Jet most likely ew into Indian Oceann Reuters Investigators are trying to restore les deleted last month from the home ight simulator of the pilot aboard the missing Malaysian plane to see if they shed any light on the disappearance, Malaysias acting transport minister said on Wednesday.

Hishammuddin Hussein told a news conference that the pilot, Captain Za-harie Ahmad Shah, is considered inno-cent until proven guilty of any wrong-

doing, and that members of his family are cooperating in the investigation. Files containing records of simulations carried out on the programme were de-leted on February 3, Malaysian police chief Khalid Abu said.

Deleting les would not necessarily represent anything unusual, especial-ly if it were to free up memory space, but investigators would want to check

the les for any signs of unusual ight paths that could help explain where the missing plane went.

The military in the Maldives con- rmed that reports of a sighting of the plane by villagers there were not true, the Malaysian minister said.

Investigators probing the disappear-ance of the jetliner believe it most like-ly ew into the southern Indian Ocean, a source close to the investigation said on Wednesday.

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Tigers look to wrap-up roundone with winn Reazur Rahman Rohan The home side will be looking to put another dominating performance on display and seal their ICC World Twenty20 second round berth today. With two dominating wins already in their bag Bangladesh takes on another ICC Associate nation and the weakest team in Group A Hong Kong in their last match in rst round at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium.

For Bangladesh the ask is simple win and go to the second round with con -dence, while for Hong Kong it will be a match to claim appreciation from their performance. The sides have met just once earlier that also in a one-day in-ternational in the Asia Cup in Sri Lanka back in 2004 which was won by Bang-ladesh by 116 runs.

Bangladesh has since then grown in to a strong unit compared to Honk Kong and the di erences of experience and temperament should be enough to secure an easy win for the hosts. How-ever, the Tigers should also not be too relaxed as they have a reputation of go-ing down to weaker teams.

The turnaround after going through a miserable rst quarter in 2014 has been very impressive for Bangladesh, though their last four T20 wins came

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BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia at court to attend the charge-framing hearing on the Zia trust graft case yesterday MAHMUD HOSSAIN OPU

Khaleda, Tarique, Harris indictedin graft cases Defence lawyers create pandemonium; JCD announces protest rally for today n Md Sanaul Islam TipuA Dhaka court yesterday framed charges against BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, her elder son andpartys Senior Vice-Chairman Tarique Rahman and seven others in two graft cases led by the Anti-Corruption Commission.

Six people including Khaleda and Tarique were indicted in the Zia Orphanage Trust case for embezzling

over Tk2.1 crore by forming the fake trust in 1991. In the other case involving Zia Charitable Trust, the ACC accused four people including the BNP chief of raising funds by abusing power of the PMO during 2001-06.

Newly-appointed Judge Basudev Roy of the Dhakas Special Judges Court 3 passed the indictment order rejecting the defences time petitions. It

also xed April 21 for starting the trials with testimonies of the complainants in the cases.

The indictment came after an eventful day marked by judges leaving the courtroom twice following the defence lawyers derogatory remarks and their expressing no-con denceon him.

Khaleda came to the court around 1pm. Now on permanent bail in both cases, the former premier remained silent during the charge framing. She stayed at the courtroom for three hours.

Because of her absence and sub-mission of time petitions, the charge framing was deferred 41 times in the orphanage trust case and 11 times in the other.

Meanwhile, several thousand pro-BNP lawyers and party supporters demonstrated in and outside the court with banners and festoons amid the presence of huge security measures by the law enforcers.

Because of their putting blockade on the street, vehicular movement was halted for around four hours from 12noon creating huge tailback on

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Defences derogatory remarks and chaos forced judge to leave courtroom twice

News2 DHAKA TRIBUNE Thursday, March 20, 2014MPs decry TIBs statement on parliament n Emran Hossain Shaikh Lawmakers from both the treasury bench and the opposition yesterday condemned a recent statement by Transparency International Bangladesh that criticised Jatiya Partys role in the House and commented on the possible duration of the ongoing parliament.

Taking the oor of the parliament in an unscheduled discussion, treasury bench lawmaker Sheikh Fazlul Karim Selim questioned the Berlin-based watchdogs authority in making such a statement.

On Tuesday, TIB said Jatiya Party was unable to play the role of the op-position in the parliament, adding that

it expected the 10th parliament to not run its full term.

Demanding a ruling from the Speak-er, Selim said TIB had crossed a limit in making such statements, as it was not their task to look into such matters.

TIB cannot make such statements about the parliament and the govern-ment, as it is a non-government organ-isation, he said, adding that the organ-isation had come up with a statement similar to the ones made by BNP chief Khaleda Zia after failing to foil the na-tional poll.

If they [TIB] want to make such statement, they can form a political party to join the 19-party alliance, the

lawmaker said. BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, who

was the opposition leader in the 9th parliament, had also termed the cur-rent parliament as a House without the opposition.

Selim, also a presidium member of ruling Awami League, further ques-tioned TIBs demand for a fresh elec-tion, asking whom the organisation wanted to please with the statement.

The ruling party MP also said the incumbent government had assumed o ce for ve years and it would not step down before completion of its full tenure.

He also requested the nance min-

ister to look into the luxurious lifestyle of civil society members and place a report before the House in this regard.

Meanwhile, taking the oor, Jatiya Party lawmaker Anisul Islam Mahmud told the House that TIB might want vi-olence in the country.

It [TIB] did not make any state-ment on the BNPs poor presence in the House as opposition. The organisation did not issue statements when people were killed in the name of their move-ment, said Anisul, also the water re-sources minister.

Claiming that the opposition was a part of the government, he said: Now scope has been created to protest in the

cabinet. Drawing the attention of the speak-

er, the minister said: The organisation has been engaged with constructive ac-tivities in other countries, but its activ-ities in this country are questionable.

Another lawmaker of Jatiya Party, Shawkat Chowdhury, also criticised TIB for its statement.

The whole nation has been aware about the activities of the TIB. Wearing tin-made glasses over their eyes, they want the country to be destroyed, he said.

Deputy Speaker Fazle Rabbi Miah, who was chairing the session, also said the statement by TIB was regrettable. l

HC: Science examinees need not pass separately n Nazmus Sakib The High Court has held that the con-dition of passing separately in each of the three parts creative, objective and practical of Physics, Chemistry and Biology in HSC is illegal.

The bench of Justice Quazi Reza-Ul Hoque and Justice ABM Altaf Hossain delivered the judgement in response to a writ petition led by an HSC examinee Farah Tasnim Raisa of Dhaka City College.

Shah Mohammad Ahsanur Rah-man, lawyer of the petitioner, told the Dhaka Tribune that on March 18 he got the certi ed copy of the full text of the judgement of January 29.

Raisa in her plea said in 2013 HSC exams, she obtained A+ in three sub-jects and A in two, but she did not pass in Chemistry as the new system provi-sioned for passing separately in each of the three parts objective having 35 marks, creative 40 marks and practical 25 marks.

The Dhaka Board also denied her ap-plication of re-evaluation of the Chem-istry answer script.

The High Court in its judgement directed the board to re-evaluate her Chemistry answer script and observed that the board had not any authority to destroy the career of any students.

Though the ruling was passed fol-lowing an individual writ plea, the au-thorities concerned would not be able to continue with such exam system in HSC in future as it was introduced in violation of the Intermediate and Sec-ondary Education Board Ordinance, 1961, Ahsanur Rahman said.

He said other students would reap the bene t of the judgment if they came to the court regarding other subjects in which the conditions were same as no gazette noti cation was is-sued on the matter.

Earlier on October 7, 2013, the HC issued a rule, asking why dividing the science papers Physics, Chemistry and Biology into the three parts in the HSC examination 2013, and impos-ing undeclared condition on passing separately in each of the three parts in violation of the said law should not be held illegal.

In the rule, the court also wanted to know why the respondents concerned should not be directed to re-examine the petitioners answer scripts and ac-cordingly publish the re-evaluated re-sult of the petitioner. l

Benetton denies compensation to RMG victims n Tribune ReportBenetton Group, a global apparel retail-er based in Italy, is said to be violating terms of an accord it signed to compen-sate victims of Rana Plaza disaster.

Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC), one of the largest alliances of labour unions and non-government organisations in the world, made the claim in a press release.

Benetton signed the accord in May 2013 under pressure from a world-wide campaign which generated over a million signatures, the report said on Wednesday.

However, Benetton is now said to be denying compensation to workers injured in the Rana Plaza disaster that killed 1,138 people.

Benetton was called on to pay $5m in compensation to the Rana Plaza vic-tims, however did not do so, the CCC said on the basis of an investigation report.

The CCC is said to have found proof that Benetton did not disclose at least two of their suppliers to the list of fac-tories that would be inspected, a viola-tion of the accord.

This is not the rst time Benet-ton has failed to ful ll its obligations or public commitments in relation to the disaster, the press releasesaid.

They initially denied sourcing from one of the Rana Plaza factories. l

48 female MPs declared elected unopposedn UNB, DhakaThe Election Commission yesterday an-nounced the names of 48 women who have been elected unopposed as mem-bers of parliament from reserved seats.

Returning O cer Jesmin Tuli issued a noti cation declaring them as elected uno cially.

