Suffering whenever it rains in Motijheel

At first glance it seems to be a muddy lake because the road is simply not visible under the water. The suffering of the passers-by knows no bounds. Rickshaws were being used by commuters as boats!<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwWSGfxMwS34snAEp9dhLqZf8u-5fkvnUg3kAtbfpgFHZ8TIYK4PbwgYfzqPXIU4_wxTd0CjI0VU9fNUt38FZ93EyYlqx1xNEN0DwI5EOaVwj48nv1s1ohfMt2zRqxZXe3WQXJpvznjqjA/s1600/643xNx9b6fe36ccb2b29f645c9205bd7d8c63b-6fdaf69264fb8100764d3562206b5d84-595cd9f6aa30f.jpg.pagespeed.ic.fFxGaxUr4-.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="361" data-original-width="643" height="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwWSGfxMwS34snAEp9dhLqZf8u-5fkvnUg3kAtbfpgFHZ8TIYK4PbwgYfzqPXIU4_wxTd0CjI0VU9fNUt38FZ93EyYlqx1xNEN0DwI5EOaVwj48nv1s1ohfMt2zRqxZXe3WQXJpvznjqjA/s320/643xNx9b6fe36ccb2b29f645c9205bd7d8c63b-6fdaf69264fb8100764d3562206b5d84-595cd9f6aa30f.jpg.pagespeed.ic.fFxGaxUr4-.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> This was the scenario at Motijheel, Dainik Bangla intersection, and Arambagh areas in the capital from morning till 2:30pm on Wednesday.<br /> <br /> The water was around two feet deep on the roads from the Balaka intersection to City Centre, one of the busiest commercial areas of Dhaka city, at noon. Many people were wading through the water while others used rickshaws to cross waterlogged areas, though the footrests of rickshaws were submerged.<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix3tmQ3MZAZBrK9ICSOqLG8jZZfD_gSXIVT6kaZ4100l-bg309e_oxnFud3hy9tjDNRjIK05pCX0K1u5O929vu_iDU9Znt1dMfYnloWYU8dgd_odyXR9VQL3wQSEnXHgtAfC1T3yN0MvWh/s1600/643xNxbe543bdbcbeb66a0141522b4f7bf06a9-5dbedac6bbab0a5329bbf2305db63a4b-595cd9f651a47.jpg.pagespeed.ic.gUliFPs25Z.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="361" data-original-width="643" height="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix3tmQ3MZAZBrK9ICSOqLG8jZZfD_gSXIVT6kaZ4100l-bg309e_oxnFud3hy9tjDNRjIK05pCX0K1u5O929vu_iDU9Znt1dMfYnloWYU8dgd_odyXR9VQL3wQSEnXHgtAfC1T3yN0MvWh/s320/643xNxbe543bdbcbeb66a0141522b4f7bf06a9-5dbedac6bbab0a5329bbf2305db63a4b-595cd9f651a47.jpg.pagespeed.ic.gUliFPs25Z.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> Nayan Das, a worker of an international courier service, told Prothom Alo that Motijheel area gets waterlogged even when it rains just a little heavily. "Rainwater in Motijheel is a curse."<br /> <br /> Main roads, lanes and by-lanes of Dainik Bangla intersection areas were also seen inundated. M Imdadullah, a dweller of the area, said this area has been getting waterlogged for the last several rainy seasons.<br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBvytb131fdJQDLj95cjV1QRHJqg_nwOfhzxAdggIV4YCbCxyVtHbOFxw8ZqpVLQnw2-GfgR5UH3C3QI2AG4kVKyahP5mDCDeyFkvBt6p8UpKH3PT-vp5MgLi6emFKFMXInd6-JDz83XhS/s1600/643xNx179a19607f185b8f9ca2aa06f06e5c17-434be084b6d87203bce47f4da4e3c47d-595cd9f68c55c.jpg.pagespeed.ic.hDlTCWnGsX.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="361" data-original-width="643" height="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBvytb131fdJQDLj95cjV1QRHJqg_nwOfhzxAdggIV4YCbCxyVtHbOFxw8ZqpVLQnw2-GfgR5UH3C3QI2AG4kVKyahP5mDCDeyFkvBt6p8UpKH3PT-vp5MgLi6emFKFMXInd6-JDz83XhS/s320/643xNx179a19607f185b8f9ca2aa06f06e5c17-434be084b6d87203bce47f4da4e3c47d-595cd9f68c55c.jpg.pagespeed.ic.hDlTCWnGsX.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> Maruf Ahmed Mansur, commissioner of Ward No. 10 of Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC), said several spots of the area are getting inundated as water outflow is obstructed by development work underway in Shantinagar.<br /> <div> <br /></div>

