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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2016 | Agrahayan 23, 1423, Rabiul Awwal 6, 1438 | Regd No DA 6238, Vol 4, No 220 | www.dhakatribune.com | 32 pages | Price: Tk10
‘Attitude towards disabilities needs changing’ › 2
Ivy, Sakhawat busy
electioneering › 7
PM’s special
assistant dies
in Gulshan
restaurant › 3
Dhaka overcome Khulna, reach grand finale › 24
Mass grief as
Jayalalithaa
dies › 8
ILO for decent jobs to end
poverty › 12
Grameenphone to create
videos of ‘71 stories › 32
From waste
to wealth
› 16
EDITORIAL: Protect our rivers › 20

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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2016
DT
News
ROUND-TABLE DISCUSSION ON CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES
‘Attitude towards disabilities needs changing’
• Nure Alam Durjoy
The collective attitude towards
children with disabilities needs to
change in Bangladeshi society to
help and support them in becoming
contributing citizens, speakers
said yesterday.
Discussing several issues regarding
disabilities at a round-table
discussion titled “Children with
disabilities in mainstream schools:
Partaking by stakeholders,” experts
and activists also agreed that special
and focused care must be given
to children with disabilities as
soon as they are born, because the
sooner they get the care they need,
the better equipped they will be in
order to assimilate into the society.
“Children with disabilities face
a negative attitude not only from
the society and its institutions, but
even from their family members. We
have to change this negative attitude
so their latent talents can be flourished,”
said Ranjan Karmaker, chairperson
of the Society for Education
and Inclusion of the Disabled (SEID),
who moderated the discussion.
The event, organised by the
SEID in cooperation with HSBC
Bangladesh and the Dhaka Tribune,
was held at the conference
room of the Dhaka Tribune.
Mahbub-ur Rahman, deputy
CEO of HSBC Bangladesh, said increasing
mass awareness regarding
disabilities was a must-do.
“These children live with their
disabilities all their lives. So tackling
the problems that make their
lives difficult needs everyone’s
participation,” he said. “Friendly
atmosphere and relationships will
help these children flourish.”
“Many challenges exist that prevent
children with special needs
from enrolling in mainstream
schools, ultimately hampering
their education,” said Khairul Islam,
development worker at ActionAid
Bangladesh.
Early screening to identify
children with disabilities and the
type and nature of their disabilities,
early child care development,
therapeutic support in pre-primary
stage of education and accessible
learning method are compulsory to
Acceptance and support are all that children with disabilities need in order to grow up and reach their full potential and make
their contributions to the society and the country
RAJIB DHAR
Ranjan Karmaker, chairperson,
SEID
We have to change the negative attitude
towards children with disabilities and
provide the support that will help their
latent talents flourish
overcome these challenges, he said.
Dr Sharmin Haq, professor at Institute
of Education and Research
at Dhaka University, added to that.
“Children with special needs require
a unique curriculum for their
education which is flexible,” she
said. “Also, if at least one teacher
is provided with the training on
special education in every district
of the country, the problem can be
easily addressed.”
Teachers in mainstream schools
also must change their attitude towards
children with disabilities and
become more accepting, she said.
Prof Salma Begum, project director
at National Academy for
Dr Khondaker Abdullah Al Mamun,
associate professor, UIU
Specialised technologies can play an
important role in the development
of behaviour and attitude of children
with disabilities and help them get into
mainstream schools
Autism and Neurodevelopmental
Disabilities, said: “The problem we
face is identifying children with
disabilities. If we cannot prepare
a child with disability from its 2-7
years of age through early intervention,
it will be more difficult for
the child to grow up and reach its
full potential.”
Dr Khondaker Abdullah Al Mamun,
associate professor at the
department of computer science
and engineering in United International
University, said specialised
technologies can play an important
role in the development of behaviour
and attitude of children with
disabilities and help them get into
Mahbub-ur Rahman, deputy CEO,
HSBC Bangladesh
These children live with their disabilities
all their lives. So tackling the problems
that make their lives difficult needs
everyone’s participation
mainstream schools, as seen in
many countries.
“Simple mobile applications can
help these children communicate
with others,” he added.
Khurshid A Chowdhury, director
general of National Foundation for
Development of the Disabled Persons,
said collaboration between
the government and the non-government
agencies is required to
overcome the challenges.
Badsha Mia, assistant director at
the Ministry of Primary and Mass
Education, said the government
aimed at achieving 100% enrolment
of children in schools, which meant
no children would be left behind.
Dr Sharmin Haq, professor, Institute
of Education and Research, DU
Children with special needs require a
unique curriculum for their education
which is flexible… Teachers in
mainstream schools also must change
their attitude towards these children
and become more accepting
Laila Karim, advocacy manager at
Save the Children
The government should formulate a
guideline for everyone to learn how
to act with and around children with
disabilities
Laila Karim, advocacy manager
at Save the Children Bangladesh,
said the government should formulate
a guideline for everyone to
learn how to act with and around
children with disabilities.
“We need to understand this
issue first in order to find the solutions,”
she added.
Dhaka Tribune Editor Zafar Sobhan
thanked all the speakers for
participating in the discussion.
“This is not only the children’s
[with disabilities] problem, but
also everyone’s problem. We stand
beside them and hope to arrange
more awareness building programmes,”
he said. •
FACTS
KEY OBSERVATIONS
Total number
of persons with
disabilities: 1,509,017
Persons with neurodevelopmental
disability: 225,881
Source: SEID
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Many schools are still reluctant to enrol children with disabilities
Students with special needs find it difficult to continue their education due
to lack of cooperation from teachers, classmates and the education system
School authorities most often cannot provide essential facilities that these
children require
Special schools have fund constraints and therefore cannot provide
comprehensive support
Teachers in mainstream schools have limited resources and knowledge to
handle children with disabilities in a classroom
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Due to time limitation, children with disabilities cannot be given extra
attention and required efforts
Besides teachers, special training and orientation on disability should be
provided to mainstream students and their parents as well
A system should be in place for mainstream schools and special needs
schools to exchange knowledge, experience and logistics
Teachers should change their traditional mindset and become more
supportive to create an enabling environment for their students with
disabilities in mainstream schools

PM’s special assistant dies in
Gulshan restaurant
• Manik Miazee and Mahmud
Hossain Opu
Prime Minister’s Special Assistant
Mahbubul Hoque Shakil died at a Gulshan
restaurant in Dhaka yesterday.
Gulshan police station Officerin-Charge
(investigation) Salauddin
confirmed the matter to the Dhaka
Tribune.
However, staff members of Samdado
Japanese Cuisine in Gulshan 2
claimed that Shakil might have died
overnight. Police detained six of
Samdado staff members including
its manager for questioning.
The PM’s Personal Secretary Ihsanul
Karim, political adviser HT
Imam, and Awami League Joint
General Secretary Mahabubul Alam
Hanif visited the scene.
Talking to the media, Awami
League Office Secretary Abdus Sobhan
Golap said Shakil had gone to
the restaurant around 8pm Monday.
He said Shakil’s body has been
taken to Birdem Hospital.
He said the initial inquest at Birdem
Hospital at Shahbagh identified
the cause of death as cardiac arrest.
Staff members at Samdado
claimed that Shakil had gone there at
4pm on Monday. He was later joined
Mahbubul Hoque Shakil
SYED ZAKIR HOSSAIN
by a close friend named Nur Mohammad
Biplob around 5pm.
The claims were corroborated by
Biplob’s driver Abdul Barek.
The restaurant staff and Barek said
Shakil and Biplob used to frequently
dine at the restaurant, and their Monday
visit had seemed no different.
Around 9pm Shakil said he was feeling
sick and Biplob offered him a ride
home, but Shakil turned down the
offer. Biplob left soon after and the
restaurant staff allowed Shakil to recuperate
on the restaurant premises.
OC Salauddin informed the Dhaka
Tribune that Samdado had been
closed down temporarily until further
notice.
News 3
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2016
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina
expressed her profound shock at
the death of her special assistant
and conveyed condolences to the
bereaved family members.
In a message, she wrote: “With
Shakil’s demise, the nation has lost
an efficient organiser and an admirer
of Bangabandhu. As a student
leader in particular he had immense
contribution to the country’s democratic
movements.”
Hasina recalled Shakil’s contribution
to the cultural arena as a student
leader, poet and writer.
Funeral on Wednesday
State Minister for Power, Energy and
Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid
said Shakil’s body will be moved to
DMCH for autopsy this morning.
A namaz-e-janaza will be held at
the Dhaka University Central Mosque
at 11am. Later, he will be buried at his
birthplace Baghmara in Mymensingh.
A former Bangladesh Chhatra
League leader, Shakil is survived by
his wife and a daughter.
Shakil was born in 1968 to Jahurul
Hoque, who is the administrator of
the local government council in Mymensingh.
He graduated from DU
with a degree in social science. •
DT
‘Govt using development
slogan to grab minority land’
• DU Correspondent
Speakers at a protest rally claim the
government is grabbing land from
ethnic minorities in the name of
development.
The rally was organised by the
Hebganj Bagdafarm Bhumi Uddhar
Shonghoti committee in light of the
recent Santal eviction in Gaibandha.
The event marked one month
since the attack and land grab by
Rangpur Sugar Mills.
Protestors criticised government
action against the minorities,
demanding punishment for those
police and administration officials
involved with the arson attack.
They further urged the government
to provide adequate compensation
and rehabilitation for the
uprooted Santals.
Speaking at the rally, Attack
Survivor Shahajan Ali said: “Local
Awami League MP Abul Kalam
Azad along with his party men
grabbed our land, setting fire to our
homes and condemning us to the
streets.”
Coordinator of Ganotantrik Bam
Morcha Firoz Ahmed said: “The
government has been distressing
minorities, grabbing and looting
their land in name of development,”
as he vowed to strongly
protest the government’s so-called
development activities with a combined
effort.
Echoing Firoz Ahmed, Musician
and Rights Activist Arup Rahi said:
“It’s a new model of neoliberalism
all over the world to evict the poor
and minority people from their
land” as he claimed the slogan of
development was being used to
repress the Santals and the Bangalees.
Saiful Islam, Biplobi Workers
Party secretary general, said: “Instead
of ensuring people’s safety,
the state is attacking the innocent.
This proves that they are
not for the people” while Leader
of the Workers Party Borni
Shikha Jamali has said that a
strong protest community will be
formed by uniting Santals with
Bangalees, Paharis and Adivshis
against the malpractice of the government.
On November 6, at least 3 Santals
were killed and many more
injured in clashes when Rangpur
Sugar Mills acquired Santal
land by forcibly evicting the inhabitants.
•

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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2016
DT
News
Split verdict in MP Nizam Hazari case
• Ashif Islam Shaon
The High Court yesterday delivered
split verdict on a writ petition that
challenged the legality of Awami
League MP Nizam Uddin Hazari’s
holding office.
Presiding judge of a two-member
bench Justice Md Emdadul Huq
declared that the lawmaker of Feni
2 constituency is disqualified to
hold his position as a parliament
member, as per the constitution.
Describing the qualifications and
disqualifications for election to parliament,
the constitution in section
66(2) says that a person shall be
disqualified for election if s/he has
been on conviction for a criminal
offence involving moral turpitude,
sentenced to imprisonment for a
term of not less than two years,
unless a period of five years has
elapsed since his/her release.
On the other hand, the junior
judge of the bench, Justice FRM Nazmul
Ahasan, rejected the writ petition
declaring Nizam’s parliament
membership legal. He discharged
a previous rule that questioned the
legality of his membership.
After the verdict, Nizam’s lawyer
Shafique Ahmed, a former law minister,
told reporters that according to
the law, now the petition and the split
verdict would be sent to the chief justice.
The chief justice would assign a
BNP submits
13-point demand for
EC reformation
• Manik Miazee
BNP submitted a 13-point proposal
on the reformation of the Election
Commission to President Abdul
Hamid yesterday.
BNP Senior Joint Secretary General
Ruhul Kabir Rizvi submitted
the proposal on behalf their party
chief Khaleda Zia in the morning.
Ruhul Kabir Rizvi and Advisor to
BNP Chairperson Ruhul Alam Chowdhury
went to the Ghanabhaban and
handed over to the 13-point proposal
to the president’s secretary. •
single bench to dispose of the matter.
Attaching a news report, Feni
Jubo League leader Shakhawat Hossain
Bhuiyan filed the writ petition
on June 8, 2014 praying to the court
to declare Nizam disqualified for
contesting in the parliamentary polls
and holding the office as a lawmaker
for his alleged forgery in getting early
release from jail in an arms case.
He said that a Chittagong court
on August 16, 2000 had sentenced
Nizam to 10 years’ imprisonment.
Although he appealed against the
verdict with the High Court and the
Appellate Division, the petitions
were dismissed. Even his review
petition was also rejected.
Upon his surrender to the lower
court, Nizam was sent to jail on
September 14, 2000 but he got released
from the jail on December 1,
2005 through fraudulence, instead
of serving the whole term. Nizam
was supposed to serve in jail till
September 13, 2010.
The petition said that according
to constitution he was supposed to
be qualified for contesting the parliamentary
election after next five years,
counting from September 13, 2010.
Though, the general secretary of
AL’s Feni district unit Nizam Hazari
could legally vie for the post after
September 2015, he contested in
the national polls in 2014.
The petition claimed that the
lawmaker provided false information
about his serving jail sentence
to the EC for contesting the polls.
Holding a primary hearing on
the petition, the High Court bench
of Justice Mirza Hussain Haider and
Justice Muhammad Khurshid Alam
Sarkar issued a rule upon the government,
the Election Commission
and Nizam to explain in four weeks
the constituency seat will not be
declared vacant.
It had asked inspector general of
prisons and the superintendent of
Chittagong jail to submit a report
before it on the tenure of serving jail
sentence by Nizam in the arms case.
A justice of a two-member High
Court bench in November last year
and another bench in December felt
embarrassed to hear the rule. The
chief justice then sent the matter
for disposal to the bench led by Justice
Md Emdadul Huq. Finally the
‘Bangladesh now self sufficient in food’
• SM Najmus Sakib
Bangladesh is now self sufficient
in its main food rice. In spite of importing
rice, we have the capability
of sending rice to the disaster prone
countries of the world, said the food
minister Qamrul Islam yesterday.
In the inaugural ceremony of
‘Bangladesh Integrated Food Policy
Research Program’ together with
the Bangladesh Institute of Development
Studies, International Food
policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
hearing started on January 19.
On March 30, the court asked for
information about the lawmaker’s
time spent in jail and about the remission
period of the jail term. The
court also sought case dockets of
the arms case.
On May 26, the court in a fresh
order asked IG of prisons to conduct
an inquiry and submit report before
it about the lawmaker’s serving
time and remission.
The jail authorities informed the
court that along with 625 days’ remission,
Nizam Hazari served seven
years five months and 14 days in
jail. He is yet to serve two years six
months and 16 days.
In August, the court deferred
verdict announcement two times
and his lawyers told the court that
Nizam had donated blood 13 times
during his jail term and was supposed
to get 486 more days of remission.
The court then asked the
jail authorities to submit a report
on his blood donation.
The Chittagong jail authorities
in November replied that they had
preserved no record of his claimed
blood donation. The verdict delivery
was deferred for the fourth time
on November 22 as the court had
asked for explanation on two related
laws from the lawyers.
On December 1, the court kept
yesterday to deliver the verdict. •
Food Minister Qamrul Islam delivering inaugural speech at the launching ceremony of Bangladesh Integrated Food Policy
Research Programme at a city hotel in the capital yesterday
RAJIB DHAR
and University of Illinois at the Pan
Pacific Sonargaon, Dhaka, he also
said, “The government will soon
inaugurate ‘silo project’ by the next
January 2017. Under this project at
least 5lakhs household would be
able to store up to 30kgs food in
case of any disaster.”
Bangladesh helped Nepal when
the country faced earthquake last
year, mentioned the minister. He
also said the government has taken
several social projects including
Tk10 per kilogram rice to help the
people of the country.
Dr Alex Winter-Nelson, Director
of the International Programme,
University of Illinois said, “Food
is a matter of concern across the
world as the globe started becoming
smaller in terms of communication
and technology. We have to
ensure food safety and security in
every corner of the universe.”
He also said, the food policy,
complexity and security have not
met the optimum level across the
world yet.
The project, Bangladesh Integrated
Food Policy Research Program,
which is supported by the
World Bank would help at least
5000 households of Bangladesh
disaster prone areas to cope up
with bad times, said Rajashree S.
Paralkar, acting country director,
World Bank, Bangladesh. During
the project, data analysis and research
would help the country to
deal with the complex food security,
supply and policy to be reshaped
and modernised, she added. •
Power and
Energy Week
begins today
• Aminur Rahman Rasel
With the theme “Indomitable
Bangladesh,” Power and Energy
Week 2016 will begin in the country
today.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina
will inaugurate the week at International
Convention City Bashundhara
in Dhaka, said State Minister
for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources
Nasrul Hamid yesterday.
Addressing a press conference at
Bidyut Bhaban in the city, the state
minister said the week would be
observed to celebrate the national
production of 15,000MW of electricity.
“This is a great occasion for us.
Bangladesh has entered a modern
and digital era,” he added.
He further said initiatives had
been taken to bring modern power
production facilities to Bangladesh.
“We will soon see the benefit of it.”
Replying to a question, Nasrul
said the government planned to
educate the nation about mega
projects such as Rampal coal-fired
power plant and Rooppur nuclear
power plant during Power and Energy
Week.
“People have questions regarding
these projects. There will be
seminars of international standards
on these issues, which will be
streamed live on the website and
the Facebook page of the Power Division,”
he said.
Asked about the expense of observing
the occasion, Power Cell Director
General Mohammad Hossain
said around Tk10 crore had been
alloted in this regard, half of which
was contributed by the private sector
and the rest by the government
exchequer.
Hossain said four international
seminars would be conducted during
the week: “The technologies of
coal-based power plant,” “Smart
grids: Digital Bangladesh and internet
of things,” “Energy efficiency
case studies” and “International
best practices in power and energy
sector: Lesson for South Asia and
Bangladesh.”
He further said a competition
had been organised ahead of the
occasion, where students from 50
universities participated with their
innovative ideas and projects on
energy-efficient and renewable energy
projects.
“Out of these, 10 best projects
will be displayed in an exhibition
during the week,” Hossain added.
A total of 320 stalls from 125 government
and private organisations
will display their products during
the week.
The prime minister will also distribute
10 awards to organisations
and individuals for making significant
contribution to the country’s
power and energy sector. •

