Call to ensure rights of ship-breaking workers

Rights of the workers are needed to be ensured in the ship-breaking industry and the task of ship-breaking should be executed strictly in conformity with the environmental needs.
The speakers expressed the above views while addressing an opinion sharing on "The crisis of the ship-building industry and future duties' arranged by the non-government social development organization-YPSA at the Press Club auditorium in the city Thursday. Chittagong Economic Association-president Prof. Sekander Khan Presided over the meeting while PPRC Executive Director Economist Dr. Hossain Zillur Rahman was the chief guest on the occasion. More...
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Water no more life in Karnaphuli

Roudro Moin

River Karnaphuli, the centuries-old socioeconomic lifeline of the large population in the hills, peripheries including the flatlanders of the whole country, is about to reemerge as the cause of plights mainly due to careless exploitations and maintenance, according to environmentalists and marine researchers. Though 88.5 kilometers river which is almost now in its death shape. had long been the sole-source of water and riverine communications in the remote hills, increasing toxicity in the water and human encroachments destroyed the natural purity of the river's water and the undisrupted navigability. It is widely believed that the river, originated from Lushai Hills, water contains substantial quantity of industrial pollutants as more or less 720 industrial units of different categories on the both banks drain out their untreated residue to the river apart from urban sewer and substances extremely hazardous for aquatic lives.More...
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Chittagong, Barisal rule the first day in NCL

Sports reporter

Chittagong and Barisal were in the driving seats against Rajshahi and Dhaka respectively, at the close of day one of the third round four-dayer in the Isphani Mirzapore Tea Ninth National Cricket League Friday.
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Pakistan: Government denies martial law plan

AP, SWAT - Islamic militants said Friday they hadfreed 48 government troops after they surrendered during bloody fighting in northwestern Pakistan, a region increasingly falling under the control of extremists who are challenging Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf. The army has been struggling to quell spiraling violence in Swat district, where a hard-line cleric is trying to enforce Taliban-style rule, pounding rebel fighters with helicopter gunships and mortars on Thursday, and reportedly killing up to 70. The militants, masked and armed with AK-47 assault rifles and long knives, said the death toll was exaggerated and pointed to their own successes Friday. They escorted journalists to two-story concrete building in the town of Charabagh to show off 48 men said to have surrendered during the fighting. Most were described as paramilitary troops from the Frontier Corps, and were later freed. "We have surrendered to these mujahedeen," said Barkat Ullah, 24, who, like other captives, was wearing civilian clothes, saying they had left their uniforms at their posts. "We had no ammunition. We had no other More TOP