Tourist assault 4 arrested; SI closed

A Correspondent Patuakhali: Police on Tuesday arrested four people for their alleged involvement in the looting of valuables of five tourists, including three female ones, after assaulting them near Mahipur fish port in Kalapara upazila. In another development, in-charge of Mahipur police investigation centre sub-inspector (SI) Kashem has been closed to Patuakhali Police Lines for his negligence in duty. The arrestees were identified as Khokon, Nurul Haque, Alamgir and Dulal. SI Monir Hossain, who replaced SI Kashem, told that they conducted drives in Mahipur, Hajipur, Tulatali, Alipur and other villages in the upazila and arrested the four named in the FIR on Tuesday noon. Detectives were looking for other suspects, including mastermind Sohag, son of Mahipur union parishad chairman and union Awami League president Abdul Malek Akond, he said. According to the FIR, a group of 15-16 miscreants in a trawler swooped on a tourist trawler near Mahipur fish port on November 21 and demanded Tk 50,000 from the tourists while they were returning to Kuakata sea beach. As the tourists could not give the money, they were held hostage by the attackers. The attackers forced the tourists - Champa, Liza, Nazma, Ibrahim and Mizanur -- to land on the bank of a canal near Mahipur fish port, tied their hands and legs with rope and assaulted them indiscriminately with iron rods and pipes. They looted gold ornaments, mobile phone sets and cash from the tourists. At one state, the hoodlums tried to take two of the female tourists to a nearby jungle apparently to violate them. However, locals rescued the tourists with the help of police by the time.

Get united against evil forces: Khaleda

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BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia on Wednesday urged all to get united against killers of democracy.
“We all must get united to thwart conspiracies by the evil forces of democracy killers,” she said in a message issued on the occasion of Shaheed Dr Milon Day commemorating his 24th death anniversary.
On November 27, 1990, the cadres of then autocratic ruler HM Ershad gunned down Dr Milon, the then joint secretary of Bangladesh Medical Association, on Dhaka University campus.
Different socio-political and cultural organizations have chalked out elaborate programs to observe the day.
Khaleda alleged that the one-party rule, reestablished by killing democracy through the Januaray-5 ‘voter-less’ election, has also blocked the path of progress of multiparty democracy.
Mentioning that Dr Milon embraced martyrdom to save democracy from the shackle of autocratic rule, she said his sacrifice will be successful if democracy gets a strong footing.
“He (Milon) is our source of inspiration in the struggle and movement against all authoritarian and autocratic and anti-democracy forces.”
Khaleda, also a former Prime Minister, prayed for salvation of the departed soul of Milon.

