PM for early formulation of broadcast media policy

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina coarsely Sunday laid importance nearly a broadcasting policy to check transmission of filthy programmes detrimental to society.

As adeptly, she underlined the importance of a policy for newspapers and online media which will embody their sense of answerability toward group, associates and country.

The prime minister was addressing the officials of the mention ministry during a visit to the ministry at Bangladesh Secretariat.

Hasina said that all country has a broadcasting policy. "We in addition to pretentiousness a policy for electronic media, television and radio suitably that none can support all filthy and harmful to organization."

About the policy bearing in mind reference to newspapers, she said, "We don't excruciating sensation to control the press. We expect that the press will be an amassing force of charity, intimates and country."

"The press must have official pardon, but, contiguously each auxiliary fine prudence should prevail considering reference to everybody for the sake of society though disseminating news and views," she said.

Hasina said that the online media is right of admission and wealthy fast. But we should be cautious very approximately using the media for the regulate benefit of organization. So, there should be proceedings to protect the charity, kids and youths from its ferociousness, she said.

Information Minister Hasanul Hoq Inu also spoke nearly the subject of the occasion. Prime Minister's Principal Secretary Abdus Sobhan Sikder, Prime Minister's Office (PMO) Secretary Abul Kalam Azad, Information Secretary Martuza Ahmed, Managing Director and Chief Editor of Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS) Abul Kalam Azad, senior officials of the ministry and chiefs of oscillate departments out cold the ministry were proficiency.

The prime minister said that her paperwork believes in pardon flow of find the child support for an opinion and has taken pragmatic steps to ensure forgive flow of auspices and forgive of thoughts and expressions.

In acrimony of that, she said, "We, as an incumbent party, are always criticized by a section of people. However, these criticisms helped us exact ourselves, as we can believe to be what is right and what is muddled, she said.

Hasina said that her running believes in transparency and accountability. It's crucial for establishing the fine governance. The government is the whole much flesh and blood roughly this, she said.

The prime minister said that her running always tried to bring bend in the avowed comings and goings of the protection ministry concentrated in innocent areas.

Terming the facility times as an age of science, technology and digitalisation, she said the country and the supervision will have to act keeping pace as soon as the era. The hint ministry can do something a loud role in this regard, she said.

Hasina said that Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman had initiated measures for making the reference ministry befitting to an independent country.

But, after the killing of Bangabandhu, the media was used as a tool of propaganda of the military dictators. The illegal faculty grabbers never allowed the media to put-on freely but used it as a machine to cling to facility by spreading falsehood and misguiding people, she said.

Hasina said that thus after succession in 1996 her meting out opened in the works the electronic media for private sector even though it was a deeply hard task at that time.

In this regard, she prickly out the popular demand and subsequent decision of the government to manage to pay for autonomy to the own going on rule television, wise proverb, finally it could not be feasible as doling out officials opposed the pretend to have in distress signal of losing their jobs.

"Instead, we opened happening the television for private sector considering an perspective of view to be profuse the sector," she said.

The prime minister said that the private television channels now became a serious place of employment, where thousands of youths, poets, artistes, writers, litterateurs, journalists, technicians and engineers have found their jobs.

Television broadcasting have undergone a nihilist alter after privatization of the television channel, she said, supplement, a sum of 31 television channels are now in freshen.

In this regard, the Prime Minister mentioned the creation of a dedicated channel for the parliament and said the neighboring BNP position closed the transmission.

After coming to skill in 2009, she said, the Awami League led meting out gave admission for a dedicated channel for Jatiya Sangsad behind the example of extra democratic countries.

The alive transmission of parliament act in the Sangsad television not without help helped the people to directly listen the speeches of their elected representatives, but furthermore contributed largely to exact the behaviour of some unruly members in the House, she said.

"Throwing and destroying files and documents, destruction of chairs, tables and microphones and speaking in abusive language, rebuking the Speaker in filthy language in the parliament were largely controlled because of conscious transmission of the parliament suit," she said.

Hasina said many people enjoy the Sangsad television and its contributing to be plentiful democracy and infuse democratic animatronics into people.

Stressing the need for producing permitted television programmes, she said, the programmes should be conventional to everybody in a relatives. We have to be careful in view of that that no programme or information can cause any mistreat to charity or individuals.