The returning o cer, meanwhile, rejected the nominations of two other candidates for non-payment of tele-phone bills. The EC also rejected their appeals against the decision.

Of the 48 new women MPs, 38

were nominated by the ruling Awami League, ve by HM Ershad-led Jatiya Party, three by a coalition of 16 inde-pendent MPs and one each by Workers Party and Jasad.

The AL-nominated lawmakers are Selina Jahan Lita, Safura Begum, Hosne Ara Lutfa Dalia, Umme Kulsum Smriti, Akhter Jahan, Selina Begum, Selina Akhter Banu, Laila Arjuman Banu, Shi-rin Nayeem, Kamrul Laila Jolly, Happy Boral, Rifat Amin, Nasima Ferdousi, Lutfun Nesa, Momtaz Begum, Tara-na Halim, Monwara Begum, Mahjabin Khaled, Fatema Zohra Rani, Dilara Be-

gum, Fatematuz Zohura, Fazilatunnesa Indira, Pinu Khan, Sanjida Khanam, Nilufar Jafar Ullah, Rokhsana Yasmin Chhuti, Navana Akhter, Asmatul Kib-ria Keya Chowdhury, Shamsun Nahar Begum, Fazilaunnesa Bappy, Wasika Ayesha Khan, Jahanara Begum Surma, Firoza Begum Chinu, Amina Ahmed, Sabina Akhter Tuhin, Rahima Akhter, Hosne Ara Bably and Kamrun Nahar Chowdhury Lovely.

The MPs from Jatiya Party are Nur-e-Hasna Lily Chowdhury, Mahzabin Morshed, Merina Rahman, Rawshan Ara Mannan and Shahanara Begum.

Lutfa Taher, wife of late Col Taher, is from Jasad, while Hazera Khatun from the Workers Party.

Three others _ Kazi Rosy, Nurjahan Begum and Umme Razia Kajol _ are from the alliance of independent can-didates.

The candidatures of Sabiha Nahar and Khorshed Ara Haque were reject-ed on the grounds that they owed Tk 11,835 and Tk223, 488 respectively in outstanding bills to BTCL, the state-run telephone company. Earlier, the EC xed April 3 for voting in the 50 re-served seats for women. l

Jet most likely ew into Indian Ocean PAGE 1 COLUMN 5The working assumption is that it went south, and furthermore that it went to the southern end of that cor-ridor, said the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

The view is based on the lack of any evidence from countries along the northern corridor that the plane entered their airspace, and the failure to nd any trace of wreckage in searches in the up-per part of the southern corridor.

Some sources involved in the inves-tigation have voiced fears it could be drifting towards deadlock due to the reluctance of countries in the region to share militarily sensitive radar data or allow full access to their territory.

These are basically spy planes, thats what they were designed for, said one source close to the investiga-tion, explaining the hesitance of some nations to allow maritime surveillance aircraft into their waters.

Last week, a source familiar with

o cial US assessments said it was thought most likely the plane ew south, where it presumably would have run out of fuel and crashed into the sea.

If it did indeed end up in the south-ern Indian Ocean, one of the remotest places on Earth and also one of the deepest seas, it increases the chance it may never be found and investigators may never know for sure what hap-pened on board.

Hishammuddin said the di culty of searching such a huge expanse of ocean made the operation in the south-ern corridor much more challenging.

O cials believe that someone with detailed knowledge of both the Boeing 777 and commercial aviation naviga-tion switched o two vital datalinks: the ACARS system, which relays main-tenance data back to the ground, and the transponder, which enables the plane to be seen by civilian radar.

Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 with 239 people aboard disappeared March 8 on

a night ight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. Malaysian authorities have not ruled out any possible explanations, but have said the evidence so far sug-gests the ight was deliberately turned back across Malaysia to the Strait of Malacca, with its communications sys-tems disabled. They are unsure what happened next and why.

Investigators have identi ed two gi-ant arcs of territory spanning the possi-ble positions of the plane about seven-and-a-half hours after takeo , based on its last faint signal to a satellite an hourly handshake signal that con-tinues even when communications are switched o . The arcs stretch up as far as Kazakhstan in central Asia and down deep into the southern Indian Ocean.

Police are considering the possibil-ity of hijacking, sabotage, terrorism or issues related to the mental health of the pilots or anyone else on board, and have asked for background checks from abroad on all foreign passengers.

Hishammuddin said such checks have been received for all the foreign-ers except those from Ukraine and Russia - which account for three pas-sengers. So far, no information of sig-ni cance on any passengers has been found, Hishammuddin said.

The 53-year-old pilot joined Malay-sia Airlines in 1981 and had more than 18,000 hours of ight experience. Peo-ple who knew Zaharie from his involve-ment in opposition political circles in Malaysia and other areas of his life have described him as sociable, humble, car-ing and dedicated to his job.

The crisis has exposed the lack of a failsafe way of tracking modern passen-ger planes on which data transmission systems and transponders which make them visible to civilian radar have been severed. At enormous cost, 26 countries are helping Malaysia look for the plane.

Aircraft from Australia, the US and New Zealand on Wednesday scoured a search area stretching across 305,000

square km of the Indian Ocean, about 2,600 km southwest of Perth, on Austral-ias west coast. Merchant ships were also asked to look for any trace of the plane.

Nothing has been found, the Aus-tralian Maritime Safety Authority said.

China has said it was reviewing ra-dar data and deployed 21 satellites to search the northern corridor, although it is considered less likely that the plane could have taken that route with-out being detected by military radar systems of the countries in that region.

Those searches so far have turned up no trace of the plane, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said.

Indonesian defence minister Purno-moYusgiantoro said Indonesia military radar didnt pick up any signs of Flight 370 on the day the plane went missing. He said Malaysia had asked Indonesia to intensify the search in its assigned zone in the Indian Ocean west of Suma-tra, but said his air force was strained in the task. l

Khaleda, Tarique, Harris indicted in graft cases PAGE 1 COLUMN 2Sadarghat-Gulistan and Sa-darghat-Jatrabari roads. They chanted slogans against the government criti-cising the court decisions.

Protesting the indictment order, Ja-tiyatabadi Chhatra Dal, students wing of the BNP, announced countrywide protest rallies for today, according to a press release.

The court that began around 1:15pm plunged into a pandemonium as law-yers from both the defence and the prosecution started shouting at each other and chanting slogans over the comments.

Criticising the rejection of time pe-titions, the defence counsels started making derogatory comments about the court prompting the judge to leave the courtroom around 1:40pm.

Later around 2pm, the defence counsels went to the judges chamber and submitted four separate petitions two for each case seeking permission of going to the High Court for reviewing the rejection orders and no-con dence on the court that framedthe charges.

The judge again went to the court-room at 3:15pm to hear the petitions

but he left the room for the second time when the defence said they had no con dence on him.

Later the judge passed the indict-ment order through the courts bench o cer (Peshkar) Ariful Islam. On behalf of the judge, around 3:30pm he men-tioned that the court framed charges against the accused and set April 21 to begin the trials.

The court also recorded the four petitions and mentioned that those were under the jurisdiction of the High Court.

The accused Other accused in the orphanage trust case are BNP founder Gen Ziaur Rah-mans nephew Mominur Rahman, Khaledas former principal secretary Dr Kamal Uddin Siddique and former BNP lawmakers Kazi Salimul Haque and Sharfuddin Ahmed.

The three accused in the charitable trust case are Khaledas former polit-ical secretary Harris Chowdhury, his assistant personal secretary Ziaul Islam Munna and mayor of undivided Dha-ka City Corporation Sadeque Hossain Khoka former personal secretary Man-irul Islam Khan.

Of the seven accused, Harris, Mom-inur, Kamaluddin and Sharfuddin are on the run. The court said Sharfuddin who is now staying in the UK would be shown fugitive in the case. Tarique has been staying in the UK since 2008.

The three others, who are now on bail, appeared before the court yesterday.

According to the court order, charg-es were framed against the accused un-der sections 409/109 of the panel code and section 5 (2) of Anti-Corruption Act, 1947 in Zia Orphanage Trust case while it framed charges under section 109 of the panel code and section 5 (2) of Anti-Corruption Act, 1947 against the accused in Zia Charitable trust graft case.

Deferrals end After appearing at the court, Khaleda submitted two adjournment petitions before the court through her counsels. But the judge rejected the pleas after hearing both defence and prosecution for 25 minutes.

Earlier Khaleda remained absent at the court on several dates showing dif-ferent reasons related to security, illness and the parliament being in session.

She secured permanent bail in the

cases on January 15 last year and again on February 16 until yesterday.

Khaleda and Tarique are also ac-cused in Gatco, Niko and Barapukuria graft cases, proceedings of which have been stayed by the High Court upon pe-titions.

Zia Orphanage Trust caseThe ACC led the graft case on July 3, 2008 with Ramna police station accus-ing Khaleda, her son Tarique and four others for embezzling over Tk2.1 crore by forming the fake trust in 1991. The money came as grants from a foreign bank for the orphans.

On August 5, 2010, ACC Deputy Di-rector Harunur Rashid submitted the charge sheet and named 37 witnesses in the case.

According to the case statement, the accused embezzled the money by establishing Zia Orphanage Trust that exists only on paper.

