SEVEN TEST POSITIVE FOR SWINE FLU

Dhaka, June 24th— Six more people, almost all of whom recently returned from the US, tested positive for swine flu on Wednesday, the IEDCR said, pushing to seven the total number of known cases in Bangladesh. "Almost all of them recently returned from the US," IEDCR director Mahmudur Rahman told bdnews24.com. "All of them are doing fine and undergoing treatment at home," he said. Passengers are being screened at Dhaka, Chittagong and Sylhet airports, Chittagong and Mongla seaports and 11 land ports to check swine flu, Mahmudur Rahman said. He said that they had so far carried tests for the H1N1 virus in 59 bodies and found it in seven people. The health ministry on Friday said that the first swine flu case was detected in Bangladesh the day before. On examining the throat swab and nasal wash samples of a Bangladeshi young man who had returned from the United States, IEDCR and ICDDR,B on Thursday confirmed the first case of the H1N1 virus responsible for the deadly flu. India is examining incoming passengers at the international airports to check the flu pandemic. The Middle Eastern countries, home to the largest numbers of Bangladeshi expatriate workers, have also launched the drive against it. In India, more than 10 patients have been detected with swine flu, one of them in Kolkata. Gulf Times reported a Bangladeshi child in Doha was detected with swine flu some days back. The victim was on its way to Bangladesh from the US. The child is undergoing treatment. Since the WHO declared the swine flu pandemic on June 11, Bangladesh has been free of any infestation until this case. So far the virus is causing mild to moderate disease, but it has killed at least 171 people and been confirmed in nearly 43,312 globally. The virus has killed 109 people in Mexico, where it was first detected in April before spreading to the rest of the world, prompting the Mexican government to temporarily shut schools and businesses in an effort to slow its spread. Countries from Australia to Chile to the United States, where 44 people have been killed, are reporting that the new swine flu virus is "crowding out" seasonal flu, becoming the predominant influenza strain. Patients with specific flu-like symptoms–a fever above 40 degrees C, cough or other respiratory symptoms–are presumed to have the new virus

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A Big Challenge For Aussi Captain

Do or die match for Australia.They need to win this upcoming match which will be between Australia & Srilanka.And then half-centuries from Tillakaratne Dilshan (53) and captain Kumar Sangakkara (55 not out) saw Sri Lanka winning by six wickets here on Monday. "It was disappointing to lose the match. Can't explain the reason for the defeat," said Ponting at the post-match ceremony.

"We committed too many mistakes in this match," said the skipper, who contributed 25 runs. Ponting conceded that the Sri Lankan slow bowlers did a good job by picking up key wickets. "We knew we had to play the spinners well but didn't," he said. His Sri Lankan counterpart Sangakkara, who anchored the team to victory, chose to give credit to the bowlers. Spinner Ajantha Mendis and Lasith Malinga picked up three wickets each while debutant left-arm pacer Isuru Udana bagged a couple to stifle Australia.

Bangladesh Nation Awaits New Govt’s Fiscal Gifts-Budget Today

Finance Minister AMA Muhith is all set to present in parliament at 3pm today a Tk 1,13,815 crore budget for 2009-10 fiscal, incorporating allocations in some new sectors like public-private partnership (PPP) projects and stimulus packages. Budgets for the last two fiscals were presented outside parliament when the country was ruled by a military-backed caretaker government.(The Independent)

The budget, the first by the present Awami League-led grand alliance government, will have a deficit of Tk 34,358 crore, which is 4.79 per cent of the GDP, sources in the Finance Ministry said adding that education, health, rural development, communication, and power sectors would be given the highest priority in the budgetary allocations.

"The safety net for the poor would be heavily expanded in the budget and allocations in different pro-poor programmes would be raised," the Finance Minister has recently told The Independent.

He also said that the tax net would be expanded in the ensuing budget instead of imposing additional tax burden to realise the revenue target.

Presently, the country has nearly 8 lakh taxpayers and the government plans to raise the number to a million.

The Finance Minister has already made it clear that the guiding spirit of this year's budget would be the election manifesto of Awami League, which focused on the pro-poor economic growth through creating massive employment across the country.Original budget for the 2008-09 fiscal amounted to Tk 99 thousand 962 crore which was later revised to Tk 94 thousand 130 crore, sources said.

The revenue target of the proposed budget would be Tk 79.36 thousand crore, of which the revenue from the NBR sources would be estimated at Tk 61 thousand crore, non-NBR revenue Tk 2.9 thousand crore and revenue from non-tax sources would be Tk 15.5 thousand crore, sources said full news......

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Funny News and Video

The creature was discovered in a flower bed and now draws hundreds of followers to the home where it is kept in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.

Now one of India's top zoologists has decided he will study the unusual creature – provided it can be kept alive.

Reji Kumar, 35, a lift worker, said he is doing its best but the frog has lost its appetite."My one problem is that this frog does not appear to eat. I keep trying to feed it but it doesn't eat anything. I don't know what else to give it," he said.He said the frog was white when he first spotted it but it soon changed to yellow and then grey by the time he got it home."By night the frog was dark yellow, and then it became transparent so you could see its internal organs," he said."It seemed like a miracle to me that this frog had so many different coats. So now people come to see him and pray to him."

