President calls for OIC members to Myanmar convince for Rohingya problem solving

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DHAKA: President Zillur Rahman asked the OIC to convince Member States that pay tribute to Myanmar Government with political and economic support and prosperous life their Muslim minorities (Rohingyas).

"We an active role in the direction of a lasting solution to this longstanding (Rohingya) issue both bilaterally and multilaterally have to take," he said Al during the addressing at the closing ceremony of the 4th extra-ordinary session of Islamic Summit in Makkah label last night, according to a report here from Saudi Arabia today.

In the wake of the recent violence in the Rakhine State of Myanmar, President Rahman said that the United Nations High Commissioner for human rights has expressed concern about oppression of Muslim minorities there.

The condition of Muslim minorities in various parts of the world is great concern, he said, adding, that it is not only a question of protection of the Muslims and their faith; but a question of universal human rights.

"We need to revive the morale of the world and necessary steps to form international public opinion in favour of these minority people", he said.

Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud hosted the two-day 4th special session of Islamic Summit Conference joined by the heads of State and Governments of the Member States of the OIC (organisation of Islamic cooperation).

President Zillur Rahman said that the Palestine question remains a symbol of oppression and injustice to Muslims.

Zillur Rahman said that Bangladesh has led, that his consistent and firmly support the fundamental rights of the Palestinian people.

"Together with the traditional diplomatic efforts to influence their Governments we must make some innovative effort for mass awareness especially in non-Muslim countries," said Bangladesh President.

He said that world opinion in favour of the legitimate rights of the Palestinians for a just and fair solution to the Palestinian crisis must be formed.

The Muslim countries include almost one-third of the world's countries and one fifth of the world's population, he said adding for centuries Muslims at the top of the building were friendship and harmony in the world with noble Islamic ideal.

President Rahman claimed however large values of the Islamic brotherhood provided by the direction of international policy in question.

"We are now numerous conflicts and discords confronted." They are not only between Muslims and non-Muslims, but unfortunately they are also between Muslims and Muslims, "he said."

"The oppression on Muslims, which we now witness are a wake up call for our commitment to preserve the Islamic ideal of peace and justice." We can no life insular in the age of globalization, "Continued President Rahman."

"We have necessary wisdom, resources, values, culture and heritage, to influence international policy on our behalf," he said adding, "That the unity and solidarity of the Muslim Ummah and implementation of the Islamic values of Justice, equality and involvement of the population of our countries will require."

The President expressed to see his consternation for the loss of human lives and destruction of property during the recent political unrest in the Middle East and North Africa. "The endless killing in Syria, also in this month of Ramadan, contrary to the large Islamic values of compassion and kindness," he said.

He said it they can see debate on the dynamics of these conflicts, some, as the necessary hurts achieve democracy, some can write them to the effects of globalization, some can mention it as the conspiracy of the external forces.

Whatever be the reason, those do not suffer from any situation be justified, he said.

"I firmly believe that such human tragedies should be avoided, to ensure the basic civil and political rights of citizens." Guarantee of freedom from hunger, fear and humiliation can be a viable solution for such a political crisis in the future, "he said."

"A non-violent solution based should be achieved on the Islamic tradition of moderation and discussion." Bangladesh, Member of the UN Human Rights Council, a peaceful solution to the Syrian crisis since its membership has supported, "he added."

In 1974 for the unity and solidarity of the Islamic Ummah while the second Summit of the OIC that should not limited at the intergovernmental level, but should be based on all areas of our social lives, he said "The father of our nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman".

Zillur Rahman left the country for Saudi Arabia on Sunday evening on a five day official visit the Summit at the invitation of the Saudi King.

Rahman, President is expected to return here on August 17.

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Rajhsahi rail links restored

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RAJSHAHI: Rajshahi of the rail links with Dhaka, Khulna and Chilahaati have been restored and on Thursday afternoon, 20, after an inter-city train station had gone from turn the tracks near the town of Sardah.

Trains resumed to normal operation at 13 after that derailed removed car and the damaged tracks were repaired, Rajshahi said stationmaster Jahidul Islam.

Until then, the link between Dhaka and Rajshahi through alternative ways, but nationwide railway had managed the railway authorities timetable in disarray.

"Trains on the Dhaka-Rajshahi Lalmonirhat, Dhaka-Khulna and Dhaka Dinajpur Nilphamari routes of two to three hours are delayed," Majharul Haque, Assistant had reservations officer of Kamalapur station, earlier on Thursday September said.

"Trains on the Dhaka-Chittagong noakhali district, Dhaka-Sylhet and Dhaka Mombasa Kishoreganj routes are delayed by a half to one hour."

The Dhaka-bound Padma express derailed to throw 17: 15 on Wednesday, targeted links and travel plans of tens of thousands of Eid holiday-makers in the chaos. A four-Member Committee headed by the Divisional Officer transport Sajib Kumar Pakshi investigated the incident and three days to produce a report.

Salvage trains from Rajshahi and Ishwardi reached the scene and rescued the car, railway (West zone) chief operating Superintendent Saiful Islam said.

The train had left Rajshahi railway station for the capital at 16: 30 and 50 metres from the Sardah station derailed, said Senior sub-Assistant Engineer (West zone) Jalil Uddin Ahmed.

Two air-conditioned coaches and a dining car on their pages diagonally before tipping over and he told uprooting of the sleepers, September.

At least 15 people were injured in the accident and continue the Padma express travel for Dhaka left the crumpled car.

Stationmaster Jahidul Islam remained all trains to and from Rajshahi and Dhaka, Khulna and Chilahaati after the accident, Rajshahi said from early September.

However operated trains with Dhaka in any other way.

The passengers Dhaka bound were, picked up by the Rajshahi station and station with a second train to the Sardah. You then the Dhaka trains from there boarded, Islam added.

Also the passengers from Dhaka landed at the Sardah station and Rajshahi were promoted by an another train.

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Luftschlag tötet mehr als 30 wie OIC Syrien unterbricht

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AAZAZ: The Organisation for Islamic cooperation Syria exposed, the Muslim world "can no longer accept a regime that his people massacre" to say, as 31 people reported killed in an air raid.

Regime forces were also the main battlefield city of Aleppo in the North, bomb activists said, while Damascus was rocked by a bomb attack on a military command and a firefight near the Prime Minister's.

As the world's 57-Member OIC, main Muslim grouping said liquidation at a summit meeting in the Saudi holy city of Mecca early Thursday, UN investigators the Syrian regime crimes against humanity, including the Houla massacre in May had committed.

