Habibullah Mizan
President and the general secretary respectively of the Communist Party of Bangladesh Manjurul Ahsan Khan and Mujahidul Islam Selim in a statement expressed their concerned over the kidnapping of its Mymensingh city unit president Abdur Rab Mosharaf by religious extremists.
They urged the government to ensure the security of all of their party comrades.
They CPB leaders claimed that the miscreants not only kidnapped Mosharaf, but also tortured him mentally and physically,forcing him to listen to a compact disc of waz (religious sermons), while being forced to take a microbus ride on July 13.
Some unidentified terrorists kidnapped the communist leader when he was returning to his residence at Shehara Nirmalabash area in Mymensingh town.
The two CPB leaders alleged that the kidnappers threatened him to give up left politics and join the Islamic path.
Meanwhile, CPB Mymensingh district president Abdul Aziz Talukder and General Secretary Advocate Imdadul Haque Millat in another statement demanded of the government to immediately arrest the culprits behind the abduction of CPB leader Mosharaf.
Thursday, July 15, 2010
BRTA drive sends time-worn buses, trucks of the city streets
The Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) with the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) yesterday conducted a drive against over 20 -25-year old buses and trucks, declared unfit to ply the city roads.
The first day’s drive netted only four buses, seized by the mobile courts, which also slapped fines and realised Tk 1 lakh 94 thousand and 200, filing 236 cases under the Motor Vehicles Ordinance, 1983.
The drive, supported by the Dhaka district administration with 15 mobile courts, each headed by an executive magistrate was aimed at improving the city’s traffic situation, reducing accidents and pollution..
But the drive sent the city’s aging fleets of rickety buses off the roads, producing long ques at bus stoppages and compelling commuters to jostle for a place to stand on their feet in the crowded buses.
It also helped the drivers of auto-rickshaws, taxis and rickshaw peddlers reap a windfall profit charging higher fare than usual making it difficult for many, faring them including school children and their mothers to take a long walk to their destinations.
After the drive, the seized buses were sent to the dumping ground at Kanchpur.
The BRTA also conducted a separate mobile court with it’s own magistrate at the city’s Sher-e-Bangla Nagar.
During the drive, people are seen in long queue as they faced severe transport crisis, said traffic sergeant Nowsher Ahmed while discharging his duties near Jatiya Sangshad.
Additional District Magistrate of Dhaka Amitav Sarker, who supervised 15 mobile courts said, ‘‘We shall continue the ongoing drives until the situation improves to considerable level.”
Explaining the reasons behind lesser number of buses on the streets, Sarker said that being afraid of the drive, the owners of unfit vehicles did not bring their vehicles out of their garages.
BRTA chairman Ayubur Rahman Khan told the Independent “ We will evaluate the progress and try to find out a solution to remedy the plight of the passenger’s during the drive.
The first day’s drive netted only four buses, seized by the mobile courts, which also slapped fines and realised Tk 1 lakh 94 thousand and 200, filing 236 cases under the Motor Vehicles Ordinance, 1983.
The drive, supported by the Dhaka district administration with 15 mobile courts, each headed by an executive magistrate was aimed at improving the city’s traffic situation, reducing accidents and pollution..
But the drive sent the city’s aging fleets of rickety buses off the roads, producing long ques at bus stoppages and compelling commuters to jostle for a place to stand on their feet in the crowded buses.
It also helped the drivers of auto-rickshaws, taxis and rickshaw peddlers reap a windfall profit charging higher fare than usual making it difficult for many, faring them including school children and their mothers to take a long walk to their destinations.
After the drive, the seized buses were sent to the dumping ground at Kanchpur.
The BRTA also conducted a separate mobile court with it’s own magistrate at the city’s Sher-e-Bangla Nagar.
During the drive, people are seen in long queue as they faced severe transport crisis, said traffic sergeant Nowsher Ahmed while discharging his duties near Jatiya Sangshad.
Additional District Magistrate of Dhaka Amitav Sarker, who supervised 15 mobile courts said, ‘‘We shall continue the ongoing drives until the situation improves to considerable level.”
Explaining the reasons behind lesser number of buses on the streets, Sarker said that being afraid of the drive, the owners of unfit vehicles did not bring their vehicles out of their garages.
