BASHUNDHARA CITY ON FIRE AGAIN!

A fire broke out on the seventh floor of Bashundhara City Shopping Complex late on Monday night. Mohammed Anjuman of Fire Service and Civil Defence headquarters told at 12:15am that several firefighting units rushed to the scene and swung into action. "Nothing else can be said at the moment," he added. Police blocked traffic on the Panthapath Road after the incident. Onlookers were crowding the sprawling complex. Seven Basundhara employees including its own firefighters died after Bangladesh's largest shopping mall turned into a towering inferno on Mar 13. An enquiry committee on Mar 18 said negligence of the Basundhara City authorities had caused the devastating fire. "The management took action only after the alarm bell had rung 79 times," said committee chief Iqbal Hossain Chowdhury. "The water system was ineffective," he told reporters after interviewing employees at the site. "The building has sufficient fire fighting equipment but not many trained personnel." Fire Brigade chief Abu Nayeem Mohammed Shahidullah had said that five floors, from the 15th to 19th, were burnt to a shell and the 14th was partially destroyed by the inferno. Bashundhara Group executive director Zahidur Rahman, however, said the blaze started on the 18th floor and spread down to the 13th and up to the 20th, gutting those storeys including chairman Ahmed Akber Sobhan's office on the 19th The owners of Basundhara City, opened to the public in August 2004, claim it is the largest shopping mall in South Asia and the 12th largest in the world.

NOW THE GOVERMENT FILLING,THE CID CID NOT FILING MUTINY PROBE.

The CID will not be able to submit its findings into the BDR mutiny cases on Monday, investigation officer senior superintendent police Abdul Kahar Akand told bdnews24.com on Sunday. The investigation agency earlier failed twice to submit an investigation report. A total of BDR 1552 men have been so far arrested in the cases filed. Of them, 1306 have been taken into remand for questioning and 206 others made confessional statements in court. The agency took a total of 38 BDR men into remand for five days on Sunday. Lalbagh police chief Nobojyoti Khisa brought charges of treason, killings, and lootings and arson attacks against the accused on Feb. 28 after 25-26 Feb. mutiny by the border guards at their Peelkhana headquarters in Dhaka. The case was later shifted to New Market Police Station. The accused would not be produced before court on Monday due to security reasons, Anisur Rahman, assistant commissioner (prosecution) of the information and detective branch of police in the court, said.

INDIA IS A GOOD FRIEND AND BSF ARE BEHAVING GOOD ALSO!

Faruk Khan, The honorable Tread Minster of Bangladesh, He knows all things like Somser, He is knows very well about our neighbor country! He know about INDIA! Yes he is the spy of RAW. Of course India a Good friend, Not with all Bangladeshis? India is a good friend of who gives the blade spice “India is a good friend and BSF are also….” Mr Faruk khan he was a army person, But how he enter our Army? He is a SPY of RAW( Research analyses wings). If BSF behaving good than why every month they killing our innocent people? If India is a good friend than why they withdrew the International rivers water of Paddma? If India is our good friend than why they want to make the Tepaimuk Dam? If India’s behaving like a good friend, than why they want to capture sea block? I think so Mr Faruk khan have no ear and eye also? Because every day BSF killing our innocent people and making gunfire without any reason. If India is our good friend than after the war of 1971, why they take lot’s of wealth, machine parts, Raffles, Railway wagon? Why they making treble inside our country? How Mr Faruk khan give the specie, I don’t know. If he have Brain than he can’t say like this? I think he Don’t know what’s the Atomic power of his Brain. I think his Brain’s Atomic power less than of sea sold. So how can he knows The India is our Good friend? Mr Faruk khan is fearing about his chair? We know very well the Bangladesh Awameleg is a pose cat of India. So inside the AL, All leader are like faruk Khan.

AILA VICTIMS ARE LEAVING CYCLONE SHELTERS,BUT THE ARE BECOME SHELTERLESS.

Victims of cyclone Aila taking pure drinking water from a watertank.

