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RANGPUR SUGAR MILL CLASH
1 Santal dies, 1,000 families flee › 32 This is it › 2, 3, 8, 9, 10
No visible progress
in Nasirnagar case
› 4
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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2016
DT
News
US votes in landmark election
• Reuters, Washington, DC
Supercharging the bluster, hyperbole and media mastery that made him one of the world’s
best-known businessmen, Donald Trump upended US democratic traditions on a 17-month
quest he hopes will lead to the White House.
In Tuesday’s election against Democrat Hillary Clinton, Trump is making his first run for
public office. Trump called it a movement, not a campaign.
He drew enthusiastic crowds to rallies where people cheered him for “just saying what
everybody’s thinking.” Critics labeled him misogynistic, ill-informed, uncouth, unpresidential,
a racist, a hypocrite, a demagogue and a sexual predator, all accusations he denied.
It took Trump, 70, little more than 10 months to vanquish 16 other candidates and become
the first major party nominee since General Dwight Eisenhower in the 1950s to have no government
experience. He drew a record number of votes in primary contests, creating a rift in
the party.
• Reuters, Washington, DC
Hillary Clinton has one of the strongest resumes of anyone ever to run for US president, with
stints as first lady, senator and secretary of state, but she is also a polarising figure and a Washington
insider with decades of political baggage.
Should Democrat Clinton, 69, defeat Republican Donald Trump, 70, in Tuesday’s election,
she would become the first woman elected US president, having already been the only first
lady to win elected office and the first woman nominated for president by a major US party.
Clinton entered the 2016 race as her party’s odds-on favorite, but was perceived as an establishment
figure and the ultimate insider at a time when voters seemed enamored with outsiders.
For decades Clinton has battled conservatives and Republican adversaries and weathered
controversies including her husband Bill Clinton’s infidelity, a failed Republican effort to remove
him from office, investigations into past business dealings and her use of a private email
Takes over his father’s real estate company. He will become
a billionaire, building towers, hotels, casinos and golf courses
First of three marriages
Born in New York June 14, 1946
Business studies 1964-68
1977
1978
1971
Birth of Donald John Trump Jr., the first of his 5 children
Builds the Trump Tower in New York 1983
Democrat until 1987
Joins Republican Party 1987-99
Joins Reform Party 1999-2001
Rejoins the Democrats 2001-09
Hosts the TV reality show "The Apprentice" 2004-15
Returns to the Republicans 2012
Candidate to become the Republicans’ presidential nominee June 2015
Wins the Republican nomination May 2016
Faces Hillary Clinton in the US presidential election Nov 8, 2016
Donald Trump
Age
70
Photo: Jeff Kowalsky/AFP
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Oct 26, 1947 Born in Chicago (Illinois)
1969 Yale Law School. Meets Bill Clinton
1974-75 Lawyer at the Children’s Defense Fund
1975 Marries Bill Clinton
1980 Birth of her only child, Chelsea
1993-2001 US First Lady
2001-09 Senator for New York
2002 Votes in favour of the war in Iraq
Aug 2008 Loses Democratic nomination to Barack Obama
2009-13 US Secretary of State in the Obama administration
Sept 11, 2012 Criticised for her management of security
Age
after the US diplomatic compound in Libya is attacked
69
March 2015 Controversy over her use of a private email server
for official correspondence while Secretary of State
April 2015 Candidate to become the Democratic
presidential nominee
June 2016 Becomes the Democratic presidential candidate (the first
woman to hold that position in a major political party)
Nov 8, 2016 Faces Donald Trump in the US presidential election
Photo AFP/Jewel Samad
Then he squared off against Clinton in a race marked by controversies that included upheaval
in his staff, charges he had groped women, and his claim, never supported, that Clinton and
the media had rigged the election against him.
He shocked many by saying he might not accept the election result if he lost, repudiating a
US tradition of peaceful government transition. He said that as president he would investigate
Clinton for her use of email while secretary of state. He vowed to send her to jail.
His campaign took a scandalous turn in October with the release of a 2005 video in which
Trump, unaware he was being recorded, told a reporter he liked to kiss women without invitation
and could grab them by the genitals without recriminations.
Gloom over America
Throughout his campaign Trump described a dark America that had been knocked to its knees
by China, Mexico, Russia and Islamic State. The American dream was dead, he said.
Trump said he would make America great again through the force of his personality, offering
vague plans to win economic concessions from China, to build a wall on the southern US border to
keep out undocumented immigrants and to make Mexico pay for it.
He used Twitter as a weapon, firing off insults and mockery at those who offended him, including
“Crooked Hillary” and Republican rivals “Little Marco” Rubio, Jeb “Low Energy” Bush and
“Lyin’ Ted” Cruz.
As of late October, The New York Times had counted 282 people and things he had insulted
on Twitter since declaring his candidacy. •
server as secretary of state.
Many Democrats back her for championing women’s rights at home and abroad, social justice
and access to healthcare, but opinion polls show a majority of US voters do not trust her.
Against Trump, she portrayed her candidacy as a bulwark against a unique threat that she
said the real estate developer posed to American democracy.
‘What to make of me’
A mistrust of rivals and the media has long prompted Clinton to keep her guard up.
“The truth is, through all these years of public service, the ‘service’ part has always come
easier to me than the ‘public’ part,” Clinton said in accepting the 2016 Democratic nomination.
“I get it that some people just don’t know what to make of me.”
Republicans have accused Clinton of breaking the law while corresponding through a private
email server as secretary of state. In July, FBI Director James Comey called Clinton “extremely
careless” in her handling of classified information by email, but Obama’s Justice Department
accepted his recommendation not to bring criminal charges.
The controversy flared again on October 28, 11 days before the election, when Comey told
US lawmakers the FBI was investigating a new trove of emails as part of its probe.
On Sunday, Comey said the FBI found nothing in those emails to change the agency’s July
decision not to bring charges against Clinton, lifting a cloud over her campaign just two days
before the election. •

News 3
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2016
The game has changed, whoever wins
DT
• Abu Sayeed Asiful Islam,
back from the United States
For either Donald Trump or Hillary
Clinton, this is the end of the road.
Whatever happens on November
8, the rifts exposed by this election
will have to be contended with
for years to come.
In just over 24 hours, the two
least popular candidates in the history
of popularity polling will await
the verdict of “a very angry electorate,”
as American University Assistant
Professor Elizabeth Sherman
put it to the Dhaka Tribune.
Galvanising the electorate and
reaching out to the undecided and
apathetic has cost a small fortune.
(See infograph.)
Some have likened the 2016 presidential
race to the UK’s EU referendum,
saying the election will break
down along generational lines.
America’s youngest adults, the
Millennials, who comprise the plurality
of voting age citizens, will be
voting for two of the oldest candidates
in recent history, and they
aren’t happy about it.
The two candidates have spent
the final two days ahead of the
polls in a final flurry of stumping
across battleground states.
American University Professor
Peter Kuznick summed up the calculus
of American politics: “This
is not one, but 50 elections. Every
state matters.”
With a clear lead in electoral
votes going into the endgame, Clinton
yesterday campaigned in Michigan,
attended an all-star concert in
Philadelphia and is scheduled to fly
to North Carolina.
Clinton currently is believed to
command such a large number of
electoral votes that even if Trump
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton raised $154 million
for her campaign last month, her biggest monthly fundraising haul yet,
pushing the total in her bid for the White House towards $1 billion
Hillary
Clinton
Democrat
manages to win Ohio, Florida and
North Carolina, he’d still need to
take Michigan or Wisconsin for it
to matter.
Michigan has not voted Republican
since 1988, but the Clinton
camp’s decision to make a final
stand there indicates that they are
not willing to take any chances.
Trump, for his part, jetted across
2000: George W. Bush vs. Al Gore
$1,976.50 million
2004: George W. Bush vs. John Kerry
$2,435.60 million
2008: Barack Obama vs. John McCain
$3,131.97 million
2012: Barack Obama vs. Mitt Romney
$2,749.97 million
2016: Hillary Clinton vs. Donald Trump
$2,937.18 million
$546.93m $425.91m $755.29m $983.20m
All figures
adjusted
for inflation to
2016 values
Donald
Trump
Republican
Clinton Clinton Superpacs* Other candidates*
campaign outside
(21 candidates)
committee groups
$165.85m Trump outside groups
*Federal Election Commission data
released September 21, 2016
$60m Trump campaign committee
Sources: Clinton campaign committee, OpenSecrets.org Pictures: Associated Press © GRAPHIC NEWS
the country to Florida, North Carolina,
Pennsylvania and New Hampshire.
His strategy throughout has
been to drum up “white grievances”
to a fever pitch, which has so
emboldened his voter base that
they have stood by him even when
he has locked horns with its leadership.
For the big new player in American
politics, the Millennials, Zogby
Analytics polling has found that
Trump has gained among older
members of the cohort, but most
still favour Clinton.
Turncoat superstars
The 2016 presidential race has defied
expectations in every way imaginable
and likely portend major
changes to both parties.
Trump, a former Democrat, and
Clinton, an erstwhile Republican,
have never really acted according
to script.
As first lady of the United States,
Clinton earned the ire of her own
party’s leadership – and politicos
generally – by working as the forceful
taskforce chairperson behind the
health care reform proposal of 1993.
Her outspoken style remains
difficult for more patriarchally-minded
Americans to accept. As
the first lady of Arkansas, she was
infamously compelled to have a
makeover in order to protect husband
Bill Clinton’s political career.
Trump has had a touch and
go relationship with much of his
party’s leadership, including the
current Republican Speaker of the
House Paul Ryan.
Trump’s predilection for xenophobic,
racist and misogynistic
insults and not so well thought out
populist diatribes have been a boon
to the fringe but made down-ballot
Republican contenders nervous.
The importance of Evangelicals
to Trump’s campaign was underscored
by his choice of Indiana
Governor Mike Pence as running
mate.
Despite his often unchristian remarks,
they have stood by him.
As Jeff Hunt, director of the
Centennial Institute at Colorado
Christian University, told the Dhaka
Tribune: “Donald Trump is the
Barack Obama of small dollar Republican
voters.”
“I don’t think he’s racist and I
don’t think he’s appealing to racist
issues,” he added.
The most striking aspect of the
election has been the glaring decrease
in civility in American political
discourse.
As polling pundit Jonathon Zogby,
CEO of Zogby Analytics, put it: “
… there seems to be less emphasis
on, and a decrease in, acts of civility
among adults nationwide. That
might explain the state of politics at
the moment, especially when taking
into consideration the broken system
in Washington DC and the state
of the 2016 presidential election.”
Which brings us back to the beginning.
The United States is a divided
country, scrambling for votes at the
margins of the political spectrum.
It’s major parties are often divided
against themselves.
The biggest single voter cohort
live their lives in ways that are novel
– because of technology, travel
and education.
Neither major party is equipped
to deal with them, and instead run
campaigns appealing to the fringes
and the lowest common denominator.
November 8 is indeed the end of
the campaign trail for a 69-year-old
woman and a 70-year-old man who
have, in their own very differentways,
defied the roles scripted for
them by society.
Perhaps this is a fitting theme
for a country at the crossroads that
must now create a new language of
political discourse. •
US-BD ties to remain strong
Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader meets with US Ambassador to Bangladesh Marcia Bernicat for the first
time after being elected the general secretary of ruling Awami League
MAHMUD HOSSAIN OPU
• Jebun Nesa Alo
The US Ambassador to Bangladesh,
Marcia Bernicat, has said there will
not be any significant change in
Washington’s policy towards Dhaka
after the US election.
“We expect the Bangladesh-US
relationship to remain strong,”
Bernicat said while talking to reporters
yesterday afternoon, just
hours before the US polls opened
today.
The diplomat said Washington
was looking to improve partnership
with Dhaka and to help strengthen
democracy and increase US investment
in Bangladesh.
“We have an election coming up
and a new administration will take
over from January,” Bernicat told
the media after meeting with Road
Transport and Bridges Minister,
Obaidul Quader at Setu Bhaban in
Dhaka.
Quader said the ambassador
had assured him that US presidential
change will have no effect on
the relationship between the two
countries.
Today’s election pits Democrat
Hillary Clinton against Republican
Donald Trump at the head of the
race to succeed Barack Obama in
the most powerful political office
in the world.
The US is Bangladesh’s single
largest trade partner with a bilateral
trade volume of $7 billion last
year, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina
said in September.
This is despite Washington having
suspended duty-free access
to Bangladeshi products into its
market in 2013, following the Rana
Plaza collapse and Tazreen factory
fire that together killed over 1,200
people. •

