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FF ‘beaten to death’by railway policeA freedom � ghter has died, allegedly after railway police beat him at the Jamalpur Railway Station. Eight police o� cers have been suspended over the incident. PAGE 32

US o� ers full supportto end militancyUS special envoy Nisha Desai after a meeting with the home minister told media that the US will share intelligence and information in combating terrorism. PAGE 3

Housewife tied to tree, torturedfor dowryA housewife was tortured by her husband and in-laws for a dowry at Falia village in Sadar upazila of Gaib-andha on Saturday. PAGE 6

Muhith rubbishes Moody’s warningsAMA Muhith has rejected predictions from the global credit-rating agency Moody’s that the Gulshan terror attack will have a long term a� ect on Bangladesh’s economy. PAGE 5

Theresa May to replace David Cameron Wednesday

n Reuters, London

Interior Minister Theresa May is set to become Britain’s prime minis-ter on Wednesday with the task of steering its withdrawal from the European Union after her only rival abruptly pulled out.

May, 59, will succeed David Cameron, who announced he was stepping down after Britons unex-pectedly voted last month to quit the EU. Britain’s planned with-drawal has weakened the 28-na-tion bloc, created huge uncer-tainty over trade and investment,

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Suspect in Panchagarh murder involved in Sholakia attack n Sazzadur Rahman Sazzad,

Panchagarh and Tafsilul Aziz, Kishoreganj

Sha� ul Alam, 20, who was arrested for his alleged involvement in a ter-ror attack in Sholakia, Kishoreganj, is also one of the 10 suspects in the murder of Hindu priest Joggeshwar Roy in Panchagarh, police said.

Panchagarh Superintendent of Police Md Giasuddin Ahmed con-� rmed the matter to the Dhaka Tribune yesterday.

He is the last on the list of sus-pects mentioned on the charge sheet in the murder case, which was submitted to a Panchagarh court on Sunday, said Md Aiyub Ali, OC at Debiganj police station in Panchagarh and the investigation o� cer of Joggeshwar murder.

Sha� ul, who also goes by the names of Don and Sohan and is from Debiganj, is a suspect in an-other case � led under the Firearms and Explosives Act in connection with the murder, according to po-lice.

In addition, Rapid Action Bat-talion (RAB) has information that Sha� ul has been involved in at least four murders in the northern part of the country since October last year, RAB Director General Be-nazir Ahmed told the Dhaka Trib-une yesterday evening.

Sha� ul and six others were detained after terrorists hurled bombs at police in front of a check point near Sholakia Eid ground –

the largest Eid congregation in Bangladesh – leading to a gun� ght between them and law enforcers on Thursday, the day of Eid-ul-Fitr.

Two police constables and a woman was killed in the attack, as well as a militant suspect later identi� ed as Abir Rahman, a Dha-ka native who went missing nearly eight months ago and is believed to be a part of the attack.

Police said Sha� ul and another suspect, Zahidul, were shown ar-rested in a case � led regarding the attack, while the � ve others had been released after interrogation.

Joggeshwar, 50, was slaugh-

tered by militants right in front of his house beside Sonto Gourio temple, where he was a priest, in Debiganj on February 21 this year. Sha� ul was one of the three assail-ants who actively took part in the murder.

Police submitted the charge sheet regarding the murder case to a Panchagarh court on Sunday, but the court has not yet � xed a date for the hearing of the charges,

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‘Attackers given training in Gaibandha’n Arifur Rahman Rabbi and

Kamrul Hasan

The attackers of the Gulshan and Sholakia incidents were trained somewhere in Gobindaganj of Gai-bandha before they carried out the attacks, said a RAB high o� cial in-volved in the shadow investigation into the cases.

The source said they were yet to ascertain the number of the trainees there. He, however, said two per-sons trained them and one rented a room to facilitate their training.

Another person seemed to have given them instructions, the source said.

Asked about the matter, RAB In-telligence Wing Director Abul Kal-am Azad yesterday told the Dhaka Tribune that they had received in-formation on the training and they were verifying it.

Meanwhile, Dhaka Metropolitan Police sources said investigators were closely analysing the CCTV footage of Gulshan cafe attack col-lected from adjacent buildings.

As there were very few CCTV cameras installed on the streets, investigators were yet to con� rm the entry route of the attackers to the diplomatic zone.

They are also working to � gure out the exits of several suspects who were believed to have assisted the attackers from outside.

Mohammad Saiful Islam, acting deputy commissioner of DMP’s Counter-Terrorism and Transna-tional Crime Unit, said police had

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Theresa May REUTERS

Police in action after Sholakia terror attack FILE PHOTO

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‘Attackers’collected some 50 pieces of CCTV camera footage from the area around the Holey Artisan Bakery.

They are analysing the CCTV footage to � nd out the new leads in the case. Anything speci� c could not be said until the end of the in-vestigation, he said.

The CCTV camera of a nearby building revealed that Hasnat Ka-rim was holding a gun but during the interrogation he reportedly claimed that he was forced to carry the gun.

Meanwhile, a New York Times report dated July 8 quoted two hostages as saying the attackers had ordered Tahmid Hasib Khan and Hasnat Karim to perform spe-ci� c tasks for them.

“At one point, the attackers di-rected Tahmid Hasib Khan to carry a gun and go with them to the roof of the restaurant, the hostages said. They said Tahmid Hasib Khan re-sisted and to persuade him to hold the weapon the attackers � red it to show him its magazine was empty. Tahmid Hasib Khan broke down in tears at their insistence, one of the hostages said, but reluctantly com-plied,” the report said.

“Hasnat Karim was twice or-dered to go outside the restaurant, once to lock the gate and then in the morning to open it, one of the hostages interviewed said,” it add-ed.

The NY Times report also said attackers took Tahmid Hasib Khan and Hasnat Karim to the roof in the morning of July 2 to discuss what to do with the group of Bangla-deshi Muslims they had spared.

“Tahmid Hasib Khan persuaded the attackers to spare the group, and soon after, at about 6am, they were released,” the report said quoting two hostages who were re-leased afterwards.

Investigators yesterday said they received some important in-formation from the two and were working on it. They, however, could not clarify if they were in-volved in the attack or not, but said they had already released them af-ter completing interview.

But family members of Hasnat and Tahmid said the two had not returned home as of yesterday.

Meanwhile, RAB Director Gen-eral Benazir Ahmed yesterday said some misguided youths inspired by the Islamic State activities are professing to have link to the IS.

No evidence of their link to the IS has so far been found in the in-vestigation, Benazir said.

He denied any sort of IS link to the Gulshan cafe attack and Shola-kia Eidgah attack.

He was speaking at a press brief-ing at the RAB headquarters in the afternoon.

Benazir echoed the view of the home minister that all the attacks were carried out by the Ja-ma’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB). l

Theresa May to replace David Cameron Wednesdayand shaken � nancial markets.

May and energy minister Andrea Leadsom had been due to contest a ballot of around 150,000 Conserva-tive party members, with the result to be declared by September 9. But Leadsom unexpectedly withdrew on Monday, removing the need for a nine-week leadership contest.

Cameron told reporters in front of his 10 Downing Street residence that he expected to chair his last cabinet meeting on Tuesday and take questions in parliament on Wednesday before tendering his resignation to Queen Elizabeth.

“So we will have a new prime minister in that building behind me by Wednesday evening,” he said.

May will become Britain’s sec-ond female prime minister after Margaret Thatcher.

Her victory means that the com-plex process of extricating Britain from the EU will be led by someone who favoured a vote to Remain in last month’s membership referen-dum. She has said Britain needs time to work out its negotiating strategy and should not initiate for-mal divorce proceedings before the end of the year, but has also empha-sised that ‘Brexit means Brexit’.

In a speech early on Monday in the central city of Birmingham, May said there could be no second referendum and no attempt to re-join the EU by the back door.

“As prime minister, I will make

sure that we leave the European Union,” she said.

Relative unknownLeadsom, 53, never served in cab-inet and was barely known to the British public until she emerged as a prominent voice in the successful Leave campaign.

She had been strongly criti-cised over a newspaper interview in which she appeared to suggest that being a mother meant she had more of a stake in the country’s future than May, who has no chil-dren. Some Conservatives said they were disgusted by the remarks, for which Leadsom later apologised, while others said they showed na-ivety and a lack of judgement.

Leadsom told reporters she was pulling out of the race to avoid nine weeks of campaign uncertainty at a time when strong leadership was needed. She acknowledged that May had secured much greater backing in a vote of Conservative members of parliament last week.

“I have ... concluded that the interests of our country are best served by the immediate appoint-ment of a strong and well support-ed prime minister,” she said. “I am therefore withdrawing from the leadership election and I wish The-resa May the very greatest success. I assure her of my full support.”

Graham Brady, head of the Con-servative party committee in charge

of the leadership contest, said there were still constitutional procedures to be observed before her appoint-ment could be con� rmed, but he aimed to make a con� rmation an-nouncement as soon as possible.

“We’re not discussing corona-tions, we’re discussing a proper procedural process which should conclude very soon,” he told re-porters.

The pound, which has hit 31-year lows since the June 23 referen-dum vote on concern about poten-tial damage to the British economy, bounced brie� y on the news that the Conservative leadership ques-tion would be resolved much soon-er than expected.

“Welcome news we have 1 can-didate with overwhelming support to be next PM. Theresa May has strength, integrity & determina-tion to do the job,” � nance minister George Osborne tweeted.

Forging new roleThe 52-to-48 percent vote to quit the EU after 43 years of member-ship was a stunning rebuke to Brit-ain’s political leaders and especial-ly Cameron, who had argued that breaking away would bring eco-nomic disaster.

Britons ignored his warnings, swayed by the arguments of the Leave campaign that ‘Brexit’ would enable them to regain ‘in-dependence’ from Brussels and

clamp down on high immigration, something hard to achieve under EU rules allowing people to live and work anywhere in the bloc.

May’s leadership hopes had ap-peared at risk of being damaged by her failure, in six years as inte-rior minister, to bring immigration down, and the fact she found her-self on the losing side of the ref-erendum campaign.

But her two best-known rivals on the Leave side were felled by po-litical back-stabbing when Justice Secretary Michael Gove brought down former London mayor Boris Johnson and was then punished for his perceived treachery by be-ing eliminated from a ballot of Con-servative MPs.

In her speech in Birmingham on Monday, May set out her vision for the economy, calling for “a country that works for everyone, not just the privileged few”.

In a pitch for the political cen-tre, she said she would prioritise more house-building, a crackdown on tax evasion by individuals and companies, lower energy costs and a narrowing of the ‘unhealthy’ gap between the pay of employees and corporate bosses.

“Under my leadership, the Con-servative Party will put itself com-pletely, absolutely, unequivocally, at the service of ordinary working peo-ple ... we will make Britain a country that works for everyone,” she said. l

Suspect in Panchagarh murder involved in Sholakia attacksaid Panchagarh Public Prosecutor Aminur Rahman.

Sholakia attack suspect put on10-day remandA Kishoreganj court has placed Za-hidul Haque Tanim, 24, the other

suspect in Sholakia attack who was shown arrested by police, on a 10-day remand.

Kishoreganj Chief Judicial Magis-trate Abdus Salam Khan passed the order yesterday after Kishoreganj Sadar police station OC Morshed

Jahan, who is also the investigation o� cer in the case, produced Zahidul before the court with a petition to place him on remand for 10 days.

Zahidul, who is from Paschim Tarapasa area in Kishoreganj, was detained from the campus of Azim

Uddin School near the Eid congre-gation ground for suspicious move-ment on the day of the attack.

However, his father Abdus Sattar has claimed that Zahidul has been suf-fering from mental illness triggered by his mother’s death two years ago. l

Di� erent organisations and platforms form a human chain in Shahbagh, Dhaka yesterday urging people to raise voice against terrorism, communalism, impunity and conspiracy RAJIB DHAR

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GULSHAN ATTACK

Survivor Tahmid’s father hospitalisedn Tribune Desk

Fazle Rahim Khan Shahriar, father of Tahmid Hasib Khan who was one of the hostages in Gulshan ter-ror attack, was hospitalised yester-day at a private hospital in Dhaka.

Shahriar, managing director of Aftab Bohumukhi Farms, collapsed yesterday morning and was hospi-talised in a critical condition, Tah-mid’s cousin Rasheek Irtisam told the Dhaka Tribune.

He is undergoing treatment at the critical care unit in the hospital, Rasheek added. However, the further details on Shahriar’s condition have not been disclosed.

The surviving hostages of the terror attack on Holey Artisan Bak-ery in Gulshan, Dhaka who were rescued by a joint commando force on July 2 morning were all taken to the Detective Branch of police.

Tahmid’s family and Hasnat Karim, a former North South Uni-versity teacher who is also among the survivors, say they have not re-turned home, although Dhaka Met-ropolitan Police Deputy Commis-sioner Masudur Rahman told the Dhaka Tribune on Saturday that police had released “all the rescued hostages after questioning them about the incident” before Eid.

Tahmid’s family said he is ep-ileptic and they have tried to get him medical attention and legal representation, but couldn’t do so.

The friends and family of the University of Toronto student are running a social media campaign to help secure his release and get some answers as to what has hap-pened to him. l

US o� ers full support to end militancyn Ashif Islam Shaon

The visiting US special envoy Nisha Desai after a meeting with Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan at the Home Ministry yesterday af-ternoon told media that the US will share intelligence and information in combating terrorism.

The US is prepared to work with Bangladesh to overcome the great challenges in � ghting terrorism, she said.

“Violent extremism is a glob-al threat. As we have seen all too frequently, international terrorist groups can recruit and operate an-ywhere,” she said in a statement.

“I am here to o� er US assistance

and support for Bangladesh’s own e� orts against terrorism and ex-tremism. This is an extension of our long and deep partnership based on shared values of democ-racy, tolerance, and inclusion, and the United States remains com-mitted to this broad-based rela-tionship with Bangladesh of which CT [Counter Terrorism] is but one part,” she added.

She also visited Holey Artisan Bakery yesterday morning and of-fered her condolences for the vic-tims of the recent terrorist attacks and said: “Our support for and cooperation with Bangladesh re-mains as robust as ever.”

Meanwhile, the home minister

said that they discussed how the US can help Bangladesh in � ghting terrorism.

“We will assess what kind help we need,” he said.

The home minister had a meet-ing with Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian A� airs Nisha Desai Biswal and US Ambassador to Bangladesh Marcia Bernicat at the Home Ministry.

The home minister had anoth-er meeting with a visiting US team that included the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian A� airs Manpreet Anand, RAB DG Benazir Ahmed and DMP Commissioner Asaduz-zaman Mia.

Prior to the meeting with Bang-ladesh home minister, Nisha Desai had a view exchange meeting with the High Commissioner of Canada Benoît-Pierre Laramée, the Aus-tralian High Comissioner Greg Wil-cock and the British High Commis-sioner Alison Blake at the US envoy to Bangladesh Marcia Bernicat’s residence.

US Ambassador to Bangladesh Marcia Bernicat and Deputy Assis-tant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian A� airs Manpreet Anand accompanied her all the day.

Nisha Desai is on a two-day visit to discuss security issues after the recent terrorist attacks in Dhaka and Kishoreganj. l

Mother � les GD over son missing in Australian Saiful Islam Swapan,

Lakshmipur

A woman in Lakshmipur � led a general diary with police on Satur-day night after it was reported that his son had gone missing.

Tajuddin, son of late Abdullah Bhuiyan of Atiatali village in Laksh-mipur Sadar upazila, went to Aus-tralia for higher education in 2006.

He secured Australian citizenship in 2008 after marrying a native girl. In 2013, Tajuddin came to his village home to visit his ailing father and re-turned to Australia after a week.

Tajuddin’s mother Tahera Be-gum, a teacher at Atiatali Govern-ment Primary School, said her hus-band died in September 2013 but she could not inform Tajuddin.

“He got the news of his father’s

demise almost a year later when he called from Australia,” she said.

Tahera said she got worried af-ter her son’s missing report in the media.

In the wake of the July 1 terrorist attack at Holey Artisan restaurant in Dhaka’s Gulshan, the law en-forcement agencies published a list of 10 men who had gone missing and Tajuddin was among them.

“After he went back to Austral-ia in 2013, he maintained limited contact with us and even stopped sending us money. The last time I talked to him was a few days ago before Ramadan. He called and en-quired after me,” said Tahera.

Md Shariful Islam, acting super-intendent of police in Lakshmipur, said police have no information of Tajuddin’s whereabouts. l

KUNIO HOSHI MURDER

Charges brought against eightn Liakat Ali Badal, Rangpur

Police in Rangpur have pressed charges against eight members of the terrorist group Jama’atul Muja-hideen Bangladesh (JMB), includ-ing leader Masud Rana, in the Jap-anese citizen Kunio Hoshi murder.

In a separate case, 14 JMB men were named in the murder of 57-year-old village doctor Rahmat Ali.

The charge sheets were submit-ted to Rangpur Chief Judicial Mag-istrate’s Court yesterday morning.

JMB’s Rangpur regional com-mander Masud Rana, 33, Ishaq Ali, 34, Liton Miah, 32, Abu Sayed, 28, Saddam Hossain, 32, Ahsan Ullah Ansari, 31, Nazrul Islam, 32, and Sakhawat Hossain, 30, were named in the Kunio murder, Rangpur Pub-

lic Prosecutor Abdul Malek said yesterday at a press brie� ng. JMB’s killing mission was aimed at creat-

ing panic among foreigners to stop foreign investment and destroy Bangladesh’s economy, the charge sheet said.

The charge sheet also urged the court to dismiss local BNP leader Rashedunnabi, four Juba Dal lead-

ers and Kunio’s business partner Humayun Kabir Hira, who have been in jail for eight months now, saying no evidence of their in-volvement has been found.

Their lawyer and local BNP Vice President Aftab Hossain called it a political harassment and demand-ed compensation.

Kunio Hoshi was gunned down in October last year while Rahmat Ali’s throat was slit in November.

According to JMB member Ishaq Ali’s confessional statement, he, Masud and Liton rode a motorcy-cle to Alutari village on October 3, 2015. Masud shot Kunio.

The court has � xed August 3 for the next hearing on the case.

These eight men were also named in the Rahmat Ali murder case along with six others. l

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian A� airs Nisha Desai Biswal in conversation yesterday at Ganabhaban after the latter came to meet the premier BSS

Kunio Hoshi was gunned down in October last year while Rahmat Ali’s throat was slit in November

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13th death anniversary of Barrister Syed Ishtiaq Ahmedn Tribune Desk

Today is the thirteenth death anniversary of Barrister Syed Ishtiaq Ahmed, a prominent lawyer and former advisor to the caretaker government of Bangladesh.

On this occasion, Syed Ish-tiaq Ahmed Smriti Parishad has organised di� erent pro-grammes which include the placing of � oral wreaths at his

grave in Banani, Dhaka and o� ering of fateha.

