Full implementation of CHT peace accord stressed
Shantimoy Chakma, from Rangamati
Participants at the BBC Bangladesh Sanglap on Saturday demanded immediate full implementation of the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) peace accord, introduction of cellular phone network, balanced development for all including ethnic and Bangali communities and development in the tourism sector in three hill districts .
Tourism potentiality of B’ban needs patronization
Sadeq Chowdhury, Bandarban
Secretary for ministry of CHT affairs Abdus Sattar yesterday focused on the panoramic beauty of hill district Bandarban at a meeting of tourism entrepreneurs in the district yesterday.
He was speaking as the chief guest at a discussion titled " Immense Economic Potentiality of Bandarban, need for patronization, age suited strategy and bold step"at TCI auditorium in the district.
Tiger kills one in safari park
Cox's Bazar correspondent
A worker of forest deptt was killed by a tiger in Dulahajara Safari Park, Chakaria under Cox's Bazar district Saturday, an official said.
The hanging tiger swooped on the worker
Italian Food Aid worth 2m Euro for Bangladesh
Italian Development Cooperation donated wheat worth 2m Euros as food aid to Bangladesh, said a press release.
The papers of releasing the grant were handed over at a ceremony at Grain Silo Jetty premises yesterday where representatives of the Italian Embassy and the Ministry of Food and Disaster Management in Dhaka attended.
Fire guts 3 houses at Anwara
Correspondent, Anwara
Three houses including valuables were gutted as an inferno broke out at Sarenga under Anwara upazila yesterday afternoon.
Local sources said, the fire originating from a short circuit soon spread over the area and ravaged the houses of Moulana Zakir Hossain, Nabi Hossain and Ali Hossain of North Sarenga village.
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Demand of colleagues releases
P View desk
Dhaka University teachers will continue their protest programme Sunday and plan out the next move after a meeting, a teacher said. The announcement came after a rushed meeting late Saturday night to review the decision to launch the protest programme. Acting DUTA president Professor Tajmeri SA Islam briefed reporters on the latest decision after the meeting ended shortly before 11:00pm. The teachers had earlier said they would press ahead with the protest programme if the government did not assure them of releasing detained colleagues and students.
USAID official visits health projects
P View desk
USAID Assistant Administrator Kent Hill visited some USAID funded health projects outside Dhaka t (Saturday).
His visits included Smiling Sun Health Clinic in Tongi, Social Marketing Company (SMC) orsaline factory and Blue Star Pharmacy in Bhaluka, a USAID release said, UNB reports from Dhaka.
Dr. Hill is on a three-day visit to Bangladesh to review USAID’s health programs in the region.
During his visit, Dr. Hill toured the USAID supported SMC oral rehydration salt factory and observed first hand the making of oral rehydration salts that have proved to be the remedy for dehydration.
USAID official visits health projects
P View desk
An Indian naval ship, ‘INS Chita’, arrived at Chittagong port with huge relief materials for Bangladesh’s cyclone victims.
Two other Indian naval ships, ‘INS Kumvi’ and ‘INS Mohish’, are scheduled to reach the port with relief materials on December 9 and 10 respectively, said an ISPR press release, UNB reports from Dhaka.
SME Dev training program for OIC member countries begins today
P View desk
A four-day training programme on Devising National SME Development for OIC member countries begins at the conference center of Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI) here today.
FBCCI and Islamic Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ICCI) has organized the training programme in cooperation with the Perez-Guerro Trust Fund (PGTF), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Islamic Research and Training Institute (IRTI) and Islamic Islamic Development Bank (IDB) in recognition of the contribution of SMEs in generating high-income growth and alleviating poverty and unemployment in OIC member countries, UNB reports from Dhaka.
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3 Suicide attacks kill 29 in Iraq
AP, Baghdad
A suicide truck bomber attacked a police station in one of Iraq's major oil hubs on Saturday, killing at least seven people and injuring 13 in a neighborhood home to many refinery workers and engineers, police said.
The attack in Beiji was at least the third deadly suicide attack in 24 hours in Iraq and came a day after a key oil pipeline in the northern city was struck by an insurgent bomb.
First pre-election violence in Pakistan : Gunmen kill 3 Benazir supporters
AP, Quetta
Three supporters of Pakistan opposition leader Benazir Bhutto were killed Saturday when gunmen attacked her party's office in a town in southwestern Pakistan, police said, in the first reported deaths in the current election campaign.
Officers were investigating the incident, which occurred in Naseerabad, about 250 kilometers (150 miles) east of Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan province, said Wajid Akbar, the district police chief. Police had no immediate information about the motive for the attack or who was behind it, he said.