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TUESDAY, JUNE 20, 2017
DT
News
Lightning strikes kill 15 in a day
• Tribune Desk
NATION
At least 11 people, including children
and women, were killed in
separate lightning strikes across
the country yesterday.
Our Faridpur correspondent reported
that five people, including a
mother and her son were killed by
lightning strikes in different areas
of the district.
According to police sources, Helena
Begum and her son Helal were
killed by lightning strikes in Saltha.
Omor Ali, hailed from Natore,
died in lightning strikes while
working at Kabirpur village in Sadar
upazila.
Day labourer Kabul was killed
in lightning strikes while working
at Samir Beparu Dangi area in Char
Bhadrasan in the morning.
In Boalmari upazila, an imam
Auwal Fakir, 40, and a devotee
Faruq Molla, 35, died in a lightning
strike.
According to reports of Manikganj
correspondent, two minor
boys were killed by lightning
strikes in Shibalay upazila.
The deceased were Alam, 6, son
of Awlad Hossain, a resident in No
5 Jetty Ghat area and Ruhul Sheikh,
son of a day labourer Awlad Hossain.
Local UP chairman Jammat Ali
said lightning struck Ruhul while
he was returning home picking up
some fruits from nearby garden. He
died on the spot.
Alam died in lightning strikes
while he was picking fruits at a garden
near his house around 11am.
In Magura, two farmers were
killed in different thunderbolt incidents
at Naliadangi and Moghi village
in Sadar upazila of the district,
No charge for rice import LC now
• Shariful Islam
BUSINESS
SYED ZAKIR HOSSAIN
said our correspondent.
The deceased were Kalam
Biswas, 48, of Naliadangi village
and Asad Sheikh, 50, of Moghi village
of the upazila.
Lightning struck Kalam Biswas
while he was working at his vegetable
field in Naliadangi village, leaving
him critically injured.
He was sent to Sadar hospital
where he succumbed to his injuries.
In another incident, a lightning
hit farmer Asad Sheikh in the afternoon
while he was working at
The central bank has issued a directive
on opening Letter of Credit
(LC) for rice import with a zero balance
in the importers’ accounts.
The directive came yesterday in
the form of a circular aimed at all
managing directors and CEOs of
commercial banks.
The notice stated that due to
recent flood in haor areas, heavy
rainfall and natural disaster across
a crop field in the village of Moghi.
Later Asad was sent to the Sadar
hospital where on-duty doctor declared
him dead.
Officer-in-charge of Sadar police
station Hossain Al mahabub confirmed
the incidents.
A youth was killed while lightning
struck him at Doulatpur
upazila of Kushtia around 11am,
reported our correspondent.
The deceased was Badsha, 17,
son of Abdur Razzaque of Thakurpara
village.
Locals said Badsha came under
of lightning strike while he was
cutting grass in the field nearby of
his house. He died on the spot.
Noakhali correspondent said a
man was killed by lightning strike
at Munshir Taluk village under Sadar
upazila of the district.
The victim was Azad, 40, son of
Abdul Malek of the village.
Officer-in-charge of Sudharam
Model police station Anwer Hossain
said lightning struck Azad while
he was working at his poultry farm
around 7.45am adjacent to his home,
leaving Azad dead on the spot.
According to Joypurhat correspondent’s
reports, a woman was
killed in Panchbibi upazila of the
district as lightning struck her in
the morning.
The deceased was Ratna Begum
of Bebokhanda village in the upazila.
Ashraful Islam, officer-in-charge
of Panchbibi police station, said
Ratna became critically injured
in lightning strike while she was
working in the yard of her house.
Later, she was sent to Joypurhat
Hospital where doctor declared her
dead.
In Bagerhat, an farmer named
Kustu Mallik was killed while another
one Sattar Sheikh, 60, injured in
the sadar upazila the afternoon. •
Rice millers as well as dealers had to pay their
loan within 30 days after they took the credit
the country, rice market turned
unstable, shooting up the price of
staple food.
“In the circumstances, LC margin
has been reduced to zero based
on bankers-clients relations to facilitate
rice import.”
General Manager (Banking Regulations
and Policy Department)
of Bangladesh Bank said as per the
BRPD circular issued on December 2,
2003, the LC margin ranged from 0
to 100, which has been replaced with
the new margin that will remain effective
till December 31 this year.
Charge framing in
Banani rape case
on July 9
• Md Sanaul Islam Tipu
COURTS
A Dhaka has fixed July 9 for framing
the charges against five accused
in the Banani rape case.
Dhaka’s Women and Children
Repression Prevention Tribunal
2 Judge Md Saiful Azam fixed the
date after taking the charge sheet
into cognisance yesterday morning.
The court also rejected the bail
petitions of the accused and sent
them to jail.
According to the case, the two
plaintiffs were raped on March
28 at The Raintree Hotel and filed
a case on May 6 with Banani police
against Shafat Ahmed, Nayem
Ashraf, Shadman Sakif, Shafaat’s
driver Billal Hossain and bodyguard
Rahmat Ali. •
Met office: Monsoon
rain to continue for
3-4 days
• Abu Siddique
WEATHER
Monsoon has engulfed Bangladesh
and remains moderate over the
North Bay, the pouring rains will
continue for the next three to four
days, says Met office.
The Met office said: “Trough of
low lies over West Bengal and adjoining
Bangladesh which extends
up to North Bay.”
Meteorologist Mohammad Abdul
Mannan forecasts light to moderate
rain is likely to occur at most
places over Dhaka, Mymensingh
and Rangpur regions.
Heavy rains projected for Chittagong,
Khulna, Barisal and Sylhet. •
The circular also asked all
the banks to strictly follow the
previously issued circular on
advance loan payment by the rice
traders.
Rice millers as well as dealers
had to pay their loan within 30
days after they took the credit.
In another circular, the central
bank also directed all commercial
banks to provide money and relief
for those affected by recent landslides
in Chittagong Hill Tracts.
The recent heavy rain in the regions
caused the landslides, leaving
over 100 people dead.
The circular stressed that the
banks give necessary support to
the victims as part of their CSR
activities and incorporate their expenditure
into the subsections of
social and community investment
projects. •