BRTA chairman Ayubur Rahman Khan told the Independent “ We will evaluate the progress and try to find out a solution to remedy the plight of the passenger’s during the drive.
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
57 per cent tenants pay 50 per cent of monthly income as house rent, reveals a survey
Habibullah Mizan
Staff Reporter, The Independent,Dhaka, Bangladesh
Fifty seven percent tenants in the city have to part with almost half of their monthly income as house rent, revealed a recent survey conducted by Nagorik Sanghati, a NGO.
Most of the tenants are from low income and middle-low income groups of people.
Nagorik Sanghati conducted the sample survey among 300 tenants in the city from June 1 to 30 June this year.
Sixteen percent of the tenants spend Tk three thousand to five thousand, thirty seven percent pay Tk five thousand to seven thousand, twenty eight percent pay Tk seven to ten thousand, ten percent pay Tk ten to fifteen thousand , three percent pay Tk fifteen to twenty thousand while three percent pay above twenty thousand, the survey said.
The findings said that fifty percent of the tenants do not know the actual size of their rented premises while seventy three percent have no written contracts with their land owners.
Fifty seven percent of the tenants are not provided money receipts while forty three percent are not supplied the copies of bill of different utility services.
Forty five percent tenants alleged that their land lords increase the house rent every year while fifty percent people are not aware of house rent related laws.
Almost all the tenants favoured uniform policy on house rent.
Staff Reporter, The Independent,Dhaka, Bangladesh
Fifty seven percent tenants in the city have to part with almost half of their monthly income as house rent, revealed a recent survey conducted by Nagorik Sanghati, a NGO.
Most of the tenants are from low income and middle-low income groups of people.
Nagorik Sanghati conducted the sample survey among 300 tenants in the city from June 1 to 30 June this year.
Sixteen percent of the tenants spend Tk three thousand to five thousand, thirty seven percent pay Tk five thousand to seven thousand, twenty eight percent pay Tk seven to ten thousand, ten percent pay Tk ten to fifteen thousand , three percent pay Tk fifteen to twenty thousand while three percent pay above twenty thousand, the survey said.
The findings said that fifty percent of the tenants do not know the actual size of their rented premises while seventy three percent have no written contracts with their land owners.
Fifty seven percent of the tenants are not provided money receipts while forty three percent are not supplied the copies of bill of different utility services.
Forty five percent tenants alleged that their land lords increase the house rent every year while fifty percent people are not aware of house rent related laws.
Almost all the tenants favoured uniform policy on house rent.
Saturday, June 12, 2010
My government college teacher brother’s brutal killing: And my letter to a honest, dynamic, Face book user police officer
Dear Sir,
How are you in your honorable but tougher job like International Peacekeeping mission? I always pray for your well being. I dream, days shall come when this dynamic DU man will lead the GOOD police.
About us? Being frustrated by the over all situation, I have to going to organize massive people especially our non-political real students so that my widow bhabi Mrs. Afroza Harun, my love, my care, my hope , our future, her two unfortunate kids LOBDHUK and ARHAM get justice against his government college teacher father’s killers and their corrupt all patronizers . You know how my brother Harun-Or-Rashid was brutally killed on Match 21 in Sylhet. No people dared to protest the killers, really it’s a coward area, all coward lives there.
It's our bad luck that we failed to meet you face to face before you leave for peace mission. The days may come you may meet me in your police custody being arrested in any false cases. They may take me into illegal remind, dare to physically torture me to stop me from my fight. I’m ready to face all these probable circumstances. Kindly pray for me so that noting can stop me from my social movement
You may assume that our life, personally I may be harassed by the killer's family, the other third parties criminals. I challenged the evil forces from my student life which continues till now.
Even your corrupted and later suspended Sylhet Kotowali Model Thana Officer- in- Charge Mr. Mohamad Ali, his corrupt gangs may try to commit second mistake by attempting to harass me.
But sorry to say, I'm worried but never afraid. CROSS FIRE? Sorry, I don’t care because my first love, my lost love Nigar Sultana Lata, also my BLACK DIAMOND cousin, has left me. From then I am leading a different life. I don’t care my life, my future. I have decided to dedicate my whole life for the distressed, oppressed across the globe, at least for the surrounding helpless people as a way to forget my burnings , my pains.