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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2016
DT
‘MPs can’t
chair non-govt
school, college
committees’
• Ashif Islam Shaon
The Appellate Division, yesterday
upheld a High Court order barring
members of parliament from heading
governing bodies at non-government
schools and colleges.
A four-member bench, headed
by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar
Sinha, threw out a leave to appeal
plea on Monday challenging the
High Court’s June 1 order.
The court declared the provisions
of the non-government School
College Governing Body Regulation-2009
that allowed MPs to chair
the governing bodies, illegal.
On January 19, the HC issued a
ruling questioning the legality of
a special governing body, headed
by Tourism Minister Rashed Khan
Menon at Viqarunnisa Noon School
and College.
The High Court then issued another
ruling on April 13 asking the
authorities concerned to explain
within four weeks the legality of
Section 5(50) of the law and why it
should not be declared unconstitutional.
The schools and colleges concerned
will form ad hoc committees
to elect regular governing bodies. •
Daud Merchant
freed from
Dhaka jail
• Kamrul Hasan
Abdur Rauf Daud Merchant, convicted
killer of Indian music giant
Gulshan Kumar and the alleged aide
of Dubai-based Indian mafia boss
Daud Ibrahim, has been released
from Dhaka Central Jail seven years
after illegally entering Bangladesh.
“Daud Merchant was released
around 4:30pm yesterday. He
walked out of prison alone as no one
came to receive him,” Senior Jail Superintendent
Jahangir Kabir said.
Daud was arrested in Brahmanbaria
in November 2009 for
trespassing and possessing a fake
Bangladeshi passport.
Home Minister Asaduzzaman
Khan Kamal at a press briefing in
the Secretariat yesterday said the
Indian High Commission would
decide how Daud Merchant would
return to India.
Merchant was sentenced to life
imprisonment in India in April
2002 for killing Gulshan Kumar in
Mumbai on August 12, 1997. He illegally
entered Bangladesh after being
released on parole in April 2009
to visit his sick mother. Since 2013,
the Indian government has been
pressing Bangladesh to fast-track
his extradition. •
News
People from Old Dhaka stage a demonstration demanding punishment for those involved in the attacks on Hindus in
Nasirnagar at Brahmanbaria
DHAKA TRIBUNE
NASIRNAGAR ATTACK CASE
No visible progress yet
• Kamrul Hasan
A week has elapsed since the brutal
communal attack on the temples
and homesteads of minority Hindus
of Nasirnagar in Brhmanbaria
but no visible progress has yet been
in sight..
Police have so far arrested some
people in connection with the incidents
but masterminds are still out
of the reach of the hands of law.
Eight of the suspected attackers
were taken on a three-day remand
yesterday.
A total of 74 people have been
arrested in connection with the October
30 attacks on the Hindu community
in the upazila.
SI Sadhan Kanti Chowdhury,
also the investigation Officer (IO)
of the case, said: “Police produced
eleven detainees before the court
with a five-day remand plea but the
court granted a three-day remand.
The arrestees were in jail since
they were arrested and they had
been taken to the police station
from the jail yesterday after the remand
permitted, he added.
Asked about the attackers seen in
some videos Nasirnagar OC Abu Zafar
said: “We are working on it and
none of them are from Haripur or
Chatalpar unions, from where most
of the attackers were allegedly from.
OC Abu Zafar said among the arrested
21 were arrested on Sunday
night from the adjacent unions of
Nasirnagar Sadar unions.
Abu Zafar said, “We are arresting
those people appeared in the
videos.”
Meanwhile, the case filed over
posting fake pictures that instigated
people to communal clash, was
handed over to district DB police on
November 3. Since then detained
Rasraj was under their custody.
Brahmanbaria DB OC Mofiz Uddin
Bhuiyan told the Dhaka Tribune
that they would take Rasraj
under fresh remand if the court
allows. The first round of the fiveday
remand ended yesterday.
The DB police official declined
to make any comment over the
progress of investigation.
The OC said, “At this stage of investigation,
no information about
our findings can be provided for
the sake of investigation.”
On October 30, a mob vandalised
some 17 temples and ransacked
58 houses belonging to the
minority Hindus of the area over an
alleged defamatory Facebook post
by a Hindu youth Rasraj.
More than 100 people were injured
in the attack which the victims
blamed on local influential
people.
Awami League suspended three
of its Nasirnagar unit leaders for
their alleged involvement. •
Security beefed up at Dhaka airport
Police yet to identify attacker’s identity
• Ishtiaq Husain and
Arifur Rahman Rabbi
The authorities of Hazrat Shahjalal
International Airport beefed up security
arrangements yesterday following
the attack a day ago that left
an Ansar member dead and three
other security personnel injured.
Ashraful Islam, platoon commander-3
filed a case yesterday
evening with the airport Police
station in connection with Ansar
killing incident, Ruhul Amin Sagor,
assistant commissioner of police
(airport zone) confirmed it.
The attacker identified himself
as Shihab. He is under treatment at
Dhaka Medical college Hospital.
Police official said they were yet
to know the details about the attacker.
Air Commodore Mustafizur Rahman,
member operation and planning
of Civil Aviation Authority,
Bangladesh (CAAB) said the regulatory
body CAAB is thinking to beef
up the security system of the airport
after the attack on Shahjalal International
Airport security personnel.
Armed Police Battalion (APBn) Additional
Superintendent of Police Tanjina
Akhter said: “The passengers will
are using the departure gate on the
second floor. We are not letting anyone
enter the airport to see off people.
Ansar member Sohagh Ali, 32,
was killed and three other security
personnel were injured when a
person in a cleaner’s uniform attacked
them with a knife on Sunday
evening.
The autopsy was conducted at
the Dhaka Medical College under
associate professor Dr Abul Khayer
Mohammad Shafiuzzaman.
Post-mortem report said Sohagh
was killed by stabbing. His dead
Old Dhaka
residents
protest attacks
on Hindu
community
• Rafikul Islam
Several organisations including professors
from Jagannath University
(JnU) held a human chain yesterday
in Old Dhaka protesting the communal
violence that started in Brahmanbaria
and spread across the country.
For more than a week, communal
violence has escalated around
the country starting in Brahmanbaria
on October 30 following a
Facebook post.
Pobitro Gosh, general secretary of
Tanti Bazar Bonik Samity said: “Hindus
in Bangladesh have no freedom
and there is no security for us.”
“Everybody has right to follow
their religion in peace. Nobody
should be able to vandalize a temple.
We demand the government
punish those responsible so that attacks
on the minority cannot happen
like this anymore,” he added.
Teachers, students and employees
of JnU gathered at the university’s
main gate in solidarity with the
Hindu community from different
Hindu organizations of Old Dhaka.
Protesters severely condemned
the attacks demanding tough punishment
for the perpetrators. BCL
General Secretary JnU section Sirajul
Islam, said: “We demand the perpetrators
of the attacks be punished.”
Dean of the Department of Social
Science Faculty, JnU, Dr Priya Brata
Paul led the human chain while
Chairman of the Department of
Physics Dr Porimal Bala, Engineer
Sukumar Chandra Saha, Associate
Professor of the Department of English
Nasir Uddin Ahmed, General
Secretary of Sudrapur Puja Udjapon
Parisad,, Tapon Gosh and Dhaka
Mohanagar Puja Uddjapon Committee
President Dilip Kar Dipu attended
the protest among others. •
body was handed over to his family
at 12 pm after autopsy.
Ruhul Amin Sagor, assistant
commissioner of police (airport
zone) said the attacker did not say
anything without his name.
Asked if the attacker had any
involvement with any militant organisation
or group, he said, still
now we have not found anything
like that. However, the attacker
was injured and under treatment.
Meanwhile, Armed Police Battalion
formed a three-member
probe committee to probe the incident.
•

News 5
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2016
CLIMATE CHANGE CONFERENCE
COP22
DT
US polls matter in plugging gap
• AFP
French Environment Minister Segolene Royal (R) handing over the conference president’s gavel to Moroccan Foreign Minister
Salaheddine Mezouar at the opening session of the COP22 climate talks in Marrakesh yesterday
AFP
Under an ominous shadow cast by
the US presidential election, the
world’s nations gather in Morocco
Monday to flesh out a landmark
climate deal that promises to save
humanity from itself.
The just-activated Paris Agreement,
inked in the French capital
last December, is the first treaty
binding all countries, rich and poor,
to halt global warming, caused
mainly by the burning of coal, oil
and gas.
“It is now the roadmap in the
fight against climate change,” said
Manuel Pulgar-Vidal, Peru’s former
environment minister and head of
climate and energy for green group
WWF.
But as 15,000 negotiators, CEOs
and activists from 196 nations gathered
in Marrakesh settle in for the
12-day UN talks, all eyes are on the
United States, where voting Tuesday
could thrust climate denier Donald
Trump into the White House.
When it comes to global warming,
the stakes could hardly be
higher, President Barack Obama
warned.
“All the progress we’ve made
on climate change” - including the
Paris pact, decades in the making
- “is going to be on the ballot,” he
told TV talk show host Bill Maher
on Friday.
The Republican candidate cannot
carry out his threat to “cancel”
the still-fragile accord, but a Trump
victory could cripple it, experts
here agree.
Democratic opponent Hillary
Clinton has vowed to uphold Obama’s
domestic energy policies and
international climate commitments.
In Marrakesh, front-line diplomats
must roll up their sleeves and
work through scores of procedural
issues that will make the difference
between success and failure.
The most immediate task is “finishing
the rulebook” for the complex
accord, said Laurence Tubiana,
France’s top climate negotiator
for the Paris talks.
Concretely, that means working
through scores of still-contentious
issues, including how to measure
and track each nation’s CO2 emissions;
disbursing hundreds of billions
of dollars in financing in a
way that reassures both rich and
recipient nations; setting criteria
for compensating poor countries
devastated by climate-fuelled
storms, droughts or floods.
“COP22 is really a COP of implementation
and action,” lead US
negotiator Jonathan Pershing told
journalists in a teleconference, using
the acronym for the annual Conference
of the Parties climate meet.
By informal consensus, 2018
is the target for working through
these issues.
‘Plug the gap’
2018 is also the next high-stakes
rendezvous in the ongoing talks
when nations can further narrow
the so-called “emissions gap” between
their carbon-cutting pledges
and the level of reductions needed
to keep the planet from dangerously
overheating.
That gap is still huge, and getting
bigger every year.
On current trends, the Earth will
heat up about three degrees Celsius
(5.4 degrees Fahrenheit) above the
pre-industrial era benchmark, a
sure recipe for climate catastrophe,
according to scientists.
The Paris Agreement calls for capping
global warming at under 2.0C
(3.6F), and even 1.5C (2.7F) if possible
- a hugely daunting challenge.
“We have to plug that gap,” Tubiana
told AFP. “The big battle of the
next two years is how to get countries
to increase their ambition.”
Negotiators will be buoyed by a
raft of encouraging signs.
New figures show that renewable
energy attracted record investment
of 300 billion dollars (270
billion euros) in 2015, outstripping
fossil fuels.
Installed capacity of solar, wind
and hydro also, for the first time,
overtook carbon-intensive coal,
which is in sharp decline.
A separate international agreement
inked last month ensures
the phase out of potent, manmade
greenhouse gases known as HFCs,
potentially shaving 0.5C (0.9F) off
global temperatures by the end of
the century.
Businesses - ever-more present
at the UN climate forum - have also
become crucial drivers of change,
motivated by the need to anticipate
the rapid shift to a low- or zero-carbon
global economy.
At the same time, however, climate
scientists are sending up red
flags.
After two successive record-breaking
years, 2016 is shaping
up to be the hottest ever registered.
And still-climbing concentrations
of CO2 in the atmosphere
passed a critical - if symbolic -
threshold of 400 parts per million
in 2015.
“If we don’t start taking additional
action now,” warned UN Environment
Programme head Erik
Solheim, “we will grieve over the
avoidable human tragedy.”
Ministers - including US
Secretary of State John Kerry -
will join the November 7-18 talks
on November 15 to lend political
impetus. •
Negotiation
to implement
Paris climate
pact opens
• AFP
UN talks to implement the landmark
Paris climate pact opened in
Marrakesh on Monday, buoyed by
gathering momentum but threatened
by the spectre of climate
change denier Donald Trump in the
White House.
Diplomats from 196 nations will
flesh out the planet-saving plan
inked in the French capital last December.
“We have made possible what
everyone said was impossible,”
said French environment minister
Segolene Royal at the opening ceremony,
in which she handed over
stewardship of the climate forum
to Moroccan foreign minister Salaheddine
Mezouar.
Amid growing alarm at the
gathering pace of climate change
and its impacts - rising sea, deadly
storms, drought and wildfires - the
world’s nations have moved quickly
over the last year to tackle the
still-growing problem.
But as 15,000 negotiators, CEOs
and activists settle in for the 12-
day talks, all eyes are on the United
States, where voting Tuesday could
thrust Trump into the White House.
In Marrakesh, front-line diplomats
must roll up their sleeves and
work through scores of procedural
issues that will make the difference
between success and failure.
They have informally set 2018
as the deadline for laying that
groundwork, Royal told journalists
the day before the talks opened. •
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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2016
DT
News
Judicial probe into communal
attacks demanded
• Tribune Desk
Different social cultural organisations
yesterday protested against
the communal attacks that took
place at several places across Bangladesh.
In Barisal, teachers and students
of Barisal University (BU) formed a
human chain in front of BU campus
in the afternoon protesting attack
on minority community and ransacking
of Hindu temples and idols
in the country, including Brahmanbaria,
Habiganj and Barisal.
Dr Muhammad Muhsin Uddin,
dean of humanities faculty, Safiul
Alam, proctor of BU addressed the
rally.
Speakers demanded speedy
trial and punishment of the culprits
who are involved with these
crimes.
They also demanded judicial investigations
for finding out master
minds of such crimes and proper
rehabilitation, compensation for
the victims.
At Jahangirnagar University,
Shadhinata Shikha Parishad in Khulna University organises a rally yesterday on the campus protesting the recent attacks on
Hindus throughout Bangladesh
DHAKA TRIBUNE
teachers and students of the public
university under the banner of
Sammilito Shikhak Parishad held a
human chain, protesting the recent
attacks on Hindus.
Nasim Akter Hossain, professor
of Government and Politics
department, Syed Kamrul Ahsan,
teacher of Archeological Department
and ATM Atikur Rahman,
teacher of History Department,
among others, took part in the protest
rally.
In Narsingdi, the Bangladesh
Hindu Mohajote held a rally in
front of district’s press club in afternoon.
Speakers at the rally threatened
Dalits in the light of education
• Md Taieyb Ali Sarker,
Nilphamari
Dalit people in the district have become
to be educated as the ray of
education has reached among the
people after NGOs and the government
took initiative.
According to local sources, the
rate of literacy is increasing in six
upazilas of the district as RDRS,
SERP,NNMC and Brac along with
the government kept important
role to remove the illiteracy.
Once upon, the girls of Horizon,
Robidas and Banshfor communities
had no opportunity to go to schools.
But now maximum girls of the communities
are going to school.
Mala Rani, Class Nine student
of Nilphamari Samiruddin and College
in Banshfor, said she and her
two brothers were going to school
now. But it was impossible earlier.
Mala said when she was studying
in class four, no Bangali student
sat beside her considering her ethnic
minority girl.
But now the scenery has changed.
The students of other communities
sit beside her. She said it was possible
for the role of NGOs. They made
awareness among the people.
People of Robidas and Banshfor
communities told the Dhaka Tribune
that the people of the areas got opportunity
provided by the government.
Bikrom Banshfur, father of
Mala, said they were happy as their
children now studied with other
communities.
Sultan Ali Shah, principal of the
college, said no nation can develop
by keeping its ethnic people faraway.
Boisa Robidas, 47, said once
upon a time the Muslim people
did not allow them for talking with
them. But now their children read
with their children.
Boisa added it was very pleasure
to them that their children now
that they would wage a tougher
movement if perpetrators of the attacks
would not be brought to the
book immediately.
In Khulna, teachers and students
of Khulna University staged
demonstration on the campus,
protesting attacks in Gaibandha
and Brahmanbaria, Habiganj. •
had right education and mutuality
had grown among the Muslims and
the Horizon people.
Roisuddin Ahmed, an official
Brac, said: “In Bangladesh, members
of the low castes increasingly
refer to themselves as Dalits – the
downtrodden people – have been
exploited, oppressed and excluded
through generations.”
“We have been working for
these people, specially to educate
them for several years. But only
NGOs cannot lead the drive. The
government should take special
steps to remove the darkness of illiteracy”
he added. •
15 Harijan
people injured
in attack by
drug peddlers
• Kudrate Khoda Shabuj,
Kushtia
A total of 15 people, including two
women, of Harijan community in
Bheramara of Kushtia were injured
in an attack by local alleged drug
peddlers yesterday.
Injured Bashanti, 30, Bidhan, 38,
Ranjit, 60, Shushanto, 40, Uttam,
57, Akash, 20, Sujon, 40, Bijoy, 35,
Kumar, 23, Tapan, 18, Prashankjit,
15, Utpal, 18, Mohon, 22, and Makhon,
35, were admitted to Bheramara
Upazila Health Complex,
while Shabana, 30, left the hospital
after receiving primary treatment.
Uttam and Shanjoy of the
community said Bablu, Shamim,
Chanchal and some other local
youths were doing drug peddling
in Horijan populated Bamanpara
area of Bheramara.
On Sunday, police arrested the
three aforementioned youths, as
the people of the community complained
to Bheramara police station
of drug peddling against them.
But, on the night, they were
freed from the lock-up.
The next morning when Sujon
went to Aziz Biri intersection in
Bamanpara with his van, the trio
beat him and seized his van.
When people of the Harijan
community rushed to the
spot to rescue Sujon, the drug
peddlers attacked them with local
weapons.
On information, Bheramara municipality
Mayor Shamimul Islam
Sana went to the spot and rescued
the injured.
Nur Hossain Khandker, officerin-charge
of the police station, said
the police brought the situation
under control and detained Ujjal in
this connection.
However, he claimed that Bablu,
Chanchal and Shamim were drug
addicts, not drug peddlers. •