A statement that emergency OIC said at the end of the Summit that contestants on "the need to end the violence in Syria immediately and to suspend the country from the OIC" had come to an agreement.

Final statement which said that "Deep concern about the massacres and inhumane acts suffered by the Syrian people" was made.

OIC head Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu told a press conference that sent the decision "a strong message from the Muslim world of the Syrian regime".

"This world no longer a regime that can take his people with aircraft, tanks and heavy artillery massacre," he added.

The move was welcomed by the United States as a "strong" President Bashar al-Assad's regime.

"The today's Action underscores the Assad regime increasing international isolation and the broad support for the Syrian people and their struggle for a democratic State, which represents their aspirations and their human rights respected," said State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland.

Government forces said a report by the UN Commission of inquiry into crimes against humanity including murder committed their militia allies and, while the rebels but to a lesser extent performed by torture and war crimes, had.

The UN report said "the Commission found reason to believe, that the armed forces of the Government and the Shabiha had committed the crimes against humanity of murder and torture, war crimes and gross violations of international human rights and international humanitarian law,".

He said that they charge were for the massacre in the central city of Houla in may as 108 civilians, including 49 children, were killed in a gruesome attack, the Assad had said was the work of the "Monster".

Rebels you fighters but were not in the probe, which saves them war crimes, including murder, extrajudicial execution and torture guilty.

In Syria a rebel reported bastion near the second city of Aleppo activists and residents of an another cruelty by the regime with at least 31 people, including children, killed in an air strike in Aazaz.

-"These animals are all of us kill".

"Bashar did this." "God help us, all these animals will kill us," said a man, pull up a bloody arm from a pile of parts of the body on the sidewalk in front of the local hospital.

The Syrian Observatory for human rights, said 31 people were killed, including women and children, and a further 200 wounded, warning that the toll could rise.

"There are many people, still under the wreckage caught", Observatory said Director Rami Abdel Rahman. "The situation is appalling."

Dozens of residents were fleeing to nearby Turkey, many of them entire families carry boxes of food and clothing on their heads.

In all at least 156 people killed Wednesday in Syria, where more than 23,000 people died in March 2011, since the uprising against the regime were broken out, said the Observatory.

In Damascus claimed the free Syria army a bomb attack on a military headquarters was close to a hotel used by UN observers, say it was a warning that the it could strike any time at the heart of the regime.

In July killed another attack also claimed by the FSA four top security chiefs in a major body blow to the regime.

A Gunbattle broke the new Prime Minister Wael al-Halqi, also in the vicinity of the offices just a day after his predecessor Riad hijab, the highest profile figure carry out Government, said that the regime had collapsed and only controlled 30 percent of the country.

And in a worrying development in the neighbouring Lebanon, rioters blocked roads and dozens of Syrians were kidnapped and their businesses destroyed in violence, the orders leave immediately by Gulf Nations for citizens raised.

Rioters lit tires on the road to Beirut airport and the highway to Syria closed, according to unconfirmed television reports that several Lebanese Shiite pilgrims kidnapped were killed in Syria in the Aazaz attack in May.

Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates all warnings for their citizens issued to leave due to what the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates said was a "dangerous" situation.

UN humanitarian Chief Valerie Amos, who Thursday after a visit to Damascus in Beirut is due, warned that the situation in Syria was possibly as high as 2.50 million always worse, with the number of those in need.

The UN Security Council meets on Thursday, the UN Observer Mission in Syria in the midst of deep-rooted divisions between the major powers on the conflict-ridden country officially to end.

Russia and China hit out at the Western nations of Syria prior to the meeting, as UN leader struggles to convince Ban Ki-moon, Algerian diplomat Lakhdar Brahimi, the new international Envoy to the conflict to be.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused Stoke Western States of violence through the open support of the armed rebellion, comments, by the United States rejected.

China, which has blocked three UN resolutions on Syria along with Russia, accused and Western powers disabled as visited a senior Envoy of Damascus for talks Beijing's efforts to end the conflict.

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Bangladesh in the U-19 WC Super 8

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DHAKA: Bangladesh stormed beatings in the quarter-finals of the U-19 World Cup for Namibia with 7 wickets in Brisbane on Thursday.

A fine unbeaten 70 from the opener Voges that helped Bangladesh, 155 for three and hunting to save the target with a good 13 acquisitions. The man-of-the match hit five fours in his 115-ball knock.

Choice to bat first, Namibia had under - 19 s 151 all out in 49,4 took over the top score of 40 from Gerhard Erasmus made.

Abu Jayed took 3 for 29 in eight took over during Taskin Ahmad and Naeem Islam junior jointly running two apiece for 29 and 19 or.

Bangladesh lost Soumya Sarkar for 31 in the fifth over before the and Amanul Haque (32) their side of 88 before Anamul back into the stable in the 19th over was.

Al-Amin (17 not to the outside) and this ensured that in the overhaul as a whole there were no more hiccups, after Asif Ahmed (13) in the 30 over t with the score at 121 for three.

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3 in Comilla road accident killed

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COMILLA: Three dead and 20 others injured as a bus collision head-on with a covered van in a roadside plunged trench at Chándana Krishnapur Comilla-Noakhali on the road in Laksam Upazila today (Thursday) morning.

The identity of the deceased could be not immediately known.

Dhaka reported eye witnesses, bound bus early in the morning into the ditch fell, like covered collided with the speeding van from opposite directions, so that three people dead on the ground.

The injured were admitted in various hospitals and local clinics.

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Fearing attacks, 5000 people from northeast flee Bangalore

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BANGALORE: People from the northeast are leaving Bangalore in hordes following wild rumours that they would be targeted even as Karnataka's top cop has sought to allay their fears by promising them full protection.

Hundreds of people from the region are headed home if one goes by the number of tickets sold by the railways.Railway authorities confirm they have sold nearly 5,000 tickets to people bound for Guwahati and beyond.

We are overbooked.We have arranged a 20-compartment special train to Guwahati, N Ramesh,senior deputy commercial manager (railways ),Bangalore division,said.Given the rush for tick ets,we may have to arrange more trains, Ramesh said.

IGP Lalrokhuma Pachau attributed the apprehensions to rumours and said no incident of intimidation of northeastern people has come to the notice of police.

Commissioner BG Jyothi Prakash Mirji said the cops are ready to go to the door steps of northeastern stu dents if there is any instance of them being threatened.

