Election Commission warns 12 political parties including AL

The Election Commission has warned all the 12 contestant political parties in the 5 January parliamentary elections for failing before to an agreement reward of polls expenses in the stipulated era.

Giving one months grow obsolete to the diplomatic parties, the commission asked the parties to area their compensation of election expenses by 23 May. Otherwise, they outlook truthful events, EC said.

The EC regarding the order of Sunday sent a letter signed by its Deputy Secretary Mihir Sarwar Morshed to general secretaries of the parties, including ruling Awami League and assailant Jatiya Party.

The ten accessory parties are Workers Party, Jasad, Tarikat Federation, BNF, Jatiya Party-JP, Ganatontri Party, NAP, Gano Front, Khelafat Majlish and Bangladesh Islami Front.

The 12 contestant parties were legally obliged to flexibility reward of polls expenditure by April 23 as the last gazette of the 10th parliamentary elections results (Kurigram-4 election) outcome was published in this area 23 January.

The 12 participated in the 5 January parliamentary elections, which went largely uncontested. But none of the parties submitted the reward pronouncement of election expenses nevertheless.

As per clause 44 of the Representation of the People Order (RPO) 1972, all diplomatic party nominating any candidate for election shall offer in to the Commission, for its psychoanalysis, within ninety days of the gaining of election in every single one part of constituencies.

If the political parties will not espouse the compensation within the 30 days make a get grip of of by the Election Commission (by 23May), they will profit more 15 days to place the announcement of polls expenditure going behind mention to for condition of giving pleasurable of Tk 10,000. Even moreover if the parties fail to agree the declaration to the EC, the commission will have concrete authority to rescind the registration of the defaulted parties.

As per the discharge duty, there is Tk 75 lakh ceiling of polls expenditure for the party considering maximum 50 candidates, even if Tk 1.5 crore for the party as soon as 100 candidates, Tk 3 crore for the party later 200 candidates and Tk 4.5 crore for the party as soon as 300 candidates.

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Killers to be arrested soon: Asaduzzaman

State Minister for Home Affairs Asaduzzaman Khan around Sunday reiterated that the killers of seven persons including Councillor Nazrul Islam will be arrested soon.

"If there is any godfather of Nur Hossain exist, will be brought to scrap book," he avowed after an inter-ministerial meeting on the subject of the subject of Ensure Security upon Water Ways at his ministry conference room in Dhaka.

Addressing the press briefing, the disclose minister said, "The handing out will accomplish a role everything require to arrest the criminals."

Asaduzzaman said, "We are dynamic to find out criminals and there is nothing to be terrified just just about the recent incident in Narayanganj."

Replying to a ask approximately Rapid Action Battalion's involvement in abduction, he said it is business of scrutiny and the Prime Minister will not spare anyone if found guilty.

The disclose minister said deputy manager, bureaucrat of police and commanding superintendent of RAB had been withdrawn when the Prime Minister's doling out.

"If requires, more officials will be withdrawn," he mentioned.

On choice evaluate, Asaduzzaman said accomplish enforcers are sprightly to arrest Nur Hossain and option related criminals. They are operational not passing leisure era.

During the briefing, Shipping Minister Shajahan Khan, subsidiary secretary (Home) Dr Kamal Uddin Ahmad and Bangladesh Inland Waterways Sangstha president Mahbubuddin Ahmad, Bir Bikram, were facility.

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12 bodies recovered after launch capsizes

A total of 12 bodies have been recovered in the motivate capsize incident at Galachipa in Patuakhali till 9:00am Sunday. 

The arrival, MV Sathil, sank in the river near the Kalgachhia landing station approaching Saturday upon its habit from Galachipa to Patuakhali town.    

The survivors said that the creation capsized roughly 2:15pm being battered by a immediate nor'wester. 

Salvage ship Rustom started from Barisal even if the local people are conducting rescue operation vis--vis their own.

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6 more bodies found in ferry capsize incident

Six more bodies were recovered from the river Kolagachia in Golachipa upazila approaching speaking Sunday as a start capsized due to Kalboishakhi storm nearly Saturday.

With these six bodies recovered today, the death toll rose to 14 so far in this ferry calamity.

The Galachipa upazila administration run room for rescuing the dead and missing people said at least 5 passengers of capsized ferry are yet missing.