PM urges Saarc leaders for regional connectivity

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Kathmandu: Identifying seven critical areas that require urgent attention of the Saarc member countries, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday urged all the Saarc leaders to lend their support to advance implementation of the agreed regional outcomes on connectivity, putting aside their differences as the association’s achievements have been modest so far compared to expectations.
“I would urge all Saarc leaders at the podium to lend their support to advance implementation of the agreed regional outcomes on connectivity… and Bangladesh will appreciate the early signing of the Regional Motor Vehicles Agreement and the Regional Railways Agreement,” she said.
The Prime Minister was delivering her speech at the inaugural ceremony of the two-day 18th Saarc Summit being held at City Hall, Bhrikuti Mandap of the Nepalese capital. This is the third time that Nepal is hosting Saarc Summit after the ones it hosted in January, 2002 and November 1987.
The seven critical areas that Hasina identified for urgent attention are poverty, youth population, science technology innovation, climate change, regional agreements and global development agenda.
Hasina said the Saarc countries need to focus on increasing intra-regional trade while early and effective implementation of Safta remains important. "We’ll particularly need to address the non-tariff and para-tariff barriers. Our people want to see robust actions on the ground. They’re more focused on ‘outcomes’ than ‘process’."
The Prime Minister also called upon the Saarc leaders to focus on undertaking more realistic, result-oriented and mutually beneficial partnership for cooperation to prosper together. "Let that be our contribution towards redeeming our pledge to our people to leave a more peaceful, progressive, connected and knowledge-based South Asia," she told her audience.
Hasina said the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation or Saarc was created three decades ago with the core objectives of building partnership for the welfare and prosperity of the people. "Looking back, one would have the impression that its achievements have been rather modest compared to our expectations and potentials."
She, however, was optimistic of what Saarc can actually attain given the collective political will and ambitions. "What’s needed is to set aside our differences and work on collective strength for bringing real progress to the people of the region. A candid assessment and frank conversation among us is the need of the hour to bring dynamism into Saarc and its activities."
Sharing some of her thoughts on some of the critical areas that need urgent attention, the Prime Minister first said that poverty as being the common and key enemy that hinders peace and development in the region.
Noting that cooperation in increasing productivity of key cereals, inland fisheries and livestock, improving water efficiency in agriculture are crucial for attaining nutritional security of the people and eradicating poverty, Hasina underscored the need for effective operation of Saarc Food Bank and Seed Bank.
She emphasized developing the large young population of the region as human resources -- primarily by giving them quality education and effective training.
"We recognize that our education system should be need-based and innovative one with adequate exposure to scientific and technological advancement and comparable with the advanced countries," she added.
She said that the women and men need easy access to affordable and quality technical and vocational education as education and skill development need to be linked to employment and entrepreneurship.
The Prime Minister said for achieving development faster, the Saarc countries must deepen its collective efforts to develop, use and apply science-technology-innovation at all levels. "We need support in health, agriculture, food and climate change technologies. Bangladesh would call for deeper cooperation in these areas."
The Prime Minister said climate change poses a serious challenge to much of the development enterprise since intensity and frequency of disasters among the Saarc countries are rising. "The risks are so grave that for Bangladesh climate change may wipe out 2 to 3 percent of our annual GDP, including displacement of more than 30 million people by 2050."
At the Saarc level, she said the Saarc countries need to secure result-oriented implementation of the regional agreements and plans through cross-border initiatives.
Lauding the progress on the Saarc Framework Agreement on Electricity Cooperation, she said energy is a sector where the countries of this region have much to tap in terms of regional hydro-power.
"There’re aspects, like energy regulation, efficiency and conservation, regional power grid - where we can work beneficially. It is, therefore, the time to commit ourselves on regional, sub-regional and bilateral initiatives for the development of energy sector in a comprehensive manner,"
The PM said the new Global Development Agenda requires the Saarc countries to focus on their fourth frontier - the Indian Ocean.
"There’s so much to benefit through collaborative exploration of the living and non-living marine resources. The ocean resources-based ‘Blue Economy’ can play a critical role in sustainable development of the Saarc region," she said.
The Prime Minister in her 7th and last thought said physical connectivity is important in ensuring overall peace, progress and stability across South Asia as Multimodal physical connectivity links territories and communities of Saarc.

Get Google Adsense Approval in Just 3 Days

Hello friends today i am going to show you that how to Get Google Adsense Approval in Just 3 Days. However it is not easy to get Google Adsense Approval in case of few days, as soon as you have the approval, you will be in many benefits.
When submitting an application for Google Adsense, ensure to check out these guidelines. Every little thing is important, such as your blog/site design, material, quantity and quality of posts, SEO analytics, backlinks, some other necessary analytics and etc. Almost every one of these will have the vital duty in gettingAdsense approved. Check the most significant needs you should implement before you apply for Adsense.
High Quality Content:

If you are getting Adsense for a WordPress blog, you should have at least 40 high quality posts/articles. And in case it is some other website (html, Joomla), make sure to have at least 30 pages. All articles are viewed as a page in your website. Therefore see this as your main necessity and move forward to applying more demands.
Important Pages:

Your website needs some important pages for getting Adsense Approval. Before you decide to submit an application for google adsense, you need to work seriously on the following web pages:
About (Must)
Contact US (Must)
Privacy Policy (Must)
Disclaimer (Optional)
Terms and Conditions (Optional)
You need to clearly describe what’s your website concerning, as well as how it is important for the people.
Good Traffic to Get Google Adsense Approval in Just 3 Days:

Your website needs at least 50+ site visitors a day. Kindly do not take hurry to apply for Adsense without  getting regular traffic. And also when you conform to all the earlier discussed criteria with no regular traffic, your account will not be approved.

Many people not agree using this statement. Yet still your website needs a great Alexa ranking to get Adsense approved. No matter if your website does not have good Alexa ranking, you can still apply. However be sure that website ranks tend to be at least below 500k. Otherwise the probability is really lower to be taken into concern.

