Automatic vehicle control centres in operation taken

Shahin Akhter

The Bangladesh road transport authority plans, local consultants run five automatic vehicle control centres, are to appoint idle for more than a decade.

Because the Danish International Development Agency the centres set up handed that under a joint care and rehabilitation of road schemes, to BRTA in 1999, the authorities could foreign consultants to gain operational plants.

BRTA engineering department director Mohammad Saiful Haque said new age, that under the joint project with Danida, five vehicle centers in different parts of the country in 1997-98 had set up fiscal years.

Each of the centres with a capacity of 150 vehicles per day, has been checked up, at a cost of TK one crore, he said.

"But the Danida consultants in 1999 left the country without the support of the operational side of the plants and as a result, they could work not for a single day", he said.

Saiful Haque, said that the BRTA tried to attract other foreign companies, but they showed interest in the work.

He said "So we have asked the Ministry of communication, delicate local consultant appoint, and invite the plants as soon as possible, enable".

He hoped, that the tender for local consultants this year floated would be.

Earlier, Deputy Director of the Department of Sheikh Mohammad Mahbub-e-Rabbani new age said BRTA that fitness centres would check motor vehicles, by you automatic equipment, including brake tester, testers, smoke Tester and under chassis Lady.

He said that there were two centres in Mirpur and Ekuria in Dhaka and three more in Chittagong, Khulna and Rajshahi.

BRTA sources said that on this vehicles have been manually reviewed by 57 motor vehicle inspectors all over the country.

The sources said about 16 lakh registered motor vehicles were plying the highways and all annual re-registration required.

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Govt to bring companies funded by Grameen Bank under control of the bank

Finance minister AMA Muhith on Sunday said the government was trying to bring some 54 companies under the control of Grameen Bank as they had been established using the funds of the bank.

He said Muhammad Yunus established 54 companies using the welfare fund of Grameen Bank as seed money, thus stepping beyond the jurisdiction of the bank’s policy. Not only that, he added, Yunus held the posts of managing director of most of those companies.

‘As per the policy, Grameen Bank is only for the people of rural areas and those who own less than 0.5 acre of land. The institution cannot step beyond this,’ he said.

Muhith told reporters at his office at secretariat that he discussed the issue at a meeting earlier in the day with Nicholas Dean, US Charge d’Affaires in Dhaka.

The finance minister was reported to have said that the government was worried over the matter and looking for ways to coordinate the management of the numerous companies set up with funds from the Grameen Bank.

The government asked International Finance

Corporation—the World Bank affiliate—for help in finding a solution in this regard.

‘But IFC refused our proposal saying that it was involved with a few ventures among those 54 companies. Now we are looking for a Chartered Accountant firm for carrying out the job,’ Muhith said.

Grameen Capital Management Ltd, Grameen Knitwear and Grameen Distribution Ltd are all profit mongering organisations that originated from Grameen Bank.

There are also profit making ventures like Grameen Phone, Grameen Solutions, Grameen Cybernet, Grameen Star Education Ltd and Grameen Bitek Ltd where there are investments from Grameen Bank but the government is yet to have a clear picture about the investments and organizational relationship between Grameen Bank and these companies.

Muhith was reported to have said that a search committee was scouting to find a person for taking

up the position of managing director of Grameen Bank.

He hoped that the government would be able to appoint a person to the post within three months.

He also told the reporters that he discussed with the US CDA issues like foreign direct investment in Bangladesh, complications regarding Boeing procurement and microcredit activities.

During the meeting Muhith urged Nicholas to encourage US investors to come forward with their investments as Bangladesh offers liberal policies and opportunities for doing business in the country.

He expressed his satisfaction over the achievement in the power sector and informed the US charge d’Affaires that power supply would not be a problem any more.

About microcredit activities of Grameen Bank, he told Nicholas that the bank had no problems in carrying out its activities.