The panic reaction comes in the wake of rumours being spread through SMSs,chain mails and social networking sites that people from the northeast would be attacked in Bangalore.Intelligence sou rces said at least 4,000 people flocked to the Bangalore City railway station on Wednes day evening to board the two trains to Guwahati.

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Shoibal Kanungo dies at 44

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DHAKA: September, the former head of operations Shoibal Kumar Kanungo died early Thursday of a heart attack.

His family said Kanunga hospital in Shahbagh was BIRDEM to 02: 30 after he became ill. Doctors there declared him dead, when he it on around 05: 45 was found.

The 44 worked most recently as head of operations of the ALO Prothom jobs. He was survived by his wife, a son, father, mother and a sister.

Kanunga, who his master of business administration from the University of Dhaka indeed Institute of the master of business administration (IBA), worked for September 2007.

In addition to his role as head of operations, he manages the human resources and General Administration.

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Chocolate lowers ' blood pressure '

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There may be good news for people looking for an apology, munch on a few squares after a review found chocolate that the treatment could reduce blood pressure.

An analysis of the 20 studies showed that dark chocolate every day eat a slight drop of in blood pressure led.

Report of the Cochrane Group said chemicals in cocoa, chocolate key ingredient, relaxing blood vessels.

However, there are healthier ways to lower blood pressure.

The theory is that cocoa contains Flavanols, which produce a chemical in the body called nitric oxide. This relaxed ' ' blood vessels pass through blood, facilitates lowering blood pressure.

However, studies have raised mixed results. The Cochrane analysis combines previous studies to see if it really was an effect.

There was a huge selection in the amount of cocoa consumed, from 3 g to 105 g per day by each participant. However, the overall picture was a small decrease in blood pressure.

A Systolischer blood pressure under 120mmHg (millimeters of mercury) is regarded as normal. Cocoa led to a reduction of blood pressure 2-3mmHg. Length of the trials was only two weeks, so that the longer term effects are not known.

Run Karin Ried, researchers from the National Institute for integrative medicine in Melbourne, Australia, said: "Although we blood pressure still do not have evidence of a continuing decline, reducing small we at short notice saw could complement other treatment options and may help reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease."

High blood pressure is both General and deadly. It became a worldwide to 54% of strokes and 47% of cases of coronary heart disease.

But not the ideal way to lowering blood pressure packs chocolate lots of fat and sugar, and cocoa is so.
Dark or milk?

There was also a warning in the medical journal Lancet, that dark chocolate contains less Flavanols than you might think. Dark chocolate counter as milk chocolate contains a higher cocoa so more Flavanols should contain, but they can also be removed since they have a bitter taste.

Victoria Taylor, of the British Heart Foundation, said: "it is hard to tell exactly would need what quantities of a rich cocoa, a positive effect and consider the best way for people to get."

"Most studies conducted within a short time it is to know whether the benefits could be maintained in the long term also not possible." The 100 g of chocolate, which had consumed are daily in a number of studies would also with 500 calories - that's a quarter of the recommended daily allowance of a woman come.

"Beans, apricots, blackberries and apples contain also Flavanols and, while lower volumes than in cocoa contains, it doesn't come with the unhealthy extras in the chocolate found."

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Hard drive started to save kidnapped Fischer; 36 14 rescued

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BAGERHAT: Six days after their abduction, a shootout saved members of RAB-8 early Thursday 14 of 36 kidnapped fishermen after the pirates at the Narkelbaria in Sharankhola Upazila in the Sundarbans East zone. Lt Col Faridul Islam, Commander of RAB-8 (Barisal), UNB told that they launched on secret information, they drive to a cave of the pirates on the Narkelbaria at 07.

The shooting broke out, as the pirates, the presence of members of the RAB, sensing brand open in the elite. At some point the pirates retreated and flee.

The RAB forces then the 14 fishermen together saved with two trawlers and seized five firearms, including three pistols and two shotguns by the body. However, there was no arrest.

Lt Col Shariful Haque, Commander of the Mongla Coast Guard, meanwhile, confirmed that the members of the coast guard, Navy and air force and RAB drives in different caves of the pirates also operate.

He said that a common drive kidnapped in life was founded by Coast Guard, Navy and air force on Thursday to rescue the 36 fishermen from pirates
in the Sundarbans East zone under Sharankhola Upazila early Friday.

The members of the coast guard Mongla West zone, Bangladesh Navy Mongla and air force launched the rescue operation at noon.

Shariful Haque said the Navy and Coast Guard of 300 members, led by Coast Guard zonal Commander M Saidur Rahman, along with four ships and six speedboats and were the implementation of three mechanized boats
Drive.

Intelligence sources said that the air force joined the drive with a helicopter.

According to sources, caves of the Pirates of the Dublar char, Shelar char, Ha'kalir char, Pushpakathi, and Jwakhali identifies the common forces coastal Sundarban East and West areas Bagerhat, Khulna and Satkhira districts.

Earlier, joint forces the kidnappers locked caves in various coastal areas, including the Sundarbans.

A gang of armed pirates abducted the 36 fishermen along with three trawlers and looted valuables worth about TK fairway close to 12 lakh Buoya of Bay in Sharankhola Upazila. Five fishermen were also
injured by the kidnappers.

A gang of 15-20 robbers of 'Mortoza Bahini' about 100 fishermen while they begin Hilsa in 10 trawlers were attacked.

Before leaving on the ground, the robbers abducted the 36 fishermen along with three trawlers and demanding a ransom of TK 50,000 for the release of each of the Fisher. You threatened to kill Fischer, if their call goes unnoticed within a week.

The kidnapped fishermen came from different areas of the districts of Bagerhat, Patuakhali, Pirojpur, Barguna and Bhola.

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Thousands line up for right to work legally in US

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SANTA ANA: Nathaly Uribe has all the papers she needs to get a work permit — something the 17-year-old daughter of a construction worker only dreamed of growing up as an illegal immigrant in the United States.

The high school senior said she hopes a federal program beginning Wednesday and defers deportation for illegal immigrants will make it easier to get a decent job and help pay for college.

"This is my country. It's where my roots are," said Uribe, who moved from Chile when she was a toddler and lives in Glen Burnie, Md. "It feels great to know that the country that I call home finally accepted me."

Thousands of young illegal immigrants lined up Wednesday hoping for the right to work legally in America without being deported. The Obama administration's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals could expand the rights of more than 1 million young illegal immigrants by giving them work permits, though they would not obtain legal residency here or a path to citizenship.