Zia Charitable Trust caseOn August 8, 2011, the ACC led the case with Tejgaon police station ac-cusing four of abusing power in rais-ing funds for the trust from unknown sources.

ACC o cial Harunur, also investi-gation o cer of the case, pressed the charges on January 16, 2012. He showed 37 people as prosecution witnesses in the case.

According to the charge sheet, mon-ey for setting up the trust was collected from di erent sources, using the in u-ence of the Prime Ministers O ce dur-ing the 2001-06 tenure of the BNP-led government.

Indictment illegal Mahbub Uddin Khokon MP, who stood for the accused, said the court framed the charges illegally.

He said they submitted the time pe-titions as the Appellate Division was yet to give any decision against the High Court order that rejected an ap-peal of the accused which says the two cases cannot run together.

ACC counsel Mosharraf Hossain Kajal refuted the allegation of the de-fence.

The defence lawyers deferred the charge framing hearing several times by ling time petitions. But nally the court framed the charges against Khaleda and other accused as per the law, he said. l

Tigers look to wrap-up roundone with win PAGE 1 COLUMN 6against Associate nations Ireland, UAE, Nepal and Afghanistan. Todays match will be the fth consecutive T20 Bang-ladesh plays against a non Test playing nation and nothing but a win should satisfy them.

Dew will be a major factor in the night game and both teams know that very well. So winning the toss the cap-tain should not hesitate to have a bowl in the track that also keeps low apart from assisting the fast bowlers.

Bangladesh players wore a very con- dent and joyful look in their practice yesterday where they enjoyed a small football session between the seniors and juniors after a brief team meeting.

Though it is unlikely that Mush qur Rahim will break the winning combina-tion, but Rubel Hossain might come in to replace Mashrafe bin Mortaza who is carrying a minor niggle on his elbow. Mashrafe put in a diving e ort to save a boundary in the rst match against Afghanistan where his elbow hit the ground, though coach Shane Jurgensen said it was nothing to worry about.

To win matches, especially in this format, it is important for the top order to perform and so far they have clicked in style as Bangladesh have won the rst two matches by 9 and 8 wickets respectively. Tamim Iqbal and the hy-per active Anamul Haque should con-centrate on building from Bangladeshs highest T20 opening partnership of 63 in the last match, which will also allow Sabbir Rahman and Shakib al Hasan to come in with a license to kill.

Mark Chapman, Jamie Atkinson and Waqas Barkat have so far impressed with the bat for Hong Kong, but it will be a big test for the top three against a quality home side bowling attack. Meanwhile, if they bowl rst it will be interesting to see how their fast bowl-ers go against the pounding mode of the Bangladesh batting unit.

Apart from the heavy dew at night, the weather has been very hot and hu-mid in the past few days in Chittagong and though it drizzled for around 30 minutes yesterday evening, it is unlikely to have any e ect on the game today. l

Communications Minister Obaidul Quader inaugurates a formalin-free kitchen market at New Market in the capital yesterday DHAKA TRIBUNE

Constitutional hitch stalls MPs wagen Kamran Reza ChowdhuryThe lawmakers of the immediate past ninth and the current 10th parliaments are yet to get their salaries and allowanc-es owing to the constitutional complica-tions the authorities have been facing, o cials say.

The parliament authorities are in di-lemma over taking the decision as to whether the current legislature started functioning on January 9 or January 25.

As per Article 123 of the constitution, MPs of the 10th parliament must not as-sume o ce before the expiry of the pre-vious ninth legislature that was supposed to end on January 24, 2014.

But, Article 148 stipulates that MPs will be deemed to have assumed o ce as soon as they take oath.

The MPs elected in the January 5 gen-eral polls took oath on January 9 with the 9th parliament dissolving before its ve-year term that would end on January 24 and functioning of the 10th Jatiya Sang-sad.

In such case, the parliament authori-ties or the election commission are likely to face the charge of violation of Article 123 that opposes swearing-in of the MPs of the 10th legislature until the expiry of the previous JS.

Again, if the MPs of the ninth parlia-

ment are given salaries up to January 24, the two parliaments would exist at the same time another violation of the con-stitution.

We cannot pay salaries and allowanc-es to the honourable MPs due to some probable constitutional complexities, Deputy Speaker Fazle Rabbi Miah, now in charge of the speaker, told the Dhaka Tribune.

He said the question was raised at the beginning of the current parliament and dissolution of the previous parliament.

Rabbi said there was no scope to pro-vide salaries to the two sets of MPs at the same time. I have recommended that the speaker give the 10th parliament MPs

salaries from January 25, he said.On the question of charter violation,

the deputy speaker said, You have to compromise at one point.

ASM Feroz, the chief whip, said the is-sue would be settled after Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury returns home from Geneva on March 22.

We sent the proposal to the speaker in January for approval to pay the sala-ries and allowances to the MPs of the ninth and 10th parliaments. But, she (the speaker) is yet to take decision in this regard, Ashraful Maqbul, the par-liament secretary, said adding that many MPs were visiting his o ce, demanding salaries and allowances. l

3NewsDHAKA TRIBUNE Thursday, March 20, 2014

CID o cials arrest Nazmul Maksud Murad after Interpol handed him over yesterday. Interpol arrested him in the US. Nazmul is accused of attempting to murder Awami League chief Sheikh Hasina around 12 years back DHAKA TRIBUNE

500 crude bombs recovered n Our Correspondent, FeniPolice yesterday night recovered 500 handmade bombs from an abandoned house in Hasanpur village under Fulga-zi upazila in Feni.

Based on information, we conduct-ed a raid in the village and recovered the bombs from the house around 08:30am. We took those to police sta-tion, Mohammad Shah Alam, sub-in-spector of Fulgazi Police Station told

the Dhaka Tribune. Shah Alam said a person named Go-

lam Mostofa, who is a district judge, owns the house but does not live there. We are suspecting that some miscre-ants stored the bombs inside the house for using in acts of violence ahead of the upazila polls slated for March 23.

Earlier on March 12, Awami League leader Ekramul Haque Ekram and BNP leader Minar Chowdhury got into a clash in the area which left around

30 people injured. Two separate cas-es were registered in this connection. Considering the previous clash, the bombs might have been brought by any member of the two groups led by Ekra-mul and Minar, Shah Alam said.

Contacted, Feni Police Super Pori-tosh Pal said he had learned about the incident and an investigation into it was underway. He, however, refused to comment further, saying investigation would reveal more information. l

Nizamis defence must nish closing arguments today n Udisa IslamThe defence of top war crimes sus-pect Motiur Rahman Nizami, also the incumbent Jamaat-e-Islami chief, will have to complete their closing argu-ments by today, as per a previous order of the tribunal.

So far the defence ended submis-sion on four charges the alleged al-Badr chief is facing. Nizami was indicted on May 28, 2012 on 16 counts of crimes against humanity including murder, rape, arson and incitement.

Defence counsel Mizanul Islam on the second days arguments yesterday pointed out some contradictions in the formal charges, and deposition of the prosecution witnesses including the investigation o cer of the case.

After the whole day session, the tri-bunal adjourned the hearing until today.

Earlier, the International Crimes Tribunal 1 ordered that the defence would have to complete the arguments by today.

Nizamis lawyers started the argu-ments on March 13. The prosecution ended their arguments on March 12, on the third day of their submission.

It is the second time both the parties are placing the closing arguments since the former chairman went on retire-ment before giving judgement in the case. The tribunal was reconstituted on February 23 and its chairman decided to hear the closing arguments afresh.

Meanwhile, the tribunal 2 yesterday adjourned hearing in the trial of war crimes accused Syed Md Qaisar until today. Before that, the defence ended cross-examination of prosecutions rst witness Kazi Kabiruddin, 72.

The witness gave a lengthy descrip-tion of the crimes committed by the accused during the 1971 Liberation War. He said Manju Mia, uncle of the accused, had formed an anti-liberation group and made Qaisar its chief which was widely known as Qaisar Bahini. l

1989 ATTEMPT ON HASINAS LIFE

Bomber Murad brought back from USn Mohammad Jamil Khan With the help of Interpol, a bomber who allegedly tried to kill Sheikh Hasi-na in 1989 was brought to Bangladesh from the US yesterday.

Syed Nazmul Maksud alias Murad was brought back to Bangladesh by the Criminal Investigation Department on a special ight with the help of In-terpol, Humayun, assistant superin-tendent of police of the CIDs legal and media wing, told the Dhaka Tribune.

A Freedom Party leader, Murad would soon be produced before a court in the case. Son of late Tofazzal Hossain, the accused hails from North Shahjahanpur of the capital. Murad is also wanted in two other cases, includ-ing one for murder, the CID told the media at a brie ng at its Malibagh of- ce yesterday evening.

Seven to eight miscreants on an auto-rickshaw had come in front of Sheikh Hasinas Dhanmondi Road 32 house around midnight on August 11, 1989 and exploded bombs and opened res targeting the house, Special Superintendent Abdul Kahar Akand said.

As on-duty security guard Hav-ilder Md Jahirul Haque retaliated, the criminals ed the spot chanting Fa-rooq-Rashid Zindabad. According to the investigators, Murad himself chanted the slogan.