News 7
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2016
Trade of contaminated water
puts public health at risk
• Kudrote Khoda Sobuj,
Kushtia
Without purifying, water in plastic
jars are being sold to different
offices, commercial organisations,
hotels and even households in Kushtia
town, putting public health at
risks.
Several water supply companies
have been doing the business for
long in the town without taking
any permission from health department
or Bangladesh Standard
and Testing Institute (BSTI), reports
our correspondent.
Meena Rani Shaha, owner of
Life Safe Water Company in the
town, said her company had been
doing the business of supplying
3 held over firearms smuggling
• Anwar Hossain,
Chapainawabganj
Law enforcers arrested three people,
including a woman, from
Kironganj border at Shibganj upazila
in Chapainawabganj on Sunday
in connection with an arms case
with Chapainawabganj Sadar model
police station.
Shah Alam, an accused in the
case, of Gopalnagar village in Shibganj
upazila, Intaj of Kurshia village
in Godagari upazila of Rajshahi
and Nahida Khatun of Gopalnagar
water for six years without any laboratory
and BSTI license.
Though Masudur Rahman of
Merin A One Water Company said
they had the permission of BSTI,
failed to show the papers.
“The papers are with the BSTI
officials,” he said.
When our correspondent contacted
Hasibul Haque, a BSTI official,
over phone about it he said
“We cannot give you any official
information without prior permission.
You will have to apply to get
the information or come to our office
to talk about it.”
Two other companies named
Green Life Water in Dhopapara area
and Milian Pure Drinking Water
Company in Rab lane, which were
PBI to investigate N’ganj
militants killing case
• Tanveer Hossain,
Narayanganj
The Police Bureau Investigate (PBI)
department will investigate the
case filled over an anti-militant
drive at a house in Paikpara area,
Narayangganj.
Tamim Chowdhury, the mastermind
of Gulshan attack with Islamic
State alleged link, and two other suspected
militants were killed in a drive
at a militants’ den in Paikpara area of
Narayanganj town on August 27.
Director Inspector General of
Police, PBI Bonoj Kumar Majumdar
told reporters about the transfer
of the case after visiting the house
where the militants lived.
Police started investigation
of the case after it was filed with
Narayanganj Model police station.
Law enforcement agencies carried
out the raid acting on information
taken from a suspected
militant arrested in Mymensingh’s
Trishal last night, said a police
source seeking anonymity.
A joint team of the CTTC unit,
Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) and local
police started the operation in a
three-storied building. The joint force
and the militants exchanged heavy
gunshots frequently during the drive.
During the gunfight, the militants
have burnt some materials
believed to be important documents
of their activities inside the
building during the drive.
Law enforcement agencies carried
out the raid acting on information
taken from a suspected
militant arrested in Mymensingh’s
Trishal.
Landlord Nur Uddin Dewan was
shown arrested for not providing
the police with the tenants’s information.
•
village were detained, while they
were fleeing the country through
the border, said TM Mojahidul Islam,
district police super, at a press
briefing yesterday.
Later, Shah Alam and Intaj were
placed on a four-day remand and
Nahida on a two-day remand, while
they were produced before chief judicial
magistrate’s court yesterday.
Police recovered 22 foreign-made
pistols, 45 magazines
and 136 rounds bullets from a rented
house in Chapainawabganj municipality
area while conducting a
fined Tk20 thousand each by a mobile
court last year, are still running
their businesses without any BSTI
permission.
However, the authorities of the
companies alleged that some BSTI
officials take money from them on
the assurance of providing them
with necessary papers.
The consumers, who drink the
unpurified water supplied in plastic
jars, said finding no other alternatives
they were taking the water.
Mohir Uddin, owner of Ruhul
Bekary and Confectionary, said water
of all the tube wells in the town
was undrinkable due to excessive
iron. That was why they had to
drink the jar water, he added.
Businessman Al Amin of the
drive there on October 24.
Later, an arms case was filed
with the police station in this connection
accusing Shah Alam and
several other unknown people.
The firearms were supposed to
be used in subversive activities in
Chittagong, said the police.
The police super said the arrestees
collected the firearms from Telkupi
border in Chapainawabganj and kept
those in the house rented by Shah
Alam. However, the police were trying
to nab the person mastermind
behind the arms collection, he said. •
town said they had to buy the water
at TK50 per jar, as there was no
water supply facility in the town.
Waliul Islam Azim, a service
holder of Mangalbaria area, said
as there was no water supply facility
there, they were bound to purchase
water for bathing, cooking
and other purposes.
Dr Nazmul Islam, civil surgeon
of Kushtia, said drinking unsafe
water could cause different water-borne
diseases such as typhoid,
dysentery, jaundice and diarrhea.
Additional District Magistrate
Mohammad Habibur Rahman said
if they got any complain of manufacturing
and supplying water
without legal permission, they
would take necessary steps. •
Grameen
Bank officials
jailed for
embezzlement
• Anisur Rahman Swapan,
Barisal
Katila, a rare species of sea-fish is seen in Chittagong markets this year abundantly. The picture taken at Firingi Bazar, shows
yesterday, fishermen waiting for customers
RABIN CHOWDHURY
DT
Two officials of Grameen Bank
were sentenced to 10-year jail for
embezzlement yesterday.
The convicts were Md Delwar
Hasan, branch manager of the bank
and Md Shah Alam, an official.
According to the prosecution,
the two officials misappropriated
Tk18 lakh of 7 clients while they
were performing duties in Raipasha-Koira
para union branch in 2011.
Later, a case was filed in this
connection on October, 3, 2012
with Anti-corruption Co-mission.
On October, 14, 2016, Anti-Corruption
Co-mission Director submitted
a charge sheet. Judge Dilipkumar
handed down the verdict . •
Suspected robber killed
in gunfight
• Mazharul Hoque Lipu,
Magura
A suspected robber was killed in a
gunfight with police in Pashchim
Ramnagar area, Magura Sadar upazila
in the early hours of yesterday.
The deceased was identified as
Shawkat Mondal, 38, son of Moyen
Uddin, a resident of Kumarpara,
Modhukhali upazilla, Faridpur.
Police said Shawkat was accused
in seven cases filed with different
police stations of the district.
On information that a robber
gang was preparing to commit robbery
by placing logs on the highway,
a team of the law enforcers conducted
a drive in the area around
2am, said Azmal Huda, officer-incharge
of Sadar police station.
But sensing the presence of police,
the gang opened fire at them, prompting
them to retaliate that triggered the
gunfight. The gunfight left Shawkat
dead on the spot, added the OC. •

DT
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World
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2016
SOUTH ASIA
Pakistan detains Shia,
Sunni leaders
Pakistani police detained several
Sunni and Shia leaders in a probe
over recent sectarian attacks in
the southern port city of Karachi,
prompting protests and clashes
Monday. The police and Pakistan’s
paramilitary forces have raided both
Sunni and Shia religious seminaries
over the last two days, detaining an
unspecified number of people. AP
INDIA
Indian cross-border fire
kills three
Pakistan accused India of killing
three people including a policeman
and wounding four others in
cross-border firing Monday, at a time
of heightened tensions between the
nuclear-armed rivals. The incidents
occurred near the border dividing
Indian-held Kashmir from the Pakistani
sector of the territory. AFP
CHINA
China passes controversial
cybersecurity law
China Monday passed a controversial
cybersecurity bill tightening restrictions
on online freedom of speech
and imposing new rules on online
service providers, raising concerns it
is further cloistering its heavily controlled
internet. The ruling Communist
Party oversees a vast censorship
system that aggressively blocks sites
or snuffs out internet content and
commentary on topics considered
sensitive. such as Beijing’s human
rights record and criticism of the
government. REUTERS
ASIA PACIFIC
China bars 2 Hong Kong
lawmakers from office
China’s top legislature took the rare
step Monday of intervening directly
in a local Hong Kong political
dispute by effectively barring two
legally elected separatist lawmakers
from taking office. Beijing moved
to deny the two a second chance
to take their oaths after being disqualified
on their initial attempt last
month for using anti-China insults
and foul language. AP
MIDDLE EAST
US-backed forces push
closer to IS ‘capital’ Raqqa
A US-backed Kurdish-Arab alliance
pushed closer to Syria’s Raqqa
and Iraqi forces seized a key town
near Mosul as offensives advanced
Monday against the two Islamic State
group strongholds. After announcing
the start of the long-awaited assault
on Raqqa on Sunday, the Syrian
Democratic Forces alliance said it
had moved south towards the city
despite fierce jihadist resistance. AFP
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Clinton gets boost from FBI as tight
White House race hits final day
• Reuters, Washington, DC
Democrat Hillary Clinton heads
into the final day of a tight White
House race against Republican
Donald Trump on Monday with
new momentum after the FBI’s
announcement that no criminal
charges were forthcoming in the
probe of her email practices.
Both Clinton and Trump will
spend the day racing across a
handful of key battleground states
that could swing Tuesday’s election,
which polls show is extremely
close but tilting toward Clinton.
FBI Director James Comey sent
shockwaves through the race by
telling Congress on Sunday that
investigators had worked “around
the clock” to complete a review
of newly discovered emails and
found no reason to change their
July finding that Clinton was not
guilty of criminal wrongdoing in
her use of a private email server
while secretary of state.
Whether the announcement
came in time to change minds or
undo any damage from days of Republican
attacks on Clinton as corrupt
was uncertain. Tens of millions
of Americans had cast early
votes in the 10 days since Comey
first told Congress of the newly
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Clinton’s Democratic allies
hoped the FBI finding would be
enough to push her over the finish
line and end the uncertainty and
Republican attacks on her character
that dogged her campaign for
the last 10 days.
“The FBI’s swift and thorough
review should finally close the
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would now be decided “on the
merits of the candidates” rather
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“She simply believes she’s above
the law and always plays by her
own rules,” House of Representatives
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statement, arguing that Clinton’s
use of a private email server “compromised
our national security.”
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finding during her last two campaign
events on Sunday, but Trump
was blunt in questioning the thoroughness
of the renewed probe and
saying the issue would not go away.
“The investigation will go on,
the rank-and-file special agents
won’t let her get away with her
terrible crimes,” he told supporters
in Sterling Heights, Michigan, on
Sunday night.
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On Monday, Trump will hit
five battleground states - Florida,
North Carolina, Pennsylvania,
New Hampshire and Michigan -
and closes with a late-night rally in
Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Clinton will make two stops in
Pennsylvania and visit Michigan
before wrapping up with a midnight
rally in Raleigh, North Carolina.
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an evening rally at Philadelphia’s
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Barack Obama and first lady Michelle
Obama, as well as rock star
Bruce Springsteen.
News of the renewed probe had
appeared to fuel a recent slide in Clinton’s
poll numbers. The latest Reuters/Ipsos
poll showed Clinton with
a 5 percentage point lead over the
New York businessman nationally –
44% to 39% support - while races in
the swing states of Florida and North
Carolina shifted from favouring Clinton
to being too close to call. •
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‘Trumpism’ will leave its mark
on American politics
• AFP, Washington, DC
Even if, as most polls predict, he
loses Tuesday’s US presidential
election, Donald Trump’s populist
charge will leave its mark on the
American body politic.
The 70-year-old billionaire tycoon
is the Republican flag-bearer
even though part of the Grand Old
Party’s establishment has rejected
him, and others are voting for him
while holding their noses.
But Trump has managed to
craft his own political brand,
building a movement among the
party’s disaffected rank-and-file.
Asked whether Trump or House
Speaker Paul Ryan, the highest-ranking
Republican elected official,
better represent the party’s
values, 51% of members choose
Trump and 33% favour Ryan.
As the presidential race comes
down to the wire, and the right
faces the prospect of Democrat
Hillary Clinton in the White
House, some party leaders are
coming back to the fold.
But Trump has divided the
party, both with his brash style
and by overturning conservative
orthodoxy with his opposition to
free trade, isolationist foreign policy
and flexible stance on welfare
and deficits.
Aggressive rhetoric
But it is not just the foregrounding
of a different set of issues that will
endure. Trump’s in-your-face style
and aggressive rhetoric will leave a
mark on future campaign strategies.
And this change in campaigning
style may cross the liberal-conservative
divide, as Democrats
and progressives respond
with heightened rhetoric of their
own.
“There is a strain of enormous
populism in both the Republican
and the Democratic parties and
we are going to see that for a long
time,” Zaino said.
“It is going to be a challenge
for these two umbrella parties to
recapture this really frustrated
base.”
Frustrations
Trump has played masterfully
on frustrations with the Washington
and Wall Street elites,
vowing to champion blue-collar
male white voters’ concerns
Myanmar paper bans Rakhine reports
• AFP, Yangon, Myanmar
A leading English-language newspaper
in Myanmar has suspended
its reporting on restive Rakhine
state, according to an internal
memo, as pressure mounts on media
to curtail critical coverage of
army operations in the area.
The northern part of the state,
close to the Bangladesh border
and home to the repressed Muslim
Rohingya minority, has been
under military lockdown for almost
a month after deadly raids
on three police border posts.
The violence has posed the biggest
challenge so far to Aung San
Suu Kyi’s young government and
raised questions over the balance
of power between the army and
the civilian administration.
The Myanmar Times, the
country’s oldest independent
English-language daily, stopped
covering the crisis after one of its
Donald Trump
senior staff, Fiona McGregor, was
fired over an article alleging troops
gang-raped Rohingya women.
In an internal memo, management
ordered editors “not to analyse,
comment, report or have
opinion pieces on the following
subjects until further notice: Rakhine
State; Rohingya; and military
actions in Rakhine state”.
That prompted staff to post a
notice in Tuesday’s print edition
saying the paper’s “editorial policies
are in the process of being
clarified by management.”
“Until then you may notice
some gaps in our coverage.”
The paper’s management could
not immediately be reached for
comment. Foreign journalists have
been banned from the area, but allegations
have emerged of troops
killing Rohingya civilians, raping
women and torching villages.
The government has vehemently
denied the accusations and the
AFP
Myanmar Times has suspended its
reporting on Rakhaine state
about economic exclusion.
But as he has done so, he has
insulted or managed to offend
women, immigrants, African
Americans, Muslims and the
handicapped – deepening America’s
divides.
Trump has had no problem
filling vast halls with motivated
voters, but his 60% unfavourable
opinion poll rating would have
sunk a less shameless campaigner.
And his campaign has energized,
at least on social media,
the American right’s racist and anti-Semitic
underbelly – last week,
the Ku Klux Klan’s newspaper endorsed
him.
This toxic coalition may be
unique, and mainstream Republicans
may be able to distance
themselves from the bigoted extremes,
but it will not disappear
overnight.
Populist message
This in itself is a victory for
Trump’s more ideological supporters,
like his political advisor
Roger Stone.
“The party isn’t going to go
back to being the country club
party of Jeb Bush,” Stone told liberal
news site Vox.
“It’s not going to go back to being
the Washington establishment
party of Paul Ryan and Mitch Mc-
Connell,” he warned mainstream
conservatives.
“The Trump movement is going
to be dominant in the party.
It’s going to be influential and important
in the party.” •
state-run Global New Light of Myanmar
on Tuesday launched a blistering
attack on what it said were
“fabricated” stories.
The media was strictly controlled
by the junta that ruled the
country for half a century, and
while freedoms have increased under
Suu Kyi monitors say many outlets
still exercise self-censorship.
One Myanmar Times editor has
already resigned in protest, and
sources inside the newspaper said
several other staff were considering
leaving.
“The paper withstood the
pre-publication censorship of the
junta era,” said one of them, requesting
anonymity.
“There are major concerns
about backsliding in the commendable
gains made on press
freedom in recent years.”
McGregor’s dismissal came after
presidential spokesman Zaw
Htay complained in a Facebook
post about her article.
He has denied having a hand in
her firing, telling AFP the government
has “no reasons to hide”.
The stateless Muslim Rohingya
are maligned by many Myanmar
Buddhists who say they are illegal
migrants from Bangladesh and
undeserving of citizenship. •
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USA
Up to 50 buildings
damaged in Oklahoma
quake
Dozens of buildings sustained
substantial damage after a 5.0
magnitude earthquake struck an
Oklahoma town that’s home to
one of the world’s key oil hubs,
but officials said Monday that
no damage has been reported at
the oil terminal. Around 40 to 50
buildings were damaged in Sunday’s
earthquake. AP
THE AMERICAS
Mexican peso soars after
FBI decision on Clinton
DT
The Mexican peso soared Monday
as the FBI lifted the threat
that Hillary Clinton might face
criminal charges over her private
email server ahead of the closely
contested US presidential election.
The peso, which rocketed more
than 2% in early Asian trading, has
tended to gain when investors see
Trump’s chances of sitting in the
Oval Office falter. REUTERS
UK
UK preparing legislation to
trigger Brexit
The British government is preparing
legislation to trigger the procedure
to leave the EU despite Prime
Minister Theresa May saying she is
confident of overturning a court decision
that may delay Brexit. May’s
plans to start the formal divorce
procedure from the EU were dealt
a blow last week when England’s
High Court ruled that government
must seek parliamentary approval
for triggering Article 50. AFP
EUROPE
Turkey blasts EU over
crackdown criticism
Turkey on Monday slammed
EU criticism of its crackdown
following the July 15 coup bid and
warned relations were increasingly
fragile as the bloc crafts a report on
its stalled membership bid. The EU
has strongly criticised Turkey over
the arrests of nine MPs from the
pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic
Party, including its two co-leaders,
as well as staff at the opposition
Cumhuriyet newspaper. REUTERS
AFRICA
25 soldiers killed in
Somalia fighting
At least 25 soldiers were killed in
weekend fighting between rival
Puntland and Galmudug regional
forces in the Somali town of Galkayo,
military officials on both sides said
Monday. The divided city of Galkayo
has seen repeated clashes in recent
weeks but Sunday’s fighting is the
deadliest yet and marked the collapse
of a short-lived peace agreement
between the two semi-autonomous
Somali states. AFP