At least 13,000 people stood in line in Chicago, clutching reams of paperwork, for a workshop led by immigrant rights advocates at the city's Navy Pier. Hundreds of potential applicants waited outside nonprofit offices in Los Angeles for help filing paperwork to open the door to the staples of success in America — a work permit, and then later a Social Security number and driver's license.

"It's something I have been waiting for since I was two years old," said Bupendra Ram, a 25-year-old communications graduate student in Fullerton, Calif., who still needs supporting documents from his Fiji Islands home before he can apply. "This offers us an opportunity to fulfill the dreams I've had since I was a child."

Less than three months before an expected tight presidential election, the new immigration program is mired in controversy. Republican critics accuse President Barack Obama of drafting the plan to boost his political standing with Latinos ahead of November's vote and say the program favors illegal immigrants over unemployed American citizens during dismal economic times.

In Arizona, which passed one of the nation's toughest anti-immigration laws, Gov Jan Brewer signed an executive order Wednesday directing state agencies to deny driver's licenses and other public benefits to illegal immigrants who obtain work authorizations under the program. Brewer said she's following the intent of the current state law denying public benefits to illegal immigrants.

To be eligible, immigrants must prove they arrived in the United States before they turned 16, are 30 or younger, have been living in the country at least five years and are in school or graduated or served in the military. They cannot have been convicted of certain crimes or otherwise pose a safety threat.

Initial concerns that federal authorities might take a tough approach on applications or that a Republican presidential victory could unravel applicants' gains have largely been pushed aside by massive interest from thousands of young people eager to work.

In Los Angeles, one immigrant rights' group started hosting hourly information sessions over the last month to keep up with the frenzy. The Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles has handed out 12,000 information packets about the program and is encouraging all eligible immigrants to apply as long as they have stayed out of legal trouble, said Angelica Salas, the organization's director.

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney does not support so-called Dream Act legislation for illegal immigrants who attend college — a key group that Obama aims to reach with this program. The former Massachusetts governor has also criticized the deferred action program but has not said it he would reverse it, pledging instead an unspecified "civil but resolute" long-term fix to illegal immigration.

So far, the measure has won favor for Obama along Latinos — many who view immigration as a litmus test when choosing a political candidate, said Manuel Pastor, director of the University of Southern California's Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration.

"What this has done is to signal that the president, who was unable to get comprehensive immigration reform, does at least care about the situation of these immigrants," Pastor said. "This is something that has been overwhelmingly popular in the immigrant population and in the Latino population in general."

Some Republican lawmakers have accused Obama of sidestepping Congress and creating a backdoor amnesty program.

"It's a betrayal of American young people," said Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, a California Republican. "We're supposed to be representing the interests of the American people — not people who come here illegally from other countries."

In an internal document outlining the program's implementation, Department of Homeland Security officials estimated more than 1 million people would apply in the first year and about 890,000 would be eligible.

On Wednesday, immigrants lined up for help filing applications at workshops around the country. Others sought identity documents from consulates to be able to apply.

Jaqueline Cinto said she's still working on gathering the documents she needs, knowing it's her only shot at putting her master's degree in education to good use. But she's nervous that filing the papers might put her relatives at risk for deportation — even though Homeland Security officials have said they will generally not use applicants' information to track down other family.

"I am even more afraid that I might be denied," said Cinto, 26, who came to New York more than a decade ago from Mexico.

In central California, one group has been warning farmworkers and their children not to sign up for the program at all.

"Immigration agents could haul them off that same day," said Manuel Cunha, president of the Nisei Farmers League. "Even if they don't, if this policy is disbanded, now ICE has the addresses of all the families. Why would you want to squeal on your parents?"

The documents to prove identity could include passports, birth certificates, school transcripts, medical, financial and military records. Multiple sworn affidavits, signed under penalty of perjury, can also be used, Homeland Security officials said. Anyone found to have committed fraud will be referred to federal immigration agents, the department said.

Laura Lichter, a Denver attorney who heads the American Immigration Lawyers Association, said everyone takes a risk by applying.

"I would say that people are between a rock and a hard place. In most cases, people can take (the government) at their word that their intent is to administer this policy in a fair and appropriate manner but there are going to be people that are going to find themselves having problems," she said

A decision on each application could take several months, and immigrants have been warned not to leave the country while their application is pending. If they are allowed to stay in the United States and want to travel internationally, they will need to apply for permission to come back into the country, a request that would cost another $360.

The lines on Wednesday grew throughout the day; the crowd in Chicago was so large that workshop organizers told them to come back another day.

"Navy Pier is today's Ellis Island, and while they saw New York City, today they see Chicago," said Illinois congressman Luis Gutierrez. "But the most important thing is they see America."

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Bangladesh provides training for Afghan bureaucrats

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DHAKA: Bangladesh ready and-torn country to rebuild education for Afghan officials, police officers and diplomats, the war, says Foreign Minister Dipu Moni. She made the offer Sunday at the Tokyo Conference on Afghanistan which is designed to support future development of Kabul, said a media statement of the Foreign Ministry.

The Conference were representatives from 80 countries and international organisations, promised $16 billion in the form of grant and aid for the development of Afghanistan.

' Tokyo mutual accountability framework' was also in the Conference 'Effectiveness' of aid from donor agencies and countries monitor introduced.

Dipu Moni said that Bangladesh development was also interested in health care, agricultural extension, poultry and livestock, and youth to provide tailor-made training programmes in the fields of banking, disaster management, primary and mass.

The Conference took place, took Japanese Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Yoshihiko Noda and Koichiro GEMBA or Afghan President Hamid Karzai, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.

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See you again policy: Sohel Taj

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DHAKA: Awami League MP Tanjim Ahmed popularly known as Sohel Taj, who is officially resigned as a member on Saturday, said that he has seen the last of his active political career.

Sohel Taj, son of Bangladesh who first Prime Minister Tajuddin Ahmed, September said on Sunday: "I am active in politics and will no longer be a part of it."

Taj speaker Abdul Hamid on Saturday personally met and handed over his resignation.

On 23 April Sohel Taj, the former junior Home Minister had letter by his Secretary, but the speaker does not accept his resignation, saying that it must be passed personally.

Submit after his resignation on Saturday, Sohel Taj met Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at her official residence Ganabhaban.

The Taj staff assistant Abu Kawser and the speaker's staff assistant Joynal Abidin had September over his resignation and he meets also confirmed.

Joynal Abidin so to speak, but whether its seat empty had been declared.

Meanwhile confirmed the press Department of the information in a press release the resignation of ' MP constituency of 197 Gazipur-4 constituency '.

