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Indian cricket team in city
Indian national cricket team arrived here on Sunday morning to play the Kitply Cup tri-nation cricket tournament. Banglar Chokh UNB, Dhaka Indian national cricket team, led by Mahendra Singh Dhoni, arrived here on Sunday morning to play the Kitply Cup tri-nation cricket tournament. In the eight-day tournament, India will play the 1st match against old foe Pakistan on Tuesday (June 10) and the 2nd against hosts Bangladesh on Thursday (June 12), both at the SBNS. After the single league matches, the top two teams will play in the final slated for June 14, also at the same venue. All the matches will be played on day-night schedules. Talking to reporters at the Zia International Airport, Indian left-hand batsman Suresh Raina expressed his optimism about doing well in the tournament. "The tournament is very important for us and we have a very good young side having some world class batsmen. Hopefully, we'll do well in the tournament," said Raina. He said that Bangladesh is a very good and beatable side. They have also some talented players like Mohammad Ashraful. Hopefully, the match against Bangladesh will be an exciting one. Asked to comment about Pakistan, he Indian batsman said that Pakistan is a very strong team having some good batsmen like Mohammad Yousaf and Younus Khan. "But we also have some world class batsmen and we hope the match against Pakistan will be a competitive one." In the absence of pacers Shoaib Akhter and Mohammad Asif in Pakistan team, Raina said, "It's no matter for Pakistan as they have more good bowlers like Umar Gul, Sohail Tanvir and Shahid Afridi." "We played against all the three bowlers in the recently concluded Indian Premier Leaguer (IPL) and we know very well about them," Raina told to a questioner. Meanwhile, pacer M Gani has been included in the 15 member Indian squad in place of pacer Shanthakumaran Sreesanth who is suffering from an injury. After passing the day in rest, the Indians will have indoor, net and fielding practices on (Monday) from 9 am to 12 pm at the SBNS. India squad: Mahendra Singh Dhoni (captain), Yuvraj Singh, Virendra Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, Rohit Sharma, Irfan Pathan, Robin Uttappa, Suresh Raina, M Gani, Yousuf Pathan, Ishant Sharma, Pravin Kumar, RP Singh, Piyush Chawla and Pragyan Ojha. Clinical wastes pose threat to public health in Ctg Chittagong Correspondent Indiscriminate dumping of clinical wastes has not only making the environment unfit for the people, but also appearing as a threat to the public health safety here in the port city. Health experts feared that outbreak of infectious disease among the citizens might happen at any time out of the carelessly dumped clinical wastes produced at the hospitals, clinics, diagnosis centers and pathological laboratories. More than 400 hospitals and clinics of public and private origin are now operating in the port city. The un-incinerated pathological wastes may cause bacteria and virus infections including Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), Hepatitis-B and C, tuberculosis and so on. Neither the hospital management, nor the overseers of the health delivery systems has yet to design comprehensive policy for dumping of clinical waste and setting up incinerator at the hospital premises. Sources alleged that, the mushrooming of unauthorized clinical laboratories apart from the public hospitals and health delivery units around Chittagong Medical College Hospital, Chawk Bazaar, Jamal Khan, Chatteswari Road, Gol Pahar, Mehedibag, Baizid Bostami Road, Halisahar, Sheikh Mujib Road, Oxyzen, Surson Road, Momin Road, Chandgaon, Muradpur and some other areas had mainly been responsible for the hazards. Majority of the pathological and diagnosis laboratories are reportedly operating the business defying the Private Clinic and Laboratory Act 1982. Sources at the civil surgeon's office claimed that only 10 percent of the existing clinical laboratories had required approval. According to informed sources the clinics and laboratories are putting a good number of bags of intravenous and intramuscularly fluids, broken ampoules, body fluids, syringes, blood, bandages, sews as waste everyday. Apart from this, chemicals, tested pathological waste, sharp abandoned equipment used for diagnosis and surgery and abandoned human organs are also among the clinical trash. Sources said, that about two metric tons of pathological wastes were produce a day. A recent field survey revealed that nearly 90 percent of the hospital waste had been dumped into the roadside trash in an unhygienic way. The field study says 25 percent of the