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Samsung to build Shahjalal int’l airport terminal 3 Samsung Construction & Trading (C&T) Corporation, the construction unit of Samsung Group, has won the project for building Terminal 3 of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka. Terminal 3 will be built on the south side of the airport’s main terminal at an estimated cost of Tk 214 billion, of which the government will provide Tk 50 billion, while the rest will be funded by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). Sumsung yesterday disclosed the information in a press release. About 20 million passengers will be able to travel through the airport annually after the completion of Terminal 3 likely by 2023. Samsung C&T Corporation has received a budget of Tk 50 billion ($1.6 Billion) for the project. Samsung C&T Corporation has built an extensive portfolio of construction achievements through the use of the most advanced techniques and technologies available and capable of building everything from skyscrapers to the airport, medical facilities, irregular buildings, and even state-of-art manufacturing facilities, the press release said. Samsung C&T Corporation has built famous structures like Burj Khalifa, Petronas Twin Tower, Taipei 101, Terminal 4 of Changi Airport at Singapore, Incheon International Airport at South Korea, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, and many more. Moreover, Samsung Electronics Bangladesh, another concern of the Samsung Group, has been operating in the country for the past 10 years. Now they are assembling a range of Samsung smartphones at a hi-tech factory in Narsingdi for the local market and have established a research and development center in Dhaka.

Can’t blame others for border killing while smuggling cattle Says food minister Food Minister Sadhan Chandra Majumder yesterday said the government will not take the responsibility if anyone is shot to death along the border while bringing cattle from India. He made the remarks while talking to reporters after attending the founding anniversary programme of Damkurahat High School in Poba upazila of Rajshahi. “It’ll be pointless to blame others unless our character is good,” he said when asked about the shooting down of three Bangladeshi nationals by members of Indian Border Security Force (BSF) in his constituency Porsha of Naogaon. On January 23, the three Bangladeshis –- Sanjit Kumar, Mofizul Islam and Kamal Hossain — were killed by BSF members along Doarpalla border in Porsha upazila of Naogaon. BSF men also took away the bodies of two of the victims. The minister said, “We won’t allow anyone to bring cattle from India. Our upazila, district law-and-order committees and BGB adopted a resolution in this regard. Bangladesh government won’t take the responsibility if anyone is shot to death while bringing cattle cutting the barbed-wire fence.” He also said efforts are on to bring back the bodies of the two Bangladeshi nationals. Border killing has been a contentious bilateral issue between the two neighbours who share a porous 4,100-km border. Delhi had promised to bring down border killings to zero over the years but the BSF continues to shoot dead Bangladeshis along the border.

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Two Rohingya women killed as Myanmar army shells village: MP Published: 25 Jan 2020 02:31 PM BdST Updated: 25 Jan 2020 02:31 PM BdST Two women, one pregnant, were killed and seven other people injured after Myanmar troops shelled a Rohingya village on Saturday, according to a lawmaker and a villager, two days after the UN’s highest court ordered the country to protect the minority. Maung Kyaw Zan, a national member of parliament for Buthidaung township in northern Rakhine state, said shells fired from a nearby battalion hit Kin Taung village in the middle of the night. Government troops have been battling ethnic rebels in the state for more than a year. "There was no fighting, they just shot artillery to a village without a battle," he told Reuters by phone, adding it was the second time this year that civilians had been killed. More than 730,000 Rohingya Muslims were forced to flee northern Rakhine state in 2017 after a military crackdown that the UN has said was executed with genocidal intent. More recently, the region was plunged into further chaos by fresh fighting between the military and the Arakan Army, a rebel group that recruits from the mostly Buddhist majority in the state. That conflict has displaced tens of thousands and killed dozens. Of the several hundred thousand Rohingya still in Rakhine, many are confined to apartheid-like conditions, unable to travel freely or access healthcare and education. They are caught in the middle of the fighting, and travel restrictions mean they are less able to flee than Buddhist neighbours. In early January, four Rohingya children died in a blast the military and rebels blamed on each other. Two military spokesmen did not answer phone calls from Reuters seeking comment on Saturday's deaths. Soe Tun Oo, a Rohingya villager living a mile from the village, told Reuters by phone two houses were destroyed in the explosion. "The military always shoots heavy weapons… They shoot heavy weapons around the area they suspect. It is impossible to flee to other places, even though we are scared." The Hague-based International Court of Justice ordered Myanmar on Thursday to protect the Rohingya against further atrocities and preserve evidence of alleged crimes, after west African nation the Gambia launched a lawsuit in November accusing the country of genocide. A spokesman for the ruling party told Reuters the country was already protecting Rohingya, but the civilian government had limited power over the military. Civilian authorities govern jointly with the military in an awkward constitutional arrangement that reserves great powers for the commander-in-chief.