Its meets and talks Taj on Sunday said, "I have tabled yesterday my resignation." Suppose the speaker. "I met also the Prime Minister and discussed many things with her in a friendly environment."

Asked whether he would take part in the next general election, said the ruling party of Gazipur-4 MP of Kapashia: "I hope, the people of Kapashia will choose a good and worthy candidate."

What led him to this decision, he said, "I had before, a written statement given." When I mentioned not all directly, but many things were clear. "Also you have much information people [journalists]."

The oath had resigned on May 31, 2009, only five months after taking Sohel Taj Minister as a junior. The Government had said then that the President had accepted the resignation of not.

After his resignation from Cabinet, media then reported that he came back, when he insulted because of 'Misconduct' by a relative of the Prime Minister.

If his attention on the subject was drawn September he said, "I want to discuss no longer."

He also as MP showed had no reason for its dramatic decision to withdraw from the contract.

He had issued to his followers on the Kapasia in Gazipur on 23 Apr an open letter, in which he, that he had taken up, said the decision after "careful consideration", but could not on the reasons to increase.

Taj wrote recently in the Cabinet Division invited to take back his salary and other allowances as a Minister of State charged to his bank account despite his retirement in 2009.

The Cabinet Division had said it had no record of his resignation and therefore continue to his salary and benefits to be paid.

He has often offered ministerial Protocol has been, but he declined, leading to reports in the media.

After his resignation he was in us live.

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BP announces general holiday with a view to demo

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DHAKA: Grameenphone, the largest mobile operator of the country forced on Sunday to explain a general permission for the day before the presentation of a number of employees, so the official Facebook page of BBC Bangla.

The GP staff began the protest because of the termination recently to fear that a number of officials of GP had announced after a year were equipped with content.

It was followed in the early hours of the morning, when a group of current and recently retired staff of the GP, under the banner of the Grameenphone workforce, the demonstration in front of the headquarters in Bashundhara residential district of the capital started. You shall be barred after the staff in the Office than also enter.

All staff have been asked, online from home work, said.

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Court probe allows agency Mir Kashem quiz

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DHAKA: The international crime Tribunal (ICT-1) on Sunday accepted an application of the investigation agency permission to Jamaat leader Mir Kashem Ali, accused to interrogate the perpetration of crimes against humanity in the hiding place.

Justice Nizamul Huq, Chairman of the three-member Panel ICT-1, on his behalf granted the application with some conditions.

Public Prosecutor Sultan Mahmud Simon support submitted, must the application, the search after three days the Treasurer of the community say it is for the investigation agency to interrogate him in the hideout for proper investigation.

Against the application, advocate Muhammad Tajul Islam, defender of the accused, said prayer seems unnecessary and there is no need of interrogations of the Jamaat leader at this moment.

The Tribunal passed after hearing both sides, the order to accept community leaders by the investigation agency in the Hideout a day of custody of the.

The Court in his said that a doctor and a defender during the interrogation must be present. The investigation agency is to notice the defenders, in this case advocate Tajul Islam, at least two days prior to the day they want to interrogate Mir Kashem.

In addition, the Tribunal investigation ordered over agency on more progress report presenting the study of August 12.

Kashem was issued taken over on June 17 under custody after an arrest warrant by this Court. On June 19 the Court dismissed the petition on bail of Mir Kashem and sent him to prison.

The Tribunal made the investigation to present Agency by the pursuit of the investigation report before the Tribunal by July 5. The Court asked the prison authority to produce Kashem in court on that date.

The investigation agency submitted the report and an application that passed the permission of the community leaders in the safe home on 5 July in question and the Tribunal to make an order in this issue July 8.

Early on June 18, barrister Abdur Razzak, lawyer of Mir Kashem, sought bail for his client for three reasons that he is now 62 years old and sick with various age complications.

Against accused plea, Member of the prosecution team, advocate, the Zead Al Malum said Mir Kashem may hinder the process and can even threat to kidnap the witness if he is released on bail as he is a very influential person and maintenance fund party.

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Time magazine called Manmohan Singh as an 'Underachiever'

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NEW YORK: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who long for his central role in the liberalisation of the Indian economy praised been, has dubbed were like an "Underachiever" by time magazine, who says he is "not willing to hold his neck" to which reforms of the country on track for growth will return.

The 79-year-old Indian PM is marked magazine Asia Edition, on the cover of time, who next week will be. His portrait in the background of the title on the cover was 'The Underachiever - India a restart needs'.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is up to the job?' Time the report entitled "A man in the shadow" asks, adding that apart from the challenges of a slowdown of economic growth, huge budget deficit and a falling rupee, India's Congress Party led UPA Coalition "itself against corruption scandals and accused, has found evidence of a lack economic sense."

"... .investors in the domestic and abroad begin to get cold feet. As rising inflation and a litany of scandals away in Government credibility lose chip voters to trust, "Said the magazine."

Reference to Singh's fall "from grace" the magazine said: "in the last three years, which quietly trust (Singh) once beamed absent he was." He seems does not control, and his ministers--abweichend-his new, temporary portfolio in the Ministry of finance - not ready, his neck out on reforms hold, which further helped the process of liberalisation start. "

The magazine said in a time when India can not afford a slowdown in economic growth, "laws that help could create growth and jobs are firmly in the Parliament sparking, concerns that politicians have lost the plot in their focus on shorter-term, populist measures, which will win votes."

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Self-dependency, for the development of the country needed: PM

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DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday stressed the need for the production of the country itself dependent rather than depending on others, like her, that no country could be developed said, without it even depending on.

The Prime Minister is of the opinion that if a delegation of Prokaushali, Krishibid and Chikitsak (Prokrichi) Central Coordination Council on them in their Office in the morning called.

After the meeting, PM Press Secretary Abul Kalam Azad informed the reporter.

The Prime Minister underlined the need for a decentralization which makes when she said that the desired development without decentralization might be possible.

"We do not capital-based development rather believe in, that we take power to the village level, they want to not possible because expected raising of the country," she said.

Emphasis on reorganization of all levels of local government are the country's sustained uplift, Sheikh Hasina, said the development in education, health and infrastructure should be locally made a proper plan.

Consultant, the Prime Minister HT Imam Prokrichi President
Engineer Nurul Huda, Secretary General of AFM Bahauddin Nasim, also spoke on the occasion.

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College student in the city traffic accident killed

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DHAKA: A student was put down area under the wheels of a bus in the town of Mirpur in the Sunday afternoon.