total dumps is Goss, 20 percent is cotton, 35 percent is damaged foods, used syringe, 10 percent is abandoned bottle and other medical tools and the rest 15 percent is the wastes of other forms. Approximately, 60 percent of the patients are careless of the toxic clinical wastes while nearly 35 percent people are really worried of their environment and the ultimate health status. Interestingly enough, most of the healthcare delivery units of both public and private sectors are also careless of the issue. The callousness of the health workers, organized groups are out to collect used syringe, empty blood-bags or containers of different intravenous and intramuscularly fluids and other medical tools for recycling. A clinical waste management expert at Chittagong University (CU) said that the medical wastes had always been different than the other forms of wastes and dangerous as well. "The clinical waste can be a threat to the public health as those are absorbed in the subsoil water, soil and air," the expert feared. Brick wall discovery points to ancient university in Bogra Staff Reporter A brick wall discovered beneath the 1,500-year-old Vasu Bihar in northern part of the country Bogra indicates the possibility of a university campus, said an archaeological expert. "We think a university campus lies buried there. Maybe the Pala dynasty built the Vasu Bihar on the structure knowingly or unknowingly," said Nahid Sultana, leader of a Government archaeological excavation team. She called the discovery "a major breakthrough", but that much work needed to be done. She complained of lack of funds that led to the project being wrapped up in January. The wall built on a concrete floor and doorway to a room date back to pre-Pala era. The team, which began its digging November 23 last year, found a 12.70 to 15.24cm floor three to four metres beneath three rooms of Vasu Bihar. Despite fund constraints, archaeologists have undertaken excavation work in Bogra, Dinajpur, Sirajganj and other areas in northern part of the country, and have come up with discoveries that link the region to historical sites and monuments at Nalanda, Bihar in India. During a three-year archaeological dig that started 1973 to 1974, some 30 cells, a hall and other brick-built structures were found alongwith a number of artefacts including 40 bronze statues belonging to 10 to 11 AD, said Sultana, who is also custodian of the Rabindra Memorial Museum in Shahjadpur in Sirajganj. "This time, we have found bricks and concrete floors under three cells which are 10 to 14 feet long and 9 to 10 feet wide," she said. Almost all the brick structures are still intact, the first known case in Bangladesh, she added. "If the Vasu Bihar and Bihar Dhap, divided by a one-km road and cultivable land, could be excavated and studied properly, the patterns of a university complex could be found," Sultana said. Chinese pilgrim Hiuen Tsang had seen 700 monks and religious educational institutions including temples at the site during his South Asia visit in 639-645 AD, according to the historical documents. Khaleda to be freed thru’ movement: Delwar UNB, Dhaka BNP secretary general Khandker Delwar Hosain today vowed to set free chairperson Khalda Zia and form government of the people through relentless movement. He called upon the party workers to keep ready for any sacrifice to secure release of Khaleda and restoration of democracy in the country. "We shall secure her release and again form government of the people," he declared. Delwar was speaking to a group of diploma engineers supporting BNP who met him at his NAM residence late in the evening. He said Khaleda would not leave the country in any adverse situation. But he wanted Khaleda's sons Tarique Rahman and Arafat Rahman Koko who are ailing under detention should be allowed to go abroad for treatment. He said the socio-economic crises prevailing in the country has been created under a blue print. 1/11 was a creation under the heinous plan to take the nation backward. "The external force was involved in the plan against the country." He expressed doubts that free and fair election would be held under the present caretaker government. Delwar said the workers and leaders of BNP are totally behind Khaleda for realization of the dreams of Shaheed President Ziaur Rahman. He called for rocklike unity in the party to make the movement a success. 