Professor Oommen V. Oommen from India's Kerala University, said animals changing colour was not unusual in itself."Frogs do change colour to scare away predators," he told the Sun newspaper."But from what I have heard, the frog at Kumar's place changes colour so frequently it is a bit unusual. I will collect it for study."

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Bangladesh Scam News

Bangladeshi worker dies after falling into lift shaft

A Bangladeshi worker in his mid-30s died on Tuesday evening after falling into a lift shaft.

The foreign worker was working on a lift upgrading project at Block 113 Clementi Street 13 when the accident happened.The Singapore Civil Defence Force said they received a call at about 6.20pm about the incident, and when they arrived at the scene they found the worker stuck between the lift shaft wall and lift car. Using a rope tied to the victim, officers managed to hoist the body up by using a pulley from the lift shaft.

The man was pronounced dead by paramedics at around 7pm.

Barisal Rupali Bank Loan Scam

A Barisal court has framed charges against nine accused including seven bank officials and two BNP leaders in a case for about Tk 22.71 crore loan scam of Rupali Bank.

After framing charges in presence of the accused on Wednesday, Barisal Divisional Special Judge AKM Zulfikar Ali ordered starting trial of the case.

The then deputy general manager Shahidul Huq on behalf of the Rupali Bank authorities lodged a case against Shamsur Rahman, manager, and Makbul Hossain, credit officer of Rupali Bank Nathullabad Bus terminal branch in the city on March 16, 2006.

In December 2007, the case was transferred to the Anti-Corruption Commission and charge sheet was submitted against nine people on April 6, 2008.

Other than Shamsur Rahman and Makbul Hossain, the accused are loan receiver Jannatun Nesa Nayon, also secretary of Barisal city unit of Jatiyatabadi Samajik Sangskritik Sangstha and managing director of Ambia Memorial Hospital and Diagnostic Limited (AMHDL), Nayon's husband and guarantor of the loan Syed Md Yunus, also a BNP leader and chairman of AMHDL, Abdul Khalek, former bank manager, Shamsul Azad, second officer of Sadar Road branch, Abdur Rob, principal officer, Biplob Ghosh and Habibur Rahman, officers of Rupali Bank Barisal regional office. READMORE...

Bangladesh National Cricket Team Coach Blast

Bangladesh were guilty of "stupid mental errors and ridiculous batting" in losing to Ireland at the Twenty20 World Cup, angry coach Jamie Siddons said.

"If the boys keep disobeying our plans you end up with a s****y little score like 130," Siddons told reporters after his side's humiliating six-wicket defeat on Monday at Trent Bridge which sealed their elimination from the tournament.

"Our boys do things their own way a lot and they don't listen to a lot. They need to listen more, from things like getting on the team bus on time to match plans.

"There were some stupid mental errors and ridiculous batting," added the Australian.

"Shakib (Al Hasan, the team's leading player) has got out playing that same shot five times on this tour. Their skill levels are as good as anyone's but I'm borderline disappointed and angry at the moment and I'm not sure what to say to them."

Bangladesh became the tenth full member of cricket's elite nations in 2000 and have shown little signs of improvement recently.

"We should be pushing teams like Ireland aside and pushing the likes of West Indies," said Siddons, who has been in charge for 20 months.

"In the back of my mind I'm thinking about our West Indies tour (next month) and putting pressure on them. That's where we need to show we are an improved side. Twenty20 is a lot of fun but two or three bad shots and you lose the game."

Second-tier Ireland, made up of mostly amateur players, will meet defending champions India on Wednesday, although both sides will progress to the next stage.

Ireland captain William proterfield said a lack of central funding from the International Cricket Council (ICC) made it difficult for his team to develop.

"The board does get frustrated and we need more funds to be able to put more players on a full-time contract than the two we have," Porterfield said. "We need to be playing day in and day out against quality opposition and it's important that happens to help us progress as a team."

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Air France Crash Crew Found Vertical Stabilizer

Brazil's air force said Monday — a key find that could help locate the black boxes and determine why the jet crashed.

Eight more bodies also were found, bringing the total recovered to 24 since Air France Flight 447 disappeared with 228 people on board, according to Air Force Col. Henry Munhoz.

The discoveries of debris and the bodies are all helping searchers narrow their hunt for the jet's black boxes, perhaps investigators' best hope of learning what happened to the flight. The data and voice recorders are located in the fuselage near the tail section of the jet.

William Waldock, who teaches air crash investigation at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Prescott, Arizona, said that does not mean the black boxes will necessarily be located near where the debris was recovered, "but finding the tail narrows down the area even further."

Brazilian military officials have refused to detail the large pieces of the plane they have found. But a video on the Brazilian air force Web site entitled "Vertical Stabilizer Found" shows video of the piece — which keeps the plane's nose from swinging from side to side — being located and tethered to a ship.

The part had Air France's blue-and-red stripes, was still in its original triangular shape and was not visibly burned.

Waldock — who examined the photos and video of the stabilizer and rudder — said the damage he saw looks like a lateral fracture.

"That would reinforce the idea that the plane broke up in flight," he said. "If it hits intact, everything shatters in tiny pieces."

No signs of burn marks on the stabilizer offered scant clues: Any explosion or fire in the fuselage would likely not make its way back to the tail section, according to Waldock. Examining the fracture surfaces will also be key, Waldock said, since it will indicate from what direction the force came that snapped the piece.

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