The deceased was identified as Shawon, a student of Mirpur Commerce College.

Police said that a Motijheel-bound bus from 'Bikalpo-car-service' from Pallabi Shawon in the vicinity of Mirpur-10 intersection with dashed about 12: 45, and it severely injured.

He was abducted to a local hospital where he later died from his injuries.

Angered at the accident, the fellow students of the Shawon and the local population set fire to a bus and about 50 vehicles in the area devastated.

Information, firefighters crashed on the ground and the flame goes out.

Traffic on the road from Mirpur after Agargaon was held from 13: 50 policemen in hurried attempted, the situation under control.

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BSF is 2 nationals

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AGARTALA/MOULVIBAZAR: The Indian border forces have returned, two residents, including a man from RAB, 10 hours after they were picked up from the border.

The Bangladeshi border security force and the elite crime busters rapid action battalion that the RAB member, which, the shafiqul Islam and his informants Subrata across the border by partner of a smuggler were kidnapped, the duo had detained said.

The duo originally picked to 15 on Thursday security force (BSF) were later moved to a camp of the Indian border.

They were returned after several negotiations with the border guards Bangladesh and the Indian border security.

The RAB Commander of the Srimangal camp ASP Manzoor Ahmed Siddiqui said September, the Shafiqul and Subrata are in good health.

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The Chinese police 'smash' trafficking in human beings free 181 gangs

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Chinese police have two large child trafficking gangs broken up and released 181 children, say officials.

Nationwide arrested, Ministry of public security in a statement said 802 suspects in an operation on Monday.

Children kidnapped children in the country are often for adoption or as work and household servants sold.

Child trafficking has become a serious problem in China, and critics fault, the one-child policy and adoption of lax laws.

These policies, say some, created a thriving underground market for children buy.

The children were rescued in the last action of trafficking in 15 regions and provinces, including Hebei, Shandong, Henan, Sichuan, Yunnan.

Investigations, to the current round of arrests led began in December 2011 as four suspects in the province of Henan, were caught attempting to sell four babies.

Was the "Most wanted" suspect, Shao Zhongyuan, the Ministry said pingyi County county, Shandong province, caught.

He was allegedly kidnapped by a gang, the more than 100 children. Several other important suspect were arrested, the police communicated.

The Ministry has published a report that in March 2011 said that the police rescued tens of thousands of abducted children and women.

It marked a raid against a gang trade with Chinese women to Angola for prostitution, adding that 19 women were rescued and 16 people were arrested.

More freedom of movement by China's economic reforms is probably also trafficking gangs to operate have facilitated.

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Bangladesh, the movement towards: Ban Ki-moon

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NEW YORK: UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has reached Bangladesh with praise, saying that it will quickly push to development with various services in several sectors.

The UN Chief praised Bangladesh at a reception for newly appointed UN Under Secretary-General Ameerah Haq on Friday morning (Bangladesh time).

Ban Ki-moon said, "Bangladesh is marching towards the development primarily through empowerment of women, women development, job creation and rural development." "Bangladeshi Ameerah Haq points appointment to the Secretary-General under the extent of the development can be achieved [in Bangladesh]."

He noted the contribution of Bangladeshi soldiers in UN missions around the world.

Ban Ki-moon said that the training programme of the Rajendrapur peace building had inserted a lot during his visit Institute to him.

He has courageous role in violent places like Syria, universal attention Australian peacekeeping forces.

Ban Ki-moon appointed Ameerah Haq Undersecretary-general 25 Apr She had worked as a Secretary-General's Special Representative for Timor-Leste and head of the United Nations integrated mission (UNMIT) since 2009.

The first woman from Bangladesh praised to the be appointed, said ban Ameerah had been outstanding in their duties in the Sudan and Afghanistan East Timor.

The UN Chief said that his new Secretary of State has been one of which the foundations to create, which resulted in East Timor, to embrace democracy.

Ameera Haq said, "I never away will support my tasks."

"Bangladesh is a unique example for women play a key role in the creation of world peace, social security and infrastructure", she added.

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No corruption 'Explosion' on my watch: Indian PM

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NEW DELHI: graft tainted note India's Prime Minister has again at critics of his Government taken on its own "high standard" personal integrity and praise his Government as a beacon of transparency.

In an interview with the Hindustan Times newspaper Friday argued Manmohan Singh the Indian economy was healthier than media "Pessimism" suggested, and promised further action on tax issues that have unnerved foreign investors.

Singh rarely grants media interviews, but has his public statements since his last month, which see to analysts as an effort be heir to secure shut up on the Finance Ministry portfolio.

Singh is not still expected as premier after the elections in the year 2014 and his personal reputation has a spanking spanking during his second term in the midst of a series of high-profile corruption scandals and accusations of policy drift.

"Comes to the personal criticism, not only I maintain a high degree of integrity in my behavior, I have endeavoured to increase the levels in the system," Singh said.

Citing legislation such as the right to information act and a whistleblower Bill, the Prime Minister said that his Government had made significant progress in the improvement of official responsibility, that would benefit future generations.

"Never before have so many steps taken in such a short time in the history of India and bring to his responsible transparency in the functioning Government, Government of the people make and bring in measures for the control of corruption," he said.

"As well as pessimism about the economy in the markets more and less on the ground, also in the case of damage, I don't think that any explosion in corruption has taken place under my watch," he added.

Singh's coalition Government has engaged in a series of scandals has been.

The most high-profile case involved former Telecom Minister A. Raja, who in November 2010 for the sale of the second generation (2 g) Telecom licenses far below their market value to companies stop selected.

Raja was later arrested and is z.z. on trial.

Again last month after Pranab Mukherjee quit the Ministry Singh, who as Finance Minister were credited in 1991 with the opening of the Indian economy after decades of the pseudo-Socialist planning, took over, to run for President.

Since then he has "animal spirit" urged officials to revive the economy and reverse a "climate of pessimism", that has been the last few years.

Global credit rating agencies have warned that it India's debt to junk status with the economy reeling from gaping fiscal and current account deficits and stubbornly strong inflation downgrade can.

The economy grew by 5.3 per cent between January and March-the slowest quarterly expansion more than a quarter of its value against the US dollar has lost in nine years and the rupee in the past 12 months.

"The history of India growth is intact," said Singh, in the confirm that the country was passing through "difficult" times.

Promising to bring, he stressed the importance of the foreign investors at a time of declining capital inflows that have aggravated India's current account deficit "full clarity" on all tax measures reassuring.