Stupid, corrupt journalism? This is just to gather another experience. However, I always tried to be a minimum fair, a minimum honest while I am in this nasty, fucking journalism. Because I never forget that I am a Dhaka University student and give up student politics and later joined in reporting to fight. I have a very bad reputation that I misbehave with so many fake, some times powerful but corrupt journalists.
In future, if I try to fight in the election, my vote will be zero. But I don’t care. However, still there some GOOD police, GOOD journalists. Unfortunately, the number is decreasing day by day in our society.
I’m begging door to door to meet the respectable IGP sir and some honest ministers face to face. But their closed people are very busy with their selves; there are very few people who are actually helping us.
All give us false and values assurance. From now, I don’t believe in any such assurance. I want to see the action. Even if necessary, we ready to meet more VVIPs than these.
My family is fully ready to go the different places and stay in hunger strike to meet our honorable Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina face to face. We believe she will definitely help us to get justice. We are also ready to meet our opposition leader Begum Khaleda Zia. We need help, support from all political parties, professional bodies to get justice.
SIR, as our old well wisher, you can help us by legally providing the official numbers of the IGP, some concerned high officials like AIG, DG (RAB), NSI and CID bosses as they are members of the Home Ministry’s Monitoring Cell.
No way, we want to express our increasing concerned over the fair trial of the brutal murder case to these higher police officers.
SIR, if possible, kindly give us the cell numbers of ex Manikgonj SP Helal Uddin Badri. I respect him as he is also a helpful man.
SIR, all these cell numbers I can manage from the senior journalists but I want to say my fellow people about you that one ex DU student now police officer whom I failed to meet face to face, are helping us in the this peaceful fight even from his very busy peacekeeping mission .
SIR, I also need your kind full help to remove the increasing frustration of my family, our supporters, and the peace loving people of my over four thousand Face book friends. They are worried that the killers may not get exemplary punishment because they have huge money, power and political connection.
SIR, valo thakben, amader janna doa korben, jodi paren amar oshahi bhabi ke ekta phone diyen, amar val lag be, gorba lagbe,plz my dear Dhaka University boro bhai,plz
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Sunday, September 20, 2009
If we are not animals, we shouldn’t forget ...........
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If we are not animals, we shouldn’t forget the poor people around us
Let’s celebrate the upcoming Eid-ul-Fitr and Sharodhia Durga Puaj in such a universal way so that at least we don’t see any crying, pains on these days of joys.
I wish you a joyful life everyday, every moment like these upcoming festivals
Habibullah Mizan
Department of International Relations,
University of Dhaka, Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh
Cell: +008801552328436
+008801716283437
mizandeshi@yahoo.com
Friday, June 26, 2009
Was Michael Jackson' killed? Did his comeback try kill him? Death linked injection of painkiller Demerol
Speculation was rampant Friday that pop icon Michael Jackson's mysterious death might have been caused by a lethal injection of pain-killing drugs.
An autopsy has been scheduled for Friday afternoon.
Los Angeles County Coroner Investigator Jerry McKibben said it could take weeks to determine to complete toxicology tests that would indicate whether Jackson had alcohol or drugs in his system.
McKibben added that if the cause of death can be determined by the autopsy alone, he would announce the results. The British Sun tabloid reported that Jackson aides told emergency room doctors at UCLA Medical Center, where he died, that the star had collapsed after an injection of Demerol - a powerful pain killing drug similar to morphine and known to carry a risk of cardiac arrest.
"Shortly after taking the Demerol he started to experience slow shallow breathing," the newspaper quoted one source as saying. "His breathing gradually got slower and slower until it stopped."
Hospital officials haven't confirmed that account. Jackson family lawyer Brian Oxman told CNN Jackson's sudden death "is not something which has been unexpected....I can tell you for sure that this is something I warned about."
Oxman said Jackson had been struggling to cope with pain from several performance injuries, including a damaged vertebra and a broken leg, which had been interrupting scheduled rehearsal for his upcoming London tour dates.
