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Tension prevailed on the Jahangirnagar University campus on Tuesday after Monday’s clashes in which at 50 students were injured.
   Although no untoward incident took place, a number of students left the campus fearing further attack by the members of the Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal, student wing of the ruling BNP.
   Most students leaving the campus were residents of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Hall.
   Four more students — Oli of pharmacy and Mukta, Alok and Apu of geography — were beaten by the Chhatra Dal activists
   on the campus Monday night.
   The Chhatra Dal activists brought out a procession on Tuesday welcoming the new students.
   The organisation leaders at a rally in front of the old arts faculty building demanded punitive measurers against the attackers.
   The condition of an injured student admitted to Enam Hospital, Savar is still critical.
   A physician of the hospital, Dr Mizan, said Imran of economics has been taken to the intensive care unit. Other students are out of danger, he said.
   The authorities are yet take any step to investigate Monday’s incidents.

JU students set truck on fire
JU CORRESPONDENT

The students of Jahangirnagar University on Tuesday set a truck on fire on the Dhaka–Aricha Highway as the driver did not allow a university bus carrying students to overtake it.
   The students stopped the truck in front of the dairy farm gate of the university and set fire to it.
   The students also blocked the highway for half an hour, which created severe traffic congestion.
   The Savar police arrested the truck driver, Nuruzzaman, to avert further untoward situation.

Discussants at a commemorative meeting on Tuesday paid tributes to Madhusudan Dey, popularly known as Madhu Da, for his sacrifice for the country.
   Former student leaders recalled Madhu’s contribution to the movement against the military ruler Ayub Khan in the 1960s and mobilising student leaders for the struggle.
   They also reminisced about the golden days of politics centring on Madhu’s Canteen.
    The meeting was organised at Madhu’s Canteen to mark the 34th anniversary of death of Madhu.
   The Dhaka University vice-chancellor, SMA Faiz, chaired the function. The minister for jute and textile, Shahjahan Siraj, state minister for labour and manpower Amanullah Aman, Workers’ Party of Bangladesh president Rashed Khan Menon, Communist Party of Bangladesh general secretary Mujahidul Islam Selim, Awami League leaders Motia Chowdhury, Abdur Razzak, KM Jahangir and Akhtaruzzman, Communist Party leader Morshed Ali, Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal leader Shirin Akhter and Sharif Nurul Ambia also spoke.
   Mujahidul Islam Selim said during their studentship, politics was not just politics; it rather was a movement for students’ interest.
   Morshed Ali saw the present-day student politics as stagnant and demanded that the university authorities should hold elections to the students’ unions.
   SMA Faiz said he is ready to hold elections if student leaders agree. Faiz termed the canteen the university’s faculty of leadership. ‘Most of the leaders of the nation were produced form the canteen.’
   Recalling the wartime student politics, Shahjahan Siraj said the national flag of Bangladesh was first hoisted on the campus. He demanded that a permanent mast should be set up where the flag was first hoisted.
   Madhusudhan Dey was killed along with his three family members by the Pakistani forces on March 26 in 1971.

Alo, an organisation that promotes drug awareness, held a discussion forum on ‘drug awareness, abuse, rehab, and intervention,’ at the Royal Orchid Restaurant at Gulshan in Dhaka on Tuesday.
   The Drug Abuse Information, Rehabilitation and Research Centre president, Yusuf Merchant, chaired the programme. Alo president Nehreen Rahman Tootli, psychiatrist and drug counsellor Mirza, were also present.
   Merchant spoke on the key areas that have helped the centre to become a successful institution, on the DRE and STEP drug prevention programmes he initiated in Bombay, and the general state of drug abuse worldwide.
   The centre has been credited with an 85 per cent success in rehabilitating drug abusers, excluding dropouts.
   ‘Parental participation is something we invariably include in our programme. We rehabilitate the parents alongside the addicts,’ said Merchant.
   Merchant spoke on the need to target young people from an early age before they are exposed abusive substances like cigarettes.
   The DRE programme trains college students to lecture school-goers to refrain from drug use. The STEP programme reaches out to the college students through stars such as Manisha Koirala, Sanjay Dutt and Madhuri Dixit to de-glamourise drug abuse.
   Merchant took questions from the audience and iterated the importance of parents having at least one meal a day with their children, on the need for a father figure for a growing child and to teach children on how to deal with boredom, stress, and peer pressure.

The returning officer’s office on Tuesday allotted symbols to the candidates for mayor, ward commissioner and reserved commissioner’s positions in the Chittagong City Corporation elections, scheduled for May 9.
   Sources in the office said 21 symbols, of the scheduled 24, were allotted for the mayoral candidates.
   Twenty symbols were allotted for ward commissioner candidates and 12 for the candidates for ward commissioners reserved for woemn.
   The Awami League-backed ABM Mohiuddin Chowdhury, also incumbent mayor, was given lantern and the BNP-backed Mir Mohammad Nasir Uddin, also minister for civil aviation and tourism, bicycle.
   Both of them ran in the 1994 polls with the same symbol.
   The authorities allotted symbols for commissioner candidates through a lottery, the sources said.
   Mir Nasir, meanwhile, began his campaign in some city areas in the afternoon without the official protocol.
   Sources in the BNP said Mir Nasir stopped using government facilities, including security.
   A BNP leader said Mir Nasir had conducted campaign in different city areas in the afternoon.
   Mir Nasir earlier told newsmen that he would not use government protocol as a state minister inside the city, but will be using the protocol when he will go outside the city.