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Le Meridien
gets world
luxury hotel
award
• Tribune Business Desk
Le Méridien Dhaka won the
World Luxury Hotel Award
2016 in the category of “Best
Luxury City Hotel” in Doha
on October 29 just before celebrating
its first anniversary, the
company said in a statement
issued yesterday.
With just over a year of operation
in its history, Le Méridien
Dhaka won the award for its
world class service standard.
As a true five star hotel, Le
Méridien Dhaka pursue a set
of benchmark for world-class
facilities and quintessential
service standard, the statement
said, adding that to win
the highest accolade and title
as the overall winner is both a
humbling and heartening experience
for Le Méridien Dhaka.
It said Le Méridien Dhaka
follows a passion of perfection,
but also has remarkable realisation
of vision to become a highly
recognised brand respected
for its service delivery, diversity
in design and contemporary
parameters.
World Luxury Hotel Awards
is the pinnacle of recognition
of accomplishment by a hotel
in the luxury hospitality industry,
offering recognition to
hotels for earning the enduring
respect of guests and industry
players alike. •
Capital market snapshot:
Monday
DSE
Broad Index 4,689.2 0.4% ▲
Index 1,124.5 0.5% ▲
30 Index 1,762.8 0.3% ▲
Turnover in Mn Tk 6,339.2 35.3% ▲
Turnover in Mn Vol 163.3 21.5% ▲
CSE
All Share Index 14,393.8 0.2% ▲
30 Index 12,918.9 0.3% ▲
Selected Index 8,750.1 0.2% ▲
Turnover in Mn Tk 345.7 27.0% ▲
Turnover in Mn Vol 10.4 4.9% ▲
Tax fair ends with record
revenue collection
• SM Najmus Sakib
The national income tax fair has
set the record on revenue collection,
with Tk2129,67,75,811 collected
from the weeklong event
that ended yesterday.
The fair fetched Tk2035,35,84,818
last year.
The revenue board hosted the
fair for the seventh consecutive year
across the country with a festive
mode especially in the capital in its
underconstruction headquarters.
A huge response was accorded
to the fair that witnessed a very
large number of people converging
on the venue on the concluding
day.
Queuing up and waiting for
hours, the willful taxpayers were
found submitting tax-related papers,
doing return submission,
receiving eTIN and online services
alongside paying due taxes to
the government exchequer, i.e.
bank booths at the fair ground in
a peaceful manner.
Denim export to US sees 5.84% rise
Denim products at a showroom in the capital
• Ibrahim Hossain Ovi
Bangladesh’s Denim export to the
United States has seen a 5.84%
jump to $299 million in the first
eight months of the current year
compared to the same period a
year ago.
However, Denim product export
to European Union (EU)
counties rose by 6.86% to €568
million in January-June period of
the current year.
Denim products contribute
about $6 billion to $28 billion
RMG exports, which is expected
to reach $7 billion by 2021. Of the
total amount, EU and US import
lion’s share of Bangladesh’s denim
products.
Tax Fair
Service
recipients
Return
submission
According to the Office of Textiles
and Apparel (OTEXA) data,
Bangladesh earned $299 million, exporting
denim products, which was
$2,8240 million in the same period
a year ago. In the year 2015, Bangladesh
earned $439.80 million.
According to the data of eurostat,
in January-June period of
2016, Bangladesh exported denim
products of €568 million, which
was €531.50 million. Last year,
Bangladesh earned €1.18 billion
from the denim export.
Bangladesh exports Blue Denim
Trousers WG, Blue Denim
Trousers MB, Blue Denim Skirts,
Blue Denim Jackets, Blue Denim
Suit Type Coats MB, Playsuits and
Sunsuits, Etc to the US markets.
Tax collection
New e-TIN
2016 9,28,973 1,94,598 Tk2129,67,75,811 36,853
2015 7,57,754 1,61,060 Tk2035,35,84,818 15,200
Differences 1,71,219 33,538 Tk94,31,90,993 21,653
Progress 22.59% 20.82% Tk4.63% 142.45%
MAHMUD HOSSAIN OPU
Taxpayers were seen file their
papers sitting on the floor of the
fair ground due to lack of sufficient
arrangements.
Return submission booths,
help booths and bank booths receiving
tax were going through a
heavy pressure dealing with enthusiastic
taxpayers, said Kazi Saifullah,
a college teacher, who had
been queuing up for about an hour
in front of bank booth.
A record number of people received
services and submitted income
tax returns to the fair across
the country. Meanwhile, 1,94,598
submitted tax returns, 36,853
taxpayers got user identification
numbers and passwords. A total
of 9,28,973 individuals were provided
with different services from
the tax fair being held at the NBR
head office.
State-owned Sonali Bank and
Janata Bank set up booths and the
authorities increased the number
of different booths to cope up with
the growing demand to help taxpayers
and visitors.
Besides, NBR provided taxpayers
with shuttle buses and 23 special
help booths for women and
physically challenged taxpayers.
NBR Chairman Nojibur Rahman
expressed his satisfaction
over the response received from
taxpayers, saying the revenue authority
promised to provide services
over the year and inspired
people to pay taxes to build a
According to the study by Cotton
Inc, 71% of people in Europe
and Latin America enjoy wearing
denim, followed by 70% in the US,
58% in China and 57% in Japan.
According to the sector people
estimation that close to 1.9 billion
units of denim jeans were sold in
the world in 2015, and by 2021 the
yearly sale of jeans will cross two
billion units.
There is a huge scope for Bangladeshi
denim manufacturers to
grow and play an important role
in global denim market. The country’s
capacity to meet local demands
is increasing but it requires
more investment, Abdus Salam
healthy nation.
Like every other day, the fair
organiser arranged the event titled
“Tax education forum” for students.
The event aimed at growing
awareness.
Meantime, NBR has organised
a closing ceremony and cultural
event at the headquarters which
started at around 6:30pm. Cabinet
secretary Md Shafiul Alam
addressed the programme as the
chief guest while principal secretary
to the prime minister, Abul
Kalam Azad, and senior secretary
to the Ministry of Public Administration,
Dr Kamal Abdul Naser,
were present as special guests.
Finance Minister AMA Muhith
inaugurated the online tax return
submission system on November
1, 2016.
The fair was held at 150 venues
spanning seven days at divisional
headquarters, four days at district
headquarters, two days in 29
upazilas and one day at 57 upazilas
as mobile income tax fair. •
Murshedy, managing director of
Envoy Textile, a denim fabric manufacturer,
told the Dhaka Tribune.
For grabbing more market
share in the global market, Bangladesh
has to concentrate on
washing as it adds value as well
attracts buyers, he said.
Since, it costs huge to establish
a textile mills, foreign investment
and low cost fund from home and
abroad can help boost the industry,
said the manufacturer.
The government has to ensure
utility service including gas and
electricity supply for the sector
to attract investment, Salam suggested.
•

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Investment required for Denim
to go high end
Mostafiz Uddin, MD of Denim Expert Ltd, tells DhakaTribune in an interview
• Ibrahim Hossain Ovi
Bangladesh needs investment in
denim fabrics manufacturing and
its research and development to
tap potential in order to enter the
high-end market segments, Mostafiz
Uddin, managing director of
Denim Expert Ltd, told the Dhaka
Tribune in an interview.
How can Bangladesh enlarge
export volume and value beyond
EU and US?
Bangladesh, the second largest
RMG exporter in the world, is also
an emerging player in international
denim market. The EU and the US
are two main export destinations
of Bangladesh’s denim.
Bangladesh is ahead of China in
the EU market with around 25.29%
share in 2015 and our position
is second in the US market with
11.35% market share.
For expanding the market,
Bangladesh has to have enough
knowledge to explore non-traditional
markets like Brazil, Chile,
China, Russia, Australia, South Africa
and Japan.
On the other hand, manufacturers
have to know about the trends
and the demand of those markets
to grab market share.
How can Bangladesh explore new
market and buyers?
Participation in apparel trade
shows is the key to come in contact
with the buyers. It also helps
to know about the new markets
through establishing network.
What are the barriers or challenges
to garbing global markets?
Appointment of Chinese firm for
jute mills project likely
• Asif Showkat Kallol
The proposal to appoint a Chinese
firm to implement the balancing,
modernisation, rehabilitation and
expansion (BMRE) project of 26
jute mills will be placed for approval
at the next meeting of the cabinet
committee on economic affairs.
Bangladesh Jute Mills Corporation’s
(BJMC) yearly loss is more
than above Tk600 crore for running
these mills, according to the
Ministry of Textiles and Jute.
The project is expected to help
the sector diversify jute goods and
increase export volume. Revival
of the jute sector in the country
Mostafiz Uddin, managing director of Denim Expert Ltd
High tariff rate in some non-traditional
markets is a major bar to
increasing denim exports to those
countries. The government has to
negotiate to reduce tariff and remove
non-tariff barriers through
diplomacy.
Do you think Bangladesh has
already entered into high-end
market?
Bangladesh is doing well in basic
items. Besides, the country is
gearing up to cater to the need of
high-end and branded fashion segments.
For that, the manufacturers
has to put emphasis on research
and development and forward
and ensuring fair prices of the jute
goods to cultivators can also help
the rural economy get a boost.
The jute ministry is going to proposed
China Textiles Industrial Corporation
for Foreign Economic and
Technical Corporation (CTEXIC) for
the implementation of the project.
According to the ministry, most
of the government-run jute mills are
more than 60-year old and production
capacity has declined by half.
As per the proposal, the dash
board of expensive cars, cartel
of windows and doors should be
made by jute items. Besides, jute
items will be used for manufacturing
furniture, wall-mates, Leonel
linkage industry. Focus needs to be
put on skilled workforce, especially
on mid- and upper-level management.
cloths, car seat covers and viscose.
The Chinese authorities concerned
already signed memorandum
of understanding (MoU) with
Bangladesh’s jute ministry to supply
credit at 1.5% interest for the
BMRE project.
The loan amount would be refunded
within 20 years. Total cost
of the project will be estimated
after six members of the Chinese
firm completed inspection of the
jute mills.
In the last nine years, the mills
suffered losses every year, save for
one, in fiscal year 2010-11, when
a slight profit of Tk14 crore was
made. •
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ACI plans to
float new
subsidiary
• Tribune Business Desk
Advanced Chemical Industries
(ACI) Limited, one of the largest
business conglomerates in Bangladesh,
plans to set up a new subsidiary
company to manufacture
and market biotech products in the
country and abroad.
It plans to offer a number of biotech
products in its stores and has
already laid some groundwork for
its new subsidiary under the name
of ACI Biotech Limited operations.
Currently, the company has
three kinds of business segments—
pharmaceuticals, consumer brands
and agribusiness.
“The company has decided to
set up a new subsidiary company
in the name of ACI Biotech Limited
(proposed), subject to approval
from the regulatory authorities
concerned,” said the company in
a filing with the Dhaka Stock Exchange.
It said the primary objective of
the subsidiary is to manufacture
and market Biotech products in the
country and abroad.
“The company will have an initial
capital of Tk1 crore having 80%
ownership in the proposed company
and the rest of the stake will be
held by sponsor directors,” said an
official.
When the news hit the market
during the trading hour, share
prices of the company gained more
than 2% to Tk410 a share.
The company has a number of
subsidiaries and joint venture business
units namely ACI Formulations,
ACI Salt, ACI Pure Flour, ACI Foods,
ACI Edible Oils, Premiaflex Plastics,
Creative Communication, ACI Motors,
ACI HealthCare, ACI Chemicals,
ACI Logistics, ACI Godrej Agrovet
Private, Tetley ACI (Bangladesh) and
Asian Consumer Care. •
Int’l expo brings RMG makers,
buyers under one roof
• Tribune Business Desk
COURTESY
What do you think about
investment in manufacturing high
quality fabrics?
Bangladesh presently has 30 denim
producing factories and can meet
about 60% domestic demands for
fabrics. That is why, there is a huge
scope of investment in denim fabrics
mills.
However, despite having capacity
our local investors cannot
make new investment in the sector
due to lack of infrastructure, especially
gas. There will be a lot of
investment in the denim industry
if sufficient electricity and gas can
be ensured.
What are the achievements of
Bangladesh Denim Expo in the last
four editions?
Bangladesh Denim Expo has already
become a much-awaited
event in the international denim
calendar. The expo is growing
every year with the presence of
foreign visitors. It will not be an
exaggeration to say that such exposition
has a significant contribution
towards the growth of country’s
denim export to the world. •
Bangladesh can enhance technical
know-how for its clothing products
through participation in international
exposition and attract global
retailers.
Michael Scherpe, president and
CEO of Messe Frankfurt France
came up with the remarks at a press
conference in Dhaka yesterday.
Paris, which is the fashion capital,
is the best place for companies
to learn how to improve their overall
presentation.
Since Bangladesh is the second
largest garment exporter, it is very
important for apparel sourcing.
Therefore, participation in international
exposition is very important
for manufacturers to attract
buyers, said Scherpe.
“The expo would help manufacturers
increase their product quality
and establish network with buyers.”
You will have to talk more with
the buyers and communication can
be a tool to this end, he suggested,
adding that “we unite technology
and latest fashion under one roof
and if you are in the show, it could
help you connect with new buyers”.
Bangladesh is a favourite place
for sourcing not only for its cheap
labour but also for quality products.
If there is no quality in the
products, the manufacturers cannot
make any sale to their buyers. •

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CORPORATE NEWS
Mutual Trust Bank Limited has recently opened its 107th branch at Malibagh Chowdhury Para in Dhaka,
said a press release. The bank’s chairperson, MA Rouf inaugurated the branch as chief guest
ONE Bank Limited has recently signed an agreement with leading European DFIs (FMO, OFID and OeEB)
for availing a long-term facility in USD to strengthen its offshore banking unit operation, said a press release
Standard Chartered Bank has recently arranged a zero-coupon bond of Tk 650m for ACI Godrej Agrovet
Private Limited, said a press release. The bank’s CEO, Abrar A Anwar and Dhruba Jyoti Banerjee, MD of
ACI Godrej Agrovet Private Limited was present on the occasion
Comilla region of Janata Bank has recently held a meeting to review its business, said a press release.
The bank’s DMD, Md Nazim Uddin was present at the meeting

