bowling in short 

run-ups from today for the first 

time since undergoing a surgery 

on his left shoulder in August this 

year at Bupa Cromwell Hospital in 

London. 

“So far he is progressing okay. 

Slight stiffness still in his shoulder, 

nothing major. Everyday he 

is going to be assessed. I will come 

and have a look again [today]. But 

I think he is coming along nicely,” 

Walsh told the media. 

“At the moment we are just 

trying to get him back into action, 

working with him, try 40 percent, 

50 percent. The highest level he 

has gone so far is 60. So [today] 

I think will be a good day to see 

where he is at. This will be the 

first time if he bowls [today] that 

he will bowl two days straight. 

But there isn’t going to be a lot of 

bowling [today]. 

“And then I am looking at the 

ninth (of November), or the 11th, 

to have a good test to know exactly 

where he is at. But he is coming 

along nicely, he has done his rehab, 

he has done his work,” he said. 

Walsh stated that they are not 

willing to take any risks by rushing 

Mustafiz to the national side. 

“We will come to know by the 

11th or the 13th, we will have a 

better idea as to how fit he is and 

how ready he is. You don’t want 

to rush him back to competitive 

cricket if he is not going to be 

fully fit. I mean he is too good an 

asset to take any chance or risk,” 

he said. 

“I am hoping that on the 11th or 

13th we will have a proper assessment 

but he is coming on pretty 

good. He is going to feel a bit of 

discomfort or shock from time 

to time until the shoulder gets 

accustomed to what it used to do 

before. We have to make sure that 

he is looked after well,” he added. 

The 54-year old also said their 

upcoming New Zealand tour will 

be a big test for the fast bowlers. 

“Well we didn’t use much fast 

bowlers in the England series, the 

test will come when we go to New 

Zealand, and the guys did well I 

thought. When we go to New Zealand, 

we will get a good test. We 

will have the full quartet to look 

at and to work with. I am excited. 

I am planning for that department 

and I am excited to work with 

them,” he added. • 

MD MANIK 

Cricketer 

Shahadat, his 

wife acquitted 

• Md Sanaul Islam Tipu 

A Dhaka court has acquitted cricketer 

Shahadat Hossain and his wife 

Jesmine Jahan in a case filed over 

torturing their 11-year-old domestic 

help. 

Dhaka Women and Child Repression 

Prevention Tribunal 5 Justice 

Tanzila Islam announced the 

verdict yesterday. 

The court said the decision came 

as the prosecution failed to prove 

the allegations raised against Shahadat 

and Jesmine in the lawsuit. 

Mirpur police station OC (investigation) 

Mohammad Shafiqur 

Rahman, who is also the investigation 

officer of the case, submitted 

the charge sheet against the couple 

on December 29 last year. 

According to the case, a journalist 

named Khandkar Mozammel Haque 

found the 11-year-old child, who 

used to work as a house help at Shahadat’s 

residence, lying injured on 

the street in a Pallabi neighbourhood 

in the capital on September 6.•

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All BPL sides 

agree to 

rematches 

• Tribune Report 

All the seven BPL franchises have 

agreed for rematches during an 

emergency meeting of the BPL governing 

council on Saturday. 

Among other developments, the 

GC also decided to restart the tournament 

from tomorrow owing to 

persistent rain in the last few days. 

The four matches which were 

washed out will be played again and 

points table will be wiped clean. 

Comilla Victorians and Rajshahi 

Kings, who were scheduled to take 

on each other in the tournament 

opener last Friday, will now play 

their match on November 30. 

Friday’s second match between 

Rangpur Riders and Khulna Titans 

will be played this Thursday while 

Saturday’s games - Chittagong Vikings 

v Barisal Bulls and Comilla 

v Dhaka Dynamites - will now be 

held next Monday. 

The Barisal v Khulna and Rangpur 

v Rajshahi matches, originally 

scheduled for yesterday, will now 

be held on Nov 20 in Chittagong 

and Nov 28 in Dhaka, respectively.• 

Comilla Victorians captain Mashrafe bin Mortaza and his team mates prepare for training in Mirpur’s Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium yesterday 

DHAKA TRIBUNE 

Tamim: Mushfiq is a perfect example of a good leader 

Tamim Iqbal has come of age ever 

since making his international 

debut nine years back as he is 

currently the highest Bangladesh 

run-getter in all three formats. 

He was instrumental behind the 

Tigers’ rise as the next big thing 

in world cricket. The vice captain 

of the Bangladesh Test side 

was candid during an exclusive 

interview with Mazhar Uddin of 

Dhaka Tribune where he talked 

about the recent historic Test 

win against England, Mushfiqur 

Rahim’s captaincy, his personal 

goal and the challenges he faced 

before featuring for the national 

team, among other things. 

Here are the excerpts: 

How much does the historic Test 

win against England means to 

Bangladesh cricket? 

Massive. We have been going 

through a very bad phase in Test 

cricket and at times, we got frustrated 

and thought about the mistakes 

we were committing. All of 

a sudden, we started to believe in 

our strengths and registered our 

biggest win in Test cricket. I think 

the belief is important and I hope 

we can take this forward and improve 

as a team in Test cricket. 

How do you rate Mushfiqur Rahim 

as the captain of the Test side? 

I think Mushfiq is a perfect example 

of a good leader. He is the most 

hard-working player in the team who 

gives his hundred percent as a cricketer 

and also as a captain. A captain 

should be someone whom everyone 

would like to follow and Mushfiq has 

all the qualities. Yes, at times we all 

make mistakes as we were playing 

Test cricket after over 14 months. 

Being a batsman, I have made some 

mistakes, same goes for Mushfiq. I 

still believe he has all the qualities of 

a perfect leader for the team. 

Do you have any competitions 

with Shakib al Hasan in terms of 

performance and reaching new 

milestones? 