A milad mah� l will also be

held at an orphanage.It may be noted that dur-

ing his eventful life, Barrister Ahmed made immense con-tribution in the legal arena of Bangladesh and acted as an attorney general for Bangla-desh and an advisor to the caretaker government in 1996 and 2001.

He also made great contri-bution towards the democrat-ic movement in Bangladesh. l

Four ABT members held in Chittagongn FM Mizanur Rahaman, Chittagong

Police arrested four members of banned mili-tant out� t Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT) in possession of sharp weapons, laptops and mo-bile phones in Chittagong’s Sitakunda upazila yesterday.

The details of the detainees were not dis-closed. Chittagong Additional Superintendent of Police (Special Branch) Rezaul Masud told the Dhaka Tribune that one of the four men is ABT’s Baitul Mal Secretary of Sitakunda upazila.

“They are the followers of ATB chief Maw-lana Jasimuddin Rahmani Ansari, and police seized four machetes, four daggers, a laptop and

� ve cell phones from their possession,” he said.On Saturday, Chittagong Superintendent of

Police AKM Ha� z Akter told the Dhaka Tribune police had detained three people from Sita-kunda for suspicious movement and they had been interrogated.

On June 17, police arrested two Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) operatives - Ju-l� kar and Rubel – in Sitakunda’s Mosjidda area.

Police at the time said Jul� kar and Rubel are the cohorts of JMB leader Bangla Bhai, and they were operating secretly.

ABT chief Jasimuddin Rahmani was arrest-ed in Dhaka in September last year and he is now behind bars. l

Chittagong University student sent to jail over rape allegationn FM Mizanur Rahaman, Chittagong

A student of Chittagong University (CU) was sent to jail yesterday after he was produced be-fore a Chittagong court on charge of violating a schoolgirl in the port city’s Bayezid area.

The court also � xed June 13 for a remand hear-ing of the accused, said Mohammad Mohsin, of-� cer-in-charge (OC) of Bayezid police station.

The arrestee Mizanur Rahman Mishu, 22, son of an expatriate Abdul Monaf, is a fourth year student of psychology department at CU.

Mishu lived with his mother, a teacher of a local primary school, in Bayezid’s Mohammed Nagar area, said the OC.

As per the case statement, Mishu allegedly violated the girl, who was a former student of his mother, inside the school compound on Sunday, said the OC.

Later, the youth left the victim, a student of class six, at one of her friends’ house.

The police arrested the accused at night soon after the � ling of the case by the girl’s mother, said Mohsin. l

BNP to mourn for Gulshan café victims todayn UNB

BNP will observe a mourning day across the country today to condole the killings of foreigners and Bang-ladeshis in a terror attack on a Gul-shan café.

As part of the programme, the party will hold a condolence meet-ing at the Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh in the city at 2pm on the day, said a press release yesterday.

Earlier on July 5, the party an-

nounced to observe the country-wide mourning day on Tuesday in memory of the café attack victims.

The party followers will bring out mourning processions and hold rallies in all cities and district towns in observance of the day.

Black � ags will be hoisted and party � ags kept half-mast at all BNP o� ces across the country on the day.

Besides, the party leaders and activists will wear black badges to

mourn the heinous killings.Twenty-two people, including

nine Italians, seven Japanese, one Indian national and two police of-� cials, were killed as terrorists at-tacked Holey Artisan Bakery at the city’s Gulshan diplomatic zone on July 1.

The nation observed a two-day mourning last week in com-memoration of those killed in the worst-ever terror attack in Bangla-desh. l

World Population Day observedn UNB

The World Population Day was ob-served in the country as elsewhere across the globe yesterday.

The theme of the day this year was “Investing in teenage girls.”

According to UNFPA, teenage girls around the world face enor-mous challenges. Many are consid-ered by their communities or par-ents to be ready for marriage and motherhood.

Many are forced from school, damaging their future prospects. Even among girls who stay in

school, access to basic informa-tion about their health, human rights and reproductive rights can be hard to come by, leaving them vulnerable to illness, injury and exploitation.

These challenges are exacerbat-ed among marginalised girls, such as members of ethnic minorities or those living in poverty or remote areas.

Yet when teenage girls are em-powered, when they know about their rights and are given the tools to succeed, they become agents of positive change in their communi-ties. l

14-party leaves no room for introspectionn UNB

The ruling Awami League-led 14-party alliance yesterday an-nounced successive guardians’ and women’s rallies in the capital on July 20 and 21 respectively protest-ing the recent militant attacks and communal violence.

“We will arrange guardians’ rally on July 20 and women’s rally on July 21 in Dhaka,” the alliance’s spokesman and Health Minister Mohammad Nasim announced at an anti-militant rally at Central Shaheed Minar.

The ruling alliance is going to form anti-terrorism committees at every locality and village across the country from July 12 to July 30, he said.

The rally started at 3pm amid tight security. The 14-party central leaders addressed the rally presid-ed over by Mohammad Nasim.

The alliance leaders said local and international conspiracies have begun to topple the current government and the recent mil-itant attacks and secret killings were parts of the conspiracies.

They claimed that BNP and Ja-maat are involved in the conspiracies, the militant attacks and violence.

Mentioning the government’s continuous success in developing the country, Nasim said: “They think this is time to stop Sheikh Hasina…This is why local and inter-

national conspiracies have begun. The mastermind of the conspira-cies is BNP leader Khaleda Zia.”

He said the former Shibir activ-ists have now become militants and they want to topple Sheikh Hasina’s government.

Turning to BNP Chairperson Khaleda’s recent demand for fresh election to solve the militancy cri-sis, the Awami League presidium member said the election is no easy matter. “The election must be held, but it will be held in 2019 and not a single day before that.”

Nasim said it is time to coop-erate with the government not to criticise the government.

He urged all to cooperate with the committees and inform law en-forcers about missing children.

The AL leader said the 14-party leaders will visits various parts of

the country, including Rangpur, Panchagarh, Bogra, Sirajganj and Comilla as part of anti-militant campaign.

At the programme, Agricultural Minister Matia Chowdhury criti-cised Khaleda Zia for terming Gul-shan restaurant attack as “bloody upsurge” in her statement.

Disaster Management and Relief Minister Mofazzel Hossain Chowd-hury Maya said Khaleda Zia wants to catch � sh in troubled water with her demand for fresh election.

Information Minister Hasanul Haque Inu, Shipping Minister Shajahan Khan, Food Minister Quamrul Islam, Sahara Khatun, Mahbub-ul Alam Hanif, AFM Baha-uddin Nasim, Nazibul Bashar Maiz-vandari, Dilip Barua, Dr Abdur Raz-zak, Jahangir Kabir Nanak, among others, addressed the rally. l

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THUNDERSHOWER WITH RAIN

Muhith rubbishes Moody's warningsn Asif Showkat Kollol

Finance Minister AMA Muhith has rejected predictions from the glob-al credit-rating agency Moody’s that the Gulshan terror attack will have a long term a� ect on Bangla-desh's economy.

While the terrorist attack that took at least 22 lives was a shock to the economy, Muhith believes it will have no e� ect on the economy in the long run.

Asked by reporters yesterday at his secretariat o� ce about dire warning from Moody's that the attack would erode investor con� -dence and have adverse impact on Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), Muhith replied, “In my view it's to-tally rubbish. It will have no e� ect.”

Bangladesh's development part-ners had already demonstrated their commitment, the minister said.

“Japan has already nominated � ve successors for the unfortunate victims killed in the Gulshan terror attack, even though they are the ones who have been a� ected the most by the incident,” he said.

“Yes, a tragedy has happened. It can happen in a most sophisticated

country too. There's no reason to be upset over this,” he said.

Among the victims of the terror-ist attack, seven were Japanese and nine were Italians. The Italians were involved with apparel trade while the Japanese worked with Jica.

Muhith said the main point that had been revealed was that Bang-ladesh and its current government were strongly against terrorism and would take drastic action to end the crisis.

“In waz mah� l, the Imams said that modern educated young peo-ple did these attacks, though the authorities always blame madrasa students,” the minister said.

“We do not blame the madrasas but the education system of Quomi madrasa is too old. It should be re-formed and they should prepare for modern life,” he said.

Muhith said young people were getting involved with terrorist groups due to weak relations be-tween children and parents.

“It is shameful that these types of brutal terrorist incidents hap-pened in our society, although, we also saw a young man named Faraaz sacri� ce his life for his two friends,” the minister remarked. l

RAB launches app as a counter terrorism measuren Tribune Report

Rapid Action Battalion yesterday launched a mobile application called Report 2 RAB as part of their community engagement in gather-ing intelligence.

The app can be downloaded from the RAB website directly or from the Google play store.

RAB Director General Benazir Ahmed inaugurated the launching of the app at the RAB headquarters and said they were keen to launch similar strategies in combating ter-rorism.

“We want information, espe-cially on terrorist activities and in-formation on Facebook campaigns that are spreading fundamental radicalisation.”

The DG also said they were working on an IOS version of the app along with a Bangla font which

will be launched within the next 10 to 12 days.

RAB sources said that after the Gulshan attack high o� cials decid-ed to emphasized more on terrorist activities and they were planning to engage with the community in a way that would encourage them to speak to law enforcers without hesi-tation in passing on any information they have on impending attacks or people they suspected as terrorists.

Earlier, Wing Commander Forhad Hossain Mahmud gave a presentation on how to use the app and said that it made under the campaign “If you see something, say something.”

He said anybody could take a photo and upload the image with descriptions onto the app.

The sender’s identities would not be revealed unless they want to disclose it, he added. l

Police are seen to thoroughly check people who came to attend 14-party alliance's rally at Central Shaheed Minar in Dhaka yesterday a measure taken to heighten security at the venue MEHEDI HASAN

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Housewife tied to tree, tortured for dowryn Md Tazul Islam, Gaibandha

A housewife was tortured by her husband and in-laws for a dowry at Falia village in Sadar upazila of Gaibandha on Saturday.

Victim Atia Begum, 32, is now under treatment at Sadar Hospital.

Police of Sadar police station and the housewife’s family mem-bers said Atia, a resident of the vil-lage, got married with Faruk Hos-sain of the same village nine years ago.

Atia’s father gave Faruk Tk80000 as dowry, while Faruk demanded one lakh.

Since then Faruk used to beat his wife very often for rest of the amount. In 2013, the man had left for Sylhet to work there and since then had not sent any money for his wife and their two children, compelling Atia to work as a house-maid in the village.

Atia went back to her parents’ house in 2015, as Faruk told that he would not come back if she failed

to give Tk20000.On Saturday, she went to her

in-laws’ house along with her two children, as Faruk came home in the Eid vacation.

Faruk became furious seeing her and asked for the money. When Atia said she was unable to give him the money, Faruk tied her to a tree and started beating.

Bachhu Mia, a newly elected union parishad member of Boali union of the upazila, rescued the housewife and sent her to home.

Later, being informed by lo-cal journalists, the police went to Atia’s house and got her admitted into the hospital on Sunday night, said the police.

The police arrested Faruk and his elder brother that night after Atia � led a case with the police sta-tion in this connection against six persons.

Faruk told the reporters that he beat Atia, as she refused to leave his room after entering there by breaking the lock of the room. l

Filaria Hospital facing fund crisisn Md Taieyb Ali Sarker,

Nilphamari

Doctors, nurses and other sta� s of the Filaria Hospital at Syedpur under Nilphamari district have been su� ering as they have remained unpaid for long due to fund crisis.

According to local sourc-es, Dr Moazzem Hossain constructed the 30-bedded hospital in Dhalagus area in 2002 with the grant from the Embassy of Japan.

He said the hospital had been built in the area as many districts in northern region including Nilphamari, Thakurgaon, Panchagarh, Lalmonirhat, Dinajpur, Rangpur, Kurigram, Bogra, Pabna, Rajshahi, Naogaon and Kushtia districts are Fi-laria prone area.

The hospital has started functioning from 1 January 2003.

It is the only specialized hospital of this kind in Bang-ladesh and Globally.

The hospital was expanded in 2009 with the support from govt of Japan and also with sup-port from Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.

From the beginning, the hospital has been providing morbidity control services to � lariasis patients to reduce their su� erings. As a part of this activity the hospital has been conducting training to Government health and par-amedical health sta� , NGOs, Rural Medical practitioners, JOCV volunteers.

In 2012, Dr Moazzem left the hospital and Dr Surut Ali took the charge.

The sources said the do-nor organisations stopped contribution after Dr Moazzem resigned the job and the hospital was operat-ed from its own income.

Gradually doctors, of-� cers and other sta� s started to leave the job and now only 18 sta� s are operating the in-stitution.

Dr Surut Ali said:“The

hospital cannot be operated with so small bunch of sta� s and without fund.”

The doctors and other sta� s had not been given Eid bonus and salary this year, he said.

Bulbuli Begum, 32, a cleaner of the hospital, said her family members were deprived of Eid festival this year as she did not get salary and bonus.

“During the year, we have worked hard. But no payment has been given. In this situ-ation to continue the job for me is impossible,” she added.

Dr Surut said without the government help, the hospi-tal could not be run more.

The su� ering of the sta� s started to impact the pres-ence of the patients. In Ram-adan there was no patient, he added.

When contacted, Dr Moazzem said the govern-ment should continue the function of the hospital for the interest of poor patients. l

Atia Begum, a housewife, is tied to a tree and is being tortured by her husband and in-laws in Gaibandha Sadar upazila on Saturday for a dowry of Tk20,000 DHAKA TRIBUNE

2 JMB men held with crude bombsn Tribune Desk

Detective Branch of police arrested two alleged mem-bers of Jama’at ul Muja-hideen Bangladesh (JMB) in possession of 20 crude bombs at Baghdanga, Chap-ainawabganj Sadar Upzila in

the early hours of yesterday, reports our Chapainawab-ganj correspondent.

The arrestees were identi� ed as Saifuddinalias Saiful Islam, 40, and Md Abul Kashem alias Tariqul, 35.

Police said acting on a tip

o� , they conducted a drive at Baghdanga while 25-30 members of the JMB were conducting a secret meeting.

But sensing the presence of law enforcers, all of the militants except the duo managed to � ee from the scene. l

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Mother, daughter still wandering as police yet to ensure safety n Hedait Hossain, Khulna

A woman and her daughter, who were forced to leave their house be-cause of the threats made by local thugs, are still wandering as police allegedly failed to ensure their safety.

The security concern of Momot-az Begum and her daughter Farza-na Akter Anamika came to light after they took shelter at Khulna press club on Sunday in a bid to save themselves from attack from local goons.

She then said Naim, son of Nan-tu Mollah of Fulbari gate area in Khulna city, had been harassing her daughter for a long time.

Deputy Comissioner of Khulna Nazmul Ahsan yesterday talked to

Momotaz Begum and her daughter yesterday following reports made on various newspapers and news portals, but was unable to arrange security for them.

Momotaz Begum told the Dhaka Tribune that they went to Daulat-pur police station as deputy com-misioner assured her of security measures were made for them.

She said when they had gone to police station, police told them that they would only drop them to their house, but they would not take their further responsibilies.

‚’They also advised me to marry o� my daughter with Naim. Why should I go back to my house when the state is not providing us with safety?,” she asked.

She also informed that they would stay at the house of their rel-ative until administration ensured safety for them.

She said: “I have talked with his parents and local elders about the ma-ter, but no progress has been made.

Naim and his cohorts also van-dalised my house two days ago. They also took signatures from us on a white paper.”

She alleged that the thugs also assaulted her husband Moshiur Rahman.

Earlier, police arrested Naim following a complain made by Momotaz on June 11. He was sen-tenced to six months of imprison-ment for harassing the girl by a mo-bile court on the same day.

Momotaz alleged that family members of Naim who are n� uen-tial in the area had been threaten-ing them with dire consequences since then.

Police, however, said local res-idents were annoyed with the mother-daughter as they were in-volved in “anti-social” activities.

Mominul Islam, coordinator of the Bangladesh Society for the Enforcement of Human Rights (BSEHR), told the Dhaka Tribune that Momotaz Begum had taken shelter at the press club as they had not got any assistance from law en-forcement agencies.

He said as police could not play satisfactory role, they did feel safe enough to go back to their house. l

Pakistani citizen among six killed in road accidentsn Tribune Desk

At least six people, including a Pakistani national, were killed in separate road accidents that took place in Barisal, Chittagong, Syhlet, Bagerhat and Magura.

Two people were killed and eight others injured in two separate road accidents on the Barisal-Dha-ka Highway.

Ejajul Islam, o� cer-in-charge of Gournadi highway police station, said a motorcycle losing control hit a roadside tree near Barthi yester-day afternoon, killing Ferdous, 35, a resident of Kashimpur, Kalkini upazila, Madaripur, on the spot.

Meanwhile, nine people were in-jured as a microbus plunged into a roadside tree at Bezhar, Gournadi on Sunday afternoon.

The injured were taken to Baris-al Sher-e-Bangla Medical College Hospital where Farida Begum, 40, died at night.

In Chittagong, a Pakistani na-tional was killed while three others sustained injuries in a road acci-dent on Sunday night.

A private car carrying four peo-ple hit a roadside tree after losing control and later overturned in Chhoto Darogahat area, Sitakunda upazila , leaving Rana Jahir, 55, dead on the spot.

Jahir used to work as a general manager at Sunman Textile Ltd lo-cated in Kadam Rasul area.

Nayek of the CMCH police out-post Md Hamid said: “One of the three o� cials of Sunman Textile Ltd is now undergoing treatment at the hospital.

In Sylhet, an NGO activist was killed as a truck ran over him in Ka-takhal area on the Sylhet-Compan-iganj Highway yesterday morning.

In Bagerhat, a man was killed and nine others were injured as a human haulier turned turtle losing control in Karapara area, Bagerhat sadar upzila yesterday afternoon. The de-ceased is Md Izabojabul Haque.

Meanwhile, a woman was killed falling from a motorcycle at Bo-runatoil, Maguran yesterday after-noon. l

Tourism sector thrives in Khagrachharin Jasim Majumder,

Khagrachhari

Hundreds of tourists thronged Khagrachhari during the Eid va-cation this year, far exceeding the number of previous year’s visitors.

Khagrachhari district admin-istration sources said all the ho-tels, motels, resorts, rest hous-es, guest houses and circuit

houses remained booked for the last 15 days and it would continue till next week. As per the statistics given by hotel owners to police,around one lakh tourists visit-ed di� erent tourist spots in nine upazila of the district, according to the sources.

People related to tourism busi-ness are happy after pocketing a huge pro� t from the business.

Ananta Bikash Tripura, gener-al secretary of Khagrachhari Ho-tel Owners Association, said they were happy, as they had got tour-ists three times higher than last year.

SM Sha� , general secretary of Khagrachhari Bus Owners Associa-tion, said Khagrachhari had seen a record number of tourists this year.