News 5
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2016
HC: Remove razakers’ names in two months
• Ashif Islam Shaon
The High Court has ordered the
government to remove names of
people, who had collaborated with
the Pakistani occupation forces in
1971, from roads, educational institutions,
establishments and places
by two months.
The bench of Justice Quazi Reza-
Ul Hoque and Justice Mohammad Ullah
passed the order yesterday during
the hearing on a rule issued in 2012.
The secretaries to the education
and the LGRD ministries have been
asked to submit a report by March
1 after complying with the order,
said lawyer AK Rashedul Haque.
The rule issued on a writ petition
in May 2012 year had asked the
government to explain as to why
they would not be directed to rename
the structures after the freedom
fighters.
NAMES YET TO BE REMOVED
COLLABORATORS
Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mujahid (executed for war crimes)
MA Alim (imprisonment till death for war crimes; died serving
sentence)
Syed Mohammad Qaisar (got death penalty for war crimes)
Saifuddin (chairman of Peace Committee in Pabna)
Razakar Abdur Razzak Mia
Razakar NM Yusuf
Razakar Mahtab Ullah
Razakar Abdul Aziz
Collaborator Abdul Jabbar
Razakar Tarikullah
Razakar Mia Mansur Ali
Collaborator Rezaur Rahman
Razakar Abdus Sattar Khan
Collaborator Kawser Uddin
Collaborator Mohammad Tamimul Ihsan
Collaborator Mohammad Ullah (Hafezzi Hujur)
Razakar Mohammad Abdur Rahman
Razakar Mia Mansur Ali
Razakar Sabdar Ali
Razakar Shafi Ahmed
ESTABLISHMENT AND LOCATION
Govt Children’s Shelter Home (Monohordi, Narsingdi)
Bogra District Council auditorium
Bus stop and an area in Habiganj
Saifuddin Yahia School and College in Sirajganj
Shaheed Abdur Razzak Road in Faridpur
Two colleges in Kulaura, Moulvibazar
Mahtab Sayera High School in Kulaura, Moulvibazar
A school and a union complex in Gaibandha
Degree College in Gaibandha
A road in Noakhali
An academy at Court Chandpur of Jhenaidah
School in Comilla
Madhu Mia Road in Natore
Kawser Uddin Road in Natore
A road in Old Dhaka
A road in Old Dhaka
A road in Old Dhaka
An academy in Meherpur
A road and a market in Meherpur
Shafipur Post Office in Shoilokupa of Jhenaidah
DT
The petition was filed by war
crimes trial campaigners Prof Muntassir
Mamun and Shahriar Kabir.
Petitioners’ lawyer Rashedul
told the Dhaka Tribune that the
High Court in another order had
also directed to rename Khan A Sabur
Road in Khulna as Jessore Road
and Shah Azizur Rahman Auditorium
of Islamic University in Kushtia
after the freedom fighters.
Of the two establishments, only
the auditorium’s name had so far
been changed, he said.
Rashedul said that they had
recently submitted to the court a
list of roads and establishments
named after 20 collaborators of the
Pakistani military during the Liberation
War.
“The court was dissatisfied as
the names have not been removed
yet and came up with the fresh order,”
he told the Dhaka Tribune. •
Two homeless women killed
in hit-and-run
• Kamrul Hasan
Two homeless women were
killed and five others injured
in a hit-and-run early yesterday
outside the Supreme
Court main gate in Dhaka.
Shahbagh police station
Officer-in-Charge (OC) Abu
Bakar Siddiqi said the driver
of the car ran over three
homeless people sleeping on
the pavement in front of the
court around 1am.
The incident left Shahera
Khatun, 45, dead on the spot
and Hasina, 25, died of her injuries
on the way to Dhaka Medical
College Hospital (DMCH),
said the hospital’s police outpost
in-charge Bachchu Miah.
The injured five people were
under treatment at DMCH.
Shahbagh police Sub-Inspector
(SI) Raisul Islam told
the Dhaka Tribune that they
had reached the spot soon after
the incident and took the
injured women to DMCH.
Police seized the car and
was able to detain passenger of
the car, Shaon, a Brac University
BBA student but the driver
had escaped soon after the accident.
SI Raisul said the driver
had lost control while making a
turn and run over the sleeping
women as the car leapt forward
onto the footpath.
“The primary assessment
is that the accident was
caused by reckless driving,”
the SI said.
He said Shaon was found
trying to carry Sahera into the
car to take her to hospital but
she was bleeding profusely.
OC (Investigation) Zafar
Ali Khan told the Dhaka Tribune
that Shaon said the name
of the driver was Shifat and
the owner of the vehicle is
Rezaul Karim Shyamol.
Another person named
Sharif was in the car but he
had also fled after the accident,
Shaon claimed.
Police said Rezaul and
Sharif were garment traders.
OC Zafar said the relatives
of the deceased will file a murder
case or the police will file it
on their behalf. •
Sahebganj
Bagdafarm Bhumi
Uddhar Songhati
Committee stages
a demonstration
at Shahbag area,
Dhaka yesterday
marking one
month of
attacks on the
Santal people
in Gobindaganj
upazila of
Gaibandha
DHAKA TRIBUNE
Gambling ban at clubs to stay
• Ashif Islam Shaon
The Apex court yesterday (Tuesday)
stayed a High Court order for a
day, which asked the government to
immediately stop gambling at 13 renowned
clubs in and outside Dhaka.
Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain of
Chamber Judge of the Appellate Division
of Supreme Court passed the
order responding to a Dhaka Club’s
petition, confirmed the club’s lawyer
Mehedi Hasan Chowdhury.
The petition was sent to the full
bench of Appellate Division for a hearing
on Wednesday, said the lawyer.
On December 4, the HC directed
the government to stop gambling
in the clubs in Dhaka, Chittagong,
Khulna, Sylhet and Narayanganj
immediately, being moved by a
writ petition.
The clubs include Dhaka Club
Limited, Uttara Club Ltd, Gulshan
Club Ltd, Dhanmondi Club Ltd, Banani
Club Ltd, Officers’ Club Dhaka. •
TEMPERATURE FORECAST FOR TODAY
Dhaka 30 15 Chittagong 29 19 Rajshahi 29 14 Rangpur 29 13 Khulna 30 13 Barisal 30 15 Sylhet 30 13
Cox’s Bazar 31 19
DRY WEATHER
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7
DHAKA
TODAY
TOMORROW
SUN SETS 5:11PM
SUN RISES 6:29AM
YESTERDAY’S HIGH AND LOW
33.5ºC
11.8ºC
Teknaf
Srimangal
Source: Accuweather/UNB
PRAYER
TIMES
Fajr: 5:50am | Zohr: 1:15pm
Asr: 4:00pm | Magrib: 5:22pm
Esha: 7:30pm
Source: Islamic Foundation

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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2016
DT
News
Mystery shrouds deaths of Jubo League men
• M Kamal Mridha, Natore
The mystery behind the death of
three Jubo League activists yet to
be solved, as law enforcers and
families of the deceased are providing
contrary statements over
reason of their deaths.
Law enforcers are saying that the
trio might have been killed by their
rivals while family members claiming
that they were shot dead by
RAB personnel, as members of the
elite force had picked up them the
day before they were found dead.
Meanwhile, the three Jubo
League activists were laid to rest
at Kanaikhali graveyard yesterday
afternoon. Before burial, Janaza of
the deceased was held at Kanaikhali
playground.
Shafiqul Islam Shimul, MP of Natore
Sadar constituency, district unit
Jubo League Secretary Ruhul Amin
Biplob, Gurudaspur municipality
Mayor Shahnewaz Molla and numerous
leaders and activists of the Jubo
League, Awami League and Chhatra
League took part in the Janaza.
MP Shimul said after hearing the
trio’s kidnapped, he contacted with
Dhaka, Rajshahi and Natore RAB offices
and police stations seeking trace
of them, but nobody confessed the
matter. After two days of the kidnap,
they were found dead in Dinajpur.
“I have already informed the
matter to the Prime Minister
Sheikh Hasina and she assured me
that she will look into the matter.
“Sabbir and Shohel were active
members of Jubo League and Abdullah
was not accused even in any
single case, why he faced murder?”
He also vowed to go on tougher
movement, if the mystery behind
the death would not be solved immediately.
Surovi Akter, sister of Sabbir,
said her mother has been in bed
since she heard death news.
Shohel’s mother Sakhina Bewa
claimed that the RAB members
had killed her son.
The bullet-riddled bodies of the
three were found in Kolabaria area
under Ghoraghat upazila of Dinajpur
on Monday.
Later, Natore unit Jubo League,
the youth front of the ruling party
Awami League recognised Redwan
Ahmed Sabbir, 25, son of Sona
Mia, Abdullah, 25, son of Lutfor
Rahman Lopu and Sohel, 27, son of
Kalo Miah, as their activists.
Officer-in-Charge of Ghoraghat
police station Nuruzzaman Chowdhury
said: “On information from
locals, a team of police went to the
spot in Kolabaria area in the morning
and recovered the bodies.”
Hamidul Alam, superintendent
of Dinajpur Police, then said miscreants
might have killed them
over previous enmity.
After recovery of the bodies,
families said some people identifying
themselves as RAB personnel
picked them up on Saturday. Since,
he remained missing. •
Teachers and
staff of different
educational
institution form
a human chain
in Mymensingh
town yesterday,
protesting the
death of college
teacher Abul
Kalam Azad, who
has been killed in
baton charges by
police recently
DHAKA TRIBUNE
Husband hurls boiling
water on wife
• Md Nazmul Huda Nasim,
Bogra
Mother of a four-year old was
burnt, as her husband threw
boiling water on her following
a domestic fight at Latifpur
Maddhapara in Shajahanpur
upazila of Bogra yesterday.
The victim sustained injuries
on the chest but she was
taken to the hospital two days
later when she managed to
contact her father over the
phone.
Rita Khatun, 25, was admitted
to Shaheed Ziaur Rahaman
Medical College and
Hospital in Bogra by her father
Munser Ali on Monday.
That night, Munser filed a
case with Shajahanpur police
station against husband Abdul
Mamun Rony, mother-inlaw
Mamataz Begum, fatherin-law
Abdul Malek and two
other in-laws.
Police arrested Rony and
Mamataz, while the other accused
fled their house, according
to Shajahanpur police.
According to locals and
case statement, Rita of Jumainagar
village at Gurudaspur
upazila in Natore tied
knot with Rony five years ago
following a love affair.
Soon after the marriage,
Rony started torturing Rita for
dowry of Tk2.5 lakh.
As Rita’s family did not
meet his demand, the torture
on her only worsened.
The in-laws allege that
Rony is a drug addict.
On Saturday, Rita locked
into an altercation with her
husband, as he did not bring a
notebook for their son.
During the quarrel, Rony
and his family members started
beating her up and at one
stage, the husband threw
boiling water on her, which
burnt her chest.
The family did not take her
to any hospital for treatment.
On Monday afternoon, Rita
managed to call her father
in Natore over the phone for
help.
Abdullah Al Masud Chowdhury,
officer-in-charge of the
police station, said the arrestees
had been sent to jail.
Police were trying to arrest
the rest of the accused, added
the OC. •
5 of a family die after
eating pufferfish
• Md Sirajul Islam, Sylhet
At least five people of a family
reportedly died yesterday
at Jaintapur upazila in Sylhet
after eating puffer fish locally
known patka.
The deceased were Abdur
Rahim, 60, his two sons
Solaiman Hossain, 25, and
Lokman Hossain, 20, Rahin
Ahmed, 8, Monira Begum
Moni, 10, at Uttarmile village
of the upazila.
Joynul Abedin, chairman
of Jaintapur upazila parishad,
said Rahim bought some
fishes from a local bazar on
Monday and 10 members of
the families ate it at night and
they started vomiting around
3 pm yesterday.
Four of them died on the
way to Sylhet Osmani Medical
College Hospital while Moni
at the hospital, said officerin-charge
of Jaintapur police
station Shafiul Kabir. •

News 7
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2016
Ivy, Sakhawat busy electioneering
DT
• Tanveer Hossain, Narayangan
An appeal
for help
• Tribune Desk
Rownak Israk Sami, a five-yearold
boy, has been diagnosed with
advanced stage complex congenital
heart disease. This is a problem in
the structure of heart that is present
at birth. Doctors says only successful
operation can save his life. They
have advised to take Rownak abroad
as Bangladesh lacks adequate treatment
facility for the disease.
His parents already spent around
Tk 4 lakh which they had collected by
borrowing. More Tk 8-10 lakh would
be needed if she was taken to India
for operation, which Rownak parents
cannot afford. But the collective
efforts by all of us can save the life
of this little boy. Rownak’s father
Aminur Rahman Rasel and mother
Umme Jahan appeal to all people of
the society to extend their hands.
Financial supports can be
deposited to this account: A/C
name: Umme Jahan. A/C no: 164 152
42852. Dutch-Bangla Bank Ltd. •
Awami League mayoral candidate for NCC polls Selina Hayat Ivy makes fun with children during her election campaign. The
photo was taken yesterday from Godnail area in the city
DHAKA TRIBUNE
Awami League-backed mayoral candidate
and outgoing mayor Selina
Hayat Ivy and Bangladesh Nationalist
Party (BNP)-backed candidate
Sakhawat Hossain Khan are passing
very busy time touching base with
voters across the city for the mayoral
battle in Narayanganj City Corporation
(THE NCC) poll, scheduled to
be held on December 22.
According to the THE NCC election
scheduled, election campaign
time started from December 5 and
will end on December 20.
Though Ivy and Sakhawat had
started their election campaigns
unofficially after getting nodes from
parties, now they start campaigns
with full strength. They are trying
their level best to attract the voters.
During her campaign, Ivy visited
several areas in the city yesterday.
Our local correspondent said,
Ivy started her campaign around
9am in the morning.
In the morning, she visited at
Pathantuli area first with a small
team comprising seven or eight
AL leader killed
• Mohammed Afzal Hossain,
Tangail
A local Awami League leader was
reportedly killed at Bharaigram village
in Bhuapur upazila of the district
yesterday.
The deceased was Rafiqul Islam
Farid, 55, former AL organizing
secretary of the upazila unit.
Liza Begum, wife of Rafiqul said
her husband worked as manager
at a mill under Kagmaripara in the
upazila. On Monday morning, he
went to the mill and did not return
home.
Locals found the silted body of
Rafiqul on Tuesday morning in a
people. When she arrived there,
hundreds of local voters run to
her and chanting slogans ‘Ivy apa,
Nouka, Nouka’ with joy.
Later, she visited Godnail, Enayetnagar,
Prodhanbazar, Ayilpara,
Chowdhurybari, Tatkhana. In
pond near his house and informed
police.
The police recovered the body
and sent it to Tangail Medical College
Hospital morgue for autopsy.
Officer-in-Charge of Bhuapur
police station Mostofa Kamal said
miscreants killed Rafiqul anywhere
at night and later dumped the body
in the pond.
A knife was recovered from the
spot, the OC added.
Liza demanded exemplary punishment
to the killers of her husband.
The OC told the Dhaka Tribune
that the police were trying to arrest
the miscreants. •
1 held for torturing minor boy
• Noor Uddin, Habiganj
Police arrested a person in connection
with torture of a minor boy at
Chhoysree village, Chunarughat
upazila, Habiganj on Tuesday.
Officer-in-Charge of Chunarghat
police station Nirmulendu
Chakraborty said police filed a
case after arresting Sohel Mia from
Asampara area of Habiganj around
12:30pm.
Local sources said Ashik Mia, 11,
son of Manik Mia, and a student of
class III at a local government primary
school, borrowed Tk100 from
Sohel around a month back.
Ashik promised Sohel, aged 25
years, to pay it back at five phases.
According to that, the boy paid
Tk40 at two phases about two
weeks ago.
On the day, Sohel demanded the
rest of the money, but Ashik failed
to meet the demand.
Sohel Mia, son of Lebas
Ullah of the village, tied Ashik
Mia of the same village to a stake
of his house and beat him up,
as he could not pay off his debt to
Sohel.
Later, the villagers and local union
parishad member Safikur Rahman
Sapu rescued the boy. •
every place where she arrived, people
from all walk of life run to her
and welcomed her campaign team.
In some places this correspondent
has found that hundreds of people
were waiting with flowers to welcome
Ivy. While she reached to them,
Apparel worker
found dead
• Anwar Hussain, Chittagong
Police have recovered the dead
body of an apparel worker from a
drain at Monsurabad area under
Double Mooring police station in
Chittagong yesterday.
The deceased Mizanur Rahman,
45, used to work for a garment factory
at Muradpur area in the city
and resided at Tigerpass railway
colony with his family.
He left his home after he received
a call on his cellphone on
Monday night.
Kamruzzaman, sub-inspector of
Double Mooring police station said:
“The body has injury marks on the
back inflicted by a sharp weapon.
However, the mobile phone of the
deceased could not be found.”
The body was sent to Chitta-gong
Medical College morgue
for autopsy. •
locals expressed their gratitude to
Ivy where some uphold their demands
to Ivy. During her campaign,
Ivy talked with journalists about her
campaign strategies for upcoming
battle. She said: “I do not want waste
time. I want to contact with all the
voters and people in my city.”
On the other hand, Ivy’s main
opposition BNP-backed mayoral
candidate also was passing a busy
day to attract the voters.
He started his campaign yesterday
early morning. At first he arrived
at Khanpur Hospital Road around
6am. Later, he visited Chashara,
Khanpur railway areas. In this time,
local and top leaders of BNP district
and city units were present with him.
During his campaign, he took his
breakfast at historical ‘Bosh Cabin’
around 8am. Later he arrived in DIT
area in the city around 11am. He campaigned
at 2 no. rail gate, Grindlage
Bank Mor on the Bangabandhu road.
In this time, BNP central leader
Goyeshwar Chandra Roy, BNP Joint
Secretary General Syed Moazzem
Hossain Alal, Khairul Khokon, District
BNP President Taimur Alam
Khandaker and other leaders were
present with him. •
3 ‘robbers’
killed in
‘gunfight’
• Ashraful Islam, Meherpur
Three suspected robbers were
killed in a gunfight with police at
Motmura village, Gangni upazila,
in the early hours of Tuesday.
The deceased could not be identified
immediately.
Acting on a secret information, a
team of police conducted the drive
near a brick field at the village in
early hours of the day.
Sensing the presence of police,
the robbers opened fire at them,
prompting a retaliation that triggered
a gunfight, leaving the trio
dead on the spot.
Police also recovered one pistol,
one LG shooter gun, two rounds
of bullets, two machetes and two
hand bombs from the spot. •

