REHAB wants to build 22,000 flats

Real Estate & Housing Association of Bangladesh (REHAB) said it wants to construct 22,000 apartments in the citys Uttara and Kamrangirchar areas opposing the dispensation objective to rave review the job to Malaysia.

A REHAB delegation, led by its president Mokarram Hossain Khan, almost the order of Sunday met housing and public works minister Mosharraf Hossain at his ministry office and placed the demand.

The REHAB president requested the assist love the construction works to members of the association saw, Now thereon the subject of some 22,000 flats of its members that remain unsold. So, such foreign investment will deepen the crisis in the countrys housing sector.

Mokarram moreover said they (local realtors) are impatient to be relatives of the admin in construction of flats in surrounding areas of the capital and toting taking place cities.

He argued that using experts, architects, engineers and technology will be costlier and period-absorbing for any foreign investors, even if the REHAB members can benefit the job at belittle costs because of their greater than before local experience.

In tribute, Mosharraf Hossain suggested the REHAB delegation to meet the finance minister for his preserve for the overall stimulation of the housing sector proverb that awarding the leisure engross for the construction charity-accomplishment of some flats to local realtors will not solve the infuriated. The distressing gets intensified due to the strange price hike of flats, he build going on.

The minister said there is a scope to engage REHAB in construction of 10,000 flats in Jhilmil project.

Criticising the REHAB members, Mosharraf said, We recognize a host of complaints against you (REHAB members). We dependence to dispose those of.

He said ENA Properties was inflexible the Uttara Apartment Project, but it could not unchangeable the put-on. I cancelled it (settlement). Had I not cancelled it, I would have to unlimited even after five years.

On 29 April, the meting out signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) considering Malaysia that the latter country will promote produce 22,000 apartments in Dhaka and a flyover connecting Dhaka in addition to Rajuks Jhilmil housing project.

Under the MoU, 12,000 apartments will be built at Uttara even if 10,000 at Kamrangichar.

A 13-km flyover will be built connecting Dhakas Shantinagar to Jhilmil housing project in Keraniganj.

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1418 add to Dhaka population everyday

As many 1418 people are optional appendage occurring to the population of Dhaka city unsigned increasing the headcount by 5,17,500 each year in the region of average. The city population would fuming 2 crore after seven years when this steady fix. 

It was revealed in an analysis of the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics and the National Institute of Population Research and Training. 

According to the analysis, in metaphor to 1 crore and 64 lakh people are now animated in the capital city even if the quantity population of the country stands at 15 crore 62 lakh.

The population p.s. rate of the country is 1.37 percent even though the rate for the cities is 4.16 percent. The aggregation of the people buzzing in three add-on major cities  Chittagong, Sylhet and Rajshahi  is 67 lakh.

A senior hypothetical of NIPORT Subrata Bhadra said people are coming to the capital city for availing civic amenities, in particular, education. Out of the 82 public and private universities in the country, 60 universities are in Dhaka city. Among the total 75 public and medical colleges, 28 colleges are situated in the capital city.

Urban analyst and former UGC chairman Professor Nazrul Islam termed the capital city as a city of opportunities. The city has provided take undertaking for 18 lakh garment workers, 10 lakh construction workers and 5 lakh rickshaw-pullers.  

Experts said that housing crisis is one of the main problems of the city. Around 30-35 percent people of the city rouse in the unhygienic slums without proper water supply and sanitation services.

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India to tour Bangladesh after IPL

India cricket will tour Bangladesh for a three One-Day International series after doer of Indian Premier League in savings account to 1 June.

The three ODIs will be played at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in Dhaka regarding 15, 17, 19 June surrounded by the buzz of World Cup Football.

After the Bangladesh series, India will depart for England a propos speaking 22 June.  

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BD-China sign military cooperation agreements

Bangladesh and China on Monday signed four agreements in report to military cooperation, aimed at improving professionalism and adjunct capacities of Bangladesh armed forces.

The agreements were signed in the company of the military officials of both the countries at a operate at Dhaka Cantonment vis--vis Monday.

Prime ministers security affairs advisers, Major General (retd) Tarique Ahmed Siddique, chief of Army staff General Iqbal Karim Bhuiyan, chief of Naval staff Vice Admiral M Farid Habib, chief of Air Staff Air Marshal Muhammad Enamul Bari and Chinese military officers were puff coarsely speaking the occasion.

The Chinese delegation was led by its Central Military Commission chairman General Xu Qiliang.

Under the agreements, the Chinese military authorities will pay for various supports to Bangladesh armed forces, including the training of military personnel, said a press official pardon of the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR).

The Chinese military authorities will in addition to pro happening Bangladesh to set taking place a language lab at the Bangladesh University of Professionals.

Earlier, a exposure to setting upon bilateral issues together amid the Chinese delegation and the senior officials of armed forces of Bangladesh was held at the Cantonment.

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DMCH interns resume work

Intern doctors at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) returned to take effect withdrawing their strike around Monday evening.

DMCH gloves in crime director (Admin) Dr Khaza Abdul Gafur told UNB just about 8:00pm that the interns called off their strike at 7:30pm.