I always want to beat him when it 

comes to batting and same goes for 

Shakib when he goes out to bat. But 

unfortunately I can’t bowl and undoubtedly 

he is the best with the 

ball. Yes, there is a very healthy 

and positive competition among us 

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as we always want to improve our 

game. There is a friendly competition 

between us to see who gets to 

score the most number of hundreds 

as we were almost neck to neck in 

that aspect. Even if I get dismissed 

after scoring 30 or 40 runs, he 

pinches me that I missed a fifty or 

a hundred. But we all take these 

things very positively and whenever 

he scores runs or I play a good 

knock, we congratulate each other. 

How does it feels to witness the 

improvement of the Bangladesh 

team over the years? You were also 

a part of the team when the going 

got tough so how do you describe 

the Tigers’ rise? 

If you ask me about the limited-over 

formats then I would say 

yes, we have come a long way and 

Bangladesh are now a dangerous 

side in the limited-overs. But in 

Test cricket, I will say we still need 

to improve a lot and we have a long 

way to go to become a consistent 

Test team. 

Maybe we have registered a 

good win against England, but I 

still believe we have a lot to learn 

and improve in Test cricket. 

Going back to the past, how 

difficult or easy was your journey 

to the Bangladesh team? There 

were high expectations on you as 

you were a member of a cricketing 

family where your uncle Akram 

Khan was the former captain and 

elder brother Nafees Iqbal was the 

opening Test batsman. Was there 

pressure on you right from the 

very early age? 

Yes, there was immense pressure on 

me, right from the age-level period. 

Everyone sees me differently as my 

uncle Akram chacha is a legend of 

Bangladesh cricket and my elder 

brother Nafees also played for Bangladesh. 

Everyone thinks that I will 

be selected only because of that but 

very few have noticed my hard work 

and dedication towards the game. 

Ultimately, I have to score runs and 

prove my ability on the field. 

You are the highest Bangladesh 

run-scorer in all three formats and 

people now recognise your uncle 

and brother by your name. How 

does it feel? 

Definitely it feels great to create 

records for my country but still, 

I never think like that as Akram 

Khan is a big name in the history 

of Bangladesh cricket. They played 

the game even without taking 

money at some point of their career. 

It goes on to show their dedication 

and love towards the game. 

I don’t want to compare myself in 

that way as my goal is different. 

So what is your goal? 

To be frank, I don’t think about 

centuries or set any target but as 

I previously said, I want to score 

10,000 runs in any format. 

How much hard work and sacrifice 

does it take to improve Tamim as 

a player? 

Honestly, it’s really tough when you 

have all the attention on you right 

from the very early age. Everyone 

is watching you, how you play, how 

you behave and many more things. 

So yes, it was very tough and it was 

never possible without the support 

from my colleagues and coaches 

and along with my hard work. You 

know you will never achieve anything 

without hard work. 

Where do you want to see the 

Bangladesh team when you retire? 

I would like to see Bangladesh at 

the top five or top three will be 

great, especially in ODIs and T20s 

and in Test cricket, I would be happy 

if we stay at the top five when I 

finish my career. •

DT 

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Bale double helps 

Real see off Leganes 

• Reuters, Barcelona 

A first-half double from Gareth 

Bale helped Real Madrid cement 

their position at the top of La Liga 

with a 3-0 win at home to Leganes 

yesterday. 

Reeling from a chaotic midweek 

3-3 draw at Legia Warsaw in the 

Champions League, Real got off to 

a slow start against neighbours Leganes, 

but Bale put them in charge 

in the 37th minute. 

The Wales international, who 

netted a sensational half volley 

against Legia, raced onto a through 

ball from Isco that split the visiting 

defence and rounded goalkeeper 

Jon Serantes to tuck the ball inside 

the near post from a tight angle. 

Bale then cashed in on poor defending 

from a free kick to hit the 

second on the stroke of halftime, 

just beating Serantes to the loose ball 

from close range. Real’s Spain striker 

Alvaro Morata, standing in for the 

injured Karim Benzema, rounded off 

the win in the 76th minute. 

Real talisman Cristiano Ronaldo 

had a quiet game and frequently 

strayed offside, but nearly set up a 

third for Bale, who was denied by 

Serantes, who leapt to his left to 

claw away the Welshman’s header. 

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Falcao shines again as Monaco 

hammer Nancy 

• Reuters, Paris 

Radamel Falcao scored twice as 

Monaco halved Nice’s Ligue 1 lead 

with a 6-0 demolition of strugglers 

Nancy on Saturday. 

The Colombian striker, who also 

scored twice in a 3-0 win against 

CSKA Moscow in the Champions 

Midfield maestro Luka Modric 

received a rapturous reception 

from the Bernabeu crowd when he 

came on in the second half to mark 

his return from injury after more 

than a month out. 

Morata further delighted supporters 

by latching onto a Toni Kroos 

pass to score the third, moving 

ahead of Bale and Ronaldo as Real’s 

top scorer this season on eight 

goals in all competitions. 

RESULT 

Real Madrid 3-0 Leganes 

Bale 38, 45, Morata 76 

“We keep picking up points and 

today we did it while playing well, 

even if at the start we gave the ball 

away a lot. When we found the first 

goal the game changed,” said Zidane. 

“We bossed the second half and 

I’m happy with our performance 

and to have kept a clean sheet. 

We’re not going to win the title 

with 100 points, because it’s becoming 

much harder to win games 

in this league.” 

Real top the standings on 27 

points, five clear of champions Barcelona, 

who visit fourth-placed Sevilla 

later yesterday.• 

League in midweek, again demonstrated 

he was back to his worldclass 

best as second-placed Monaco 

moved within three points of Nice. 

Falcao opened the scoring for Monaco 

in the 25th minute when he headed 

home from point-blank range 

after Thomas Lemar’s strike had 

bounced off the bar into his path. 