"This family has been trying for months and months to take care of Michael Jackson," Oxman said.
"The people who have surrounded him have been enabling him. If you think that the case of Anna Nicole Smith was an abuse, it is nothing compared to what we have seen taking place in Michael Jackson's life."
The singer reportedly got hooked on Demerol and morphine during his 2003 trial for child sex abuse.
Los Angeles homicide detectives searched the rented mansion in the posh Holmby Hills section of the city - once the home of film star Sean Connery - where the singer had been living.
Police officials said the search was routine in high-profile cases. Jackson died at UCLA Medical Center Thursday afternoon after being stricken at the Holmby Hills mansion Paramedics tried to resuscitate him at his home for nearly 45 minutes, then rushed him to the hospital, where doctors continued to work on him.
"It is believed he suffered cardiac arrest in his home. However, the cause of his death is unknown until results of the autopsy are known," his brother Jermaine said.
On Wednesday, Jackson attended a rehearsal at LA's Staples Center to prepare for a series of 50 concerts scheduled to start next month at London's O2 dome and continue into next year.
He had been spending untold hours working with a team of dancers for a performance he and his fans hoped would restore his tarnished legacy. Jackson's close friend, the psychic entertainer Uri Geller, suggested that Jackson's anxiety over planned comeback concerts may have killed him.
"I guess the stress, the anticipation and the passion he was emitting from his heart, wanting to do this comeback so badly, maybe that got to him," Geller said.
"That is all I can think, that maybe the stress killed him."
Despite rumors of Jackson's ill-health, the promoters of his London shows, AEG Live, said in March that he had been given a 4 1/2 hour physical exam by independent doctors in March and passed.
Four of Jackson's 'This Is It' concert dates were pushed back last month but AEG president Randy Phillips insisted the changes had "absolutely nothing to do with [Jackson's] health."
The death of the eccentric but undisputed King of Pop brought a tragic end to a stunning decades long career, which never recaptured its luster after falling from its peak in the 1980s, when his soulful voice and feverish, crotch-grabbing dancing dominated the charts and dazzled the world.
His 1982 album "Thriller" - which included the blockbuster hits "Beat It," "Billie Jean" and "Thriller" - is the best-selling album of all time, with an estimated 50 million copies sold worldwide.
The charismatic entertainer's dramatic death left the music world - and his adoring public - in deep mourning and rekindled sadness over his increasingly erratic career and the child sex-abuse allegations that left him forever labeled "Wacko Jacko."
Jackson, eventually accused of abusing three boys, was never convicted of any crimes.
"I am so very sad and confused with every emotion possible," said a stricken Lisa Marie Presley, daughter of Elvis Presley who was married to Jackson in the mid-1990s.
"I am heartbroken for his children who I know were everything to him and for his family. This is such a massive loss on so many levels, words fail me." Jackson's sister, Janet, was "grief-stricken and devastated at the sudden loss of her brother" and flying back to California to be with her family, according to a statement released through her manager.
Jackson's death prompted broadcasters across the world to interrupt morning programs, while fans remembered a "tortured genius" whose squeals and sliding moves captivated a generation and sparked global trends in music, dance and fashion.
Even world leaders weighed in.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez called it "lamentable news," though he criticized the media for giving it so much attention. Former South Korean President Kim Dae-jung, who had met Jackson, said: "We lost a hero of the world."
"I am absolutely devastated at this tragic and unexpected news," said legendary music producer Quincy Jones, who collaborated with Jackson on three of his best-selling albums, "Off the Wall," "Thriller" and "Bad."
"For Michael to be taken away from us so suddenly at this young age, I just don't have the words," Jones added.
An autopsy has been scheduled for Friday afternoon.
Los Angeles County Coroner Investigator Jerry McKibben said it could take weeks to determine to complete toxicology tests that would indicate whether Jackson had alcohol or drugs in his system.
McKibben added that if the cause of death can be determined by the autopsy alone, he would announce the results. The British Sun tabloid reported that Jackson aides told emergency room doctors at UCLA Medical Center, where he died, that the star had collapsed after an injection of Demerol - a powerful pain killing drug similar to morphine and known to carry a risk of cardiac arrest.
