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MONDAY, MAY <strong>15</strong>, <strong>2017</strong><br />
DT<br />
News<br />
Mohiuddin panel wins FBCCI poll with 34 seats<br />
• Shariful Islam<br />
Incumbent vice-president of Federation<br />
of Bangladesh Chambers<br />
of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI)<br />
Md Shafiul Islam Mohiuddin will<br />
lead the country’s apex trade body<br />
for the next two years.<br />
His panel, the Sammilito Ganatantrik<br />
Parishad, bagged a majority<br />
of the seats in the election to the<br />
board of directors held yesterday.<br />
The Election Board chairman<br />
Professor Ali Ashraf announced at<br />
11pm that the Mohiuddin-led panel<br />
members won 34 out of the 36 directorial<br />
seats.<br />
Mohiuddin had been nominated<br />
as a director from the Bangladesh<br />
Garment Manufacturers and Exporters<br />
Association.<br />
The biennial election to elect<br />
the office bearers for the <strong>2017</strong>-19<br />
tenure began at 9am and ran until<br />
5pm, with no break in between, at<br />
Bangabandhu International Conference<br />
Centre in Dhaka.<br />
This year, two panels contested<br />
for only 18 directorial posts of the<br />
Association Group, as the remaining<br />
18 directors of the Chamber Group,<br />
from Sammilito Ganatantrik Parishad,<br />
had been elected unopposed.<br />
The other panel, Babosayee<br />
Oikya Forum, which is led by Qazi<br />
Irteza Hasan, bagged only two<br />
posts – one is Irteza Hasan and the<br />
other is Helena Jahangir with the<br />
National Association of Small and<br />
Bagerhat teenager<br />
arrested for raping toddler<br />
• SM Samsur Rahman,<br />
Bagerhat<br />
Police arrested a 14-year-old boy<br />
from Bagerhat’s Rakhalgachhi<br />
yesterday for raping a threeyear-old<br />
girl.<br />
According to the victim’s<br />
mother, she left the toddler at<br />
home to get some chores done<br />
on Wednesday afternoon.<br />
The accused, a neighbour,<br />
took her inside his house<br />
promising to give her a mobile<br />
phone to play with, and raped<br />
her.<br />
The toddler, who can<br />
barely speak properly, told her<br />
mother that she had been hurt<br />
by the boy.<br />
The victim was admitted<br />
Navy chief Nizamuddin to<br />
attend IMDEX <strong>2017</strong><br />
• Tribune Desk<br />
Cottage Industries of Bangladesh.<br />
The 36 directors will elect the<br />
FBCCI president from the Association<br />
Group, one first vice-president<br />
from the Chamber Group, and one<br />
vice-president from the Association<br />
Group on <strong>May</strong> 16.<br />
The government has already<br />
nominated 24 directors – 12 from<br />
the Chamber group and 12 from the<br />
Association group.<br />
The elected directors from Association<br />
group are: Khondokar<br />
Moinur Rahman Jewel,<br />
SM Jahangir Hossain,<br />
Shafquat Haider, Md Abdul<br />
Ayes Khan, Md Muntakim<br />
Ashraf, Mir Nizam<br />
Uddin Ahmed, Amzad<br />
Hussain, Md Shafiqul Islam<br />
Vorosha, Abu Motaleb, Md Habiubullah<br />
Dawn, Khandaker Ruhul<br />
Amin, Nizamuddin Rajesh, Hafez<br />
Harun, Shomi Kaiser, Md Abu Naser,<br />
Rashedul Hossain Chowdhury<br />
Ronni, Qazi Irteza Hasan and Helena<br />
Jahangir.<br />
The elected directors from Chamber<br />
group are: Hasina Newaaz, Md<br />
Nizam Uddin, Azizul Hoque, Dilip<br />
Kumar Agarwala, Masud Parvez<br />
Khan Imran, AKM Shaheed Reza,<br />
Md Anwar Sadat Sarker, Sheikh Fazle<br />
Fahim, Rezaul Karim Reznu, Gazi<br />
Golam Ashria, Shreikh Abdul Hamid,<br />
Tabarukul Tosaddek Hossain<br />
Khan, Md Kohinoor Isam, Prabir<br />
Kumar Saha, Mohd Ataur Rahman<br />
Bhuiyan, Mohammad Bazlur Rahman<br />
and Abul Kashem Ahmed. •<br />
to Bagerhat Sadar Hospital on<br />
Thursday. Doctors said the<br />
victim was bleeding profusely<br />
when admitted to the hospital.<br />
She is, however, recovering<br />
now.<br />
Even though the victim’s<br />
family alleged that she had<br />
been raped, the case was filed<br />
with Sadar police station on<br />
Friday for attempted rape.<br />
Sadar police Officer-in-<br />
Charge Mahtab Uddin said that<br />
they would send the accused<br />
to the court for further action.<br />
At least 51 children were<br />
raped across the country<br />
between January and March<br />
this year, according to Ain o<br />
Salish Kendra. In addition, 12<br />
children were gang raped. •<br />
Chief of the Naval Staff Admiral<br />
Nizamuddin Ahmed<br />
has left Dhaka on Saturday to<br />
attend the International Maritime<br />
Defence Exhibition and<br />
Conference (IMDEX) <strong>2017</strong> in<br />
Singapore.<br />
Besides attending the IM-<br />
DEX, the navy chief will also<br />
attend the International Maritime<br />
Review and Fifth International<br />
Maritime Security<br />
Conference (IMSC) in Singapore.<br />
He will also meet Admiral<br />
Sir Philip Jones, first sea<br />
lord of United Kingdom, Rear<br />
Admiral Frank Trojahn, chief<br />
of naval staff of Denmark, Rear<br />
Admiral Lai Chung Han, chief<br />
of the Republic of Singapore<br />
Navy and Vice Admiral Arie<br />
Jan De Waard, director of Defence<br />
Materiel Organisation of<br />
Netherlands.<br />
The navy chief is scheduled<br />
to be back on <strong>May</strong> 18.<br />
Meanwhile, Shadhinota,<br />
a ship of Bangladesh Navy, is<br />
already sailing in the water of<br />
Singapore for attending the International<br />
Maritime Defence<br />
Exhibition. •