Monaco’s Colombian forward Radamel Falcao (2R) heads to score during their 

French L1 match against Nancy at ‘Louis II Stadium’ in Monaco on Saturday AFP 

Real Madrid’s Welsh forward Gareth Bale vies with Leganes defender Diego Rico 

during the Spanish league match at the Santiago Bernabeu yesterday 

AFP 

He doubled the tally five minutes 

later. Kylian Mbappe made it 

3-0 after the break from close range 

but the drubbing was far from over 

for a sorry Nancy side. 

Second-half substitute Guido 

Carrillo found the back of the net 

twice in the dying minutes with 

Fabinho also scoring a late penalty.• 

RESULTS 

Monaco 6-0 Nancy 

Falcao 25, 30-P, 

Mbappe Lottin 65, 

Carrillo 87, 90+2, 

Fabinho 90-P 

Angers 1-0 Lille 

Diedhiou 54 

Bordeaux 2-1 Lorient 

Kamano 28, 

Prior 62-og 

Rolan 73 

Dijon 3-3 Guingamp 

Varrault 6, Coco 32, 

Diony 26, Mendy 79, 

Tavares 44 De Pauw 90+1 

Lyon 2-1 Bastia 

Lacazette 37-P, Crivelli 90 

Bengtsson 86-og 

Nantes 1-1 Toulouse 

Stepinski 90 Braithwaite 36-P 

Bayern draw, Dortmund’s 

Aubameyang scores four 

• Reuters, Berlin 

Bundesliga leaders Bayern Munich 

stumbled to a 1-1 home draw 

against Hoffenheim on Saturday 

but stayed three points clear at 

the top as Borussia Dortmund’s 

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang fired 

four goals past Hamburg SV following 

his midweek ban. 

Bayern fell a goal behind when 

Kerem Demirbay’s thundering shot 

in the 16th minute left keeper Manuel 

Neuer rooted on the spot. 

Hoffenheim were doing well 

to contain the Bavarians’ attacks 

but could do nothing when Steven 

Zuber slid into the box to clear a 

cutback from Douglas Costa but instead 

sent the ball into his own net. 

Aubameyang, surprisingly 

banned from their midweek Champions 

League win over Sporting 

following an unauthorised trip 

to Italy, redeemed himself with a 

four-goal performance in their 5-2 

victory at Hamburg. 

It took only four minutes for the 

Gabon international to open his account 

before recording a first-half 

hat-trick in just 27 minutes and 

scoring again early in the second 

half to put Dortmund 4-0 up, while 

Ancelotti 

plays down 

Robben spat 

• AFP, Berlin 

Bayern Munich boss Carlo Ancelotti 

dismissed Arjen Robben’s sideline 

spat as just something “from 

the media” after the Dutchman 

was substituted in the Bundesliga 

leaders’ 1-1 draw with Hoffenheim. 

Robben was replaced by French 

winger Kingsley Coman on 78 minutes 

and the Dutch winger stormed 

past Ancelotti when he was taken 

off, without making eye contact. 

The 32-year-old is renowned for 

sulking when substituted and Ancelotti 

said there was nothing to be 

read from Robben’s body language. 

“He played really well for 70 

minutes and then I used a fresh 

player,” explained Ancelotti. 

“Every time that I substitute Arjen 

Robben, a lot of people seem to 

think that there is a problem, but 

there isn’t one - at most, it’s from 

the media.” 

Hoffenheim have so far claimed 

the scalps of Bayer Leverkusen, 

Schalke and Hertha Berlin in Germany’s 

top flight and Ancelotti admitted 

his side were given a firsthalf 

fright. 

“We knew before the game that 

Hoffenheim are a good team, but 

we were still given a surprise in the 

first-half,” said the Italian.• 

taking his season’s tally of league 

goals to 11. • 

POINTS TABLE 

P W D L GD Pts 

Bayern 10 7 3 0 18 24 

RB Leipzig 9 6 3 0 11 21 

Hoffenheim 10 5 5 0 7 20 

Hertha Berlin 10 6 2 2 10 20 

Dortmund 10 5 3 2 13 18 

RESULTS 

Bayern Munich 1-1 Hoffenheim 

Zuber 34-og Demirbay 16 

Leverkusen 3-2 Darmstadt 

Calhanoglu 32, Colak 47, 

Brandt 56, Vrancic 85 

Aranguiz 69 

Hamburg 2-5 Dortmund 

N Mueller 55, 81 Aubameyang 4, 23, 27, 48, 

Dembele 76 

Ingolstadt 0-2 Augsburg 

Bobadilla 86, 

Altintop 90 

Freiburg 0-3 Wolfsburg 

Gomez 41, 53, 

Rodriguez 86 

Frankfurt 1-0 Cologne 

Gacinovic 5

Sport 27 

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QUICK BYTES 

Walton Junior Tennis 

begins today 

The Walton 30th Bangladesh 

International Tennis Federation 

Junior Championship 2016 gets 

underway at National Tennis 

Complex, Ramna today. A total of 96 

participants, including 59 boys and 

37 girls from 12 countries, will take 

part in the event. The participating 

nations are – India, China, Japan, 

Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, 

Singapore, Thailand, Chinese Taipei, 

USA, Vietnam and hosts Bangladesh. 

The six-day tournament was 

inaugurated yesterday. 

–TRIBUNE REPORT 

Farashganj win big 

in 1st Div Hockey 

Farashganj Sporting Club handed 

Shishu Kishor Sangha an 8-0 

thrashing in the Green Delta 

Insurance First Division Hockey 

League at Maulana Bhasani National 

Hockey Stadium yesterday. Bandhan 

scored three field goals while Suman 

netted twice. Uttara Hockey Club 

defeated Bachelors Sporting Club 

6-0 in the day’s other match at the 

same venue. Arafat Hossain Piyal 

bagged a brace for the winning side. 