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JS passes animals battles restriction and meat quality control bill

Govt brings into account science and technology development trust

Ofiul Hasnat Ruhin

Parliament on Wednesday unanimously a law was passed, the Government, the rules and regulations to impose Framework empower prohibitions for the slaughter of the animals and poultry birds at any place.

Meat and the animal slaughter (restrictions) Control Bill - 2011 sees before reaching for the consumer to provide hygiene of the slaughter of animals and birds poultry and meat quality.

According to the President its approval are, it would be a new law.

Fisheries and livestock, placed Abdul Latif Biswas the Bill in Parliament on April 27.

It was passed after a review of parliamentary Committee on livestock.

Several of the main opposition BNP lawmakers Jafrul Islam Chowdhury and independent legislators Fazlul Azim, proposed amendments to the Bill before the House were as they were absent.

Latif Biswas requested the House, the law States that, the new law was necessary to slaughter of animals and birds in hygienic places with reasonable exchange of water and air to pass.

After the Bill becomes a law, it would have to each slaughter house, commercial centre and meat processors get meat a license for the management of the company for a year and renew it every year.

The Bill must also each employee of the slaughter, meat, processing and sale of gastronomy health certificate of qualified doctors obtain.

It would be the Government ban on the slaughter of animals every day of the week, except for the export empower.

He sees imprisonment and punishment TK 5000 TK 25,000 for breach of a year ago.

The sentence could be extended in prison and a fine of TK 50,000 for repeated infringement up to two years.

The existing law contains no provision, sick animals for slaughter and marketing of unhygienic meat and chicken, to stop ducks or other animals and birds.

The new law would have to examine the provision of health experts and authorities on the animals and the meat before marketing.

The Government placed a separate Bill in Parliament that attempts to create a trust for the promotion of scientific education for the development of scientific knowledge and understanding of the country.

Secretary of State for science and information and communication technology Yafez Osman placed science and technology trust Bill 2011 in the House.

The Bill provides that the trust for informal science education side by side existing educational program would take with the.

It would also the responsibility of trust like science week, science fairs, workshops and financial support for young scientists, researchers, technicians and scientists, "said Yafez."

Around the House, the law to pass, he said that the proposed trust secondary and higher secondary level educational institutions assist in the development of scientific education.

It would, said he also organizations in the domestic and overseas for the progress of science and technology support.

According to the confidence had 16 members with Minister or State Secretary for ICT as Chairman and ICT Secretary as Deputy Chairman and Director General or Director of national science and technology museum as a member of Secretary.

The Director-General of secondary and higher secondary education Board, two Chairman nominated two scientists who would be nominated by the Government of the Ministry of education, its members.

The trust will have also presentation of CAB Department, finance, Ministry of education and Secretary of the Parliament.

The Bill was to the relevant parliamentary Committee for control and gives its opinion sent within one month.

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Geinimi: The Android Trojan takes control of your smartphone

On December 29, 2010, Lookout, a San Francisco based Smartphone security firm, gave a warning for Android-based Smartphone users called Geinimi is affected by a sophisticated Trojan. According to Lookout Geinimi is the most modern malware on Android devices to date with "botnet related features.", It can control over user devices and transfer sensitive information to a remote server. The Trojan made his debut in China and would gradually in other regions. The biggest problem is that Geinimi comes with legitimate apps, mainly games. After you have installed the infected app on your Android phone, it would take questions to ask too many personal information. Digital trends reports:

so far Gemini has been observed, grafted on legitimate apps - games - that are on Android Smartphones from ignorant patrons of third-party Android app stores downloaded. Allegedly an unusually high access to devices challenge the infected apps then and then, boom, it's a zombie phone.

After the Trojan a particular control device would send it the position of the user takes, transfer the unique device ID number as download apps forth and force the user to install them. It can provide several apps installed on a remote server. So far, the malware detected in China was and it is believed that the main objective of this malicious software to connect to a "malicious ad network."

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