"Shortly after taking the Demerol he started to experience slow shallow breathing," the newspaper quoted one source as saying. "His breathing gradually got slower and slower until it stopped."
Hospital officials haven't confirmed that account. Jackson family lawyer Brian Oxman told CNN Jackson's sudden death "is not something which has been unexpected....I can tell you for sure that this is something I warned about."
Oxman said Jackson had been struggling to cope with pain from several performance injuries, including a damaged vertebra and a broken leg, which had been interrupting scheduled rehearsal for his upcoming London tour dates.
"This family has been trying for months and months to take care of Michael Jackson," Oxman said.
"The people who have surrounded him have been enabling him. If you think that the case of Anna Nicole Smith was an abuse, it is nothing compared to what we have seen taking place in Michael Jackson's life."
The singer reportedly got hooked on Demerol and morphine during his 2003 trial for child sex abuse.
Los Angeles homicide detectives searched the rented mansion in the posh Holmby Hills section of the city - once the home of film star Sean Connery - where the singer had been living.
Police officials said the search was routine in high-profile cases. Jackson died at UCLA Medical Center Thursday afternoon after being stricken at the Holmby Hills mansion Paramedics tried to resuscitate him at his home for nearly 45 minutes, then rushed him to the hospital, where doctors continued to work on him.
"It is believed he suffered cardiac arrest in his home. However, the cause of his death is unknown until results of the autopsy are known," his brother Jermaine said.
On Wednesday, Jackson attended a rehearsal at LA's Staples Center to prepare for a series of 50 concerts scheduled to start next month at London's O2 dome and continue into next year.
He had been spending untold hours working with a team of dancers for a performance he and his fans hoped would restore his tarnished legacy. Jackson's close friend, the psychic entertainer Uri Geller, suggested that Jackson's anxiety over planned comeback concerts may have killed him.
"I guess the stress, the anticipation and the passion he was emitting from his heart, wanting to do this comeback so badly, maybe that got to him," Geller said.
"That is all I can think, that maybe the stress killed him."
Despite rumors of Jackson's ill-health, the promoters of his London shows, AEG Live, said in March that he had been given a 4 1/2 hour physical exam by independent doctors in March and passed.
Four of Jackson's 'This Is It' concert dates were pushed back last month but AEG president Randy Phillips insisted the changes had "absolutely nothing to do with [Jackson's] health."
The death of the eccentric but undisputed King of Pop brought a tragic end to a stunning decades long career, which never recaptured its luster after falling from its peak in the 1980s, when his soulful voice and feverish, crotch-grabbing dancing dominated the charts and dazzled the world.
His 1982 album "Thriller" - which included the blockbuster hits "Beat It," "Billie Jean" and "Thriller" - is the best-selling album of all time, with an estimated 50 million copies sold worldwide.
The charismatic entertainer's dramatic death left the music world - and his adoring public - in deep mourning and rekindled sadness over his increasingly erratic career and the child sex-abuse allegations that left him forever labeled "Wacko Jacko."
Jackson, eventually accused of abusing three boys, was never convicted of any crimes.
"I am so very sad and confused with every emotion possible," said a stricken Lisa Marie Presley, daughter of Elvis Presley who was married to Jackson in the mid-1990s.
"I am heartbroken for his children who I know were everything to him and for his family. This is such a massive loss on so many levels, words fail me." Jackson's sister, Janet, was "grief-stricken and devastated at the sudden loss of her brother" and flying back to California to be with her family, according to a statement released through her manager.
Jackson's death prompted broadcasters across the world to interrupt morning programs, while fans remembered a "tortured genius" whose squeals and sliding moves captivated a generation and sparked global trends in music, dance and fashion.
Even world leaders weighed in.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez called it "lamentable news," though he criticized the media for giving it so much attention. Former South Korean President Kim Dae-jung, who had met Jackson, said: "We lost a hero of the world."
"I am absolutely devastated at this tragic and unexpected news," said legendary music producer Quincy Jones, who collaborated with Jackson on three of his best-selling albums, "Off the Wall," "Thriller" and "Bad."
"For Michael to be taken away from us so suddenly at this young age, I just don't have the words," Jones added.
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