20-10-2022

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Joypurhat Zilla Parishad
election held peacefully
health protection items and food aid have been distributed among 1850 families of four unions in
tahirpur upazila of Sunamganj on Wednesday.
photo: jahangir alom Bhuiya
Two go missing
in River Chhoto
Jamuna
JOYPURHAT: Two youths
went missing today in the
River Chhoto Jamuna in the
district this noon during Kali
idol immersion, reports BSS.
The youths were identified
as Shonjit Bashfor, 21, and
Tonmoy Razok, 16. They
were the residents in Rail
Colony in Joypurhat town.
Joypurhat Fire Service
sources said the incident
occurred in Chak Shaym
Ghat area in the river. On
information fire fighters
rushed to the spot and
started rescue operation,
said Deputy Assistant
Director of Joypurhat Fire
Service Showkot Ali Joarder.
Shonjit was a degree level
student under Open
University while Tonmoy
used to study at Kashiabari
High School in the town.
good neighbors Bochaganj mahila Samabay Samity (gnBmSS) limited held their 1st annual general
meeting on Wednesday.
photo: Suman Chandra
GD-1696/22 (6x3)
Upazila World
Visions distributes
aid in Tahirpur
jahangir alom Bhuiya, tahirpur CorreSpondent:
Health protection items and food aid have been distributed
among 1850 families of four unions in Tahirpur Upazila of
Sunamganj who were affected by floods.
On Wednesday afternoon, organized by Upazila World
Vision and with the assistance of Hong Kong government, it
was distributed to Tahirpur Sadar, Balijuri, Badaghat and
Uttar Baradal Union.
As the chief guest, Tahirpur Upazila Parishad Chairman
Karuna Sindhu Chowdhury Babul handed over food and safety
items to the beneficiaries among the flood-affected families.
Meanwhile, Upazila Women Vice Chairman Khaleda
Begum, Upazila Assistant Commission (Land) Md.
Asaduzzaman Roni, Ward Vision Operations Director Sagar
Marandi, Deputy Direct Manzoor Maria Palma, ACO Kajal
Dong, Tahirpur Sadar Union Parishad Chairman Junab Ali,
Upazila Press Club President Ramendra Narayan Boishakh,
Joint General Secretary Jahangir Alam Bhuiyan, World Vision
AP Manager Bivudhan Biswas, Upazila Program Officer Md.
Golam Saklain, Field PQ Specialist Pranab Dey and others
were present.
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GNBMSS holds
1st annual general
meeting
Suman Chandra, BoChaganj
CorreSpondent:
1st Annual General Meeting
organized by Good Neighbors
Bochaganj Mahila Samabay
Samity (GNBMSS) Limited at
Bochaganj, Dinajpur. On
Wednesday, the 1st annual
general meeting was
organized at the ground
premises of Good Neighbors
Bochaganj Mahila Samabay
Samity Limited at Bochaganj,
No. 1 Nafanagar Union of the
Upazila.
Upazila Chairman Advocate
Md. Zulfikar Hossain spoke as
the chief guest under the
chairmanship of Pratima
Rani, President of Good
Neighbors Bochaganj Mahila
Samabay Samity. Chairman
of No. 1 Nafanagar Union
Shahnewaz Parvez, Upazila
Cooperative Officer Zainal
Ahmed, Good Neighbors
Bangladesh Bochaganj CDP
Project Manager Bipul Rema
and others were present as
special guests.
maShrakul alom, joypurhat
CorreSpondent:
Zilla Parishad elections were held
peacefully in Joypurhat amidst great
enthusiasm and tight security.
Joypurhat District Awami League
Advisory Council Member Principal
(Retd.) Khaja Samsul Alam was elected
Chairman by getting 391 votes in
pineapple symbol. His closest rival
District Jasod President Abul Khair Md
Sakhawat Hossain got 96 votes in palm
tree symbol.
District Election Officer Muhammad
Aminur Rahman Mia said that 5 booths
(polling centers) were set up in 5
Upazila Parishad auditoriums of the
district. Voting is done through
Electronic Voting Machine (EVM)
from 9 am to 2 pm.
The voting process is monitored
round the clock through the CC
cameras of each polling station.
Executive Magistrate and Judicial
Magistrate Team on behalf of Election
Commission along with full-time law
and order forces Police, DB, BGB.
Sabina Chowdhury, General
Secretary of Joypurhat District
Women's Awami League, Kalai, Khetlal
and AkkelpurUpazila (Reserved Ward
No. 2) Ratna Rashid has been elected in
the reserved seats (female members) of
Joypurhat. Apart from this, the elected
Youth sentenced to
death for killing school
girl after rape in Ctg
CHATTOGRAM: A
Chattogram court here
today awarded death
penalty to a young man for
killing a school girl after
raping her in 2018.
The judge of the Speedy
Trial Tribunal Abdul Halim
handed down the verdict
convicting Shahnewaz Siraj
alias Munna, son of
Shahjahan Siraj, of Photika,
Shahjalalpara village under
Hathazari upazila of the
district.
The court also acquitted
convict's father Shahjahan
Siraj and mother Niger
Sultana from the charges as
it was not proved during the
trial.