Ansar’s Juthi bags 

gold in Nat’l Women’s 

Wrestling 

Juthi bagged the first gold medal 

in the sixth edition of the Women’s 

National Wrestling Championship 

2016 in the inaugural day at M 

Mansur Ali National Handball 

Stadium yesterday. Juthi of 

Bangladesh Ansar won the 60-kg 

weight category, Sharmin Akter 

of Bangladesh Army took home 

the silver while Shirin Akter of 

Rajshahi District Sports Association 

claimed bronze. The 32nd edition 

of the Men’s National Wrestling 

Championship also got underway 

at the same time. A total of 150 

wrestlers in both the men’s and 

women’s categories are taking part 

in the tournament, split into eight 

categories in each section. 


DAY’S WATCH 

CRICKET 

STAR SPORTS 2 

8:30AM 

South Africa Tour of Australia 

1st Test, Day 5 

TEN 3 

2:00PM 

Sri Lanka Tour of Zimbabwe 

2nd Test, Day 2 

FOOTBALL 

1:30 AM 

The Emirates FA Cup 2016/17 

Southport v Fleetwood Town 

Australia’s Shaun Marsh looks back as South Africa’s Faf du Plessis catches him out 

on the fourth day of their Test match in Perth yesterday 

AP 

SCORECARD 

SOUTH AFRICA FIRST INNINGS 242 

AUSTRALIA FIRST INNINGS 244 

SOUTH AFRICA 2ND INNINGS R B 

Q. de Kock c Voges b M Marsh 64 100 

V. Philander b Smith 73 143 

K. Maharaj not out 41 34 

Extras (b10, lb13, w17, nb1) 41 

Total (8 wkts dec, 160.1 overs) 540 

Fall of wickets 

1-35 (Cook), 2-45 (Amla), 3-295 (Duminy), 

4-324 (Elgar), 5-346 (Bavuma), 6-352 

(du Plessis), 7-468 (de Kock), 8-540 

(Philander) 

Bowling 

Starc 31-8-114-1 (5w), Hazlewood 37-11- 

107-2 (1nb), Siddle 26-9-62-2, Marsh 

26-4-77-2 (12w), Lyon 34-3-146-0, Voges 

5-1-8-0, Smith 1.1-0-3-1 

AUSTRALIA SECOND INNINGS R B 

S. Marsh c du Plessis b Rabada 15 45 

D. Warner run out 35 33 

U. Khawaja not out 58 120 

S. Smith c de Kock b Rabada 34 91 

A. Voges c de Kock b Rabada 1 12 

M. Marsh not out 15 19 

Extras (b8, lb2, w1) 11 

Total (4 wkts, 55 overs) 169 

Fall of wickets 

1-52 (Warner), 2-52 (Marsh), 3-144 (Smith), 

4-146 (Voges) 

Bowling 

Rabada 16-2-49-3 (1w), Philander 12-3-36- 

0, Duminy 8-1-18-0, Maharaj 17-6-40-0, 

Cook 2-0-16-0 

Highest fourth-innings 

414 score at the WACA in Tests 

for any team, by South Africa in 2008- 

09. Australia’s highest here is only 381 

which came against New Zealand in 

2001-02. 

Highest fourth-innings 

406 total by Australia in Tests - 

against England at Lord’s in 2009. They 

lost that Test chasing 522. 

Last time Australia batted 

1971 more than 140 overs 

in the fourth innings of a Test - versus 

England in Adelaide. 

Margin of defeat for 

309 Australia at WACA in their 

last Test against South Africa, after being 

set 632 to win. They were all out in 82.5 

overs in that innings. 

Run rate of South Africa’s 

4.39 innings on this fourth 

day. They added 150 runs in 34.1 overs 

losing two wickets. They had ended day 

three at run rate of 3.09 but escalated it 

to 3.37 at the end of the innings on. 

Instances of David Warner getting 

2 run out in Tests, in 102 innings. His 

first run out dismissal was against Sri 

Lanka in Hobart in 2012-13. • 

Rabada fires as South Africa close on WACA win 

• Reuters, Perth 

Kagiso Rabada took three wickets 

and Temba Bavuma produced a 

stunning piece of fielding as South 

Africa closed in on a first Test victory 

by reducing Australia to 169 

for four, still 369 runs behind, at 

the end of the fourth day yesterday. 

Magnificent Murray 

on top of the world 

• AFP, Paris 

The hosts had started their pursuit 

of their unlikely victory target 

soon after lunch when South Africa 

skipper Faf du Plessis declared at 

540-8, a lead of 538, having all but 

batted Australia out of the conTest. 

Bavuma’s brilliant run out ended 

David Warner’s bright start before 

21-year-old Rabada removed 

When Novak Djokovic ruthlessly swept aside Andy Murray 

to lift the French Open title and complete a career 

Grand Slam in June, it seemingly reinforced the yawning 

chasm between the Serb and his long-time rival. 

But a return to the friendly confines of Queen’s, and 

then Wimbledon, triggered the start of a remarkable run 

that on Saturday catapulted Murray to the top of the 

world. The Scot washed away bitter Roland Garros memories 

of a fifth Grand Slam final defeat to Djokovic - his 

eighth overall - by capturing a second Wimbledon crown 

over Milos Raonic. 

He then became the first player to win two Olympic 

singles gold medals when he successfully defended his 

title in Rio, defeating Juan Martin del Potro in “one of the 

hardest matches” of his career. And while he ran out of 

steam at the US Open, exiting in the quarter-finals, his 

dominance in Asia ramped up the pressure on a Djokovic 

shockingly short of his typically stratospheric standards. 

A career-best seventh title of the season followed in 

Vienna as Murray arrived in Paris with Djokovic, top of 

the rankings since July 2014, now firmly in his crosshairs. 

Having first ascended to the number two spot in August 

2009, Murray edged ever closer to the summit with contrasting 

wins over Fernando Verdasco and Lucas Pouille. • 

Shaun Marsh, Steve Smith and 

Adam Voges to finish the day with 

figures of 3-49 off 16 overs. 