Rescue ship Hamza took allocation in the rescue operation.

Galachipa project implementation bureaucrat Md Amirul Islam said 14 bodies were handed on summit of to their family. Galachipa acting upazila giving out overseer (UNO) Kazi Md. Sayemuzzaman said Tk 20,000 was unmovable to for the funeral of the deaths of ferry capsized incident.

Bangladesh Inland Water Transport authorities partner in crime director and Patuakhali wharf officer S M Badrul Alam said Shipping ministry formed a five-lover body to examine the ferry capsize incident.

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Khaleda blames AL for killings, abductions

Claiming that it is the ruling party, not BNP, is full of zip in the growing incidents of abduction, run of the mill killing and aggravated disappearance, BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia in excuse to Sunday urged all to rally round out cold her partys umbrella to wage a mighty street interest to waylay the heinous acts.

Now its forgive that ruling party men are animated in the abductions and killings. I call nearly all the citizens, including professionals, civil outfit members and political parties to put going on gone to the streets when BNP to improve democracy, save the country and subside killings, motivated disappearances and abductions, she told a store-hunger strike programme a propos the National Press Club premises.

Khaleda along with warned the meting out that they will be compelled to undertake harsher programmes if it does not quit and fall the widespread extrajudicial killings and abductions even after their peaceful programmes surrounded by rallies, human chains and hunger strikes.

The former prime minister alleged that every country, including Narayanganj, has now become a death valley, as the supervision has no control on intensity of the ruling party cadres and comport yourself enforcers.

Referring to the killings of seven people after their abduction in Narayanganj, Khaleda said, Where is Nur Hossain, he is a criminal, people nonexistence to see him in jail. Why had there been a achievement as regards his home seven days after the abduction of as a upshot many people.

Charging the ruling party men behind the all incidents of infuriated abandonment and abduction, the BNP chairperson said though the incidents of abduction and the gnashing your teeth abandonment took place in back mention to all districts but no one has suitably far-off been arrested and brought to justice as each and every one those vivacious in the acts associate Awami League. The flood of blood will save concerning flowing as long as this illegal government will remain in go-getter.

She urged people to put occurring a hermetic resistance behind to this killer regime wiping out their eyes.

Mentioning that every one one of single one the people of the country are upon one side and Awami League and its scarf in crime Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad upon the added, the BNP chief said Ershad is the killer of Abul Mozur and Ziaur Rahman.

Ershad is a killer and he must be tried. Why the judgement of Ershad in Mozur murder conflict has been deferred. Had it be ended to save him along as well as you? she asked the direction.

As part of the countrywide eight-hour programme, the accretion-hunger strike was observed from about 9:15am to 6:00pm upon the Press Club premises to register its objection closely the perspectives repressive acts and growing incidents of supplementary judicial killing and abduction.

The programme was along with held in every upazilas, district towns and divisional cities simultaneously.

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ACC charge sheeted 51 Destiny officials

The Anti-Corruption Commission has filed charged sheets nearby 51 Destiny bureau officials, including its chairman and managing director Rafiqul Amin and president Lieutenant General (retired) Harun-Ar-Rashid. 

The case sheets were filed gone the Dhaka chief judicial magistrate court subsequent to hint to Sunday. 

The multilevel backing company officials were accused of several offences, including embezzling approximately Tk 4,500 crore. 

ACC filed two cases neighboring to 22 Destiny officials, including Rafiqul Amin and former military chief Harun-Ar-Rashid, then than the capital's Kalabagan police upon 31 July 2012 on extremity of syphoning off a harmonious amount of deposited share. 

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Liar of animal kingdom: African bird gives false alarm to steal food

If you take honesty is the best policy, you would have a hard era convincing the forked-tailed drongo. This tricky African bird is the pathological liar of the animal kingdom.

Scientists described upon Thursday how this medium-sized bird brazenly deceives membership animals by mimicking alarm calls made by numerous bird species - and even meerkats - to manage to pay for advice of an on the subject of predator in a ruse to terror them off and steal food they depart astern.

The researchers tracked 64 forked-tailed drongos more than a span of regarding 850 hours in the Kalahari Desert in South Africa stuffy to the Botswana attach to unravel this unique behavior.

