09-07-2018

NEWS
MONDAY,
JUlY 9, 2018
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Anti-Repression Teachers organized a strolling at Central Shaheed Minar area of the capital city
yesterday demanding trial of attackers.
Photo : TBT
Firearms,
ammo seized in
Khulna; 2 held
TiTash ChakraborTy,
khulna CorrespondenT
Khulna district Detective
Branch (DB) arrested two
alleged arms traders along
with one revolver, one
shooter gun and 1 round of
cartridge from Terokhada
upazla on Sunday. District
Detective Police In-charge
Inspector Tofail Ahmed
confirmed the news.
The arrestees were identified
as Shaukat Bhulu, 50, son of
late Jahur Molla from Nebunia
village and Bashir Faruk, 42,
son of Mohsin Fakir from the
same village.
District Detective Police Incharge
Inspector Tofail Ahmed
informed that a team of
Detective Branch (DB) police,
based on secret information,
raided the house of Bhulu
Miah and arrested the accused
along with the firearms and
ammo. Sensing the police
others arms traders staying at
the house fled the scene.
A case was filed in
connection with the incident.
Business
booming for
plastic giants as
change beckons
PARIS : It's the worst enemy
of
environmental
campaigners, but people
around the world use
mountains of plastic every
day and business is booming
for manufacturers.
Much to the chagrin of
activists, an increasingly
restrictive regulatory
environment appears to
have put little dent in the
industry's power so far.
That is changing,
however, and plastic giants
are starting to adapt.
From 2006 to 2016,
global plastic output rose
from 245 million to 348
million tonnes, according to
the PlasticsEurope trade
association.
Amjad Khan's death anniv
observed in Habiganj
Md MaMun Chowdhury, habiganj CorrespondenT
The third death anniversary of Major
General (retd) Amjad Khan Chowdhury,
founder of PRAN-RFL group, was observed
in Habiganj Industrial Park on Sunday.
Doa mahfil and special feast was arranged
the occasion of his death anniversary. The
organization's flag and black flag were kept
half-way and day long Tilawat-e-Quran was
held by P. A system,marking his death
anniversary.
General Manager of Habiganj Industrial
Park hasan Md Manjurul Haque chaired the
IMF bailout on the cards for
Pakistan's next govt: analysts
ISLAMABAD : Pakistan's next government, to be
chosen in a July 25 election, faces growing fears of a
balance of payments crisis with speculation it will
have to seek its second IMF bailout in five years,
analysts say.
The central bank is running down its foreign
reserves and devaluing the currency in a bid to
bridge a yawning trade deficit, and the winners of
the July 25 election will have "limited time" to act,
Fitch ratings agency said on July 2.
Together, the economic challenges are
"horrendous", said Dr Ashfaq Hassan, an analyst
and former financial advisor to Pakistan
government.
"The most important (challenge) will be how to
protect Pakistan's balance of payments, how to build
Pakistan's foreign exchange reserves and how to fix
its fiscal position," he told AFP.
Plagued for years by Islamist militancy, Pakistan -
a rapidly growing country of some 207 million
doa mahfil. Among others departmental
heads of PRAN-RFL group were also present
at the occasion.
Visionary entrepreneur, industrialist and
founder of PRAN-RFL group Amjad Khan
Chowdhury breathed his last in the USA on
July 8, 2015.
He was born in Natore on 10 November in
1939.
He retired from Bangladesh Army in 1981
and started the journey of PRAN-RFL
Group, through founding Rangpur Foundry
Limited.
people - has been battling to get its shaky economy
back on track and end a years-long chronic energy
crisis that has crippled industry.
Confidence had grown slightly in recent years,
with security improving and the IMF claiming in
October last year that the country had emerged from
crisis after completing its post-2013 bailout
programme.
The previous government of former prime
minister Nawaz Sharif attempted to ease the power
shortages, enact structural reforms and improve the
creaky infrastructure which previously hampered
growth.
China has also made progress on an ambitious multibillion
dollar infrastructure project - the China-Pakistan
Economic Corridor (CPEC) -linking its western province
of Xinjiang to the Arabian Sea via Pakistan. But growth
has not been as fast as many hoped. The economy grew
by 5.8 percent during 2017-18, its fastest since 2005 but
still missing a government target by 0.2 percent.
US adds 213,000 jobs in June,
unemployment rate jumps to 4%
WASHINGTON : Employment in the world's largest economy continued its brisk pace in
June but the unemployment rate jumped as more people joined the job hunt, according to a
government report Friday.