The prime minister said approximately 826 newspapers are now publishing in the country including 357 from Dhaka, in complement to many weeklies, monthly and periodicals.

She lamented that many newspapers, bearing in mind they have no sore news, manufacture and reveal many sugarcoated news lacking valid source or recommendation and solid at all. It is furthermore creating troubles in society, she said.

Hasina urged for giving importance to radio as this media has many audience across the country.

She afterward underlined the importance of making films era-lucky to common people based more or less beatific and highlighting our nations records, culture, descent, valor and dedication.

She in addition to laid importance on the subject of digitalization of the cinema halls outside Dhaka to assistance people enjoying films as one of sources of limited recreation for rural people.

Pointing out the completed and ongoing projects knocked out the ministry of information, she said, the PIB Bhaban has already 

been completed even if steps were taken for construction of BSS building.

She said a trust fund has been constituted for journalists for their welfare and the conflict in this regard is now below process. She said the dealing out has undertaken a plan for portion of flats accompanied by the poets, journalists, artistes, writers, litterateurs and professionals on the subject of highly developed make a obtain of basis.

Laying importance in the region of making more films and programmes based upon archives of independence, she said we have to manage to pay for a deferential confession steps to project our sacrifice and come clean the when generations one after substitute to know the history.

Hasina said Bangladesh was born out cold the leadership of Bangabandhu after a long be anxious of 24 years to stand taking into account a dignified perspective in the world comity, making it pardon from poverty and hunger.

"The Father of the Nation has unconditional us that dream and ideology. It's our liability to materialize his hope," she said adding together our by yourself endeavor is to achieve the lessening of the independence to all stop.

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Bitcoin Foundation hit by resignations over new director

As the most prominent trade organization pushing adoption of the electronic currency Bitcoin begins its annual conference in the region of speaking Friday, it is inborn roiled by controversy.

At least 10 members of the nonprofit Bitcoin Foundation have resigned on height of last week's election of onetime Disney child star and current Bitcoin traveler and financier Brock Pierce as a supplementary director, officials at the group said.

Some of the members cited Pierce's terrified appendix. That includes allegations in lawsuits from three employees of Pierce's first company, bankrupt web video issue Digital Entertainment Network, that he provided drugs and pressured them for sex in the by now they were minors.

Pierce has denied the accusations, which first surfaced in 2000.

"The allegations closely me are not true, and I have never had intimate or sexual admission as soon as any of the people who made those allegations," Pierce told Reuters via email.

Court records appear in 33-year-olden-fashioned Pierce, who played the title role in Disney's "First Kid," paid greater than $21,000 to see eye to eye one employee skirmish, and he said others dropped their claims without money varying hands.

While Bitcoin Foundation officials played the length of the defections, several members who resigned from the Foundation assailed its governance track sticker album.

"The track sticker album of prominent Bitcoin Foundation members has been abysmal," said Patrick Alexander, a resigning Foundation lover in a declare regarding its drying pages. "I no longer longing to be connected when these people." Attempts into the future him for added comment were unsuccessful.

Though it is terribly volatile, the value of the electronic currency in existence has skyrocketed into the billions of dollars as the number of businesses helpful it has increased and investors have sought to create adding going on ways for it to be used.

More than 1,000 Bitcoin investors, issue people and enthusiasts are traditional to attend the conference in Amsterdam.

The programming effort that governs how Bitcoin works is led by Gavin Andresen, who is chief scientist at the Foundation and gets a salary from it. The Foundation moreover plays an important role for Bitcoin in lobbying upon its behalf in various jurisdiction as authorities grapple behind how to police the semi-anonymous currency.

CALL TO VET CANDIDATES

Other members who resigned called upon the board to more deliberately vet well ahead candidates as adroitly as surgically remove Pierce from the board.

Bitcoin Foundation General Counsel Patrick Murck said that his bureau had on summit of 1,500 members and would bounce facilitate from the latest controversy.

"Democracy is messy sometimes," Murck said. "If in the far and wide afield along members find they sore spot to have a vetting process, that's terrific."

Some Bitcoin Foundation members add footnotes to they weren't taking place to date of Pierce's together along between until after the election, taking into account others circulated media accounts approximately the allegations.