The security guard led a case the same day under Explosives Substances Act against unknown people with Dh-anmondi police station. SP Kahar said Murad had been mentioned as the 13th accused in the charge sheet submitted later by the CID following further in-vestigation.

Murad ed the country on October 3, 1995 and went to the US. Identifying himself as a Freedom Party leader, he started working there. Interpol issued

a red alert against him in 2011. The Homeland Security arrested Murad from Atlanta on February 2, 2012 and he had since been in a US jail.

On information, we have since been trying to bring him back, and -nally the Homeland Security handed him over to us, Kahar said.

Murad is also accused in two cases led with Motijheel police station one for murder, led on October 15, 1995; and another for snatching, led on Sep-tember 13 that year. Trials of both the cases are underway.

In the attack on Hasina case, police had submitted the nal report in 1996, during the rst tenure of the Awami League government. Later, the CID was given the charge of the case.

On February 20, 1997, CID Assistant Superintendent Md Khalequzzaman, who investigated the case, pressed charges against 16 people, including Freedom Party chief Lt Col (retd) Fa-rooq Rahman, Maj Bazlul Huda and Murad.

The court framed charges against the accused on July 16, 1997. Of the accused, Sohel alias Freedom Sohel, Md Golam Sarwar alias Mamun, and Joj Miah are now in jail, while Humayun Kabir, Mizanur Rahman, Khondoker Amirul Islam and Md Shajahan alias Balu are on bail.

Four more accused have been ab-sconding since the beginning; they are Lt Col (retd) Khondoker Rashid, Jafor Ahmed alias Manik, Gazi Imam Hos-sain and Md Humayun Kabir. The main accused of the case, Lt Col Syed Farooq Rahman and Maj Bazlul Huda, were hanged in Bangabandhu murder case on January 28, 2010.

Two other accused Gazi Liakat Hossain and Rezaul Islam Khan died. Humayun, Rezaul and Liakat made confessional statements on September 23, 1996, before the court. l

BNP fears result manipulation in fourth phase of upazila pollsn Tribune Report BNP ground level aspirants fear that Awami League men with political clout will in uence local administrations to manipulate results of the fourth phase of upazila parishad elections scheduled to be held on March 23.

In Jhenaidha, the BNP district unit in a press conference alleged the ruling par-ty men were intimidating BNP support-ers into taking part in the campaign for Awami League candidate in upazila polls in Harinakundu upazila.

The written allegation was read out yesterday afternoon where former law-maker and the partys Central Committee Organising Secretary Mashiur Rahman, among l leaders in the brie ng alleged that the ruling party men snatched and dam-aged their microphones during a rally.

The ruling party men attacked and injured Harinakundu Upazila Jatiyataba-di Chhatra Dal Vice-President Sa ddin and Sariful Islam of Bhabitpur. They also vandalised the business establishments of Dr Fazlur Rahman.

The speakers said they could not stay

in their houses as police without any speci c case were after them.

In Pirojpur, BNP-backed chairman candidate Aliza Zaman alleged that the ruling party men attacked her motor-cade while she was campaigning in her constituency.

Aliza accused Mojibur Rahman, the Awami League-backed candidate, of the attack. When contacted, Mojibur Rahman said it might have been a third party that launched the attack to tarnish his image.

In Hobiganj, independent candidate and incumbent Chairman Ahmudul Haque feared that the ruling party would take control of the polling centres on the polls day.

Addressing a press conference at press club, he said law enforcers were acting like activists of a particular party. The ruling party men are threatening my supporters not to work as polling agents on the poll day.

Meanwhile, as many as three hun-dred people of Rolva and Mahmudpur villages of Baraigram Upazila in Natore formed a human chain and held a rally early yesterday demanding restoration

of the election sub-centre there. The speakers said as the sub-centre

was withdrawn they have to go three kilometres on foot to cast their votes at Bharatpur government Primary School centre. They urged the government to reinstall the centre soon taking into con-sideration their problems. They also sub-mitted a memorandum to the assistant returning o cer on Tuesday.

When contacted, Assistant Returning O cer Irtiza Hossein said he had already brought the matter into the notice of the returning o cer.

Meantime, police arrested two Jamat leaders for their alleged involvement in setting re to an AL election camp in Madhupur upazila under Tangail district yesterday. The arrestees were identi ed as Abdul Zabbar and Anisur Rahman president and joint secretary of Aushnara Union unite of the Jammat respectively.

However, election to Sreepur Upazi-la of Gazipur was rescheduled to be held March 31. Election in Sreepur was sus-pended on March 11 in a clash between the Awami league-backed candidate and a rebel aspirant leaving one person dead. l

Victims relative describes Mir Kashems brutalityn Udisa IslamThe cousin of a victim who had been brutally tortured to death at the al-Badr camp of alleged war criminal Mir Kashem Ali during the 1971 Liberation War testi ed yesterday.

Hasina Khatun, 72, the 17th prose-cution witness, told the International Crimes Tribunal 2 that her cousin Jasim had been tortured by al-Badr cadres led

by Mir Kashem. She heard about the incident from another detainee at Dal-eem Hotel, the torture camp in Chit-tagong City.

The tribunal adjourned the proceed-ings until Sunday keeping her cross-ex-amination un nished.

She had met Jasim one day before the war began. After the war, I started enquiring people for his whereabouts. NAP leader Sha ul Alam, who was also

abducted and tortured at Daleem Ho-tel, told me that the al-Badr cadres led by Mir Kashem brought Jasim in blood-ied and bruised condition and threw his body in the room they were locked up.

Hasina said on Sha uls information she had met one Saifuddin to know about the body of Jasim. But he said there was no hope as the al-Badr mem-bers had thrown all dead bodies in Kar-

naphuli River. After her deposition, defence law-

yer Abu Bakar Siddique asked her a question.

The tribunal framed 14 charges against Mir Kashem, the Jamaat Exec-utive Council member and also treas-urer. Of the charges, two are related to killings and the rest are for abetting and facilitation of abduction, con ne-ment and torture. l

No sign of missing Malaysian aircraft in Bangladesh territoryn Tribune Report The Bangladesh Navy has not found any sign of the missing Malaysian Air-lines jetliner MH 370 during its search operation in the Bay of Bengal and its adjoining areas for the last ve days.

Director Naval Operation Commo-dore SM Hakim said this while brie ng reporters over their search operation yesterday.

Commodore SM Hakim, however, said the search operation in the mar-itime boundary of Bangladesh will continue until further notice from the government, reports the UNB.

Bangladesh Navy conducted their search operation in about 87,000sqkm areas of the maritime boundary in the last ve days but did not nd any sign or any wreckage of the missing plane till Wednesday, Hakim said.

Two frigates and two maritime pa-trol aircrafts of Bangladesh Navy start-ed the search operation for the missing plane in the Bay on March 14 midnight.

Replying to a question, he said if the Malaysian plane had crashed into the sea then oil and wreckage of the plane

would have been found in it. But we didnt nd any kind of wreckage during the search operation.

Director Naval Intelligence Commo-dore M Rashed Ali also replied to the queries of the reporters at the press brie ng.

At least 20 Naval vessels that have been under regular peacetime opera-tions were also asked to watch over the bay, the o cials said.

The Navy o cials have been con-sistently exchanging information with their Malaysian counterparts about the search over the Bay, they added.

Assistant Naval Chief Rear Admiral AMMM Aurangzeb Chowdhury was, among others, present at the brie ng.

The Malaysian aircraft with 239 peo-ple on board vanished from the air traf- c control screens at 1:30am on March 8, less than an hour into a ight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.

It is one of the most ba ing mysteries in the history of modern aviation as there has been no trace of the plane since nor any sign of wreckage despite a search by navies and military aircraft from over a dozen countries across Southeast Asia. l

A Navy o cer at the Navy Headquarters presents the report on their search for the missing Malaysian plane in the Bay of Bengal yesterday SYED ZAKIR HOSSAIN

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Dry weather likely n UNBRain or thundershowers accompanied temporary gusty wind is likely to oc-cur at one or two places over Rajshahi, Dhaka, Barisal and Sylhet divisions and the regions of Comilla and Noakhali until 6pm today.

Weather might remain mainly dry with temporary partly cloudy sky over the country, Met O ce said. Day and night temperature may remain nearly unchanged over the country.

The sun sets in the capital at 6:10pm today and rises at 6:02am tomorrow.

Countrys highest temperature 36.5 degree Celsius was recorded in Ish-wardi and lowest 19.0 degrees in Sri-mangal, Feni, Rajshahi and Dinajpur yesterday.

Highest and lowest temperatures re-corded in some major cities yesterday were:

Dhaka 34.0 24.2Chittagong 30.2 23.0Rajshahi 36.0 19.0Rangpur 33.4 19.8Khulna 33.2 23.6Barisal 34.0 23.4Sylhet 34.7 20.9Coxs Bazar 31.0 21.5

ASI, two others summonedn Nazmus Sakib The High Court yesterday ordered three people, including Pirojpurs Nazirpur police station ASI Abdur Rahman, to appear before it to explain their controversial roles in the incident of torturing, raping and forcing an adolescent girl to marriage on March 12.

An HC vacation bench of Justice Naima Haider and Justice Mahmudul Hoque passed the order upon a petition led by Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK), a Legal Aid and Human Rights Organisation.