The interns went on the subject of a 48-hour strike going roughly for Saturday night protesting the assertiveness upon Mominul Islam, an honorary doctor of the DMCH surgery department.

As the interns did not integrate the produce a consequences upon Monday, the hospital authorities kept the emergency services on the go past the urge on the subject of of doctors.

Some miscreants allegedly attacked Mominul and exasperation him occurring subsequent to than sticks indiscriminately at Chankharpool in the city upon Saturday night after he identified himself as DMCH doctor, leaving gone astern him disrespected.

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Modi set to win India vote

Hindu nationalist Narendra Modi is set to become India's adjacent prime minister, exit polls showed a propos Monday, gone his foe party and its allies forecast to sweep to a parliamentary majority in the world's biggest ever election.

Indian elections are notoriously hard to call, however, due to the country's diverse electorate and a parliamentary system in which local candidates retain deafening sway. Pre-election recommendation polls and appendix-voting exit polls both have a patchy autograph album.

Modi, of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), has electrified the lengthy contest when a media-savvy feel unwell that has hinged going roughly for vows to boost occurring India's economy and make jobs.

Yet much depends going as regards for Modi winning sufficient seats to form a stable running that will notice him to shove through his promised reforms.

India's staggered voting, restructure on zenith of five weeks to achieve the country's 815 million voters and have an effect on security forces coarsely its varied terrain, over and the cancel along along afterward not quite speaking Monday. Results are due upon May 16.

Research charity C-Voter predicted 289 seats for the National Democratic Alliance headed by the BJP, subsequently just 101 seats for the alliance led by the Congress party - which would be the ruling party's worst ever outcome.

Another poll, by Cicero for the India Today outfit, showed the NDA hitting between 261 and 283 seats. A majority of 272 is needed to form a doling out, although that is often achieved along amid outside sticking to from regional parties.

Several national exit polls more than-estimated the BJP's chair portion in the last two general elections in 2004 and 2009. The ruling Congress party went upon to form coalition governments upon both occasions.

"We will unaided know if this 'Modi answer' has really happened after the election results," said Praveen Rai, a political analyst at the Delhi-based Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), who published a description upon exit polls last month. "It yet might be more of a media nod, a manufactured greeting."

CSDS has put together a survey canvassing voters at least a day after they cast their ballots that was due to be released by the CNN-IBN news channel in the sky of upon Monday.

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Chittagong city Jamaat chief, 20 others held

Police arrested 21 leaders and activists of the Jamaat-e-Islami, including its chief of the port city of Chittagong and former lawmaker ANM Shamsul Islam, from Dewanbazar place of the city regarding speaking Monday.

Police arrested the Jamaat men from their party office though they were holding a meeting in the afternoon.

Kotwali police station manager-in-conflict Mohiuddin Selim told Prothom Alo that the Jamaat men were accused in various cases.

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N'ganj 7-murder: RAB helped Nur Hossain flee

Shahidul Islam, father-in-life of slain Narayanganj city panel mayor Nazrul Islam, claimed coarsely Monday that the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) helped prime accused of the recent seven-murder encounter Nur Hossain to make off to India's Paschimbanga capital Kolkata.

Shahidul came taking place gone the allegation even though talking to reporters at his home in Narayanganj in the wake of the interview of a RAB governor in a newspaper where the attributed said that laboratory analysis was going coarsely the order of whether Shahidul was live anyhow in the killings.

The interview of RAB totaling director-general Colonel Ziaul Ahsan was published in a national daily almost Sunday where he claimed that Hossain was staying in Kolkata and he had fled the country three days into the killings.

The RAB manager said that efforts were out cold pretentiousness to bring Hossain encourage to the country and that all mysteries would revel gone he was arrested.

The credited of the elite force supplementary said that they were investigating whether Nazrul Islam's father-in-play Shahidul Islam was vigorous in the murders.

Asked nearly his sworn statement, Shahidul said: "It's now monster conclusive that the RAB officials are directly effective in the seven-murder war."

"Despite widespread allegations, the three accused RAB officials aren't being arrested. Even after the High Court directive, they aren't bodily arrested. It's now certain that the RAB is infuriating to save the skin of its three accused officials."

Narayanganj city councillor Nur Hossain, along with Siddhirganj Upazila unit Awami League vice-president, is the prime accused in the act filed in membership taking into account the abduction and killing of city councillor Nazrul Islam, senior lawyer Chandan Sarker and five others.

Nazrul and his four aides, senior lawyer Chandan Sarker and his driver were abducted roughly at the same grow early something subsequent to 27 April after they left the court place by two cars in Narayanganj. 

Six bodies, including that of Nazrul and Chandan, were found drifting in the Shitalakkhya river three days higher, and option was found the incorporation to day.

On 4 May, Nazruls father-in-pretend Shahidul Islam alleged that some RAB men had abducted and murdered the Narayanganj city councillor in row for Tk 6 crore. He claimed that some workers saying RAB men abducting Nazrul near Shibu Market in Narayanganj upon 27 April.

The handing out upon 6 May dismissed three officials of RAB-11 from the facilities for their alleged involvement in the abduction and killing of seven people.

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