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| ceremony |
International Inter University Photography Exhibition 2016
abroad, where 934 photographers
submitted 8,253 photographs and
64 photo-stories in the primary
level. From these, IIUPE 2016
chose 198 best photographs from
118 photographers and 4 photostories.
The judgement has been
done in two different mediums
(Black and White), and under
8 categories as architecture,
conceptual, instagraph, landscape,
life, still-life, portrait, and photostory.
The jury panel of IIUPE consists
of multinational judges. Ex-jury
member of World Press Photo
and Cross Genre photographer
of India Swapan Parekh; Tanzim
Wahab, Chief Curator of Bengal Art
Foundation from Bangladesh and K
M Asad, Photographer Zuma Press,
USA sorted out the most deserving
entries. Tanvir Murad Topu, head
of photography of Pathshala South
Asian Media Institute, organised
the exhibition with his creative
view. •
"During the Liberation War in 1971,
a photograph played a vibrant
role in raising public opinion
globally and raised awareness
from all over the world," said AKM
Mozammel Haque, honourable
minister of Liberation War Affairs,
People’s Republic of Bangladesh on
November 05, 2016 at Shilpakala
Academy, while inaugurating
International Inter University
Photography Exhibition (IIUPE).
The exhibition was organised by
the North South University Art and
Photography Club.
Prof Atiqul Islam, vice
chancellor of NSU chaired the
exhibition where he said, “A
photograph speaks more than a
thousand words." He appreciated
each and every work of the
contestant in the exhibition there.
IIUPE 2016 was held at Shilpakala
Academy, from November 5 to 7.
Azim Uddin Ahmed, Chairman,
NSU board of trustee, and Dr M
Emdadul Haq, director of student
affairs were there as special guests
and guests of honour. For the
first time, the event will be held
across Bangladesh, at ICCR (Indian
Council for Culture and Relations),
Kolkata, India from November 16
to 18. The closing ceremony of this
exhibition will be held at the NSU
campus on December 1, 2016.
The 10th IUPE has outgrown
all the previous statistics with
41 participating countries, 188
universities from home and
| collaboration |
Signing of MOU between
Rose View Hotel and Gulshan
Club Ltd
The signing of MOU took place
between Rose View Hotel
represented by general manager,
Sadique Ahsan and Gulshan Club
Ltd, represented by president
Sakhawat Abu Khair Mohammed
in presence of MGR Nasir
Majumder, member in-charge,
Gulshan Club Ltd.
From now on, all respective
members of Gulshan club will be
entertained by Rose View Hotel
Sylhet, with special discounts.
All the members are requested to
contact with Gulshan club office
or Rose View sales office for the
special discount facilities.
For more information, contact:
Md Shahidul Islam (01977200506)
/ Md Bayazid Bin Mahfuz
(01977200505). •

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Magic of Automatic:
The Torque Converter
What does an automatic transmission use
instead of a clutch?
• ASM Foysal
Since its invention in 1886,
cars have been running only
sticks for over 25 years until
the invention of automatic
transmission in 1921 by Alfred
Horner Munro. So, automatic
transmission has been around
for ages, 95 years to be exact,
yet have you ever pondered,
what makes an automatic tick?
Why are there only 2 pedals in
an auto transmission instead of
the traditional 3? What does an
auto use instead of a clutch? It’s
all witchcraft and wizardry, not
the traditional sleight of hand,
mumbling incantation, casting
spell kind of wizardry but a
magic nonetheless, the magic
of mechanical ingenuity fluid
dynamics in the form of a Torque
Converter.
With thousands of intricate
moving parts that needs to be
synchronized, delivering power
from any powertrain could a
legitimately complicated process.
All the components need to be
meticulously engineered to allow
them to smoothly keep your
vehicle on the move when you
just shift a gear and step on the
gas. In a manual transmission, the
clutch acts like a bridge between
the engine and the transmission,
connecting and disconnecting the
drive to the wheels. There is an
ideal limit for the engine to work,
below which there isn’t enough
air/fuel mixture to actually keep
the engine turning so it starts to
stall. A clutch essentially applies a
stopper over the throttle allowing
the car to idle without shutting
down the engine. When slowing
down to a stop, an engine would
stall as the feedback from the
transmission would take it below
its workable rev limit in the
absence of a clutch. There needs
to be a disconnection between the
transmission and the engine to
keep the engine running and then
connect again along with some
throttle to keep the vehicle up
and running.
However, in an automatic
transmission there is no
clutch, well not a traditional
one anyway. Instead what
it has is a torque converter.
Essentially it functions in
the same way as a regular
clutch, it ascertains that the
engine keeps running while
the transmission slows
down to a stop. What it does
in not as spectacular as the
how; the torque converter
implements the concept
of fluid coupling, allowing
the rotational energy of one
moving component to be
transferred to another.
The torque produced in the
powertrain and delivered to
the transmission is subdued
immensely by the torque
converter, hence the engine can
rotate freely even when the car
creeps to a halt. There is never
any disconnection however,
this can be observed in an auto
transmission because it will
slowly inch forward from a
standstill if the driver takes his
foot off the brake pedal.
The torque is controlled via
a pump that sends fluid around
the torque converter, the force
of which is determined by the
revolution of the crankshaft.
Inside the converter, there is
a small turbine that rotates
on account of the pumped
transmission fluid hence it acts
as a measure for the amount of
torque that makes its way to the
transmission.
The Exterior of the torque
converter is connected to
the flywheel (used to store
up rotational energy) hence
it spins at the same speed as
the crankshaft. Contained by
the housing is the turbine, the
centrifugal fluid pump and
the stator which surrounds
the rotator. The pump throws
back the fluid into the turbine
which generates torque which is
transferred to the transmission.
The stator prevents the fluid from
flowing back to the pump thus
greatly increasingly efficiency of
the whole system. When idling,
the rate of fluid pumped to the
turbines is quite slow hence only a
meager amount of torque is being
transferred to the transmission.
With increased throttle, the rate
of fluid dissipation increases, the
crankshaft rotates faster which
results in the flywheel rotating
faster and propelling fluid at a
higher rate into the turbine. The
turbine, in turn, spins faster
which allows more torque to be
transferred to the transmission.
As with all systems, there is
bound to be energy loss, and
the automatic transmission is
no different. The loss in energy
is amplified since the engine
torque has to transfer through
the gearbox as well. This loss
might be very little but it puts a
large impact on the transmission
system. The inefficiency results
in the turbines spinning at a
lower rate than the pump, this is
primarily the reason automatic
transmissions have been fuel
inefficient compared to their
manual equivalents. Recent
developments in the torque
converter technology have
recessed the gap a little though,
now they are designed to “lock
up” at certain speeds allowing
the pump and the turbine to spin
together and the loss of energy is
minimized to the point of being
almost nonexistent.
However simple it appears
from being behind the wheel,
the engineering and ideation
that went into developing an
automatic transmission is quite
complex. It’s a spectacular feat
of technological innovation
worthy of anyone’s respect.
Connecting and controlling the
wheels to the driver and seamless
connection between the engine
and the drivetrain is incredibly
effective, so much so that most
people take it for granted. With
so many vehicles trotting out of
the production line with fully
automatic gearbox, the pedal
driven clutch mechanism is
becoming quite redundant. That’s
not to say people doesn’t enjoy it,
quite the contrary, petrol-heads
prefer the full control of the
vehicle, shifting gears and feeling
the grinding of the metal sliding
into place but for the ordinary
folks going from A to B, torque
converts are a god send. •

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20
Editorial
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2016
TODAY
Remember,
remember, the 8th
of November
When tomorrow comes, and the
Americans have a new president-elect,
some will say, kids, remember this day.
This is the day America went to hell
PAGE 21
Obaidul Quader,
Bodi, and the
rule of law
If there are other wrong-doers in the
party or the government, let’s hope
that Bodi isn’t the last case in which
judgement is served
PAGE 22
Let Dhaka breathe
SYED ZAKIR HOSSAIN
Farming for the
future
WHO is pleased to facilitate this
process and emphasises the ongoing
need to work with tobacco-growing
communities while circumventing the
vested interests of the tobacco industry
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Public parks and other open spaces are vital to the development plan for
Dhaka.
Unfortunately, we are failing in this regard.
The World Health Organisation recommends that a city have 9 square
meters of park space per person, and 20 square meters of open green space per
person. It is woefully obvious that Dhaka is nowhere near hitting those marks.
In fact, Dhaka is short of even the target stated in its own development plan.
A city cannot prosper through economic growth alone. Unchecked urban
growth, an over-centralised infrastructure, and bad planning have turned Dhaka
into one of the most unliveable cities of the world. Being unliveable has longterm
economic consequences. Foreign investors do not invest in unliveable
cities; they invest in cities where they think their managers would be happy to
live.
We need to pay more attention to public health. This includes giving more
importance to the physical and psychological benefits of clean, accessible, open
spaces in the city.
Large metropolises around the world have maintained their commercial
vitality while also giving open spaces their due importance. New York,
Bangalore, Seoul, Toronto, and Paris have all exceeded the WHO’s
recommendation for per capita green space.
Dhaka cannot make a miraculous transformation, but it can certainly do
better.
If they mayor indeed recognises this, we hope his office will be given the
necessary resources to realise the vision for Dhaka as a truly modern city.
It takes long-term vision to create the kind of city residents can be proud to
come home, and visitors admire.
Community engagement, and special care taken to include people of all ages
genders, and disabilities is an important step.
Women should not fear harassment, or worse, on public parks. Everybody’s
safety must be ensured.
If the city corporation is serious about taking Dhaka forward, it should first
make sure the city can breathe better. Open spaces will make that possible.
It takes long-term vision
to create the kind of city
residents can be proud
to come home to, and
visitors admire

Remember, remember,
the 8th of November
Opinion 21
DT
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2016
When it comes to the US elections, a Bangladeshi can, at best, be an entertained audience member
THE
WORLD IN
PARENTHESES
• SN Rasul
It is hard for me, personally,
to care much for the US
presidential election as a
citizen of a country which,
firstly, seems to be detached
from it and its consequences,
and secondly, to be a citizen that
is looked down upon by their
immigration system as being less
worthy of landing on its soil.
As a result, my knee-jerk
reaction to the Orientalist nature
of their viewpoints is to say: “Let
them all go to hell.” And watch as
the country that claims to be the
epitome of democracy burn to
the ground under its own selfcongratulating
system.
Indeed, what role can a
Bangladeshi play in the goingson
of the American presidential
elections except that of a highly
entertained audience member? On
the surface, the only thing I can
think of is whether it’d be easier to
enter America, be it as a tourist or
a student, once the elections are
over.
The liberal campaign, headed
by noted celebrities and other
important voices in the media,
would have me believe that Trump
is a monster that needs to be
“punched in the face,” as Robert
DeNiro so eloquently put it. And
anyone voting for him is a disgrace
to humanity.
Cooler cats like Robert Downey
Jr, James Franco, and Mark
Ruffalo (the latter of whom was in
Bangladesh recently begging the
world to protect the Sundarbans)
humorously offer up naked photos
of one of their own brethren
so that the American audience
votes against Trump and the
international audience can’t help
but identify with their hip, “hey,
we’re just like you” lingo.
My more intelligent friends
echo the same sentiment: Just
because you hate Hillary Clinton
doesn’t mean you should be
supporting Trump.
That’s just stupid. No matter
what you say about Hillary, she
has been in the American political
system all her life and she at least
knows what the hell she’s talking
about. And no, saying that Trump
at least says it like it is isn’t good
enough of an excuse.
Contrarily, a part of me, and
I reckon this is true for a lot of
us, can’t quite resist the idea of a
Trump presidency. Just imagine
the ridiculousness: A wig-wagging,
flip-flapping, proven misogynistic
racist in the Oval Office, pledging
allegiance to the stars and stripes.
This is what movies are made of,
and there no doubt will be one
once the dust settles.
Would it be so wrong to
feel a tad bit vengeful against
the American nation for their
continuous self-righteousness in
the face of incessantly and without
mercy doing the wrong thing
around the whole world?
To continue to be friends with
monarchies and despots while
bulldozing through the rest of the
world with pitchforks of pseudodemocracy?
In the 20th century, the
American empire supported
regime after regime of dictators
and corrupt officials, just to
When tomorrow comes, and the Americans have a new president-elect,
some will say, kids, remember this day. This is the day America went to
hell
keep its enemy of the time,
communism, from spreading. Of
course, it was proven by the end
of it that communism isn’t a virus,
and it’s not contagious, and it
doesn’t spread just because you’re
a country that shares its borders
with it.
In this way, they terrorised
(or tried to) Cuba, supporting
the ruthless Batista before Fidel
Castro came in. In this way, they
terrorised Vietnam. In the very
same way, they terrorised Korea,
treating it as their own playground
with Russia.
In each of these cases, they
retreated, with their tails between
their legs, the world all the much
worse for its interventions.
And one knows that they
haven’t been right with their
newfound War on Terror, as they
continued to make mistake after
mistake, as they built Gitmo, as
Democracy in action
they practiced racial profiling, as
they tortured, as they led to the
birth of ISIS, as they supported the
Israeli occupation of Palestine.
So, is it any surprise, despite
how intelligent some of us may
be, to hope that Donald Trump
comes to power, to let America
have a taste of its own medicine?
And hey, what’s so wrong about
supporting someone who says
it like it is, who admits that he
hates Muslims and wants to force
himself on women?
At least, that’s how the layman
thinks. And whether or not I am
a layman myself, I have yet to
decide.
Perhaps that is the problem
with democracy; it presupposes
too much knowledge on the part
of the masses, when all we really
want is to not have so much traffic,
have a little money so we can buy
an occasional fancy gadget, and
watch porn while simultaneously
shaming sexual adverts which our
cricketers have mistakenly acted
in.
How Donald Trump will be
as president is anyone’s guess,
especially when it comes to
foreign policy and foreign
relations.
How does a man like that
interact with other political heads
of state? Does he know how to
show respect? Does he know how
to conduct himself? Without, at
least, resorting to grabbing some
genitalia or the other?
I can’t, honestly, wait for the
show to begin. I could be dignified
and politically astute, I could be a
little more reserved, I could talk of
the impacts of the election on our
very successful garments industry.
But I won’t.
Because the presidential
election, especially this year,
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has been nothing more than the
world’s biggest reality television
show and I’ve had my popcorn
in the microwave for a very long
time.
When tomorrow comes, and the
Americans have a new presidentelect,
some will say, kids,
remember this day. This is the day
America went to hell.
But you know, kids, not
many in the history of politics
has changed anything really,
because figureheads just give
you something to look at while
the strings attached to their arms
and legs are pulled by the various
corporations and agendas and
deals and clandestine e-mails,
from all across the US and the
world.
And I know, it’s good to care,
and apathy and self-interest lead
to the rise of evil, and that those
who are crazy enough to think
they can change the world actually
do, but with this election, I think
our idealistic selves can take a
breather.
I mean, they’ve just discovered
a Hindu god inside a mosque in
Brahmanbaria. Surely, we have
better things to worry about? •
SN Rasul is a Sub-Editor at the Dhaka
Tribune. Follow him @snrasul.