DT
8
World
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2016
SOUTH ASIA
Imran Khan, Sharif’s
party trade charges on
‘Panamagate’
Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreeke-Insaf
party and Prime
Minister Nawaz Sharif’s PML-N
party exchanged charges and
accusations on Tuesday as the
Supreme Court heard a case
related to financial irregularities
revealed in the Panama Papers
leaks. Khan claimed his party had
successfully proved that Sharif had
lied to the nation.
HT
INDIA
Train hit kills 3 elephants,
2 pregnant females in
Assam
Three wild elephants, including
two pregnant females, were killed
by a speeding train in Assam early
on Monday, officials said. A herd
of elephants were crossing the
railway track at Hojai in Nagaon
district when they were hit by the
Kanyakumari-Dibrugarh Vivek
Express around 12:30am, nearly
137km from Guwahati.
HT
CHINA
China media: ‘Rookie’
Trump must fall into line
Donald Trump is a diplomatic
rookie who must learn not to
cross Beijing on issues like trade
and Taiwan, Chinese state media
said Tuesday, warning America
could pay dearly for his naivety.
Trump’s protocol-shattering call
with Taiwan’s president and a
subsequent Twitter tirade against
Beijing’s policies could risk
upending the delicate balance
between the world’s two largest
economies.
AFP
ASIA PACIFIC
Generals dominate new
Thai king’s Privy Council
Thailand’s new King Maha Vajiralongkorn
appointed top army
brass to his powerful advisory
body on Tuesday, including three
generals linked to the ruling junta.
The move illustrates the close
military-royal alliance that has defined
Thai politics for the last five
decades, an era that has seen brief
flirtations with democracy punctuated
by multiple palace-endorsed
coups.
AFP
MIDDLE EAST
Saudi sentences 15 to
death for spying for Iran
A Saudi court sentenced 15 people
to death on Tuesday after convicting
them of spying for the kingdom’s
regional rival Iran, Saudi
media reported. All 15 were Saudi
citizens, most of them members of
the kingdom’s Shia minority. AFP
Mass grief as Jayalalithaa dies
• Tribune International Desk
Tens of thousands of mourners
filed past the coffin of the Indian
politician Jayalalithaa Jayaram on
Tuesday in an emotional farewell
to the former movie star who enjoyed
almost god-like status in the
state of Tamil Nadu.
The 68-year-old Jayalalithaa,
described by her party as the Iron
Lady of India, died late Monday
after suffering a massive cardiac
arrest at the weekend following a
long period of ill health. Despite
being twice jailed over allegations
of corruption, the woman known
by Tamils simply as Amma, or
mother, was a revered figure in
her southern fiefdom and one of
India's most popular and successful
politicians as a populist champion
of the poor.
As Prime Minister Narendra
Modi flew into the state capital
Chennai to pay his own respects,
streams of her supporters lined up
outside a hall in the centre of the
city where her casket was put on
display.
Populist schemes
The southern state had been
tense since Sunday after reports
that her health had worsened and
she had been put on life support.
On Monday, scuffles broke out
outside the hospital as many of
her thousands of supporters there
tried to break through the police
barricades.
When her political mentor and
former on-screen love interest
MG Ramachandran died in 1987,
riots and looting broke out across
the state. Ahead of Jayalalithaa's
Jayalalithaa Jayaram
India’s filmstar politician died on Dec 5
aged 68 after a prolonged illness
Served three terms as chief minister
of Tamil Nadu state, where she
enjoyed an almost god-like status
Also seen as an autocratic and
secretive leader, battling allegations
of corruption on vast scale (briefly
jailed twice)
Famed for vast sari collection that
won her comparisons with the
Philippines’ Imelda Marcos
In later life, she gained a reputation
for reclusiveness, living alone
in her palatial residence in
Chennai
To millions of her followers,
Jayalalithaa was simply
known as “Amma” or
mother
AFP Photo: Arun Sankar
death, police and security presence
was beefed up across Tamil
Nadu over fears of an emotional
reaction from her followers.
Tamil Nadu names successor
An hour after her party announced
her death late on Monday
after a cardiac arrest, state Finance
Minister OP Panneerselvam
was sworn in to lead economically
important Tamil Nadu, a base for
auto firms Ford Motor Daimler,
Hyundai and Nissan and IT firm
Cognizant.
Panneerselvam had stood in
for Jayalalithaa in the past, but
made it clear he was not replacing
INDIA
Chennai
FACTBOX
Brexit case in UK SC: How will it work?
The British government's appeal
against a legal ruling that it needs
parliamentary approval to trigger the
formal process of leaving the EU is
being heard in the country's top court
this week. Prime Minister Theresa
May has announced that she will
invoke "Article 50" of the EU's Lisbon
Treaty by the end of March and begin
the formal Brexit negotiations with
Brussels. But London's High Court
ruled last month that the government
does not have the constitutional
right to start the process without the
backing of lawmakers. How does the
Supreme Court work and how will
the case be argued?
Who sits on the Supreme Court?
The Supreme Court currently has
11 justices who are selected by an
independent commission and must
have either been a High Court judge
for two years or a practising lawyer for
15 years.
However for the first time, all 11
justices are sitting "en banc" to hear
the Article 50 challenge. A simple
majority is needed for a judgement.
What's the case about?
It centres on who has the constitutional
right to invoke Article 50 of the
EU's 2009 Lisbon Treaty, the formal
process by which Britain notifies the
EU of its intention to leave the bloc,
kicking off two years of negotiations.
All parties in this case agree the Article
50 process is irrevocable, so as soon
as it is triggered, Britain will inevitably
leave the EU at some stage. However,
some EU and legal experts believe
this is a misreading of Article 50 and
that Britain could change its mind at
some time in the future even after
triggering it.
What happens if the government
loses?
If the government loses it will have to
secure some form of parliamentary
approval to trigger Article 50. This
could be achieved through a substantive
motion, a proposal put forward
for debate and a vote, which would
take little time. However, the claimants
say there needs to be new primary
legislation that passes through both
parliamentary chambers, a far more
complicated process.
Lawmakers could also add amendments
demanding additional scrutiny of
the government Brexit plans which could
complicate their negotiating position.
Tamil Nadu
became one
of India’s most
prosperous
states under
Jayalalithaa’s
rule
her. He declined to take her place
at the head of the cabinet table
while she was ill and instead
had her picture placed there.
His rise to the top job in Tamil
Nadu would help allay fears of a
power struggle in the AIADMK,
built entirely around the cult of
Jayalalithaa. •
Could parliament block Brexit?
Lawmakers in the lower house, the
House of Commons, are unlikely to
try to block Brexit, as it was backed in
a popular vote, and a Reuters survey
suggested many MPs who voted to
"remain" would now approve the
triggering of Article 50 in a parliamentary
vote.
However, a cross-party group
of lawmakers, who support a "soft
Brexit" have demanded a greater say
for parliament in negotiations and say
they might try to pass amendments
that guarantee this.
The opposition Labour Party has
said it would seek amendments to
ensure access to the European single
market and to protect workers' rights. •
Source: Reuters

World
Israeli Arabs sign up for IDF
• Reuters, Kisufim, Israel
A battalion of soldiers crawls
across the desert sand with assault
rifles cocked. It's a routine
exercise, but these are no ordinary
troops - they are Arabs who
have chosen to fight for the Jewish
state.
While the vast majority of the
Israel Defence Forces (IDF) are
Jews - and nearly all their conflicts
have been against Arab nations - a
trickle of Israeli Arabs volunteer
for the army.
Most are Bedouin, a community
native to southern Israel. But
some are other Arab citizens of
Israel, the descendants of Palestinians
who remained during the
1948 war of the state's founding,
when hundreds of thousands of
their brethren fled or were forced
from their homes by advancing Israeli
troops.
"Why did I decide to enlist?"
asks Sergeant Yusef Salutta, a
20-year-old Arab from the north
of Israel who serves with the Desert
Reconnaissance Battalion.
The army rarely grants journalists
access to the unit.
"Because I'm from this country
and I love the country and I want
to contribute," he said. "Everyone
should enlist, anybody who lives
here should enlist."
The military conscripts young
Jewish men and women, but not
Arabs. It does not report exact numbers
of Arab volunteers, but officials
say there are several hundred
among the 175,000 active personnel.
A silver Star of David necklace
hung around Salutta's neck, and
he chatted with fellow-soldiers in
Hebrew.
At a time when Israel is expanding
its settlements in the
West Bank and Palestinians fear
they may never end up with their
own state, some Israeli Arabs see
volunteering for the military as
betrayal.
Volunteers say their families
are supportive, and that they are
prepared to take criticism.
"I don't care about them," said
Salutta. "I need to be part of the
country, to be like everybody
else."
The head of the IDF Minorities
Unit, Colonel Wajdi Sarhan, said
some Israeli-Arabs saw service as
a way to improve their chances in
life.
"(It) can get easier when you
hold an Israeli soldier or reservist
ID card," said Sarhan. "To be a
soldier in the army, it's actually an
identity certificate of Israeli-ness,
which can help integration."
He said some recruits faced
threats and harassment at home
from fellow Israeli-Arabs. In some
cases, they are allowed to travel
to and from military duty out of
uniform.
When it comes to Israel's decades-old
conflict against the Palestinians,
there is no question - if they
are required to fight, they must.
"I assume that anyone who
decided to be a combat soldier in
such a unit took this into consideration
in advance," said Sarhan. •
Trial of ex-Uganadan child soldier to begin
• Tribune International Desk
Israeli Arab soldiers chat during a drill in southern Israel on November 29
Fails to win support among the
population. Takes revenge by
massacring entire villages,
mutilating civilians, abducting
women and children
Mid-2000s
Chased from Uganda.
Disperses across South Sudan,
Sudan, the D. R. Congo
and Central African Republic
2005
1987
International Criminal Court issues
arrest warrants for war crimes
and crimes against humanity
for Kony and 4 other commanders,
including Dominic Ongwen
The Lord’s Resistance Army
Over 30 years of terror, the LRA has killed at least 100,000 people
and conscripted more than 60,000 child soldiers, according to the UN
Founded by Joseph Kony
to fight Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni
and create a state run according
to Kony’s version of the
10 commandments
2010
C. AFRICAN
REPUBLIC
500 km
DEMOCRATIC
REPUBLIC
OF CONGO
US deploys special forces
to help regional armies hunt Kony.
He escapes, allegedly to Darfur (Sudan)
Source: maps4news.com/©HERE
SOUTH SUDAN
UGANDA
LRA rebels thought to now number several hundred,
living in small groups in the rainforests of central Africa
Dominic
Ongwen
Joseph Kony
LRA leader, selfproclaimed
prophet
Still at large
Has a bounty of
5 million dollars
on his head
REUTERS
on trial at the International
Criminal Court
Charged with 70 counts of war
crimes and crimes against
humanity. Pleads not guilty
Aged 41
Abducted as a child by the LRA
Became LRA n° 3 and head
of operations. Accused
of directing bloodthirsty
attacks on civilians in northern
Uganda and the DRC
Surrendered to US special
forces in C. African Republic
in 2015
Abducted by gunmen as a 10-yearold
boy on his way to school, Dominic
Ongwen rose to become one
of the most feared commanders in
Uganda's brutal Lord's Resistance
Army (LRA).
The former child soldier, now
in his early 40s, went on trial before
the International Criminal
Court (ICC) on Tuesday for crimes
committed in Uganda, including
keeping sex slaves and recruiting
child soldiers.
Ongwen, known as the "White
Ant", is the first leader of the brutal
Ugandan rebel army led by the fugitive
Joseph Kony to appear before
the ICC, created to try the world's
worst crimes. The son of school
teachers, he was abducted as a
child before being forced into the
rebel army and allegedly becoming
a willing perpetrator of violence.
He rose swiftly through the LRA
ranks, quickly being singled out for
his murderous loyalty and tactical
ability and taking command of one
of the army's four brigades.
Ongwen is accused of carrying
out massacres, rapes, mutilations
and abductions in quick and lethal
raids. Ongwen's men, with trademark
dreadlocks, mismatched uniforms
and AK-47 rifles fitted with
bayonets, also allegedly carried out
thousands of abductions of children.
Between 2002 and 2003, Ongwen
is thought to have directed
bloody campaigns in northern
Uganda that butchered or abducted
thousands. He is also accused
of playing a central role in revenge
attacks on civilians in the troubled
Democratic Republic of Congo.
In recent years, however, he
was reportedly sidelined after falling
out with Kony over his execution
of another commander.
Wanted by the ICC for almost
a decade, Ongwen surrendered
to US special forces in the Central
African Republic in January 2015
after Washington offered a $5m
reward for his capture. •
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USA
Obama targets Trump in
final speech on terror fight
President Barack Obama delivers
his final address on the fight
against terrorism Tuesday, in a
speech aimed at his successor who
has not yet publicly outlined his
own anti-terror strategy. Obama
will touch upon his failed bid to
close the Guantanamo military
prison and his continued strong
opposition to the use of torture,
positions greeted with scorn by
President-elect Donald Trump. AFP
THE AMERICAS
Venezuela opposition
withdraws from crisis talks
Venezuela’s opposition Tuesday
withdrew from the latest round
of negotiations with authorities
aimed at easing an economic
and political crisis, insisting the
government first honour earlier
pledges. “We are staying in the
dialogue system but we are not
going to take part in today’s meeting,”
said Jesus Torrealba, leader of
the opposition MUD coalition. AFP
UK
EU negotiator eyes October
2018 for Brexit deal
The EU’s chief negotiator set a target
of agreeing a Brexit deal with
UK by October 2018 assuming London
keeps a promise of formally
launching the process by the end
of March. Michel Barnier, giving a
first news conference on Tuesday
after two months in office, said the
two-year deadline for final withdrawal
fixed in Article 50 of the EU
treaty meant there would be less
than 18 months to run negotiations
themselves.
REUTERS
EUROPE
Putin approves new
cyber-security doctrine
Russian President Vladimir
Putin on Tuesday signed off on
a broad-ranging plan aimed at
bolstering the country’s defences
against cyber-attacks from abroad
and cracking down on perceived
foreign influence. The Kremlin’s
new “information security
doctrine” comes as attention has
focused on the rise in state-sponsored
hacking after the US blamed
Moscow for cyber-attacks. AFP
AFRICA
Egypt busts organ trading
racket, arrests 45
Egypt has uncovered a network
accused of illicit international trafficking
in human organs, arresting
45 people and recovering millions of
dollars in a dawn raid on Tuesday.
Among those held were doctors,
nurses, middlemen and organ-buyers,
involved in what the ministry
described as the largest organ-trafficking
network exposed. REUTERS

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Interior minister named new
French PM as Valls aims higher
• AFP, Paris
French Interior Minister Bernard
Cazeneuve was named the country's
new prime minister on Tuesday
after Manuel Valls resigned to
seek the Socialist nomination in
next year's presidential election.
Cazeneuve, who has overseen
the security forces' reaction to a
string of jihadist attacks that have
killed more than 230 people in
France over the past two years, will
head the Socialist government until
the election in May. The widely-respected
lawyer was named to the
post after President Francois Hollande
accepted Valls' resignation.
The government will work "up
to the end, to its last day, to prepare
the future," Hollande told reporters
on Tuesday during a trip to an industry
fair near Paris.
Cazeneuve, 53, has served in
various government roles, including
budget and Europe minister
before becoming interior minister
in April 2014. Cazeneuve will be
replaced in the interior ministry
by Bruno Le Roux, currently the
leader of the Socialists in the lower
house of parliament.
The mini-reshuffle comes after
Valls, who was Hollande's righthand
man for the past two-anda-half
years, quit to focus on the
presidential race. Valls, a divisive
figure, threw his hat in the ring on
Monday, after Hollande said last
week he would bow out after a single
troubled term.
Appealing to the left to unite behind
him, Valls vowed to take the
fight to election frontrunner, conservative
Republicans candidate
Francois Fillon, as well as far-right
National Front (FN) leader Marine
Le Pen.
Far-right 'at the gates'
"My candidacy is one of reconciliation,"
Valls, whom polls currently
place fifth in the election, said in a
speech in his political base in the
gritty Paris suburb of Evry. The farright,
which was beaten in Austria's
presidential election at the weekend,
was "at the gates of power"
in France with a programme that
would ruin the poor, he warned.
Faced with Donald Trump in the
White House and Vladimir Putin in
the Kremlin, France needed someone
with "strong experience", he
said. He laid into Fillon, a self-declared
Thatcherite, accusing him of
trotting out the "old recipes of the
1980s".
Polls show Le Pen and Fillon far
out in front in the opening round of
the election on April 23, with Fillon
expected to beat Le Pen in May's
second round.
Valls would crash out with 10
percent if he won the Socialist
nomination -- behind former economy
minister Emmanuel Macron
and the Communist-backed Jean-
Luc Melenchon, an Ifop-Fiducial
poll showed Tuesday. •
INSIGHT
Italy's young premier felled by discontented youth
• Reuters, Rome
Twenty-year-old Francesco Incorvaia,
a sociology student from
Rome, was just the kind of voter
Matteo Renzi had spent years trying
to win over.
Italy's youngest ever prime minister
had changed labour laws in a
bid to reduce one of Europe's highest
youth unemployment rates,
handed cash to low earners and
proposed constitutional amendments
to streamline lawmaking
and boost an ailing economy.
But Incorvaia and millions of
other young Italians walked into
voting booths at a referendum on
Sunday and effectively threw him
out of office, handing him a stinging
defeat that left him no choice
but to resign.
According to a survey by research
firm Quorum for SKyTG24,
about 80% of voters aged between
18 and 34 opposed Renzi's proposal
to shrink the upper house Senate
and claw back power from regional
administrations, a tsunami of opposition
from a generation that is
rewriting the political map in Italy.
Despite his youthful vim, Renzi,
who was 39 when he took the
premiership almost three years
ago, came to be seen as part of
the creaking old establishment he
pledged to revamp. With Renzi
pledging to step down, the younger
generation's preferred anti-establishment
5-Star Movement has
called for early elections and said it
is ready to govern.
M5S campaigned hard against
Renzi's constitutional reform proposal,
on the grounds it would
remove democratic checks and
Supporters of the "No" faction for a referendum on constitutional reform hold a banner in front of Chigi palace in Rome on
December 5. The banner reads, " Did you want to change the constitution? See you"
REUTERS
balances, and it was clear many
young people were also expressing
their support for 5-Star in voting it
down.
It rivals Renzi's Democratic
Party as the most popular party in
opinion polls and would be favourite
to win elections under the current
system, which may be changed
as mainstream parties seek to keep
them out of power.
Young voters helped propel
5-Star into power in the municipalities
of Rome and Turin this year.
Overall, voters under 35 years of
age represent about a fifth of the
electorate.
Payback time
Many first-time voters in Sunday's
referendum grabbed the chance
to register their frustration with
mainstream politicians, including
Renzi, who have presided over
what, for them, has been a lifetime
of economic stagnation.
A new law Renzi passed to make
it easier for private companies to
fire workers was meant to encourage
employers to hire. But the law
only applies to new hires, while
changes to the pensionable age by
a previous government mean their
older colleagues now stay in the
workforce longer than before.
Today, Italians under 35 earn
26.5% less than their contemporaries
25 years ago, while income
for the over-65s has risen 24.3%,
according to research firm Censis.
The 'Yes' vote prevailed only in
provinces where youth unemployment
is below the national average
of 36%, according to the Info Data
unit of Il Sole 24 Ore newspaper. •
Merkel rebuffs
populist claim
to German
identity
• AFP, Essen
Chancellor Angela Merkel Tuesday
attacked the rise of right-wing
populists in Germany, hitting out
at opponents of her liberal refugee
policy staking a claim to define
German national identity. However
she told the annual congress of her
Christian Democratic Union that it
was legitimate to expect integration
from newcomers, underlining her
party's bid to ban the full face veil.
"We all get to determine who
'the people' are - not just a few, no
matter how loud they are," Merkel
said in a speech looking ahead to
the 2017 general election. Without
mentioning the upstart Alternative
for Germany (AfD) party by name,
Merkel said Germany must remain
"sceptical about easy answers". "The
world is not black and white," she
said. "Rarely is it the easy answers
that bring progress to our country."
But Merkel also played to the
wing of her conservative party
that has been deeply unsettled by
last year's record influx of asylum
seekers, most of them Muslims
fleeing war zones. She underlined
her support for a proposal in August
by her interior minister, Thomas
de Maiziere, to outlaw the full-face
burqa Islamic veil in public places.
"The full veil must be banned
wherever it is legally possible," she
said. On German Unity Day in early
October, Merkel faced noisy protests
when she arrived at celebrations in
Dresden birthplace of the anti-immigration
Pegida movement. •

