Trade, investment envisized
Staff Correspondent
Malaysian High Commissioner in Bangladesh Abdul Malek Bin Abdul Aziz pledged here on Monday that a memorandum of understanding (MoU) between Chittagong port and Penang port would be signed for increasing trade and investment in both countries.
He made the pledge when he paid a courtesy visit to Chittagong Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCC&I) on Monday. Acting President of CCC&I MA Latif and directors of the chamber were present at that time. The Malasian High Commissioner said that a MoU would soon be signed in a view to proving infrastructural and technological support to the country.
He also pledged that Malaysia would issue multiple visas for the bright prospect business figures attached to Chittagong Chamber.
CDA to build women dorm, edn institution, bus terminal
Roudro Moin
The Chittagong Development Authority (CDA) has planned to build dormitory for working women, educational institution and bus terminal on of the lands that were recovered from the illegal occupants in recent drives.
Authorization Officer of the CDA told the People's View that the CDA would publish advertisement to different dailies to invite interested persons for constructing schools and colleges on the recovered lands in Salimpur area.
On the other hand, the existing drain in the both sides of CDA Avenue to Bohaddarhat will be widening which will be like canal for better drainage system.
30 fishermen of Satkania yet to be traced
Satkania Correspondent
The thirty fishermen hailed from Satkania went to Dublarchar in Sunderban for fishing yet to be traced severe after five days of hurricane Sidr that hit the country with ever devastation on last Thursday. Following the fishermen's disappearance for the last few days, their relatives mostly at Amilaish village became disheartened with full of wail. Sources said these fishermen of Satkania went to Dublarchar alongwith four fishermen of Banskhali one month earlier, members of the missing fishermen's family sources said.
Robbery at Patiya : 3 injured
Staff Correspondent
Armed robbers looted cash, gold ornaments and electronics worth TK 2 lakh from a residence at village Maliara in Patiya upazila leaving
three person bullet-hit hours before dawn on Monday.
The bullet sustained people are identified as Badan Kormokar (30), son of Subol Das, Gita Das (50), mother of Badan Kormokar and his sister Shova Das.
The injured persons were sent to Chittagong Medical College Hospital (CMCH) for medication. Attending physicians claimed that they are now out of danger.
Appeal to reinvestigate 10 trucks arms haul
Staff Correspondent
Claiming the recently done investigation of police in connection with ten trucks arms recovery in Chittagong incomplete, lawyers of public prosecution on Monday asked the court to reinvestigate the case for finding out undisclosed clues of the case.
Public Prosecutor (PP) Ahsanul Haque Hena made the plea to the court of Metropolitan Session Judge KM Anwar Hossain mentioning eight mismatches of the police investigation.
The court accepted the petition and fixed January 27 next for hearing the issue.
Advocate Ahsanul Haque Hena told the reporters that the police investigation team did not mention the source of recovered arms, its ultimate destination and name of persons involved in smuggling arms in the submitted police report.
Seminar on 'Scandinavian Media' at CU today
Staff Correspondent
A seminar on 'Scandinavian Media' will be held at the auditorium of Chittagong University central library today. Department of Communication and Journalism, Chittagong University (CU) will organize the seminar.
Vice Chancellor of the university Dr. M Badiul Alam is expected to join the seminar as chief guest while Professor Lars Ake Engblom Department of Media and Communication Jonkoping University, Sweden will present keynote paper on the issue.
Associate Professor of the Department Sahid Ullah Lipon and other faculty members of the department will also join the seminar. Students of the university have been asked to join the seminar.
Untold miseries as cruelty of Sidr unfolds
UNB, bd.news24.com
Sarankhola (Bagerhat), Nov 19 (UNB) - As the time ticks off, cyclone Sidr continued to unfold its cruelty with death figure going up, thousands missing, survivors passing days under the open sky with scanty relief.
Visiting remote villages of the worst hit Sarankhola, the UNB correspondent found survivors still looking for their nearest ones while corpses of people, cattle heads and wild animals floating in rivers, canals and bushes.
3-member mayor panels for all city corporations
UNB, Dhaka
The government nominated three-member panels of Mayor for all of the country's six city corporations, as all but one seat of the city fathers have fallen vacant following their detention.
"The nominated panel mayors, in absence of the city corporation mayor, will discharge mayoral duties in order of preference," said identical government notifications issued Monday by order of the President.
The panel members for Dhaka City Corporation are Anwar Hossain Beer Pratik, commissioner of ward 18, Shamsul Huda of ward 29 and Asma Akhter Chaklader of ward 29 (reserved seat).
CA visits cyclone ravaged areas
UNB, Barguna
Chief Adviser Dr Fakhruddin Ahmed Monday assured the cyclone-affected people that the government is always beside them in this trying time and its ongoing all-out assistance for them would continue so they could start life anew.
He asked the local administrations to maintain the supply chain that has been now established to deliver relief to the people rendered pauper by Thursday night's nightmarish cyclone havoc.
The Chief Adviser urged the affected people to face the situation with fortitude and appreciated their resilience in such a dire situation.
He also asked the local administrations to take step torestart economic activities
70 killed in mine blast in Ukraine
AP, Donetsk
A methane blast ripped through a coal mine in eastern Ukraine, killing at least 70 miners in the ex-Soviet nation's worst mining accident in years, emergency officials said.
More than 360 miners were rescued after Sunday's blast, but 35 others remained trapped inside the mine - one of Ukraine's largest and deepest - with a raging fire hampering efforts to save them, officials said. One miner said he had to clamber over dead colleagues along the rail track and navigate through a blinding dust to escape.