Google Webmasters Verification Page:
Further you have to make an application for a Google Verification Page. To perform this, sign in to Google Webmaster Tools and click on “Add a Site” and submit your website Address. Confirm your ownership with any of the next ways to get a conformation.
Bing Webmaster Verification Page:

Bing Webmaster Tool  is similar to Google Webmaster Tools. You can use similar method there and confirm your ownership. In Bing webmaster tools, you have to use actually your site sitemap page. I will explain to you a way to include that below.
Google Analytics Code:

You have to put Google Analytics code on your site. For this, simply sign in to Google Analytics and click on Admin in which you will find “+ New Account” below Accounts tab. Click on New Account and insert your site name, web address and various things. Click on Get Tracking ID and insert it in your website.
Sitemap.xml Page:

Your website needs a Sitemap.xml page, to let search engines can easily index website links and web pages fast. To produce a sitemap, simply install the Google XML Sitemaps (WordPress) and make a sitemap. or you can use this site for generating sitemap.
http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/
Robots.txt

You have to make a robots.txt file in your website. Whether it is a WordPress site or any CMS structured, you must have arobots.txt file. This particular file will inform the various search engines, things to index and what to not. You should check tecnotuts robots.txt file for clear concept.
Own Email ID:

In case you have got your own domain name and hosting, it is much better to apply for Adsense via domain email ID. This means that, rather than example@gmail.com, you can make use of example@domain.com.
The above all steps works perfect to Get Google Adsense Approval in Just 3 Days, but you should be an action take. Take action now to Get Google Adsense Approval in Just 3 Days. Stay Blessed.

10 Ways to Make Money Online

Hello friends, today i am going to show you the best 10 Ways to Make Money Online.  Each and every person in this world needs to make money. That is because if they do not have money, they will not be able to buy any kind of services or products. They’ll not be able to buy the products and/or facilities that they need and cannot survive without having. There are many people who want to make money for their families.
There’s also many people who want to make money for themselves. And internet is the one of important source to make money. This is the factor why people need to make money online.
Can we make money online ?

The quickest and easiest reply to this question is; yes definitely.
Making money online is not as much hard as we all are thinking about it. Many people search on the Internet to discover the possible methods to make money online but they guide to some fraud websites, which are completely ready to hunt these people easily. Fraud websites frequently ask them to invest some cash to them and they’ll provide the membership that will help them to make money online, but the question is how can people seriously make money online? Below is the complete solution with some top ways that are mostly used by experts to make extra money using the internet. All beginner whether male or female can take this article as important guidance if he/she needs to have a part-time or full-time online profession. We’ll be providing every bit of important information to you in this matter. Follow these 10 Ways to Make Money Online.i hope you will find best one to work on.
Now I’ll suggest the best 10 Ways to Make Money Online which you can use to make money online:
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1) Make Money via Blogging:

Blogging can be a great way to brand yourself. And develop interactions with your readers.
You can make money by monetise your blog or you can sell your products or services.
If you are going make a blog or website you first need to know what you want to do on the blog or website online. Here are few tips that you may like.
You can start a blog on news, tutorials, poetry, health or any other topic you like.
By doing blogging you can make money online using display Advertisements such as Google Adsense, Chitika,Infolinks and many more. Also you can use direct Ads on your sites such as BuySellAds, facebook, olx & Pepsi etc.
2) Make Money via Freelancing:

Become a freelancer is the best alternate option of Blogging. In Freelancing you have to sign up with some sites like Freelancer.com or Elance.com. These sites have many people who want guys on rent to do particular work for them like making logos, writing articles or other services. They’ll give you a contract on a particular price. You have to complete that contract within the time period . After submitting your work, you will receive the specific fees for the work which you done.
3) Make Money via YouTube:

You can earn money online with YouTube too. If you do real and genuine work like creating your own Video Tutorials,exclusive and unique videos then surely you can become a YouTube Partner.
4) Make Money via PTC Sites:

On PTC (Paid to Click) sites you get paid to click on ads and visit websites. The process is simple! You only click a link and watch a website for a few seconds to earn money. You don’t need any experience. All you need to do is visit the sites. You can earn much more by referring others.
5) Make Money via Affiliate Marketing:

Many Internet marketers and website owners choose affiliate marketing as the right way to earn money online. Affiliate marketing is the process of getting a commission by promoting other people’s (or company’s) services and products. You get a product or service you like, advertise it to others, and earn a part of the income for every sale that you make.
6) Make Money via shorten URLs:

Shortening URLs is an easy and smart method to earn money. There are a couple of safe sites that you can use to make your urls short and make some cash when people click on them and see the advertisement page.
7) Make Money via Social Media Sites:

This can make large income if you have large number of followers or likes. You only need to make an advertising link and then, share that link as a post or tweet at social sites like Twitter and Facebook. You can get advertisement link from mylikes.com or skylikes.com.
Also Read: How to Make Money From Facebook Easily?
8) Make Money via Paid Surveys:

Paid surveys are one of the easiest ways to start making money online . You can use mysurveys.com, tellwut.com, myview.com and several other websites to complete paid surveys.
9) Make Money via Uploading:

You can make a lot of money uploading your files to file sharing hosting companies. After uploading promote them and get around $1 to $20 for every download.
10) Make Money via Selling Arts, Crafts and Handmade Products:

Have you always thought changing your hobby of crafting and art-making into a paid job? Well using some selling platforms , you can create your own online store and sell your equipment to people all over the world.
Be very careful from Scam:

Many websites claim to be advertising agency’s with associations to various companies. They try to pull people into the concept of free cash, such as, by providing money to display advertisements on websites and blogs. But in fact, they are just fraud sites and just take money from people without giving any benefits. So be careful of these companies and websites. If you want to make money then its free and forever will be. Don’t pay to anybody for any kind of account, because all earning accounts are free especially Google Adsense. You can however, buy training videos and books from people, but check their own skills and popularity before purchasing anything from them.

How to Make Money From Facebook

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Do you want to be an online marketer? What exactly are your strategies, how will you going to earn. There are many ways to earn money online as online marketer but some are very fast. You can make money online using Facebook  – The best social media website, and third most famous website — in the world.
With billions of users  In this article I will cover some information on how you can make money with Facebook. It appears to be very interesting because you use Facebook in routine. There are several ways you can use to make money using Facebook, some important of them are discussed below but first you have to grow audience if you want to earn more money from your Facebook page.
Also Read: Top 8 ways to make money online
Affiliate Marketing:

Affiliate Marketing is one  of the good ways to make money from Facebook, you have to advertise/promote other’s products and for every sale you will get some commission awarded. If you have much more audience(viewers,fans) on Facebook then there are more chances that somebody will purchase the product from you and you will get paid according to their payout rates. A couple of the best websites you can go with for affiliate marketing :-
Bluehost
Amazon
Vcommision
Flipkart
There are lots of more websites with many products to promote but it’s your decision to what things should promote? Well now I think you have some information about affiliate marketing. You can also express your Affiliate Marketing experiences in comments with us.
Paid Advertisement on Page:

You can advertise other’s page, product website, or anything for making some money. People will usually make advertising on your page if your page is very big and active. According to me,get 10000+ likes and people will start contacting you for Advertisement. You can get cash from them for every post. Below is a sample of advertising about other’s blog/website.
Using Sites like Mylikes:

If you have a big and active facebook page then you can sign up on mylikes.com, simply register there and share mylikes links on your Facebook page, for each one thousand hits on that link you will be paid with more than 0.85$ depend on visitors country. That is not very good, so I only suggest you to use the above 2 ways to make money from Facebook as they are the best potential ways.
Promote your Products or Services:

You can even advertise your product/services, viewers will surely buy your product or services If you are close in engaging with your viewers. You can sell anything like an E-book, Electronic product, cell phone your Facebook page and a lot more items.

All Bangla Newspaper List

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Don't prefer to talk about my personal life: Ileana

Much of the unmet demand in households can be met more speedily and cheaply

The government’s pledge to deliver “Electricity for all” by extending high tension power cables to all rural households by 2030 is welcome, but also not ambitious enough.

Bangladesh urgently needs reliable power supplies to create the jobs and improvement in living standards which we need to develop the economy and increase people’s resilience to the negative consequences of climate change.

Speeding up the pace of improvement is vital if the economy is to take advantage of the demographic dividend created by the large numbers of young people who will be entering the labour market in the next two decades.