Khawaja survived an early scare 

when a DRS review saved him from 

a duck and will resume unbeaten on 

58 with all-rounder Mitchell Marsh, 

as the Australians look to bat out the 

final day at the WACA. 

IN NUMBERS 

Warner appeared ready to chase 

down the full 539 target himself 

when he opened the innings at a 

fair lick with 35 runs from 33 balls. 

South Africa’s pace attack, reduced 

to Philander and Rabada 

after the loss for the series of an injured 

Steyn, were struggling until 

the intervention of Bavuma. •

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Tottenham’s Harry Kane scores their first goal from the penalty spot against Arsenal during their Premier League match at Emirates Stadium yesterday 

Dominant Liverpool top EPL summit 

• AFP, London 

RESULTS 

TOP SIX 

Liverpool swept to the top of the 

Premier League as Sadio Mane’s 

double inspired a 6-1 rout of Watford, 

while Tottenham rescued a 

1-1 draw at north London rivals Arsenal 

yesterday. 

While Liverpool dazzled, their old 

rivals Manchester United ended a 

four-match winless run in the league 

as goals from Paul Pogba and Zlatan 

Ibrahimovic secured a much-needed 

3-1 victory at Swansea. 

Liverpool have emerged as genuine 

title contenders and Jurgen 

Klopp’s side moved one point clear 

of second placed Chelsea thanks to 

a scintillating goal spree at Anfield. 

The Reds took the lead in the 27th 

minute when Senegal winger Mane 

met Philippe Coutinho’s corner with 

a header that looped past Watford 

goalkeeper Heurelho Gomes. 

Just three minutes later, Roberto 

Firmino picked out Coutinho 

on the edge of the penalty area and 

the Liverpool forward fired home 

with a fine low strike. 

Klopp’s team were three up two 

minutes before half-time as Emre 

Can arrived unmarked at the far post 

to head in Adam Lallana’s cross. 

The goals kept coming and 

Chelsea’s Diego Costa celebrates scoring their third goal against Everton during 

their Premier League match at Stamford Bridge on Saturday 

REUTERS 

Arsenal 1-1 Tottenham 

Wimmer 42-og Kane 51-P 

Hull 2-1 Southampton 

Snodgrass 61, Dawson 63 Austin 6-P 

Liverpool 6-1 Watford 

Mane 27, 60, Coutinho 30, Janmaat 75 

Can 43, Firmino 57, Wijnaldum 90 

Swansea 1-3 Man United 

Hoorn 69 Pogba 15, 

Ibrahimovic 21, 33 

Firmino added the fourth in the 

57th minute, the Brazilian finishing 

off Lallana’s cross, before Mane got 

Conte: Chelsea can get better 

• AFP, London 

M W D L GD Pts 

Liverpool 11 8 2 1 16 26 

Chelsea 11 8 1 2 17 25 

Man City 11 7 3 1 15 24 

Arsenal 11 7 3 1 13 24 

Tottenham 11 5 6 0 9 21 

Man Utd 11 5 3 3 3 18 

Antonio Conte claimed Chelsea can 

still improve, despite recording his 

best win as manager of the club so 

far, describing his side’s 5-0 thrashing 

of Everton as “fantastico”. 

The Italian had been pressed to 

offer a word from his own language 

for the display and, having chuckled 

about the one he picked, then 

spoke seriously about how the true 

value of this victory is how it instils 

confidence in the system and his 

ongoing work with the squad. 

“You have to show that you can 

win with the idea of playing good 

football. It’s important to put these 

players in the best situation to exploit 

their talent,” said Conte as Chelsea 

moved to the top of the table. 

“I’m very pleased because today 

there was a fantastic atmosphere 

with our supporters. We must continue 

to work together with the 

players, the club, the supporters 

and then to improve step by step. 

We can improve. We can improve.” 

It is difficult to see how Eden 

Hazard can improve, having put in 

one of his finest displays for Chelsea. 

He scored twice, opening the 

scoring after 18 minutes, before 

driving home the best strike of the 

game on 54 minutes after a brilliant 

exchange of flicks with Pedro. 

That makes it seven goals in 11, 

his finest start to a season since 

moving to Stamford Bridge. 

“He’s playing fantastic football,” 

REUTERS 

his second in the 60th minute with 

a clinical close-range effort from 

Firmino’s pass. 

Daryl Janmaat notched his first 

goal for Watford in the 75th minute, 

but there was still time for 

Liverpool to complete the demolition 

in the 90th minute through 

Georginio Wijnaldum’s tap-in. 

At the Emirates Stadium, Harry 

Kane marked his return from injury 

with the equaliser as Tottenham 

kept their hated neighbours from 

the Premier League summit. 

Arsenal took the lead in the 

42nd minute when Tottenham defender 

Kevin Wimmer headed a 

free-kick into his own net. 

After a difficult period for Pogba 

and Ibrahimovic, United’s star duo 

were back on song at the Liberty 

Stadium. • 

Conte enthused. “He’s showing his 

talent with all the Chelsea players. 

But the most important thing is 

that I’m seeing that Eden is fantastic 

with the ball and he is fantastic 

without the ball.” 

Everton didn’t have a chance and, 

having switched from his own attempt 

to play a three-man defence as 

early as the 36th minute, coach Ronald 

Koeman praised how the Italian 

ha made that formation work. 

“I never saw a team playing 

so well this system,” the Everton 

manager said. 

“Chelsea showed us today a 

very high level of football - in every 

aspect of football. I did not expect 

that big a difference on the pitch, 

but it happened.” •

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ACROSS 

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5 Boring tool (3) 

7 Slender stick (3) 

8 Consider carefully (6) 

11 Bricks-carrying 

trough (3) 

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soundness (4) 

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20 Nigh (4) 

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24 Whinnies (6) 

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10 Edge (3) 

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15 Talisman (6) 

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25 Necessary 

information (3) 

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every time the figure 10 appears. 