Suffering whenever it rains in Motijheel

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Three persons forced him into the vehicle blindfolded

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF6UpajMdohr0iRsIHYKttnytCGqI9HDFYmFU_ozs8Wkj_WW2bhhVdcH26G_3c7T2uZJqRyvtvuY7nTIi6tj3blo8v-fR1QlREaUwwQ1zBxYeD1rKbEHqlZoQ39mwfENB7C9Ox44QOw0lU/s1600/643xNxee3a627967f45d3bbad52e5cd4b2c46c-_MG_1608.jpg.pagespeed.ic.CiPYQxN10F.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="361" data-original-width="643" height="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF6UpajMdohr0iRsIHYKttnytCGqI9HDFYmFU_ozs8Wkj_WW2bhhVdcH26G_3c7T2uZJqRyvtvuY7nTIi6tj3blo8v-fR1QlREaUwwQ1zBxYeD1rKbEHqlZoQ39mwfENB7C9Ox44QOw0lU/s320/643xNxee3a627967f45d3bbad52e5cd4b2c46c-_MG_1608.jpg.pagespeed.ic.CiPYQxN10F.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> Poet, writer and political commentator Farhad Mazhar had gone out that morning to buy some medicine. As he left home and walked down the road, a white microbus drove up and stopped in front of him. Three persons grabbed him, forced him to the vehicle and blindfolded him. They drove him directly to Khulna.<br /> <br /> At around seven in the evening the abductors dropped him off at the Shibbari intersection and gave him a bus ticket. This was the statement given by Farhad Mazhar in the chief metropolitan magistrate’s court on Tuesday, confirmed court sources.<br /> Farhad Mazhar told the court that he may have been abducted in order to put the government into a false position. The abductors had simply dropped him off without taking anything from him. He did not know the three persons who abducted him.<br /> <br /> Investigating officer of the case, Adabar police station’s inspector (investigations) Aminul Islam, told Prothom Alo that Farhad Mazhar had stated three persons had abducted him. They haven’t been identified as yet. The police were searching for them. They had abducted him and taken him to Khulna. Later he got on a bus to come to Dhaka.<br /> <br /> The police brought Farhad Mazhar before the court at three in the afternoon. His wife Farida Akhtar filed an abduction case with the Adabar police station in the city.<br /> <br /> The police placed a petition for his deposition to be recorded as a victim. He gave his deposition to the Dhaka chief metropolitan magistrate Ahsan Habib over a span of two and a half hours, under section 164.<br /> <br /> He was later released with an undertaking of Tk 10,000 and the court gave him permission to go home on his own accord. He is presently under treatment at Ibrahim Cardiac Hospital. At the court, plaintiff of the case Farida Akhter told Prothom Alo, “I have by husband back. I’m happy with that.”<br /> <br /> Farhad Mazhar was rescued around 11:30 Monday night from Abhaynagar in Jessore on a Dhaka-bound Hanif Paribahan bus that had left from Khulna. His relatives said that some persons had left him early morning on Monday in front of the Huq Garden house in Adabar of Shyamoli of the capital city.<br /> <br /> According to police and court sources, Farhad Mazhar had said in court that he had eye problems and needed to use eye drops. He had gone to buy this medication on that fateful morning. There was a hospital near his house, next to which there was a pharmacy. He had been walking to the pharmacy when the microbus came up and he was dragged inside. He was blindfolded and made to sit in the middle. Two abductors sat, one on each side of him.<br /> <br /> He was told to sit with his head down. While the vehicle was moving along, he called his wife with his cell phone. He told his wife that he had been abducted and they were going to kill him. The abductors snatched the phone away from him.<br /> <br /> Farhad Mazhar told the court that after he was picked up, the vehicle proceeded without any stop. He said he had told the abductors to take money and release him. They asked him where he would get the money from. He said his wife would arrange it. They then asked him for Tk 3.5 million (Tk 35 lakh). He called up his wife for the money.<br /> <br /> Farida Akhter told Prothom Alo, Farhad Mazhar has spoken to her five or six times after he had been abducted. His voice initially had been filled with fear. Farhad Mazhar told the court that he was dropped off around seven in the evening Monday and given a Hanif Paribahan bus ticket.<br /> <br /> The abductors threatened him, saying that they would be nearby and that he should not delay. They ordered him not to tell anyone and to go straight to Dhaka.<br /> <br /> Farhad Mazhar then got onto a rickshaw. He asked the rickshaw puller where he was and learnt that he was at Khulna’s Shibbari intersection. He ate at a restaurant there and then got on the Hanif Paribahan bus. Farhad Mazhar said he hadn’t been abducted for money. They hadn’t asked him for money he had made the offer. Exhausted, he fell asleep in the bus. When he woke up, he found many people around him. Someone asked him if he was Farhad Mazhar. He said he was Farhad Mazhar. He was taken down from the bus and taken to the local police station by RAB and the police.<br /> <br /> Farhad Mazhar in his deposition said he did not know the abductors. He said he did not have enmity with anyone, but there were several reasons why he may have been abducted. He apprehended that those who disliked the present government could have abducted him in order to put the government into a false position. After all, they didn’t want money from him. They didn’t take anything from him at all.