While it is right that the government set targets for extending the national grid, it is evident that much of the unmet demand for power in households can be met more speedily and cheaply by solar-powered LED lights.

The government should seek to deliver such needs quicker by supporting and subsidising the supply of solar panels and LED lights. These would be relatively cheap and quicker to implement, as can be seen by the success of IDCOL in delivering millions of solar-powered home electricity systems.

They would pay for themselves by delivering social and economic benefits more speedily to the households which need them.

At the same time, the government also needs to cut wasteful subsidies for fossil fuels and raise power prices to ensure more funds are available for the major investments which the country certainly needs.

Thinking long term is the best way to ensure we achieve this vital national target.

Gold Smuggling at Shahjalal Biman DGM, four others arrested






















 Detective Branch (DB) of police arrested five persons including three high officials of Bangladesh Biman on Tuesday night for their suspected link in gold smuggling at Hazrat Shahjalal International airport in Dhaka.

The arrested Biman officials are-- DGM Imdad Hossain, Captain Abu Mohammad Aslam Shahid, and manager Tozammel Haque. Two others are—Harun, money exchange trader and Polash, contractor of Biman Bangladesh.

Additional deputy commissioner Saidur Rahman of DMP media centre said, on secret information, they conducted a drive at night and arrested them.

‘Dream bridge’ emerging in Padma defying obstacles

You will be delighted if you go to Mawa ghat on the bank of the Padma river. Because hope-raising activities are going on there. From the river bed a dream has emerged. The name of the dream is Padma Bridge, over which huge turmoil took place. The donors turned back and withdrew the assistance raising allegation of corruption conspiracy. Cases were lodged against minister-bureaucrats. Bad reputation spread in the international arena and the image of the country was razed to the ground. The government was in trouble and darkness of despair gripped the minds of the people. 

At last, one day everything turned around. Government declared that it would not depend on anybody and would construct the Padma bridge with own resources. Slogans were heard all around: “We ourselves will complete our Padma bridge.” The Padma bridge of that conviction and that dream is taking the shape of reality today. It is hoped that within 2018 the country’s longest-6.15 kilometres dream bridge will raise it head in Padma. The construction cost of the bridge has been estimated at Tk 25,000 crore. 

Roaming around this point of Padma bridge it was found that huge activities are going on at Mawa of Lauhajong under Munsiganj. Somewhere preparations are going on for construction of roads, somewhere soil testing is in progress there and at some places construction of platform on the river is going on. Again somewhere pilling is going on and big size workshop is being made. With the help of large cranes goods are being lifted to the barges from the river bank. 

The then prime minister Sheikh Hasina laid the foundation stone of the Padma Multipurpose Bridge Project near fish-storehouse at Mawa on the bank of Padma on July 4 in 2001. But afterwards with political changeover, along with the change of government works on Padma bridge project also stopped. There was no progress of the project during five-year rule of BNP-led four-party alliance and the subsequent period of caretaker government after 1/11. Preparations over Padma bridge began again after the formation of an Awami League-led grand alliance government in 2009. Land acquisition and works for paying com pensation to the affected people and their rehabilitation started. Agreements were signed with several financial institutes including World Bank, ADB and JAICA. But temporary uncertainty was created as the World Bank turned back from the project in the middle way. The government declared Padma bridge will be constructed with own resources. And works have started in accordance with that declaration. 

It is learnt that the work of alignment of the bridge has already been completed. Soil testing has started at the Mawa end from November 1. A good number of houses have been shifted from a Char of Munshiganj, Shariatpur and Madaripur districts. The deputy commissioners (DCs) of these districts are cooperating in this work.

Along the alignment, a channel will be made over the middle of the Char. The engineers concerned stated that pilling work here will continue from floating platform by cutting the channel. 

The cutting of Char has started from Wednesday last. The 1.5 kilometre lengthy Char will be cut by 250 meters breadth. For this six big dredgers brought from China have been installed at the two sides of the Char. 563 families living is this Char have already been evicted from there. The contracting firm of Padma bridge is China Major. Ali Ahammad, Executive Director of the Chinese company’s clearing and forwarding agent SI Chowdhury and Company Limited (SICO), told this correspondent that equipment for the bridge came in four shipments from China to Bangladesh so far. The beginning of the work of main bridge is now only a matter of time. It is learnt that parts of different structures made in Singapore, China and Germany for Padma bridge are supposed to start for Bangladesh from November 27 next. The work on main part of Padma bridge is going to start at large scale from next December 15. 