“We had provided around

60-buses in Khagrachhari-Chit-tagong and Khagrachhari-Dhaka routes every single day for the last 15 days and it will continue for the next couple of days,” Sha� added.

Liyakat Ali Chowdhury, pres-ident of Khagrachhari Bazar Ba-bosayee Samity, said they had done a great business this year.

Shamim Ahmed Khan of Dha-ka, Mahabub Alam of Hathazari in

Chittagong, and Hasina Banu of Kashinathpur in Pabna said Kha-grachhari is a place of natural beau-ty and living in a pollution free natural environment was a great experience for them.

Superintendent of Police Md Abdul Majid said they had given all out e� orts to ensure the tourists’ safety during last two weeks and it would continue. l

Rajshahi Railway Station sees a crowd yesterday, as people continue returning to Dhaka after celebrating Eid-ul-Fitr at native homes AZAHAR UDDIN

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SOUTH ASIA

Pakistani Christian charged with blasphemy over Whatsapp poemA Pakistani Christian was charged with blasphemy Monday after his Muslim friend alleged he had sent a poem on Whatsapp that insulted Islam, police said. Yasir Bashir said Nadeem James had sent him a poem on the mes-saging app that was derogatory about the Prophet Mohammed and other holy figures. -AFP

INDIA

Floods kill 22 people in India, 170,000 homelessFlash � oods triggered by torrential rain have killed at least 22 people in India and forced more than 170,000 from their homes, o� cials said on Monday, as forecasters pre-dicted more downpours in coming days. India’s monsoon rains, though vital for agriculture, regu-larly bring death and destruction. The rain was 35% above average in the week. -REUTERS

CHINA

China intensi� es opposition ahead of South China Sea rulingChina has intensified the drumbeat of its opposition to an international tribunal’s ruling expected Tuesday that could threaten its expansive claims in the South China Sea. How Beijing responds to the ruling in the case filed by US ally the Philippines could chart the course of global power relations in an increasing-ly dangerous hotspot. -AP

ASIA PACIFIC

Filipino troops kill 40 Abu Sayyaf extremists Philippine troops have killed 40 Abu Sayyaf extremists and wounded 25 others in two battlefronts in the � rst major counterterrorism o� ensive in the south under the new president, the military said Monday. Battles on Basilan and Sulu islands since Wednesday killed one soldier and also wounded some two-dozen members of the al Qaeda-linked Islamist group. -REUTERS

MIDDLE EAST

Families of US-Israeli victims sue Facebook for $1bnIsraeli and American families of victims of Palestinian attacks � led a $1bn lawsuit against Facebook, claiming the social network is providing a platform for militants to spread incitement and violence. Shurat Hadin, an Israeli legal advocacy group, � led the suit on behalf of the 5 families in a New York court late Sunday. -REUTERS

World

The world’s newest country su�ers from widespread poverty, security gaps and political instability.

The country’s largest employer-the military doles out wages irregularity, thereby resulting inoccasional riots and desertions.

The nation also has abundant natural resources-its most lucrative being oil - but much of it is primarily located in contested land with its northern neighbour, Sudan.

Many of the oil-rich lands are occupied by competing ethnic groups, including heavily armed militias.

On December 15 last year, ethnic violence erupted in Juba and across the country as divi-sions came to a head between President Salva Kiir, and former Vice President Riek Machar. Kiir accused Machar of instigating a coup with portions of South Sudan’s disgruntled mili-tary. Machar has denied these claims, but has praised he rebel soldiers, who allegedly occupy border areas that produce the largest percentage of South Sudan’s oil.

Over 1,000 people have been killed since the con�ict began.

Since �ghting began, the rebels have taken two key oil-pro-ducing states - Jonglei and Unity. In response, Kiir is open for talks with the “main [rebel] group”, according to South Su-dan’s Foreign Minister Barnaba Marial. However, the rebel faction has yet to respond to the government’s request.

SOUTH SUDAN SLIDES INTO CHAOS

President Salva Kiir Former Vice President Riek Machar

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NORTHERN BAHR EL GHAZAL

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42%

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50.6%11,090,104206,243IDPs

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350,000NATIONAL BUDGET FROM OIL

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FACTBOX

South Sudan: The never-ending � ghtDays of � ghting in South Sudan’s capital Juba is some of the worst seen since civil war broke out in the world’s newest nation in December 2013Pitting soldiers loyal to President Salva Kiir against troops backing his long time rival Vice-President Riek Machar -- who technically ended rebellion in April to forge a unity government -- the � ghting has also drawn in other forces.

Here are some of the key players in the violence: some driving it and others trying to stop it--

Kiir and MacharKiir and Machar are former rebel leaders who rose to power during Sudan’s 1983-2005 civil war be-tween north and south -- a con� ict in which the two men fought each other -- before South Sudan won independence in 2011. They come from the south’s two main ethnic groups -- Kiir from the Dinka people and Machar from the Nuer -- tribes that are themselves split into mul-tiple and sometimes rival clans. UN experts say Kiir and Machar are both responsible for most of the violence committed during the war, which has seen tens of thousands killed. Civil war began in late 2013 when Kiir accused Machar of plotting a coup. Following an August 2015 peace deal Machar returned to Juba in April, along with 1,500 troops who are based in basic camps on the outskirts of the city and were only permitted to carry light weaponry. Kiir’s army -- equipped with tanks, artillery and attack helicopters -- were supposed to withdraw from the city leaving only a similar-sized force behind.

HardlinersThe � ghting has fragmented and multiple militia forces now pay no heed to either Kiir or Machar. There are also reported divisions within both camps. Both Kiir and Machar were at the presidential palace to issue a joint appeal for calm on Fri-day when heavy � ghting erupted outside. Analysts say hardliners on both sides never supported the August 2015 peace deal and instead want to end the con� ict through military means. Key � gures include army chief Paul Malong, a top gen-eral and powerful politician who commands an ethnic Dinka militia. He is a long-time ally of Kiir and op-poses power-sharing with Machar. Machar’s authority over generals and troops is also in question, in particular his command over eth-nic militia such as the so-called ‘White Army’, a fearsome force of cattle-raiding youth who pay little

heed to anyone but their direct leaders.

Neighbouring nationsPast peace e� orts have been led by regional nations, including the East African bloc IGAD. Ethiopia and Ken-ya have hosted multiple rounds of peace talks. But neighbouring states are also accused of taking sides in the con� ict. Sudan is accused of backing rival forces to destabilise the country, claims it denies, while Uganda sent in troops in 2013 to prop up Kiir.

International pressure?Internationally-backed cease� re monitors led by Festus Mogae, a former Botswana president, have pleaded for peace. Their cease� re teams were repeatedly blocked in recent weeks. Past warnings -- in-cluding UN sanctions slapped on top commanders from both sides and stern words from IGAD, the African Union and others -- have done little to stem the violence. More than half of the 12,000 Unit-ed Nations peacekeepers are tied up guarding more than 160,000 civilians sheltering behind razor wire in their bases across the coun-try, including more than 30,000 in Juba alone. Thousands more have sought shelter in recent days. Ju-ba’s once-close allies -- especially the United States, Norway and Brit-ain, who helped negotiate peace with the north and have led e� orts to pour in billions in failed develop-ment projects in the south -- appear to have little in� uence to end the con� ict. China, once the main buy-er of South Sudan’s devastated oil industry, is mourning the death of two of its UN peacekeepers in Sun-day’s battles.

Church and aid groupsMost of South Sudan’s food and healthcare is provided by aid agen-cies. Heavy � ghting will likely see an exodus of foreign aid workers, leav-ing huge gaps in lifesaving services. However, church-led aid e� orts supported even the most remote and poorest communities through the long years of civil war. Church buildings are sheltering thousands in Juba forced from their homes by the battles. Bishops have been key � gures in brokering peace between rival sides in the past, both among top leaders and at local levels. l

Source: NYT, REUTERS

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TUESDAY, JULY 12, 2016World

USAUS, EU resume trade talks despite doubtsThe US and the EU on Monday resumed talks to clinch a trade deal this year, despite rising opposition and Britain’s shock vote to exit the bloc. Negotiators met in Brussels for the 14th round of negotiations on the proposed trade pact that would cre-ate the world’s largest free trade area. But it is facing increasing headwinds from Germany and France. -AFP

THE AMERICASCanada vows Baltic battalion to counter Russia Canada vowed Monday to keep a soon-to-be deployed battalion in Bal-tic state Latvia for as long as Russia remains a troublemaker in the region. Ottawa’s pledge refers to Nato’s planned deployment of 4 battalions of around 1,000 troops each in Po-land and the Baltic states as a tripwire against fresh Russian adventurism in its Soviet-era backyard. -AFP

UK‘Article 50 doesn’t require parliamentary approval’The British government believes the legal process required to trigger a divorce from the EU, known as Article 50, does not legally require parliamentary approval, a govern-ment minister said on Monday. More than 1,000 prominent British lawyers have written to Prime Minister David Cameron to say that lawmakers in parliament should decide whether Britain leaves the EU because the June 23 referendum was not binding. -REUTERS

EUROPETurkey blocks investigations into southeast killingsTurkey’s government is blocking access to independent investigations into alleged mass abuses against civilians in southeast Turkey, where security forces are � ghting Kurdish militants, Human Rights Watch said on Monday. Thousands of civilians have been caught up in � ghting be-tween the Kurdistan Workers Party militants and security forces that � ared in July after a two-year-old cease� re collapse. -REUTERS

AFRICASouth Africa twins accused of plot to blow up US missionTwin brothers have been charged with conspiring to blow up a US mission and various Jewish institutions in South Africa and planning to join the Islamic State. Police spokesman Hangwane Mulaudzi said Monday that Bran-don-Lee Thulsie, Tony-Lee Thulsie and two other people who are yet to be charged were arrested in Johannesburg on Saturday. -AP

Ethiopia blocks social media during uni entrance examn Tribune International Desk

Ethiopian o� cials have blocked so-cial media sites across the country until the university entrance exam-ination is concluded on Wednes-day, reports Associated Press.

Facebook and other mobile apps have been disabled since Saturday, and citizens are complaining.

The government communica-tions o� ce said Sunday that the blocking of sites is meant to ensure an “orderly exam process” that be-gins on Monday.

“It’s blocked. It’s a temporary measure until Wednesday. Social media have proven to be a dis-traction for students,” AFP reports quoting government spokesman Getachew Reda.

An online leak of national school exam sheets in May forced the tests to be postponed. Some opposition media claimed responsibility for the leaks. Many have called it an embar-rassment for the government.

One noted Ethiopian blogger Daniel Berhane says the govern-ment has no legal basis to deny the freedom of expression to mil-lions of citizens. He says that “this is not China.”

“There’s no transparency on who decides why it’s necessary or who decides for how long,” he said.

Ethiopia’s Education Ministry says 254,000 students are expect-ed to sit for the national exams.

Ethiopia is one of the � rst Afri-can countries to censor the internet, beginning in 2006 with opposition blogs, according to experts. l

ANALYSIS

Clinton’s conundrum: Caught between protesters and policen Reuters, Washington, DC

The shocking shooting deaths of � ve Dallas po-lice o� cers have magni� ed the challenge that

Hillary Clinton faces as she tries to reassure both voters jittery about social unrest and activists angry about law-enforcement abuses that she is on their side.

For Clinton, the likely Demo-cratic presidential nominee, the political concerns going forward are two-fold. She can’t a� ord to alienate black and progressive vot-ers she needs to show up in large numbers in the November election by taking too strong a stand against the protests like those recently in Louisiana and Minnesota that re-sulted in hundreds of arrests.

At the same time, Clinton can’t

allow more moderate voters wor-ried about the violent images on their TV screens to gravitate to her Republican rival, Donald Trump, who has attempted to use the trag-edy in Dallas to argue that he is the better law-and-order candidate.

Clinton herself recognises the � ne line she is trying to navigate. In remarks Friday following the

Dallas sniper attack that left � ve o� cers dead, she acknowledged she was sending a mixed message in advocating for reform to curb police misconduct while at the same time praising the honour and bravery of police o� cers.

“I know that, just by saying all these things together, I may upset some people,” Clinton said in Phil-

adelphia. Polling by Reuters/Ipsos has revealed sharp di� erences in how Trump and Clinton’s support-ers view the police when it comes to African-American suspects. Just 24% of Trump voters believe that black people are treated worse than whites compared to 55% of Clinton voters, according to a poll conduct-ed between May 13 and June 7.

African-Americans were also almost twice as likely as whites to describe the police as “too vio-lent,” according to Reuters polling.

Prior to the attack, Clinton had tried to demonstrate her solidar-ity with the Black Lives Matter movement after black men were killed by police in a suburb of St Paul, Minnesota and Baton Rouge, Louisiana. “White people” need to start listening, she said, “to the legitimate cries that are coming from our African-American fellow citizens.”l

Kashmir seethes as 30 killed in clashes n Tribune International Desk

Indian authorities struggled to contain street protests Monday by Kashmiris defying patrols and a stringent curfew after at least 30 people died in clashes that followed the killing of a top in-surgent leader, reports Associated Press.

Paramilitary troops and po-lice in riot gear patrolled villages and towns in the Himalayan re-gion. Most shops were shuttered, businesses were closed, and cell-phone and mobile internet ser-vices were suspended in parts of the region. But crowds ignored the clampdown and clashed with government troops in parts of the main city of Srinagar and several other places in the region.

At least two teenagers injured in the clashes died in a hospital on Monday, said a police o� cer who spoke on condition of anonymity as he was not authorised to speak to reporters.

The protests erupted Saturday, a day after Indian troops killed Burhan Wani, the young leader of Kashmir’s largest rebel group, Hizb-ul-Mujahideen, which has been � ghting since the 1990s against Indian rule. Wani, in his early 20s, had become the iconic face of Kashmir’s militancy, using social media to rally supporters and reach out to other youths like him who had grown up while hundreds of thousands of Indian armed forces have been deployed across the region.

Police Inspector-General Syed Javaid Mujtaba Gillani described Wani’s killing as the “biggest suc-cess against militants” in recent years.

As news of his death spread, spontaneous protests erupted and crowds of youths threw rocks at Indian police and paramilitary soldiers, shouting “Go India, go back!” Police said protesters at-tacked and burned scores of po-lice and paramilitary posts, and that some homes of pro-India pol-iticians were burned.

At least 24 civilians and one po-liceman have died from wounds sustained in clashes since Satur-day, as law enforcement o� cers used live ammunition, pellet guns and tear gas to try to break up the protests.

Most of those killed were teens

and men younger than 26 from southern Kashmir, police said. In addition, more than 150 civilians and 100 government troops have been injured. At least 10 of the injured civilians were in serious condition.

In several neighbourhoods in Srinagar, activists painted graf-� ti on iron shutters of shops and walls, deploring India and eulo-gizing Wani. Messages that they wrote included “Burhan our hero” and “Burhan still in our hearts.”

Opposition to India is strong in the portion of Kashmir it controls, a region of 12m people, about 70% of whom are Muslim. Many resent the deployment of hundreds of thou-sands of Indian troops, and openly voice support for rebels � ghting to demand independence or a merger with neighbouring Pakistan. l

A woman walks past a closed shop painted with gra� ti during a curfew in Srinagar July 11 REUTERS

Hillary Clinton speaks to the General Conference of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia REUTERS

INSIGHT

Finger-pointing over � ngerprinting n Tribune International Desk

Michigan resident Raquel Vander-pool found out the hard way that while � ngerprints don’t lie, they don’t always tell the whole truth.

Vanderpool had been working as a nurse’s aide for nearly a decade when a change in Michigan state law required her employer to con-duct US Federal Bureau of Investi-gation (FBI) � ngerprint background checks on employees. It turned up a conviction for falsifying a prescrip-tion for painkillers years earlier, when she was 19.

Except the charge actually had been dismissed and the record sealed after Vanderpool went through a di-versionary programme for youthful o� enders. That didn’t prevent the mother of two from losing her job and, eventually, her house.

“I completed my end, and unfor-tunately the state failed to remove that from my record,” said Vander-pool, now 34. “Because somebody didn’t do their job, I lost mine and a whole lot more.”

Her story is far from unique. According to studies by the federal Government Accountability O� ce and the Department of Justice, de-pending on which state you live in, as many as one-half of the criminal records in the FBI’s � ngerprint sys-tem could have missing or inaccu-rate information on how criminal cases were resolved.

It worries civil rights and employ-ment rights advocates at a time when job-related requests for � ngerprint background checks have soared since 9/11. The non-pro� t National Em-ployment Law Project estimated the FBI performed about 2.8m checks in 2002; an FBI spokesman said recent-ly the bureau has processed roughly 24m since October.

And the issue of reliability in � ngerprint records has come into sharper focus recently as ride-hail-ing companies battle states and municipalities over � ngerprinting of their drivers.

Uber pulled out of Austin, Tex-as, over the checks, and recently the Chicago City Council left � n-gerprinting out of its new ride-hail-ing regulations after Uber and Lyft threatened to leave the city.

The companies’ concerns that � ngerprint data can omit the dispo-sition, or resolution, of a criminal case — whether it ended in a convic-tion, acquittal or dropping of charg-es — are grounded in truth, said Maurice Emsellem, programme director for the non-pro� t Nation-al Employment Law Project, which did a study on the issue in 2013 and updated it last year.

The National Employment Law Project (NELP) estimates hundreds of thousands of job applicants in � elds

such as education, health care and security that routinely rely on � nger-print checks have been a� ected by incomplete or inaccurate records.

For example, the Transportation Security Administration’s post-9/11 screening programme for port workers led to more than 50,000 appeals of inaccurate or incomplete criminal history information, ac-cording to a 2013 NELP report.

It generally works this way: An

applicant for a job or license pro-vides � ngerprints that are checked against state criminal records and the FBI’s database. If the FBI check yields a positive match, the FBI sends the criminal record back to the state, which then determines if the o� ence disquali� es the appli-cant. The applicant can challenge and correct inaccurate information.

The FBI created a task force in 2009 to address the problem and

set a goal in 2012 of creating a na-tional strategy for reporting case dispositions. That hasn’t happened, according to the 2015 GAO report, and although some progress has been made, performance can vary greatly from state to state.

Where you live — or where you’re arrested — can make a huge di� erence. A 2015 Justice Depart-ment study found more than 3m unprocessed or partially processed

case disposition forms in 19 states, ranging from 200 in North Dakota to more than 1m in Nevada.

According to the same study, eight states took one day or less to provide � nal felony case disposi-tions to their records repositories, while Missouri took 164 days. Sim-ilarly, 20 states took a day or less to input a felony case disposition into the repository’s database, while Or-egon took more than 100 days. l

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The science of � ngerprint identi� cation, or dactylography, began nearly 4,000 years ago in the “Fertile Crescent,” the land between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in present day Iraq. King Ham-murabi (1955-1913 BC) used � nger seals on contracts and law o� cers of the day were authorized to secure � ngerprints of arrested persons.

