Strange trees baobaba

 

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Asif Aziz,
Dhaka: India and one of the strange trees baobaba desert region of Africa. Wilderness areas are more instances of prairie soils. But something else elakateo match them. plant and see the strange nature. Round like a huge drum scratch. Quite thick. Early barrier nine meters or more. single stem tree shape from the ground up to the top of the huge size of the long straight. Spreading some stems of shrubs in the head. It looks like the umbrella.  , but yet that is far from the tree out from the outset what one might think the wrong side of the head has been buried in the ground and at the top of the tree spread sikarabakaragulo.however, in the twelfth month of the year is not the masai have a page in the tree. And it looks like a dead tree. desert region plants that require less water in the meantime. The long stem of the plant stores water in the rainy season. The most surprising thing is, these trees have survived for thousands of years! baobaba fruit trees are very interesting. Like lauyera see. Dry oparata again. This monkey's favorite food is fruit. Banarara fruit chews like bread and eat guns. Some say this is so strange plants trees badararuti! not just fruit, this is part of the fun of the whole plant. The bark is very thick. Out of the bark fiber is strong and tall. Which can be made ​​with a rope and cloth. What happens when the stem is thick dhamusa, wood is very soft and light. So that any animals or birds may spontaneously thumkare holes. Can be made ​​on the road. A lot of people just waiting to make fun of the hole could start. baobaba have a funny story about trees. Baobaba trees or original home was in heaven. One day the tree fall toward the eye of the devil. Satan's head capalo noticed bad. Heaven he had uprooted the tree from the ground. Then the trees - and sekaraguloke palaguloke spread into the fore to the fore in the air. means devil tree upside down from heaven upon the earth brought to the fore ground. The container was left on the roots of the sky down to the ground. In fact the tree is exactly the confusion.

06 Oct 2013   07:27:42 PM   Sunday

44 Saudi nationals marry Bangladeshis

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News Desk

DHAKA: Some 17 Saudi women got married to Bangladeshis last year. However, 27 Saudi men married Bangladeshi women.

Under Saudi rules, a Saudi woman can take a foreign husband only if she is at least 25 years old. The age can be lowered to 21 if she proves that she is a close relative of the groom.

A Saudi man has to be at least 30 years old to marry a non-Saudi woman and the age can be brought down to 25 if there is a close family relation between them.

The man has also to prove that he has a job and that he has a steady income.

Social experts attributed the tendency by Saudis to take non-Saudi spouses to the gradual change in local mindsets through contacts with other cultures.

“Marriages used to be confined to family members, then to neighbours,” Fuad Al Mushaikhas said.

“They have now stretched outside the Saudi kingdom. The fact that women go out to work could be one of the major reasons for taking up foreign husbands,” he said.

The expert warned that under the law, Saudi mothers could not pass on their nationality to their children.

06 Oct 2013   03:19:22 PM   Sunday

Moudud hospitalised after heart attack

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DHAKA: Opposition BNP standing committee member Barrister Moudud Ahmed was admitted to a city hospital after he had a cardiac arrest on Sunday noon.

BNP chairperson media wing officer Shairul Kabir Khan confirmed the matter to banglanews.

06 Oct 2013   01:52:43 PM   Sunday BdST

Women to suffer if BNP comes

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DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Sunday alleged that women’s development would be hindered if BNP assumes power.

She said: “Conspiracy is on against women who are a driving force behind the country’s economy; BNP will throw them inside houses after assuming power implementing ‘Tentul Tattya’.”

The premier was addressing a mass gathering of professionals at Bangabandhu International Convention Center in the capital on Sunday.

Sheikh Hasina also said, “Bangladesh will be turned into a country of militancy, terrorism and corruption again and all the development activities will be stopped if BNP comes to power.”

The PM expressed her wish as future Bangladesh would emerge with the identity of a wealthy-modernized-non-sectarian and fundamentalism, militancy and terrorism free prosperous country.

06 Oct 2013   06:57:34 PM   Sunday BdST

Eid-ul-Azha on October 16

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DHAKA: Eid-ul-Azha, one of the two biggest religious festivals of the Muslims, will be celebrated across the country on October 16 amid religious fervour and gaiety.

The decision came from a National Moon Sighting Committee meeting on Sunday evening at the Islamic Foundation.

The meeting said the moon the Zilhajj month was sighted in Gaibandha and Thakugaon.

This day, the 10th of Zilhajj some 4,000 years ago, Prophet Hazrat Ibrahim (AS) offered to sacrifice his beloved son Hazrat Ismail (AS) who willingly submitted to the will of his father to please Allah. But the Almighty in His benign mercy spared Hazrat Ismail (AS) and, instead, sent a ram to be sacrificed.

To commemorate this event, Muslims all over the world slaughter sacrificial animals and draw inspiration from the unique example of sacrifice to please Allah as shown by two prophets--Hazrat Ibrahim (As) and Hazrat Ismail (AS).

21 Sep 2013   08:36:50 PM   Saturday BdST

Hifazat threatens to besiege secretariat

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Senior Correspondent

CHITTAGONG: The Islamic outfit Hefazat-e-Islam has threatened to besiege the secretariat to press home their much-talked-about 13 points demand.

The leaders of Islamic outfit came up with the announcement after meeting of Olama-Mashaekh chaired by Hefazat-e-Islam Amir Allama Ahmed Shafi at Jamia Ulum Babunagar Madrasa at Fatikchari upazila in the district.

However, they didn’t announce any specific time for their demand and the besiege programme.

Meanwhile, they have announced programmes to place memorandums to Prime Minister’s Office for not amending ‘Kaomi Madrasha education authority act 2013’.