The court also fined Taka
one lakh to the young man
for the same crime.
The prosecution story in
brief was that Munna raped
and murdered a student of
class eight forcibly taking
her to the fourth floor of
Salam Mansion of the area
on September 14 in 2018.
Later, the victim's elder
brother filed a murder case
against Shahnewaz Siraj
Munna and his parents with
Hathazari Thana over the
incident.
DNCRP unearths fake
sanitary manufacturing
factory in Rajshahi
RAJSHAHI: A team of the Department of National
Consumers Right Protection (DNCRP) has unearthed a fake
sanitary napkin manufacturing factory in the city yesterday,
reports BSS.
DNCRP Deputy Director Hassan Al Maruf said they
conducted a drive in Terakhadia Mathurdanga area under
Rajpara Police Station and found the factory manufacturing
unhygienic sanitary napkins and pads.
They also found the factory functioning unlawfully and
without permission of any legal authority. The napkins were
being manufactured with substandard cotton, garments and
abandoned clothes.
Maruf said the produced napkins are totally harmful to
female health.
Subsequently, the DNCRP team fined the factory owner
Taka 20,000 for the irregularities, he added.
One held with 2,950 litres
local liquor in C'nawabganj
CHAPAINAWABGANJ: Members of Rapid Action Battalion
(RAB) arrested an alleged drug peddler with 2,950 litres of
locally made liquor from Shibganj upazila of the district
yesterday morning, reports BSS.
The arrested person is Md. Bairul Islam, 42, a resident of
Chandshikari Moddhyopara area of the upazila.
On a tip-off, an operation team of RAB-5 from
Chapainawabganj camp conducted a raid at Chandshikari
village at around 6.30 am and arrested Bairul with the liquor,
RAB sources said.
Later the elite force handed him over to the police of
Shibganj Police Station.
Zilla parishad elections were held peacefully in joypurhat amidst
great enthusiasm and tight security. photo: mashrakul alom
general members are- Panchbibi
Upazila (1st Ward) Abu Saeed Al
Mahbub Chandan, Joypurhat Sadar
(2nd Ward) Ramzan Ali, Kalai Upazila
(3rd Ward) Md. Rafiqul Islam, Khetlal
Upazila (4th Ward) Abdul Hannan
Mithu and Akkelpur Upazila (Ward No.
5) Mazharul Anwar Liton.
The total number of voters of
Joypurhat District Parishad was 492
people. Among them 375 were men
RANGPUR: Responding to the call of Prime
Minister Sheikh Hasina to bring every inch of
land under crop farming, enthusiastic farmers
have begun cultivation of winter vegetables on
their croplands and homesteads in Rangpur
agriculture region, reports BSS.
Officials of the Department of Agricultural
Extension (DAE) said steps have been taken to
inspire farmers and rural people in cultivating
vegetables on their croplands, fallow lands and
homesteads to enhance crop production.
"A production target of 9,61,170 tonnes of
winter vegetables has been fixed from 40,470
hectares of land for the region during this current
Rabi season," said Additional Director of the
DAE for Rangpur region Mohammad Shah
Alam.
Farmers have already brought 2,000 hectares
of land under cultivation of early varieties of
winter vegetables in Rangpur, Gaibandha,
Lalmonirhat and Kurigram districts of the
region. Sowing of winter vegetable seeds
continues in the region where rural people,
including women, are also cultivating vegetables
on their homesteads, nearby abandoned and
fallow lands.
"Following the call of the Prime Minister to
enhance food production in the wake of global
crises caused by the Covid-19 pandemic and
GD-1697/22 (7x3)
and 117 were women. Out of this, 490
votes were cast. Elected public
representatives of five upazilas, five
municipalities and 32 unions of
Joypurhat exercised voting rights in the
Zilla Parishad elections.
2 candidates for the post of chairman,
8 candidates for reserved (female) seats
and 25 candidates for general
membership posts contested in the
ZillaParishad elections in Joypurhat.
Enthusiastic Rangpur farmers begin
winter vegetable cultivation
Russia-Ukraine War, farmers are cultivating
vegetables with huge enthusiasm," Alam said.
Deputy Director of the DAE for Rangpur
region Md. Mahbubar Rahman said farmers are
showing interest in farming winter vegetables
after getting repeated bumper productions with
fair prices in recent years.
"Farming of winter vegetables will get full
momentum when harvest of the traditional
varieties of Aman rice will continue in full swing
from the third week of November," Rahman
said. Deputy Director (Leave Reserved) of the
DAE at Khamarbari in Dhaka Abu Sayem said
farmers are expected to bring more lands in the
mainland, riverine char areas and fallow
homesteads under cultivation of winter
vegetables. Many farmers started farming early
winter vegetables soon after the recession of
floodwater from their submerged croplands in
low-lying char areas this year.
Besides, farmers are also cultivating winter
vegetables after harvesting short duration
varieties of Aman rice from the first week of the
current month in Rangpur region.
"As a result, some early varieties of winter
vegetables have already appeared in local
markets following early cultivation of those by
farmers adopting newer cropping patterns amid
changing climatic conditions," Sayem said.