& çâÌæÚUæð´ ·¤è ¥ôÚU Îð¹Ùæ ÁæÚUè ÚU¹ð´ ¥ÍæüÌ ¥ÂÙð ÜÿØ ÂÚU ŠØæÙ ÚU¹ð´Ð ãæÚU Ù ×æÙð´, €UØô´ç·¤ ·¤æ× ·¤ÚUÙð âð ¥æÂ·¤ô ©gðàØ ·¤è Âýæç# ãôÌè ãñ ¥õÚU ÁèßÙ ·¤æ ¹æÜèÂÙ ÎêÚU ãôÌæ ãñÐ ÖÜð ãè ÁèßÙ ×ð´ ç·¤ÌÙè Öè ·¤çÆÙæ§ü €UØô´ Ù ¥æ°, çÁ™ææâæ ¥õÚU ©ˆâæã ÕÙæ° ÚU¹ð´Ð ŠØæÙ ÚU¹ð´, ÜÿØ ã×ðàææ ¥æÂ·Ô¤ Âæâ ãôÌð ãñ´ çÁ‹ãð´ ÂæÙð ·Ô¤ çÜ° ÂýØæâ ¥æÂ ·¤Öè Öè àæéM¤ ·¤ÚU â·¤Ìð ãñ´Ð

NEWS in brief
512 mobile phone sets seized
Our Correspondent, ctg
The customs department of Hazrat Shah Amanat International Airport seized 512 mobile phone sets worth around Tk 50 lakh from a briefcase of an expatriate yesterday morning.
The expatriate, Akbar Uddin, 27, arriving from Sharjah and a resident of Fatikchhari upazila in Chittagong, had not paid the customs duty for the cellphones, said Assistant Commissioner Shahidul Islam of Chittagong Customs House.
Yaba tablets, marijuana seized, four held
Our Correspondent, ctg
Four persons were arrested with Yaba tablets and marijuana in separate drives in Chittagong city Friday night.
Acting on a tip-off, police raided Jashim'er Colony in Bakalia Miakhan Nagar area and arrested Sajjad, 30, and Sumon, 20, residents of the area, with two kilogrammes of marijuana, said police.
In another drive, police arrested Md Jashim, 35, resident of Bastuhara Colony, from the colony in Bakalia of the city with 50 Yaba tablets.
Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) members arrested Abul Hossen, 35, of Netrakona district currently living in Patenga, Chittagong, from Kotwali Police Station area with 10 kilogrammes of marijuana, worth around Tk 60,000, said a press release.
Stolen cloths recovered, 5 held
Staff Correspondent, ctg
Detective Branch (DB) of police has recovered stolen cloths and arrested five persons in this connection in 72 hours preceding yesterday morning.
The arrestees are Md Sagir, 38, Md Nasir, 40, Md Selim, 40, Md Rafique, 40 and Md Monu Miah, 43.
On June 2, Md Mohsin Ali, an officer of Renal Designer Makers Limited, found that 44 rolls of cloth worth about Tk 25 lakh were stolen from the factory in Chittagong city.
As a case was filed in this connection, a team of DB police conducted drives in Bagerhat, Chandpur and different areas of the city, arrested the five and also recovered the cloths from the residence of Monu at Miakhan Nagar in the city.
US-Bangladesh friendly relation stressed
Our Correspondent, ctg
Speakers in Chittagong yesterday said the relation between Bangladesh and the United States (US) should be friendly.
They were speaking at a roundtable on “US Foreign Policy and Bangladesh” organised by Forum for People's Voice, a local social organisation, at the capital's Brae Centre Inn auditorium.
They also said the country's people have to take the relation forward by ensuring normal economic growth, strength of national harmony and sovereignty.
Dr Haroon A Khan, professor of political science department at Henderson State University in the US, presented the keynote paper.