They will also place memorandums to Deputy Commissioner’s offices and Upazila Nirbahi Officer’s office on the same issue on September 25.

04 Oct 2013   Friday BdST

Malala seen as Top Nobel Peace Contenders

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International Desk


DHAKA: Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teenager who took on the Taliban, and Russian human rights activists are seen as top contenders for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, the International Peace Research Institute said.

Sister Mary Tarcisia Lakot is also a potential winner for her work promoting peace in Uganda, Kristian Berg Harpviken, head of the Oslo-based institute that ranks potential winners each year, said in a statement. Russians that may win include the “formidable, female, three-generation trio” of Lyudmila Alexeyeva, Svetlana Gannushkina and Lilya Shibanova, he said.

Yousafzai, 16, was shot in the head in Pakistan’s Swat Valley in retaliation for her campaign for girls to be given equal rights to schooling, defying threats from Taliban militants in her hometown of Mingora. She now lives in the U.K. and has since gained global recognition for her promises to continue her struggle against illiteracy, poverty and terrorism.

“Malala would not only be timely and fitting with a line of awards to champions of human rights and democracy, but also sets both children and education on the peace and conflict agenda,” Harpviken said.

The prize, along with literature, physics and medicine honors, was created by Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel and first awarded in 1901. Past winners include the European Union, which won last year, as well as U.S. President Barack Obama, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. and Mother Teresa. The Norwegian Nobel Committee selects the peace prize recipient. The economics prize was instituted by the Swedish central bank.

The fourth favorite is Claudia Paz y Paz, attorney general in Guatemala, for leading charges of genocide against former President General Ríos Montt, according to PRIO. The last shortlisted candidate is the Congolese gynecologist, Denis Mukwege, who’s “a leading figure in the fight against sexual violence worldwide,” according to PRIO.

The institute’s candidate list also includes UNESCO, Nigeria’s Archbishop John Onaiyekan and Sultan of Sokoto, Mohamed Sa’ad Abubakar.

The prize winner will be announced on Oct. 11. The institute doesn’t help pick the winners.

04 Oct 2013   Friday BdST

Govt has 20 days left: Obaidul

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Staff Correspondent

SAVAR, DHAKA: Communications Minister Obaidul Quader categorically said that the incumbent government had 20 days more in power.

The lawmaker slammed opposition saying, “Agitation in a bid to oust government will go in vain as the term will be expired within 20 days.”

He came up with the assertion while talking to journalists after an-hour-long visit in different roads and highways of Ashulia and Savar Friday.

Terming opposition BNP’s preparation for next election is ahead than ruling Awami League, Obaidul Quader urged them not to foil the election preparations.

03 Oct 2013   Thursday BdST

Forex reserves reach $16.15 bln in Sep

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News Desk

DHAKA: Foreign exchange reserves reached $16.15 billion at the end of September this year, said a source in the central bank.

A Bangladesh Bank official, wishing anonymity, said that foreign exchange reserves stood at $16,154 billion at the end of the last month after reaching $16,250 billion at the end of August.

Foreign exchange reserves hit a record high of over $16 billion in August, reflecting the country`s strength from the economical and financial point of view.

Earlier, in the first week of April, the reserves touched the $15-billion-mark for the first time.

The South Asian nation, with a population of about 153 million, needs a reserve of about $10 billion to meet its import bills for three months as per an internationally accepted standard.

03 Oct 2013   05:23:32 PM   Thursday BdST

AL for development, claims Hasina

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Staff Correspondent

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina

DHAKA: Criticizing the opportunists, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday claimed that the country is developed when pro-liberation force remains in power.

“The people, who have sacrificed their lives, can develop the country but the opportunist can’t develop the country,” she said.

The premier, also ruling Awami League, came up with the observation after inaugurating the second unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital with 600-bed in the morning.

Sheikh Hasina also criticized the then BNP-led four-party alliance government for closing Community Clinics after assuming power in 2001.

The war criminals and their supporters never hope any good for the country, she added.

She said the Awami League government during its 1996-2001 tenure had taken the project for expansion of the DMCH and she laid the foundation stone of the hospital on April 18, 2001.

But, after change of power in 2001, the project, like many others, was put on hold for eight years. The Awami League government taking office in 2009 resumed the project completing its construction during its present tenure, she said.

With secretary of health ministry MN Niaz Uddin in the chair, the function was addressed, among others, by Director General Dr Khandakar M Sifayet Ullah, Project Director Dr Baijid Khurshid Reaz, Minister AFM Ruhul Haque, State Minister for Health affairs Mujibur Rahman Fakir and Chairman of Worker’s Party Rashed Khan Menon.

02.Oct 2013   03:43:23 PM   Tuesday BdST

Ganojagaron Mancha joyous procession

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Staff Correspondent

DHAKA: Ganojagoron Mancha activists brought out a joyous procession demanding immediate execution of the verdict of BNP leader Salauddin Quader Chowdhury on Tiesday afternoon.

Coordinator of Ganojagaron Mancha Dr Imran H Sarker, also convener of bloggers and online network activists, told journalists: “After Ghulam Azam’s verdict this verdict was very import. Now we are happy.”

Earlier in the day, BNP lawmaker Salauddin Quader Chowdhury was sentenced to death for his involvement in crimes against humanity during liberation war in 1971.

International Crimes Tribunal (ICT)-1 found BNP lawmaker Salauddin Quader Chowdhury guilty of nine charges out a total of 23 allegations of war crimes, including genocide and killings.

Of the 23 charges, Salauddin was, however, acquitted of eight charges while the prosecutions failed to prove six other allegations.