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Some letters of the alphabet may not be 

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As you get the letters, fill in the other 

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identify them. 

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Showtime 

Beauty lies in the eyes of Bollywood 

WHAT TO WATCH 

• Showtime desk 

The eyes are the most expressive 

features of the face. And when it 

comes to Bollywood celebrities, 

it doesn’t matter what roles 

they are playing, they always 

tend to focus on the eyes of the 

celebrities. Let’s take a look at 

Bollywood’s favourite celebrities, 

who not only have amazing 

active skills, but unique sparkles 

to boot. 

Raj Kapoor 

‘The showman as he was 

fondly called, Raj Kapoor was 

the original blue eyed boy of 

Bollywood. He started off young, 

at the tender age of 11, and at 

the raw age of 24, he established 

his own studio, R K Films, 

and became the youngest film 

director of his time. 

The Kapoors are referred to as 

‘the first family of Bollywood,’ for 

their tremendous contribution to 

the Indian cinema. 

Sasha Agha 

The Pakistani British actress, who 

recently made her appearance 

in Hindi film - Aurangzeb (2010), 

might not have created a lasting 

impact through her acting 

skills, but yes, she did manage 

to impress everyone with her 

greyish-blue eyes and serene 

beauty, which she was inherited 

from her mother, Salma Agha. 

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan 

Known as one of the most 

beautiful women in the world, 

Aishwarya’s graceful blue green 

eyes attracts instant attention, 

be it in a room containing five 

individuals or a stadium swarmed 

by thousands. 

Very few people know that, 

as per the statistics supplied by 

Google, approximately 6,000 

global Internet users per month 

hit the phrase ‘Aishwarya Rai 

eyes’ into their browsers each 

month. 

Hrithik Roshan 

The ‘Greek God of Bollywood’ 

was not only blessed with 

dancing skills and a great 

physique, but also has unique 

hazel green eyes. Special 

mention must be given to his 

Bollywood movie, Krrish (2006), 

where the beauty of his eyes 

was accentuated each time the 

character donned his mask. 

Kareena Kapoor Khan 

Commonly known as Bebo, 

Kareena’s beauty means 

perfection. Ditto for her hazel 

brown eyes that radiate a world 

of grace and vulnerability. It 

makes her stand out in the crowd 

as well. 

Karishma Kapoor 

Karishma also inherited her 

grandfather’s eye colour along 

with the rich, artistic Kapoor 

legacy. Karishma’s baby blues 

are wide and calm like an 

ocean. 

While her fair looks are 

ravenously talked about, the 

actress has surely been affluent 

with those sparkling light blue 

eyes. Very few know that she 

wore brown contact lenses for the 

huge success of her career, Raja 

Hindustani (1996). 

Rani Mukerji 

Rani Mukerji is hailed as the 

original hazel eyed beauty of 

Bollywood. With her natural, 

beautiful eyes, she manages to 

steal the limelight, whatever the 

circumstance. 

Shiney Ahuja 

The star who received huge 

popularity with his debut in the 

hindi movie - Gangster (2006), is 

currently facing a lot of issues in 

his personal life. 

But not a single person can 

deny the fact that Shiney Ahuja 

holds some ruggedly handsome 

good looks to which his hazel 

coloured eyes play a big role. • 

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of 

Shadows 

HBO, 11:21pm 

Sherlock Holmes is 

investigating terrorist 

attacks in London alone 

since his old partner Dr John 

Watson will get married a 

few days later with Mary. 

His investigations point to 

Professor James Moriarty 

as the person responsible 

for the explosions. When 

Dr Watson and Mary 

are attacked in the train 

while traveling for their 

honeymoon in Brighton, 

Holmes delivers Mary 

to the protection of his 

brother Mycroft. Soon 

Holmes and Dr Watson 

disclose that Professor 

Moriarty has bought arms 

and ammunition factories 

and is trying to start a war 

in Europe killing political 

leaders and politicians. 

Cast: Robert Downey Jr, Jude 

Law, Jared Harris, Noomi 

Rapace, Rachel McAdams 

The Hobbit: The Desolation 

of Smaug 

Movies Now, 4:25pm 

The film too follows the 

character Bilbo Baggins 

as he accompanies 

ThorinOakenshield and 

his fellow Dwarves, on a 

quest to reclaim the Lonely 

Mountain and to steal 

the Arkenstonefrom the 

dragon Smaug. During the 

dangerous journey, they 

fight against giant spiders, 

Orcsand Elves. Meanwhile, 

Smaug is not easily deceived 

and flies to Lake-town to 

destroy the town and its 

dwellers. 

Cast: Ian McKellen, Martin 

Freeman, Richard Armitage, 

Benedict Cumberbatch, 

Evangeline Lilly •

Showtime 

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Runa 

Laila 

honoured by 

Citibank NA 

• Showtime Desk 

The living legend of Bangla 

music, Runa Laila’s birthday 

is yet to come, which is on 

November 17. However, it seems, 

the internationally famed singer 

received her birthday present a 

week before the celebration. At 

least Runa Laila expressed her 

feelings this way, after receiving 

the “Gaaney Gaaney Gunijon 

Sambordhana,” an honourary 

musical award conferred by 

Citibank NA. 

On November 5, Dr Salehuddin 

Ahmed, ex-Governor of the 

Bangladesh Bank, conferred a 

crest and a portrait of Runa Laila, 

illustrated by Golam Kader Babu, 

to the artist through an event, 

held at the Radisson Blue Water 

Garden. Rashed Maksud, country 

officer and MD of Citibank NA, 

handed over a cheque worth Tk 

100,000. 

Recently, Runa Laila marked 

the 50 years anniversary of her 

musical journey. The authorities 

at Citibank NA informed that 

the award is a tribute the artist’s 

exemplary success in music. 

Including Runa Laila, the bank 

has honoured 13 talented artists 

of the country so far. 