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Concern for a dwelling place grips most of the people who went to cyclone centres or safe places before the May 25 cyclone Aila hit the southern region, as the storm washed away their modest homes.
The Aila victims, who have started returning homes after several days of stay at the shelter centres, are frustrated to find nothing left for their use.
Meanwhile, diarrhoea has spread alarmingly in Satkhira district as the affected people are now compelled to drink polluted water.
Around 1.25 lakh people went to cyclone shelter centres before the cyclone.
“We were on the road for over a week. When we returned home four days ago, we found nothing left for use. We just put up a plastic shed on the yard to pass nights,” said Naosher Ali, 35, of Bharbharia village of Atulia, which is still reeling under water.
Ali, a landless day labourer, said now that all the shrimp enclosures are under water, there is no work and he has to depend fully on relief materials provided by the government or NGOs.
“But, what about my house? When there is rain, we have to run to others' houses for shelter. But there is rarely any liveable house nearby,” he said.
During a visit to Mollapara and Bharbharia villages in Atulia union of Shyamnagar upazila in Satkhira on Sunday, this correspondent saw people sitting beside their ruined houses.
NGOs are now trying to reach remote areas like Padmapukur, Barapukur, Pakkhimari, Kamalkathi that saw scanty relief materials so far.
Golam Mostafa, Satkhira District Manager of Brac's Health Programme, said they were providing food packets each containing 5 kg rice, one kg dal, half kg oil, half kg salt, one kg potato, matches, four oral saline packets to a family.
“We got inadequate relief materials. Above all, passing nights has become difficult for our five-member family,” said Abdul Jalil, another homeless person at Mollapara village.
It is difficult for him to go out to collect relief as there is water all around, he said.
Thousands of landless and homeless people have similar stories to tell.
According to preliminary official figure, around 2.5 lakh houses were fully damaged, around four lakh houses partially damaged and over 10 lakh livestock were killed by cyclone Aila, which hit hard Shyamnagar and Ashashuni in Satkhira, Koira and Dakope in Khulna, Charfashion and Monpura in Bhola and Galachipa and Kalapara upazilas in Patuakhali.
The Army and other government departments are working to repair the embankments, but intrusion of water during the high tide disturbs the work.

VICTIMES OF AILA ARE TAKING SUPPORT FROM DONORS.

Food and disaster management minister Abdur Razzaque has said the government has secured assurances from the donors on supports in the rehabilitation efforts for the cyclone-hit people. The government will need foreign help to overcome the huge losses caused by cyclone, he said on Saturday and added that a meeting was already held with donor countries and agencies, as well. The government was yet to assess the exact losses caused by cyclone Aila on May 25. The meeting to discuss the losses and other relevant problems was held at the food ministry and attended, among others, by agriculture minister Matia Chowdhury, health minister AFM Ruhal Haque, water resources minister Ramesh Chandra Sen and fish and livestock minister Abdul Latif Biswas. Razzaque, who presided over the meeting, said work on the losses from the cyclone and tidal bore was on-going. The minister called upon all, including the opposition parties and NGOs to help the distressed. He said because of the tidal surge, 213-km embankment in the coastal area was totally affected and 1128 km embankment partially. Some 213-km embankment needs immediate repair at a cost of Tk 116 crore, according to the Water Development Board. The meeting approved the fund, of which Tk 75 crore would come through nearly 25,000 tonnes of rice and wheat and the remainder in cash. The Roads and Highway Department will repair about 730-km highway at a cost of Tk 103 crore. The minister said tidal surge affected wide areas and every family in the areas would get 29 kg rice as relief. He said the main problem now was water, for which arrangement was being made. If need be, helicopter will be put on the service to supply water. There are problems with livestock animals and their food and the government was thinking of setting up 'Kella' or shelters in highlands for animals, he added. He said in the cyclone-affected areas 15,150 tonnes of rice and Tk 2.75 crore have been distributed. Sarees and lungis have also been also sent to different areas. Another Tk 10 crore and Tk 20 crore specifically for house reconstruction were sanctioned on Sunday. Health minister Ruhal Haque said diarrhoea broke out in the affected areas with nearly 200 people attacked.

TIPAIMUKH DAM SAME LIKE FARRAKKHA DAM..

Farm output will fall and poverty will rise, spelling 'disaster' for the Sylhet region if India's proposed Tipaimukh dam and Fulertal barrage are built, maintain experts. "The dam will cause water flow to slow down while the barrage will ensure their full control of water resources," former director general and chief engineer of Water Resources Planning Organisation,engineer Inamul Haque told bdnews24.com Thursday. "The cultivation of early variety of boro in the northeast would be hampered," he said. "So far as I know the Tipaimukh dam will be built 200 kms from the Amolshid border, at Zakingong, to construct a vast water reservoir for hydro-power generation." "The water from three rivers—the Barak, Tipai and Irang—would be required to feed the water reservoir to cover an immense area," said Inamul. "Besides, another barrage is to be built 100 kms off our border at Fulertal in India for irrigation purposes which would feed the waters through canals," Haq said. Haq said downstream regions will experience two major impacts: firstly, with the decrease of water in December, the people who now grow early varieties of boro on the land which used to arise in the haor areas would no longer have this resource. Secondly, the water flow of the river Surma will decrease significantly, he said. IUCN resident director Dr.Ainun Nishat told bdnews24.com that the construction of Tipaimukh dam will reduce the the natural monsoon flood patterns of the area on which cultivation depends. He said the construction of barrage at Fulertal on top of the Tipaimukh dam could seriously reduce the water flow during the dry season. "The extent of drop in water flow depends on the volume of water withdrawn through the irrigation canals," he said. "We could see the Surma and Kushiara rivers dry up completely during the dry season, he said Anu Muhammad, professor of economics at Jahangirnagar University, told bdnews24.com the Tipaimukh dam and Fulertal barrage would spell "a great disaster." "Arable land will decline and production of crops fall, leading to a rise in poverty," he said. According to some reports, the proposed Tipaimukh dam across the river Barak in the Indian state Monipur will 162.5 metres high and 390metres long to create a reservoir by permanently submerging some 2.75 square kilometers of land. India expects to generate around 1500 megawatt of hydropower from the project.