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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2016
DT
Opinion
Obaidul Quader, Bodi,
and the rule of law
Wrong-doers, regardless of party affiliation, should be punished
The prison sentence of AL lawmaker Abdur Rahman Bodi sends a strong message
If there are other wrong-doers in the party or the government, let’s hope
that Bodi isn’t the last case in which judgement is served. Let us hope
that Minister Quader’s words will translate into reality for the good of all
• Nadeem Qadir
When rights
organisations scream
about people going
off scot-free in
criminal cases due to impunity, the
jailing of the ruling Awami League
lawmaker, Abdur Rahman Bodi,
gives a strong signal regarding
the government’s stand against
criminals, whoever they may be.
Similarly, police action against
rowdy armed activists of the
ruling party’s student-wing, the
Bangladesh Chhatra League, is a
welcome move.
The AL’s new general secretary
and minister, Obaidul Quader,
commented: “Operation (against
unruly party elements) has just
started.” This too is worthy of
praise.
These two examples are just the
start of what one hopes will be a
long journey, and Bangladesh will
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stand stronger in terms of the rule
of law as a consequence.
Good governance needs a
strong rule of law, and Prime
Minister Sheikh Hasina’s tough
stand will go a long way in
achieving her Visions 2021 and
2041.
On November 2, 2016, a Dhaka
court handed down three years’
imprisonment to Awami League
MP Abdur Rahman Bodi for
corruption.
He is accused of many other
unlawful acts, which is why this
news was a welcome one.
It is especially a message for
rogue leaders like him to mind
their steps, which hugely hinders
progress.
But does Bodi get the message?
The television footage showed
him grinning as if he has become a
hero. He must understand that he
is a convicted criminal, and being
a government party law-maker
or member does not make any
difference as far as the rule of law
is concerned.
Obaidul Quader is the right
leader to see that the message
travels rank-and-file, and that
anybody else involved in any
wrong-doings and continuing to
damage the image of the party and
the country will not be spared.
Post-incident expulsions are
not an answer; pro-active and preemptive
preventions are the call of
the day, so that the damage does
not continue.
Obaidul Quader reportedly
also said photo sessions with
leaders will not be allowed as
they are misused. This is difficult
to disagree with, as I see it
everywhere.
Some people are only “photo
leaders” but in practice do nothing
for the party or the country, or
even for their leader.
These leaders will not come
out to protect the one who played
a part in lifting them up to their
current positions if she is in
trouble, I fear. So we must know
the true leaders, activists, and
supporters for our posterity.
Obaidul Quader has forced the
party’s rank-and-file to consider
what would happen to them
and the country without Sheikh
Hasina.
Very practical words, but they
have to be translated into reality.
This will help not only the Awami
League, but Bangladesh too.
If there are other wrong-doers
in the party or the government,
let’s hope that Bodi isn’t the last
case in which judgement is served.
Let us hope that Minister
Quader’s words will translate into
reality for the good of all of us,
especially Bangabandhu’s Golden
Bengal and Sheikh Hasina’s Digital
Bangladesh.
It has to be a continuous
process, and not just a stop-gap
measure.
These actions will get more
popular votes in the most crucial
2019 elections, where antiliberation
forces will use all they
have to return to power.
Good luck to Mr Obaidul
Quader. •
Nadeem Qadir is the Press Minister
of Bangladesh High Commission in
London.

Opinion 23
DT
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2016
Farming for the future
Tobacco farmers need help finding alternative livelihoods as the world wakes up to tobacco’s
harmful effects
For a healthier, tobacco-free world
• Poonam Khetrapal Singh
Supporting tobacco farmers
find alternative livelihoods
is both necessary and
proper. As demand
for tobacco products among
wealthier countries declines, and
as measures to roll back tobacco
consumption in the developing
world take effect, farming
communities must have the tools
needed to secure their future.
This is especially so in the
WHO South-East Asia Region.
10 of the Region’s 11 countries
are Parties to WHO’s Framework
Convention on Tobacco Control
(FCTC). Each one of them is taking
meaningful, evidence-based steps
to slash tobacco consumption and
demand, which at present kills
around 1.3 million people in the
region every year.
And each one of them is looking
for ways to shore-up the economy,
avoid tobacco-related costs, and
fast-track development in an age
of unrivalled opportunity.
Though it is true that tobacco
farming accounts for a negligible
percentage of GDP in the region’s
tobacco-growing countries, and
though it is also true that tobacco
farming is a driver of biodiversity
loss and the depletion of soil
nutrients, the concerns of tobacco
farmers themselves are important.
Their future livelihoods matter.
As outlined in Article 17 of the
FCTC, economic viability must be
at the very core of efforts to find
alternative livelihoods and plan
for a tobacco-free world. While
promoting such alternatives will
help tobacco farmers diversify
their income as demand for
tobacco ebbs, it may also alert
them to more lucrative crops or
other livelihood options before
this happens.
Not only would this leave them
better off financially, but it would
also free them of the onerous,
anti-market contracts so beloved
of tobacco oligarchs.
To make this happen,
governments and local authorities
can take a number of pro-active
steps.
First, appropriate research on
market opportunities should be
pursued. This research should take
into account the many variables
that affect a community’s ability
to prosper, including the natural,
human, physical, and financial
capital that a community can
access, as well as the market
linkages they are able to tap in to.
Through the production and
dissemination of high-quality
information, tobacco farmers
can make decisions that harness
market forces to their advantage
and best reflect their interests.
Second, adequate human,
material, and financial resources
should be made available. This
includes providing training
that gives the skills needed for
tobacco farmers to diversify their
crops and income, while also
emphasising tobacco’s harmful
environmental and health
outcomes for consumers and
farmers alike. Authorities should
consider creating incentives for
promoting, supporting, or shifting
to alternate livelihoods, including
by facilitating access to rural
credit, crop and income insurance,
and infrastructure and services,
among other possibilities.
Third, obstacles to crop
diversification should be mitigated
or removed. Where appropriate,
this could include addressing key
concerns that prevent farmers
leaving tobacco cultivation, such
as tobacco-related debts.
Despite a farmer’s best
intentions, excessive debts written
in to supply contracts often leave
them tied to tobacco farming,
limiting their ability to diversify
their income and creating a vicious
circle of indebtedness and poverty.
Government programs must meet
and overcome such challenges.
Finally, industry strategies to
promote tobacco farming must be
identified and regulated. Policies
WHO is pleased to facilitate this process and emphasises the ongoing
need to work with tobacco-growing communities while circumventing
the vested interests of the tobacco industry
should be developed to protect
tobacco growers and workers
from industry practices that fix
prices or create conditions that are
disadvantageous.
This means raising awareness
among tobacco farmers so that
they can increase their autonomy,
as well as creating a network of
civil society organisations able to
monitor industry malpractice. It
also means creating government
mechanisms that can do the same,
only with the full weight of the
law.
By discussing these and other
initiatives at the COP7 meeting
in New Delhi this week, health
authorities and governments
across the South-East Asia Region
-- and indeed the world -- will
explore how best they can support
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tobacco farmers as demandtargeted
initiatives make their
mark.
Though this is already
happening in several countries
in the region, there is scope for
assistance to be scaled up. WHO
is pleased to facilitate this process
and emphasises the ongoing need
to work with tobacco-growing
communities while circumventing
the vested interests of the tobacco
industry. No matter the half-truths
circulated, a tobacco-free world
is one of opportunity rather than
loss.
This point deserves emphasis.
Through the FCTC, countries
across the globe have gained
the legal and technical support
they need to resist Big Tobacco’s
incursions. They are now making
the changes needed to support
healthier populations, and to
lower the social and economic
burden of tobacco-related illness
and death.
Alongside the clear benefits
these changes bring, they also
provide opportunities for presentday
tobacco farmers to diversify
their income and break out from
an industry in terminal decline.
The notion that a tobacco-free
world should come at their
expense is an untruth. And it is
an untruth that is cynical in the
extreme. •
Poonam Khetrapal Singh is Regional
Director of WHO, South-East Asia
Region.

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Sport
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2016
TOP STORIES
Rumana new
women’s captain
Rumana Ahmed was named the
new captain, replacing Jahanara
Alam, of the Bangladesh women’s
national cricket team following a
board meeting at Sher-e-Bangla
National Cricket Stadium in Mirpur
yesterday. PAGE 25
Sunday treble
keeps Sky
Blues on top
• Tribune Report
Nigerian striker Sunday Chizoba
netted the first hattrick of the
Bangladesh Premier League this
season as table-toppers Abahani
Limited continued their brilliant
run with a crushing 5-1 victory over
Feni Soccer Club at Bangabandhu
National Stadium yesterday.
RESULTS
Soccer Club 1-5 Abahani
Felix 58 Jewel 18,
Sunday 26, 54 – P, 62, Saad 88
Rabada shines as
Proteas seal win
Paceman Kagiso Rabada took
5-92 as South Africa completed
an emphatic 177-run victory over
Australia in the first Test at the
WACA yesterday after dismissing
the hosts for 361 just before tea on
the final day. PAGE 26
Buffon makes 600th
outing in Juve win
Miralem Pjanic’s free kick gave
Juventus a 2-1 win at Chievo on
Sunday as goalkeeper Gianluigi
Buffon celebrated his 600th Serie
A appearance. Mohamed Salah
scored a hat-trick to give AS Roma
a 3-0 win. PAGE 26
‘Extraterrestrial’
Messi in Barca victory
The day before his side hosted
Barca, Sevilla coach Jorge
Sampaoli said Lionel Messi’s
supremacy needed two Ballon
d’Ors, “one for Messi and one for
everyone else”. The Argentine’s
words rang true. PAGE 28
Rangpur Riders’ Pakistani recruit Shahid Afridi prepares to take a high catch during a training session at Sher-e-Bangla
National Cricket Stadium in Mirpur yesterday
MD MANIK
BPL 4 all set for restart
• Mazhar Uddin
The fourth edition of the Bangladesh
Premier League Twenty20
is all set to restart today after
rain washed away the first four
matches which forced the BPL
governing council to change the
schedule of the money-spinning
tournament.
According to the new start of
the existing schedule, defending
champions Mashrafe bin Mortaza’s
Comilla Victorians will take
on Tamim Iqbal’s Chittagong Vikings
in the first match, starting
from 2pm, while in the evening
game, Shakib al Hasan’s Dhaka
Dynamites will lock horns with
Mushfiqur Rahim’s Barisal Bulls
at 7pm.
Both the matches will be held
in Mirpur’s Sher-e-Bangla National
Stadium.
The Victorians will be looking
to defend their title as they retained
Imrul Kayes, Liton Kumar
Das, player of the series in the
previous edition Ashar Zaidi and
Nuwan Kulasekara. They also
roped in in-form Pakistani Imad
Wasim, Sohail Tanvir and Afghanistan
leg-spinner Rashid Khan,
among others.
Tigers opening batsman Kayes
sounded positive ahead of their
clash against the Vikings.
“We will try to play our best
cricket. The Vikings, along with
the other teams, have formed formidable
teams to win the title. We
will look to play according to our
game-plan and rest is upto the Almighty.
I don’t set any individual
target but if I perform well, it will
automatically benefit my team,
which is more important for me,”
said Kayes.
Their today’s opposition, the
Vikings, who put up a disappointing
show in BPL 3, have come
back strong this year with a new
coach in the form of Mohammad
Salahuddin while local lad Tamim
Iqbal will look to lead the side
from the front.
The Vikings’ big-hitter Chris
Gayle, Dwayne Smith, Pakistani
Shoaib Malik and Afghan Mohammad
Nabi can prove to be
deadly in their respective roles,
along with veteran left-arm spinner
Abdur Razzak and fast bowler
Taskin Ahmed.
All in all, it promises to be a
cracker of a game when the two
sides get things rolling in the
month-long competition.
Meanwhile in the other match
of the day, the star-studded Dynamites,
led by Shakib, will have
Sri Lankan legends Kumar Sangakkara
and Mahela Jayawardene at
their disposal, along with West Indies
duo Dwayne Bravo and Andre
Russell, in their pursuit of bettering
their semi-final exit in BPL 3.
On the eve of their tournament
opener, Shakib said, “This break
has proved to be useful for the
team as we got the time to gel as
a unit. I think the change in fixture
won’t hamper our game-plan
and strategy. Obviously, we will
look to start the tournament on
a winning note and gain the momentum,
which will help us in the
latter part of the tournament.
“Wherever I play, my team is
always full of superstars. Even
when I played for Rangpur Riders
last year, everyone said my team
is very strong. But I think whoever
plays well on the day is the
better team.”
The Dynamites are up against
Mushfiq’s Bulls, who have a relatively
modest T20 squad devoid
of explosive names. Shahriar Nafees,
Shamsur Rahman and Nadif
Chowdhury will shore up the batting
department while Al Amin
Hossain, Abu Haider Rony and
left-arm spinner Taijul Islam form
a strong bowling unit.
Rumman Raees, Dilshan Munaweera,
Josh Cobb, Carlos Brathwaite
and Mohammad Nawaz
are the Bulls’ overseas recruits
and the quintet will surely add
strength to their side. •
Ctg Abahani 1-0 Mohammedan
Yusuf 44 - og
It was the Sky Blues’ fourth consecutive
league win and also their
biggest margin of victory this season.
George Kottan’s charges are
the only club in the 12-team points
table who are still unbeaten so far
in the league. The remaining 11
sides have conceded at least two
defeats each.
The victory consolidated Abahani’s
place at the top of the premier
league standings. With 29 points
from 13 matches, they moved five
points clear of second-placed Chittagong
Abahani.
On the other hand, it was Feni’s
sixth straight defeat as they remained
second from bottom with
only nine points.
Jewel Rana gave the Sky Blues
the lead in the 18th minute.
Sunday doubled the lead eight
minutes later flicking home a cross
from English midfielder Lee Andrew
Tuck.
The Nigerian striker scored
again in the 54th minute from a
penalty after Camara Mamadou
pulled down Jewel inside the box.
Feni goalkeeper Sujan fisted away
Sunday’s initial effort but the rebound
fell at the feet of Jewel who
cut it back to Sunday to tap home.
Nigerian midfielder Uche Felix
pulled one back for Feni four minutes
later with a low drive from the
middle of the box.
Sunday completed his treble
four minutes later, hitting the back
of the net following a through pass
from Emon Babu. It was Sunday’s
14th league goal this season.
Young forward Saad Uddin came
off the bench to complete the rout
in the 88th minute with a lovely
right-footer from the right flank.
Meanwhile in the day’s other
match, Chittagong Abahani maintained
their good form as they beat
Mohammedan Sporting Club 1-0 to
sit two points behind leaders Abahani.
An own-goal by Mohammedan’s
Yusuf Khan put Chittagong Abahani
ahead in the 44th minute. •

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Rumana new captain, new guideline for players’ TV ads
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• Mazhar Uddin
Rumana Ahmed was named the
new captain of the Bangladesh
women’s cricket team following a
board meeting at Sher-e-Bangla National
Stadium in Mirpur yesterday.
The women’s team will tour
Thailand later this month and Rumana
will be leading the side until
the World Cup qualifiers. Jahanara
Alam previously captained the
women’s side until the Ireland tour.
During the meeting, the Bangladesh
Cricket Board also formed
new guidelines for the endorsements
of the national cricketers.
Keeping in mind the recent controversial
TV commercial featuring
Sabbir Rahman which was later put
off air, the board has undertaken
new measures in order to prevent
such advertisements in future.
Meanwhile, there were no
changes in captaincy of the Test
and ODI sides as Mushfiqur Rahim
and Mashrafe bin Mortaza were retained
as skippers for the upcoming
New Zealand tour.
The board also decided to hold
the next annual general meeting in
A view of the board meeting at Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in Mirpur yesterday
February next year.
“[Yesterday] was one of our most
important board meetings. The
next AGM of the board will take
place in February next year. However,
there is a relation between the
election and the AGM. We have also
finalised the media rights of the BPL
from 2018 for the next three years
onwards,” BCB president Nazmul
Hasan told the media.
“Impress Trimatra Consortium
has the media rights while we also
granted the revenue budget in the
board meeting,” he said.
Among other developments, the
BCB also approved the decision to
renovate two new grounds for the
MD MANIK
domestic leagues.
The board also extended its help
to photo journalist Torikul Islam
and sports journalist Asif Iqbal,
who will receive Tk two and three
lakh respectively. •