"We want the world know that India treated all fair and reasonable and there will be no arbitrariness in tax matters," he said.

His comments are speculation fuel, which the Government is ready, backwards way of efforts, aggressively to tax, passing on financial transactions with companies such as British giant Vodafone phone.

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'Realistic' robot designed legs

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U.S. experts have developed what they say that are biologically accurate robot legs yet.

Writing in the journal of neural engineering, they said that the work on consultation understanding like babies and spinal injury treatment learning could help.

They created a version of the message system, rhythmic muscle signals generated that the control on foot.

A UK expert said that the work was exciting, because the robot mimics control and not just movement.

The team from the University of Arizona, could the Central pattern generator (CPG) - a nerve cell to replicate, (neuronal) network in the lumbar region of the spinal cord that rhythmic muscle generated signals.

The CPG produces and then controls, these signals by collecting information from different parts of the body involved in walking, respond to the environment.

This is what people, to go without thinking about.

The simplest form of a CPG is a half Center, which consists of only two neurons that produce either fire signals a rhythm as the sensors, which provide information, for example. If a leg back to the half Center meets a surface.
'New approach'

The University of Arizona team suggests babies start with this simple building - and then in the course of time develop a more complex pattern on foot.

They say this may explain, has seen why babies put on a treadmill started - even before they learned to walk.

Writing in the journal, the team says: "this robot is a complete physical, or 'Neurorobotic'-based model of the system, demonstrate the usefulness of this type of Robotics Research for the neuropsychological study go in humans and animals".

Dr. Theresa Klein, who in the study worked, said: "Interestingly we a foot gear, could control the lower extremities without producing balance, which mimicked human control of the hip and a number of reflex responses with only a simple half-Centre."

"This underlying network can also form the core of the CPG and could explain how people with spinal cord injuries to walk can regain ability, if stimulated correctly in the months after the injury."

Matt Thornton, gait analysis laboratory head at the British Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, said that the work "an interesting development" was.

He added: "back robot models have imitated human movement: this continues and mimics the underlying human control mechanisms driving this movement."

"It could be to examine a new approach and to understand the relationship between nervous system control and hiking provide pathologies."

Mr. Thornton said existing systems for the analysis of how people walk, so called gait analysis carried out by the RNOH and others common movements in 3D, run exactly measure hips, knees and ankles while patients on a treadmill. Patients react differently depending on their condition.

He added: "at present this analysis provides us with detailed information about joints, bones and muscles."

"The robot model can go a step further in linking these problems of the nervous system, which actually controls the movement."

"Increased to understand the impact, such as patients with spinal cord injury are very exciting."

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Stocks open slightly higher

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DHAKA: Stocks opened slightly higher on Thursday amid slow trading.

At 11:20 am, the benchmark DSE General Index, DGEN, gained 20.56 points or 0.47 per cent to 4812.53, led by power, bank and financial institution stocks.

Turnover stood at Tk 721 million. Among the total traded shares so far, 149 gained, 42 and 25 remained unchanged.

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Khaleda to hold talks with top BNP leaders today

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DHAKA: BNP chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia will hold talks with top leaders of the 18-party alliance this (Thursday) evening to discuss their next course of action. It is expected that they will discuss various issues including the caretaker government system.

The discussed matters will be finalized at BNP’s Standing Committee meeting on June 9.

The top BNP leaders will express their opinion on budget at party’s Gulshan office this evening.

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Muhith unfolds in JS Tk 192,000 cr budget today

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DHAKA: Finance Minister AMA Muhith later Thursday will unfold in JS a new national budget of about Tk 192,000 crore for the fiscal 2012-13 keeping the budget deficit at 4.4 per cent of the GDP.

The minister will place his fourth budget in the Jatiya Sangsad after it meets at 3:00 pm today.

The budget is virtually the last full budget of this Awami League-led grand alliance government. It is likely to be a populist budget with an eye on the next general election scheduled early 2014. The finance minister would have to do the job of maintaining the subtle balance between the demand for restoring the fiscal discipline and the electorate pressure for low tax regime.

The budget would be placed leaving behind a turbulent fiscal year which was termed by many as the worst of the three fiscal years during the tenure of the present government of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

The revenue expenditure of the budget will be around Tk 111,675 crore and it will have an annual development programme of TK 55,000 crore.

The tax revenue is estimated at Tk 139,760 crore and the budget deficit is likely to stand at Tk 46,024 crore.

Muhith earlier said, the ensuing budget would target faster economic growth which requires macroeconomic stability and social equity.

He said, the budget would simultaneously focus on rural economies, agriculture, industries and infrastructure.

Special attention will be given on the power and energy sector, he said.

The leading economists of the country however, said, attaining over 7 per cent GDP growth in the coming fiscal year would be tough for the country in the wake of high expenditure, excess subsidy, double digit inflation and the slowdown of investments and declining foreign aids.

Asked about his expectations regarding the ensuing budget, the former Finance Adviser to the caretaker government Dr A B Mirza Azizul Islam said, the government should focus on poverty reduction as a key target and more funds should be dedicated for Social Safety Net (SSN) to further bring down poverty from the existing rate of 32.5 per cent.

He pointed out that safety net programmes contributed to help the poor in the past 25 years.

He said, the government would have to take a decision on subsidy on political considerations despite conditions imposed by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for accessing Extended Credit Facility worth about US $1 billion.

He also hoped that the government would take special measures and invest more funds in the next fiscal year’s budget to generate employment.

“Restoring the fiscal discipline would be a major challenge in the coming fiscal year and lax macroeconomic management has been greatly responsible for many of the recent economic woes”, said distinguished fellow of the Centre for the Policy Dialogue Dr Debapriay Bhattacharya.

He said, by deferring Tk 10 thousand crores of subsidy payments to the upcoming budget and allocating unsustainably low amount for subsidy and transfer, the government has destabilised the budgetary management, he noted.

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Panetta in Afghanistan for talks amid rising violence

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KABUL : U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta arrived in Afghanistan on Thursday for talks with military leaders amid rising violence in the war against the Taliban and a spate of deadly incidents, including a NATO air strike said to have killed 18 villagers.

Panetta said the purpose of the trip was to hear an assessment from U.S. General John Allen, the head of NATO coalition forces in Afghanistan, about the "ability to confront these threats from the Taliban and from the Haqqanis", a reference to the hardline, al Qaeda-linked Haqqani network.

Panetta also planned to visit troops and hold talks with the Afghan defense minister, General Abdul Rahim Wardak.