In AD 650, nearly 600 years before Marco Polo visited “Cathay,” Chinese historian Kia Kung-Yen wrote of � n-gerprints used in an older method of preparing contracts. The law book of Yung-Hwui of the same period listed that the husband in a divorce decree had to sign the document with his � n-gerprint.

In AD 1100, Chinese novelist Shi-Naingan wrote in his book, The Story of the River Bank, “He compelled them to ink their � ngers to record their � ngerprints.”

1823 Nine fingerprints patterns documentedA di� erent professor named Johannes Evengelista Purkinje documented nine speci� c patterns to help identify types of � ngerprints. Even with his discovery, the use of � ngerprints did not catch on quite yet.

1880 Fingerprints are used to identify someoneA doctor in Tokyo became very inter-ested in � ngerprinting. Dr Henry Faulds used � ngerprints to identify who had left a stray bottle lying around—he matched � ngerprints left on the bottle with a laboratory worker.

1896 Fingerprints use for criminal identificationInternational Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP), Establish National Bureau of Criminal Identi� cation, for the ex-change of arrest information

1901 Sir Edward Henry develops the first system of classifying fingerprintsSir Edward Henry, an inspector gen-eral of police in the then Bengal, India, develops the � rst system of classifying � ngerprints. This system of classifying � ngerprints. This system of classifying

� ngerprints was � rst adopted as the of-� cial system in England, and eventually spread throughout.

1903 America begins using fingerprintsThe New York Police Department, and others across the state, began using � ngerprints as a way to identify people. Over the next few years, the practice slowly spread westward.

1911 First person to be convicted of murder in the US based on fingerprint evidenceIn December 21, 1911, the Illinois Su-preme Court upheld the admissibility of � ngerprint evidence concluding that � ngerprints are a reliable form of iden-ti� cation. Thomas Jennings was the � rst person to be convicted of murder in the US based on � ngerprint evidence.

1924 Fingerprints move to FBI territoryThe Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) took over the cataloguing of � n-gerprints in America. By 1971 they had over 200m � ngerprints on � le.

1969 FBI pushes to make fingerprint recognition an automated processIn 1969, the Federal Bureau of Investi-gation (FBI) began its push to develop a system to automate its � ngerprint identi� cation process, which was quickly becoming overwhelming and required many man-hours. The FBI contracted the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to study the process of automating � n-gerprint identi� cation. NIST identi� ed two key challenges: (1) scanning � n-gerprint cards and identifying minutiae and (2) comparing and matching lists of minutiae.

1974 First commercial hand geometry systems become availableThe � rst commercial hand geometry recognition systems became available in the early 1970s, arguably the � rst commercially available biometric device after the early deployments of � nger-printing in the late 1960s. These sys-

tems were implemented for three main purposes: physical access control; time and attendance; and personal identi� -cation.

1990 Computerised fingerprintingWith the advancement in technology, programmes began using Automated Fingerprint Identi� cation Systems. The AFIS’s scanned and stored � ngerprints electronically.

1992 Biometric Consortium is established within US governmentThe National Security Agency initiated the formation of the Biometric Consorti-um and held its � rst meeting in October of 1992. The Consortium was chartered in 1995 by the Security Policy Board, which was abolished in 2001.

1994 Inspass is implementedThe Immigration and Naturalisdation Service Passenger Accelerated Service System (Inspass) was a biometrics im-plementation that allowed travellers to bypass immigration lines at selected airports throughout the US until it was discontinued in late 2004.

1999 FBI’s IAFIS major components become operationalIAFIS, the FBI’s large-scale ten-� nger-print (open-set) identi� cation system, became operational. Prior to the de-velopment of the standards associated with this system, a � ngerprint collected on one system could not be searched against � ngerprints on another system.

2002 ISO/IEC standards committee on biometrics is establishedThe International Organisation for Standardization (ISO) established the ISO/IEC JTC1 Subcommittee 37 (JTC1 /SC37) to support the standardisation of generic biometric technologies. The Subcommittee develops standards to promote interoperability and data in-terchange between applications and systems.

2003 ICAO adopts blueprint to integrate biometrics into machine readable travel documentsOn May, 28 2003, The International Civ-

il Aviation Organisation (ICAO) adopted a global, harmonised blueprint for the integration of biometric identi� cation information into passports and other Machine Readable Travel Documents (MRTDs).

2004 DOD implements AbisThe Automated Biometric Identi� ca-tion System (Abis) is a Department of Defence (DoD) system implemented to improve the US government’s ability to track and identify national security threats.

2008 US government begin coordinating biometric database useFinger image and facial quality measure-ment algorithms and related toolset de-velopment was � nalised. An iris quality measurement algorithm was also devel-oped. The FBI and Department of De-fence also started working on next gen-eration databases designed to include iris, face and palm data, in addition to � ngerprint records.

2010 US national security apparatus utilises biometrics for terrorist identificationA � ngerprint from evidence collected at the believed 9/11 planning location was positively matched to a GITMO detain-ee. Other � ngerprints were identi� ed from items seized at other locations as-sociated with 9/11.

2011 Biometric identification used to identify body of Osama bin LadenAlong with DNA, the CIA used facial recog-nition technology to identify the remains of Osama bin Laden with 95% certainty.

2013 Apple includes fingerprint scanners into consumer-targed smartphonesTouch ID is a � ngerprint recognition feature, designed and released by Ap-ple Inc., that was made available on the iPhone 5S, the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, the iPad Air 2, and the iPad Mini 3.

Sources: Crime Scene Training, Crime Scene Forensics, FBI, HowStu� Works,

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S China Sea: Why China-Philippines court case matters

A landmark ruling on an arbitration case � led by the Philippines that seeks to strike down China's expansive territorial claims in the South China Sea will be a test for international law and world powers. China, which demands one-on-one talks to resolve the disputes, has boycotted the case and vowed to ignore the verdict, which will be handed down Tuesday by the UN tribunal in The Hague. Here are some key questions about the case--

What is the case about?The South China Sea has been a potential � ashpoint among Asian rivals. But in 2013 the Philippines moved to establish accepted principles in the vola-tile region with a case it lodged at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea in The Hague, Netherlands. The tribunal will not rule on competing territorial claims between China and the Philippines, but on maritime rights attached to what is being claimed by Beijing. It will question whether islands that China has been building up from outcrops and partially submerged reefs have any legal claims in surrounding waters. It will also rule on the le-gal validity of the "Nine-Dash Line", geographical markings which de� ne the boundary of China’s claims.

How did it start?Although the disputes have simmered for decades, they gradually escalat-ed under former Philippine President Benigno Aquino III and culminated in 2012 when China took e� ective control of the disputed Scarborough Shoal after a tense stando� . US o� cials brokered an arrangement for Philippine government vessels and larger Chinese maritime surveillance ships to si-multaneously withdraw from the tiny shoal, a deal which Aquino said he fol-lowed. Chinese ships never left. The Philippines said it had no other choice but to elevate the dispute to international arbitration.

Why does it matter?The legal status attached to China’s man-made islands has been a growing point of contention not only between Beijing and its neighbours. Territorial waters can extend from 12 to 200 nautical miles from the shoreline of states, depending on whether they are classed as islands, rocks or a national coast-line. But the US and the Philippines argue that such rights do not apply to ar-ti� cial islands. China’s Asian rivals also claim that the Nine-Dash Line is illegal as it cuts through the territorial waters of states, as de� ned by international law. The energy-rich South China Sea has some of the world’s most impor-tant shipping lanes, in which more than $5tn of trade passes every year.

Will the arbitration change anything?Any ruling will be � nal and legally binding on China and the Philippines. Chi-na's decision to ignore the case and the arbitration tribunal's lack of enforce-ment mechanism, however, have blunted the Philippines' move.

Why did china refuse to take part in the case?China has argued that the tribunal does not have jurisdiction to handle the Philippine case, because it says it involves sovereignty issues, which are out-side the tribunal's legal purview. While masking its case as an e� ort to clarify maritime rights under the UN convention, the Philippines is actually trying to undermine China's "indisputable sovereignty," according to Chinese o� cials. l

Sources: AP, THE TELEGRAPH, FT

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Capital market snapshot: MondayDSE

Broad Index 4,505.2 0.2% ▲

Index 1,106.5 0.2% ▲

30 Index 1,756.8 -0.2% ▼

Turnover in Mn Tk 2,727.6 30.2% ▲

Turnover in Mn Vol 103.6 36.5% ▲

CSEAll Share Index 13,829.6 0.3% ▲

30 Index 12,774.9 0.1% ▲

Selected Index 8,414.7 0.3% ▲

Turnover in Mn Tk 148.8 29.4% ▲

Turnover in Mn Vol 7.2 41.3% ▲

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APG meeting in Dhaka postponed Asia Paci� c Group on Money Laundering has postponed its 19th annual general meeting, according to a press release issued yesterday. PAGE 13

China’s giant savings bank not as safe as it seems Postal Savings Bank of China began life as part of the country’s postal network. But for prospec-tive investors in the lender’s impending Hong Kong o� ering, it’s not as safe as such staid origins might imply. PAGE 14

UK’s tax cut goal: Calm business, scare Brussels Could Britain’s future outside the European Union be as a tax haven? Chancellor George Osborne on July 3 said he wanted to cut the UK’s corporation tax rate to 15%. That raises fears the UK could e� ectively turn into a refuge for big corpora-tions and impoverish countries who compete with it. Instead, it’s best to see the prospect of tax cuts as a con-tinuation of politics by other means. PAGE 15

Target for 300K new taxpayers in FY17n Syed Samiul Basher Anik

The revenue authorities have tar-geted to increase the number of total taxpayers by 300,000 in this � scal year. The current number is 1.2m.

After instructions from the government high-ups, the Nation-al Board of Revenue has already started working on the matter.

Finance Minister AMA Muhith last month held a meeting with the NBR and asked tax o� cials to set strategies for the expansion of tax base.

At present, less than 1% of the country’s population are regular taxpayers, according to the gov-ernment.

But NBR says there are at least 7m more people in the country earning enough money but not paying taxes. NBR estimated the number considering the country’s economic size and activities.

A little more than 1.75m of them have tax identi� cation numbers (TINs) while around 1.2m submit income tax returns regularly.

Trade bodies including Fed-eration of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry have long been urging the government to raise the number of taxpayers to meet revenue collection target.

NBR has taken various initiatives including external surveys to � nd new taxpayers. But nothing could produce adequate results mainly due to lack of follow-ups and coor-

dination between the departments concerned, o� cials said.

NBR sources said the surveys were mostly focused on major cit-ies like Dhaka and Chittagong keep-ing other areas out of the scanner.

“Survey wing and monitoring wing of the NBR work separately. Although the survey wing found new taxpayers, monitoring wing didn’t maintain proper supervi-sion and follow-up making the e� ort almost unsuccessful,” a top NBR o� cial said.

He said around 70% of the po-tential taxpayers found in the sur-

veys were businessmen, but 90% of them dodged paying taxes due to lack of surveillance and moni-toring.

According to a 2013 NBR study titled “successes and future ac-tion plan, challenges and pros-pects of tax survey and inspection wing,” the � eld-level tax o� ces remained busy doing regular as-sessment activities in addition to regular activities to meet revenue collection target.

It said therefore the o� cials didn’t get enough time to carry out external surveys.

O� cials blamed not having a proper database and manpower in � eld o� ces for the poor results in the tax base expansion e� orts.

In 2012 the NBR conducted a survey and identi� ed 163,000 peo-ple who were not paying taxes de-spite their adequate income levels.

Tax o� cials said the NBR was able to identify and get 270,000 new taxpayers under the tax net through joint and separate survey activities.

They said initiatives were also underway to � nd potential taxpay-ers through spot assessment. l

Bangladesh still not on US trade bene� ciary list n Tribune Business Desk

Bangladesh has been kept out of the trade bene� ciary list from the United States as workers rights are not satisfactory to the United States Trade Representative (USTR).

On June 30, the USTR an-nounced Major Expansion of Trade Preferences for the Least Developed and African countries aiming to pro-mote poverty alleviation and eco-nomic growth in poorest countries.

In the annual review, the list of bene� ciaries for the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) were upgraded, where Bangladesh was left out of the list on labour rights ground.

Fiji, Georgia, Ecuador, Niger, the Philippines, Thailand, Ukraine, Iraq, Indonesia and Uzbekistan have also fallen from the list this time, mostly due to poor labour rights.

In 2013, the US government suspended trade facilities for Bangladesh under GSP scheme af-ter the Rana Plaza collapse, which

raised question about the work-ers’ safety and rights in the coun-try’s apparel industry.

On the day, the O� ce of USTR announced the outcome of the Obama Administration’s Annual Product Review under the Gener-alized System of Preferences (GSP) programme.

This review adds new duty-free status for travel goods (including luggage, backpacks, handbags, and wallets) for Least Developed Bene� ciary Developing Countries (LDBDCs) and African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) countries.

GSP is a 40-year-old trade prefer-ence programme under which the United States provides duty-free treatment to many imports from bene� ciary developing countries and additional products for LDBDCs.

“Trade preference programs such as GSP and AGOA can make a powerful contribution to lifting people out of poverty and sup-porting growth in some of the poorest countries in the world,

while also reducing costs to Amer-ican consumers and businesses,” said U.S. Trade Representative Mi-chael Froman.

“We have used these programs to give bene� ciary countries a vi-tal leg up vis-à-vis more advanced competitors.”

After the suspension of GSP, the US government has outlined a 16-point Bangladesh Action Plan to get back the trade facilities. The Bangladesh government has

claimed that it has implemented the conditions and placed reports to the authority concerned, but the US government is saying lots of pro-gress has been made, but it is not up to the mark and it requires more to do to meet the desired level.

According to the Export Pro-motion Bureau (EPB) data, in Ju-ly-May period of the just conclud-ed � scal year, Bangladesh’s export earnings from the United State stood at $5.6 billion. l

National Board of Revenue regularly organises tax fairs to encourage tax payment DHAKA TRIBUNE

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APG meeting in Dhaka postponed n Asif Showkat Kallol

Asia Paci� c Group on Money Laun-dering has postponed its 19th an-nual general meeting, according to a press release issued yesterday.

It was scheduled to be held on July 23-28 in Dhaka. Now it will be held in the United States in Sep-tember. According to the state-ment, details of the venue and time will be posted as soon as � nal arrangements are made.

But earlier on the day Finance Minister AMA Muhith said the APG annual meeting would be held in due time.

He said: “There is no reason to change and postpone or not to par-ticipate in the meeting.”

“We have been engaged with APG for last 7 years and worked on anti-money laundering activities. We have improved anti-money laundering situation in our country after working with the group,” Mu-hith said.

He said until 2013 Bangladesh was on a list of suspect countries where money-laundering activities are believed to be widespread.

“The current situation regard-ing money laundering and terrorist � nancing in Bangladesh is pretty good.”

After the APG press release, Bank and Financial Institutions Division o� cials said they had got hints earlier that the meeting could be postponed due to security rea-

sons after recent terrorist attacks in the country.

“But we have prepared a pro-gress report on implementing anti-money laundering and coun-ter-terrorism � nancing standards in Bangladesh. This will be placed in the meeting,” said an o� cial.

As per earlier arrangement, the representatives from the Philip-pines and the United States were supposed to attend the week-long meeting which was scheduled to be held Radisson Hotel in Dhaka. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was expected to inaugurate the meet-ing on July 23.

Bangladesh was kept out of the gray list in 2013 after being placed there alongside countries with a

bad record in regulatory a� airs on money laundering in 2008 by the Paris-based FATF. The APG is an af-� liate body of the task force.

Members from Philippines, the United States, Hong Kong, Sri Lan-ka, China, the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Russia, and observers from eight countries will also participate in the meeting. A total of 400 foreign and local repre-sentatives will also attend.

The UN, UN O� ce on Drugs and Crime, World Bank, World Cus-toms Organization, IMF and the prevention of money laundering and terrorism � nancing observers active in various regional and in-ternational organisations will also participate. l

Quader: Terror attacks not to a� ect metro rail work n Shohel Mamun

Road Transport and Bridges Min-ister Obaidul Quader said the met-ro rail and Padma bridge projects would go ahead as per schedule despite security concerns.

“The metro rail work will go on uninterrupted,” he said while exchanging Eid greetings with of-� cers and employees at his minis-try conference room yesterday.

Many feared Japan would pull out of the country in the aftermath of the deadly terror attack in a Dha-ka cafe that killed seven Japanese among others. Most of the Japa-nese victims were visiting Bangla-desh as metro rail consultants.

“Jica has assured us that it will remain engaged in Bangladesh,” Quader told reporters in Dhaka on Monday.

Japan International Cooperation Agency has also decided to send 10 metro rail feasibility study experts to Bangladesh.

“The government will provide security for Japanese nationals at their residents and workplaces. Su� cient security measures will be taken to ensure their safety,” Oba-diul Quader said.

He said the government has taken necessary measures for en-suring security for all foreigners including the Japan International Cooperation Agency (Jica) sta� .

The minister expressed deep shock at the two recent terror at-tacks. “But we must move forward with the promise.”

BSS reports that reviewing the ministry’s activities, the minister said that no three wheelers would be allowed to ply on the 22 high-ways. He vowed to bring discipline on the roads. l

Stocks � nish � at in choppy trading n Tribune Business Desk

Stocks closed � at amid extreme volatile trade yesterday with trad-ing activities continued to remain lacklustre despite improvement.

The market moved between neg-ative and positive throughout the trading session as risk-averse inves-tors remained indecisive on putting fresh investment, brokers say.

Mutual fund and fundamental stocks were in buyers’ radar ahead of annual declaration which sup-ported the market to close DSEX in � at green zone, they said.

The DSE benchmark index DSEX rose nearly 9 points to close at 4,505, after registering lower in previous session.

The blue-chip comprising index DS30 rose about 3 points to 1,756.

The DSE Shariah Index DSES saw a marginal gain of 2 points to close at 1,106.

The Chittagong Stock Exchange Selective Category Index CSCX was up 43 points to 8,414.

DSE turnover stood at Tk217 crore, up 30% over the previous session. Pharmaceuticals sector had the highest contribution of 21% of the total turnover.

Mutual funds shined on the day as top 10 gainers were from mutual funds sector that rallied 4.4%, led by PHP Mutual Fund One with a rise of 8.9%.

Mutual funds also showed the highest turnover increase of over 327% while IT Sector showed the highest turnover loss of 39.4%.

All other large cap sectors posted positive performances. Banks gained 0.7%, extending their gaining streak for the second straight session.