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Ansar, BGB lift
wrestling titles
• Tribune Report
Bangladesh Ansar and Border
Guard Bangladesh emerged as the
champions in the women’s and
men’s event respectively in the
National Wrestling Championship
2016 after winning their finals at M
Mansur Ali National Handball Stadium
yesterday.
Ansar bagged a total of seven
medals, including six golds and
a silver, to clinch the sixth Women’s
National Wrestling title while
Bangladesh Army became runners-up
with two golds and six silvers.
BGB took home the crown of the
Men’s National Wrestling Championship
with a total of seven medals,
including five golds and one
silver and bronze, while Ansar finished
second with two golds, three
silvers and bronze. Army placed
third with a gold, two silvers and
four bronzes. •
Rubel, Faruk into
Tennis 2nd round
• Tribune Report
Rubel Hossain and Faruk Hossain
of Bangladesh moved to the second
round of the Walton 30th International
Tennis Federation Junior
Championship 2016 beating their
Indian opponents at National Tennis
Comlex, Ramna yesterday.
Rubel defeated Shyamsundar
Srinivasan comfortably 6-4, 6-1 at
Court 1 while Faruk beat Chinmay
Bakshi 6-3, 6-2 at Court 6. •
Sport
1ST TEST, DAY 5
SOUTH AFRICA 1ST INNINGS 242
AUSTRALIA 1ST INNINGS 244
S.AFRICA 2ND INNINGS 540-8 (DEC)
AUSTRALIA 2ND INNINGS R B
U. Khawaja lbw Duminy 97 182
M. Marsh lbw Rabada 26 52
P. Nevill not out 60 153
M. Starc lbw Rabada 13 24
P. Siddle lbw Philander 13 32
J. Hazlewood c Elgar b Bavuma 29 71
N. Lyon lbw Maharaj 8 22
Extras (b13, lb11, w4, nb2) 30
Total (all out, 119.1 overs) 361
Fall of wickets
1-52 (Warner), 2-52 (Marsh), 3-144 (Smith),
4-146 (Voges), 5-196 (M Marsh), 6-246
(Khawaja), 7-262 (Starc), 8-280 (Siddle),
9-345 (Hazlewood), 10-361 (Lyon)
Bowling
Rabada 31-6-92-5 (3w), Philander 22-7-55-1,
Duminy 17-1-51-1, Maharaj 40.1-10-94-1 (1w),
Cook 2-0-16-0, Bavuma 7-1-29-1 (2nb)
South Africa win by 177 runs
South Africa’s Kagiso Rabada appeals
successfully for an LBW decision off
Australia’s Mitchell Marsh during their
first Test in Perth yesterday REUTERS
Rabada takes five as Proteas seal emphatic win
• Reuters, Perth
Paceman Kagiso Rabada took 5-92
as South Africa completed an emphatic
177-run victory over Australia
in the first Test at the WACA yesterday
after dismissing the hosts for
361 just before tea on the final day.
The tourists claimed a third successive
victory at the WACA after
2008 and 2012 triumphs and a 1-0
lead in the series, which continues
in Hobart on Saturday and concludes
with a day-nighter at Adelaide
Oval.
Australia’s batsmen were unable
to cope with Rabada’s pace and
swing as the 21-year-old took his
fourth five-wicket haul in his ninth
Test, making light of the absence of
South Africa’s injured pace spearhead
Dale Steyn.
It was Australia’s first Test defeat
at home since that 2012 loss at
the WACA and there was more bad
news at the end of the day when it
was confirmed that opener Shaun
Marsh had broken his finger and
would not play in Hobart.
South Africa declared on 540-
8 after lunch on Sunday, leaving
Australia with an imposing 539-run
victory target or more realistically
almost five sessions to bat out for
a draw. It was a remarkable turnaround
after Australia, having dismissed
South Africa for 242 on day
one, were 158 without loss before
collapsing to 244 all out.
“We had some harsh words at the
end of day one, we were very disappointed
with how we played, and
we wanted to come back and put
in a real solid performance,” said
South Africa captain Faf du Plessis.
“The way we responded was
quite ridiculous, it was incredible
the way we turned it around and we
backed it up on day three. Since day
one, it’s just been unbelievable.”
Australia had resumed on 169-4
on Monday and Usman Khawaja,
Mitchell Marsh and Mitchell Starc
were dismissed before lunch with
Peter Siddle following after the
break. •
Leipzig go level
with Bayern
• Reuters, Berlin
RB Leipzig continued their remarkable
first season in the Bundesliga
when they brushed aside Mainz 05
3-1, their fifth win in a row, to go level
on points with leaders Bayern Munich
on Sunday. Bayern and Leipzig
both have 24 points from seven wins
and three draws and are four clear of
third-placed Hoffenheim•
BUNDESLIGA
RB Leipzig 3-1 Mainz
Werner 3, 44, Forsberg 21 Bell 74
Schalke 3-1 Werder Bremen
Schoepf 35, 63, Bentaleb 38 Gnabry 42-pen
BUNDESLIGA
P W D L GD Pts
Bayern Munich 10 7 3 0 18 24
RB Leipzig 10 7 3 0 13 24
Hoffenheim 10 5 5 0 7 20
Hertha Berlin 10 6 2 2 7 20
Dortmund 10 5 3 2 13 18
Buffon makes 600th league
outing in Juve win
• Reuters, Milan
Miralem Pjanic’s free kick gave Juventus
a 2-1 win at Chievo on Sunday
as goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon
celebrated his 600th Serie A appearance.
Mohamed Salah scored a hattrick
to give second-placed AS
Roma a 3-0 win over Bologna and
Inter Milan, still looking for a replacement
for coach Frank de Boer
who was sacked last Tuesday, beat
bottom club Crotone by the same
score after taking 84 minutes to
break through.
Gianluca Lapadula’s first-ever
Serie A goal gave AC Milan a 2-1
win at lowly Palermo while Empoli,
who had scored two goals all
season, tripled their tally in a single
match with a 4-0 win at fellow
strugglers Pescara.
Buffon, 38, became the fourth
player to reach the 600-match
mark after Paulo Maldini, Javier
Zanetti and Francesco Totti.
The first 168 of those were with
Parma, the remainder with Juventus
and he also made 37 appearances
in Serie B where Juventus played
in the 2006-07 season.
Inter, under caretaker coach Stefano
Vecchi, are ninth with 17 points
after their win over Crotone. •
SERIE A
Pescara 0-4 Empoli
Maccarone 12, 44,
Pucciarelli 23, Saponara 89
Chievo 1-2 Juventus
Pellissier 66 Mandzukic 53, Pjanic 75
Genoa 1-1 Udinese
Ocampos 24 Thereau 11
Palermo 1-2 AC Milan
Nestorovski 71 Suso 15, Lapadula 82
Sassuolo 0-3 Atalanta
Gomez 19, Caldara 24, Conti 43
Fiorentina 1-1 Sampdoria
Bernardeschi 37 Muriel 57
Inter Milan 3-0 Crotone
Perisic 84, Icardi 88-pen, 90+3
Roma 3-0 Bologna
Salah 13, 62, 71
SERIE A
P
W D L GD Pts
Juventus 12 10 0 2 14 30
Roma 12 8 2 2 17 26
AC Milan 12 8 1 3 4 25
Lazio 12 6 4 2 9 22
Atalanta 12 7 1 4 6 22
Leaders Nice lose
• AFP, Paris
Table-toppers Nice suffered their
first Ligue 1 defeat of the season on
Sunday when they went down 1-0
after a hotly disputed penalty at
Caen. Champions PSG kept up the
pressure in a 4-0 home win over
Rennes although the three points
was overshadowed by injury to star
striker Edinson Cavani.•
LIGUE 1
Caen 1-0 Nice
Santini 42-pen
Metz 0-0 Saint-Etienne
Paris SG 4-0 Rennes
Gelson 31-og, Cavani 42, Rabiot 67, Verratti 79
LIGUE 1
P W D L GD Pts
Nice 12 9 2 1 15 29
Monaco 12 8 2 2 21 26
Paris SG 12 8 2 2 17 26
Guingamp 12 6 3 3 5 21
Rennes 12 6 2 4 -3 20

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Bangladesh beat
Maldives in U-14 Chess
• Tribune Report
Bangladesh outplayed Maldives by 4-0 points in the
second round of the Asian Nations Cup Under-14 Team
Chess Championship 2016 but lost to Iraq in the third
round by 2.5-1.5 points in Jaixian, China yesterday.
In the second round, Nayem Haque, Amit Bikram
Roy, Sadnan Hossain Dihan and Daniel Murad defeated
Yameen Yooshau, Hassan Zayan, Hussain Mohamed Nibaal
and Naseer Yanaal Ali. In the third round, Nayem
beat Rabeea Sabah Nori and Daniel drew with Ameer
Dhafer while Amit lost to Ahmed Jaza Jamal and Sadnan
suffered a defeat against Moazaz Dhahir Habeeb. •
Dhaka Dynamites’ Lankan legend Kumar Sangakkara during the signing ceremony
of Laugfs Gas as one of their major BPL 4 sponsors
COURTESY
Murray clinches maiden
Paris Masters title
• Reuters, Paris
Andy Murray celebrated his impending rise to the world
number one ranking with a 6-3 6-7(4) 6-4 victory against
John Isner to claim his maiden Paris Masters title and his
eighth tournament win of the season on Sunday.
The Briton, who will take over from Novak Djokovic
at the top of the ATP rankings yesterday, survived a barrage
of aces against the towering American to win his
14th career Masters tournament.
The three-times grand slam champion gave little
breathing space to Isner, who was hoping to clinch his
first Masters title after two lost finals. •

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‘Extraterrestrial’ Messi
as Barca edge Sevilla
• Reuters
The day before his side hosted Barcelona,
Sevilla coach Jorge Sampaoli
joked that Lionel Messi’s supremacy
necessitated two Ballon
d’Or competitions, “one for Messi
and one for everyone else”.
The Argentine’s words rang
true as his compatriot turned
Sunday’s thrilling encounter with
the high-flying Andalusians on
its head, engineering a 2-1 comeback
victory for his side despite a
breathtaking display from Sevilla.
Barca looked there for the taking
after Vitolo’s 15th minute goal
and were drowning in the home
side’s unrelenting pressure, only
spared by some wayward finishing.
But as halftime approached,
Messi sparked a surge forward,
combining with Denis Suarez and
Neymar to equalise with Barca’s
first clear effort on goal. He took
hold of proceedings in the second
half, crafting two unfulfilled chances
for himself before teeing up Luis
Suarez to secure Barca the winner.
“When a player like him takes
a game seriously it’s very difficult
for his opponents,” said Sampaoli,
whose side’s perfect home record
in La Liga and the Champions
Guardiola: Lack
of composure is
costing Man City
• Reuters
A lack of composure at both ends
of the pitch is costing Manchester
City points, according to their manager
Pep Guardiola.
City, held to a 1-1 home draw by
Middlesbrough on Saturday, have
won one of their last five Premier
League games to slip to third in the
table behind Liverpool and Chelsea.
“Sometimes when you miss a
point it’s a shame... we’re attacking
with 10 guys and we don’t let
(opponents) run,” Guardiola told
reporters.
“We have to insist on playing
that way but we have to be better
in the boxes. When that happens
the game will be 2-0 and the game
will be over.”
“We control the attack, outside
and inside the box and we get to
the second balls,” Guardiola said.
“Of course, in 90 minutes, there
has to be some point when the opponent
can arrive in your box and
what happens here is that they
punish you,” the Spaniard added.
“Here, the games are always
open because they put the long
balls on to the strikers. They are
playing for free kicks and throw-ins
to make the most of the minimal
mistake.” •
League was broken.
“Messi is a world class player
and when the game opens up
there’s little you can do to stop
him, nor his team mates because
they can really punish you if you
give them any space.”
Barca coach Luis Enrique
praised the little magician for yet
another match-winning display.
“Messi’s capacity to interpret
any situation is remarkable. There’s
no-one like him. Our aim is to look
to give the ball to him as often as
we can,” he said.
Sevilla’s Vitolo added: “I’m not
going to tell you anything new
about Messi, for me he’s the best
of all time. He only appeared in the
first half to score the goal but in
the second he improved his whole
team. We were on top in the first
half but Barca’s front three can
score at any moment and their first
goal got them back into the game.”
Sevilla president Pepe Castro
lamented his side’s inability to finish
Barcelona off but was also in
thrall to Messi.
“We couldn’t take our chances
in the first half. They have Messi,
we do not,” he said.
“He is an extraterrestrial. The first
time he touches the ball, it’s a goal.” •
Sport
Klopp wants Liverpool to stay cool
• Reuters
Juergen Klopp suggested on Sunday
that everyone needed to stay
cool amid the crescendo of excitement
that is building up around
Liverpool’s title challenge.
Their fabulous 6-1 trouncing of
Watford at Anfield, featuring the
attacking brilliance that has characterised
their entire season, saw
Liverpool hit the top of the Premier
League for the first time in the
LA LIGA
Real Madrid 3-0 Leganes
Bale 38, 45, Morata 76
Celta Vigo 2-1 Valencia
Roncaglia 43, Guidetti 77 Parejo 32-pen
Espanyol 0-0 Athletic Bilbao
Villarreal 2-0 Real Betis
Trigueros 22, Soriano 54
Sevilla 1-2 Barcelona
Vitolo 15 Messi 43, Suarez 61
POINTS TABLE
P W D L GD Pts
Real Madrid 11 8 3 0 21 27
Barcelona 11 8 1 2 19 25
Villarreal 11 6 4 1 12 22
Atletico Madrid 11 6 3 2 17 21
Sevilla 11 6 3 2 4 21
Barcelona’s Argentinian forward Lionel Messi celebrates after scoring during their Spanish league match against Sevilla FC at
the Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan stadium in Sevilla on Sunday
AFP
Klopp era.
Yet while the win even had
Watford’s bruised manager Walter
Mazzarri cooing that Liverpool
could lift the title for the first time
since the creation of the Premier
League, Klopp suggested everyone
calmed down.
With Chelsea, fresh from their
5-0 hammering of Everton on Saturday,
only a point behind and
both the widely-admired Manchester
City and Arsenal a further point
POINTS TABLE
P 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
Everton 11 5 3 3 2 18
Watford 11 4 3 4 -4 15
Burnley 11 4 2 5 -4 14
Southampton 11 3 4 4 0 13
West Brom 11 3 4 4 -3 13
Stoke 11 3 4 4 -5 13
Bournemouth 11 3 3 5 -3 12
Leicester 11 3 3 5 -5 12
Middlesbrough 11 2 5 4 -2 11
adrift, Klopp reckoned it was far
too early to get carried away.
“If somebody thinks being one
point ahead after 11 match days is
a big sign for the rest of the season,
then I can’t help this person,”
Klopp told reporters.
“We stay cool. It’s the best position
I can imagine but nothing else
has happened.
“We knew that Arsenal drew
against Tottenham but we didn’t
speak one word about the possibility
of being top of the table.
“We saw Chelsea yesterday,
quite impressive; Man City playing
Barcelona, quite impressive; Man
United, never write them off; Tottenham
are a good side. There’s a
lot of really good teams around.
“For me it’s more important that
we look like a team who is able to
win games.”
“I know the story two years ago
when it was really close and everybody
compares -- but this is not the
team of two or three years ago,”
Klopp said.
“This is not the team (of) 25
years ago. We’re completely new.
“When I came here I asked for
time and patience and belief, and
after 11 matches everyone’s asking
for guarantees and they are not
there.
“The only thing we have is a
pretty good football team.” •
Mourinho hits
out at United
‘problem players’
• AFP, Swansea
Jose Mourinho has taken a swipe at
the Manchester United players he
fears might not have the right attitude
to guide his side back into the
Premier League title race.
Mourinho spoke openly about
the need for players to play through
the injury pain barrier.
“We have players with problems,
but we also have players on
the pitch who have problems,” he
said.
“And that is what I mean, because
in every sport, and I know
that because I have friends from
other sports, playing at the highest
level. How many times do they play
when they are not 100 per cent?
“I have a friend who is a big tennis
player and he tells me that he
remembers more times when he
has played with pain than the times
he has played without any pain. To
compete, you have to work to the
limits.
“It is a cultural thing, for some.
That’s not my culture.”
Asked if players needed to
change to play for him, Mourinho
said; “Exactly, but more than me,
Man United. More than me, Man
United.” •

