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Voot restaurant decries hijacking of brand, logo

Desk Report

The owners of the Voot Restaurant, one of the most famous aristocratic restaurants in the city, yesterday protested the unlawful use of its brand name and logo by two other restaurants.

They demanded immediate government action against those restaurants.

Abir A Azad, Managing Director of the restaurant in Dhanmondhi area at a press conference blamed some restaurant owners for their 'illegal attempts to defame' his business credibility by establishing two restaurants in the same name and logo.

He alleged these two restaurants are cheating the food-lovers as they served 'unhygienic and low quality' foods.

''Considering the lack of entertainment facilities in the capital city, we started the Voot Restaurant many years ago despite our limited capacity.

We do not serve our valued customers only food but also try to entertain our customers through our various entertainment activities'', Azad, chief of the Foods and Moods Ltd, the owning company of the Voot restaurant claimed.

Thus we became very popular among the food lovers of Dhaka city, he further said.

But recently some greedy businessmen established two restaurants 'misusing' our brand name and logo, which has hampered our credibility to the customers, he accused.

Moshiur Rahman Apo, Director of the restaurant, which is famous for its hygienic and quality Thai, Chinese and Indian food items said if such illegal copying continues, we may be forced to shut down our restaurant.

To encourage the young entrepreneurs of the country, the government should take legal measures against these type of dishonest traders.

Enamul Karim Nirjhar, an architect and filmmaker, who also works as an adviser to the Voot restaurant, urged all to launch movement against piracy in the different sector of the country.

One killed in road accident

Staff Reporter

One killed and five others were injured when a minibus plunged into a roadside ditch at Basila in the city's Mohammadpur area yesterday morning.

Police said a bus fell into a roadside ditch at the cross-dam at about 10:30am, as the driver lost control over the steering, killing its passenger Shahadat Hossain, 32, son of Abul Kalam Azad, on the spot and injuring five others.

Soon after the accident, local people hurried in and admitted the injured to Dhaka Medical College Hospital.

Later, police recovered the body of Shahadat and sent it to the DMCH morgue for autopsy.

A case was filed with Mohammadpur police station.

Plea to allow hapless candidates to appear in HSC exam

Staff Reporter

A number of guardians at a press conference in the city alleged that the Dhaka Board did not allow their wards a chance to fill up forms for the final HSC examination violating the order of the Education Ministry.

The press conference held at Dhaka Reporters Unity yesterday was attended by a number of students of several reputed colleges who were disallowed in the test examination.

The guardians pointed out that the Education Ministry in a circular on February 14 this year permitted candidates, disallowed in the test, to appear in the Finals of the public examination and declared the rule of October 10, 2003 null and void.

They also claimed that their sons and daughters, who were very talented, would pass in the examination should they be given a chance to appear.

They requested the Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board of Dhaka to abide by the rules of the Education Ministry and allow these hapless HSC candidates to appear in the examination.

Tribute paid to Begum Rokeya

Former Adviser to Caretaker Government, Sultana Kamal yesterday said, "Begum Rokeya worked for the awakening of the entire nation not only for the emancipation of women in the society." She was addressing a discussion session on " Role of Begum Rokeya in the awakening of women" organised by "Weekly North Bengal Express" at the national Press Club in Dhaka.

Sultana Kamal said, "It's sad when I see Begum Rokeya is treated only as the symbol for renaissance of Muslim women. We have to remember she worked for all womenfolk and especially for the downtrodden Muslim women since they were more backward."

"Begum Rokeya worked for brotherhood, peace, harmony, family relations and even living in the remote areas she talked about solar energy about 100 years ago which still is unknown to many."

SM Bari, Editor Weekly North Bengal Express, presided over the meeting that was addressed by Gias Kamal Chowdhury, Editor, Khabar Patra, Mostafa Kamal Majumder, Editor, The New Nation, Obaidul Qader Chowdhury, ED, Alap Communication, Dil Afroz Chowdhury, Women Watch, Bangladesh and Moniruzzaman Bhuyia, Child Specialist of Holy Family Red Crescent Hospital.

Weekly North Bengal honoured a number of high achievers in different fields. They included Gias Kamal Chowdhury and famous filmmaker Subhas Dutta.