The rest two are Mujahidul Islam Miah Zafar and Ashim Mistri, teachers of a local madrasa where the girl studies. l

NZ PMs special envoy to visitfor UNSC vote n Sheikh Shahariar ZamanJim Bolger, special envoy to New Zealand Prime Minister John Key, will undertake a visit to Bangladesh on March 22 to seek vote for the membership (non-permanent) of UN Security Council, which is due to be held in October.

He [Jim Bolger] will pray support from Bangladesh as New Zealand is vy-ing for the post for the 2015-16 period, Honorary Consul of New Zealand to Bangladesh Neaz Ahmed said.

Bolger is expected to meet Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Foreign Minis-ter AH Mahmood Ali and Foreign Sec-retary Md Shahidul Haque to discuss bilateral trades between the countries, the consul added.l

ACC questions Khulna Jamaat chief Parwarn Tribune ReportThe Anti-Corruption Commission yes-terday questioned Khulna Jamaat-e-Islami chief and the partys Assistant Secretary General Mia Golam Parwar at Khulna Jail Gate, on charges of amass-ing illegal wealth.

The ACC questioned the detained Jamaat leader from 10am to 11:30am, ACC Deputy Director Farid Uddin Pat-wary, who is the investigation o cer of the case, told the Dhaka Tribune.

Earlier, ACC o cials conducted drives in Khulna city, collected neces-

sary documents and questioned many individuals in connection with the alle-gations against the Jamaat leader.

Sources at the ACC said the investiga-tion o cer had almost completed his in-quiry report in the case and needed the statement of the Jamaat leader before submitting the report to the commission.

In August last year, the Detective Branch of Police arrested Professor Mia Golam Parwar in the Khulna Jail Gate area immediately after he was released from prison. Parwar was earlier sent to jail on charges of vandalism and ob-structing police work. l

Zillurs rst death anniversary todayn UNBPresident Zillur Rahmans rst death anniversary is today. Marking the day, ruling AL and di erent socio-political organisations have chalked out vari-ous programmes, including placing wreaths at his grave, holding milad mah ls and discussions.

Meanwhile yesterday, Zillur Rah-man Smirti Sangsad arranged a memo-rial meeting on the occasion of the an-niversary at the Jatiya Press Club in the capital.

The countrys 19th President Zillur Rahman had assumed o ce on Feb-

ruary 12, 2009 and died at Singapores Mount Elizabeth Hospital on March 20 at the age of 84, who was the third President of Bangladesh after Bang-abandhu and Ziaur Rahman to have died while in o ce.

Zillur Rahman was born on March 9, 1929 and he had been an active player in the watersheds in the nations political history -- the 1952 Language Movement the 1962 anti-military rule movement, the 1966 Six-Point Movement, the 1969 Civil Uprising and the 1971 War of Independence and the 1990 Anti-AutocracyMovement. l

7 secretaries promotedn Mohosinul KarimSeven secretaries of the government have been promoted as senior secretar-ies, a gazette noti cation by the public administration ministry said yesterday.

The newly-promoted bureaucrats are Commerce Secretary Mahbub Ahmed, Land Secretary Sha ul Alam, Planning Commission member Hedayet Ullah Al Mamun, Power Secretary Mozammel Haque Khan, Secretary to the Prime Ministers O ce Abul Kalam Azad, Local Government Secretary Monjur Hossain and Public

Administration Secretary Kamal Abdul Naser Chowdhury. They will continue to work in their respective o ces.

With the latest promotions, the number of senior secretaries in the civil administration now stands at 12.

Commerce Secretary Mahbub Ahmed, an economic cadre BCS o cer, was previously secretary to the youth and sports ministry, while Land Secre-tary Sha ul Alam was chairman of the Land Reform Commission and secre-tary to the Presidents O ce.

Planning Commission member

Hedayet Ullah Al Mamun served as information secretary, Power Secretary Mozammel Haque Khan was secretary to the Roads Division and IMED, PMO Secretary Abul Kalam Azad was Power Division and ERD secretary, Local Government Secretary Monzur Hossain was secretary to home and agriculture ministries and the Presidents O ce, while Public Administration Secretary Kamal Abdul Naser Chowdhury was secretary to the informationand education ministries. They are all admin cadre o cers of BCS 1982 batch. l

Experts say 'no' to solar panel n Aminur Rahman RaselEnergy experts and stakeholders yes-terday suggested withdrawing the condition that the solar panel should be installed on the rooftops of residen-tial buildings in urban areas to get new power connection.

They put forward the recommenda-tion at a roundtable on Rationality of imposing condition for installing solar system to get power connection in Dhaka.

A fortnightly magazine Energy & Power hosted the programme.

The government imposed condi-tion for installing solar home system to get new electricity connection. It even-tually raised some serious concerns about the feasibility of such usage ow-ing to some observed ine ciencies, Prof Shahidul Islam Khan, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineer-ing of Bangladesh University of Engi-neering and Technology (BUET) said at the roundtable.

Complementary power generation by installing solar system has caused a huge nancial loss for those who opted for such installations to get electricity connections, he said.

State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid said: Now, we are trying to come up to a decision and thinking something new about the installation of solar panel system.

He added that if the real estate de-velopers tried to build green building with solar system facility, steps would be taken to give them tax bene t, which would act as a motivation for them to install solar system.

According to the Power Division, those eager to get new domestic power connections and will consume

up to two kilowatts of electricity do not need to install solar panels, but if the demand exceeds two kilowatts,installation of solar panels will be re-quired for 3% of total electricity con-sumption.

A survey by the Power Cell under the Ministry of Power, Energy and Mineral Resources found that around 25,000 consumers installed solar pan-els which had been producing 11 mega-watt of electricity across the country, Mohammad Hossain, director general of the Power Cell said.

Prof Ijaz Hossain of Department of Chemical Engineering of BUET while delivering his keynote address said it was necessary to build up favourable attitude towards renewable energy with proposed framework.

Md Jakir Hossain, managing direc-tor of Luminous Builders Limited, said: We would not get a single bene t from installation of solar system.

He urged the government to with-draw the mandatory installation of so-lar panel.

Md Helal Uddin, vice-president, Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industries, alleged that a group of people of business sec-tor had made the installation of solar system mandatory to make some easy money.

Moderated by Energy & Power Edi-tor Mollah Amzad Hossain, the round-table was, among others, addressed by Additional Secretary of Power Division Tapas Kumar Roy, its Joint Secretary Siddque Zobair, Managing Director of Dhaka Power Distribution Company Limited Brig Gen (retd) Md Nazrul Hasan, its Vice-President Liakot Ali Bhuain, Dhaka Universitys Institute of Renewable Energy Department Profes-sor Saiful Haque. l

Alor Pathshala starts journey n Tribune ReportThe Bishwa Sahitya Kendra (BSK) and the Grameephone, the largest mobile operator in the country, introduced an online book reading portal Alor Path-shala (school for Enlightenment) yes-terday with a view to enhancing read-ing habits of people.

Education Minister Nurul Islam Na-hid has launched the website (www.alorpathshala.org) a function held at the Bishwa Sahitya Kendra auditorium in the city.

With Professor Abdullah Abu Say-eed, founder of the BSK, in the chair the inaugural function was addressed by Additional Secretary of Education Ministry AS Mahmud, information and technology expert Mustafa Zabbar and

Head of Corporate Communication De-partment of the Grameenphone Tah-mid Azizul Huq.

From now on, interested readers could download books for free after registering their names in the BSK.

Before downloading books, each reader has to face a short online evalu-ation test to ensure that he/she would actually read the book.

For reading every four books, the reader would get one book as prize which would be sent to them by mail/courier in every three-month.

Organisers said the programme would be expanded in future. The Bish-wa Sahitya Kendra has a plan to gradu-ally build a rich e-book library.

Through Alor Pathshala people from di erent walks of life would get

the opportunity to read a number of Bangla and international books. This programme has started with 72 titles published of the BSK.

They said they were engaged in cre-ating enlightened, e cient and com-mitted visionary individuals who pos-ses high moral values, and organise themselves as a national force to enrich the heart and soul of all the people of the nation.

Keeping this objective in mind the BSK has taken and executed numer-ous enhancement programmes in the past 35 years, the biggest of which is Nationwide Enhancement Programme. Currently, about 10 lakh students of 8,500 educational institutions across the country are enrolled in this pro-gramme. l

Government to probe irregularities in medical equipment purchase n Moniruzzaman UzzalThe health ministry has taken an ini-tiative to investigate the overall proce-dure of purchasing medical equipment, instruments, medicine and accessories at all public hospitals and health insti-tutes across the country.

On March 11, a one-member commit-tee consisting Additional Health Secre-tary (medical education and develop-ment) Aiyubur Rahman was formed to probe the health sector purchases. The committee was directed to submit an interim recommendation report within 30 working days and a nal report with complete recommendations within 60 working days.

Sources inside the ministry said evidence of massive irregularities have been found in healthcare-related purchases at di erent public

health facilities including medical college hospitals, specialised hospitals, and district and upazila health complexes.

The committee will reportedly focus its inquiry on seven points, including budget allocation and purchase list, user-end demand for equipment, user-end demand for medicine and medical accessories, purchase without demand letter, list of unused and unpacked equipment, list of excess medical equipment, and repair and preserva-tion of the equipments.

