PM preaches peace harbouring unrest at home: Fakhrul

The acting Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Sunday said that the prime minister was preaching peace in the United Nations after inciting and harbouring unrest at home.

Fakhrul urged Sheikh Hasina, the prime minister, to ensure peace in the country before taking up efforts for global peace.

‘Its funny that the prime minister presents a model for global peace while the police back in her country pin people down to the ground with fool and the destitute keep scavenging food from dustbins,’ he said at a representatives’ meeting of the Dhaka city unit Jatiyatabadi Swechchhasebak Dal at the Institute of Diploma Engineers.

Hasina on Saturday presented a model of peace as she addressed the 66th session of the UN general assembly in New York.

‘I could not hold my laughter seeing the news. I would like to ask the prime minister to concentrate on affairs at home first,’ he added.

‘We are living in a country where rallies of political opponents are attacked, a policeman stamps a citizen in the chest, a lawyer is whisked away from his house and beaten to death in custody. It is extremely unbecoming of the prime minister of such a country to preach peace in the United Nations,’ he said.

Fakhrul said that he might not agree with political ideals of Jamaat leader ATM Azharul Islam but it could not acceptable that he would be tortured in custody and presented before the media as robbers.

‘If he violates any law, there could be trial and punishment. Why is this torture?’ he added.   

He said that 33 per cent of the young people had cast their vote in 2008 elections and the Awami League had promised them jobs, at least for one in a family, but the government failed to keep its word.

The Dhaka city unit BNP member secretary Abdus Salam, Swechchhasebak Dal president Habibunnabi Khan Sohel, general secretary Mir Sharafat Ali and organising secretary Shafiul Bari Babu also spoke at the programme, chaired by Yasin Ali.

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Advanced math, statistics workshop begins at SUST

Staff Correspondent . Sylhet

A four-day workshop on advanced mathematics and statistics for enhancing the teaching quality of the faculty members began at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology on Sunday.

SUST vice-chancellor Saleh Uddin inaugurated with a request to the participants to get the best out of the workshop.

The departments of mathematics and statistics of the university jointly organized the programme under the government’s Higher Education Quality Enhancement Project for teachers in different disciplines, the organisers said.

Agriculture and mineral science faculty dean Narayan Shaha, social science faculty dean Sajedul Kaim, Jahangirnagar University mathematics professor Satyajit Kumar Saha, SUST statistics department chairman Zakir Hossain and associate professor Mohammad Shahidul Islam, spoke at the opening session.

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Vettel wins Singapore GP

Agence France-Presse . Singapore

Sebastian Vettel demonstrated his vast supremacy on Sunday when he won the Singapore Grand Prix to move within a point of becoming the youngest double world champion in Formula One history.

The 24-year-old German, the defending champion and runaway leader of this year’s title race, drove from pole position to the chequered flag in flawless style in his Red Bull car.

He won the floodlit 61-lap night race at the Marina Bay street circuit by a controlled 1.7 seconds.

Briton Jenson Button finished second in his McLaren to keep the title race just about alive with five races remaining. Australian Mark Webber in the second Red Bull finished third.

Vettel now requires just a solitary point to claim his second title in succession and can only be beaten to the title if Button wins all five of the remaining races while the German fails to score a further point.

Two-time world champion Spaniard Fernando Alonso, who needed to finish on the podium to keep his own challenge for the drivers’ title alive, came home fourth ahead of Briton Lewis Hamilton in the second McLaren.

The Englishman produced a typically spectacular drive including five pit-stops, a collision and a charge from 16th through the field. Another Briton, Paul Di Resta, came home sixth for Force India, his best result to date in his rookie season in Formula One, ahead of Germans Nico Rosberg in seventh for Mercedes and Adrian Sutil in the second Force India.

Felipe Massa of Ferrari, who was the victim of a collision with Hamilton in the early stages of an incident-filled contest, came home ninth.

Mexican Sergio Perez, whose collision with Michael Schumacher saw the German eliminated from the race, finished 10th.

It was Vettel’s ninth win this season and the 19th of his career. His Singapore triumph in sweltering humidity was heralded by an explosion of dazzling fireworks over the brightly lit cityscape.

Vettel won in a victorious time of one hour, 59 minutes and 6.757 seconds, a time that signalled the longest and most arduous race of the year.

He, Button and Webber stood still, drained and dripping with sweat on the podium at the end.

Vettel, from his 11th pole position, pulled clear with apparent ease to take control early on, leaving the rest to scrap for places in a flurry of action into Turn One, Sheares Corner.

And he hardly looked back from there.

The brilliant German appeared to revel in his supremacy and opened up a comfortable lead as

Hamilton, on successive laps, produced perfect

passes to climb to sixth ahead of Rosberg and Schumacher.

By lap 11, Vettel was seemingly in cruise control as the rest battled furiously—Webber taking third from Alonso, whose rear tyres were worn severely, Rosberg initiating the pit-stops and followed a lap later by Alonso.

Vettel’s lead after 18 laps was more than 10 seconds.

He stretched it to 20 seconds by lap 30 when the race was red-flagged for the first time after Schumacher ran into the rear of Perez’s Sauber car and made an airborne collision with the barriers.

This brought out the Safety Car and signalled a spate of pit-stops while Schumacher’s wrecked Mercedes was lifted clear. The 42-year-old German was unhurt.

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25 injured in village clash in Magura, 5 arrested

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Our Correspondent . Magura

At least 25 people were injured, 13 of them seriously, in a clash between two groups over establishing supremacy at village Malik in Magura Sadar upazilla on Sunday morning.

Quoting locals, the police said that the clash took place between the supporters of Harun Mollah and Ishak Biswas in the morning over establishing supremacy at the village Malik. Both the groups attacked each other with sharp weapons leaving at least 25 people injured.

On information, the police went to the spot and brought the situation under control. The police arrested five persons in this connection.

Among the injured, Jahid Biswas, Dola Biswas, Uzzal Ali, Iasin, Zillur Rahman, Shahabuddin, Khokon Biswas, Alauddin, Mamun, Tipu, Jakir,

Tokon, and Goffar were admitted to Magura Sadar Hospital in critical condition.

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