Ferdousi Rahman and Emon 

Saha, shared their experiences 

with Runa Laila, while Alamgir, 

Subir Nandi, and Rizia Parvin 

among others were present at the 

event. 

Somnur Monir Konal 

performed several famous 

songs of Runa Laila at the 

programme. • 

Sumon Yusuf’s solo photo exhibition 

commenced at AFD 


The second solo photography 

exhibition titled Novembre à 

Paris, by photographer Sumon 

Yusuf has begun. The inaugural 

ceremony of this exhibition was 

held on Friday, November 4, at 

La Galerie, Alliance Française de 

Dhaka (AFD). 

Sophie Aubert, Ambassador 

of France to Bangladesh, Matiur 

Rahman, editor of Prothom 

Alo, and Abir Abdullah, 

photojournalist, European 

Pressphoto Agency, were among 

the distinguished guests present 

during the opening ceremony. 

Every artistic heart around the 

world yearns for Paris to imbibe 

the inspiration it exudes, to taste 

the taste that has been moulded 

by the doyens for thousands 

of years. In an artist residency 

programme, photographer 

Sumon Yusuf was in Paris 

in November 2015. He was 

mesmerised by the city of love 

and started photographing the 

poetic humaneness of Paris. 

But on Friday, November 13, a 

series of heinous terrorist attacks 

left 130 innocents dead and over 

368 injured. For Yusuf, a city 

brimming with love and warmth 

all of a sudden transformed 

into a place of blood, tears, and 

sadness. 

In the face of such inhuman 

and extreme cruelty, Yusuf’s 

photographs became the context 

he could hold onto, so he decided 

to capture life. 

Sumon Yusuf graduated in 

English literature, and studied 

Visual Literacy at Asian Centre for 

Journalism at Ateneo de Manila 

University from Philippines. He 

also attended a one year diploma 

program on photojournalism 

at South Asian Media Institute, 

Pathshala. His works have been 

exhibited in USA, Australia, 

Japan, Bangladesh, and 9th 

Angkor Photo Festival in Siem 

Reap, Cambodia, and France. 

He received the first prize 

in an International Photo 

Contest titled Climate: State of 

Emergency, organised by Alliance 

Françiase Foundation in Paris, 

under the patronage of Yann- 

Arthus Bertrand, a renowned 

climate change photographer. 

He is the recipient of numerous 

awards for his work including 

Top Prize of IREX Photo Contest 

in Washington DC, USA, winner 

of the 1st Prize in the ‘Creation’ 

category of the 1st JP’s Prize 

for Contemporary Photography 

Competition in Bangladesh, 

3rd place winner of Anti 

Corruption Youth Photo Contest 

of Transparency International, 

Berlin, Germany, winner of the 

73rd International Photographic 

Salon of Japan, Asahi Simbun, 

winner of CGAP Microfinance 

Photo Contest in USA, and 

winner of People & Planet Photo 

Contest in Australia. 

The exhibition will be open to 

all until Tuesday, November 15, 

2016. • 

Jaya Bachchan 

endorsed Aditi Rao for 

new Bhansali film 


Finally, the sizzling Aditi Rao 

Hydari has landed a role in 

Bollywood’s big one. After 

having worked in Wazir, and 

Mani Ratnam’s Tamil venture, 

Katru Veliyidai, the 30-yearsold 

actress is now set to work 

in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s 

upcoming film, Padmavati. 

In the film, she will portray 

the role of Ranveer Singh’s 

wife. 

It’s interesting to note 

that Aditi landed the role of 

Allaudin Khilji’s wife, courtesy 

of Jaya Bachchan. 

A source close to the 

production revealed that for a 

long time, Jaya Bachchan felt 

that Aditi had huge potential. 

“Her eyes are very deep, 

sad, and expressive. There’s a 

sparkle in her face,” Jaya even 

told a friend, she then went 

further on to recommended 

her to Sanjay Bhansali, for 

Padmavati. 

Sanjay, who has tremendous 

regards for the veteran actress’ 

opinion, called Aditi for the 

role of Ranveer’s wife on her 

recommendation. •

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Nasirnagar UNO withdrawn 

• Kamrul Hasan and 

Adil Sakhawat 

Nasirnagar Upazila Nirbahi Officer 

(UNO) Chowdhury Moazzem Hossain 

has been withdrawn following 

the recent attacks on Hindus in Nasirnagar. 

Brahmanbaria Additional Deputy 

Commissioner Bashirul Haque 

confirmed the matter to the Dhaka 

Tribune. 

Several organisations representing 

minority groups demanded the 

removal of UNO Moazzem Hossain, 

accusing him of negligence to prevent 

the attacks. 

A mob vandalised at least 17 

temples and ransacked hundreds 

of houses of Hindus on October 30 

over an alleged defamatory Facebook 

post by a Hindu youth, according 

to the UNO report. 

More than 100 people were injured 

in the attack which the victims 

blamed on influential locals. 

Amid the tension, unidentified 

criminals set ablaze six more Hindu 

houses in the upazila on Friday. 

On Saturday morning, residents 

of Rishipara, a predominantly Hindu 

locality in Nasirnagar, foiled an 

attempt to attack their homes. 

A total of 53 people have so far 

been arrested in connection with 

the attacks. 

Two more cases were filed by two 

victims yesterday over the attack on 

Friday against 100-150 unknown 

miscreants, confirmed Abu Zafar, 

OC of Nasirnagar police station. 

Awami League has suspended 

three leaders of its Nasirnagar unit 

for their involvement. 

People from the Hindu community of Nasirnagar, Brahmanbaria form a human chain yesterday protesting the recent 

communal attacks on them 

RAJIB DHAR 

Nasirnagar Hindus rally for 

security, judicial probe 

The affected Hindus in Nasirnagar 

have demanded judicial probe into 

the attacks as well as effective security 

measures to prevent fresh 

attacks. 

They made the call at a human 

chain formed in front of the local 

upazila office yesterday afternoon. 