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What does it have to do with forensics lab? Everyone knows the land department is the most corrupt unit of the state institutions. Your aunt should have known better and nephew should know not to make off topic comments or conjectures.

Sounds like you have experience in bribing officials? I mean what kind of talk is this? If you actually have tangible evidence then post it otherwise please refrain from posting such questionable comments.

How many innocents are selling Yaba and cultivating poppy fields? Rather than blaming the government, which is fashionable by some citizens should support their good efforts. I have no problems people raising questions about financial irregularities but I think drugs are a worse menace than Islamist terrorism and should be dealt with using the full force of the state.

The wide array of defence hardware held by India is substantial and moreover telling of how difficult it is to maintain such a large standing army. Modernisation is no laughable matter, its slow, expensive and extremely complicated to implement.

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India's defence budget is very substantial from a regional stand point however it is not the one with which India can maintain a competitiveness with China. Their domestic defence industries also failed to support the requirement of their armed forces forcing the Indian military to purchase most of their arms from abroad. This in short would render their combat capabilities limited. Without substantial improvement of ties with neighbouring countries like Pakistan it would be premature to assume the Indian military would have the wherewithal to fight China.

Deep sea port project in Matarbari gains pace, Sonadia dropped 'Our neighbouring country Sri Lanka is facing trouble after building a deep sea port with Chinese loans' The government has decided to drop the plan of building a deep sea port in Sonadia, Cox’s Bazar and fast track the proposed deep sea port in Matarbari. Official sources confirmed to Dhaka Tribune on Wednesday that the move came after giving consideration to the vulnerability of the ecosystem of Sonadia island, which was declared an Ecologically Critical Area (ECA) back in 1999. But sources also hinted that some geopolitical considerations also came into play. At the 5th meeting of the Fast Track Project Monitoring Committee, held at the Prime Minister’s Office on January 19, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said that there would be no deep sea port in Sonadia as such construction would damage the ecological balance of the area, a meeting source told this correspondent. It was expected that China would provide funds to build Sonadia deep sea port and a feasibility study was carried out to this end back in 2009. But eventually no Sino-Bangla deal was struck all these years. The US, China and India, all global and regional big economies, have their diverse perspectives centring on the Bay of Bengal zone. Seeking anonymity, a government policymaker told Dhaka Tribune: “We do not want to get involved in regional politics, which may affect our country’s development. Besides, Bangladesh is surrounded by some big foreign deep sea ports, so we do not need to build a shipping terminal here. At the same time, Japan is developing the Matarbari area for an LNG terminal. We can easily develop Matarbari as a deep sea port. That’s why the government changed the decision of constructing a deep sea port in Sonadia.” “Our neighbouring country Sri Lanka is facing trouble after building a deep sea port with Chinese loans. Now China (China Merchants Ports Holding Company having 70 percent leasing stake) has a large stake at this port. So we were cautious about taking Chinese credit for Sonadia,” explained the policymaker. On January 18, China and Myanmar signed 33 memoranda of understanding (MoUs), agreements, protocols and exchange letters, including concession agreements and shareholders’ agreement, regarding the Kyaukphyu Special Economic Zone Deep Sea Port Project in Myanmar. During a two-day visit, Chinese President Xi Jinping sealed the deep sea port deal in Kyaukpyu area, which is located in western Myanmar’s Rakhine State that borders Bangladesh to the north and the Bay of Bengal to the west. Experts note that Bangladesh’s dropping of the Sonadia port project encouraged Beijing to look to building an alternative deep-sea port in Myanmar for this region, while India is constructing a road network through its seven-sister region to access the deep-sea port in Myanmar. Dr Amena Mohsin, who teaches international relations at the University of Dhaka, told Dhaka Tribune: “I think Bangladesh is now doing global economic diplomacy. Recent trends show that the country wishes to move forward from its old diplomatic tactics. Previously, Bangladesh used to practice the same pattern of pro-India or pro-China diplomacy but now its strategies are changing.” “China didn’t stand beside Bangladesh in resolving the Rohingya crisis. Rather, China always lent support to Myanmar on the issue. I think this Chinese strategy also forced Bangladesh to think otherwise,” elaborated Dr Amena Mohsin. Matarbari port project gaining pace Two days after the decision to drop the Sonadia deep sea port project, the Chief Representative of the Bangladesh Office of Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), Hitoshi Hitara, met State Minister for Shipping Khalid Mahmud Chowdhury at the latter’s secretariat office on January 21. A press release issued by the shipping ministry states, “Matarbari port is a highest priority project of the government. We are going to place this project before the Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (Ecnec) meeting soon, Khalid Mahmud Chowdhury told Hitoshi Hirata.” Talking to Dhaka Tribune, Khalid Mahymud Chowdhury said, “Usually if a sea port is of over14-meter depth, it is considered a deep sea port. The Matarbari port is going to be 19 meters deep. In a sense we can use it as a deep sea port.” Officials of the shipping ministry said the primary cost of Matarbari port development is estimated to be Tk.17,777.16 crore. JICA and Chittagong Port Authority (CPA) will construct it jointly. Of the amount, JICA will provide Tk 12,892.76 crore, the Bangladesh government Tk 2,671.15 crore and the CPA Tk 2,213.94 crore. The timeframe of this project is from 2020 to 2024. According to the plan, two jetties having a capacity of handling 8,000 TUEs (twenty-foot equivalent units) would be readied at Matarbari. The jetties will make possible the handling of more than three times the 2,500 TUEs daily now being handled at Chittagong Port. How the business hub will look The JICA team also shared a drawing, ‘Future image of Moheshkhali-Matarbari area,’ at Tuesday’s meeting at the shipping ministry. Dhaka Tribune has collected a copy of that image. A graphic presentation of the proposed project gives a beautiful look of the project site and its adjoining areas, having a 28km four-lane road with 17 bridges. The total length of the bridges is estimated to be nearly 7km. Additionally, a number of high-rises will be constructed there, to facilitate all kinds of works and accommodation. Once completed, the project is expected to draw a number of tourists to the once remote island. Member (Administration and Planning) of Chittagong Port Authority, Md Zadar Alam, told this correspondent that the port would be connected to the national highway from Chokoria to Cox’s Bazar. “There will be two jetties: one is a 300-meter multipurpose jetty and the other is a 460-meter container jetty,” he added.