The US added 213,000 new jobs for the month, well above analyst expectations, but the
jobless rate rose 0.2 points to four percent, erasing the improvement in May and April.
Yet another month of robust job creation showed that, despite complaints from companies
nationwide about the worsening labor shortage, there remained untapped pockets of idled
workers at last able to reenter the jobs market after nearly a decade of economic recovery.
As unemployment rose, the closely watched labor force participation rate also edged higher
to 62.9 percent, while the number of people counted as unemployed rose to 6.6 million
people, up nearly a half million.
The new committee of Bangladesh Photo-Journalist Association took part in a photo session at captial's
Purana Paltan own office yesterday after taking responsibility.
Photo : TBT
Setting up
of solar
street lights
progressing
fast
KHULNA : Setting up of
solar LED and non LED
light over 58.8 kilometres
roads at Khulna City
Corporation (KCC) is
progressing fast.
A total of 77 solar LED and
2, 729 non LED light and
1947 electricity polls are
being set up in the city
corporation area, said an
official of KCC.
He said already 700
electricity polls have been
set up in the city in last
month.
The KCC authority has
taken the project involving
Taka 22 crore in
cooperation with Asian
Development Bank (ADB)
last year.
Executive Engineer of
KCC (Electricity) Zahid
Hossain Sheikh told BSS
that KCC has taken the
Solar LED project instead of
sodium light as the latter is
very expensive.
The environment friendly
light will save electricity bill,
he said, adding the bulbs
also help curb crimes
including mugging,
robbery, stealing and road
accident in the city.
Major Oxford Conference
to see entrepreneurship
in Bangladesh discussed
The 8th International Conference on the
Restructuring of the Global Economy
(ROGE) will be taking place at the Said
Business School, University of Oxford on the
9th - 10th 2018. This prestigious academic
conference is being attended by academics,
business practitioners and policy makers
from thirty three countries and is set to
explore such issues as diverse as Business
Corporate Governance and the Economic
Impact of Emerging Cyber Attacks. As well
as academic paper presentations there will
be a number of workshops including one on
Meditation and Leadership. A particular
highlight will be the session that takes
Bangladesh as its focus. Prof. Md. Sabur
Khan, Chairman, Board of Trustees, Daffodil
International University (DIU), Bangladesh
will be delivering a keynote address entitled:
Accelerating Innovation to spur the growth
of global Entrepreneurship with special
reference to Bangladesh. Other key note
speakers are: Prof. Fabrizio Pezzani,
Department of Policy Analysis and Public
Management, University of Bocconi, Italy;
Dr. Jatin Pancholi-Middlesex University,
London, UK; Prof. Alan Parkinson, Deputy
Director (Education) and Principal Teaching
Fellow, School of Management, University
College London, UK; Anindya Dasgupta,
FRM, Senior Project Manager, Nordea
Investment Management in Copenhagen,
Denmark; Dr. Srini Sampalli, Professor and
3M National Teaching Fellow, Dalhousie
University, Halifax, Canada; Prof. David
Graves, Dg Anti-Fraud Consultants, UK;
Prof. Jo-Ann Rolle, Dean, Business School,
Medgar Evers College, City University of
New York, USA; Mark T. Jones, Centre for
Innovative Leadership Navigation, London,
UK; Prof. Dr Imbarine Bujang, Head of
Postgraduate Studies, Universiti Teknologi
MARA, Malaysia, a press release said.
Dr P. R. Datta, the Chair of this conference
and Executive chair of the Academy of
Business and Retail Management (ABRM),
UK firmly believe that such international
conference will help significantly to all
researchers in pursuit of research,
scholarship and practice and aid in
supporting future career development.
8th International Conference on
Restructuring of the Global Economy
(ROGE) will be attended by over 120
participants and presentations from around
the world, including University professors,
academics and business professionals,
student's observers, providing knowledge
sharing and networking possibilities from
which as an observer can augment their
current knowledge and understanding with
great benefits
The ROGE Conference will been an
important platform for the exchange of
ideas. It is being co-hosted by the Academy
of Business & Retail Management
(www.abrmr.com) and the Journal of
Business and Retail Management Research.
The University of Oxford is the oldest
university in the English-speaking world.
Demanding election, Jalil-Kazal-Madhu Parishad organized a press conference at Dhaka Reporters
Unity yesterday.