Aiyubur Rahman told the Dhaka Tri-bune yesterday that he had received a letter regarding the formation of com-mittee, adding that he would try to complete the probe within time. How-ever, he denied commenting on allega-tions of irregularity before completion of the inquiry.

The health ministry has report-edly collected the list of 21 categories of medical equipment belonging to all public hospitals through the Director-ate General of Health Services (DGHS), seeking details of the machineries in-cluding stock number, date of receiv-ing, active or inactive status of themachines (repairable or non-repair-able) etc.

Seeking anonymity, a senior health ministry o cial told the Dhaka Tribune that it was unbelievable how expen-sive medical equipments were left un-used for years.

A recent World Bank study, conduct-ed on the Health and Nutrition Popula-tion Sector Programme (2006-2011) of the health ministry, found that over 50% major medical equipments re-mained unused in the di erent public hospitals. l

Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid attends the inaugural ceremony of an online book reading programme titled Alor Pathshala at the Bishwa Sahitya Kendra yesterday DHAKA TRIBUNE

Hundreds of vehicles get stuck at Doulatdiya Ferry Ghat as ferry service remained suspended because of dense fog in the area yesterday DHAKA TRIBUNE

1,320MW coal-based power plant to be setup in Patuakhali n Aminur Rahman RaselThe state-owned North-West Power Generation Company Limited and Chinese Power Company CMC signed a Memorandum of Understanding yesterday to set up a large coal-based power plant project with the capacity to generate 1320MW of electricity in Kalapara upazila of Patuakhali.

The North-West Power Generation Companys Managing Director AM Khurshedul Alam and CMC President Wamgs Shelg signed the MoU from their respective sides.

Prime Ministers Power and Energy Adviser Taw q-e-Elahi Chowdhury, State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid, Ag-

riculture Minister Matia Chowdhury, Power Secretary Monowar Islam, Chi-nese ambassador to Bangladesh and senior o cials attended the signing ceremony.

Nasrul Hamid said the government had a plan to set up a series of coal- red power projects to generate 20,000MW of electricity by the year 2030.

To meet the prevailing demand of electricity, the company has no alterna-tive but to take up joint venture imitative for power generation, AM Khurshedul Alam of the state-owned power genera-tion company told the Dhaka Tribune.

The Rabnabad river bank near Paira Bandar has been chosen as the project site while the estimated cost of the project is $2 billion. l

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Call to increase womens participation in parliament n Tazlina Zamila KhanAll women politicians, both from the ruling as well as from opposition parties, should come under a common platform and raise their voices to increase womens participation in the parliament, speakers told a discussion yesterday.

The government should form a separate fund for women candidates so that they could equally compete with the oth-er male competitors in the national elections which could be crucial in womens empowerment, they said.

The speakers came up with the suggestion while address-ing a roundtable titled Womens Leadership: Parliament and National Politics in Bangladesh held at Gulshan in the city.

Former lawmakers Tarana Halim, Tasmima Hussain and economist Salma Khatun, among others, addressed the discus-sion organised by Centre for Gender and Social Transformation (CGST) and Brac Institute of Governance and Development.

Tarana Halim said it was more di cult for women candi-dates to spend huge money like their male rivals during elec-tions. Usually, central committee, dominated by the male politicians, of a political party selects candidates for reserved seats and nominates candidates for direct election, she said.

Tasmima Hussain said, I saw many female Awami League leaders crying when they did not get nomination from the party this time.

Marufa Akter, programme o cer, CGST said, only 27 women out of 540 candidates contested from di erent polit-ical parties, except 19-party alliance, in the 10th parliamen-tary elections while only 18 won the elections. l

Students display innovative projects in science fairn Mushfi que WadudClass three student Hanjala does not like this city. As he comes from his house to school from Paikpara to Mohammad-pur, two things disturb him a lot: tra c jam and bad waste management.

The city is dirty, he said, adding mismanagement as a leading cause to the citys pollution.

As he goes to school every day, Han-jala plans to make a modern city where almost everything was properly man-aged. He shared this idea with his friend Steve Probal Shanjal and found that Steve also felt the same.

Both of them made a model of a modern city and presented it in the Annual Science Fair 2014 at St. Joseph Higher Secondary School, which was inaugurated yesterday.

In their project, the roads are wide, footpaths are not occupied and vehicles are running in an organised way.

Talking to the Dhaka Tribune, Hanja-la said: I want to be an urban planner in future and I want to solve the problems of this city.

Around 460 other projects were pre-sented in the fair, along with a total of 750 scrap books. Students of 50 schools took part in the fair. This year, the theme of the fair was Role of Science

in Human Resource Development and Economic Prosperity. The three-day long fair is scheduled to end tomorrow.

Students, especially from Class III and IV, were seen enthusiastically par-ticipating and presenting their projects.

A good number of projects were seen on city management, hanging bridges

and waste management.Class three student Nafees Abrar Is-

lam presented a waste power plant in which waste will be used to produce power. Talking to the Dhaka Tribune, he said a project in Discovery Channel in-spired him to come up with this in the fair.

Artijwa Prothian Abdel presented a solar copter, where solar power would be used to run a helicopter. He said he wanted to be a scientist. Another class III student Safwan Uddin presented a model for a windmill.

Addressing the inaugural pro-gramme, Director of Bangladesh Acade-

my of Sciences MA Mazed urged the stu-dents to acquire knowledge in the eld of science and use them for the better-ment of the country. He said he believed the young scientists would help the country to reach its ultimate goals.

University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh Pro Vice-Chancellor HM Jahirul Haque

said: Though we live in a technology driven society, the number of students who pursue science and engineering for higher studies is substantially decreas-ing.

He also said platforms were needed which would help nourish and stimu-late scienti c minds. l

JU teacher suspendedn JU Correspondent Jahangirnagar University authorities on Tuesday suspended botany department teacher and former chairman of the de-partment Prof Ali Aknd Mamun from the university for violat-ing code of conduct.

The decision came out at a regular meeting of the syndicate of the university held at the council room of the administrative building presided over by Vice Chancellor Prof Farzana Islam.

JU sources said that Mamun had been accused of involving himself in the admission test committee of the department il-legally and creating anarchy keeping the teachers con ned in the department. Recently he had con ned the departments teachers twice over trivial matters, source said.

Later, ve teachers and ve students along with three of- cials of the department submitted a written complain to the university authorities against him regarding the matter. The investigation committee scrutinised the matter and found Professor Ali guilty. Following the probe report, the syndicate members had suspended him from the university.

The probe committee has been told to submit the nal report within next month while proper step will be taken fol-lowing the report, a syndicate member said. l

JnU hall recovery demo enters day 37n Mohammad Jamil KhanAs part of an ongoing demonstration de-manding recovery of the grabbed halls, students of Jagannath University (JnU) brought out procession and held a pro-test rally yesterday on the campus.

Witnesses said students boycotted classes and exams, and brought out a procession in front of Shahhed Ra q Ac-ademic Building around 10am.

Later, the students held a protest rally around 11:30am. Addressing the rally, the students said they had been demonstrat-ing for around one and a half months, but the government or the authorities concerned did not take any positive steps yet. Moreover, a third party had created a misunderstanding between the students and teachers over the tender of Chemistry Department, they alleged.

The students urged that such misun-derstanding be solved soon and steps be taken to recover their halls. l

From Left, several hundred students attend the inaugural ceremony of the Annual Science Fair 2014 at St Joseph Higher Secondary School in the capital yesterday, Two students display their projects MAHMUD HOSSAIN OPU

Government of the Peoples Republic of BangladeshOf ce of the Divisional Engineer-1

Bangladesh Railway, Paksey.

INVITATION FOR TENDER1 Ministry/Division Ministry of Railways.2 Agency Bangladesh Railway3 Procuring Entity Name Divisional Engineer-1/Paksey4 Procuring Entity Code Not used at present5 Procuring Entity District Pabna6 Invitation for Tender for works in 5 (Five) groups speci ed in Para (18)

7 Invitation for Tender No. DEN-1/2013-14/05, Dated: 16/03/20148 Invitation Ref. No. 54.01.0000.303.08.007.14 Dated: 16/03/20149 Procuring Method Open Tendering Method

10 Budget & source of fund Revenue (GOB)11 Project/ Programme Name Nil12 Tender Last selling date 06/04/2014 Up to 12.00 Hrs.13 Tender closing date & time 07/04/2014 Up to 12.00 Hrs.14 Tender opening date & time 07/04/2014 at 12.30 Hrs. (Tenderers or their representative

(s) are allowed to attend opening) 15 Name & address of the of ce (s)

a) Selling Tender Documents (Principle) Divisional Engineer-1/ Paksey.b) Selling Tender Documents (Others) Divisional Engineer-1/ Lalmanirhat

Assistant Executive Engineer/RajshahiAssistant Executive Engineer/IC/Saidpur

c) Receiving Tender Documents Divisional Engineer-1/Paksey Of ce d) Opening Tender Documents Divisional Engineer-1/Paksey Of ce

16 Place/date/time of Pre-Tender meeting

Not Applicable

17 Eligibility A, B & C Class contractors of Bangladesh Railway for Group B, C, D & E and B & C class contractors of Bangladesh Railway for Group A and Enlisted 1st class or special class Contractors under any Government, Semi-government & autonomous agency may submit tenders provided that they are otherwise quali ed as speci ed in the Tender Document(s). Contractors of other departments shall have to show original enlistment document during purchase of the tender documents.