10 militants held in Chuadanga BSS, Chuadanga Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested 10 alleged militants from different places of Sadar Upazila in the district on Saturday. RAB sources said, being informed that a group of militants were holding a secret meeting at Dingedh Government Fish Farm under sadar upazila, a team of the elite force raided the place and arrested six alleged militants from there at around 8.30 PM on Saturday. Following their confession four other militants were also arrested from different places of Chuadanga town. The arrested acknowledged that they are the members of outlawed 'Allahar Dal' led by Matin Mehedi of Gaibandha district, who is now under police custody. The arrested were identified as Ziaur Rahman Sujan of Radhanagar, Pabna, Omar Ali of Magura district, Enayetullah Prince, Shahin Iqbal Suman, Palash, Ariful Islam Arif, Suman all of Chuadanga sadar upazila, Sukur Ali, Rashedul and Kamol Mandol all of Alamdanga upazila of the district. They were handed over to Chuadanga Sadar Thana police. Left leaders blame CG, EC for violating Constitution Staff Reporter Top leaders of the left-leaning political parties yesterday claimed that both the Caretaker Government and the Election Commission have violated the Constitution by announcing the programme to hold local body polls before the parliamentary elections. Speaking at a roundtable discussion in the capital yesterday, they said the Caretaker Government is constitutionally mandated only to hold general elections, while the Election Commission has no rights to get involved in enacting laws. "Both the Government and the Election Commission have crossed their constitutional boundaries," Workers Party (WP) President Rashed Khan Menon said, while delivering his presidential speech at the roundtable organised by his party at Shaheed Asad Auditorium at Topkhana Road. "The Government finalised the Local Government Elections Law after twice seeking opinion from the Election Commission, which had never been involved in law making process in this country," said Menon, who himself led two WP delegations during the talks with the Election Commission (EC) and requested the national polls body to reform the electoral laws. Menon, also a veteran parliamentarian, however, would not explain as to whether the EC was constitutionally mandated to reform the electoral laws or not. CPB General Secretary Mujahidul Islam Selim alleged that the Government was trying to hold local body polls before the general elections, for what he said, as its "game-plan". The CPB leader did not elaborate. Influential Awami League Presidium member Abdur Razzak opined that local government election before the national election would hinder the polls roadmap. He said local government election before national poll would enhance bureaucratic control over the elected bodies, as there would be no political supervision. UP Chairmen Oikya Jote leader Mahbubur Rahman Tulu, Teachers' Association President Principal Kazi Farooq, NAP (M) leader MA Gani and Khet Majoor Samity General Secretary Prof Abdus Sattar, among others, took part in the discussion. Russian importers keen to buy shrimp BSS, Dhaka Russia has shown keen interest to import more shrimps from Bangladesh. The interest was shown by Russian Deputy Minister for Agriculture Vladimir Izmailov while inaugurating the fifth International Exhibition of Seafood Russia-2008 in Crocus Expo Moscow, Russia, from June 4-6. Vladimir visited Bangladesh pavilion at the three-day fair and expressed his eagerness to import shrimps from Bangladeshi. He urged the Bangladesh exporters to comply with the Food Regulations of the Russian Veterinary Department. Russian buyers have been importing Bangladesh shrimps significantly since 2006 and the export volume has now stood at 20 million US dollars. Bangladesh participated in the exhibition in association with Russia Export Promotion Bureau and Bangladesh Frozen Food Exporters Association. A total of 13 Bangladeshi frozen food exporting companies (BFFEA) participated in the fair, said a message received here from Moscow yesterday. The BFFEA participants expressed satisfaction over their joining the fair for the first time as they observed growing demand for Bangladeshi shrimps in the Russian markets. They termed Bangladesh's participation to the Seafood Russia- 2008 fair as a break of access in the Russian market. The exporters expected that the export volume would be doubled in the current financial year, the message said. The BFFEA leaders along with the Commercial Counselor of Bangladesh Embassy Moscow had a fruitful meeting with the Russian Federation Chamber of Commerce and Industry (RFCCI) and leading Seafood businessmen on June 5. During the meeting, the impediments on way to shrimp exports to Russia including registration with Russian Veterinary Department, banking facilities for operational letter of credits and visa issuance to Bangladeshi businessmen, were discussed. The Russian authority