Three persons forced him into the vehicle blindfolded

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9 killed, dozens hurt in Gazipur RMG factory boiler blast

<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Vrinda, FallbackBengaliFont, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 16px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ4nIwcCchb0zJ9doqdc_AGt6HTGGKlt-c5VEE-nA-4i8OydsgqLDGpU45GoRDJqQ2G9_feqVwiox3wM0794khxO5_LVb0xMzJjmmU_8ULecPO0_iiNFXh3p2DcgE88UnSFZhKFNa_5tCt/s1600/643xNx2f38e31e96276cb1d75a313a917bb1eb-gazipur.jpg.pagespeed.ic.L6bE4t9mqs.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="482" data-original-width="643" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ4nIwcCchb0zJ9doqdc_AGt6HTGGKlt-c5VEE-nA-4i8OydsgqLDGpU45GoRDJqQ2G9_feqVwiox3wM0794khxO5_LVb0xMzJjmmU_8ULecPO0_iiNFXh3p2DcgE88UnSFZhKFNa_5tCt/s320/643xNx2f38e31e96276cb1d75a313a917bb1eb-gazipur.jpg.pagespeed.ic.L6bE4t9mqs.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> At least nine people were killed, and dozens burnt when a boiler exploded at a readymade garment (RMG) factory in Gazipur’s Kashimpur area on Monday evening.</div> <div class="fb-quote fb_iframe_widget" fb-iframe-plugin-query="app_id=1499138263726489&container_width=1263&href=http%3A%2F%2Fen.prothom-alo.com%2Fbangladesh%2Fnews%2F152763%2F5-killed-dozens-hurt-in-Gazipur-RMG-factory&locale=en_US&sdk=joey" fb-xfbml-state="rendered" style="display: inline-block; left: 69.5px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute; top: 443px;"> <span style="display: inline-block; height: 47px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: justify; vertical-align: bottom; width: 169px;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" class="" frameborder="0" height="1000px" name="f1a3cb9c529a72c" scrolling="no" src="https://www.facebook.com/v2.5/plugins/quote.php?app_id=1499138263726489&channel=http%3A%2F%2Fstaticxx.facebook.com%2Fconnect%2Fxd_arbiter%2Fr%2FXBwzv5Yrm_1.js%3Fversion%3D42%23cb%3Df27cb2f3ccdfa88%26domain%3Den.prothom-alo.com%26origin%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fen.prothom-alo.com%252Ff37b3bf2ddd19e4%26relation%3Dparent.parent&container_width=1263&href=http%3A%2F%2Fen.prothom-alo.com%2Fbangladesh%2Fnews%2F152763%2F5-killed-dozens-hurt-in-Gazipur-RMG-factory&locale=en_US&sdk=joey" style="border-style: none; border-width: initial; height: 47px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; visibility: visible; width: 169px;" title="fb:quote Facebook Social Plugin" width="1000px"></iframe></span></div> <br /> <div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Vrinda, FallbackBengaliFont, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 16px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px;"> Fire fighters recovered five bodies on the spot and sent 20 injured to hospital, assistant deputy director of Gazipur fire service Akhtaruzzaman told Prothom Alo.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Vrinda, FallbackBengaliFont, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 16px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px;"> Among the injured, four succumbed to their injuries at Gazipur Sadar Hospital, said physician Pranay Bhushan Das.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Vrinda, FallbackBengaliFont, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 16px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px;"> The RMG factory was still burning and a rescue operation was going on till filing of this report at 11:00pm.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Vrinda, FallbackBengaliFont, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 16px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px;"> A total of 10 fire-fighting units are still battling to douse the blaze at the factory.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Vrinda, FallbackBengaliFont, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 16px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px;"> The fire, triggered by explosion, broke out at the Nayapara factory of Multifabs Ltd around 7:30pm, according to witnesses.</div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Vrinda, FallbackBengaliFont, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 16px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px;"> The rooftop of the building was also damaged partially in the blast, said Zahidul Haque, a worker of the factory.</div>