Telecommunication sector in-creased by 0.58%, power 0.53%, food & allied 0.3% and engineering 0.22%. l

Marcel sees robust sales in Ramadan n Tribune Business Desk

The local consumer-based electron-ics’ manufacturer ‘Marcel’ said it has seen a robust growth in the sales of its products during the Ramadan.

During the period, the compa-ny’s sale moved up by around 50% compared to that in last year, a re-lease of the company said recently.

Mosharraf Hossain Razib, mar-keting head of Marcel for the north region, said the application of state-of-the art technology in the production process, world-class quality, unique design and colour, plus reasonable rates and easy in-stallment facility, resulted in gain-ing the customers’ faith that led to a remarkable business growth in recent times.

The overall turnover in the Ram-adan surpassed the Marcel’s sales target of 40% higher than that of the last year’s Ramadan.

In June, about 150% more fridg-es were sold out against the sales of May. The ‘intelligent inverter’ tech-nology’s no-frost refrigerators are playing a key role in pushing up the overall sale of the products.

Considering the customers’ choices and purchasing power, Marcel has released new models

of electronics, electrical and home appliances with unique designs at a� ordable rates in the current year.

The new products include refrig-erators and fridges; CRT (Cathode Ray Tube) and LED (Light Emitting Diode) televisions; air condition-er; motorcycle; generator; electric bulb; LED bulb; switch socket; bat-tery; blender, gas stove and other home and kitchen appliances.

A good number of Marcel brand’s frost and intelligent invert-er no-frost refrigerators, produced in line with the country’s weather

and people’s food habit, air con-ditioners, LED televisions, deep freezes, blender, induction cooker and other home appliances were sold out across the country during the Ramadan.

Following the Eid ul-Fitr, the company released two models (1 lit-er and 1.5 liter) of high quality blend-er machine, according to the release.

Besides, latest technology-based world-class 28-inch and 32-inch LED televisions at a� ordable rates have been released recently in the con-sumer-based electronics’ market. l

An outlet of Marcel electronic products in Dhaka COURTESY

LafargeHolcim agrees to sell Lafarge India to Nirma n Reuters

LafargeHolcim has agreed to sell its Lafarge India business to Nir-ma Ltd for an enterprise value of around $1.4bn, the world’s biggest cement maker said yesterday.

“This agreement is an impor-tant step in our 3.5bn Swiss franc ($3.56bn ) divestment programme,” LafargeHolcim Chief Executive Eric Olsen said in a statement.

“With this deal, two-thirds of the programme has been secured and the remainder of the program is well on track. We are con� dent that we will meet our target by the end of this year.” l

Muhith: BB heist report to be published in few days n Tribune Business Desk

Finance Minister AMA Muhith yes-terday said the � nal probe report on the Bangladesh Bank cyber heist will be made public in a few days.

The report was earlier submit-ted by the probe committee formed by the government.

“The report (on Bangladesh Bank account heist) will be published in

a few days. It has been � nalised.” Muhith told reporters at his secre-tariat o� ce after the exchange of Eid greetings with o� cials of the � nance ministry yesterday.

He claimed actions are under-way as per the recommendation made in the probe report.

The probe committee was head-ed by former Bangladesh Bank Governor Mohammed Farashud-

din who hinted that there could be assistance from within the Bangla-desh Bank sta� to the hackers.

After submitting the report, Far-ashuddin said: “We have to give the government time to disclose the re-port as the matter is sensitive. A big national interest is involved.”

He feared some of the suspects might escape if the report was dis-closed quickly. l

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Fog of Brexit clouds outlook for central banks seeking clarity n Reuters, Washington

For much of this year, the dol-lar, oil prices, and economic conditions largely behaved as the US Federal Reserve had expected, allowing policy-makers to plot further interest rate increases.

Not anymore. Since Brit-ain’s June 23 vote to leave the European Union, every piece of economic, such as Fri-day’s jobs report, data comes with a question mark - how much does it re� ect domes-tic economic developments and how much the short and long-term implications of an economic reordering that may take years to play out.

For Fed policymakers it means balancing the mainly positive � ow of US indica-tors against the risk that ma-jor trading partners fall into recession, the dollar surges again, or the terms of Brit-ain’s divorce stress the global

� nancial system. With past overseas events

of similar importance, such as the euro zone debt crisis, it has taken the Fed months to get clarity. Brexit may prove

just as di� cult to decipher, already helping lift the dollar and drive US Treasury yields to historic lows - both trends making it harder for the Fed to move.

“You don’t know how long that is going to last and indeed we don’t know the magnitude,” Federal Reserve Governor Daniel Tarullo said on Wednesday. “I doubt there will be a moment where peo-

ple say, okay, Brexit is done.” Britain’s decision comes at

time when the Fed has grown more sensitive to interna-tional events, postponing what seemed to be imminent rate increases twice since last summer because of events far from US borders. In minutes of the June meeting, released on Wednesday, policymakers explicitly tied consideration of further rate increases to “additional data on the con-sequences of the UK vote”.

No one expects the United States to slip into a recession because of Brexit. However, recent research by the Fed, the Bank for International Settlements, the Internation-al Monetary Fund and some private economists has raised the possibility that the Fed may be fundamentally con-strained by outside events, like the UK vote, that have made recovery slow and the Fed’s in� ation goal elusive. l

Planemakers shrug o� economy worries as travel demand grows n Reuters

Top planemakers shrugged o� worries about a faltering global economy on the opening day of the Farnborough Airshow on Monday, with Airbus announcing a $4.4bn order and Boeing raising its 20-year forecast for jet demand.

Airbus said it had struck a deal to sell 12 of its biggest twin-en-gined plane, the A350-1000, to Vir-gin Atlantic.

Boeing forecast the world’s air-lines would need 39,620 new air-craft worth $5.9tn over the next 20 years to meet rising air travel, par-ticularly in Asia, and demand for more fuel-e� cient planes.

That is up 4.1% from its estimate last year and would mark a dou-bling in size of the global commer-cial aircraft � eet.

Planemakers have enjoyed years of strong demand, with the indus-try’s order backlog standing at a record 13,500 planes at the end of 2015, or 9.6 years of production at current rates.

But analysts are worried eco-nomic risks - from slowing growth in China to Britain’s move to leave the European Union - could see orders dry up and some even can-celed, particularly for larger twin-aisle jets.

David Joyce, chief executive of aero engines maker GE Aviation,

said at the airshow that he did not see any need for further increas-es in planned jetliner production, which Airbus and Boeing are both considering to meet their order backlogs.

Nonetheless, planemakers re-mained upbeat, with Boeing fore-casting airline passenger tra� c would increase by 4.8% a year over the next two decades.

“Despite recent events that have impacted the � nancial markets, the aviation sector will continue to see long-term growth with the commercial � eet doubling in size,” said Randy Tinseth, vice president of marketing at Boeing Commercial Airplanes.

Narrowbody or widebody? Opening the airshow, British Prime Minister David Cameron � nalised multi-billion dollar deals with Boe-ing to buy nine P-8A Poseidon mar-itime patrol planes and to upgrade 50 Apache helicopters.

Airbus’s deal for the A350-1000 with Virgin Atlantic is a shot in the arm for the 366-seat model whose sales have slowed as Boeing devel-ops a larger version of its 777.

Virgin Atlantic said still had op-tions to buy six of Airbus’s A380 superjumbos, although industry sources have told Reuters that long-deferred deal is likely to be canceled. l

China’s giant savings bank not as safe as it seems n Rachel Morarjee

Postal Savings Bank of China began life as part of the country’s postal network. But for prospective in-vestors in the lender’s impending Hong Kong o� ering, it’s not as safe as such staid origins might imply.

The bank’s broad reach is one of th e things that sets it apart from other big Chinese lenders. More than one in three citizens has an account at one of PSBC’s 40,000 branches scattered throughout the People’s Republic. In many rural areas it is the only bank in town, which makes its deposit base fairly sticky – though the growth of inter-net � nance poses a threat to that market position.

PSBC has also made fewer loans to bloated state � rms than rivals, which means it has avoid-ed racking up as many bad debts. Non-performing loans accounted for just 0.81% of the total at the end of March – less than half the o� cial industry average. With a loan book equivalent to just 40% of its depos-it base, PSBC has plenty of scope to extend credit to consumers and small businesses.

Yet its sleepy pro� le masks sev-eral risks. For one, pro� tability is low. PSBC’s return on assets was an anaemic 0.67% in March, up from 0.57% in December 2013 but still well below the industry average of

1.1%. Its core Tier One capital ratio is a skimpy 8.35% of risk-weighted assets – though the IPO proceeds will help strengthen this.

PSBC has also poured its excess deposits into some questionable investments. Last year, it spent $116bn on long-term bonds issued by China Development Bank and Agricultural Development Bank of China – two state-owned policy banks – to help fund a government drive to boost construction. That looks more like party apparatchiks following orders than an institu-tion driven by commercial logic.

The lender has also strayed into riskier assets in an attempt to boost its pro� tability. At the end of March, instruments such as wealth man-agement products, funds and in-vestment products issued by other � nancial institutions accounted for 12.4% of its $1.2tn balance sheet – up from just 2.7% at the end of 2013.

PSBC may look safer than many of China’s overextended state lenders. But that doesn’t make it risk-free. l

Rachel Morarjee is a Reuters Breakingviews columnist. The article was initially published at Reuters.

A man pushes his bicycle past a branch of China Post’s Postal Savings Bank of China REUTERS

You don’t know how long that is going to last and indeed we don’t know the magnitude

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Mohammed Mahtabur Rahman has recently been elected as chairperson of NRB Bank Limited, said a press release

UK’s tax cut goal: Calm business, scare Brussels n George Hay

Could Britain’s future outside the European Union be as a tax haven? Chancellor George Osborne on July 3 said he wanted to cut the UK’s cor-poration tax rate to 15%. That raises fears the UK could ef-fectively turn into a refuge for big corporations and impov-erish countries who compete with it. Instead, it’s best to see the prospect of tax cuts as a continuation of politics by other means.

Reducing the rate of tax companies pay on their pro� t from its current 20% should tell any UK-domi-ciled business considering its future to think twice about leaving. That is im-portant because the UK faces years of uncertainty as it negotiates its leaving package. The message is ef-fectively this: up sticks now, and risk missing out on a UK tax rate almost 10 per-centage points below what KPMG calculates as the 25% average for OECD states.

The other signal is to the 27 remaining states in the European Union. EU rules let countries set whatever tax rates they want, so long as they are applied without favour. Britain’s rate has been steadily reduced from 28% in 2010. But pledging to reduce it below 15% – in touching distance of Ire-land’s 12.5% – opens the

door to other, more aggres-sive policies. Freed from the EU rules, the UK could em-ploy beggar-thy-neighbour tax policies via preferential regimes for certain sectors.

Osborne’s � exibility to go tax haven-tastic can be overstated. Corporation tax raised 43bn pounds in the year to April 2015, 6.5% of total tax receipts, and each percentage point cut lops 2bn pounds o� the total, according to HM Treasury analysis. If lower rates don’t entice more companies to � ood to the UK, lower busi-ness rates could hit poorer people at a politically sensi-tive time – either via higher taxes elsewhere, or because companies might not pass on their higher pro� ts in the form of higher wages.

While Britain is a tax-rate outlier, restrictive rules on capital allowances that in� ate corporate tax bases mean it is less so in terms of the tax rates that companies pay in practice, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies. That gives Osborne some wiggle room to claim he hasn’t turned Britain into the Cayman Islands – while artfully suggesting to Brus-sels that he might.

George Hay coordinates European � nancial coverage and writes about macroeconomics, the euro zone and UK/European � nancial policy.

Asian oil re� ners cut output to � ght oversupply, low margins n Reuters, Singapore

Oil re� ners in Asia are processing less crude as they grapple with margins that plunged to � ve-year lows after the region was � ooded with supply of re� ned products and as slowing economic growth hits demand for fuels.

Asian re� ners typically increase utilisation rates from July after car-rying out regular maintenance in the second quarter, building stocks of fuels such as diesel and gasoline to meet demand that peaks in summer.

But this year, several Asian re-� ners are maintaining or reducing crude throughput in July and Au-

gust after re� neries around the re-gion in the � rst quarter binged on the cheapest crude in over a decade, swamping Asia with excess fuel, in-dustry sources and analysts said.

“Falling re� ning margins are prompting re� ners to consider economical run cuts,” said Sri Par-avaikkarasu, a senior consultant at

energy analysts FGE. “This will help to clear some

surplus in the second half of 2016.” A near doubling in oil prices

from January has also pressured margins, or the amount of prof-it a re� nery makes on processing crude.

Less demand for crude from

Asian re� neries in combination with factors such as a gradual re-covery in US shale production could drag on any continued recov-ery in benchmark oil prices.

“The ... ripple e� ect into crude demand is not helpful for oil bal-ances and prices,” Morgan Stanley analysts said in a note yesterday . l

n Mahmood Hossain

The animated series Pokémon has been around for a little over two decades. The series itself garnered an entire generation through television, eventually giving birth to the card game and videogame series for Nintendo’s Game Boy. And to no surprise, when the developers made Pokémon Go for the iOS and Android smartphones, people all over the world went bananas. The app has become so popular that the server had crashed a few times from the

moment of its release. That, of course, didn’t stop people from downloading and heading o� to unchartered territories to � nd random Pokémon.

Fans of this franchise will tell you how they’ve been waiting for this kind of game or app since the introduction of the show back in 1995. Unfortunately for us here in Bangladesh, the app is available for download but won’t be fully functional. It’s like when Google decides to roll out their new updates for Android, you’ll have to

be a bit patient with this popular new gaming app. What we mean by that is, you won’t be able to catch too many Pokémon in the initial stages. Whether you have an Android or an iPhone, one thing is for sure: your battery is going to take a huge hit.

A whole lot of Poké balls The app is very similar to that of the Game Boy games of the past. However, when you had control of the lead character Ash in the videogame, this app makes it all about you. Well, kind of. Even though you are in control of your own adventure, the customisation is very limited for the time being. This, until the updates start rolling in, is what every user around the world is facing. Although the rest of the world has the advantage of playing and catching Pokémon right away, it shouldn’t stop you from beginning the app and setting things to your liking. Go ahead and get familiar with it.

What this game/app is aiming to do is let the users experience a real life Pokémon adventure. The start of the app, again, is quite similar to that of Ash’s adventures from the beginning of the franchise. You are able to � rst choose your avatar with some pre-set colours or themes. Soon after the game’s

Pokémon professor introduces you to three Pokémon that you’ll be able to start the journey with. Don’t get too excited. You’re only allowed to choose one for the moment. Once you’ve chucked your Poké ball to catch your � rst pokemon, you’re then able to view your position in the city you live in.

You read that correctly. You’ll see your avatar, through your phone’s GPS, on a Google Map-like layout. Each step you take, your avatar follows. That’s right folks,

you’ll need to perform in real life, rather than planting your butt on the couch. Here’s the cool part. Once you’ve set out looking for new Pokémon on your map, you’ll tend to � nd certain Pokémon in their own habitat. For example, a water-based Pokémon will be found around a body of water or Pokémon like Meowth can be

found within the hustle and bustle of the city.

The end gameThe entire goal of the game is to get people to actually move around the city, be active and explore. Then again, sometimes some places are better left unvisited. Recently, one player ran into a dead body while searching for a particular Pokémon. How creepy is that? True story. Apart from running into unfavourable places, and we urge you all to play this app very carefully, the app isn’t completely usable for us here in Dhaka. As mentioned before, once the developers continue to add more features (like Google Map), they’ll be able to deliver the service in the app that everyone around the world is able to use right now.

You can explore, catch Pokémon, � nd Pokémon gyms, � nd other trainers to team up, battle others, trade with others and watch your progress grow. While it’s great to see your phone’s camera turn on when you’re about to catch a cute little creature, it’s good to keep in mind this isn’t the same gaming experience as you could � nd in a Game Boy cartridge. In any case, it’s got all of the major elements in the Pokémon world, which makes it the perfect casual gaming app for your smartphone. And let’s not forget, it’ll take plenty of your phone’s data and battery. Not to mention, do not Pokémon Go and drive. That’s a no-no, so stay safe.l

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Gotta catch ‘em all

What this game/app is aiming to do is let the users experience a real life Pokémon adventure

Pokémon Go’s success has boosted Nintendo’s stocks to $7.5bn

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Mobile Internet Taxation:The Bangladesh Paradoxn Syed Ibrahim Saajid

Let’s start with a trivia: what is the highest taxed, non-luxury product in Bangladesh? Yes, you probably got it right, mobile telecom services is hands down the winner. Currently, the net taxation on any type of mobile telecom services (de� ned as services provided through SIM/RIM) is currently 21.75%. This basically means that, in order to consume Tk100 worth of telecom services, you have to pay approximately Tk22 to the government treasury.

Mobile telecom service basically means talking over cellular phones, sending text messages, browsing the internet and so on. This industry has had massive progressive impact on the socio-economic scenario of Bangladesh in the last two decades. The biggest revolution of this industry came in September 2013 when 3G services were � nally launched in Bangladesh. In roughly three years since the launch, the telecom subscribers base has grown rapidly by 21% and with it, the internet subscribers base has grown by 72%, a whooping leap from 35million to 60million. These new 25million internet users have been able to jump on the global online bandwagon only because of the availability and convenience o� ered by mobile phones. Now questions may arise, how did previous internet pricing have rendered this growth thus far and how the new taxation policies is likely to have implications in the future.

When the 3G services were launched, an average price of a 1GB internet package was approximately Tk300 without tax. The � nal price would come up to Tk345 when a 15% VAT is added. Now, the average price of a 1GB package is around Tk200 without tax while the � nal price is 243.5tk with 21.75% of tax. It is interesting to see how telecom operators reducing the price of internet by roughly 33%, the government’s share from the same service has increased by 45% in the last three years. The graph below will provide a better idea of the scenario:

Just like the mobile voice service has positively impacted Bangladesh in the early 2000s, the widespread availability of high speed 3G internet has the potential of transforming the economy to the next level. We are already experiencing the boom of e-commerce in Bangladesh. A lot of new start-ups

are coming up with innovative ideas with ICT as the basic platform. However, in order for these businesses to become a signi� cant, mainstream industry, it is crucial that they attract customers for all geographies and socio-economic classes of the country. So it is imperative to ensure internet availability at a low cost in every corner of the country to facilitate this new sector. More importantly, the majority of new internet subscribers are now coming from the rural areas as the telecom operators are gradually establishing 3G network in the deep pockets of the country. So the burden of this incremental tax is falling mainly on the rural people for whom internet services is not simply a luxury, but rather it holds the potential to change their lives for the better.

The telecom sector is an important contributor to the government’s earnings. However, it is important to understand the need for the prioritisation of tax burden based on strategic planning. So, the government can think of reducing the overall 21.75% taxation (comprising of VAT, supplementary duty and surcharges) at least on the internet packages, so that the internet revolution in Bangladesh continues to gain momentum and the marginal population can also reap the bene� ts.l

The author is currently working as a pricing specialist in Grameenphone Limited. The opinions expressed above are solely based on the author’s personal views and do not represent that of his employer.