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CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Bird (4)
6 Vigour (3)
7 Readily-splitting
mineral (4)
9 Require (4)
10 Of the moon (5)
11 Make merry (5)
12 Strange (3)
14 Icy cold (5)
17 Henhouse (5)
20 United (3)
21 Droll (5)
23 Scene of an event (5)
25 Lure (4)
26 Dry (4)
27 Lubricant (3)
28 Prophet (4)
DOWN
1 Leader of church
singing (6)
2 Carry too far (6)
3 Broad (4)
4 Clamour (3)
5 Distant (3)
7 Stubborn animal (4)
8 Ship's small room (5)
10 Limb (3)
13 Channel port (5)
15 Area (6)
16 Writer of IOU's (6)
18 Move quickly (4)
19 Digit (3)
22 Wading bird (4)
23 Forefront (3)
24 Pinch (3)
CODE-CRACKER
How to solve: Each number in our
CODE-CRACKER grid represents a
different letter of the alphabet. For
example, today 17 represents W so fill W
every time the figure 17 appears.
You have two letters in the control
grid to start you off. Enter them in the
appropriate squares in the main grid, then
use your knowledge of words to work out
which letters go in the missing squares.
Some letters of the alphabet may not be
used.
As you get the letters, fill in the other
squares with the same number in the
main grid, and the control grid. Check
off the list of alphabetical letters as you
identify them.
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
CALVIN AND HOBBES
SUDOKU
How to solve: Fill in the blank spaces with the
numbers 1 – 9. Every row, column and 3 x 3 box must
contain all nine digits with no number repeating.
PEANUTS
YESTERDAY’S SOLUTIONS
CODE-CRACKER
CROSSWORD
DILBERT
SUDOKU

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Showtime
Love School season 2
fails to shine
• Showtime Desk
MTV Love School is a reality show
that aims to solve the problems
of young couples and bring them
closer, thereby making their
relationship stronger.
The first season of the show
was hosted by actors Karishma
Tanna and Upen Patel. According
to the TRP rating, the first season
was not a great hit, which is
why there is a now a new season
hosted by another pair of celebrity
lovebirds, Karan Kundra and
Anusha Dandekar. Another reason
behind the change of hosts was the
breakup of Karishma and Upen.
Disappointing indeed for the show
and concept!
The show aired last Sunday
and it turned out to be a
disappointment. Again. But let us
call a spade a spade; how much
quality can anyone expect from
a reality show where couples try
to make their personal issues a
public affair? Naturally, no. So,
the show started with hosts Karan
and Anusha doing a LOT of PDA
(Public Display of Affection). And
then the contestants started to
show up for ‘audition.’ The couples
had the usual problems-infidelity,
commitment issues, lack of
communication, etc.
The couples who impressed
the hosts were given a locket,
and were asked to join the “love
school.” And that was pretty much
that.
There was also some drama in
the show, thanks to Karan, who
yelled at the participants, and
Anusha, who got frustrated
with some couples and
cried, before walking
out of the sets. The first
episode of the show ended
up being quite a letdown
for the audience. It is now up to
the producers and hosts to come
up with something to really turn
things around. •
Sara says NO to KJo
Nachiketa collaborates
with Joy Shahriar
• Showtime Desk
For the longest time, rumors of
Sara Ali Khan making a debut in
Student of the Year 2, opposite
Tiger Shroff, have been doing their
rounds. There have been several
reports anticipating the same. In
fact, some even suggested how
she has already signed the dotted
line and is all set to romance
Tiger Shroff in this much-awaited
sequel. But reportedly, Sara Ali
Khan is not interested in making
her debut with Karan Johar!
Reports suggest that Sara has
suddenly let the agency that was
handling her work go it is unclear.
If she has rejected Karan Johar’s
Student Of The Year sequel or was
never offered the film. Only time
will tell, but Bollywood is quite
curious to know what is on her
plate right now. •
• Showtime Desk
Popular singer from Kolkata,
Nachiketa, recently sang a song by
Bangladeshi music composer Joy
Shahriar. They recorded the song
during the last week of October in
Kolkata. Joy is very excited after
having worked with him. The title
of the song is “Hoytoh abar hobe
dekha”.
“Nachiketa is one of the
inspirations in Bengali music.
It was like a treat working with
him.” said Joy. He also said that
the shooting for the music video
would begin soon, prior to which,
the song would be released at
Gaan-Box. •

Showtime
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Registration for Bengal Classical
Music Festival 2016 begins
• Showtime Desk
The registration process has
begun for Bengal Classical Music
Festival 2016, which is set to be
held for five consecutive nights
starting from November 24 to 28,
at the Bangladesh Army Stadium.
Online registrations and
registration via mobile phones
opened earlier on Monday,
November 7. To register online,
one has to log on to the website
– www.bengalclassicalmusicfest.
com. To register via mobile
phone, one has to type ‘Bengal’
and send it to 6969.
The five day festival will
be dedicated to the recentlydeceased
ambidextrous
littérateur Syed Shamsul Haq,
who was closely associated with
Bengal Foundation since it’s
inception. Just like the previous
editions, the festival will
feature performances of major
disciplines from Indian classical
music and dance performances
carried out by both local and
Indian artists.
The featured artists of this
edition include Aashish Khan,
Girija Devi, Pandit Hariprasad
Chaurasia, Pandit Shivkumar
Sharma, Ajoy Chakrabarty,
U Rajesh, Abhijit Banerjee,
Jayateerth Mevundi, Ulhas
Kashalkar, Dr L Subramaniam,
Madhavi Mudgal, Arushi Mudgal,
Kushal Das, Munmun Ahmed,
Rahul Sharma, Rashid Khan,
Ranendranath Majumdar, Satyajit
Talwalkar, Sharmila Banerjee,
Tejendra Narayan Majumdar,
Uday Bhawalkar, and many
others.
Presented by Square Group,
Bengal Foundation will organise
the festival with support from
Brac Bank Limited. •
WHAT TO WATCH
Shrek the Third
HBO 7:44pm
When his new father-in-law, King
Harold falls ill, Shrek is looked
at as the heir to the land of Far,
Far Away. Not one to give up his
beloved swamp, Shrek recruits
his friends Donkey and Puss in
Boots to install the rebellious
Artie as the new king. Princess
Fiona, however, rallies a band
of royal girlfriends to fend off a
coup d’etat by the jilted Prince
Charming.
Voice: Mike Myers (Shrek), Eddie
Murphy (Donkey), Cameron Diaz
(Princess Fiona), Antonio
Banderas (Puss in Boots), Julie
Andrews (Queen)
Journey 2: The Mysterious Island
HBO 9:30pm
Sean Anderson partners with
his mom’s husband on a mission
to find his grandfather, who
is thought to be missing on a
mythical island.
Cast:Josh Hutcherson, Dwayne
Johnson, Michael Caine, Luis
Guzmán, Vanessa Hudgens
Night at the Museum: Secret of
the Tomb
Star Movies 5:12pm
Larry spans the globe, uniting
favorite and new characters while
embarking on an epic quest to
save the magic before it is gone
forever.
Cast: Ben Stiller, Robin Williams,
Owen Wilson, Steve Coogan, Dan
Stevens, Ben Kingsley
Captain America: The First
Avenger
Star Movies 9:30pm
Steve Rogers, a rejected military
soldier transforms into Captain
America after taking a dose of a
‘Super-Soldier serum.’ But being
Captain America comes at a price
as he attempts to take down
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Mila’s works for
new songs
• Showtime Desk
Mila’s latest album Uncensored,
was released in 2015. Since
then, the pop singer was only
spotted in live concerts.
She just wrapped up her
US tour, and returned to the
country after performing
in several concerts there.
Thanks to her earlier music
videos, she often appears
on TV these days. There has
been buzz about her new
album, which she is currently
working on.
The 38-year-old singer
is currently hold up in the
studios. Mila said, “I couldn’t
be easily satisfied with my
work. So, I have to take longer
time than usual to wrap up
the whole work. That’s why, I
am still busy working on the
album.”
The album will be released
next year, and some of the
songs have already been
done. She is also working on a
documentary based on her life,
which will be released along
with the album. •

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RANGPUR SUGAR MILL CLASH
One Santal dead, 1,000 families flee
• Mahadi Al Hasnat
Over 1,000 families yesterday left
Shahebganj-Bagda Farm area under
Rangpur Sugar Mills at Gobindaganj
in Gaibandha after looting and mass
arrest drives.
“Around 1,000 to 1,200 families
have moved to nearby villages after
mass looting took place at Shahebganj-Bagda
Farm of Rangpur Sugar
Mills at Gobindaganj,” claimed leaders
from indigenous communities.
“Valuables, including domestic
animals and crops were looted
from their makeshift houses from
morning till noon in presence of
law enforcers,” Jatiya Adibasi Parishad
President Rabindranath Soren
told the Dhaka Tribune yesterday
evening.
Earlier, a clash took place after
Santals of Sahebganj-Bagda farm in
Gaibandha chased a group of Rangpur
Sugar Mill staff who came to
reap sugarcane on the sugar mill’s
plantation area on Sunday morning.
Rabindranath Soren and Shahebganj-Bangda
Farm Bhumi Uddhar
Sangram Committee Vice-President
Philimon Baske told the Dhaka Tribune
that four of their men sustained
wounds from bullet fired by police.
They said when police came to
the spot, the Santal people, carrying
arrows and bows, confronted them
to save their land. A clash then erupted
between police AND Santals that
left four Santals with bullet injuries
and nine police shot by arrows. On
Sunday night, one of the injured Santals,
Shyamal Hembrom (35), died.
Hembrom was declared dead
when his bullet-ridden body was
taken to Dinajpur Medical College
Hospital on Sunday evening. In addition,
another 17 people from both
the parties also sustained injuries,
said Philimon Baske.
He said: “Rest of the injured Santals,
Dijen Tutu, Choron Soren and
Bimol Kishku, are now undergoing
treatment at Rangpur Medical College
Hospital. We have heard that
police have are guarding them showing
them arrested.”
The local Santals have long been
in dispute over the land after the mill
authorities started leasing the land
to the locals for cultivation of rice
and other crops violating a contract
with the landowners.
The erstwhile Pakistan government
acquired 1842 acres of land
from Santals for the sugar mill authorities
under a contract that only
A person setting a house of the Santal community on fire in police presence on Sunday
sugar cane would be farmed there,
the indigenous leaders said.
They said although the agreement
stated that the lands would be
returned to the original owners if it
is used for any other purposes, it did
not happen in reality; although the
mill authorities have long been allowing
tobacco and rice farming for
years on the land.
According to the indigenous leaders,
as the contract was violated,
four months ago, indigenous Santal
people and some Bangali locals
occupied around 100 acres of land,
building makeshift houses there,
and demanding return of their lands
that belonged to their forefathers.
Local sources at Gobindaganj
said the mill was closed from 2003
to 2008, but came into partial operation
from end of 2008.
“The mill opens in condition
that the leasers will have to harvest
at least 10% as sugarcane and other
products can be harvested to rest
90% of the space. This is a violation
of law,” said sources.
The mill authorities leased the
land to local influential, political and
well-off people including Katabari
No. 2 union chairman Rezaul Karim
Rafiq and former MP Monowar Hossain
Chowdhury’s younger brother
Liton Hossain Chowdhury etc, added
sources.
Silence, tension remains in the area
During a visit to the area, the Dhaka
Tribune correspondent found a
tensed situation prevailing at the
Shahebganj-Bagda Farm area of
Rangpur Sugar Mills at Gobindaganj,
Gaibandha.
The locals consisting of Santals
in majority but with some Bangalis
also left the area once the police
started their arrest and eviction
drive on yesterday morning. No
houses, built by the original land
owners, were found in the area
while burnt ashes and some marks
of makeshift camps were found in
the spot.
During the visit, Santals living in
the area alleged to the correspondent
that the local goons who accompanied
the police looted their valuables
including tin and bamboo of
their makeshift houses, along with
the domestic cattle. Many indigenous
people of the area left the spot
after a case was filed against 350
people, including 38 named ones,
on Sunday night.
Gobindaganj Police Station Office
in Charge Subroto Kumer said their
sub inspector Kalyan Chakraborty
filed the case.
“We are conducting drivers to arrest
the accused,” he said admitting
that most of the people, occupying
the government land were Santals.
No one claimed body
Meanwhile, no one has yet claimed
the body of Shayamol Hembron
from Dinajpur Medical College
Hospital as of filing of the report at
8:00PM.
Dinajpur’s Kotwali Police Station
Officer in-Charge Redwanur Rahim
said the body has been kept at the
morgue after its postmortem, but no
one claimed the body yet.
Rangpur Sugar Mill managing
director Abdul Awal, however,
claimed that the allegations of the
Santals were baseless and unfound.
“The mill would reopen from
December this year and we were
harvesting sugarcane as a preparation.
When our contractor went to
the land for cutting crops, the local
people protested and attacked our
staffs,” he said.
In reply to a query over why the
land was leased to other people who
harvested other crops, he said: “Following
government rule, the authorities
lease the land to well-off people
of the area. We can do that.”
He said: “If the mill breaches
any terms of the contract, the land
should be reclaimed by the government,
not by the locals. But the Santals
have illegally occupied the land
of the sugar mill following instigation
of some people.”
Contacted over the issues, researcher
Pavel Partha told the Dhaka
Tribune: “This is the biggest combined
movement of common people
since the Phulbari’s tragic incident.
It is created by original landowners.”
He also said violating the agreement,
the mill authorities are now
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leasing the land for harvesting products
other than sugar cane like fish,
maize, and other products that clearly
shows it breaches the contract.
Since the movement was waged,
two probe committees by the district
administration and local upazila administration
were formed and both
the committees found that products
other than sugar cane are being harvested
in the land, said Partha.
Santals want their land back
Shahebganj Bangda Farm Bhumi
Uddhar Sangram Committee vice
president Philimon Baske told the
Dhaka Tribune that they are not carrying
out the doing the movement
being instigated by anyone.
He said: “While acquiring the
land, sugar mill authorities made
an agreement with the original land
owners that the land would be returned
to real owners if any crop except
sugar cane is harvested on the
land. They are producing rice and
tobacco for few days.”
“Despite breaching the conditions,
they (authorities) did not return
the land to us, so the land was
occupied,” he added.
“We want our land back, as the
authorities violated the contract,” he
demanded. •
Our Gaibandha correspondent Tajul
Islam Reza and Dinajpur correspondent
Bipul Sarker Sunny contributed to this
report
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