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CAPITAL MARKET SNAPSHOT: TUESDAY
DSE Broad Index 4,846.1 0.2% ▲ Index 1,152.2 0.0% ▲ 30 Index 1,785.5 0.1% ▲ Turnover in Mn Tk 7,953.6 -1.5% ▲ Turnover in Mn Vol 249.1 -7.7% ▲
CSE All Share Index 14,922.0 0.1% ▲ 30 Index 13,288.5 0.0% ▲ Selected Index 9,067.1 0.1% ▲ Turnover in Mn Tk 600.9 22.5% ▲ Turnover in Mn Vol 18.8 -5.9% ▲
ILO for decent jobs to end poverty
• Ibrahim Hossain Ovi from
Indonesia, Bali
Since the world of work is changing
and societies are becoming
increasingly unequal, policy makers
have to respond effectively to
the changes to implement SDGs,
especially decent work, to reduce
poverty, ILO Director General Guy
Ryder said yesterday.
Ryder was addressing the ministers,
government high-ups, employers,
diplomats and trade union
leaders at the opening session of
the 16th Asia and the Pacific Regional
Meeting at Bali Nusa-Dua
Convention Centre in Indonesia.
Vice-President of Indonesia
Jusuf Kalla inaugurated the APRM
2016 that will come to an end on
December 9.
The meeting takes place in
every four years to discuss the issues
like labour and employment,
workplace safety and migration.
“The world of work is changing,
at a pace, scale and depth which
we have never seen before. Technology
is at the heart of change but
it will not decide everything, said
Ryder.”
While societies are becoming
increasingly unequal, they are increasingly
perceived as being unfair,
he added.
There is a considerable doubt
and uncertainty in the world with
people questioning the capacity of
policy makers to deliver credible
answers to the key problem in their
lives, Ryder observed.
Just over a year ago, the United
Nations adopted 17 Sustainable
Development Goals (SDGs) and the
overall aim of the goals is to eliminate
poverty and reduce inequality
by 2030, said the ILO top brass.
Decent work is woven into the
fabric of all 17 SDGs and their indicators.
One Goal, SDG 8, specifically
focuses on the ILO’s mission of
Decent Work for All.
“We have succeeded in having
the right agenda adopted and now
we must turn to the task of its implementation.”
The ILO official said some of
the key challenges in this area remained,
despite impressive poverty
reduction. Nearly 192 million
workers or one in ten still live in
extreme poverty in this region.
More than a billion workers are
in vulnerable often without access
to social and legal protection, Ryder
said, adding that the concern
is that some groups are in particular
danger of being excluded from
progress.
Migrant workers, who are frequently
excluded from legal protection
and prone to exploitation,
will be a key feature of our future.
For ensuring workers rights and
decent work, Ryder stressed ratification
of the ILO’s eight core Conventions
87 and 98 that read freedom
of association and collective
bargaining as implementation is
disappointingly low in this region.
Only 14 of the 47 member states in
this region have ratified all eight.
“Respect for the labour is the
first priority for production and
industrial output. Arbitrarily, the
labour law is being changed while
participation of workers in setting
wages and other issues is denied,”
said Felix Anthony, national secretary
to Fiji Trade Union Congress.
Anthony called for steps to eradicate
forced labour in Asia and Asia
Pacific region and address the low
wages for migrant workers.
Though lots of initiatives had
been taken since the factory collapse
in 2013, none can tell that
Bangladesh has democracy to be
associated and to form union, he
added.
Across this region, women have
a different and usually worse, experience,
when looking for decent
work, according to Anthony.
They are frequently paid less for
Stocks end flat after early gains
• Tribune Business Desk
Stocks ended flat yesterday as late
profit booking cut early gains.
With the tune of previous session’s
rally, the market started on
positive note in the morning, but
modest profit booking chipped
away some gains.
The Dhaka Stock Exchange
benchmark index DSEX rose 9
points or 0.3% to settle at 4,846.
The blue chip DS30 index edged
ILO Director General Guy Ryder addresses the opening session of 16th Asia and the Pacific Regional Meeting at Bali Nusa-Dua
Convention Centre in Indonesia yesterday
ILO
1 point up to 1,785 and the DSE Shariah
Index DSES witnessed a fractional
rise of 0.6 points to 1,152.
The Chittagong Stock Exchange
selective category index, CSCX,
was up over 10 points to 9,067.
The trade volume decreased as
the DSE turnover stood at Tk795
crore, marginally down from the
previous session’s Tk800 crore.
Engineering sector continued
to generate the highest volume of
trade, accounting for Tk200 crore
or 23.8% of the total trade value of
the market. Textile and bank sectors
contributed 13.6% and 10.6%
respectively to the day’s total turnover.
Food and Allied was the highest
gainer of more than 1%, followed
by banks 0.7% and non-banking financial
institutions 0.6%.
Telecommunications, IT and
engineering sectors closed flat
while power was the highest loser
with only 0.4% fall. •
work of equal value and are less
likely to be in leadership and decision-making
roles, he observed.
Highlighting the achievements
of the region, Ryder said this region,
which accounts for 60% of
the global labour force, has made
remarkable progress in the last
decade.
The average wages and incomes
have risen significantly, and almost
doubled for the middle and upper
classes and the number of extreme
poor has dropped rapidly from 21%
in 2016 to 10% in 2015.
State Minister for Labour and
Employment Mujibul Haque, Labour
and Employment senior Secretary
Mikail Shipar, ILO Bangladesh
Country Director Srinivas B
Reddy, Salahuddin Kashem Khan,
president of Bangladesh Employers’
Federation Wajedul Islam
Khan, general secretary of Bangladesh
Trade Union Centre joined the
meeting. •
Export earnings
$13.69bn in
July-Nov
• Ibrahim Hossain Ovi
Bangladesh’s earnings from exports
have seen a 6.30% rise to
$13.69 billion in the first five
months of the current fiscal year,
riding on the RMG sector.
According to the Export Promotion
Bureau (EPB) data, Bangladesh
earned $13.69 billion, which was
$12.87 billion a year ago.
The figure is 4.17% less than the
target of $14.28 billion set for the
period.
Meanwhile, the export earnings
in November rose by 5.46% to
$2.89 billion, which was $2.74 billion
a year ago.
RMG sector, the life line of the
country’s export earnings earned
$11.13 billion posting a 6.39% rise in
July-November period of the current
fiscal. In the last fiscal year, it
was $10.46 billion. •
Inflation eases
in November
• Tribune Business Desk
Inflation in Bangladesh eased to
5.38% last month food due to arrival
of winter vegetables, government
data showed yesterday
It was slightly down from 5.57%
read in the previous month.
According to Bangladesh Bureau
of Statistics, food inflation
marginally decreased to 5.41% in
November from 5.56% in October.
Non-food inflation also declined
to 5.33% from 5.58% during the period.
While releasing data at the NEC
conference room, Planning Minister
AHM Mustafa Kamal said: “Arrival
of winter vegetables helped
ease inflation.”
The government fixed the target
to contain inflation at 5.8% for the
fiscal year 2016-17. •

BB’s new ED
Humayun Kabir
• Tribune Business Desk
Bangladesh
Bank’s General
Manager
Humayun Kabir
has been
promoted to
the post of
executive director.
The central bank posted Humayun
to its Bogra office with the new
assignment following an official order
issued yesterday.
Currently, he is working for
Bangladesh Bank’s Khulna office
as a general manager, and prior to
that, he was serving the bank inspection
department, one of the
important departments in the central
bank’s headquarters.
H umayun Kabir joined Bangladesh
Bank in 1988 as an assistant
director. •
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US trade gap widens as exports fall
• Reuters
The US trade deficit recorded its
biggest increase in more than 1-1/2
years in October as exports of soybeans
and other goods dropped,
suggesting that trade would be a
drag on growth in the fourth quarter.
The Commerce Department said
on Tuesday the trade gap widened
17.8 percent to $42.6 billion. That
was the largest percentage increase
since March 2015.
Economists had forecast the
trade gap increasing to $41.8 billion
in October after a previously
reported $36.4 billion shortfall.
When adjusted for inflation, the
deficit rose to $60.3 billion from
$54.2 billion in September.
“This puts net exports on a
weaker footing as the fourth quarter
began. We were already penciling
in net exports to subtract 0.8
percentage point from GDP growth
ahead of today’s figure,” said Jennifer
Lee, a senior economist at
BMO Capital Markets in Toronto.
Exports contributed 0.87 percentage
point to the third quarter’s
3.2 percent annualized rate of increase
in gross domestic product.
The jump in exports in the last
quarter largely reflected a surge
in soybean shipments after a poor
harvest in Argentina and Brazil.
While the reversal in soybean
shipments, which is weighing on exports,
suggests trade is likely to subtract
from GDP growth in the fourth
quarter, consumer spending and a
firming housing market are expected
to keep supporting the economy.
Rising gas and oil well drilling
in response to increasing oil prices
is also expected to boost growth
Shipping containers sit at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, California in this aerial photo taken February 6, 2015
REUTERS
this quarter. Firming oil prices
are starting to have an impact on
manufacturing. A second report
from the Commerce Department
on Tuesday showed new orders for
manufactured goods rose 2.7 percent
in October after increasing 0.6
percent in September.
That was the largest increase
since June 2015 and marked four
straight months of gains. Unfilled
orders at factories increased 0.7
percent, the biggest rise since July
2014, ending four consecutive
months of decline.
The report pointed to an upturn
in manufacturing, which accounts
for about 12 percent of the economy,
after a prolonged slump that
12 NRBs get CIP status
• Syed Samiul Basher Anik
The Ministry of Expatriates’ Welfare
and Overseas Employment
has awarded 12 non-resident Bangladeshis
with CIP (Commercially
Important Person) status for their
outstanding contribution to the
country’s economy in the year 2015.
Of them, 10 are awarded with
the status for remitting foreign currencies
while another two for importing
products from Bangladesh.
According to an official gazette notification,
Mohammad Mahtabur Rahman
of Al Haramain Perfumes of United
Arab Emirates topped the list for
sending remittances to the country.
Mohammad Akhter Hossain,
Abul Kalam, Omar Faruk and Jasmine
Akhter from United Arab
Emirates, Ahmad Al Zaman from
Qatar, Mohammad Adnan Imam
and Mohammad Abdul Rahim
from United Kingdom, Mohammad
Yasin Chowdhury and Mohammad
had helped to erode economic
growth.
The Atlanta Federal Reserve is
currently forecasting gross domestic
product to rise at a 2.9 percent
rate in the fourth quarter.
Prices for U.S. government debt
were slightly weaker in mid-morning
trading, while U.S. stocks were
largely unchanged. The dollar .DXY
rose against a basket of currencies.
Dollar Drag
Exports fell 1.8 percent to $186.4
billion in October. They were held
down by declining shipments of
food, industrial supplies and materials,
automobiles and consumer
goods.
Mosaddek Chowdhury from Oman
were also selected for CIP status in
remittance category.
On the other hand, Abul Kashem
of Janata General Trading, Kuwait
and Mohammad Selim of Al Falaq
Group of Companies of United
Arab Emirates were selected as CIP
in importing Bangladeshi products.
The CIP status holders are entitled
to enjoy for one year different
state privileges from issuance of
the status.
They will get privilege in getting
permission to enter into Bangladesh
Secretariat, priority in reserving
seats in Biman, train, bus and
other modes of transports for business
related travels in Bangladesh,
using the VIP Lounge 2 and special
handling facility at the airport, priority
in getting cabin facility at government
hospitals and invitation
to different national programmes
organised by Bangladesh missions
abroad, according to the policy. •
Exports of soybeans, which
helped power the economy in the
third quarter, fell in both October
and September. However, exports
of capital goods were the highest in
October since December 2015.
Some of the drag on exports reflects
the residual effects of the dollar’s
surge against the currencies
of the United States’ main trading
partners between June 2014 and
January 2016.
With the dollar resuming its rally
in the wake of Donald Trump’s
victory in the Nov. 8 presidential
election, exports could struggle in
2017. The greenback has gained 4.1
percent on a trade-weighted basis
since the election. •
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Four more factories
complete CAPs
• Tribune Business Desk
The Alliance for Bangladesh Worker
Safety yesterday announced that
four additional Alliance affiliated
factories have completed all material
components outlined in their
Corrective Action Plans (CAPs),
bringing the total number of graduated
factories to 46.
In addition, three factories previously
suspended by the Alliance
have been reinstated in recognition
of remediation progress.
Global Fashion Garments Ltd.,
Global Outerwear Ltd., Ornate Knit
Garment Industries Ltd. and Sajid
Washing & Dyeing achieved closure
on their CAPs, and Sheehan Specialized
Textile Mills Ltd., Smart Jacket
(BD) Ltd. and Smart Jeans Ltd. were
removed from suspension.
“We are proud to recognize
Beximco
joins generic
supplier
network
• Tribune Business Desk
Beximco Pharma has joined the
UN-backed Medicines Patent Pool’s
(MPP) prestigious network of generic
suppliers.
The MPP granted a sub-licence
to Beximco to produce Bristol-Myers
Squibb’s new hepatitis C drug
daclatasvir. The name of originator
brand is Daclinza.
With the recognition, Beximco
becomes the first ever Bangladeshi
company to achieve the unique feat,
said a released issued yesterday.
daclatasvir is an antiviral that
can cure all major genotypes of the
HCV virus. The drug received regulatory
approval in Europe in August
2014 and was included in the
new WHO Model List of Essential
Medicines in April 2015.
In November 2015, MPP announced
a licence and technology
transfer agreement with Bristol-Myers
Squibb (BMS) to increase
access to DCV in low- and middle-income
countries.
On the inclusion into the MPP’s
network of generic medicine producers,
Beximco Pharma Managing
Director Nazmul Hassan, also
lawmaker, said: “We are glad to be
a part of this global network as the
first Bangladeshi company.”
“We believe our competitive
cost of production will help improve
access to this new and highly
effective hepatitis C treatment for
patients in many low- and middle-income
countries.” •
these factories for the tremendous
strides they have made to ensure
worker safety,” said Alliance Country
Director Jim Moriarty.
“These advances show that we
are committed to working with factories
that take safety improvements
seriously, and that compliance with
our standard is achievable within our
established time frame for factories
that are committed to this process.”
The Alliance also announced the
suspension of one new factory—
Stylo Fashion Garments Ltd.—for
failure to make progress on remediation
or remove lockable exits,
bringing the total number of currently
suspended factories to 102.
The complete list of suspended
factories as well as those that have
achieved substantial completion
of their CAPs can be found on Alliance
website. •

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Nuclear Power Plant gets Ecnec nod
• Tribune Business Desk
Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant construction
project proposal worth
Tk1,13,093 crore yesterday got
green signal from the Executive
Committee of the National Economic
Council (Ecnec).
This is the country’s first such
power plant and most expensive
project in history of Bangladesh.
The approval was made in a meeting,
chaired by Prime Minister
Sheikh Hasina, held at National Economic
Council conference room.
Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission
in association with Russia’s
state-owned Rosatom State Atomic
Energy Corporation will implement
the project to generate 2,400-megawatt
power by 2025.
Of the total project cost, Russia
will provide Tk91,040 crore, 80%
of the total project cost while the
government will provide Tk22,053
crore. Thw plant is being set up at
Rooppur in Ishwardi, Pabna.
After the Ecnec meeting, planning
minister AHM Mustafa Kamal
said the nuclear power project is the
country’s largest investment project.
It would supply clean electricity
at a cheap rate over its 60 years
lifespan although the initial investment
was pretty high, he added.
“There are long-term positive impacts
of the plant amid demands
for reducing carbon emissions.”
From Russia, Bangladesh has
already received $500 million for
initial work of the power plant project,
which started in July 2016.
The reactor will contain improved
safety features, and its passive
safety system is capable of working
for 72 hours in case of any critical
or emergency situation.
For the Russian loan, the rate of
interest will be 1.75% plus Libor and
the loan has to be repaid over 20
years with a grace period of 10 years.
Bangladesh and Russia signed a
financial deal of $11.38bn in Moscow
recently to implement the country’s
first-ever nuclear power plant. •
Eurogroup head wants ‘different
attitude’ from UK on Brexit
• AFP, Brussels
Eurogroup chief Jeroen Dijsselbloem urged
Britain yesterday to show a “different attitude”
in talks with the EU, warning of a disorderly
Brexit if London fails to change.
Dijsselbloem, who heads the group of
19 eurozone finance ministers, issued the
warning as his British counterpart insisted a
smooth Brexit was still possible.
“It can be smooth and it can be orderly,
but requires a different attitude I think on
the part of the British government,” Dijsselbloem,
the Dutch finance minister, told reporters
as he arrived for talks with all 28 EU
finance ministers in Brussels.
“Because the things I have been hearing so
far are incompatible with smooth and incompatible
with orderly.”
His comments came shortly before European
Commission Brexit negotiator Michel
Barnier was due to give his first press conference
after talks with the other 27 European
Union nations.
Dijsselbloem repeated his warning that it
would be impossible to maintain Europe’s
financial capital in London if Britain chooses
to thwart EU rules after Brexit.
“If the UK wants access to the internal
market, they will have to accept the rules and
regulations which go with that internal market,”
he said.
Asked about comments by other EU leaders
that Britain cannot “have its cake and eat
it”, he added: “I was going to stay away from
this cliche but you are absolutely right.”
British Prime Minister Theresa May has
promised to trigger the two-year divorce
process at the end of March in line with the
shock June 23 popular vote for Britain to exit
the bloc, but has not revealed a clear negotiating
position.
Her Finance Minister Philip Hammond
said he wanted a deal that worked for both
London and the rest of the EU.
“I think that’s in everybody’s interest on
both sides of the English Channel to have as
smooth a process as possible,” he said as he
arrived for the talks.
“That minimizes the threat to European
financial fincanical stability and minimizes
the disruption to the very complex relationship
that exists between European manufacturing
buisinesses and their financing banks
and so on in London.” Hammond confirmed
comments by Brexit Minister David Davis
that Britain could continue to pay for access
to some parts of the single market. •