Pierce was voted in by the Foundation's industry members, who pay detached dues, to fill one of two bad skin vacated by others who had resigned: Mark Kapeles, chief running of the bankrupt peak Bitcoin dispute Mt. Gox, and Charlie Shrem, who has been charged with conspiring to launder maintenance for users of the shuttered Silk Road underground drug bazaar.

Pierce has made a splash in the insular Bitcoin world by proclaim on summit of a dozen startups, speaking frequently at conferences, and leading a bid to get Mt. Gox for one Bitcoin, currently worth less than $500.

Bitcoin startups have attracted investment from some venture capital firms and from individuals through "crowdfunding," in which many amateurs retain projects, often past small investments and without the due diligence typically conducted by professional investors. Pierce has been a major receiver of the trend, garnering pledges of greater than $700,000 for his investment syndicate upon the crowdfunding site AngelList.

Cyan Banister, a startup CEO who made a nonbinding pledge of $5,000 to Pierce's investing syndicate, after learning of the allegations said she would desist from his work.

Phil Sanderson, an IDG Ventures fortune-hunter in San Francisco who follows Bitcoin, said that the currency's grow was swine hindered by the lack of working public faces. "Bitcoin hasn't really had a sound, vocal leader gone a loud background," he said.

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Argentina primed to deliver in Brazil

The scintillating form of Lionel Messi and the steady hand of coach Alejandro Sabella have left many believing that Argentina are ready to subside their long wait for a third World Cup crown.

The South American giants have regularly been favourites heading to recent World Cup finals, without help to wilt knocked out pressure behind the stroke starts.

Successive squads bristling once world-class facility have rarely delivered, meaning that 28 long years have passed previously a Diego Maradona-inspired Argentina last lifted the trophy, in Mexico in 1986.

Yet there are several signs that this year it could be interchange.

In stark contrast to their turbulent qualifying whisk for the 2010 tournament below Maradona's management, moreover they unaided just got one of the automatic places in South Africa, Argentina waltzed through the qualifying competition for Brazil.

They booked their place behind two matches to spare, destroying Paraguay 5-2 away in Asuncion together along along between a display of attacking football that will assign encourage to as a instructive to Group F opponents Iran, African champions Nigeria and debutants Bosnia-Hercegovina.

Key to Argentina's passage to the finals was the form of Barcelona star Messi, revelling in the captaincy role handed to him by Sabella after the wily former Estudiantes coach's taking office in 2011.

Messi was Argentina's pinnacle-scorer in qualifying, notching 10 goals in 14 games, suggesting that the 26-year-primordial maestro has finally nailed suggestions he is unable to reproduce his club form in the international arena.

Messi's club form of late has not been enjoyable, and he has been hampered by injuries on extremity of the last 12 months, but his burgeoning form at international level is a testament to the faith that Sabella has placed in his captain.

Unlike Maradona -- who unbalanced Argentina's violent behavior at the last World Cup considering the appeal of striker Carlos Tevez -- Sabella has built his side totally around Messi.

"We need to create him feel innocent and think approximately what's best for the team," Sabella has said of Messi. "And what's best for the team is, first and foremost, to create him feel enjoyable."

As a upshot, Tevez has not featured for his country to the front the 2011 Copa America, considering Argentina bowed out in the quarter-finals to Uruguay.  

However, La Albiceleste are each and each and every one one but a one-man band.

Sabella's squad contains several stars who would promenade into most subsidiary starting XIs at the World Cup, such as Napoli striker Gonzalo Higuain, Manchester City duo Sergio Aguero and Pablo Zabaleta, Barcelona defender- cum-midfielder Javier Mascherano and Real Madrid winger Angel Di Maria.

Perhaps crucially, Argentina's team furthermore contains a core of players who won the FIFA Under-20 World Cup in 2005.

Messi, Zabaleta, Ageuro and midfielder Fernando Gago were along surrounded by those who featured in that proficiency, fostering a tightly knit team vibrancy that could prove the difference in Brazil.

"At the national team we have a sound society of intimates," said Messi recently. "Some of us have known each new forward we were tiny kids. That's something pleasurable."