RAB destroys four poppy fields in Bandarban Bandarban Correspondent, bdnews24.com Published: 24 Jan 2020 02:36 PM BdST Updated: 24 Jan 2020 04:55 PM BdST The Rapid Action Battalion or RAB has destroyed four poppy fields in Bandarban's Ruma Upazila. It came after a raid in the Upazila's Keokradong between 7 am and 12 pm on Friday, said RAB-7 chief Moshiur Rahman. No arrests were made in the course of the raid. Poppies were being cultivated across seven acres of land deep inside the forest in Keokradong, said the RAB official. The owners of the farm aimed to export poppies abroad illegally. RAB recovered around 60kg of poppy nectar from the four fields, said Moshiur. Later, the elite police unit torched the fields and the nectar Law enforcers have launched a search for the owner of the farm and a case will be started in connection with the matter, he added.

Bangladesh to export bandwidth to Nepal Bangladesh Submarine Cable Company (BSCCL) is looking for new markets to export its huge unused bandwidth and the new destination is Nepal, said officials of the state-owned listed firm. The lone submarine cable company of Bangladesh is now in talks with Nepal Telecom to export about 100 gigabits per second (Gbps) of bandwidth. A memorandum of understanding will be signed within a short time, Mashiur Rahman, managing director of the BSCCL, told The Daily Star recently. “Discussions have been ongoing for a long time and now we are ready to ink the deal,” said Rahman. As Bangladesh has access to the landlocked Himalayan nation only via India, BSCCL and Nepal Telecom have approached an Indian company, which has expressed willingness to establish the connection, he said. “So, before finalising the deal we will also have to sign a tripartite agreement.” Nepal now buys bandwidth from Chennai in India and China to meet its daily demand for about 250 Gbps, but due to its remote location high-speed internet cannot be ensured, Rahman said. The BSCCL’s second undersea cable lands in Kuakata of Patuakhali, which is closer to Nepal. “This is why Nepal has come to us,” he added. Bangladesh has 2,600 Gbps bandwidth capacity from two submarine cables, but only 900 Gbps is consumed locally. BSCCL is working to get its third undersea cable by 2023, which alone will add another 7,200 Gbps. BSCCL is currently exporting 10 Gbps of bandwidth to India’s northeastern state of Tripura though their state-run telecom company Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL). But BSNL does not afford internet bandwidth from Bangladesh anymore and will suspend its deal next month. Bandwidth export to Tripura had begun on February 8, 2016. Initially, the price was $10 per Mbps and BSCCL earned Tk 9.6 crore in the first year. Later, the price was revised down twice to bring it to $6 per Mbps. Still, BSNL has been unable to pay dues since September 2018. The Indian company owes Tk 6.39 crore to BSCCL, which is no closer to recouping the dues. Rahman, however, said some other remote Indian states are eager to buy bandwidth from them. Bangladesh earlier had taken an initiative to export bandwidth to Bhutan, another landlocked neighbour, but the plan did not come to fruition as India did not join in. BSCCL’s shares closed at Tk 100 on the Dhaka Stock Exchange yesterday, up 7.53 per cent from the previous day.