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Political risk to prompt more ECB action
• AFP, Frankfurt
The European Central Bank will offer
further support tomorrow to a
still-fragile eurozone recovery, analysts
said, against a background of
uncertainty over US President-elect
Donald Trump, Brexit and political
risks in Europe.
Italians’ rejection of constitutional
reforms in a Sunday referendum
did not roil markets as some
observers had feared, but means
that worries over one of Europe’s
weak spots will be prolonged - and
will likely push the ECB to maintain
its mass bond-buying programme
at this week’s meeting.
“We don’t have increased market
uncertainty, but we have political
uncertainty,” ING Diba bank
economist Carsten Brzeski told
AFP.
Growth and inflation remain on a
slow upward path across the 19-nation
eurozone, he pointed out.
But doubts about Italy’s ability
to overhaul its economy and fears
of anti-euro populists making gains
in the next parliamentary elections
will join other concerns dogging
policymakers as they gather in
Frankfurt for the last governing
council meeting of 2016.
“Geopolitical uncertainty has
become the major source of uncertainty
for the months to come,”
central bank president Mario
Draghi warned MEPs in Brussels
last week.
In the US, Trump’s bombastic
Twitter sallies on trade and relations
with China have rattled observers
in recent days.
Britain’s objectives for a deal
with the EU after its June vote to
quit the bloc remain opaque.
And 2017 will bring elections in
heavyweight eurozone members
France and Germany overshadowed
by swelling populist forces.
“So much uncertainty will be
used by the ECB to extend quantitative
easing,” Brzeski said, referring
to the bank’s massive bond-buying
programme.
“The Italian referendum is just a
small part of it.”
Reliant on ECB
A mammoth package of unconventional
monetary policy launched
by the ECB in March pushed inflation
in the eurozone to 0.6% by
November - the highest level since
April 2014 but still far short of the
bank’s target of just below 2%.
Policymakers insist that its
cheap loans to banks, ultra-low interest
rates and 80bn euro ($85bn)
monthly bond purchases have
stimulated growth and inflation.
But Draghi last month acknowledged
that what growth there is
remains “highly reliant” on ECB
support.
Jumpy market reactions to a
Bloomberg News report in October
that the bank might begin “tapering”,
or winding down, QE mean the
ECB is unlikely to broach the possibility
on Thursday, Natixis bank
economist Johannes Gareis told AFP.
He expects Draghi to extend the
asset-purchasing programme at the
same rate for a further six months.
“The bond markets are extremely
nervous,” ING Diba’s Brzeski
agreed.
Hinting at tapering “runs the
risk that this leads to another selloff
and that interest rates go up,”
throttling the economic recovery
by making access to credit more
difficult, he said.
The next move
Beyond extending quantitative
easing, the ECB may adjust its
self-imposed rules about the bonds
it is allowed to buy.
Feared shortages of eligible
bonds have yet to bite, but changing
the parameters “would stress the
ECB’s ability to act”, Gareis said. •
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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2016
DT
Feature
How to lose a friend in 5 steps
Dealing with grief
• Sabrina Fatma Ahmad
Flip on the radio and
you won’t be able to
last an hour without
encountering at least one
song about heartbreak. There’s
something about the death of a
romance that has inspired the
entire spectrum of arts since
time immemorial. Probably less
eulogised is another kind of
relationship death – when best
friends call it quits. While card
companies and advertisers will
have you believe that the best
friendships last forever, it is
simply not true. Even the closest
friends can fall apart, and when
this happens, the heartbreak is just
as painful.
Here are the stages of a
friendship break-up.
This cannot be happening
The knee-jerk response to a
traumatic experience is denial. So
when your best friend suddenly
starts acting cold for no reason,
or betrays your trust, or does
something to hurt you, the first
reaction is to rationalise the
behavious. “Oh maybe he’s upset
about something else.” “Maybe
I’m reading too much into the
situation.” You try to pretend
nothing is wrong and reach out
for a connection, i.e., trying to
meet up for an adda, making plans
together. When you receive a less
than lukewarm response, you
start realising that maybe you’re
missing something, and it’s not
just the company of your friend.
Interestingly enough, deep
down, you know that the
relationship is over, so this would
be a good time to acknowledge
that this is happening for a
reason – whether it’s because your
relationship has turned toxic, or
that the two of you have simply
flowered into two very different
individuals over time.
One step closer to the edge
Once you realise that this
friendship is tanking faster than
the Titanic after its date with the
iceberg, you start to get mad.
If this is your best friend we’re
talking about, there’s got to be a lot
of history, and a lot of emotional
investment, and when faced with
the prospect of losing something
that’s so loaded, you tend to get
angry. This is the time to get a
grip on yourself and not give in to
the corrosive resentment. Don’t
say or do something that you will
If this is your best friend we’re talking about,
there’s got to be a lot of history, and a lot of
emotional investment
inevitably regret, even if it doesn’t
feel that way.
Find a more constructive outlet
for your anger. Write about your
feelings in a journal. Blow off
some steam at the gym. Reconnect
with your spiritual side through
prayer or meditation. Things will
soon look up.
If only I could turn back
time
Once the anger cools, you
find yourself poking at scabs,
telling yourself you’re trying to
understand what happened, but
really, what you’re looking for is a
way to regain control. This might
play out in different ways – you
could start feeling guilt, or look
for someone to blame, obsess over
the past, or obsessively stalk your
ex-BFF online.
If you don’t want to drive
yourself crazy, it’s best to keep
yourself occupied during this
phase. Work can be a great
distraction, if you have the mind
for it. Another way to deal, if
you can afford it, is to take a trip
somewhere. Sometimes a change
of scenery is just what the doctor
ordered.
All time low
Finally, after you’ve fought the
feeling for a while – and it may
happen when you least expect
it – the crushing sadness happens.
Your best friend occupies quite an
important place in your life, some
place that even your significant
other can never reach, and when
that goes, it’s normal to hurt.
Give yourself time to mourn.
When the tears come, take some
time out and let them flow. Part
of the healing process is to get all
that sadness off your chest and
out of your system.
This is where those sad songs
and movies come in handy. Not
only will they get your sob-fest
going, in a roundabout way, they
are able to articulate what you’re
Photo: Bigstock
feeling in a way perhaps your
other friends and family can’t, and
can be pretty cathartic.
Just so this mourning process
doesn’t become the new norm,
make sure you’ve confided in
another friend, or a trusted family
member to pull you out of it after
an agreed grieving period.
I will be rising from the
ground like a skyscraper
Once the tears have dried and you
realise that the world hasn’t ended
yet, comes the welcome Zen-like
state of being ready to move on.
This means you’re ready to cut
your losses and move forward.
Get a makeover (it could be
something as simple as a haircut)
– it gives your brain the green
light to accept changes into your
life. Make plans with your other
friends – maybe make some new
ones. The world is a big place,
and life is too short for you to stay
down.•

Biz Info
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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2016
DT
| commencement | | appointment |
BRAC University holds 11th
Convocation
AIUB VC elected in IAU
board
BRAC University held its 11th
convocation at International
Convention City Bashundhara
(Naboratri, Hall-04) in the capital
5 December 2016.
Nurul Islam Nahid, the
minister for education, was
present as the chief guest and
presided over the convocation
ceremony on behalf of president
Abdul Hamid, the President of
| deals |
Bangladesh. Professor Syed Saad
Andaleeb, the vice Chancellor of
BRACU, delivered the welcome
address.
Renowned actor and social
activist Shabana Azmi presented
a speech as the Convocation
Speaker. The chairperson of
BRACU Board of Trustees Sir
Fazle Hasan Abed, KCMG,
and Professor Abdul Mannan,
Chairman, University Grants
Commission of Bangladesh, also
spoke at the convocation.
A total of 1,283 students were
presented with crests and degree
certificates, including two who
have been nominated for the
Chancellor’s Gold Medal and 29
others for the Vice-Chancellor’s
Gold Medal.•
Samsung announces exciting new offers on
electronics products for the wedding season
Samsung Electronics, a global
leader in consumer electronics,
has announced exciting new
offers for its customers this
wedding season.
The offers will feature
guaranteed cashback with which
customers can win guaranteed
cashback starting from BDT 1,000
to BDT 10,500 on any consumer
electronic product purchase.
Customers can win stay at
Hotel Westin Dhaka for 3 days
- 2 nights every day, bedroom
f urniture set, bed side tables,
dressing tables, and wardrobes
by Hatil or honeymoon trips to
Maldives every week, a brand
new Mitsubishi Attrage sedan
car as the ‘Mega Gift’. These
awards will come with purchase
of TV, refrigerators, microwave
ovens, washing machines and air
conditioners during this wedding
season.
Firoze Mohammad, Head of
Consumer Electronics, Samsung
Bangladesh, said “Samsung
Bangladesh is always eager to
enhance user experience achieve
customer satisfaction.”
Samsung’s new offer will
be available to all customers
across the Samsung brand shops,
Samsung authorized showrooms
of Transcom, Electra, Rangs and
Singer up until December 31st,
2016 or till offers last. To avail
the offers customer needs to SMS
to WC Product Code Shop
Code to 3690 after purchasing
products.
For details, interested
customers can call at 09612-300-
300, 08000-300-300(Toll free)
and visit Samsung Electronics
Bangladesh’s official Facebook
page https://www.facebook.com/
SamsungBangladesh •
Dr. Carmen Z. Lamagna, the
vice chancellor of the American
International University –
Bangladesh (AIUB) has been
elected as a member of the
International Association of
Universities (IAU) Administrative
Board for a term of 2016 - 2020.
The IAU, founded in 1950, is
the UNESCO-based worldwide
association of higher education
institutions. It brings together
institutions and organisations from
| marketing |
The most in-demand
marketing skills in Bangladesh
The fastest growing online
career platform in Bangladesh,
everjobs.com.bd has released an
infographic revealing the most
sought-after skills in marketing
roles in the country. The results of
the report represent data collected
from more than 2,500 marketing
job descriptions published by top
employers on the website, since
mid-2015.
According to the recent study,
employers who are looking
for marketing candidates in
Bangladesh, are expecting to
identify certain core skills, soft
skill s, and tools proficiency
in the applicants’ profiles. “In
the competitive job market of
Bangladesh, job seekers need to
develop their skills further to show
the company an added value.
Having the basic core skills is not
enough anymore,” says Devendra
Singh, Managing Director at
everjobs Bangladesh.
The report defines the top core
skills for marketing positions
as Relationship Management,
Strategy Development, Budgeting,
and Survey skills. The tools
refer to technical capabilities
like presentation skills and
understanding of Facebook
analytics. Soft skills are social
behaviour, management and
communication skills, as well
some 120 countries for reflection
and action on common concerns
and collaborates with various
international, regional and national
bodies active in higher education.
Its services are available on the
priority basis to members but also
to organisations, institutions and
authorities concerned with higher
education, as well as to individual
policy and decision-makers,
specialists, administrators, teachers,
researchers and students.•
as qualities like responsibility,
friendliness. and a proactive
approach to work.
“In the case of marketing, core
skills are important since they
imply the acquired professional
and academic background in the
field. Knowledge of tools is also
key to this role, as marketers
are required to identify trends,
monitor their campaign, and
build global budgets for the
success of their strategies. Last
but not least, soft skills are a
must for those who want to
pursue a career in marketing
since it involves cooperation with
multiple departments within
the organisation, identification
of social behaviour and the
development of external
partnerships.” Singh added. •

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20
Editorial
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2016
TODAY
The bait and
the switch
In reality, the problems of this class
began a long time ago and are the result
of a failure of governance that goes back
several generations
PAGE 21
I wish I were born
a stray dog
The message society has been getting is:
‘Don’t you dare protest to any injustice’
PAGE 22
NASHIRUL ISLAM
16 days of activism
against genderbased
violence
Stand apart from the crowd and be
your own kind man. As a man, you
impart traditions and beliefs to younger
generations. You are a role model, be
it as a father, brother, husband, friend,
father-in-law, uncle, teacher, employer,
or religious leader
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Protect our rivers
Some of our rivers are so polluted, they appear to be beyond saving.
A new study has found that Buriganga, Shitalakkhya, Dhaleshwari,
Turag Bongshi, and Balu are so severely contaminated, that it has
become impossible to even treat the water to make it usable for
humans.
Needless to say, this also takes a severe toll on aquatic life, and various
industries.
The situation is nothing short of tragic. Bangladesh is a riverine country,
with rivers inextricably tied to not just our heritage, but our livelihood.
It is time, then, to get serious about protecting the rivers that can still be
saved.
For this to happen, the government must act urgently.
The first thing to do is to stop the continuous discharge of the thousands of
tons of industrial waste, garbage, and sewage water into our rivers.
In the past, we have seen projects to clean up rivers such as Shitalakkhya
fail because of the impunity granted to polluters.
Industrial sites such as tanneries also need to be relocated away from
rivers.
Ultimately, it is blatant disregard for the law and the environment which
has made it so difficult to clean up our rivers.
It is high time that polluters paid the price for the damage they have
caused.
Recently, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina stressed the importance of
protecting our water resources. Every living organism requires water to
survive. As such, it is the most precious commodity on the planet.
It is, then, a shame how we have abused and failed to protect our rivers.
We have made mistakes in the way we have treated our rivers so far. Let us
not continue to make those mistakes in the future.
It is high time that
polluters paid the price
for the damage they
have caused

The bait and the switch
The problems of working class Americans are older than believed
Opinion 21
DT
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2016
• William Milam
Trump promised change,
but is it going to be what
his voters wanted?
Sometimes I use
expressions that may be a bit
antique (as I am getting to be), so
let’s start with a definition.
Many readers may not
understand why I am quoting
John Cassidy who wrote in the
New Yorker that the November 8
election was “the biggest bait and
switch con” in US history.
Bait and switch cons are as
old as human history. Think of a
fishhook with a squirming worm;
the worm is the bait, the switch
is that the fish which takes the
bait thinking it is dinner ends up
becoming dinner itself.
This was a “change” election,
and Mr Trump promised change,
explicitly in his rambling speeches,
and implicitly in his behaviour. In
the exit poll questions about the
character of the two candidates,
Ms Clinton was the voters’ choice
as the candidate who cared more,
generations. For example, the
industries which gave them good
jobs and a stable income began
to disappear from the industrial
Midwest in the 1960s.
The self-respect, propriety, and,
to some extent the ambition of
the working class white segment
of the population has eroded over
three generations because it saw
its place in society in free-fall.
To blame globalisation and
over-regulation is misleading and
counter-productive.
Free trade agreements are not
the basic reason why these jobs
left; it is technological change
that is the culprit in most cases
-- automation, robotisation,
increased productivity with fewer
workers.
The claim that less regulation
will restore the coal industry and
restore many miners to new jobs
digging for coal is to ignore the
market forces that are suppressing
the demand for coal -- cheap
natural gas and much more
efficient renewable energy, which
have been the main factors behind
Authoritarian sympathies
REUTERS
In reality, the problems of this class began a
long time ago and are the result of a failure of
governance that goes back several generations
was more qualified, and had better
judgement. But only 17% of the
voters picked her as most likely to
bring change. And the 83% who
picked Mr Trump was probably
right; he will bring change. But
what kind of change? And will it be
change that improves the lives of
those many voters who now look
to him for improvement in their
otherwise bleak lives?
The feelings of the white
working class core of Trump’s
support -- that it has been
abandoned by its own country,
sacrificed on the altar of
globalisation, deceived by the
elites who have profited and
benefited from globalisation,
replaced in even low-wage jobs
by immigrants -- has now been
analysed, and re-analysed to the
point of becoming a cliché.
There is more than a little truth
in it, but a lot of misunderstanding
and misinformation also.
In reality, the problems of
this class began a long time ago
and are the result of a failure of
governance that goes back several
in the swift decline of coal as an
energy source.
It is politically easy, however,
to blame others rather than to
assume responsibility for not
foreseeing the problem and
constructing safety nets to take
care of the victims.
Both the Democrats and the
Republicans have had a “head
in the sand” approach to this
long-festering problem. The white
working class which so strongly
supported Trump has been
persuaded to look backward to a
“golden age” that never was so
golden.
Astute political leadership
might have faced this conundrum
20 years ago and tried to
respond to it. But the division
and partisanship that brought a
gridlock to the US political system
in the first two decades of the 21st
century would have prevented
any attempt to rectify the deep
alienation of this large group of
voters, in any case. It begged for
a “strongman” who would sense
this alienation and take advantage
of it.
Such a strongman could cut
the Gordian knot that blocks any
change or progress simply by
being an outsider, and that too as
one who has little regard for the
grinding work of bringing about
democratically needed change.
So the question is then, will
Mr Trump fulfill his promise to
bring the kind of change needed to
begin the process of restoring the
“amour propre” of a class of voters
that still makes up a majority of
the US electorate, even if a quickly
diminishing one?
The answer that many
economists would give is that Mr
Trump’s policies, as proclaimed
on the campaign trail and in the
debates, will leave his election
supporters the losers, not the
winners, in an administration
of change. Wall Street’s giddy
reaction to the unexpected
election results is sparked by
the promise of tax cuts for the
wealthy and for corporations,
including inducements to bring
back large bundles of cash kept
overseas to avoid taxes, which
could send the equities markets
into wild gyrations as investors
and companies look for profitable
places to store their cash.
Such tax cuts are dear to the
heart of the Republicans who
now control Congress, so these
proposals have a good deal of lift
under their wings.
However, the argument that
tax cuts for the wealthy and
corporations will spur investment
in the real economy is a stretch
given that they haven’t done so
historically; such investment is
usually a function of demand in
the economy and of certainty in its
stability.
Trump’s promise to withdraw
from the TPP free trade
agreement, and even perhaps
from NAFTA, are as likely to spark
trade wars and reciprocal tariff
increases as they are to bring back
manufacturing industries and jobs.
Price increases for consumers,
bearing heavily on the middle
classes would be one result, and
reduced US exports from our now
healthy export industries the
other, which would shed workers
also, raising the unemployment
rate.
Many other of his campaign
proposals would have negative
implications for the economy
and ultimately for his supporters:
Deregulation of financial markets
provided by the Dodd-Frank
legislation which was aimed
at preventing a return to the
financial sector abuses of the
pre-2008 period, and which led
to the financial/fiscal implosion
of 2008-09; eliminating many
consumer protections; rolling
back environmental protections;
and gutting the Affordable Care
Act (Obamacare) which extended
health insurance and services to
many of these supporters.
However, it is not clear whether
Mr Trump could get those that
need Congressional authorisation
through Congress without major
changes.
At present, the focus seems
to be on getting the transition
structured and a cabinet and subcabinet
named.
In the case of his administration
team, it seems also true that the
promise of change is not a guiding
principle as the names seem to
come from some of the darker
reaches of the Trump movement
and/or from large donors to his
campaign.
I know that many readers are
more concerned about Mr Trump’s
contradictory and sometimes
radical proposals and statements
about US foreign policy.
There is also the question
of whether his apparent
authoritarian sympathies will lead
him into not only dubious foreign
policy alliances, but whether these
tendencies will lead him to act in
extra-constitutional ways against
it if he is frustrated by domestic
opposition (which judging by
his continuing rants on Twitter
has not diminished despite his
election victory.) •
William Milam is a Senior Scholar at the
Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington
DC, and a former US diplomat who
was Ambassador to Pakistan and
Bangladesh. This article first appeared
on The Friday Times.