Panetta said he wanted to find out about a recent increase in the numbers of attacks in Afghanistan, including some that appear to have been more organized than others seen recently.

"I think it's important to try to make sure we are aware of the kind of attacks they are going to engage in, particularly as we go through the rest of the summer and enter the latter part of this year," Panetta said.

The Afghanistan visit came at the end of Panetta's week-long trip to Asia to explain a new U.S. military strategy, announced in January, that calls for a shift in strategic focus to the Asia-Pacific region.

During a stop in New Delhi, Panetta encouraged Indian leaders to become more involved in helping Afghanistan build its economy and train its security forces as the international coalition begins to draw down forces over the next two years.

He also urged India to continue working to build a better relationship with Pakistan, a long-time rival for influence in Afghanistan.

"Just as India views the relationship with Pakistan as complicated, so do we. And it is, it's a complicated relationship, often-times frustrating, often-times difficult, but at the same time it is a necessary relationship," he said.

Panetta said the United States was "fighting a war" against al Qaeda in Pakistan's lawless northwestern territories, and he suggested that drone strikes targeting al Qaeda leaders in the region would continue despite Pakistan's concerns that they violate its sovereignty.

"We have made clear to the Pakistanis that the United States of America is going to defend ourselves against those who would attacks us," he said. "And we have done just that. We have gone after their leadership and we have done it effectively."

"We have made very clear that we are going to continue to defend ourselves," Panetta said.

On Wednesday, Afghan officials and villagers said 18 people, including women and children, had been killed in a NATO air strike in Afghanistan's southeast. NATO officials said they were looking into the reports of civilian casualties.

Also on Wednesday, two suicide bombers killed 20 civilians outside a major NATO base in the south, the bloodiest attack in weeks since the Taliban launched a spring offensive.

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PM places wreaths at Bangabandhu's portrait marking Six-Point Day

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DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina placed a wreath at the portrait of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in front of Bangabandhu Memorial Museum at Dhanmondi in the city this morning marking the historic Six-Point Demand Day.

After laying the wreath, the Prime Minister stood in solemn silence for sometime as a mark of respect to the memory of Bangabandhu,the architect of independence.

Flanked by Awami League central leaders, Sheikh Hasina Placed another wreath at Bangabandhu's portrait as the party chief.

Deputy Leader of the House Syeda Sajeda Chowdhury, AL Advisory Council Member Tofail Ahmed, Presidium Members Begum Matia Chowdhury, Dr Mohiuddin Khan Alamgir, Abdul Latif Siddiqui, Advocate Sahara Khatun and Advocate Yusuf Hossain Humayun, Shipping Minister Shajahan Khan, State Minister for Home Advocate Shamsul Haque Tuku and State Minister for Women and Children Affairs Dr Shirin Sharmin Chowdhury were present on the occasion.

Besides, AL Joint General Secretary Mahbub-ul Alam Hanif, Organizing Secretaries Ahmad Hossain, AFM Bahauddin Nasim and Abu Sayeed Al Mahmud Swapan, Information and Research Secretary Advocate Afzal Hussain as well as parliament members and other central leaders of the party and its associate organizations were present.

Later, associate bodies of Bangladesh Awami League including
Dhaka city AL, Chhatra League, Jubo League, Sramik League, Krishak League, Mohila Awami Laegue and Sechchhasebak League placed wreaths at the portrait of Bangabandhu marking the historic occasion.

On this day in 1966, Bangabandhu launched a massive movement against the misrule of the Pakistanis on the basis of the Six- Point Demand, the Magna Carta of the Bengalis, demanding autonomy for the then east Pakistan.

Eleven people, including Manu Mian, Shafique and Shamsul Haque, were gunned down by the police and paramilitary EPR on the day in Dhaka and Narayanganj during a hartal, called for the release of Bangabandhu and other leaders detained for launching the Six-Point Movement.

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Suu Kyi: My Thai trip didn't hurt Myanmar govt

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YANGON: Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi said Wednesday her activities on a recent trip to Thailand gave no cause for anyone to be unhappy, dismissing speculation her high-profile visit annoyed the government.

Suu Kyi's visits with Myanmar migrant workers and refugees and her appearance at the World Economic Forum in Bangkok garnered global attention because it was the former political prisoner's first trip outside Myanmar in 24 years.

Myanmar President Thein Sein had been scheduled for an official visit to Thailand at the same time and for the same conference, but postponed and then canceled his trip. Officials said he was busy at home, but it was speculated Thein Sein was irritated at being upstaged.

"I don't think that I did anything that could make anybody in Burma unhappy, because what I did was go to meet migrant workers and to meet those officials in Thailand who are responsible for the migrant workers' situation and we discussed matters of mutual benefit," Suu Kyi said Wednesday, using the old name for her country preferred by some political activists.

She said the same held true for her visit to a refugee camp near the Myanmar border where she had "very fruitful discussions," she said.

"I do not think that my activities there could in any way affect the situation of Burmese people adversely," said Suu Kyi at a news conference in Yangon.

Suu Kyi's cooperation with Thein Sein has been crucial in winning support at home and abroad for the president's reform program, which is opening up the country after decades of military rule. She has repeatedly said she believes in Thein Sein's sincerity in affecting social and political changes.

Suu Kyi had also spoken frankly at the World Economic Forum about potential difficulties for foreign investors in Myanmar at a time when the government is wooing such investors to help boost the economy.

"I had given my views very openly at the Forum and I heard that some were unhappy about that," she said. "I gave my frank opinion so that people can make a correct assessment of the country. "

Western nations earlier this year eased sanctions they had imposed on Myanmar under the country's previous repressive military regime, allowing previously banned investment. Thein Sein is backed by the military but came to power through elections and has instituted reforms that have won the endorsement of Suu Kyi and her National League for Democracy party.

Suu Kyi's trip to Thailand had appeared to be hastily arranged, and there were reports that Thai authorities were also upset about not being more closely consulted about her plans.

"I appreciate everything that the Thai government did to make my visit there a very happy one," Suu Kyi said Wednesday. "The authorities in Thailand were very, very cooperative. I have no complaint whatsoever to make about my time in Thailand."

Suu Kyi also talked about plans for her upcoming trip to Europe.

On June 13, she is scheduled to depart on a five-country tour that includes stops in Geneva, Oslo, Dublin, London and Paris. Among the highlights is her trip to Norway, where Suu Kyi will formally accept the Nobel Peace Prize she was awarded in 1991. She is supposed to return home June 30.

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