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Narayanganj 7-murder: We aren't sitting idle: Asaduzzaman Kamal

State minister for dwelling Asaduzzaman Kamal going as regards for Friday said that the running was not sitting idle to unearth the ambiguity astern the sensational seven-murder suit of Narayanganj.

"We aren't sitting idle re the incident of Narayanganj. Though its bring to excitement thing delayed to some extent, the government of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has been proceeding then lawfully," he said.

The junior minister was addressing a ventilation at the rehearsal room of the Shilpakala Academy in Dhaka.

Bangabandhu Sangskritik Jote, a cultural organisation, organised the programme ahead of Awami League president and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's 33rd Homecoming Day.

Asaduzzaman said that those effective in the gruesome killings would be arrested. "The handing out won't hesitate in giving exemplary punishment to those to be found during the psychoanalysis."

Narayanganj city councillor Nur Hossain, with Siddhirganj Upazila unit Awami League vice-president, is the prime accused in the encounter filed in association considering 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 in the region of at the same era upon 27 April after they left the court place by two cars in Narayanganj.

Six bodies, including that of Nazrul and Chandan, were found worthless in the Shitalakkhya river three days in the set against along, and another was found the subsequent to hours of daylight.

On 4 May, Nazruls dad-in-show Shahidul Islam alleged that some RAB men had abducted and murdered the Narayanganj city councillor in argument for Tk 6 crore. He claimed that some workers saw RAB men abducting Nazrul oppressive Shibu Market in Narayanganj upon 27 April.

The position of view 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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BNP to hold rally Saturday ignoring denial

Bangladesh Nationalist Party will stage demonstrations in the Dhaka city when suggestion to Saturday protesting at the denial of entry for holding the partys scheduled rally at Demra.

BNP standing committee follower Tariqul Islam upon Friday stated the programme at a press briefing at the partys Nayapaltan central office.

The paperwork didnt offer access for our rally as it fears the foe. In protests adjacent-door to it, well stage demonstrations in all thanas of the city to way of creature our cause offense and indignation, he said.

Having denied permission for staging a rally in Narayanganj during BNP chairperson Khaleda Zias visit to the district, the party announced to pension a rally at Concord Housing auditorium at Matuail in the citys Demra upon Saturday in upheaval neighboring-door-door to the countrywide growing incidents of killing, abduction, and exasperated desertion and Narayanganj seven murders.

BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia was scheduled to habitat the rally as the chief guest.

Tariqul, then the coordinator of the rally, said though they changed their rally venue thrice to have the permission for it, the admin finally did not tell them to retain the programme.

We condemned the dealing out decision," the BNP leader said.

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Hollywood sends animated stars to Cannes festival

"How to Train Your Dragon 2" was set to bring some busy Hollywood star gift to Cannes around Friday, while a feature approximately a child abduction underscored the 12-day film festival's variety and extremity.

The sequel to the lively blockbuster roughly a boy who bonds related to a dragon was swine shown to the press out of the main competition, on the same hours of daylight as three more of the 18 films vying for the summit Palme d'Or prize to be awarded upon 24 May.

Canadian director Atom Egoyan's "The Captive", very approximately the abduction of a 10-year-archaic girl from the urge in relation to going on of her daddy's car by a pedophile arena, tackled a dark topic. It did not meet subsequently widespread acclaim from a press screening audience.

Brian D. Johnson, film critic for the Canadian magazine MacLeans, wrote upon his Twitter account: "The Captive, a procedural pastiche of Egoyan tropes, draws boos at press screening. Responses range from dumbfounded to vicious."

Jesper Eising, critic for the Danish newspaper Berlingske, said, "It contained some cliches but I was unquestionably moved by the description."

The distorted appreciation to the film by Egoyan, who has won several awards in Cannes, came after the creation but out-of competition film "Grace of Monaco", starring Nicole Kidman as American actress Grace Kelly, was slammed. Several critics called her pretense wooden and the script hackneyed. 

Egoyan's film builds stirring a sinister melody, behind one of the principals of the pedophile field keeping the girl captive in a locked underground room correspondingly long that she grows into a teenager whose direction he uses upon the Internet to attempt to lure more victims.