18 Brief Description of Works-

Gro

up Description of works Location Price Tender

Documents

Tender Security Amount

Time of Completion

A Thorough repairs to Shingia station building, waiting hall & waiting room.

Shingia Tk. 600/- Tk. 27,000/- 90 days

B Repairs to SSAE/Works/JSs of ce and godown.

Jessore Tk. 500/- Tk. 19,000/- 90 days

C At KLN:- Repairs to Qtr. No. RBC/2 (2 units), RBC/6 (4 units), E/238 (1 unit), Total = 7 units.

Khulna Tk. 500/- Tk. 18000/- 90 days

D At. KLN:- Repairs to AOM/KLNs chamber including TTEs (Accounts Base) of ce with partition wall of booking of ce

Khulna Tk. 500/- Tk. 14,000/- 90 days

E At RB:- Construction of Boundary wall at south & east side of Bunglow No. E/30.

Rajbari Tk. 500/- Tk. 19000/- 90 days

19 Tender security shall have to be submitted in the form of bank draft/pay order (MICR instrument) form any schedule bank in favour of FA & CAO/West, Bangladesh Railway, Rajshahi.

20 The Procuring entity reserves the right to reject all Tenders or part thereof.

(A.F.M. Masudur Rahman)RPRD No. 3746, Date: 19/03/2014 Divisional Engineer-1GC-33/14 (9"3) Bangladesh Railway, Paksey

Jatkapreservation week beginsn Our Correspondent, Barisal Jatka preservation week began yesterday at Bangabandhu Udyan with an expected good hilsa turnout this year.

Shelina Afroza, secretary of the sheries and livestock ministry, presided over the pro-gramme, where Mohammad Sayedul Haque,

sheries and livestock minister was chief guest.Sayedul Haque said regular surveys and

extending socio-economic assistanceswould be provided to improve theconditions of the shermen.

He called on shermen and other people to stop netting, selling and buying jatka and preserve this national resource. l

PM: Large power plants to make quick rentals obsolete n Emran Hossain Shaikh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina told the parliament yesterday that quick rental power plants would not be necessary in the country once large power plants started functioning.

Why is there so much talk over rental power plants? If you want, I can stop those plants today. But if I do it, what situation will be created? the premier said while answering to a sup-plementary question by Awami League Lawmaker AFM Bahauddin Nasim.

Sheikh Hasina, also the leader of the House, said: If the large power plants start functioning, quick rental power plants will not be required.

The premier said there had been no alternative to setting up quick rental plants, as the BNP-Jamaat-led govern-ment had ruined the power sector.

The country was overwhelmed with power crisis during the BNP-Ja-maat rule. People had to spend be-tween Tk30 and Tk35 for every unit of electricity from generators. We have improved the power situation and re-duced load shedding, Hasina said.

She also slammed a section of her critics for scrutinising the government while sitting in air-conditioned rooms.

Claiming that electricity facilities reached around 62%-64% citizens, Hasina said: We want to raise the per-centage to 100.

Responding to a di erent query, the premier said the law enforcement agencies would increase their vigilance for the next phases of the upazila pari-shad elections.

Hasina also urged people to boycott the candidates linked with militancy and violencel

BTCL big sh dropped from charge sheet in VoIP graft casen Tribune ReportThe Anti-Corruption Commission will soon le two charge sheets against eight people, including the o cials of Bangladesh Telecommunications Com-pany Limited, on charge of embezzling Tk585 crore through illegal Voice Over Internet Protocol calls.

The charges, however, did not have any names of high-ups against whom the cases were led earlier.

With the charges which were ap-proved yesterday the anti-graft body dropped the names of current and for-mer three managing directors of Ban-gladesh Telecommunications Company Limited (BTCL) saying that the investi-gation did not nd their involvement.

The ACC in August last year led four cases against 23 BTCL o cials,

including BTCL acting managing direc-tor Kalim Ullah, his predecessor Azizul Islam, former MDs SM Khairuzzaman, Afsarul Alam and M Abu Sayed Khan.

Of the four cases, charge sheets in the two were approved.

Involvement of BTCL former assis-tant divisional engineer Abu Hena Mo-stafa Salam was found during the probe.

Meanwhile, the ACC exempted BTCL acting managing director SOM Kalim Ullah, its former managing direc-tors M Abu Sayeed Khan and Azizul Is-lam, former member (maintenance and operation) Mohammad Tow q, former general manager Anwarul Mamun, former assistant divisional engineer M Moktar Ahmed from charges saying that their involvement were not found during the investigation.

It has also exempted Ericsson Ban-

gladesh Ltds Contract Manager Asif Jahid, Relations Manager Nazrul Islam and engineer Masrurul Hakim.

The ACC o cials said two of the accused BTCLs former divisional engineer Habibur Rahman Pramanik and former divisional engineer Ronel Chakma ew to Malaysia and Canada respectively.

On August 25, 2013, the ACC led four cases after a commission inquiry re-vealed that over around Tk600 crore had been swindled through illegal VoIP busi-nesses and erasing information from call detail records in the preceding four years.

The probe report said telecommunication o cials in connection with Ericsson Bangladesh Ltd had erased incoming international call minutes from the call detail record of ITX-5 and ITX-7.l

6 NationDHAKA TRIBUNE Thursday, March 20, 2014Companiganj upazila health complex in poor healthn Tribune ReportCompaniganj health complex in Noakhali is miserably failing to provide proper medical services to the patients because of acute shortage of doctors and lack of other logistic supports.

Local sources said although there were posts of nine doctors in the health complex only ve doctors are struggling to provide treatment to a large number of patients in the upazila where about 1.5 lakh people live.

Not only that, the hospital is running without resident medical o cer for long.

The X-ray machine of the hospital has been lying out of order for long, forcing the patients to go to the district town or private clinics to do the test.

A large number of patients most of them women and children, daily come to the hospital as out-patients with dif-ferent problems but do not get treat-ment facilities due to shortage of doc-tors.

Moreover, the ambulance of the health complex has been lying out of order for the last ve years, causing suf-ferings to the patients.

The patients are being compelled to

go to sadar hospital or private clinics.During a recent visit to the hospi-

tal this correspondent found that Nur Nahar, 26, of Chhanbaria Bazar village, who came to the hospital with severe gynecological problem, left it immedi-ately for non-availability of doctors.

Two other patients-Rina, 35 and Samiran, 45, alleged that they were not getting proper treatment at the hospital.

Medical o cer Dr AKM Rezwanul Islam admitted that it has become dif- cult for them to attend a large number of patients every day amid acute short-age of doctors. l

Muktijoddha Sangsad election on June 4n Tribune ReportThe elections to the central, district and upazila command councils of the Bang-ladesh Muktijoddha Sangsad will be held on June 4.

The election commission of the BMS has announced the elections schedule yesterday.

Liberation War A airs Ministrys Joint Secretary Akram Hossain, also the chief coordinator of the Muktijoddha Sangsad election, announced the election sched-ule on behalf of the commission.

According to the schedule, the last date of nomination papers submission is April 30.

The nomination papers would be scrutinised and reviewed on May 4. The

retuning o cers will receive appeals from the aspirants on May 6 and dispose on May 7. The last date for the withdraw-al of nomination papers is scheduled for May 11.

The nal list of the candidates will be published on May 12 while the symbols for the candidates will be allocated on May 14.

Earlier, the liberation war a airs min-istry had postponed the election of the BMS scheduled on October 21, because of political unrest and Eid festivals. The tenure of the last elected central com-mand council was expired in June, 2013.

The government has appointed an administrator in the organisation failing to hold a free and fair election within its stipulated time. l

Teenage girl killed after rapen Our Correspondent, NarailA teenage girl was killed after rape in Matiadanga village under Lohagora upazila in the district on Tuesday night.

The deceased was identi ed as Lutfa Khatun,16, daughter of Dulu Mollah.

Police and victims brother Nurun Nabi said, Lutfa had gone out from her room at night and did not return.

Later, the body was found in a wheat eld near the house.

Nurun Nabi claimed that his sisiter had been killed after rape.

Mohammad Alamgir Hossen, o c-er-in-charge of Lohagora police station, said on information, police recovered the body and sent it to Narail Adhunik Sadar Hospital morgue.

A case was led in this connection. l

Listed criminal found dead n Our Correspondent, JhenaidahPolice recovered the body of an alleged criminal in Kakiladari village under Moheshpur upazila of the district yesterday.

The deceased was identi ed as Masum Billah, 28, son of Sajib Uddin of Kotchandpur Bus Stand in the town.

Masums wife Nasrin Begum said that he was sleeping at his grandfathers house in Andulbaria village of Chuadanga district on Monday night. At 2.45am, some 10 to 12 armed men entered the house and introduced themselves as police personnel.

They had dragged Masum from the house and took away him forcibly.

Later his bullet hit body was found nearby a bridge in the village. The family members claimed that the police had shot Masum dead. When contacted, Shajahan Ali Khan, o cer-in-charge (OC) of Kotchandpur police station denied the allegation.