9 killed, dozens hurt in Gazipur RMG factory boiler blast

At least nine people were killed, and dozens burnt when a boiler exploded at a readymade garment (RMG) factory in Gazipur’s Kashimpur are...

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515 Bangladeshis held in Malaysia

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJwpWYx3kCaXHnUrma76EecFcEU4Q1e_gIfsmFhVNQ5MTNtR2dIB5PMDM3mPk3dyBFQeOb98rcB6v_DTIGEjeW1QxXDNG_bpC87nZNuN6J5HDVXN5sIYmb45pa6HjufUWVyJS8dH0jw3pk/s1600/x0bc95ae1fb044abe49f65474c36703af-Malysia.jpg%252Cqjadewits_media_id%253D142441.pagespeed.ic.DqzhJqUrrN.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="150" data-original-width="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJwpWYx3kCaXHnUrma76EecFcEU4Q1e_gIfsmFhVNQ5MTNtR2dIB5PMDM3mPk3dyBFQeOb98rcB6v_DTIGEjeW1QxXDNG_bpC87nZNuN6J5HDVXN5sIYmb45pa6HjufUWVyJS8dH0jw3pk/s1600/x0bc95ae1fb044abe49f65474c36703af-Malysia.jpg%252Cqjadewits_media_id%253D142441.pagespeed.ic.DqzhJqUrrN.jpg" /></a></div> <br /> A total of 1,035 illegal immigrants, including 515 Bangladeshis, were detained in Malaysia in the first day of a nationwide operation to crack down on illegal foreign workers following the passing of the E-Card registration deadline, reported Malaysia based daily The Star on Sunday.<br /> <br /> Immigration director-general Datuk Seri Mustafar Ali said, enforcement officers inspected 155 premises across Malaysia, screening 3,393 people, it added.<br /> <br /> Of those rounded up, he said the majority were from Bangladesh at 515, followed by Indonesia (135), Myanmar (102), the Philippines (50), Thailand (five) and Vietnam (two).<br /> <br /> The rest were from other countries, he said, adding that those detained included 101 women and three children.<br /> <br /> “The 16 employers were held for hiring and harbouring illegal foreigners,” he said, adding that Johor had the highest number of those caught, followed by Kelantan.