More than a hundred shanties were burnt in a fire that broke out in a slum at Shahidnagar at Lalbagh in Old Town early Tuesday.
   Fire service officials and the police said the fire broke out at about 1:30am and burnt the entire slum set up on
   a privately-owned piece of land.
   More than 100 structures, made of bamboo and corrugated iron sheets, were burnt.
   Eight fire fighting units went brought the fire under control at about 4:00am. No casualty was reported.
   The cause of fire and the extent of damage was under investigation, the sources said.

An advertising contract between the ATN Bangla and the Adcomm Limited, an advertising agency of the City Group of Industries, was renewed in a function in the Adcomm Limited office in Dhaka on April 10.
   ATN Bangla senior vice-president M Shamsul Huda, City Group of Industries marketing and sales director Zafar Uddin Siddiqui and Adcomm Limited chairman and managing director Geeteara Safiya Choudhury signed the contract.

The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited in Bangladesh gave Tk 1 lakh to Milon Akhyer Gyan School in Chittagong.
   The bank’s chief executive in Bangladesh, Steve Banner, handed over a cheque for the amount in a ceremony on the school premises on April 13.
   The school began functioning in 1998 by the Milon Community Support Network and provides
   basic education to slum
   children of the Kazir Daori area in Chittagong.
   The school has three teachers and 85 students from Nursery to Class V. They follow the government curriculum with emphasis on reading and writing English and Bangla.
   The school provides uniforms and educational materials to the children along with food. The children are computer literate.
   Organisation trustee Bilquis Dada, manager Mahbub Ur Rahman, Chittagong HSBC manager Reza Ahmed and other officials were
   present.

The Standard Chartered Bank gave Tk 10 lakh to Islamia Eye Hospital for the treatment of cataract patients.
   The bank’s acting chief executive officer and head of consumer banking, M Sajidur Rahman, handed over the cheque to the hospital director (technical) and senior consultant, RK Chowdhury, on Tuesday.
   The hospital adviser, Zahida Ispahani, director (administration and finance) Khondkar Tajuddin Ahmed and the bank director (corporate affairs), Riaz Jalal Saadullah, were present.
   As part of the bank’s ‘seeing is believing’ initiative, the Standard Chartered Group set up a modern operation theatre and a children’s ward in the hospital for the treatment of cataract patients.
   The operation theatre and ward have the capacity for at least 12,000 cataract surgeries a year.

The BRAC University celebrated its 4th anniversary in the university cafe on April 17.
   The vice-chancellor, Jamilur Reza Choudhury, as chief guest of the programme said the university became one of the leading private universities.
   A food festival was also organised to mark the Bangla New Year. The students displayed various home-made foods.
   The registrar, Muhammad Sahool Afzal, treasurer SK Sarkar, teachers, staff and students were present.
   The programme was organised by the university student affairs office.

FBCCI slates killing of businessman
The leaders of the Federation of Bangladesh Chamber of Commerce and Industries on Tuesday denounced the killing of the owner of the Silver Store, Madhab Sarkar, and his nephew, Bhushan Sarkar, inside the store on Sunday. The acting federation president, Kamaluddin Ahmed, in a statement, urged the government to immediately arrest the killers and ensure exemplary punishment for them. He also prayed for the departed souls and expressed his sympathy with the members of the family.
— New Age

JSD’s condolence day on April 23
The Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal will observe condolence day on April 23 marking the building collapse of the Spectrum Sweater and Knitting Factory at Savar on April 11. The party will bring out procession holding black flags across the country. The party’s president Hasanul Haq Inu and general secretary Syed Jafar Sajjad urged the local leaders of the district and upazila committees to observe the day. The party in a news release on Tuesday held the owner of factory responsible for the accident in which about 80 workers were killed and about 80 more were injured. The party demanded legal action against the chief factory inspector, RAJUK officials, Savar Cantonment Board chief officer, and the officials concerned of the Department of Environment and the Fire Service and Civil Defence.
— New Age

News Network opens online centre
The News Network has set up a web-based documentation centre (www.thenewsnetwork. info or www.newsnetwork-bd.com) with the help of DANIDA. Clippings of research works, analyses and features of the News Network and selected news items of national daily and weekly newspapers will be preserved in the centre, said a news release.
— BDNews

Education on HIV/AIDS
The TREE Foundation on Tuesday launched an entertainment education programme for students on HIV.AIDS in the Kala Chandpur High School and College at Gulshan in Dhaka. The programme, Know AIDS for No AIDS, is focused on using time, energy and talent for a clear understanding of HIV pandemic, said a news release. The foundation’s managing director Syed Mizanur Rahman Raju addressed the programme. The programme, Enter Education, one of the successful HIV-prevention methods in Africa, will be organised in different institutions in the metropolis in phases, the release said.
— BSS