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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2016
DT
Opinion
I wish I were born a stray dog
Being a human being is hard these days
Is this dog happier than most people?
• Monswita Bulbuli
The day after a college
teacher in Mymensingh
was beaten to death
in broad daylight on a
college campus, I was getting
impatient, as time’s chariot was
flying very fast, with me stuck in a
limbo on Green Road on my way to
the office.
My blood pressure was getting
high, thinking that I would be
late. Suddenly, my eyes fell on a
stray dog beside the road, who
was in his/her slumber enjoying
the midday sunlight of winter
-- no tension, no stress, no hurry
for any destination. Seeing the
sweet slumber of the dog I became
oblivious of my surroundings,
and recalled the fortunate dog
of Syed Mujtaba Ali’s short story
“Padatika.” It was a pet dog of
a Laat Shaheb (a British high
official), who came to visit a school
for inspection along with the dog.
The Englishman spent Tk75
per month for the dog. One day,
a teacher (pandit moshai) of the
school asked his students during a
class to calculate if Tk75 was spent
for three legs of the dog, how
much money was spent for one leg
of the dog.
A student (the narrator of the
story) answered that it was Tk25.
Then the teacher, who was a
Brahmin, threw a question to the
students: His family, which was
comprised of eight persons, was
equal to how many of the dog’s
legs? He got a salary of Tk25 per
month for his entire family.
The satire present in the story
still stirs my mind.
This story was written in the
context of British imperialist rule,
and that is why we can accept it as
normal that the rulers did not have
any respect or sense of justice for
native people.
But now, when we are
independent, why has the
condition of teachers not changed?
Why has it deteriorated? Why
are teachers still subject to
humiliation? Why are they beaten
on the streets in broad daylight?
The brutal assault of the college
teacher in broad daylight, and not
allowing any ambulance to enter
the campus, which led him to his
death, give us the message that
law enforcers of our country do
not care about enforcing the law.
They humiliate, beat, abduct,
and kill with impunity. There
are lots of examples where law
enforcers have raped (ie Yasmin of
Dinajpur) and killed, as we see in
the seven murders in Narayanganj.
But the latest killing of a respected
college teacher has now shown
just how far things have gone.
If you are not the son or
daughter of an influential
The message society has been getting is: ‘Don’t you dare protest to any
injustice. Do not raise your voice for what you think is right’
person, you may face any kind of
harassment by law enforcement
agencies or politically influential
people.
Very often, we see news in the
media where members of law
enforcement agencies are involved
in different kinds of crimes. But
I have hardly seen any news
of responsible members of law
enforcement facing exemplary
punishment, which would give
other law enforcement personnel
the message that they are not
above the law.
DHAKA TRIBUNE
The message society has been
getting is: “Don’t you dare protest
to any injustice. Do not raise your
voice for what you think is right.
If you dare to do so, you will be
doomed. No one is there to save
you.”
Nowadays, I feel afraid when
my husband goes outside of our
home for cigarettes late at night. I
feel afraid when my husband and
I travel at night. I feel afraid when
I am alone on the streets at night.
The list goes on. Our lives have
become full of fear and stress.
People like me, who have still
not been able to catch up with the
trend of the age to be happy no
matter what, are in real danger.
Living the life of a human being
is becoming very difficult day by
day. That is why I felt that day,
seeing the oblivious dog on the
street, that it would have been
better if I were born as a dog. No
such fear would haunt me. •
Monswita Bulbuli is a Sub-Editor at the
Dhaka Tribune.

Opinion
23
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2016
DT
16 days of activism against
gender-based violence
Each one of us can take meaningful action to end the scourge of gender-based violence
• HE Marcia Bernicat,
Ambassador of the United
States to Bangladesh,
HE Julia Niblett, High
Commissioner of Australia
to Bangladesh, HE Wanja
Campos da Nobrega,
Ambassador of Brazil to
Bangladesh, HE Benoît-
Pierre Laramée, High
Commissioner of Canada
to Bangladesh, HE Sophie
Aubert, Ambassador of
France to Bangladesh,
HE Leoni Margaretha
Cuelenaere, Ambassador
of the Kingdom of
the Netherlands to
Bangladesh, HE Sidsel
Bleken, Ambassador of
Norway to Bangladesh,
HE Yasoja Gunasekera,
High Commissioner of Sri
Lanka to Bangladesh, HE
Johan Frisell, Ambassador
of Sweden to Bangladesh,
HE Alison Mary Blake, High
Commissioner of the United
Kingdom to Bangladesh,
Ms Christine Hunter,
Country Representative,
UN Women, Ms Argentina
Pinto Matavel Piccin,
Country Representative
United Nations Population
Fund (UNFPA), Ms Janina
Jaruzelski, Mission Director,
United States Agency for
International Development
(USAID), Ms Christa Räder,
Country Director, World
Food Program (WFP)
To all fathers, sons, and
husbands:
Every daughter has a
father; every son has a
mother; every husband, a wife. As
daughters, mothers, and wives, we
call upon the men of Bangladesh
to stand with the girls and women
they love.
Domestic violence is a problem
in every country, but Bangladesh
has one of the world’s highest
rates. One in three women around
the world will experience gender-based
violence in her lifetime,
but in Bangladesh, more than 80%
of currently-married Bangladeshi
women are abused at least once
during their marriage, be it physical,
sexual, emotional, or financial
abuse, or controlling behaviour.
More than half of married
women reported having
experienced violence from a
spouse within the past year. The
victims are not strangers -- they
are the women in your family, the
co-worker you have lunch with,
the woman who serves you at
the bank. And it is your duty as a
father or son or husband or brother
to help end the devastating cycle
of violence.
We can all be Ambassadors for
Change, but as a man, you have a
key role to play. Ending genderbased
violence is about more than
refraining from violence yourself.
It is offering an alternative model
of masculinity that can inspire
Bangladeshi youth. As the famous
Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore
said: “Men are cruel, but man is
kind.”
Stand apart from the crowd and
be your own kind man. As a man,
you impart traditions and beliefs
to younger generations. You are
a role model, be it as a father,
brother, husband, friend, fatherin-law,
uncle, teacher, employer,
or religious leader. You can teach
boys across Bangladesh to grow
into men who will condemn
violence against girls and women,
and promote a culture of respect
and of healthy relationships.
Decide that you will not tolerate
any gender-based violence. At
work, speak up if a male colleague
jests about abusing his wife. If you
All men should stand up to violence against women
BIGSTOCK
Stand apart from the crowd and be your own
kind man. As a man, you impart traditions and
beliefs to younger generations. You are a role
model, be it as a father, brother, husband,
friend, father-in-law, uncle, teacher, employer,
or religious leader
have children, tell your son to treat
his wife with respect -- and show
him, every day, how you respect
his mother.
If you are a student, stand
beside your female classmate on
the bus and speak against efforts
to harass her. Silence in the face of
violence condones this violation
of human dignity and sends the
message that it is acceptable.
Break that silence.
Likewise, we ask you to offer
support to survivors of violence
and treat them with the dignity
and respect they deserve. This
means holding perpetrators
accountable: Please work to
overcome the indifference to
gender-based violence that allows
it to flourish.
We are writing to you as part of
the international campaign of “16
days of activism against genderbased
violence.” Though this
campaign is observed each year
during the 16 days from November
25 to December 10, girls and
women are abused every day of
the year.
Each one of us can take
meaningful action to end the
scourge of gender-based violence.
Whether you are reading this letter
over your morning tea, on your
mobile phone as you sit in traffic,
or at your computer at work,
look up -- look up at the girls and
women around you and ask what
you can do to help keep them safe.
We invite you to join us; be an
Ambassador for Change. •

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Sport
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2016
TOP STORIES
Sammy wins battle
of captains
Rajshahi Kings captain Darren
Sammy showcased a gem of an
innings to lead his side to the
second BPL qualifier diminishing
the performance of his opposite
number Tamim Iqbal of Chittagong
Vikings. PAGE 25
High-flying Abahani
do the double
Abahani Limited moved five points
clear at the top of the Bangladesh
Premier League after winning
the season’s second Dhaka derby
2-1 over arch-rival Mohammedan
Sporting Club Limited in Gopalganj
yesterday. PAGE 26
Chapecoense wins
Sudamericana
South American soccer’s governing
body CONMEBOL awarded the
2016 Copa Sudamericana to
Brazil’s Chapecoense club on
Monday after most of the team
died in a plane crash in Colombia
last week. PAGE 27
Warner sees Aussies
past NZ to win series
Dave Warner smashed a sixth
one-day international century
of the year to drive Australia to a
convincing 116-run victory over
New Zealand as the hosts wrapped
up the series with a match to spare
in Canberra yesterday. PAGE 28
Dhaka Dynamites captain Shakib al Hasan charges on-field umpire Khalid Mahmood during their BPL 4 match against
Khulna Titans in Mirpur yesterday
MD MANIK
Dhaka overcome Khulna,
reach grand finale
• Ali Shahriyar Bappa
Dhaka Dynamites defeated Khulna
Titans by 54 runs in Mirpur’s
Sher-e Bangla National Stadium
yesterday to reach the final of
the Bangladesh Premier League
Twenty20’s fourth edition. Khulna
will now face Rajshahi Kings
in the second qualifier today at
the same venue to decide who the
other finalist.
Chasing Dhaka’s 140/8, Khulna
opening batsmen Andre Fletcher
and Hasanuzzaman made a
steady start. Khulna were 34 for
no loss at one stage.
But Khulna could not capitalise
on the good start and lost wickets
at regular intervals. Fletcher was
the first batsman to be dismissed
by Shakib al Hasan in the sixth
over.
However, two decisions then
went against Khulna. Opener
Hasanuzzaman was adjudged leg
before wicket in the seventh over
but TV replays showed the ball
would have clearly missed the leg
stump.
Benny Howell was also unfortunate
to be adjudged LBW in
the eight over as well as replays
showed that he had a big inside
edge but the umpire clearly
thought otherwise.
Eventually, Khulna were all
out for 86 runs in 16.2 overs with
only Fletcher and Ariful Haque
reaching double figures.
Andre Russell took three wickets
conceding only 16 runs while
Dwayne Bravo also bagged three
giving away just 10 runs.
Earlier, Khulna skipper
Mahmudullah won the toss and
elected to field first.
Dhaka made three changes
from their last match with opener
Evin Lewis coming back to the
team instead of Ronsford Beaton,
Russell replacing Seekkuge Prasanna
and Ravi Bopara making
way for Bravo.
Khulna initiated the breakthrough
in the second over when
Mehedi Maruf got out off Junaid
Khan’s bowling.
No 3 batsman Kumar Sangakkara
hit a couple of boundaries
but got out cheaply against Junaid.
Junaid also got the wicket of the
other opener Lewis in the fourth
over when he was caught by wicket-keeper
Nicholas Pooran.
Part-time leg-spinner Fletcher
then took two important wickets
in the middle period of the
innings. First he dismissed Nasir
Hossain before accounting for the
wicket of captain Shakib al Hasan.
Player of the match Russell
and Bravo formed a vital 49-run
partnership for the seventh wicket.
Russell scored 46 from just 25
deliveries while Bravo scored 23.
Dhaka eventually ended their
innings on 140 from their allotted
20 overs.
Khulna pacer Junaid picked up
four wickets conceding 24 runs
while Fletcher took two for 22
runs. •
SCORECARD
DHAKA DYNAMITES R B
Maruf c Pooran b Junaid 7 6
Lewis c Pooran b Junaid 11 8
Sangakkara c sub (Naeem) b Junaid 9 7
Nasir c Shuvagata b Fletcher 13 16
Shakib c & b Fletcher 18 18
Mosaddek run out (Mahmudullah) 8 15
Russell c Mahmudullah b Howell 46 25
Bravo not out 23 22
Babu b Junaid 0 2
Sanjamul not out 0 1
Extras (lb 1, w 4) 5
Total (8 wickets; 20 overs) 140
Fall Of Wickets
1-11, 2-27, 3-28, 4-56, 5-65, 6-89, 7-138, 8-139
Bowling
Mahmudullah 3-0-26-0, Junaid 4-0-24-
4, Shuvagata 1-0-8-0, Howell 4-0-35-1,
Mosharraf 4-0-18-0, Fletcher 3-0-22-2,
Shafiul 1-0-6-0
KHULNA TITANS R B
Fletcher st Sangakkara b Shakib 28 22
Hasanuzzaman lbw b Russell 5 11
Mahmudullah c Jayed b Russell 5 6
Howell lbw b Sanjamul 4 6
Mazid c & b Mosaddek 7 8
Pooran c Bravo b Jayed 9 13
Ariful c & b Russell 14 16
Shuvagata b Bravo 8 6
Mosharraf c Sanjamul b Bravo 1 3
Junaid c Lewis b Bravo 1 5
Shafiul not out 0 2
Extras (w 4) 4
Total (all out; 16.2 overs) 86
Fall Of Wickets
1-34, 2-39, 3-40, 4-46, 5-53, 6-68, 7-81,
8-84, 9-84, 10-86
Bowling
Jayed 3-0-20-1, Russell 4-0-16-3, Shakib
3-0-22-1, Sanjamul 2-0-9-1, Nasir 1-0-6-0,
Mosaddek 1-0-3-1, Bravo 2.2-0-10-3
The Dynamites won by 54 runs
MoM: Andre Russell (DD)
Shakib
aggression,
poor umpiring
talk of town
• Tribune Report
Dhaka Dynamites captain Shakib al
Hasan produced a fresh controversy
when the Bangladesh superstar
charged the on-field umpire during
their first qualifier of the 2016 BPL
against Khulna Titans in Mirpur.
The incident happened in the
fifth ball of Khulna’s innings when
Shakib went furious at Pakistan
umpire Khalid Mahmood after a
leg-before wicket decision of Andre
Fletcher went against Dhaka.
Bowler Abu Jayed launched a huge
appeal but Mahmood denied the
call. Jayed became furious at him
before being joined by his captain
Shakib, who took the incident to a
whole new level. Thankfully, Andre
Russell intervened at just the
right moment to stop the incident
from worsening further.
Later, Dhaka benefited from a
couple of wrong decisions - a common
scene in this year’s BPL.
Is this what we call the gentleman’s
game?•