TIPAIMUKH DAM IT IS THE SAME AS FARAKKA.

Farm output will fall and poverty will rise, spelling 'disaster' for the Sylhet region if India's proposed Tipaimukh dam and Fulertal barrage are built, maintain experts. "The dam will cause water flow to slow down while the barrage will ensure their full control of water resources," former director general and chief engineer of Water Resources Planning Organisation,engineer Inamul Haque told bdnews24.com Thursday. "The cultivation of early variety of boro in the northeast would be hampered," he said. "So far as I know the Tipaimukh dam will be built 200 kms from the Amolshid border, at Zakingong, to construct a vast water reservoir for hydro-power generation." "The water from three rivers—the Barak, Tipai and Irang—would be required to feed the water reservoir to cover an immense area," said Inamul. "Besides, another barrage is to be built 100 kms off our border at Fulertal in India for irrigation purposes which would feed the waters through canals," Haq said. Haq said downstream regions will experience two major impacts: firstly, with the decrease of water in December, the people who now grow early varieties of boro on the land which used to arise in the haor areas would no longer have this resource. Secondly, the water flow of the river Surma will decrease significantly, he said. IUCN resident director Dr.Ainun Nishat told bdnews24.com that the construction of Tipaimukh dam will reduce the the natural monsoon flood patterns of the area on which cultivation depends. He said the construction of barrage at Fulertal on top of the Tipaimukh dam could seriously reduce the water flow during the dry season. "The extent of drop in water flow depends on the volume of water withdrawn through the irrigation canals," he said. "We could see the Surma and Kushiara rivers dry up completely during the dry season, he said Anu Muhammad, professor of economics at Jahangirnagar University, told bdnews24.com the Tipaimukh dam and Fulertal barrage would spell "a great disaster." "Arable land will decline and production of crops fall, leading to a rise in poverty," he said. According to some reports, the proposed Tipaimukh dam across the river Barak in the Indian state Monipur will 162.5 metres high and 390metres long to create a reservoir by permanently submerging some 2.75 square kilometers of land. India expects to generate around 1500 megawatt of hydropower from the project.

CYCLONE AILA TOOKS 147 AS 12 MORE BODIES FOUND.

The death toll in the wake of Cyclone Aila continues to rise with twelve more bodies being recovered in the worst hit districts of Khulna and Satkhira, and different estimates put the number of deaths at between 147 and 176 on Thursday. Eight bodies were recovered in Koyra upazila, Khulna, and four in Shyamnagar upazila, Satkhira. There are still mixed reports of the exact number of deaths from the cylone that struck the southwest coast on Monday. The food and disaster minister put the figure at 147 in a briefing Thursday, while compilations of local reports put the death toll at 176 by Thursday night. The government said 43 cyclone victims have been reported dead in Khulna. But Khulna locals say besides the 41 deaths in Koyra, nine died in Dakop upazila and one in Batiaghata, bringing the death toll to 51 in the district so far. Local reports from Satkhira put the death toll in the district at 47, while the government says 44. Water was slow to recede from most parts of Koyra and Dakop on Thursday. During low tide in the morning, water levels fell a little but rose again during high tide at 3pm, with little fluctuation in water levels compared to usual tidal differences. Diarrhoea deaths reported in Satkhira in Aila aftermath Meanwhile, at least four people have been reported to have died of diarrhoea in the cyclone affected district of Satkhira on Thursday, said local officials. Union parishad chairmen and local leaders and journalists said diarrhoea and skin disease were breaking out in the area as flood waters became stagnant and polluted. The dead were identified by locals as Abdul Wahab of Mirgang village in Shymnagar upazila, his son Khokan, and Wasek Ali and Mostafa Kazi of Protabnagar village in Ashashuni upazila. However, deputy commissioner Abdus Samad, at a local meeting, said he had received no news of the deaths. Samad said, "Upazila nirbahi officers have been directed to remain alert for outbreaks of diarrhoea and to ensure medical service."

ONE VILLAGE ONE PRODUCTS.