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kinds of people to avoid on Facebook during an emergency

The Internuts are taking over5

n Sabrina Fatma Ahmad

As much as old-timers like to reminisce over the “good old days”, we’ve never not had trouble brewing somewhere in the horizon. From the intense, bloody birth of the nation to present day, it’s been a rocky road politically and otherwise, and if recent events are any indication, we have a long way to go in search of that elusive holy grail called “peace”.

We can only imagine what the wartime situation was like for the previous generation, before the introduction of cell phones and the Internet into daily life. The advent of social media means everyone now has front-row access to unfolding events during a crisis situation. While that means it’s easier to do great good, like crowd-sourcing volunteers and relief funding during the Rana Plaza event, it also means that a moment of panic can quickly go out of control, particularly when you’re faced with these � ve types of people on social media.

The conspiracy theorist

“What’s that sound? Bomb attack! I bet

it was the Chinese who did it..it’s always

the Chinese...you can’t trust them.

Also, Elvis lives!” The dust hasn’t even

settled on an event, and you’ll � nd the

web crawling with people who jump at

shadows and imagine hidden motives

behind everything.

Admittedly, nothing is ever how

it seems, but an emergency situation

is just the time to keep calm, not go

chasing windmills.

Too soon, broImpending disaster tends

to produce a sort of gallows

humour for some people.

Used properly, humour can

be e� ective at alleviating

stress, and sometimes even

lead to social changes. But

that’s pretty rare on Facebook.

There’s nothing like a crisis to

send these troll � gures into

overdrives as they salivate

over the insensitive jokes they

can make, all for a few extra

likes and shares.

The Backseat DriverEat your heart out, Goethe. Whether it’s hartal violence or a hostage situation, this person has “expert” advice for the people on the ground. From commentary on police tactics, to economic analysis, the Backseat Driver seems to have pro� ciency over a diverse portfolio of topics. Not that the police or the media or the policy makers are above reproach, but during a developing crisis, can you picture said police or media pausing to check their newsfeeds to take advice before proceeding? We thought not.

The blame gameSomething we probably learned from our glorious leaders, everything is always someone else’s fault. The players of the blame game aren’t just satis� ed with the usual suspects of authority � gures, no. They’ll go for pop culture, historical � gures, and having exhausted their stores of straw men to attack, even attack other people on Facebook for doing the exact same thing they’re doing.

Times are dark enough without social media making it darker. It wouldn’t hurt to be a little considerate and positive. l

Hashtag overdoseHashtags are intended as an equaliser in a � eld dominated by

propaganda. Making sure your message doesn’t get lost amidst

the sea of media messages riding the information wave around

the Internet, they’re a useful tool for raising awareness. But when

half your status is hashtags, some of which are just the same words

capitalised di� erently, you know you’ve gone overboard.

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n Tahsin Momin

Hyped as the biggest product comeback of 2015, the new third generation Honda Jazz hopes to erase all memories of its predecessor and create new ones of its own. Well, that might not be completely true since the last car was responsible for setting a benchmark standard for a premium hatch. It was spacious, practical and e� cient. However, there was a problem, it was overpriced and it failed to � t in the Honda lineup. But a lot has changed since then; Honda now has a better understanding of the market and has had the experience of playing hardball in the mass segments. And the fact that the car is a runaway hit, now gives Honda plenty of room to play with.

ExteriorHonda’s “crossfade mono form exterior” for the Jazz bares new sporty elements that makes the car look a bit more appealing than its predecessor. However, the design cues are not completely authentic since some of them have been borrowed from the City; like the narrow headlights and the front grille blending into each other as one. We thought that the mesh on the lower bumper did look a tad-bit incomplete and a clear view of the radiator through that could have been easily hidden. Although, we particularly adored the extended belt line, across the side and all the way till the tail-

lights. The side pro� le does give it a sporty, low stance look on its 15 inch alloys. At the back, the roof spoiler is quite prominent and the car has LED tail and stop lamps along with a chrome strip that makes the rear styling pop out.

InteriorOn the inside, the Jazz has improved quite substantially, with more rear legroom and spacing between the front passengers. The touch and feel is also a generation ahead, with a 7-inch screen wrapped in the piano black centre console. It also allows the driver to take care of the audio and vehicle settings. However the mid and high spec models get an electrostatic-operated climate control system.

Higher-spec versions feel reasonably plush compared to the basic model, thanks to a soft-touch dashboard covering, but elsewhere though, the hard scratchy plastics aren’t nearly so appealing. The dashboard on the basic models are made from the cheap plastic, making the cabin feel pretty dreary. The touch-screen infotainment system, isn’t

ideal either, it’s a little cluttered and

complicated to use. But once you get used to how it works, though, you’ll enjoy your access to the internet and a whole bunch of online apps. What pleased us the most is that, all the versions have the high seating position and clear visibility.

PerformancePowering the Jazz, is the same old

1.5-litre four-cylinder, but Honda has replaced the � ve-speed automatic with a continuously variable transmission (CVT). Even though they have used the old DOHC i-VTEC engine, it has been tuned up to produce 130HP, 10 more than what the old model produced. Which means zipping around the busy streets of Dhaka and merging into tra� c will not be a problem. In fact, it will never make you feel the need for more power, courtesy of the nicely sorted CVT.

SafetyLike all of the Honda’s these days, the Jazz is designed for optimal safety in the most rigorous of new crash tests, and pedestrian protection in the event of a collision. It has all the usual safety re� nements as standard and the active safety features includes the city-brake forward collision

warning and mitigation

system, which employs autonomous

braking when a collision is eminent.

VerdictLike the previous generation of the Jazz, this new version truly excels on versatility and practicality. It’s also competitively well equipped. Furthermore, from the past generation we have learned that it is in fact one of the most reliable cars to own. Even though it is not the last word in quality or ergonomics, but if those aren’t your priorities, the Jazz does deserve some serious consideration. l

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The story just doesn’t add up.Gulshan attack survivors Hasnat Karim and Tahmid Hasib Khan

never returned home after the horri� c events of July 1.Their respective families claim to have no clue as to their

whereabouts, but now, the authorities are claiming that Hasnat and Tahmid are not in custody, and that the two men were let go after their debrie� ng.

We need to know the facts. The police claim they are not currently detaining Hasnat and Tahmid, but if that is the case, then where are they? Reports indicate that the two were in custody earlier. Either those earlier reports were false, or it seems like the authorities are now changing their story.

We understand that this is an extraordinarily sensitive investigation, and if the police were to wish to continue to hold the two, we would not try to second guess them. If the police need to keep people in custody, that is their call. But all legalities must be maintained, all the more in a case like this.

It is important that the civil rights of the two are respected, that their families at least be informed of their whereabouts, and that it be demonstrated that nothing untoward has happened or is happening to them.

The opacity surrounding the disappearance of the two is alarming, and can only serve to lessen the public’s trust in the ongoing investigation, which is the last thing anyone wants right now.

Serious questions about custodial treatment have been raised by the death of Zakir Hossain Shaon, a Holey Artisan Bakery sta� member who was detained by the police as a terror suspect, but died in custody on Friday amidst extremely troubling allegations from his family.

This is not to jump to any conclusions about Hasnat and Tahmid, but the simple way to refute such fears is to be open and fully transparent. 

In the end, it is in the interests of the police to be seen to be operating in a fully transparent manner. Nothing would serve their credibility and the credibility of the ongoing investigation more. And at a time like this, public trust is crucial. It is absolutely imperative, for the cohesion of the entire nation, that the public retain full con� dence in the law enforcement authorities.

Two people can’t just disappear. The truth needs to come out. The authorities need to be able to credibly account for the people they have taken in.

This is a time of crisis, and public trust in our law enforcement is at stake.

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We owe you an apologyWe declared a generation gap between you and us, and decided you were an afterthought, mostly to criticise. We had no time to understand your de� nition of cool or sad, or what have you. Perhaps validating your vibrant youth would have made us lose a little of our diminishing one

With friends like theseLiving in the grey area is hard work. That’s why, when someone like Zakir Naik comes along, like many other such televangelical spokesmen for the o� cial word of God, and tells us, asks us ‘every Muslim should be a terrorist,’ people respond

Just anotherEid addaAre we looking at a future where Bangladesh society will be o� -limits to all visitors? A grim disconnect is in the making

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n SN Rasul

The so-called elite, middle-upper-middle class of Dhaka, of which I am very much a part of,

have cared-but-not-really little about the increasing number of religiously motivated attacks that have plagued the city. Not until Xulhaz Mannan and Mahbub Rabbi Tonoy were killed, at least.

This was so because people like me, people I knew, had known them personally, had directly been in contact with them, had been to their homes, had been their friends, had worked with them. But even then, those who attacked, and those who were attacked, still somehow remained on the fringes of the bubble we currently � nd ourselves in.

But the Gulshan attack established that violence was not in the fringes of this bubble anymore; it never was. It had been brewing inside our homes, amongst our friends, under the auspices of our parents’ watchful and caring eyes.

As Dhaka quieted down under the boom of a thousand bullets, and then slowly realised that, not only were the victims those we knew, but also the ones wielding the guns and the sword, the bubble, suddenly, burst.

How does one react to one’s peers and friends, one’s circle, out of nowhere coming under a microscope? How does one react to the knowledge that a supposedly English medium education does little in the way of establishing the fact that privilege and money and wealth and power have little in the way of protection from vengeful and deadly ideas that incite hatred, that wish to wage war?

I have seen the indi� erence brewing since I was a teenager. Since 9/11, when the conspiracy theorists came out of the woodwork to blame it on all George W Bush and America and oil. When my cousin suddenly decides to screenshot what surah to recite at what time instead of the picture of a cute boy in her class. When my friend decides to hold her wedding where the men and women sit separately, and she, herself, remains clad in a face-masking, body-unrevealing burkha.

When my brother tells me Charlie Hebdo or Salman Rushdie and (and closer still) Avijit Roy and Niladri Chatterjee had it

coming. When my khala tells me pray, child, otherwise, your mom will su� er, for she will be asked why she failed to raise her son up properly, in the ways of God.

Is that what I am, a bad child? A perfect example of child-rearing gone wrong? A poor excuse of a human being?

You say enough, you start to believe goodness and kindness lie in a speci� c religion alone. As if one narrative of truth runs above all else, as if your personal morality counts for little when pitched against the black-and-white code that some of these false priests choose to repeatedly pitch diatribes for.

Black and white would be nice. Black and white would tell us this is right, that is wrong. It’s di� cult to live in grey, with the confusion, the choices, the moral impasse, and the inability to make decisions.

Should I, as the Western world rages against my people, my religion, remain silent while they wreak havoc on our good name, refuse to acknowledge our importance in the global scale of things?

Should I watch, dumbfounded and hurt, as I am fed the narrative that people like us are being

carpet-bombed and civilians are being killed, my Muslim brothers are slaughtered in the hundreds and thousands in a name-shaming, false so-called war on so-called terror?

Is that what we all are, terrorists?

No. That cannot be. Or should I wreak havoc on the powerful and teach them that we, too, matter? Killing is wrong, so says the Qur’an. To each their own religion, so says the Qur’an. But when they do not pay us the respect we so vehemently deserve, why wouldn’t we take up the sword and slaughter them till we, too, start to matter?

Living in the grey area is hard work. That’s why, when someone like Zakir Naik comes along, like many other such televangelical spokesmen for the o� cial word of God, and tells us, asks us “every Muslim should be a terrorist,” people respond. They terrorised

us far before, for much longer, for far too long, in fact, to deserve any sort of sympathy or empathy, any sort of kindness that they once might’ve deserved.

One doesn’t need to be poor to feel rage; one doesn’t need to want for something to want something more. Indoctrination, with such subtlety, requires no class boundaries to topple. It’s already there, ready to be fed on.

That’s why the youthful minds of our peers suddenly � nd themselves gorging on the violent narratives of a select few, supposedly deluded into thinking that we either die � ghting, in which case we are martyrs, or we kill those who dared to belittle the word of us, which is, in essence, the word of God.

It should come as no surprise where Nibras or Rohan or whichever terrorist came from.

It should come as no surprise that this is now, � nally, catching

up to us, this ambiguous silence against unambiguous crimes. It is, in fact, to be expected, and expected to be repeated, with the persistent equating of the concepts of “good” with our own personal religion. Blaming NSU as an institution won’t do anything; they’re everywhere within us, amongst us, waiting to be tapped into.

How can anyone be surprised when the hand of the government continues to squeeze us to stay in power, thereby rendering us powerless? How can anyone get the courage to ask questions when asking a question without an answer is the scariest thing one can do nowadays? How can you, sitting idly, sitting still, holding your breath, even dare to hope that this is just a nightmare that will pass away? l

SN Rasul is a Sub-Editor at the Dhaka Tribune. Follow him @snrasul.

Living in the grey area is hard work. That’s why, when someone like Zakir Naik comes along, like many other such televangelical spokesmen for the o� cial word of God, and tells us, asks us ‘every Muslim should be a terrorist,’ people respond

Black and white ideals would be nice, but the world is much more complicated

With friends like these

Zakir Naik’s brand of preaching has tremendous appeal for a lot of Bangladeshis

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n Towheed Feroze

Getting together during the Eid holidays is a common event, almost everywhere. The main

objective is to spend hours talking or, to use the Bengali term, indulge in adda for hours.

The topics vary: Politics is always there, lack of civic sense, insidious in� uence of decadence, the inexorable rise of a philistine nouveau riche class ... the list goes on.

The day after Eid, a few friends, my brother, and I got together for a leisurely evening of chatting, and the group comprised of a noted photographer, a government civil servant, two musicians, a restaurateur, a textile factory owner, and a regular editorial writer for a leading newspaper.

For good reason, the � rst issue was security at eateries. The common question was: Who would feel safe going into an up-market place to eat?

I suddenly recalled a colleague from work, a self-proclaimed gourmet, who said that after the Gulshan terror attack, he would rather stop going to any restaurant in the a� uent part and come over to Old Dhaka instead.

That observation was made in levity but carried the current social tension.

The restaurateur, who also supplies fresh vegetables to several eateries in Gulshan, said: “Holey used to be one of the places which bought fresh produce from me, and when I went to other restaurants before Eid to talk about future supplies, I noticed a sense of suppressed fear in the dining halls.”

The photographer, a pizza lover, added, using the word atonko (profound apprehension) when describing the state of patrons at certain places where he had gone recently. “There was a sense of palpable agitation in their behaviour; a loud sound from the kitchen had everyone almost running out.”

The radio jockey plus musician, who runs an immensely popular music program, expressed his dilemma emanating from his wife, a US citizen, refusing to stay in Bangladesh any longer.

Well, is the US any safer? Maybe if one goes into the lesser known states like Idaho, Wyoming, Nebraska, or Wisconsin, was the civil servant’s interjection.

The other musician observed almost rhetorically: “Where is the country heading? It seems we are being pulled into a vortex of decadence and lawlessness.”

The journalist raised the matter of transvestites and � oating-boat people using the snake tactic to extort money from common pedestrians.

“Well, they won’t try that trick with me anymore,” stated the musician who, long time ago, as a teenager, used to have a snake in a jar as a pet.

Later, he went around in public with the serpent coiled around his wrist.

“When a woman came and showed a snake to me, demanding money, I took the reptile and pretended to bite its head o� , which scared the living daylights out of the so-called extortionist,” observed the rebellious musician.

“What if the money is demanded by a mahout on a trained elephant!”

“Well, not everyone can muster the courage,” said the photographer. “Maybe there should be a public awareness advert against such fear-mongering aimed at forcing people to pay money.”

“As for adverts,” added the restaurateur, “have you seen this callous commercial where a family, in expressing gratitude to the mother for washing clothes, hands her a large packet of washing powder saying that with this detergent, cleaning would be faster?”

“Who are behind the ideas of such adverts,” questioned the civil servant, also pointing to another tasteless commercial in West Bengal where the line “The quality of women is in her hair not in her skills” is reportedly used.

The photographer lamented the lack of originality in creative sides, saying: “The problem is, we are blindly following a trend set by someone else, not trying hard enough to create new avenues of thought.”

“As a photographer, what I see among newcomers in my line is a desire to click the same old topics: Poverty, struggling life, nature. Interestingly, there is a� uence in Bangladesh which can also be used as a powerful subject.”

Opulence, and life on the other side of struggle! Not a bad idea.

Only, for some odd reason, luxury as a photographic topic can never stir up the pathos or the melancholia.

Or perhaps, they will trigger revulsion because some people are better o� than others.

I liked the photographer’s idea. His rationale seemed appealing: Why only click struggle and sorrow when these are not the only faces of society?

Anyone can sympathise with a friend’s su� ering but it needs a very high nature to sympathise with a friend’s success -- Oscar Wilde did have a point.

Whatever the topic of discussion was, and no matter how discursive they got, in the end, we all came back to Dhaka and the attack on Holey Artisan.

The recurring question: Where is this heading? The textile factory owner, a late-comer to the party, was blunt in his rather dismal assessment: Leaving out all conspiracy theories leading to far-reaching political consequences with possible international rami� cations, the immediate impact will be on the garment sector.

Overseas buyers will be terri� ed to come here, possibly international textile seminars will be postponed inde� nitely, resulting in several buyers moving to somewhere without any threat from radicals.

Foreigners based in the city had developed a culture over the last two decades of eating out and cycling around the city on holidays, which has stopped totally.

The Old Dhaka tour that attracted mainly diplomats stationed here will be suspended and the presence of writers, cultural activists, and poets at cafes and bookstores will come down sharply.

Are we looking at a future where Bangladesh society will be o� -limits to all visitors? A grim disconnect is in the making.

Maybe next Eid, if we are all alive and well at another adda, we can think back and assess the impact. l

Towheed Feroze is a journalist currently working in the development sector.

Are we looking at a future where Bangladesh society will be o� -limits to all visitors? A grim disconnect is in the making

Will the country be able to recover from this blow?

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n Iffat Nawaz

Dear Shadhin Bangla Generation C (“C,” since you were born during the third decade of

Bangladesh), hello from Shadhin Bangla Generation A.

As you already well know, it has been impossible to not think about the state of the world, especially in the last couple of weeks.

Some of you are taking part in these wars in the frontlines. Some of you have left Bangladesh and joined death missions.

We are all searching for you now, you are no longer another invisible person walking the streets of Dhaka.

We have � nally turned our attention towards you, � nally thinking about what an 18 to 20-year-old Bangladeshi mind looks like, and as I got to thinking more, I realised, we, Shadhin Bangla Generation A, owe you an apology.