assured that the problems would be looked into on priority basis. Violence-free education campus emphasised Staff Reporter Speakers at a discussion yesterday called for the unity of all sections of people to raise strong voice against violence on educational campus and also against those who abet and derail young generation. They were speaking at the sixth death anniversary of Sabakun Nahar Sony, a student of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), who was killed on January 8, 2002 in a cross fire between two rival groups of students on the BUET Campus. Sony Memorial Foundation and Bangladesh Student Forum jointly organised the discussion at the city's Institution of Engineers. Chairman of the foundation eminent lawyer Dr Kamal Hossain presided over the discussion. Former adviser to the caretaker government ASM Shahjahan, Jotirindra Bodipriya Larma (Santu Larma), former Vice-Chancellor of Jahangirnagar University Prof Zillur Rahman Siddiqi, Scientist Dr Abed Chowdhury, Barris Rabeya Chowdhury, human-right activist Shirin Aktar, politicians Abdur Rauf and Pankaj Bhuttacharjya, president of Bangladesh Student Forum Bijoy Shankor Ray, parents of Sony Habibur Rahman Bhuiyan and Dilara Rahman addressed the discussion. Dr Kamal Hossain said students of the Dhaka University had immense contribution in the Language Movement and Liberation War, but now some of them have slipped away from the right path and become criminals after falling into the trap of terrorists. Terming the students precious assets of the country, Dr Kamal said we have to resist the elements who are responsible for campus violence and misleading the students. Santu Larma said only violence free state system can rid the campus of violence. ASM Shahjahan said the young generation must stand against the campus violence. He also pleaded for imbibing the young generation with ethical sense and said, " What is morally wrong can not be right politically". Dilara Rahman, mother of Sony, urged the government to frame law banning politics on the campus. She said the soul of Sony will rest in peace as soon as the educational campus will be made free of violence. He said Sony was killed human heinous saying that the patrons of the killers of Sony would have to find out. Father of Sony urged to observe the day nationally from the next year to free the campus from violence. Sabekun Nahar Sony was killed in crossfire of two rivalry factions of BNP student wing Jatiytabadi Chhatra Dal at Palashi Crossing on January 08, 2002. Fund for disabled students stressed BSS, Dhaka Special Assistant to the Chief Adviser for Social Welfare and Post and Telecommunication Brig. General (Retd) MA Malek on Sunday urged the wealthy people and private organisations to come forward for creating funds to provide the disabled students with stipends. He said, according to a recent survey, there are about 50,500 disabled students in the country and only one fourth of this number were brought under the government education stipend programme. He was speaking as the chief guest at a stipend distributing ceremony at the auditorium of the Department of Social Welfare (DSW) organized by the DSW. Director General of the Social Welfare Department Dr Kamal Abdul Naser Chowdhury presided over the function. Among others, director of the Department (Operation) MA Mannan, Managing Director of the National Disabled Development Foundation Mansur Ahmed Chowdhury and president of the National Disabled Forum Khandaker Jahurul Alam spoke. MA Malek said it is difficult for the government alone to ensure education of the disabled. All stakeholders of the society should come forward for arranging funds for disabled students, he added. The present caretaker government has formally started stipend programme for the disabled students in 2007-08 fiscal and under this a total of Taka 5 crore would be distributed among 12,209 disabled students. A total of Taka 4,26,300 was distributed today among 208 disabled students in 64 institutions in the city. Of this amount, Taka 3,20,400 was distributed among 178 primary level students each receiving Taka 300 per month, Taka 56,700 among 21 secondary level students each receiving Taka 450 per month, Taka 7,200 among two higher secondary level students each receiving Taka 600 per month and Taka 42,000 among seven higher level students each receiving Taka 1,000 per month. Citizens charter for textiles, jute ministries BSS, Dhaka A citizens charter has been prepared for the Ministry of Textiles and Jute aiming at bringing dynamism and improving standard of its work. The ministry is working for development of the foreign currency earner and environment-friendly textiles sector to compete