Photo : TBT
Aush paddy transplantation at
final stage in Barind tract
RAJSHAHI: Farmers are seen very
much busy in their final stage Aush
paddy transplantation everywhere in
the region including its vast Barind
tract, reports BSS.
They are now transplanting the late
varieties developed by Bangladesh Rice
Research Institute (BRRI) with the
hope of getting good yield.
Acreage of the paddy is gradually
increasing here as diversified steps
including promotion of drought
tolerant but high yielding varieties and
special incentives were adopted to
boost its production in the region.
Jaidur Rahman, a farmer of
Karnahar village under Paba Upazila,
said they are facing great trouble in
transplanting paddy due to shortage of
rainfall. The transplantation season is
passing away rapidly.
In the previous seasons, they got both
better yield and price of the midterm
paddy in the region. So, in spite of the
rainfall scarcity problem, the
enthusiastic farmers are seen very
much busy in the transplantation
through irrigation.
Dr Shakhawat Hossain, Senior
Scientific Officer of Bangladesh
Agriculture Research Institute, here
said BRRI released seven drought
tolerant varieties and some of those
have gained popularity among farmers
during the last couple of years.
He said there has been an enormous
prospect of bringing harvesting
intensity coupled with increasing food
production through a successful
promotion of the developed varieties.
To maintain sound soil health, it
could be advisable to grow rice using a
different system in order to improve
compatibility between monsoon rice
and upland winter crops.
The newly innovated paddy varieties
have opened up a door of enormous
prospects for food security along with
mitigating the crises of irrigation water.
Meanwhile, some 34,750 farmers got
incentives of seed, fertilizer and
irrigation support for the cultivation of
Aus paddy in the current Kharif-1
season in four districts in Rajshahi
region.
Of the total, 31,000 farmers received
incentives for cultivation of high
yielding Aush on 31,000 bigha of lands
while 3,750 farmers for Nerica paddy
on 3,750 bigha of land.
Each of the Aush paddy farmers got
five kilograms seed, 20 kilograms urea,
10 kilograms DAP, 10 kilograms MoP
fertilizers and cash of Taka 500 for
irrigation purpose.
On the other hand, each of 3,750
farmers got 10 kilograms seed, 20
kilograms urea, 10 kilograms DAP, 10
kilograms MoP fertilizers and Taka 500
for irrigation and Taka 500 for weeding
to cultivate nerica paddy.
Mustafizur Rahman, additional
director of Department of Agriculture
Extension (DAE), said the agricultural
incentives help boosting Aush paddy
production.
Agriculturist Rahman expected that
around 4.37 lakh tonnes of Aush paddy
will be produced on 1.75 lakh hectares
of land this season. Aush
transplantation is progressing fast
everywhere in the region at present.
Electrification boosts rural
economy in Rangpur
RANGPUR: Rural economy in the district is boosting as the small and medium
scale entrepreneurs have set up 5,360 power-run cottage and small-scale
industries and enterprises taking the advantage of rural electrification, reports
BSS.
"The power-run enterprises are thriving fast creating jobs to cut poverty and
improve life standard of the rural people," said Superintending Engineer (Current
Charge) at Rangpur Zonal Office of Rural Electrification Board (REB) Md Ramjan
Ali. Two Palli Bidyut Samity (PBS) authorities have so far given around 5.80-lakh
residential, industrial and other connections, including 5,360 connections to
cottage and small and medium scale industries and enterprises here.
"The PBS-1 and PBS-2 have brought three upazilas under total electricity
coverage and are working to bring other five upazilas under full electricity coverage
here by September next," Ali added.
Talking to BSS, Anwarul Islam, 55, of village Chandanpat Matiyapara under
Sadar upazila said he led poor life with his wife Sheuly Begum, 43, and son Shishir,
5, for years together. "But, my life started changing since I set up a welding
workshop 'Shishir Traders' at nearby Chandanpat Bazar and started welding
works using electricity two years ago," he said. Anwarul now earns Taka 20,000 to
25,000 a month after paying monthly electricity bills ranging between Taka 1,500
and 2,000. Youth Shudha Ranjan, 30, of village Matiyapara said he started
running a small welding workshop at Chandanpat Bazar five years back using
electricity there. "Now, I earn over Taka 20,000 a month to meet all demands of
my family comprising of my mother Bano Bala and elder brother Nirmal
Chandra," said a solvent Ranjan adding that he would marry soon.