515 Bangladeshis held in Malaysia

A total of 1,035 illegal immigrants, including 515 Bangladeshis, were detained in Malaysia in the first day of a nationwide operation to ...

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Chandrika says terrorism turning endemic

Identifying terrorism as one of the main challenges in South Asia, former Sri Lankan president Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga has said terrorism has become endemic regenerating various social crises, reports UNB.<br /> <br /> "Terrorism has become the most unnatural dehumanising and political destabilising phenomena in the region (South Asia)...I come from a country, which experienced the effects of terrorism for nearly three decades," she said.<br /> <br /> The former Sri Lankan president was delivering a lecture, titled 'Reconciling Divided Societies, Building Democracy and Good Governance: Lessons from Sri Lanka' organised by Bangladesh Institute of International and Strategic Studies (BIISS) at its auditorium on Tuesday.<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgm4Au3KH9aY162_cZNmtTAGnbtpniA_UTaKbnlJ6gB2qqzI_6BX7IgvcMzv-Qwa27iZVYFLxKecdM3ESYTEToaPnlrY6de0xNNTAz5emG1rd0nBJoN8IDqrYPz7nz-KLfGdDMuYC8Oc7YC/s1600/300xNxeb8180999fb27bef3c9c0eccd2eb98b3-Chandrika.jpg.pagespeed.ic.zCC7z_9OyG.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgm4Au3KH9aY162_cZNmtTAGnbtpniA_UTaKbnlJ6gB2qqzI_6BX7IgvcMzv-Qwa27iZVYFLxKecdM3ESYTEToaPnlrY6de0xNNTAz5emG1rd0nBJoN8IDqrYPz7nz-KLfGdDMuYC8Oc7YC/s1600/300xNxeb8180999fb27bef3c9c0eccd2eb98b3-Chandrika.jpg.pagespeed.ic.zCC7z_9OyG.jpg" /></a></div> <br /> <br /> Kumaratunga said any revolution seeks radical changes in social and economic structures, and even the power structure of a country, while it enunciates a new vision and programme of action. "But, terrorists are like that radical, not revolutionaries."<br /> <br /> Stressing the need for identifying the deep-rooted causes of terrorism, she said it is said the modern phenomena of a terrorist movement is born after frustration and disparity caused by social marginalisation, economic depravation and political alienation.<br /> <br /> Kumaratunga suggested not only looking inequality, discrimination and disparity as economic terms, but also considering those as social, political and cultural terms to effectively deal with terrorism in a society.<br /> <br /> Highlighting the Sri Lankan experiences in reconciling a divided society, Chandrika Kumaratunga, a member of Global Leadership Foundation, said with the birth of new independent states, different communities, even though with a state, have experienced different types of social and cultural practices and even different sub-economic systems.<br /> <br /> The former president said the challenges of the 21st century for South Asian countries are the managing of pluralistic and multiple cultures, and accepting and celebrating diversity, not rejecting it. "We must respect and celebrate diversity," she added.<br /> <br /> About the importance of democracy, she said all social problems will get addressed in a country if democracy is ensured.<br /> <br /> Kumaratunga highlighted different aspects of Sri Lanka's civil war reconciliation and peace-building process and discussed her country's present state of democracy and governance as well.<br /> <br /> BIISS chairman ambassador Munshi Faiz Ahmad and its director general major general AKM Abdur Rahman also spoke on the occasion.

Chandrika says terrorism turning endemic

Identifying terrorism as one of the main challenges in South Asia, former Sri Lankan president Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga has said t...

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Eighty-feet Cattle Tunnel along Bangladesh-India border!