He said: The policemen did not pick up Masum.The OC also said: Masum was an accused in a number

of cases including snatching, rape, robbery and tree felling.The body was sent to Jhenaidah Sadar Hospital morgue

for autopsy.A case was led with Moheshpur police station. l

Police submit false report before Feni court n Our Correspondent, FeniFeni police has allegedly submitted a false report before the District and Sessions Judge Court one year after the killing of a housewife at Phulgazi upazila in the district.

Family members of the victim said police had submitted the fabricated report in a bid to hide actual reason be-hind the killing.

Sadar Uddin, husband of the de-ceased, said Lecturer of forensic de-partment under Chittagong Medical Collage said that my wife was killed because she received a critical head

injury, and was also strangulated. But police had submitted a report before the court saying my wife had commit-ted suicide.

He alleged that the main accused in the case was Shamimas aunt Delwar Begum. But police excluded her from the charge sheet.

He also alleged the charge sheet might have been in uence by real kill-ers.

The investigative o cer and Of- cer-in-charge of Phulgazi police sta-tion Manzur Alam said, I submitted a report of suicide to the court after 10 months. I heard that the court has

asked for another investigation into the case.

Source said Shamima Akter, daugh-ter of Abdul Baki of Sharifpur village of the upazila, married her cousin Md Sodor Uddin. She was allegedly killed at the kitchen of her fathers house on March 15.

A murder case was led in this re-gard with Phulgazi police station.

According to the case statement, Shamima was killed over land dispute with his uncle Alauddin.

Later, being police recovered the body and sent it Chittagong Medical Collage Hospital for autopsy. l

Students of Bogra City Girls High School observe a sit-in in front of the school yesterday, protesting attack on headmaster by local goons FOCUS BANGLA

n Juris Desk

The International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination is observed annually on March 21. On that day, in 1960, police opened re and killed 69 people at a peaceful demonstration in Sharpeville, South Africa, against the apartheid pass laws. Proclaiming the Day in 1966, the General Assembly called on the international community to intensify its e orts to eliminate all forms of racial discrimination.

In 1979, the UN General Assembly adopted a programme of activities to be undertaken during the second half of the decade for action to combat racism and racial discrimination. On that occasion, the General Assembly decided that a week of solidarity with the people struggling against racism and racial discrimination, beginning on March 21 would be organised annually in all states.

Since then, the apartheid system in South Africa has been dismantled. Racist laws and practices have been abolished in many countries, and an international framework for ghting racism have been built guided by the International Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. The Convention is now nearing universal rati cation, yet still, in all regions, too many individuals, communities and societies su er from the injustice and stigma that racism brings.

Racial discriminationAccording to the Convention on Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination, the term racial discrimination means any distinction, exclusion, restriction or preference based on race, colour, descent, or national or ethnic origin which has the purpose or e ect of nullifying or impairing the recognition, enjoyment, or exercise, on an equal footing, of human rights and fundamental freedoms in the political, economic, social, cultural or any other eld of public life.

Racial and ethnic discriminations occur on a daily basis,

hindering progress for millions of people around the world. Racism and intolerance can take various forms-from denying individuals the basic principles of equality to fuelling ethnic hatred that may lead to genocide-all of which can destroy lives and fracture communities. The struggle against racism is a matter of priority for the international community.

International law regarding racial discrimination Article 2 of the Universal declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), 1948 has stipulated that, Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political, or other opinion, national, or social origin, property, birth, or other status. Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-self-

governing or under any other limitation of sovereignty.The United Nations has been concerned with this

issue since its foundation and the prohibition of racial discrimination is enshrined in all core international human rights instruments. It places obligations on States and tasks them with eradicating discrimination in the public and private spheres. The principle of equality also requires states to adopt special measures to eliminate conditions that cause or help to perpetuate racial discrimination.

Laws against racial discrimination in BangladeshArticle 28 of the constitution of Bangladesh provides protection against racial discrimination. It says that the state shall not discriminate against any citizen on grounds only of religion, race, caste, sex, or place of birth. It also says that no citizen shall, on grounds only of religion, race, caste, sex, or place of birth be subjected to any disability, liability, restriction, or condition

with regard to access to any place of public entertainment or resort, or admission to any educational institution.

Although there is a constitutional prohibition of racial discrimination, but racial discrimination as such is not explicitly and adequately prohibited and penalised in criminal law. However, the Penal Code of Bangladesh in sections 295, 295 A, 296, 297 and 298 makes any discrimination based on religion punishable under the law.

Bangladesh became a party to the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination by accession on June 11, 1979 and is pledge bound to give full e ect to the provisions of the convention through domestic legislations.

The committee on the elimination of racial discrimination, after reviewing the eleventh periodic report submitted by the government of Bangladesh in 2000 recommends that the state party consider giving full e ect to the provisions of Article 4 of the convention in its domestic legal order, ensure penalisation of acts of racial discrimination, and ensure access to e ective protection and remedies under Article 6 of the convention through competent national tribunals and state institutions besides the High Court Division of the Supreme Court, in respect of acts of racial discrimination.

Moreover, Bangladesh has also acceded to all major international human rights instruments that prevent and prohibit discrimination, including the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, the International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid in 1995, the Slavery Convention of 1926 and Protocols thereto, the Genocide Convention of 1948, the Convention against Torture, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, the Convention on the Rights of the Child, etc.

So, this is high time for the Bangladesh government to enact a domestic legislation criminalising all forms of racial discriminationl

n Abdullah Al Arif

We often hear depressing news regarding public examinations nowadays. A range of o ences takes place-ranging from question leak-out to making of false certi cates and mark-sheets. People wonder if there is a law to check such o ences.

Yes, we have Public Examinations (O ences) Act, 1980 to deal with felonies done in public examinations.

Public ExaminationsAccording to the law, public examination means any examination that is conducted or organised by a university or a board. Some of the major public examinations we have are Primary School Certi cate (PSC), Junior School Certi cate (JSC), Secondary School Certi cate (SSC), Higher Secondary Certi cate (HSC). These examinations are conducted by several education boards under the ministry of education. Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) examinations are also public examinations conducted by the Bangladesh Public Service Commission. Examinations conducted by colleges under National University and other public universities are also termed as public examinations.

Personation at public examination According to section 3 of the Act, if any person, not being an examinee, enters the examination hall during a public examination by declaring himself as an examinee, or appears at a public examination in the name of any other person or in a ctitious name, that person commits an o ence called personation.

This o ence is punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to ve years, and shall not be less than one year.

Leak-out of question papers before public examination Disclosing, publishing, or distributing any paper containing any question set for such examination, or any paper containing any question falsely purporting to be set for such examination, or intending that the same by any means whatsoever before any public examination is held may be treated as identical with any question set for such examination is an o ence under the law.

The o ence is punishable with imprisonment for a term

which may extend to 10 years and shall not be less than three years, and shall also be liable to ne.

Tampering with any marks Altering or tampering with any marks, mark sheet, tabulation sheet, certi cate, diploma, or degree, in any manner and without any lawful authority, relating to any public examination is an o ence.

This o ence is punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to four years, or with ne, or with both.

Making of false mark sheet, certificate, diploma or degree According to Section 6 of the law, if any person makes, prints, distributes, or uses, or keeps in his possession any mark sheet, certi cate, diploma or degree relating to any public examination which he knows to be false or not issued by the university or board having authority to issue the same, that person commits an o ence.

This o ence is punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to seven years and shall not be less than three years, and shall also be liable to ne.

Possession of blank form of mark sheet, certificate, diploma or degreeKeeping any blank form of mark sheet, certi cate, diploma or degree relating to any public examination, which has not been issued or delivered under the authority of the university or board, is an o ence.

This o ence is punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to two years, or with ne, or with both.

Helping examinees Section 9 of the law says, if any person helps any examinee by supplying any written answer or any book or written paper or any page thereof or extract therefrom, or by dictating any answer orally or by any mechanical means, or by any other means, in the examination hall that person commits an o ence.

The o ence is punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to ve years and shall not be less than two years, and shall also be liable to ne.

Examining answer scripts by unauthorised personsIf any person, not being appointed or authorised by a

university or board, conducts any public examination in an examination hall or examines any answer script relating to a public examination, or whoever conducts any public examination in an examination hall or examines any answer script relating to a public examination in the name of any other person or in a ctitious name, that person is guilty of an o ence.

This o ence is punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to two years, or with ne, or with both.

Obstructions in public examinationsThe following acts, if done in any manner intentionally, are o ences under the law:l Obstructing any person in the discharge of his duties in

connection with a public examinationl Obstructing the holding of a public examination l Creating disturbances in any examination hall

These o ences are punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to one year or with ne, or with both.

Offences committed by employees of university or boardIf any employee of a university or a board or being entrusted with any duty or responsibility in connection with any public examination, commits an o ence under this Act, he/she shall be given imprisonment for a term which may extend to ve years, or with ne, or with both.

Attempt to commit offences under this ActIf any person abets or attempts to commit any o ence under this Act, he/she shall be punishable with the sentence provided for the o ence. Procedure to be followed in offences under the ActSection 14 of the Act lays down the procedures to deal with the o ences mention