It was seen on the spot, a one kilometre long pile fabrication workshop is being made at Mawa for construction of the bridge. The construction work of this workshop is going on at the construction yard of the bridge at Kumarbhog beside Mawa. The pile of the bridge will be made at the workshop. The steel plate of the pile will be brought from China. A jetty is being constructed to facilitate the anchoring of big ships carrying equipments by the side of the workshop. Work for making concrete piles for the jetty is also in progress. Works have also started to build another construction yard like Kumarbhog at the Jajira end of the bridge. 

It is learnt from sources concerned that soil testing also has started for the pillars of Padma bridge. The 6.15 kilometres long bridge will be constructed on 42 pillars. These pillars will stand one after another in every 115 meters. Besides 24 pillars more will be set up for three kilometres connecting bridges on both sides at the size of 1.5 kilometer each. Soil testing will be made at 66 points for 66 pillars. Of the 42 pillars of main bridge soil testing has already been done at 13 points at the time of making the designs. Preparations are now going on for soil testing at remaining 29 points.

Soil testing was slated for November 7. It did not take place that day. Sources said the load of soil testing machine needs to be increased. Soon the soil test will start. As the Padma is calm now, the large floating cranes have been used to carry out works. The people are happy with the speed of work of the dream bridge. 

Six years back, no-1 pontoon of Mawa was affected by erosion. Ram (iron plate connecting pontoon with road) and some shops were hard hit. Seven people were missing. The erosion appeared three years ago again. Pontoon nos-1, 2 and 3 were devoured in Padma. As situation continued to aggravate and the starting point of the proposed Padma bridge was about to be affected, the government took initiative to construct embankment. The construction work being supervised by army ended in May. The guide embankment which was a little bit affected is being repaired.

Brig Gen Shah Noor Jilani (PSC), 99 Composite Brigade Commander of Bangladesh Army, said the safety embankment to tackle erosion of Mawa was already constructed. The sacks of sands spreading 130 meter from the bank towards the river beds were kept. On September 4, a test was conducted with modern equipment. The river bed was found to be unaffected during the last monsoon. So, the place appears to be safe. Construction of two km road for shifting Mawa ghat to Shimulia is almost complete. All kinds of security works for the said bridge are being handled by 99 Composite Brigade and 20 Bengal Battalion of Army.

Sharful Islam, executive engineer (river training) Padma Bridge Project, said Sinohydro Corporation Ltd has got the work of river training ahead of the construction of the bridge. The river training work ranging 2 km at Mawa end and 12 km in Zazira end will be held at the cost of Tk 8,707.81 crore. Besides, Bangladesh Water Development Board (BWDB) is entrusted with river training of 4-6 km at Mawa end.

Mawa ghat being shifted to Shimulia

With a view to ensuring uninterrupted work of Padma Bridge, Mawa ghat is being shifted to Shimulia. The construction of ghat at the cost of Tk 150 crore is about to be completed. While visiting Mawa, Shipping Minister Shahjahan Khan said the ghat will be shifted within this month.

Prof Shagufta Yasmin, Munshiganj-2 lawmaker, said “We are very happy. Daughter of Bangabandhu Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is going to give real shape of the dream Padma Bridge. People of our locality sacrificed their lands with enthusiasm. In case anybody was upset, I put my hand on him/her and he/she was convinced. Realising the importance of the mega-bridge, people sacrificed the land for their love and respect for Sheikh Hasina. Awami league leaders and activists, journalists and people of all walks of life are working together in this regard. The village homes of daily Kaler Kantho editor Imdadul Haq Milan and Janakantho editor Atikullah Khan Masud are located at Modini Mandal near Mawa. They and their family members gave land for the bridge. If any trouble occurred with regard to rehabilitation work, I took their advice. Thanks to them. The GDP will increase after having the bridge completed.”

Louhojong upazia chairman Osman Gani Talukder said “All conspiracies to obstruct the bridge foiled. Our cooperation will continue as long as the bridge is not completed.