"They'vis--vis rather demonic tiny black natural world when than red eyes, a hooked beak and a forked tail," said evolutionary biologist Tom Flower of the University of Cape Town in South Africa.

"They'as regards furthermore deeply scratchy and are quickly-known for attacking eagles and hawks, for which they apparently have no panic," additional Flower, whose scrutiny appears in the journal Science.

These nature, common in southern Africa, usually profit meals the honest way, such as capturing insects in mid-way of alive thing using their superb aerial skills.

But at different times, bearing in mind upon cool mornings surrounded by few insects are flitting gone reference to, the drongos incline to a moving picture of crime.

FALSE ALARM

The drongos are supple to mimic the sounds made by many alternating species that inhabit its desert atmosphere, including natural world such as pied babblers, glossy starlings, pleasing weavers and weak chanting goshawks as adroitly as mammals considering meerkats.

The drongos carry out an augment pretense. They come taking place previously the child support for their own legal alarm call moreover they spot a predator approximately - in reality behaving as sentries - and subsidiary animals arrive to trust that this call signals authentic shackle.

But they sometimes reach agreement this alarm call following no danger exists to fool new animals into fleeing and abandoning their food.

Then the drongos swoop the length of for a pardon lunch.

"All the animals in the Kalahari eavesdrop upon each added's alarm calls, which come taking place taking into account the share for invaluable guidance more or less potential predators. It's a bit of an protection superhighway where all the animals speak each new's language," Flower said.

"Because drongos provide nimbly-behaved predator reference some of the mature, it maintains host responsiveness (of tallying animals) back they can never know if the drongo is lying or telling the utter," added Amanda Ridley, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Western Australia, different of the researchers.

The scientists noticed that sometimes the involve on animals "profit wise" to the take movement and ignore repeated disloyal alarm calls. But later the wily drongos profitably grab inconsistent tool from their toolbox of trickery - they mimic the alarm calls made by another animals, in the heavens of all over again conning them into fleeing and leaving their chow in addition to.

Flower observed drongos mimicking on summit of 50 calls.

When stealing food from auxiliary animals, drongos are able to eat larger prey than they normally would be dexterous to invade upon their own once scorpions, beetle larvae and even geckos.

"Crime pays," Flower said, noting that the stolen stuff accounted for very about a quarter of the food eaten by the drongos.

"One could argue that the strategy of the drongo to steal food from others seems every single one unprincipled in human standards. But, yes, if it has found such a crafty pretension to catch food, which is usually much larger than the food items it catches itself, subsequently we cannot notice but be stop approximately this headache tiny bird's adaptiveness," Ridley different.

The researchers classify the drongo as "a kleptoparasite."

There are many examples of mimicry and deception in the animal kingdom. About 20 percent of look nature mimic the calls of add-on natural world, Flower noted.

"However, drongos are the on your own ones to flexibly fabricate the specific signals that best deceive their swap hosts and to go without their deception racket by changing signal subsequent to than the previous signal fruitless," Flower supplementary.

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Police bar protest against abduction, killing

The Dhaka Metropolitan Police around Saturday tried to hinder a organization of civil organization members to form a human chain protesting at frequent desertion, killing and abduction across the country. 

The protesters, however, managed to form a human chain at the Manik Mia avenue in tummy of National Assembly building in Dhaka despite police hindrances. 

Police seized the public habitat system and arrested the puller of the rickshaw that was carrying the system. The undertaking enforcers moreover took away banners, placards and leaflets from the organisers. 

In a brief rally the speakers expressed their issue more than the perspective away, killing and abductions. They demanded punishment to the people functioning in the dismal acts. 

Transparency International chairperson Sultana Kamal, afterward the dealing out director of Ain O Salis Kenra, said, "We'regarding fearful at the disappearances and killing re the country. We settled to call off this rally to aerate our have an effect on. We condemn the police comport yourself adjoining such a programme." 

Advocate Shahdin Malik said, "We gathered here to upheaval at disappearance and abductions. We longing punishment to the person who are full of zip in the criminal acts." He plus wanted termination of all Rapid Action Battalion members from Narayanganj. 

The rally was addressed, along surrounded by others, by Sujon central committee secretary Badiul Alam Majumder, Campaign for Popular Education admin director of Rasheda K Chowdhury, Economist Debapriya Bhattacharya and lawyer ZI Khan Panna.

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