WHAT THEY SAID
Chittagong Vikings captain Tamim
Iqbal
The way we came back in this tournament,
I am very proud of my
players. We scored 20 runs short
and committed a few mistakes
while bowling. At the end of the
day, I am still proud of the boys as
I think we played some really good
cricket. Personally, I am happy at
the way we played throughout the
tournament. Four hundred and
eighty runs (476) is amazing. But
at the end of the day, if I cannot
win for the team it doesn’t have
any value. I think our local players
underperformed. If they had performed
well then we could have
finished in a better position. I am
sure they tried but unfortunately, it
didn’t work out.
Rajshahi Kings skipper Darren
Sammy
We were always confident from the
start of the tournament. We came
here to win the tournament. We
are a new team but you look at the
group stage matches, whenever we
were out there everybody saw that
this team was gelling together. We
perform like a family whether we
look good or not. Now we have
fixed up our goals to reach the finals
but we need to take one game
at a time. I wasn’t too sad in the
dressing room when we finished
fourth because every time we
played a team above us, we defeated
them. So hopefully it will work
well in the next match as well. •
Sammy wins battle of captains
• Fazley Rabbi Moon
Rajshahi Kings captain Darren
Sammy showcased a gem of an
innings to lead his side to the
second Bangladesh Premier
League Twenty20 2016-17 season
qualifier diminishing the
performance of his opposite
number Tamim Iqbal of Chittagong
Vikings. Sammy scored
a 23-ball fifty in the Eliminator
in Mirpur’s Sher-e-Bangla
National Stadium yesterday to
guide his side to a three-wicket
win with nine balls to spare.
Chasing Chittagong’s 142/8,
Rajshahi faced an immediate
setback when the in-form Mominul
Haque threw his wicket
away playing a loose shot
against the bowling of Subashish
Roy. From there, Rajshahi
lost wickets at regular
intervals. Afif Rahman, Sabbir
Rahman and Samit Patel were
dismissed after some disappointing
shows.
Nurul Hasan played well
for his 34 but Chittagong were
in cruise control after a superb
tag-team effort from
Shoaib Malik and Jahurul Islam
sent the opening batsman
back before James Franklin
was cleaned up in the same
Saqlain Sajib over. Their woes
worsened when Mehedi Hasan
Miraz was run out after a misunderstanding
with Sammy.
Thereafter, it was an exclusive
Sammy show. He took the
game away from Chittagong
adding 49 unbroken runs
alongside Farhad Reza for the
Sport 25
Rajshahi Kings captain Darren Sammy celebrates while his opposite number Tamim Iqbal of Chittagong Vikings looks on
during their Bangladesh Premier League Twenty20 2016-17 season Eliminator at Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur
yesterday
MD MANIK
It was an exclusive
Sammy show.
He took the
game away from
Chittagong adding
49 unbroken runs
alongside Farhad
eighth-wicket partnership.
Sammy hit three consecutive
boundaries in Subashish’s 16th
over to make the equation a
run-a-ball. The two-time World
T20 winning captain stayed till
the end to take Rajshahi home
scoring 55 off 27 balls including
two huge sixes. Farhad, who
made 19 off 11 balls, scored the
winning runs.
Saqlain and Subashish took
two wickets each for Chittagong
as they ended their BPL
campaign this year in the last
four.
Earlier, riding on yet another
fifty from Tamim, Chittagong
posted a modest total of 142
in their stipulated 20 overs.
Tamim led from the front scoring
51 off 46 balls, featuring half
a dozen fours.
Chris Gayle scored 44 off 30
balls hitting five huge sixes to
give his captain solid support
after another opener Dwayne
Smith went for a duck. The second
wicket duo added 74 runs
for the to lay a solid foundation
for the port-city outfit.
However, the Rajshahi bowlers
came back strongly in the
latter part of the innings to restrict
Chittagong to a manageable
total. Apart from Tamim
and Gayle, no other Chittagong
batsman scored significantly.
Malik scored 14 while Anamul
Haque and Jahurul made 11
each.
Kesrick Williams was the
pick of the bowlers taking four
wickets conceding 11 runs in
his four overs while Farhad
took two wickets.
Sammy was adjudged player
of the match.•
Chittagong Vikings v Rajshahi Kings
Gayle finishes with five-sixer knock
Chris Gayle, the big-hitting Chittagong
left-hander, finished his Bangladesh Premier
League Twenty20 2016-17 season
campaign with 44 runs from 30 deliveries
as his side suffered a three-wicket defeat
in the Eliminator in Mirpur’s Sher-e-
Bangla National Stadium. Gayle smashed
five sixes and two fours during his innings.
The southpaw was struggling with
his fitness yesterday and batted at No 3.
The big man from Jamaica slipped and
fell to the ground twice during his stay at
the crease. Gayle slipped while trying to
take the second run early in his innings.
The second time he fell was in the seventh
over. Rajshahi spinner Afif Hossain
bowled a wide. Gayle tried to sweep and
lost his balance before falling down. The
wicket-keeper got across and whipped
the bails off but Gayle put his left foot
back in time. He was clearly in discomfort
while batting but still managed to hit
five huge sixes. In total, he has smashed
10 sixes in five BPL innings this season.
Sammy, the captain fantastic
Rajshahi skipper Darren Sammy played
a magnificent innings and snatched the
win from Chittagong’s grasp. He played
a brilliant unbeaten knock of 55 off just
27 balls, sealing victory in the process
alongside the undefeated Farhad Reza.
Rajshahi were struggling at one stage.
They lost their sixth wicket for 57 runs.
PLAYS OF THE DAY
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SCORECARD
CHITTAGONG VIKINGS R B
Tamim c Patel b Williams 51 46
Smith c Sammy b Williams 0 5
Gayle c Farhad b Franklin 44 30
Malik c Miraz b Farhad 14 12
Anamul c Miraz b Farhad 11 10
Nabi run out (Sabbir) 5 6
Jahurul not out 11 7
Razzak c Miraz b Williams 0 2
Taskin lbw b Williams 0 1
Saqlain not out 1 1
Extras (w 5) 5
Total (8 wickets; 20 overs) 142
Fall Of Wickets
1-8 (Smith), 2-82 (Gayle), 3-112 (Malik),
4-117 (Tamim), 5-127 (Anamul), 6-131
(Nabi), 7-131 (Razzak), 8-132 (Taskin)
Bowling
Williams 4-0-11-4, Miraz 4-0-36-0, Afif
2-0-25-0, Sammy 3-0-20-0, Farhad 4-0-
26-2, Franklin 1-0-8-1, Nazmul 2-0-16-0
RAJSHAHI KINGS R B
Nurul c Jahurul b Saqlain 34 28
Mominul c Razzak b Subashish 4 7
Afif c Subashish b Razzak 0 1
Sabbir c Nabi b Subashish 11 13
Patel b Nabi 5 10
Franklin b Saqlain 2 4
Sammy not out 55 27
Miraz run out (Taskin) 10 10
Farhad not out 19 11
Extras (w 3) 3
Total (7 wickets; 18.3 overs) 143
Fall Of Wickets
1-6 (Mominul), 2-8 (Afif), 3-39 (Sabbir),
4-53 (Patel), 5-55 (Nurul), 6-57 (Franklin),
7-94 (Miraz)
Bowling
Razzak 4-1-17-1, Subashish 3-0-28-2, Smith
1-0-13-0, Taskin 3.3-0-31-0, Saqlain 4-0-
24-2, Nabi 3-0-30-1
The Kings won by three wickets
MoM: Darren Sammy (RK)
But Sammy, Rajshahi’s captain fantastic,
rose to the occasion and played a
captain’s knock. Sammy was impressive
while fielding as well. Chittagong were
batting well at one stage. Gayle and the
in-form Tamim Iqbal were batting nicely
but Sammy changed his bowlers well
and checked the run-rate successfully.
More importantly, whenever a wicket
fell in the death overs, Sammy gathered
his teammates and celebrated in unique
ways, sometimes taking imaginary selfies
and taking dummy group photos on
the other occasions. Their team spirit
was clearly visible. As a result, the spirited
Rajshahi dumped the star-studded
Chittagong out of the tournament.
Dhaka Dynamites v Khulna Titans
Junaid’s great last over and another
four-wicket haul
Khulna’s leading pacer Junaid Khan
displayed another superb bowling
performance, including a great last
over under pressure, to restrict Dhaka
to 140. Junaid bagged his second fourwicket
haul of the tournament as he
dismissed Mehedi Maruf, Evin Lewis,
Kumar Sangakkara and Alauddin Babu.
He is now at the top of the highest
wicket-takers’ list with 20 wickets. The
Pakistani recruit also produced a superb
last over at the end conceding two runs
and taking the wicket of Babu. •
–ALI SHAHRIYAR BAPPA &
FAZLEY RABBI MOON

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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2016
Sport
Abahani do the double over Mohammedan
• Tribune Report
Abahani Limited moved five points
clear at the top of the Bangladesh
Premier League after winning
the season’s second Dhaka derby
2-1 over arch-rival Mohammedan
Sporting Club Limited in the last
match at the full-house Sheikh Fazlul
Haque Moni Stadium in Gopalganj
yesterday.
The Sky Blues’ top two performers
this season, English midfielder
Lee Andrew Tuck and Nigerian
striker Sunday Chizoba carried on
their amazing form netting one
apiece in the second half to give
George Kottan’s side their 12th
league win.
The victory put the Dhanmondi
outfit in a position of authority
at the summit of the points table
as they extended their lead to five
points with second-placed Chittagong
Abahani with only four
more rounds left. They now have
42 points from 18 matches while
Mohammedan remained third
from bottom with only 17 points
Terrible start cost Comilla heavily
• Ali Shahriyar Bappa
Defending champion Comilla Victorians
made the worst possible
start in their bid to defend the title,
losing the first five matches in the
fourth edition of the Bangladesh
Premier League Twenty20. The
five losses virtually ousted Comilla
from the playoff race. The franchise
recruited some good players
in the draft in the shape of Pakistan
all-rounders Imad Wasim and Sohail
Tanvir and opening batsman
Ahmed Shehzad but were unable
to produce the desired result and
eventually finished their campaign
at sixth position in the points table.
Comilla managed to win five out
of 12 matches. They restored some
lost pride by winning their last four
matches in a row.
Comilla struggled to find the
right combination in the first
matches or so. In the first few
matches, they picked four overseas
all-rounders in the playing
XI – Tanvir, Wasim, West Indies’
Marlon Samuels and Ashar Zaidi -
but the strategy did not work. The
top-order did not click for Comilla
in the first and second phase. The
faltering opening batting pair was
always a headache for Comilla as
they tried out various combinations.
Wicketkeeper-batsman Liton
Kumar Das, left-hander Imrul
Kayes, youngster Nazmul Hossain
Shanto, Pakistan’s Khalid Latif
and Jasimuddin were all tried as
openers but nothing clicked for the
holders and it affected them a great
deal. As usual, captain Mashrafe
Abahani Limited’s Nigerian striker Sunday Chizoba heads towards goal during their Bangladesh Premier League match against
arch-rival Mohammedan Sporting Club Limited at Sheikh Fazlul Haque Moni Stadium in Gopalganj yesterday
COURTESY
from the same number of outings
as Abahani.
Courtesy the win, Abahani did
the double over Mohammedan after
winning their corresponding
fixture 3-0 in the first phase two
and a half months ago.
bin Mortaza was impressive with
both bat and ball and his captaincy
was also praiseworthy.
But it is their batting that let
the team down on numerous occasions.
Comilla also missed a death
bowler like Abu Haider Rony, who
joined Barisal Bulls this year. Last
year’s player of the series, Zaidi
was not in the best of form and
struggled to even make it to starting
XI.
Comilla did bounce back in the
final stages of the tournament and
Samuels and Shehzad were able to
score some runs, along with Kayes.
Comilla will surely try to forget this
season, fix their team combination
and achieve something good next
time around.
Local players
Kayes missed out big time when
STATS
BATTING
Player Inns Runs HS Ave SR
Samuels 8 334 69* 66.80 116.78
Kayes 12 257 52 21.41 122.96
Shehzad 8 247 61 35.28 117.06
Latif 8 192 76 32.00 115.66
Shanto 9 180 54* 25.71 109.75
BOWLING
Player Inns Wkts BBI Ave Econ
Rashid 8 13 3/13 14.92 6.06
Mashrafe 12 13 3/16 22.76 6.43
Tanvir 8 10 4/18 19.40 6.46
Saifuddin 9 9 3/12 26.55 8.74
Nabil 9 8 3/17 26.62 6.87
Abahani dominated the game
right from the very beginning.
They kept the opposition defence
busy but failed to find the back of
the net despite creating a number
of chances in the first half. Mohammedan,
on the other hand, looked
his team needed him the most. The
opener finished with 257 runs in
12 innings. Shanto was impressive
with the willow scoring 180 runs
in 12 innings but his strike rate was
not up to the mark, bearing in mind
the T20 format.
Mashrafe was brilliant with the
leather taking 13 wickets in 12 innings.
Spinner Nabil Samad made
some valuable contributions picking
up eight wickets in 10 innings.
But the experienced Mohammad
Sharif was disappointing as he
managed only two wickets in seven
matches.
Foreign players
Samuels was impressive with the
bat. The two-time World T20 champion
scored 334 runs in just eight
innings with a staggering average
of 66.80. Opener Shehzad also batted
well making 247 runs in eight
innings. But the chief disappointment
was Zaidi. Zaidi was Comilla’s
star performer last season.
But this year, the all-rounder
struggled to find his rhythm and
played only three matches. Another
disappointment for Comilla was
Wasim. The highly rated all-rounder
is regarded as one of the best T20
players in recent times. But Wasim
only played two matches bagging
as many wickets and scoring only
five runs.
Comilla’s best overseas player
with the ball was perhaps Afghanistan
leg-spinner Rashid Khan. The
leggie was magnificent throughout
the tournament. He took 13 wickets
in just eight matches at an economy
rate of 6.06. •
disorganised and struggled to find
their rhythm.
The Motijheel outfit defended
well in the opening half but the
Sky Blues went ahead six minutes
after resumption. Tuck scored his
10th goal in his debut season for
the Sky Blues when he netted from
the penalty spot after Mohammedan
goalkeeper Mohammad Nehal
fouled Jewel Rana inside the box.
In-form Sunday doubled the
lead in the 80th minute. Wahed
Ahmed played a brilliant through
pass forward for the Nigerian striker
who collected the ball nicely
inside the box, cut inside the custodian
before slotting home with
a precise angular effort from the
right side of the box.
It was Sunday’s 19th league
goal which is five more than anyone
else. The goal also marked the
league’s 280th goal this season.
Mohammedan pulled one back
moments before the final whistle
through a simple tap-in by Cameroonian
defender Pouemi Landry
but it was too little, too late.
The game concluded the
Gopalganj chapter in the topflight.
The fifth venue hosted six
matches of the 18th round. More
than 10,000 people gathered at the
stadium to watch the season’s final
Dhaka derby. •
Comilla Victorians captain Mashrafe bin Mortaza ponders what might have been
following yet another defeat
MD MANIK

CONMEBOL awards
Copa Sudamericana
to Chapecoense
• Reuters, Asuncion
South American soccer’s
governing body CONMEBOL
awarded the 2016 Copa Sudamericana
championship
to Brazil’s Chapecoense club
on Monday after most of the
team died in a plane crash in
Colombia last week.
Only six people survived
the crash en route to the final,
which killed 71 passengers and
crew, shocked football fans
worldwide, and plunged Brazil
into mourning.
Colombia’s Club Atletica
Nacional, which would have
played Chapecoense in the
biggest game in the club’s history,
asked for the trophy to be
awarded to the Brazilian team
to honor the victims, CONME-
BOL said in a statement.
CONMEBOL’s council decided
to honor that request
with all of the “sport and economic
prerogatives that entails,”
the statement said. Club
Atletico was also given a onetime
Fair Play award.
As Sudamericana champions,
Chapecoense will automatically
play Libertadores
champions Atletico Nacional
for the Recopa Sudamericana
As champions,
Chapecoense will
play Libertadores
champions
Atletico Nacional
for the Recopa
Sudamericana
next year
next year.
They will also get a guaranteed
spot in next year’s Copa
Libertadores, South America’s
equivalent of the Champions
League.
Family and friends donning
the team’s green and white
colors grieved over 50 caskets
flown to Chapeco for an openair
wake in the team’s stadium
on Saturday. Chapecoense
had ascended in a storybook
tale from the minor leagues
to reach the final of a major
South American tournament.
A BAe146 regional airliner
operated by Bolivian charter
company LAMIA had radioed
that it was running out of fuel
before smashing into a hillside
outside Medellin, Colombia.•
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Chennai Test in balance after politician’s death
• Reuters
India’s cricket board (BCCI) has not
made a decision on the fate of the final
Test match against England next
week, but is monitoring the situation
in Chennai following the death of Indian
politician Jayalalithaa Jayaraman
on Monday.
Jayalalithaa was chief minister of
southern India’s Tamil Nadu state, of
which Chennai is the capital.
The fifth Test in the current series
between India and England is scheduled
to be held at Chennai’s MA Chidambaram
Stadium from Dec. 16-20,
but local media reported that the BCCI
is considering switching venues.
“An unfortunate incident has taken
place in Chennai, but the BCCI is making
clear that no decision has been
taken regarding Chennai test,” BCCI
secretary Ajay Shirke told a news conference
yesterday.
India lead the five-match series 2-0
ahead of the fourth Test in Mumbai
starting tomorrow.•
The Energypac Victory Day Squash Tournament was inaugurated at
Navy and Gulshan Club last Sunday
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SCORECARD
AUSTRALIA R B
Warner c Williamson b G’homme 119 115
Finch b Santner 19 34
Smith c Santner b Southee 72 76
Head c Munro b Southee 57 32
M Marsh not out 76 40
Wade b Boult 11 5
Bailey not out 0 1
Extras (lb 11, w 10, nb 3) 24
Total (5 wickets; 50 overs) 378
Fall Of Wickets
1-68 (Finch), 2-213 (Warner), 3-248
(Smith), 4-319 (Head), 5-357 (Wade)
Bowling
Henry 10-0-91-0, Boult 10-0-80-1, Santner
10-0-47-1, Southee 10-0-63-2, De Grandhomme
9-0-74-1, Neesham 1-0-12-0
NEW ZEALAND R B
Guptill c Wade b Cummins 45 33
Latham c & b Hazlewood 4 12
Williamson c Warner b Cummins 81 80
Neesham c Starc b Hazlewood 74 83
Munro c M Marsh b Faulkner 11 12
De Grandhomme c Wade b Starc 12 14
Santner b Starc 2 5
Watling c Warner b Faulkner 17 22
Southee c Bailey b Cummins 2 4
Henry c Faulkner b Cummins 7 13
Boult not out 2 6
Extras (lb 1, w 4) 5
Total (all out; 47.2 overs) 262
Fall Of Wickets
1-40 (Latham), 2-52 (Guptill), 3-177
(Neesham), 4-191 (Munro), 5-229 (De
Grandhomme), 6-232 (Williamson), 7-236
(Santner), 8-243 (Southee), 9-254 (Henry),
10-262 (Watling)
Bowling
Starc 10-0-52-2, Hazlewood 9-1-42-2,
Cummins 10-0-41-4, Head 7-0-31-0,
Faulkner 8.2-0-69-2, M Marsh 3-0-26-0
Australia won by 116 runs
MoM: David Warner
United host
Reading, City
visit West Ham
• Reuters, London
Manchester United will begin
their FA Cup defence at home to
a Reading side managed by their
former defender Jaap Stam, while
their local rivals Manchester City
visit West Ham United in the third
round after the draw was made on
Monday.
Premier League leaders Chelsea
will host Notts County or Peterborough,
English champions Leicester
City will visit fellow top-flight side
Everton, while Liverpool welcome
Newport County or Plymouth Argyle
in ties to be played between
Jan. 6-9.
Arsenal, who like Manchester
United have won the famous old
trophy a record 12 times, travel to
Preston North End, while north
London rivals and eight-times winners
Tottenham Hotspur entertain
Aston Villa, who won the FA Cup
on seven occasions.
Seventh-tier Stourbridge United,
the lowest ranked team left in
the competition, face a rearranged
second-round tie at home to Northampton
Town on Dec. 13.•
Sport
Australia’s David Warner celebrates reaching his hundred during their second ODI
against New Zealand in Canberra yesterday
AFP
Warner sees Australia
past NZ to clinch series
• Reuters, Sydney
Dave Warner smashed a sixth oneday
international century of the
year to drive Australia to a convincing
116-run victory over New
Zealand as the hosts wrapped up
the series with a match to spare in
Canberra yesterday.
New Zealand captain Kane Williamson
won the toss under leaden
skies in the Australian capital and
made the decision to bowl on a Manuka
Oval track where batting first
has been an all but sure-fire path to
victory.
Australia duly piled on an imposing
378 for five with the Blacks
Caps only able to muster up 262 all
out in 47.2 overs in reply.
Warner hit 119 off 115 balls with
14 fours and one six, combining
with his captain Steve Smith,
whose 164 went a long way to winning
the series opener in Sydney on
Sunday, in a second-wicket partnership
of 145.
Smith made 72, Travis Head 57
and Mitchell Marsh 76 as Australia
plundered 126 from the last 10
overs.
“It was a fantastic wicket, it always
is down here at Manuka, and
we know that if you keep wickets in
hand you can take 100-150 runs off
the last 15,” Warner said.
Warner’s two centuries were
among the few highlights for Australia
in their 5-0 humiliation in
South Africa in October and six in
one year, with the third match of
the series in Melbourne to come, is
unprecedented for an Australian.
Only Indians Sachin Tendulkar
(nine in 1998) and Sourav Ganguly
(seven in 2000) have hit more centuries
in one year.
“It’s the format that I perhaps
thought wasn’t my greatest but this
year’s been fantastic and I’ve got to
keep going as well as I can,” Warner
added.
The opener secured his 10th
one-day century with a scrambled
single and it took a brilliant catch
from Williamson to dismiss him
after 2 1/2 hours at the crease, the
Black Caps skipper getting down
to take a full-powered shot inches
above the grass.
Williamson top-scored for the
visitors with 84 and put on 125 for
the third wicket with Jimmy Neesham
(74) but the writing was on the
wall once they had departed.
Australian quick Pat Cummins,
playing in his first international series
for a year, took 4-41.
The Australians, assured of retaining
their number one ranking
in the 50-over game, reclaimed
the Chappell-Hadlee trophy which
New Zealand had won on home soil
in February. •
Porto, Sevilla hunt final knockout berths
• AFP, Paris
While Real Madrid and Borussia
Dortmund grapple for top spot in
Group F, twice former winners Porto
and Sevilla look to clinch the two
remaining spots in the Champions
League last 16 today.
Portuguese giants Porto, European
champions in 1987 and 2004,
host Leicester City in their final
group stage match wary of FC Copenhagen
pipping them to second
in Group G.
Despite a woeful defence of
their Premier League crown,
Leicester are guaranteed to finish
top of their section in Europe and
avoid the likes of Barcelona and Atletico
Madrid in the next round.
And the Foxes could well decide
which team joins them in the
knockout phase with Copenhagen,
third in the group, trailing Porto by
two points ahead of a trip to pointless
Club Brugge.
Porto halted a run of five straight
draws courtesy of teenager Rui Pedro’s
95th-minute winner over Braga
at the weekend, ending a club record
run of 520 minutes without a goal.
Porto will secure their passage to
the last 16 with victory over Leicester,
but anything less will open the
door for Copenhagen, who have a
head-to-head advantage over the
Portuguese on away goals.
Copenhagen, unbeaten domestically
this term, stretched their
lead in Denmark to 11 points on
Saturday after securing an eighth
successive win with a 1-0 defeat of
Randers.
Three-time reigning Europa
League champions Sevilla are favourites
to advance alongside
Juventus in Group H, with Lyon
needing to beat the Spaniards by at
least two goals at Parc OL. •
FIXTURES
GROUP E
Leverkusen v Monaco
Tottenham v CSKA Moscow
GROUP F
Legia Warsaw v Sporting Lisbon
Real Madrid v Dortmund
GROUP G
Club Brugge v FC Copenhagen
FC Porto v Leicester City
GROUP H
Juventus v Dinamo Zagreb
Lyon v Sevilla
Real Madrid’s Portuguese superstar Cristiano Ronaldo attends a training session
at Valdebebas in Madrid yesterday
AFP