Their demands also included 

arranging rehabilitation and compensation 

for the affected Hindus. 

About 1,000 vicitms joined the 

one-hour event. 

Nasirnagar upazila Vice-Chairman 

Anjan Kumar Dev, who 

attended the programme, announced 

that they would hold such 

event tomorrow as well if any fresh 

attack took place within 48 hours. 

“We want an unbiased investigation 

to dig out the facts and to 

bring the attackers to book soon,” 

he added. • 

Sayedul: I will resign if allegation 

against me can be proven 

• Kamrul Hasan and Adil 

Sakhawat 

Fisheries and Livestock Minister 

Sayedul Haque has denied the allegations 

brought against him following 

the Nasirnagar violence. 

“I will resign if anyone can 

prove that I made derogatory remarks 

about the Hindus after the 

Nasirnagar attack,” he said while 

briefing the media at Brahmanbaria 

yesterday. 

Sayedul met the press to clarify 

his roles during the incidents of 

Hindu temples, houses vandalizing 

in Nasirnagar in the last few days. 

He claimed that a group of people 

had been trying to tarnish his 

political career by spreading false 

Dhaka airport stabbing leaves 1 dead 

• Arifur Rahman Rabbi and 

Mohammad Jamil Khan 

An Ansar member was killed 

and three other security personnel 

at Hazrat Shahjalal International 

Airport were injured when a person 

in a cleaner’s uniform attacked 

them with a knife yesterday. 

The injured were rushed to Kurmitola 

General Hospital, where Sohagh 

Ali, 32, succumbed to his injuries, 

according to Ansar outpost 

in-charge Kanchan Banerjee. 

The incident took place around 

7:10pm at gate 4 on the second floor 

of the international departure terminal,” 

said Maj Gen Mizanur Rahman 

Khan, director general of Ansar. 

The attacker, who identified 

himself as Shihab, is in police custody, 

confirmed Ruhul Amin Sagar, 

assistant commissioner of Uttara 

Division, DMP (Airport Zone). 

“We are sceptical about his 

identity,” he said, adding: “We are 

questioning him to figure out what 

prompted the incident.” 

Sources said that during interrogation, 

Shihab appeared to be 

incoherent. 

Armed Police Battalion (APBn) 

Additional Superintendent of Police 

Tanjina Akhter said they suspect 

the attacker might either be a 

drug addict or mentally ill. 

Md Zia, an Ansar member injured 

in the attack, told the Dhaka 

Tribune that Sohag was stabbed 

trying to foil Shihab’s attack. 

Zia added: “As soon as Shohagh 

was stabbed, I moved to take him 

down but was stabbed as well. 

Other APBn and Ansars members 

moved in to intercept him, firing a 

few rounds to neutralise him.” 

The two other injured are Ishtiaq, 

a member of the APBn and 

Ashiq, a police constable. 

RAB 1 Commanding Officer Lt 

Col Tuhin Md Masud told the Dhaka 

Tribune they would conduct a 

shadow investigation into the attack. 

Counter Terrorism and Transitional 

Crime Unit sources said they 

were also probing the incident. • 

allegation against him. 

On October 30, a section of religious 

zealots carried out attacks on 

the Hindus in Nasirnagar upazila of 

Brahmanbaria over a Facebook post. 

The photoshopped hurting religious 

sentiment of the Muslims. The attack 

left around 58 Hindu households 

and 17 temples vandalised. 

Earlier, the minister had also 

said that Rasraj, the person whose 

Facebook account had made the inciting 

post, was too uneducated to 

have made it himself. 

In a fresh attack on Friday, miscreants 

also set fire to at least six 

houses of Hindus in the upazila 

while law enforcement agencies 

and local administration were stationed 

in the area. • 

Online registration starts 

• Nure Alam Durjoy 

The online registration for the Dhaka 

Lit Fest, the winter festival that draws 

readers and writers alike, has started. 

The registration started yesterday 

morning. 

There will also be on-spot registration 

at the venue, Bangla 

Sushma 

expresses 

concern over 

safety of Hindus 

• Tribune Report 

Expressing “grave concern” over 

the recent spree of attacks on Hindu 

minorities and their religious establishments, 

Indian External Affairs 

Minister Sushma Swaraj on Sunday 

tweeted she has instructed the Indian 

high commissioner in Dhaka to 

call on the Bangladesh prime minister 

convey her message. 

“I have asked Indian High Commissioner 

in Dhaka to call on the 

Prime Minister and express our 

grave concern about the safety and 

wellbeing of the Hindus in Bangladesh.,” 

she twitted. 

Confirming the news, Ranjan 

Mondal, press secretary of the Indian 

High Commission in Dhaka, told 

the Dhaka Tribune that the high 

commissioner had already conveyed 

Sushama’s message to the Bangladeshi 

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. 

Earlier on November 2, a delegation 

of the Indian High Commission, 

led by its First Secretary Rajesh 

Uike, visited the affected sites in 

Brahmanbaria’s Nasirnagar upazila. 

However, Monwar Hossain, director 

general of South Asia wing of 

Bangladesh Foreign Ministry, told 

the Dhaka Tribune that he is not officially 

informed about the visit of 

the Indian delegation. 

Bangladesh National Human 

Rights Commission said the same 

day the attacks on several Hindu temples 

in Bangladesh were carried out 

under a well orchestrated plan aimed 

at grabbing lands of the Hindus. • 

Academy premises, from November 

17-19. 

Over 200 literary figures – mostly 

writers, poets, novelists, researchers, 

analysts, journalists from home and 

abroad – will take part in this year’s 

congregation which will feature Nobel 

Laureate VS Naipaul. 

Over the course of the three-day 

festival, guests will discuss in over 45 

sessions. 

Moreover, attendees will enjoy 

vibrant cultural performances, documentaries 

and book unveilings at the 

event. 

Highlights of the event can be 

found in the event website www. 

dhakalitfest.com. • 

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