in the world market, said an official handout yesterday. Activities of the ministry include preparing policies on textiles and jute, keeping contact with international organisations and other countries for technical cooperation, maintaining quality control of textiles and jute goods, providing encouragement for research for their developments, and license for jute traders and exporters, taking up all activities regarding expansion of the industries of silk, handloom and multipurpose uses of jute goods. Besides, encouragement of foreign investment and modernisation of the machineries of textiles and jute industries are among the aims of the two ministries, the release said. Every work of the ministry at present is being carried out under four sub-sections and nine sections. The citizens charter provides description of their work and services, and time limit for providing services for individuals and organisations. It is hoped that the citizens charter would be specially helpful to ensure rights of the citizens. All information related to the citizens charter would be available in the website of the ministry www.motj.gov.bd, the release added. 3 powerful bombs recovered from Jhenidah UNB, Jhenidah Three powerful bombs were recovered at Mathpara village in Shailakupa upazila on Sunday. Acting on a tip-off, a Rab team of the district recovered the bombs and two knives wrapped in a polythene bag at about 2:30pm. The bombs and knives were taken to Shailakupa thana. Khaleda's aide Dr Firoz jailed for 5 years in corruption case UNB, Dhaka A special court Sunday again sentenced ex-prime minister Khaleda Zia's assignment officer Dr Firoz Mahmud Iqbal to five years' rigorous imprisonment in a graft case. Passing the sentence Judge M Ashraf Hossain also fined the fugitive convict to pay Tk 36.05 lakh or serve one year more in jail. Trying in absentia, the court found Firoz guilty of availing government transport for personal use by "abusing his official power" in the name of Prime Minister's office. Earlier on May 13, another special court dealing with corruption cases in the interim period sentenced Firoz to 10 years' imprisonment for amassing wealth illegally. The court had also sentenced his wife Imtiaz Begum, who is also on the run, to three years' imprisonment for abetting him in accumulating wealth illegally. An Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) source said Firoz, who faces a number of cases in the changed situation, had become one of the most controversial figures during the rule of the BNP-led coalition by influencing postings and transfers of government officials and employees, including police officials. Thus he "accumulated huge wealth". ACC Public Prosecutor AFM Golam Fattah conducted the case. RMG workers stage demonstration against owner Staff Reporter At least four hundred garments workers of spotax cotton pvt Ltd were demonstrate in font of the Topkhana Garments workers Federation yesterday. Source said the owner of spotax cotton Pvt Ltd Rajaul Karim and their accomplices was rampages to the worker, at the time at least 20 workers was injured. One of the members of the worker said they were demand to paid to their salaries, in time some terrorist was a rampage over them. They demand to immediate paid their salaries and arrested to the terrorist in this connection. They want filled a case against owner of the Garments in this connection. Road Show now in Rajshahi BSS, Rajshahi The Road show with the main slogan 'Let us build Bangladesh', is now here on its fifth day yesterday with five agenda to rejuvenate all people to boost production and fight out corruption. Mayor-in-charge of Rajshahi Rejaun Nabi Dudu and Deputy Commissioner Ibrahim Khalil along with other officials and a large number of people welcomed the caravan of the Road Show at Talaimari point. Later, participants of the Road Show paraded various city streets touching Alupatty, Shaheb Bazar, C&B Crossing and Luxmipur and finally assembled at the historic Madrasha Maidan to join a day-long fair and cultural function. The District Administration arranged a motor show today on the occasion. The main slogans inscribed on the caravan's vehicles include: raise awareness to promote potato as the main alternative food, sensitize people for free and fair election and honest leadership at all levels for the country's better future, raise consciousness against corruption and terrorism, eradicate unemployment and inspire people to use latest ICT and mobile services. The Road Show, started from Panchagarh on June 2 last, will travel to 50 more districts including the divisional cities over the next 47 days.
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