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_FJUHMxe-mOfQh9iZgWTyx3PmqDwB6uHpIL-RkeJ3zdbQGkB-CmyiYvy4e4NFlLSfOwm6l1CSAx7SjIcc22-xCGETIp0e66fL2YvzIe4TOx9y4ed-uY9ADZoAWgCt3KJ6LqT8M71svro0/s1600/643xNx04e5ff0c3c16730e531c19eb2b416b96-Fence.jpg.pagespeed.ic.m5of24sKCV.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_FJUHMxe-mOfQh9iZgWTyx3PmqDwB6uHpIL-RkeJ3zdbQGkB-CmyiYvy4e4NFlLSfOwm6l1CSAx7SjIcc22-xCGETIp0e66fL2YvzIe4TOx9y4ed-uY9ADZoAWgCt3KJ6LqT8M71svro0/s320/643xNx04e5ff0c3c16730e531c19eb2b416b96-Fence.jpg.pagespeed.ic.m5of24sKCV.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <br /> <br /> NDTV has reported that India’s Border Security Force widely widely known as BSF found an 80-feet long tunnel dug between India and Bangladesh.<br /> <br /> The tunnel was found in north Bengal during searches by the force along the 4,096 km border shared with Bangladesh. The BSF believes this one was being built by cattle smugglers to minimise the risk of detection by its guards, said the NDTV report.<br /> <br /> BSF deputy inspector general Devi Sharan Singh at the BSF's sector headquarters in Kishanganj told PTI that the smugglers were digging the tunnel under the fence. The tunnel was being constructed through a tea garden by the cattle smugglers for a long time, mostly at night, said the DIG.<br /> <br /> Over the last 20 years, according to the report, the BSF has discovered more than half-a-dozen instances of terrorists or drug traffickers digging a tunnel along the India-Pakistan border. The last one was detected in February this year in Sambha area of Jammu and Kashmir.<br /> <br /> The tunnel, located in Chopra region of West Bengal's North Dinajpur district, is the second instance of the BSF detecting a trans-border tunnel on the Bangladesh border.<br /> <br /> In early March, the guards had detected a tunnel at the depth of 20-25 feet in Meghalaya; it was about 200 metres from the border fence.<br /> <br /> NDTV said for a border that has many unfenced portions and was considered to be porous, the recent discovery is being seen as an indication that the border guards may have succeeded in making it much more difficult for illegal immigrants and cattle smugglers to cross over.<br /> <br /> A week later, in mid-March, BSF personnel in Tripura detected smugglers trying to smuggle cattle from India to Bangladesh through an unfenced gap.<br /> <br /> According to the BSF, they fired at the “smugglers” and killed three of them when the alleged criminals tried to attack them, said NDTV.

Eighty-feet Cattle Tunnel along Bangladesh-India border!

NDTV has reported that India’s Border Security Force widely widely known as BSF found an 80-feet long tunnel dug between India and Bangl...

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Prove Indian uranium water in haor, PM asks BNP