You see, we did not realise that we were no longer as young, that there are younger ones who need examples from their fathers’, mothers’, brothers’, and sisters’

generations. I thought some more about who you looked up to, who did we o� er to you to feel motivated by. Shakib Al Hasan? Not possible to be him for most of us, is it?

Did we o� er you a good politician from our generation? A philosopher who enriched your mind, someone who took interest in you and didn’t dismiss you because you grew up watching Hindi-dubbed Pokémon?

How about your spiritual teacher? Qur’an teaching hujur? Oh never mind, that was already labelled uncool before your time came along.

When we were young, we were handed rows of Muktijoddhas, in books, posters, and banners, everywhere, everywhere really. We were to look up to them. And we did.

And we devoted ourselves to whatever we thought their cause was, they freed the country and then … what? Well, we, Shadin Bangla Generation A, became the “then … what?”

As you may know, on Martyred Intellectuals Day we had lost such a severe part of the brain of our country -- that was December 14, 1971.

Out of un� ltered reaction, our parents dreamed that we would grow up to be substitutes of the lost brilliance.

Those same parents of ours, knowing hardship as they did, wanted us to grow up with the best they could o� er, perfect celebrations, undying nationalism, best schools, the gift of culture, and the denial of a failing political system.

We grew up under the impression that the ultimate had been achieved, and now it was up to us to take it somewhere else. Where though? No one ever really talked about that.

And many from our Shadhin Bangla Generation A, carrying all the weaknesses of our ego, we created things, big and small, real and mediocre. What we created were catered for our past, that was our ultimate validation, our audience, our parents, only they could decide if we were doing justice to our forefathers.

By now, we picked up our parents’ hints about becoming intellectuals, and social media also made it easier for us to put up our opinions. In no time, we all turned into couch intellectuals, without the real taste of genuine loss, we deciphered, and Googled, and posted, and read, so that we would win arguments and be somebody, so that we could get rid of the “…” and the “what?”

In the process, we forgot there were others behind us, born long after us, growing 10, 15, 18. We declared a generation gap between you and us, and decided you were an afterthought, mostly to criticise.

We had no time to understand your de� nition of cool or sad, or what have you. Perhaps validating your vibrant youth would have made us lose a little of our diminishing one. We had our backs turned to you, couch intellectualising the “…” of then.

So, that’s all really. I amsorry from Shadhin Bangla Generation A, for not acknowledging your presencethe way we should have.

For not giving you a better Bangladesh, better role models, a deeper interest. I am sorry for our sel� shness, for our self-serving-ness, for our judgements … I am so, so sorry. l

I� at Nawaz is a writer.

We owe you an apologyBangladesh has failed its young people

The younger generation was never allowed to create its own Bangladesh IFFAT NAWAZ

We declared a generation gap between you and us, and decided you were an afterthought, mostly to criticise. We had no time to understand your de� nition of cool or sad, or what have you. Perhaps validating your vibrant youth would have made us lose a little of our diminishing one

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A Euro of Ronaldo and giantkillersThe European Championship ended with Portugal’s stunning victory over France in the � nal - the last shock in a tournament of giant-killing romance, vicious and gentle fans. PAGE 28

Deschamps can turn loss to victoryWhen the � nal whistle went in Paris, the agony of France’s Euro loss to Portugal could be felt among their fans but after almost 10 years in the wilderness, coach Didier Deschamps has built a side ready to vie for the next WC. PAGE 25

Murray delivers again for nationCometh the hour, cometh the man - Andy Murray proved himself the bastion of British tennis once again as he outclassed Canadian powerhouse Milos Raonic to claim a second Wimbledon title in masterful fashion on Sunday at a packed Centre Court. PAGE 27

Ronaldo goes from agony to ecstasyHe has won it all at club level and has three world player of the year awards but on Sunday Cristiano Ronaldo celebrated as never before - with tears of joy streaming down his face after his Portugal beat France 1-0 to win the European Champion-ship. PAGE 26

Portugal’s Eder (front right) celebrates scoring the only goal during their Euro 2016 � nal against France at the Stade de France on Sunday AP

Eder from Africa via Europe and now historyn Fazley Rabbi Moon

Finally one of the best footballers in recent times, Cristiano Ronal-do, has taken his legacy to a new level after Portugal beat hosts France in the Euro 2016 � nal in Paris to claim their � rst ever major title. The moment became possi-ble after unsung hero Eder scored the goal that mattered, in the 109th minute of the game to break the heart of the home supporters.

Ronaldo, who had to leave the � eld in the 26th minute after accidentally clashing with Dim-itri Payet, remained in action as he played a very active role from the sidelines to inspire his team-mates who later turned his dream into reality. One of those inspired teammates was Eder, who was born in Guinea-Bissau in West Africa and moved to Portugal as a child, and started playing football in the Coimbra District at the age of 11. He made his senior debut with FC Oliveira do Hospital and Tourizense.

In 2012, the 6’3” striker whose actual name is Éderzito Antó-nio Macedo Lopes moved to FC Braga and started scoring at will, netting 13 goals in 18 matches. He also played an active part in the Champions League especially

against Manchester United at Old Tra� ord.

In 2013, the attacker tore his cruciate ligaments and missed a large chunk of the season sending his promising career into jeop-ardy. Braga once gave him a con-tract with a release clause stand-ing at a whopping €30 million. But

they were quite happy to let the striker go for a much lower fee to Swansea, after a reasonably good 2014-15 season with 13 goals.

Eder made his Premier League debut on August 8, 2015, playing the � nal 11 minutes of a 2–2 draw at title-holders Chelsea in place of Bafetimbi Gomis. He failed to score in 15 competitive games for

the Swans, including only four starts.

Eder then joined French side Lille on loan for the remainder of the season. After helping his team � nish � fth and qualify for the UEFA Europa League in the process, he signed a permanent four-year contract. That was still

not enough as far as the national team was concerned, and Portugal fans failed to be impressed with his form in Ligue 1. The Electrical Engineer Fernando Santos wasn’t convinced as well and thus gam-bled on a truly revolutionary tac-tical change. Portugal normally played in a 4-3-3 formation, but lacking a proven centre-forward,

the coach switched to 4-4-2, with wingers Ronaldo and Nani playing in the middle.

The formation can be called Portugal’s very own “Wingless Wonders” and it comes exactly 50 years after Alf Ramsey won the World Cup for England using such innovative tactics. Irregular substitute Eder had been almost inappropriate as he only came as a very late substitute against Ice-land and Austria during the group stage.

And then, out of the blue, he was given the chance to shine on the most important platform when Ronaldo had to come o� early and replaced Renato Sanches in the 79th minute with the match goalless and hanging � nely in the balance. France did not care about the danger he posed, and Eder hit a brilliant shot in extra-time, scoring his � rst ever goal in a competitive international match to hand the trophy to Portugal, and their brightest star, Ronaldo.

It’s inevitable that this trophy will enhance Ronaldo’s legacy among the all-time footballing greats but how much this signif-icant goal impacts on Eder’s roll-er-coaster career remains to be seen. l

‘Ronaldo told me I’d score the winner’Cristiano Ronaldo predicted Por-tugal’s Euro 2016 hero Eder would score the winning goal in their 1-0 extra-time triumph over France and gave him the encouragement to settle Sunday’s � nal.

“(Ronaldo) told me I would score the winning goal for the team,” the striker told O Jogo. “He gave me this strength, this energy and it was vital.

“It was a goal I’ve been working

for from the � rst minute of the Euros.

“For all the work we did, for all of the Portuguese, it’s fantastic,” he added. “It’s well deserved and we should all be congratulated.”

“The disappointment is im-mense,” his club Lille wrote on their o� cial Twitter account, “but there is considerable pride to be able to count such an attacker in our ranks.”

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Deschamps can turn loss to victoryn Reuters, Paris

When the � nal whistle went in Par-is, the disappointment of France’s Euro 2016 loss to Portugal could be felt among their fans but after almost 10 years in the wilderness, coach Didier Deschamps has built a side ready to vie for the next World Cup.

Having come into the tourna-ment with few pundits expecting them to go beyond the semi-� nals, let alone defeat Germany for the � rst time in a competitive game in 58 years, they managed to exceed expectations and lay solid founda-tions.

There is a youthful together-ness, hunger and swagger about this French team that with a few tweaks will make them stronger as they aim for the World Cup title in Russia in two years time.

The defeat to Portugal, while cruel in its manner, highlighted that France’s young guns still need to mature after coming up against a more savvy opponent. Great teams are often built on such defeats.

“Our disappointment is im-mense and will take time to digest. We won together, we su� ered to-gether and we lost together,” said Deschamps, emphasizing the fami-ly feel he has nurtured over the last two years.

Exciting winger Kingsley Co-man, at 20 France’s youngest play-er, summed up the disappointment by storming o� straight into the tunnel as the whistle went, but af-

ter a word from the sta� was back to thank the fans.

At 25, Antoine Griezmann proved with his six goals that he is just at the start of his journey as heir to the great French number 10s of Zinedine Zidane and Michel Platini.

Perhaps the burden on his shoulders after a 70th match of the season was just too much on the day.

It was ironically France’s main

strength in the tournament, their attack, that let them down on the night. They lacked that cutting edge and freshness to get them over the line.

But with Karim Benzema, their best striker absent at the tourna-ment, Lyon’s Alexandre Lacazette waiting in the wings and Anthony Martial still developing, the pros-pects are bright up front.

The French mid� eld trio of Blaise Matuidi, Paul Pogba and

Moussa Sissoko were on top for much of Sunday’s match. N’Golo Kante, who did not play in the � nal, has shown that he can add steel to the French mid� eld.

Pogba still has to show that he can become the great player he as-pires to be. His � ashes of brilliance were too intermittent throughout the tournament.

But at 23 he has his best years ahead of him and could be the man that drives this team forward. l

TUESDAY, JULY 12, 2016

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EURO 2016: DT BEST XISiddikur’s direct entry at Rio con� rmedn Tribune Report

Siddikur Rahman recorded his name in the history books when it became o� cial that the Bangladesh gol� ng icon quali� ed for the Olym-pic Games to become the country’s � rst sports personality to make it into the world’s biggest sporting event, courtesy direct entry.

The 31-year-old golfer, who is also the � rst Bangladeshi to win an Asian Tour event, was almost con-� rmed of quali� cation in the last couple of months but it was � nally made o� cial on Monday after he was placed 56th in the latest and � nal rankings, making himself el-igible for the upcoming Olympics, scheduled to be held in Rio de Ja-neiro, Brazil from August 5-21.

“It feels really great. I think this is the biggest achievement of my life to qualify for the Olympics through direct quali� cation pro-cess. My family and I are very ex-cited after hearing the news.” said

Siddikur, who is often referred to as the “Tigers Woods of Bangla-desh” in the international media.

Siddikur was struggling for form at the beginning of this season but his fortunes improved in May when he � nished second in the tri-sanc-tioned Mauritius Open, thus tak-ing him to 54th position. Then he learned that the top 60 golfers will go to Rio.

“I didn’t feel the excitement or any kind of interest even two-three months ago. I never thought I would make it to the Olympics but after the Mauritius Open, everyone came up to me and said, ‘You might go to the Olympics’. Then, I became serious and determined to make it happen,” Siddikur said to the Dhaka Tribune while having his dinner.

Meanwhile, it will be the � rst time that Golf will be played in the Olympics since the St Louis Games in 1904. It was later dropped from the following editions after the protest of the British players. l

Portugal shatter France’s dreamn Reuters, Paris

The smell of teargas � oating in the air near the Ei� el Tower proved an ominous sign on the night when France’s dream of a perfect soccer summer turned sour.

The clashes at the Paris fan zone, where supporters trying to force their way in were pushed back by riot police, were relatively minor.

But such distractions were not part of a script which was then shred-ded on the pitch where Portugal gave a spirited rearguard performance to deny France their happy ending.

The French were desperate for some light relief when the tourna-ment kicked o� a month ago after strikes and violent protests against a labour law, with a state of emer-gency still in place after Islamist attacks that killed 130 people in the French capital in November.

France started the tournament in sluggish fashion but improved match after match, advancing to the � nal with a convincing 2-0 win over world champions Germany.

In the � nal, Portugal su� ered a blow when their most dangerous player, Cristiano Ronaldo, was car-ried o� on a stretcher during the � rst half.

That adversity seemed to en-courage the Portuguese to battle even harder for their � rst major ti-tle. The hosts, who had burned up a lot of energy in their win over Ger-many on Thursday, ran out of steam and dropped their guard deep in extra time when substitute striker Eder � red home the only goal. lFrance’s coach Didier Deschamps (C) and players walk across the pitch after their defeat in the Euro 2016 � nal on Sunday AFP

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Portugal’s Cristiano Ronaldo celebrates after winning the Euro 2016 � nal against France on Sunday REUTERS

Emotional Santos praises Ronaldo’s motivational powersn Reuters, Paris

Emotional Portugal coach Fernan-do Santos praised Cristiano Ronal-do’s motivational powers and said criticism of Pepe was unjusti� ed after his team won the European Championship on Sunday.

Santos began his news confer-ence by reading a speech he had delivered to the squad.

“We were as simple as doves and as wise as serpents,” he � nished by saying.

Santos, appointed after Portu-gal had lost their opening quali� er at home to Albania, is unbeaten in 14 competitive internationals in charge.

“Our captain made a fantastic e� ort during this competition, he was criticised many times but he showed a fantastic team spirit,” Santos told reporters

“Twice, he tried everything that was humanly possible to get back into the game but it wasn’t possi-ble,” he added.

“His presence in the chang-ing-room was really important thanks to the way in which he sup-ported me and he said it was our day...he believed as much as I did that it was our day.”

“I’ve always told the players that we’ve got great talent but we need to � ght more than our opponents, run more than them and concen-trate more than them. We have an amazing group,” he said. l

Ronaldo goes from agony to ecstasyn Reuters, Paris

He has won it all at club level and has three world player of the year awards but on Sunday Cristiano Ronaldo celebrated as never be-fore - with tears of joy streaming down his face after his Portugal beat France 1-0 to win the Euro-pean Championship.

Two hours earlier, there had been very di� erent tears after he had been taken out of the game on a stretcher, just 25 min-utes into the � nal at the Stade de France, his night over and his team left to � ght on without their talisman.

A 19-year-old Ronaldo had played on the wing in that de-feat and he must have won-dered if he would ever get a chance to make amends. Ronal-do’s career has been a glittering combination of individual bril-

liance, multiple success at club level and constant comparisons with the other great player of his generation, Barcelona’s Argen-tine forward Lionel Messi. Messi has famously never won a major trophy with his country and just a few weeks ago announced he was quitting his national team after their Copa America defeat on penalties to Chile.

Now to add to three EPL titles and a UCL win from his time with Manchester United, a Spanish league crown and two UCL tri-umphs with Real, Ronaldo has a major trophy with Portugal.

He was right to credit his team mates and coach Fernan-do Santos’s because while he may have been the man who got them to the � nal with his goal and assist in the last-four win over Wales, it was the squad who delivered his medal. l

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Unbeaten Enamul clinches Rating ChessGrandmaster Enamul Hossain Razib emerged as the unbeaten champion of the Saif Powertec International Rating Chess Tournament which concluded at the Bangladesh Chess Federation hall-room and the National Sports Council auditorium yesterday. Razib beat Saiful Islam Chowdhury in the ninth and � nal round to secure the title having earned a total of 8.5 points. GM Mollah Abdullah al Rakib � nished sec-ond with eight points while GM Ziaur Rahman and Golam Mostafa Bhuiyan earned 7.5 points each but following the tie-breaking system, Zia became third and Mostafa ended fourth. Rakib and Zia played out a draw yesterday. Nine players earned seven points each. Their positions are – � fth - IM Abu Su� an Shakil, sixth - Sha� q Ahmed, seventh - Sohel Chowdhury, eighth - Ikramul Haq Siam, ninth - Rezaul Babu, 10th-Mahtabuddin Ahmed, 11th - FM Mohammad Javed, 12th - FM Saif Uddin and 13th - FM Fahad Rahman. A record total of 214 players including three GMs, two International Masters and two rated players from India took part in the event.

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Sharapova to miss OlympicsMaria Sharapova will miss next month’s Rio Olympics after the Court of Arbitration for Sport yesterday decided to defer its decision on the Russian multiple grand slam champion’s appeal against a two-year doping ban until September. Sharapova was seeking to have her ban, which was imposed on her by the International Tennis Federation in June, wiped out or reduced and a decision was initially expected to be announced by July 18.

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Pelle leaves for ChinaItaly striker Graziano Pelle has joined Chinese side Shandong Luneng from Southampton for an undisclosed fee, the Premier League club announced yesterday. Pelle, 30, was part of the Italy team that reached the Euro 2016 quarter-� nals and scored 30 goals in 81 appearances for South-ampton following his arrival from Feyenoord in 2014.

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Murray delivers again for grateful nationn Reuters, London

Cometh the hour, cometh the man - Andy Murray proved himself the bastion of British tennis once again as he outclassed Canadian power-house Milos Raonic to claim a sec-ond Wimbledon title in masterful fashion on Sunday.

Three years after a nation held its breath, more in hope than expecta-tion, as Murray took on and defeat-ed ironman Novak Djokovic to end 77 years of pain, the 29-year-old delivered another command perfor-mance, winning 6-4 7-6(3) 7-6(2).

It was more comfortable than the scoreline suggested as a ra-zor-sharp Murray dictated play

from start to � nish.He committed a miserly 12 un-

forced errors, blunted the 140mph � rst serves whizzing his way and even reduced the normally Zen-like Raonic to venting his frustration.

The near hysteria of 2013 turned to expectation this time as defend-ing champion Djokovic, Murray’s bogeyman who beat him in this year’s Australian and French Open � nals, lost early.

It left the door open for Mur-ray and when sixth seed Raonic knocked out seven-times champi-on Roger Federer to scupper hopes of a dream � nale, many appeared to take for granted that the Scot would be hugging the Challenge

Cup again before he walked on Centre Court to contest his 11th grand slam � nal. Understandably so, seeing as he had started the pre-vious 10, all against Djokovic and Federer, as underdog.

That created its own pressure but Murray hid it well in a near-fault-less two hours 48 minutes in the Centre Court sunshine as he added a second Wimbledon crown to his 2012 U.S. Open title and gold medal from the London Olympics.

He is expected to head to Ser-bia next week for a Davis Cup quarter-� nal, having almost sin-gle-handedly won the trophy for Britain last year. Then it’s on to Rio to defend his Olympic crown.

No wonder the player once re-garded as a surly teenager with bad hair is now a British sporting icon.

When Raonic shoved a back-hand into the net to end the con-test, a delirious Murray roared to the sky before bursting into tears as his latest achievement sunk in.

“I feel happier this time. I feel like this was sort of more for my-self,” Murray, who became a father in February with wife Kim, who watched from the front row of his box, told reporters.

“The last time it was just pure relief and I didn’t really enjoy the moment as much.