Bangladesh is a country of third world.The most population of this country are poor.Proverty is the main cause of builled up a good industry? Most of the people of this country are muslims.Bangladesh have a good opetunity to make a good industrial area,The country have five EPZ,But it's a not that much for this country?Because of bangladesh have large amount of human power,they are not trained people.

I give an example of a small industrial area.It is in southwest of Bangladesh.From Dhaka it'll take 5 hour journey and 470 km,The name of the industrial area is "RESELPI".Suited in SATKHIRA districts.Here most of the people are Paralytic,One man name is mukul he have no eyes.i mean blained.But whats happend he knows all kind of job,His job is finisher,he make same wall showpice,Most of products are export to europ.Here all products makes with local raw metrials,like wood,daet tree leaf,hands parts,ladys hand parts,dustbin etc.If you want to write your name on thats parts than they can do.

The RESELPI people are trined,so they are staying in home they can make the goods.For one pice,they earned ten taka(0.138 $).Bangladesh have 86000 village.In one village can make lots of export quality products,So 86000 village can make 86000 export quality products.The RESELPI products now enterned in local market.For this example we can find, how can make the quality products from the poor people,Than the proverty'll gone.All the family members can earn the money.In the world have lots of poor country,They don't have job,Do the self job service like the RESELPI.From the RESELPI every mounth 50 people going to self work.Bangladesh is the poorest country of the world,So they can give trainning their people to protect the proverty from the self job service.The products of RESELPI now export USA,CANADA,JAPAN,ITALY,FRANCE,GERMANY,SWEDEN,SAUDI ARABIA,UAE,ENGLAND,AUSTRALIA,MALAYSIA.The Bangladeshi products can take easy market for their low priceness.The quality of thats products are very good and nice looking.Most of the hanycrafts are products earn lots of foreign currency.Its a great oppertunity to make money.

BANGLADESH TO TAKE LINK WITH ASIAN HIGHWAY.

The government Bangladesh has provisionally decided to link with 27 countries through the proposed Asian Highway network, communications minister of Bangladesh has said. The communications ministry has selected three routes—AH 1, AH 2 and regional route AH 41. The decision will be finalised at the next meeting of the ministry, he said at a press briefing after a meeting at his office on Thursday. "It was not possible to take any positive decision on this matter before because of indecisiveness. But the present government has made the decision," Hossain said. The proposal of the ministry will be sent to the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) of the United Nations on approval by the cabinet, said the minister. "ESCAP will select routes for Bangladesh from the proposal. The work of Asian Highway will start right after their approval," he said. "The work will be mainly renovating the existing roads and the money will come from the joint funds of ESCAP and Bangladesh," he added. The 495 kilometers long AH 1 will connect Tamabil, Sylhet, Kachpur, Dhaka, Jessore and Benapol. The 805 kilometers long AH 2 will connect Banglabandha of Panchagarh, Hati-Kamrul of Sirajganj, Dhaka, Kachpur and Tamabil, while the 752-kilometer AH 41 will link Mongla of Bagerhat, Jessore, Dhaka, Teknaf of Cox's Bazar. Some roads will be included into more than one route. Japan, South Korea, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, Nepal, the Philippines, China, Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Cambodia, Bhutan, Georgia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Laos and Malaysia are among the countries Bangladesh is going to be connected with. Roads and railway secretary ASM Ali Kabir and officials of the foreign, defence, home and finance ministries, External Relations Department, roads and highways and railway departments were present at the meeting.

HOW GOVEMENT TAKE DECISION TO ARRESTE THE BDR?

Police arrested highest number of 617 border guards in a single day yesterday from 11 districts for their alleged involvement in the February 25-26 mutiny at the BDR Peelkhana Headquarters, police sources said. The second highest 352 BDR jawans and junior officers were arrested from eight districts on May 14 on the same ground.With the yesterday's fresh arrest the total number of arrested jawans of BDR now stands at over 2,000.Meanwhile, Commerce Minister Lt Col (retd) Faruk Khan, who coordinates the investigation bodies, said yesterday that the coordination committee would receive reports from subcommittees with recommendations for restructuring the mutiny-ridden BDR with its "new name, uniform, rules and motto". The coordination committee would sit soon after receiving the reports and place them before the government for review after necessary scrutiny, he added.Faruk Khan questioned the veracity of newspaper reports on findings of the army probe report on BDR carnage, claiming that the media reports were based on speculations.Quoting the army probe report, a number of newspapers recently reported involvement of some Awami League lawmakers in the incident. On Mar 1, a treason case was filed with the Lalbagh Police Station accusing over 1,000 BDR men of their participation in the carnage in which 57 army officers from major general to captain lost their lives. The case was later transferred to the New Market police station. The arrested BDR men were charged with committing murder, loot and hiding bodies after desecration.