Shafiul Huq new army chief

Star Online Report

Lt Gen Abu Belal Muhammad Shafiul Huq has been made the new chief of Bangladesh Army.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who is also the defence minister, signed the appointment letter of the new army chief today, PMO and army sources said.
He will be replacing Gen Iqbal karim Bhuiyan whose prevailing term as the chief of army will end on June 26.
Born in December 1958, Lieutenant General Belal was commissioned in Armoured Corps on 18 June 1978 from Bangladesh Military Academy.
For his outstanding performance in the Military Academy, he was adjudged as the best all round cadet of his batch and was awarded with “Sword of Honour”.
Lt Gen Belal obtained his Bachelor of Arts Degree from Dhaka University and Master Degree on ‘Defense Studies’ from National University Bangladesh and Masters in Philosophy from Bangladesh University of Professionals.
In a career of 37 years, Lt Gen Belal held a variety of command, staff and instructional appointments including as the ADC to the president of Bangladesh.

Lieutenant General Belal was a member of the pioneer group of officers sent to UN peacekeeping mission from Bangladesh.
He is happily married to Shoma Huq and the couple is blessed with a daughter and a son.

K-Pop in Dhaka (video: part-III)

Zahedul I Khan Tito

The Embassy of the Republic of Korea organised the first ever K-pop contest in Bangladesh on June 6 2015.
K-pop is a musical genre consisting of electronic, hip hop, pop, rock, and R&B music originating in South Korea.
A total of 13 teams participated in the event where the Embassy distributed Samsung smart phones to the first three winners.
The first winner will have the opportunity to visit Korea to participate in K-Pop Global Contest 2015.
Anika Saiara Ali won the first prize for her wonderful dance with the song Girl's Generation, while Yeo Farin and Yeo Farah, two sisters, became second for their dance performance with the song Crazy, and Ayub Ali Tanvir bagged the third position for his song with a guitar.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=124&v=_09D7424Lfs

BNP blames govt for Teesta failure

Star Online Report

BNP today blamed the Awami League-led government for failing to ink the deal on sharing of Teesta river water with India.
“The whole nation is disappointed,” the party’s spokesperson Asaduzzaman Ripon said in a press briefing at BNP’s Nayapaltan central office.
The dispute over sharing of Teesta waters remained unsettled during the recent first-ever visit of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi – what has been dubbed as the “dawn of a new era”.
A total of 22 deals were inked during the visit which included highlighted connectivity the historic land boundary agreement that India waited over three decades to resolve.
“We as well as the country’s people want to know the details of those deals,” Ripon said.
In response to questions on whether moving Modi with complaints regarding “democracy in the country” was justified, Ripon said BNP believed it will be of no major harm.