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CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Desert plant (6)
4 Seaman (3)
7 Suspension of fighting (5)
8 Tempt (6)
11 Offer (3)
12 Vegetables (4)
13 Honey drink (4)
15 Biblical quotations (5)
16 Airman (5)
20 Pace (4)
23 Of sound mind (4)
24 Extinct bird (3)
25 Dwellings (6)
26 Savoury meat-jelly (5)
27 Female deer (3)
28 Formal agreement (6)
DOWN
1 Moved furtively (5)
2 Scottish national
emblem (7)
3 Slender support (4)
4 Musical instrument (4)
5 Sour (4)
6 Colour (3)
9 Born (3)
10 Financial burden (3)
14 Serial part (7)
17 Boy (3)
18 United (3)
19 Irritable (5)
20 Tolerable (4)
21 Ribbon (4)
22 Agreement (4)
24 Insane (3)
CODE-CRACKER
How to solve: Each number in our
CODE-CRACKER grid represents a
different letter of the alphabet. For
example, today 12 represents N so fill N
every time the figure 12 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
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numbers 1 – 9. Every row, column and 3 x 3 box must
contain all nine digits with no number repeating.
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Showtime
Social buzz around celebs
Mithila receives Chancellor’s Gold Medal
• Showtime Desk
Rafiath Rashid Mithila is a well
known actor, model, anchor, and
singer. This multi-talented actor
is now celebrating her successful
educational journey as well.
Among the students of the
Master’s program, Mithila has
received the highest CGPA (4.00).
She has also secured the top
position in merit list to complete
her second masters on Early
Childhood Development from
BRAC University.
Mithila shared her happiness
on her social media profile by
posting a status, “Memories to be
cherished for life.”
Mithila is currently working at
Brac International as an education
programme manager.
Lyricist turns champion
Popular song writer Sheik
Rana, who has written many
famous songs like “Pori” by
Bappa Mazumder is now busy
with something else. He has
recently won a local badminton
tournament. It was like a selftreat
for Sheik Rana. He shared
his happiness on social media as
well. He even mentioned that,
this is not the first time he played
badminton. In his early age, he
used to pass his time playing
games like badminton and others,
in the High Court area of Dhaka.
Manush Foundation and Tusty
Actor, and dancer, Shamima
Tusty has been involved with a
social welfare organisation named
‘Manush Foundation,’ for a long
time. The goal of the foundation
is to spread happiness to the
unprivileged society across the
country. Manush Foundation is
collecting winter clothes for those
homeless children. Meanwhile,
members of Manush Foundation
along with Tusty met Russell
Ahmed Tuhin, son of honourable
President Abdul Hamid, to briefly
discuss about the issue. •
Meryl Streep movie ranked
Bindas Vaani
• Showtime Desk
• Showtime Desk
With 19 Academy Award
nominations and three wins,
critically-acclaimed movie credits,
and mother to talented daughters -
two actresses and a model - Meryl
Streep’s influence on the movie
industry is likely to outlive her.
With this in mind,
PrettyFamous, an entertainment
data site by Graphiq, ranked every
Meryl Streep movie from worst
to first. To do so, PrettyFamous
compiled a list of Streep’s movie
credits (whether her role was big
or small) and ranked each based on
its Smart Rating (documentaries
and TV movies weren’t included).
A Smart Rating is a score out of 100
that takes into account a movie’s
Rotten Tomatoes’ Tomatometer
and Audience Score, IMDb rating,
Metacritic Metascore, Gracenote
rating, and its inflation-adjusted
US box office gross.
Of course, with an almost 40-
year career and over 50 feature
films, there are bound to be some
that shine over others. Streep’s
penchant for movie musicals, for
example, including Mamma Mia!
and Into the Woods, were nowhere
near the Oscar-caliber work, she is
known for. However, the actress’s
versatility certainly is one of her
main strengths. •
Source: Collected
Vaani Kapoor is all set to make
her comeback, after making her
Bollywood debut with Maneesh
Sharma’s 2013 film Shuddh Desi
Romance, which also featured
Parineeti Chopra and Sushant
Singh Rajput.
The actress is hoping big with
her second Bollywood outing,
Befikre, which is directed by
Aditya Chopra and also stars
Ranveer Singh. The minute film’s
first look came out, it instantly
grabbed everyone’s attention and
became the talk of the town.
It was in 2013, when she
got noticed for her debut
performance in Shuddh Desi
Romance, but it took Vaani
Kapoor nearly three years to bag
another Hindi film, something
which did not bother her much.
Post her debut with the Yash Rajbacked
romantic-comedy, Vaani
featured in the Telugu remake of
Band Baaja Baarat, titled Aaha
Kalyanam in 2014.
Now with just few days to go
for her film’s release, the actress
broke her silence and finally
addressed the rumours. The
actress laughed off the rumours
about her getting a lip and chin
surgery by saying that she isn’t
rich enough to afford a surgery
as such. “I just can’t go through
such tiring process and the pain,”
said Vaani in an interview. Vaani
also said that her weight-loss
changed her body structure, as
it is supposed to. “I lose weight
so obviously my jaw and face
looks different now. My frame
looks different and I am sure
audiences will be able to reason
the change,” Vaani added. •

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Int Short and Independent Film Festival in full swing
by Joshua Oppenheimer, Denmark
Nonexistence Mon Amour by
Jaheen Faruque Amin, Bangladesh
Hands, an experimental film by
Ruhul Mahfuz Joy, Bangladesh
Dar, a fiction by
Mohammadalifami Tafreshi, Iran
Oh My Soul, a documentory by
Kivini Shohe
Auto Driver, a fiction by Meena
Longjam
• Showtime Desk
Three days has passed since
the inauguration of the 14th
International Short and
Independent Film Festival, and
the premises of this thriving
festival are crowded with alike,
film enthusiasts, and filmmakers.
Today, there will be screenings
of some notable films at different
venues in the capital. Here is an
excerpt of today’s schedule of the
festival:
Central Public Library
11:00am to 7:00pm
Two Rivers, a fiction by Melonie
Gartner from USA
Hipopotamy by Piotr Dumala
[Beijing Film Academy]
Cinema, a fiction by Mehrab Jahid,
Bangladesh
Path, a fiction by Md Abid Mallick,
Bangladesh
National Museun, Main
Auditorium
5:00pm to 7:00pm
Retrospective of Garin Nugroho
Bird-Man Tale and Of Love and
E gg s
3:00pm to 7:00pm
New Moon, a fiction by Andréa
Prado, Brazil
Captivity of Negativity , a fiction
by Sultan Hasan Mahmud,
Bangladesh
Heal the World by, a fiction Masum
Syed, Bangladesh at 3pm -7pm,
at National Museum (Poet Sufia
Kamal Auditorium)
Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy
3:00pm to 7:00pm
The Look of Silence, a documentary
Eat Snow, a fiction by Max
Hegewald, Germany
Bishwo Shahitto Kendro
3:00pm to 7:00pm
My Enemy My Brother, a
documentory by Ann Shin, Canada
International Short and
Independent Film Festival (ISIFF),
a Biennale film event, is taking
place since 1988. It is one of
the oldest festival of short films
organised independently in South
Asia. Bangladesh Short Film
Forum, the pioneer organisation
of independent Bangladeshi
filmmakers are organising this film
festival, with a vision to promote
the culture of independent and
alternative cinema across the
region. •
Jayalalithaa’s little known Bollywood stint
Jimmy Kimmel to host the
2017 Oscars
• Showtime Desk
• Showtime Desk
Apart from her charismatic
political career, the recently deceased
Tamil Nadu chief minister
J Jayalalithaa, reigned over an
enviable acting career in South
Indian cinema. However, what is
little known, is that the superstar
of south cinema featured in a few
Hindi films as well.
In the midst of her successful
movie career, Jayalalithaa starred
opposite Dharmendra in a 1968
Hindi movie, titled Izzat. The
film was directed by the popular
Tamil-Telugu director T Prakash
Rao, who had a distinction of
making several successful Hindi
films in the 1960s, with leading
ladies from the South. Rao’s
cultural comfort in transitioning
between Tamil and Hindi cinema
was the reason he was given
the responsibility of launching
Jayalalithaa in Bollywood.
In the film, she played an
ethnic girl who falls in love with a
rich boy. Remembering his co-star
after her sad demise, Dharmendra
said Jayalalithaa’s role in Izzat was
similar to that of Basanti (played
by Hema Malini) in Sholay (1975).
However, the former Tamil Nadu
chief minister used to stay quiet
on the sets when not acting.
Despite Rao’s track record of
delivering box-office successes,
Izzat failed to make money and
the movie sank without a trace.
However, many remember
Jayalalithaa’s graceful dancing
to Lata Mangeshkar’s “Jaagi re
badan mein jaala saiyyan tuney
kya kar dala” in the film.
Jayalalithaa first appeared as a
child-artist in Man Mauji (1962),
where she played the role of Lord
Krishna in a dance sequence.
Kishore Kumar and Sadhna
played the lead roles in the
film. She was a trained Kathak,
Mohiniattam, and Manipuri
dancer. •
Jimmy Kimmel, American
comedian and television host,
has been confirmed to host the
Academy Awards next February.
The host of the late-night
talk show Jimmy Kimmel Live,
confirmed the news himself
in a mid-day tweet. “Yes, I am
hosting the Oscars. This is not a
prank. And if it is, my revenge on
@TheAcademy will be terrible
and sweet,” he wrote.
Oscars producers Michael De
Luca and Jennifer Todd, revealed
the announcement of hiring
Jimmy Kimmel for the job of The
Hollywood Reporter who broke
the news.
“I grew up with a little
Johnny Carson as host, a lot
with Billy Crystal, I loved the
Ellen (DeGeneres) year and
Steve Martin,” De Luca told USA
TODAY in early November, prior
to Kimmel’s hiring. “I like funny
people who can riff and improve,
throw out one-liners based on the
evening’s events. But I think if
we had one word to describe how
we want people to feel during the
show, we want joy.”
Meanwhile, Jimmy Kimmel got
some mileage of out his new gig
as the Oscar host in the opening
monologue of Monday’s edition of
Jimmy Kimmel Live.
“A lot of things happened to
me over the last two weeks. I got a
tummy tuck. They still give those.
I had my eyes done and I think
they look great, right? I also went
to Dry Bar, I got an up-do. I had
my whole body done. I read online
today that in February – I will be
hosting the Oscars,” he said.
Kimmel also joked about
the extremely late timing of
the 89th Academy Awards host
announcement. He poked fun at
the fact that he was probably not
the first choice of Michael De Luca
and Jennifer Todd.
Though, this will be his first
time hosting the Oscars, Kimmel,
49, is no stranger to hosting duties,
having earned strong notices for
his work hosting the Emmys this
year. He also hosted the TV-centric
show in 2012, and past hosted the
American Music Awards. •

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Grameenphone to create videos of ‘71 stories
• Tribune Desk
Bangladesh’s telecommunication
giant Grameenphone has embarked
to create a digital video
repository of stories from 1971 Liberation
War, narrated by freedom
fighters.
The aim of the initiative is to
capture and spread stories of the
Liberation War in the voices of
freedom fighters themselves.
Grameenphone, with assistance
from Ministry of Liberation War
Affairs, has taken upon the task in
order to keep the inspiring tales of
1971 alive among generations that
are to come.
The initiative was announced
yesterday at a programme, held at
The Westin Hotel in Dhaka’s Gulshan
2.
Liberation War Affairs Minister
AKM Mozammel Huq was present
as the chief guest at the event. Liberation
War Affairs Secretary MA
Hannan, Grameenphone CEO Petter
B Furburg and CMO Yasir Azman
were also present at the programme
among other officials of
the mobile network operator and
the government.
Speaking at the programme,
AKM Mozammel Huq said: “We
received shelter, arms and training
from India but the ones who remained
in the country were most
vulnerable as they faced the military
attack.”
He said the verification of freedom
fighters will begin on January
7 throughout the country and after
its completion it would be posted
in the ministry’s website.
He also said historical places
related with the Liberation War
would be preserved keeping the
original architecture.
“We were also planning to initiate
such a project but many thanks
to Grameenphone for taking the initiative
to create this video library. I
hope others will also come forward
6 youths missing in a week
• Kamrul Hasan
Six youths went missing from the capital’s Banani
and Cantonment area over last one week.
Four general diaries (GD) had been filed
with Banani and Cantonment police stations
in this regard by families of four of them, police
told the Dhaka Tribune.
Safayet Hossain, 24, Zayen Hossain Khan
Pavel, 23, and Sobuj alias Sujon, 25, and Mehedi
Hasan, 27, went missing together from
Banani, where they lived, on December 1,
while Sayeed Anwar Khan, also a resident of
Banani, remained missing since Monday afternoon
and Imran Farhat, a resident of Cantonment
area, went missing on November 29.
Family members of Zayen and Mehedi filed
the GDs on December 4, where they mentioned
that Safayet and Sujon went missing
along with them.
Family of Anwar filed a GD in this regard
yesterday, while Imran’s family filed it recently.
Zayen, was an Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Department student at North South
Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Huq and organisers of ‘Ekattorer Kotha’ pose for a photo during the launching
of the Grameenphone initiative at The Westin Hotel in Gulshan 2, Dhaka yesterday
COURTESY
like Grameenphone to uphold the
spirit of Liberation War,” Mozammel
Huq added.
Through this initiative freedom
fighters will be located nationwide
with the help of the ministry and
a youth community deployed to
capture the stories. The intent is
to create a visual documentary of
each freedom fighter’s story on
their participation in the Liberation
War.
Grameenphone will compile the
University (NSU), who left the university to help
his father in his business in old part of Dhaka.
Sujon was working at a private firm in Banani,
while Mehedi was in search of jobs, his
uncle Mahbub Alam mentioned in the GD.
Sayeed was a student of a private university
and Imran was the first year student of CARE
Medical College Hospital in Mohammadpur.
Their families had not received any phone
calls demanding ransom, according to their GDs.
Officer-in-Charge (investigation) Waheduzzaman
of Banani police station said Safayet, Zayen
and Mehedi were last seen at Northern café
beside Northern University campus in Banani.
He said they had also checked whether
other law enforcing agencies had detained the
missing youths.
The local police also informed all law enforcing
agencies of the matter.
After the attack at Holey Artisan in Dhaka
this July, law enforcers found that a number
of youths went missing between December
2015 and January 2016, who were, later, found
involved in terrorism. •
collected stories from the battlegrounds
and the freedom fighters’
dreams of an independent nation
to create an online video repository.
Twenty teams will travel across
64 districts across the country to
collect stories directly from the
freedom fighters and interview
them through preselected questions.
People will also be able to
post information about a freedom
fighter they know on the website
(www.ekattorerkotha.com) which
will be launched in this regard.
The initiative titled “Ekattorer
Kotha” has started nationwide
from yesterday and will continue
for three months.
On March 26, Independence
Day, Grameenphone will hand over
the video repository with thousands
of interviews to the Ministry
of Liberation War Affairs. The
repository will be available online
and accessible to everyone.
Freedom fighter Lt Col (retd)
Quazi Sajjad Ali Zahir Bir Protik
said: “We were victorious but could
not write it properly. Repressed
people of the country are the real
hero of our country.”
The organisers noted that in
the 45 years since Bangladesh
became an independent nation,
the country has lost many brave
souls who fought valiantly to free
the country.
“As the number of the freedom
fighters decline with each passing
day, it is high time for us to record
their stories for the up and coming
generations. The initiative will
keep the stories alive, and instil the
spirit of the Liberation War in the
hearts of the future nation builders.
As a nation we are grateful to
the founding fathers of Bangladesh,
and if their stories go untold
it will be an immense loss for our
future generations as well as today’s
youngsters,” said Petter B
Furburg. •
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