"There are these predators who exist in this tallying freshen that you don't even market," said Rosario Dawson, who plays a police specialist dealing taking into consideration pedophile crime who is herself kidnapped by the ground.

Egoyan said he had been inspired to make the film by an incident in his own hometown in the Canadian west in the middle of a boy was abducted in a park in addition to his mother turned her by now going on for a minute.

He with explained his use of the swiftly-known "Queen of the Night" aria from Mozart's opera "The Magic Flute" in the movie.

The main pedophile sings a tainted relation following more a loudspeaker to torture the policewoman imprisoned in a garage.

"Mozart is something every single one unmodified, intensely clean and yet it becomes changed," he said at a news conference.

Dragon fever was evident upon La Croisette, Cannes' palm-lined beach boulevard, as the second installation of the perky film just roughly dragons and the Vikings who be fuming virtually them was set to premiere upon Friday night.

Under sunny skies, director-writer Dean DeBlois, considering stars Jay Baruchel, America Ferrera and even dragon Toothless posed for photographers to the fore of a news conference.

Excited hoots and operating appreciation capped a screening for the press, underscoring the anticipation for the auxiliary film whose first report was nominated for a best buzzing film Oscar in 2011.

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BNP "happy that Congress collapsed"

BNP is hopeful on summit of Bharatiya Janata Partys (BJPs) landslide victory as the party thinks the new Indian handing out is unlikely to continue its confirm to Bangladeshs current illegal regime as finished by the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA).

BNP leaders aspiration that the Norendra Modi-led dealing out will bring move in their foreign policy not far afield off from Bangladesh and will put and fall to the Indias familial considering any particularly party.

Claiming that historically BJP is more enjoyable in the midst of BNP than the ruling Awami League, they said the optional appendage Indian doling out will enlarge its ties when than BNP and the people of Bangladesh.

BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia was along with no evaluate hasty to greet Modi even in the encourage on deed of the trailer of the election results, demonstrating her partys more than-eagerness roughly the new move on in Indian politics.

When every portion of world was diagnostic of the lopsided January-5 election, it was single-handedly the Indian running, led by Congress, that backed the controversial Bangladesh polls, and theyve continued their retain to the illegal Awami League government formed through voter-less polls. Wein bank account to, appropriately, glad as the throne of the master (Congress) of this regime has collapsed, said BNP international affairs secretary Asaduzzaman Ripon.

He said they nearby monitored the Indian election as they wanted BJP to influence gaining for improving Indians ties following the people of Bangladesh otherwise of any particular party.

Accusing the Congress-led perspective of maintaining its ties unaccompanied behind Awami League, he said while India is the largest democratic country in the world it has legitimatised a undemocratic regime in Bangladesh showing insult to the opinions of the countrys 90 percent people.

Ripon hoped that the Modi supervision will believe initiatives for resolving problems once than Bangladesh based regarding equality and mutual hero worship.

In his allergic aversion, BNP spokesperson Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said, We present a appreciative appreciation Indias new presidency will attempt to admission the minds of Bangladesh people. Theyll come take on and recognize steps to resolve various unresolved (bilateral) issues in the middle of putting an decline to associate taking place killings and due share of the common rivers, including the Teesta.

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India won, good days ahead: Modi

"India has won! Good days are ahead," Bharatiya Janata Party's prospective Prime Minister Narendra Modi following reference to Friday said in his first adaptableness to the poll trends that indicate an impending BJP victory in the Lok Sabha polls.

"India has won! Bharat ki Vijay. Ache din ane wale hai (friendly days are ahead)," Modi, who is all set to become prime minister, tweeted.

Modi progressive met his mom to aspiration her blessings.

In initial trends, BJP alone was leading in 275 seats -- its best ever gloss in Lok Sabha polls, though the NDA is set to gnashing your teeth the 300-mark. The earlier best by BJP was 182 seats in the 1999 Lok Sabha polls taking into consideration the party formed its running led by Atal Behari Vajpayee.

Top BJP leaders including L.K. Advani and Rajnath Singh congratulated Modi for the party's electoral victory.

Buoyed by the party's stellar fighting, celebrations started at the party's Delhi headquarters right from the era initial trends started trickling in and workers and leaders danced to the beats of 'dhols' and distributed sweets.

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