Throwing a challenge to BNP, prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday asked the party to prove its claim that uranium-contaminated water coming from India got mixed with haor water in Sunamganj.<br /> <br /> “It’s just an unnecessary propaganda. What type of proof do they have? I’ll ask them to come up with proof. People will believe you if you can prove this through any lab test,” she said.<br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF7lkMMqGcVi1TE-qHK0qyH5dc_S-0iL8MvTBVmxXBndg6nUziQNtylFXHkzryM4DFjqE44vV0bl0nllCtxxkkYsz7tNFdVze3nD1zTmZQv0GsKJgsNbk61y1DGj5ET97YBduSEOm3Mnob/s1600/x68100f201875368f26f46a9d8110b7f1-099929fb715e10cd9d905daef3a14e9d-21-07-15-PM-2.jpg%252Cqjadewits_media_id%253D98445.pagespeed.ic.n5Uky9M2e5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF7lkMMqGcVi1TE-qHK0qyH5dc_S-0iL8MvTBVmxXBndg6nUziQNtylFXHkzryM4DFjqE44vV0bl0nllCtxxkkYsz7tNFdVze3nD1zTmZQv0GsKJgsNbk61y1DGj5ET97YBduSEOm3Mnob/s320/x68100f201875368f26f46a9d8110b7f1-099929fb715e10cd9d905daef3a14e9d-21-07-15-PM-2.jpg%252Cqjadewits_media_id%253D98445.pagespeed.ic.n5Uky9M2e5.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <br /> <br /> The Prime Minister was speaking at a meeting of Awami League Nomination Board for local government election at her official residence Ganobhaban.<br /> <br /> Sheikh Hasina said a false propaganda is going on regarding the haor water after the flashflood. “One extraordinary scientist of BNP said uranium coming from India is killing all the fish in the area.”<br /> <br /> She mentioned that BNP is spreading confusion through false propaganda to materialise its ill motive.<br /> <br /> The Prime Minister said the government did not waste time when the allegation surfaced. “We sent scientists from the Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission and they found nothing there.”<br /> <br /> She also alleged that it is the character of BNP to spread false information among people to confuse them.<br /> <br /> Hasina said embankments in haor areas are falling apart due to heavy rain and flashflood. “Natural calamities can strike anytime. However, we haven’t seen such a bad situation since coming to office in 2009,” she said.<br /> <br /> The Prime Minister also mentioned that the government is not sitting idle keeping the eyes closed. “We’ve directed the relief ministry and local administration to stand by the affected people. We’ve already allocated 30kg food grains for each family.”<br /> <br /> Talking about the claim of a section of people that there has been an agreement with Hefajat-e-Islam Bangladesh, the Prime Minister dismissed it as untrue. “There’s another propaganda that we’ve inked an agreement with Hefajat. There’s no deal with Hefajat.”<br /> <br /> Mentioning that there are six separate boards for Qawmi madrasah education, she said the government is trying to bring the education under a system.<br /> <br /> “No one in the past paid any attention to the matter although 14 lakh students are pursuing education in Qawmi madrasahs. The present government wants to bring it under a systematic rule,” Hasina said.

Prove Indian uranium water in haor, PM asks BNP

Throwing a challenge to BNP, prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday asked the party to prove its claim that uranium-contaminated water comin...

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One killed, 5 hurt as storm lashes Laxmipur, Natore

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiS_bY4tm8WiMh1z01pTc727XbtXFF6HFI1aoMOOmSQHUPqCM0EuByb4Lk9-L1pkweNFTBjwwOtL4aCFb01p-xZVYY0BjExs7JoPxPSiICpJ7uAns0KRpgnWdkVFCE5HUpfdlnMmbiS-dt3/s1600/x6bbfce02d827a2ccf216b091a9d4f890-images--1-.jpg%252Cqjadewits_media_id%253D136651.pagespeed.ic.zVBU3PIEUb.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiS_bY4tm8WiMh1z01pTc727XbtXFF6HFI1aoMOOmSQHUPqCM0EuByb4Lk9-L1pkweNFTBjwwOtL4aCFb01p-xZVYY0BjExs7JoPxPSiICpJ7uAns0KRpgnWdkVFCE5HUpfdlnMmbiS-dt3/s1600/x6bbfce02d827a2ccf216b091a9d4f890-images--1-.jpg%252Cqjadewits_media_id%253D136651.pagespeed.ic.zVBU3PIEUb.jpg" /></a></div> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> A man was killed and five people were injured as storm lashed different parts of Laxmipur and Natore districts on Monday.<br /> <br /> <br /> In Natore, Hafizul Islam, a farmer, was killed when a thunderbolt struck him while working in his field amid rain at Walia in Lalpur upazila of the district on Monday.<br /> <br /> Fifty houses were damaged, several trees uprooted while the many crops lands damaged as storm swept through different parts of Singra upazila.<br /> <br /> In Laxmipur, five people were injured and 300 houses damaged as a storm lashed Borokheri and Chargazi unions of Ramgati upazila of the district in the morning.<br /> <br /> Several hundred trees were uprooted while two school buildingsdamaged during the storm, said Ramgati Upazila Nirbahi Officer, Masudur Rahman Mollah.

One killed, 5 hurt as storm lashes Laxmipur, Natore

A man was killed and five people were injured as storm lashed different parts of Laxmipur and Natore districts on Monday. In Natore...

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