“I’m going to make sure I enjoy this one more.”l

Raonic: I will leave no stone unturned to win a slamn Reuters, London

Canadian Milos Raonic declared that he would stop at nothing to win a major title after admit-ting his straight sets loss to Andy Murray in Sunday’s Wimbledon � nal would sting.

The 25-year-old had hoped to become his country’s � rst grand slam singles champion but de-spite a battling display in the big-gest match of his career so far, he made little impression on sublime Murray losing 6-4 7-6(3) 7-6(2).

Having previously reached the semi-� nals at Wimbledon in 2014 and again at this year’s Aus-tralian Open, where he pushed Murray to � ve sets, a � rst major � nal appearance represents a signi� cant step for the 6ft 5ins powerhouse.

His semi-� nal win over sev-en-times Wimbledon champion Roger Federer, from two sets to one down, was a milestone suc-cess, while in the last 16 he had battled back from two sets down for the � rst time in his career to beat Belgian David Go� n.

“This one will sting a bit,” he said before facing the world’s media shortly after walking o� court.

“I’m going to work on every-thing. I’m not going to leave any stone unturned. I’m going to try to get myself back in this posi-tion, try to be better in this posi-tion,” he told reporters.

“I’m going to try to get � tter, stronger. I’m going to try to im-prove my return game, improve my serve. I can improve there. Improve my e� ciency coming forward.

“There’s not one thing I’m not going to try to improve.”

The methodical Raonic described his fortnight as phenomenal, but was still critical of his inability to compete in the second set tiebreak having doggedly kept himself in the match.

“The � rst tiebreak, obviously I missed that ball, the short ball, on the � rst one. Wasn’t even close,” he said.

“Then I had an overhead that I didn’t make the most of on my serve. I’ll sort of look back at that with not too much joy.”

Raonic’s next target will be the Rogers Cup back home in Canada, but he would not say if John McEnroe, who he hired for the grasscourt season, would still be part of his entourage. l

2016: Andy Murray (GBR)

2015: Novak Djokovic (SRB)

2014: Novak Djokovic (SRB)

2013: Andy Murray (GBR)

2012: Roger Federer (SUI)

2011: Novak Djokovic (SRB)

2010: Rafael Nadal (ESP)

2009: Roger Federer (SUI)

2008: Rafael Nadal (ESP)

2007: Roger Federer (SUI)

Recent Wimbledon champions:

Britain’s Andy Murray poses with the winner’s trophy after his men’s singles � nal victory at the 2016 Wimbledon Championships at The All England Lawn Tennis Club on Sunday AFP

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A Euro of giantkillers, Ronaldo and hooligansn AFP, Paris

The European Championship end-ed Sunday with Portugal’s stun-ning victory over France in the � -nal - the last shock in a tournament of giant-killing romance, vicious and gentle fans, the rise of Antoine Griezmann as an international star and Cristiano Ronaldo stretchered

o� in tears and still winning.Euro 2016 was not a classic for

football purists but pure joy for an-yone who revels in sporting upsets. For France, Euro 2016 was an anti-dote to terror attacks and weeks of social unrest until the � nal. Rus-sian hooligans tested the hosts’ security forces but Irish Republic fans sang their way into the hearts

of French police. Expanded to 24 teams for the

� rst time, some had expressed fears that the little nations would not be up to it. But Iceland, Wales and Portugal answered UEFA’s prayers.

Iceland beat England 2-1 in the last 16 in one of the biggest shocks in football history. Iceland scorer

Ragnar Sigurdsson said England “panicked”. English Football As-sociation chief Martin Glenn could not understand why England are so “brittle” on the international stage.

Wales, built around powerful Real Madrid forward Gareth Bale, lost to England but still reached the semi-� nals with determined, en-tertaining football that swept aside

Russia and Belgium with domi-neering 3-1 wins.

It took the class of Cristiano Ronaldo to outgun his Real team-mate in the last four.

Northern Ireland also put on a gutsy show to reach a quarter-� nal against Wales.

Portugal started as 25-1 out-siders to win the tournament but pulled o� the � nal glorious up-set. They lost Ronaldo, who was stretchered o� after 25 minutes, and soaked up France’s pressure for 109 minutes before Eder pow-ered a shot past France’s captain and goalkeeper Hugo Lloris.

Ronaldo produced one of the goals of the tournament with a sublime backheel against Hun-gary. France’s Dimitri Payet also produced a spectacular shot in the opening game against Romania. Xherdan Shaqiri’s scissors-kick goal for Switzerland against Poland could also be a candidate for goal of the tournament.

The 108 goals in 51 matches gave an average of 2.11 goals a game, be-low the 2.45 of Euro 2012 and the 2.7 at the 2014 World Cup. But there were records. Ronaldo equalled French legend Michel Platini’s nine goals in Euro tournaments.l

Portugal team pose with the trophy as they celebrate after beating France in the Euro 2016 � nal at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, north of Paris on Sunday AFP

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How to solve: Fill in the blank spaces with the numbers 1 – 9. Every row, column and 3 x 3 box must contain all nine digits with no number repeating.

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How to solve: Each number in our CODE-CRACKER grid represents a di� erent letter of the alphabet. For example, today 11 represents M so � ll M every time the � gure 11 appears.You have two letters in the control grid to start you o� . 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, � ll in the other squares with the same number in the main grid, and the control grid. Check o� the list of alphabetical letters as you identify them.

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ACROSS1 Festive jollity (5)6 Anger (3)7 Discharge in disgrace (5)10 Kind of ray (5)12 Way out (4)13 Country (5)15 Date of death (4)16 Mineral spring (3)18 Loud noise (3)20 Salamander (4)22 Snow hut (5)23 Token (4)25 Silly (5)27 Sanity (5)28 Make lace (3)29 Utters gratingly (5)

DOWN1 Drawn into error (6)2 Annoy (3)3 Sanity (6)4 Paying attention (7)5 Irritate (3)8 Female swan (3)9 Flaccid (4)11 Bath (3)14 Studio (7)16 Ermine in summer coat (6)17 Useful things (6)19 Wading bird (4)21 Was victorious (3)22 Tavern (3)24 Precious stone (3)26 40 winks (3)

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Matt Damon ‘totally � ne’ with other younger Jason Bourne

n Showtime Desk

Once upon a time Scarlett Johansson was a mere child actor, but today she is known as Black Widow. Recently she mentioned that she is happier playing the role of Natasha, than anything else.

In a recent interview with Michigan Avenue, Johansson was asked which of her many � lm roles was her favorite to date. Given the breadth of work she’s done in her career, none of us would have batted an eye if she had chosen one of her highly regarded independent � lms such as Lost in Translation, Ghost World or Under the Skin. Instead, she went right to the superhero. Scarlett says, “I really like playing Natasha,

playing the Black Widow. It’s been an interesting journey, to take a character and grow it over these years, and peel the layers back and be able to, as you do in life, grow with this person. It’s a character that’s really enigmatic and has an amazing origins story, so there’s a lot for me to play o� of.”

Scarlett Johansson was born in New York City. Her mother, Melanie Sloan, is from an Ashkenazi and her father, Karsten Johansson, is Danish. She has a sister, Vanessa Johansson, who is also an actress; a brother, Adrian; a twin brother, Hunter Johansson; born three minutes after her.

She made her � lm debut at the age of nine, as John Ritter’s character’s daughter in the 1994 fantasy comedy, North (1994). Following minor roles in the 1995 � lm, Just Cause (1995), as the daughter of Sean Connery and Kate Capshaw’s character; and If Lucy Fell (1996), she played the role of Amanda in Manny & Lo (1996). Her performance in Manny & Lo, garnered a nomination for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Lead Female.

She dropped out of Mission: Impossible III (2006) due to

scheduling con� icts. After a weaker appearance she got a chance to perform in Woody Allen’s Match Point (2005), and was nominated again for a Golden Globe Award. In May 2008, she released her album Anywhere I Lay My Head, a collection of Tom Waits covers featuring one original song. Including many movies, she played her Iron Man 2 character, Black Widow, in the blockbuster action � lms The Avengers (2012), Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014), and Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), and also headlined the science-� ction thriller, Lucy (2014), a box o� ce success. With more than a decade of work already under her belt, Scarlett has proven to be one of Hollywood’s most talented young actresses. In personal life, she is married to a French journalist, Romain Dauriac; and the couple have a daughter together.l

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Matt Damon says he’s “totally � ne” with a younger actor taking over the role of Jason Bourne after he’s done with the action franchise.

Speaking on a promotional tour in Seoul, South Korea,

Damon, who returns for the � fth installment titled Jason Bourne that’s released this summer, said he was “de� nitely going to be replaced some day by some new young Jason Bourne. That happens to everybody and they reboot these things, and that’s totally � ne.”

“The only control I can exercise is over the ones that I’m part of. I’m the curator of them as long as I’m involved and that’s why I battled so hard to make sure that we got the same creative people [including

director Paul Greengrass] to get involved in this one,” he added.

Fourteen years since the � rst � lm in the franchise, Damon said he was “very excited” to be playing Bourne again, a character that “had a huge impact on my life and career.” l

n Showtime desk

There are very few writers in Bollywood that have stood out individually. Selim khan and Javed Akhter are two such writers that have made their name in Bollywood. Chetan Bhagat, too, has followed suit. Kai po che and 3 Idiots made him a popular writer in the � lm industry. He has not only depicted pictures of life in a real sense, but also

showed a clear picture of society as it is today. After the success of 2 States, another movie based on another Chetan Bhagat book, Half Girlfriend, his other book will also be turned into a movie. Shooting for the � lm has begun in full swing.

A still from the shooting of Half Girlfriend was tweeted by Chetan Bhagat, with Shraddha Kapoor donning a basketball jersey, holding a basketball. The jersey

reads “Somani” which is the surname of the character played by Shraddha Kapoor. Shraddha is named Riya Somani and is starring opposite Arjun Kapoor, whose character is named Madhav Jha. Chetan Bhagat is excited with his new venture. Sources are saying, audience might � nd another Kuch Kuch Hota Hain’s Kajal in Shraddha Kapoor through this movie. l

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Child artist to bold actress

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Lady Gaga’s new tracks in the pipelineGahor Badsha O Banesa Pori to stage today

WHAT TO WATCH

17 AgainHBO, 7:30pmMike is the star of his high school basketball team at 17. He is on top of the world and is all set to receive a college scholarship. Everything falls by the wayside when he � nds out that his girlfriend Scarlett (Leslie Mann) is pregnant. He gives up everything and marries her. But after the wedding takes place, Mike keeps cribbing about the life that he has lost because he married her. Scarlett throws him out. Mike loses his job and goes to his high school reliving happy memories. Cast: Zac Efron, Leslie Mann, Thomas Lennon, Sterling Knight, Hunter Parrish, Melora Hardin

Man of SteelMovies Now, 2:00pmForced to confront his secret extrastellar origin, Superman learns to � ght for Earth when it gets invaded by members of his own race.Cast: Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Michael Shannon, Kevin Costner, Diane Lane, Laurence Fishburne

Jackie Chan’s First StrikeWB, 11:19pmInspector Chan Ka Kui is out to catch an international spy ring. He takes part in a sting operation that rounds up most of them. But Jackson Tsui gets away. Chan gets his orders to catch the spy and he starts in Australia where Tsui’s sister Annie lives. Cast: Jackie Chan, Jackson Liu, Annie Wu, Bill Tung, Yuri Petrov, Nonna Grishaeva

The Hills Have EyesStar Movies, 5:30pmThe Carter family led are travelling by trailer through the New Mexico Desert. They take a shortcut that goes nowhere and hit against a rock. Their vehicle is wrecked with no help nearby. That’s when a group of cannibals attacked them. These are terribly deformed mutants that are a result of the nuclear tests conducted by the US between 1945 and 1962.Cast: Ted Levine, Kathleen Quinlan, Dan Byrd, Emilie de Ravin, Michael Bailey Smith

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s EndZee Studio, 9:00amIn the � nal chapter of the Pirates trilogy, Will, Elizabeth and Captain Barbossa embark on a desperate quest to save Jack Sparrow (Depp) from a monstrous sea creature controlled by Davy Jones (Nighy). To complete their mission, they must travel to Singapore to confront Chinese pirate Captain Sao Feng and sail into treacherous waters to sink the terrifying ghost ship known as the Flying Dutchman. Cast: Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley, Chow Yun-Fat, Geo� rey Rush

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Pop star Lady Gaga is reportedly working on some new tracks, the hint comes from her long-time producer RedOne.

Looks like the 30-year-old pop star, who hasn’t released a solo album in nearly three years, may arrive on the horizon again.

RedOne, with whom Gaga collaborated on hits like “Just Dance,” “Poker Face” and “LoveGame,” said: “All I know is that we did eight great songs so far, and I think we have incredible songs,” reports People.

The new tracks are a “mixture of classic music and futuristic,” RedOne added.

“We kept it [similar to] what Gaga is, what she’s done all these years. It’s special,” he told People.

RedOne, whose real name is Nadir Khayat, went on to talk about Gaga’s star power, noting that he always knew she was going to be huge.

“I remember when I met her � rst. I told my wife, ‘This girl is gonna be the next Madonna.’ That’s what I felt,” he said. “And when we did ‘Just Dance’ and all the music we were doing, it was di� erent; it was special. I wanted to break a new sound. I didn’t want to follow every producer that was doing the

same thing. And I did that sound, and it worked, and it changed music in the world: Dance music broke after that.”

The producer has worked with Gaga on all of her albums since The Fame, her debut. He left his mark on songs like “Bad Romance” and “Alejandro” from “The Fame Monster,” on “Judas” and “Hair” from “Born This Way,” and on “Gypsy” from ARTPOP.

The producer told People that he was excited about the new music he has been working on with Gaga, but was not able to

con� rm whether or not any of it would appear on her next album.

“It’s up to her: It’s her album, it’s her creative process, it’s her world, and I’ll be happy for her whatever way she takes it,” he said. “She’s my sister. I want her to succeed, and I love her. She’s just such an amazing artist.” l

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n Mosharraf Kabir

Gahor Badsha O Banesa Pori, the 20th stage production of theatre troupe Nagorik Nattayangan and a directorial venture of actor Hridi Haq, will be staged today at the National Theatre Hall of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy at 6:30pm.

Hridi Haq who adapted the play for stage stated that it is based on a Southern folktale with the inclusion of Banesa Pori’s titular role. The play focuses on the exile and survival

of Gahor Badsha’s along with the eventual love a� air with Banesa Pori. The play marks Haq’s � rst directorial venture for stage.

A group comprising around 50 theatre activists have participated in the play in various parts from acting to stage design to costume. Warda Rihab designed choreography for the play while Kamruzzaman Roni scored the background music. Actor Saju Khadem designed the sets.

The play premiered in November last year. l

Peace TV downlink permission cancelled n Shohel Mamun

The government yesterday can-celled the downlink permission for the controversial televangelist Za-kir Naik’s Peace TV channel.

An order was issued by the In-formation Ministry after the cab-inet committee on law and order decided to ban the channel on Sun-day.

The order from the Information Ministry read: “The government was cancelling the downlink per-mission for the free-to-air channel as per the cabinet committee’s de-cision.”

Former president of cable operators association of Bangladesh, SM Anwar Parvez told reporters that cable operators had stopped airing Peace TV in divisional cities on Sunday after the decision made by the Cabinet committee.

We have now received the order by the Information Ministry to stop telecasting Peace TV which will be executed within the next 24 hours.

Peace TV was launched by Naik’s Islamic Research Founda-tion in 2006. An Urdu version was launched in 2009, followed by a Bangla version in 2011.

Naik stirred up controversy by urging Muslims to become terror-ists, came under heavy scrutiny after it emerged that at least one of the terrorists in the Dhaka terror attack who killed 22 people on July 1 was inspired by Naik.

India on Saturday banned Peace TV which is not licensed in India and is uplinked from Dubai. It also warned cable operators that action will be taken for transmitting the channel. l

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Freedom � ghter ‘beaten to death’ by railway policen Bishwajit Deb, Jamalpur

A freedom � ghter has died, alleg-edly after taking a beating from railway police at the Jamalpur Rail-way Station.

Eight police o� cers have been suspended over the incident and a probe committee has been formed.

Family said Lance Corporal (retd) Abdul Bari, a freedom � ght-er, was hit by a policeman in the presence of GRP Station O� cer-in-Charge Goura Chandra Mojumder

at the station yesterday.His son Mazharul Islam, a Ra-

jshahi University student, was de-tained at the station for not having a ticket. Abdul Bari went to the station to get his son released. An argument ensued with the police-men there, whereupon the po-licemen beat him in public on the platform.

Bari was admitted to Jamalpur General Hospital with injuries and transferred to Mymensingh Com-bined Military Hospital where he

died at 2:45pm.OC Goura Chandra and seven

other policemen were suspended over the incident, Jamalpur Deputy Commissioner Shahabuiddin Khan said. A � ve-member committee had also been formed to look into the incident, which will submit a report in three days, he added.

Former MP and Jamalpur dis-trict commander of the Mukti-joddha Sangsad (freedom � ghters council) Sha� qul Islam said Abdul Bari had been beaten up inhu-

manely in public by policemen.He said the council would launch

a campaign for the punishment of culprits after the victim’s body is returned from Mymensingh.

Earlier, OC Goura Chandra told the Dhaka Tribune the freedom � ghter’s son was detained for not having a ticket and then released.

“But he was still standing at the platform and swearing at police, at which point some pushing took place and he fell to the ground and was injured,” he said. l

Zakir Naik to stay longer in UAEn Tribune Desk

While things have been stirring up bad-ly in his home city Mumbai, Islamic tel-evangelist Zakir Naik has prolonged his stay in the United Arab Emirates and has plans to take the tour to Africa, re-ports Times of India.

An aide of Naik’s yesterday told TOI that the Islamic preacher had also can-celled his conference with the media

scheduled to be held today. Naik was yet to call on several meet-

ings in the UAE and would not leave for Mumbai for a few more weeks, he said.

The Bharatiya Janata Party-led gov-ernment in Maharashtra has ordered a probe into Naik’s teachings, speeches and literature following allegations that he was inspiring terrorism. Shiv Sena, ally to the Maharashtra government, has also demanded stringent actions

against the Islamic preacher at par with the treatment given to Hindu activists.

Naik could face actions if his speech-es were found objectionable, reports TOI, adding that the Indian Union Mus-lim League had come out in his support.

Meanwhile, Naik went on social net-working sites urging people to stand by him and help him combat the “media trial” he is being subjected to since the terror attack at Holey Artisan Bakery. l

A Bengal Tiger is seen crossing the Shundori Canal in Sundarban’s Kotka in Bagerhat. Recently the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has declared the Bengal Tigers as an extremely endangered species. The photo was taken on July 9 SYED ZAKIR HOSSAIN

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