28-10-2022

fRIDAY, OCTOBeR 28, 2022
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Barishal City Mayor and Metropolitan Awami League General Secretary Serniabat Sadiq inaugurated
Haque Sporting Club at Banaripara.
Photo: S. Mizanul Islam
Barishal Mayor inaugurates Haque
Sporting Club at Banaripara
S. MIzANUL ISLAM, BANARIPARA
CORReSPONDeNT:
Barishal City Mayor and Metropolitan
Awami League General Secretary
Serniabat Sadiq Abdullah said that the
dream Padma Bridge is like the eighth
wonder to the people of the country.
Bangabandhu's daughter Prime
Minister Sheikh Hasina has been
eternally grateful to the people of the
country including the southerners for
the unprecedented development she
has achieved across the country
including Padma Bridge, Payra Sea
Port, Kornphuli Tunnel, Metro Rail and
Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant. He said
these things in his speech as the chief
guest at the 149th birth anniversary
celebration of Sher-e-Bangla Abul
Kasem Fazlul Haque, the first Prime
Minister of undivided Bengal at
Muktagacha Press
Club celebrates
39th anniversary
M YOUSUf, MUKTAGACHA
CORReSPONDeNT:
As part of the week-long
program of the 39th
anniversary of the
Muktagacha Press Club, an
exchange meeting of
journalists was held with the
new Muktagacha Upazila
Nirbahi Officer AKM Lutfar
Rahman on Wednesday
evening. Muktagacha press
club authorities organized
this exchange meeting in the
club's own building. FMA
Salam, the president of the
press club, presided over the
program where AKM Lutfar
Rahman, the new upazila
nirbahi officer was the chief
guest. The special guest was
the officer in charge
Mahmudul Hassan. Club
members
Professor
Mahbubul Alam Ratan,
Helal Uddin Nayan,
Manonesh Das, Ferdous
Alam, M Yusuf and others
spoke under the direction of
Press Club General
Secretary M Idris Ali. Club
members, journalists from
various print and electronic
media participated in the
discussion.
Two brothers held with
10 gold bars in Benapole
BeNAPOLe: Border
Guard Bangladesh (BGB)
claimed to have
apprehended two brothers
with 10 gold bars from near
Customs House in Benapole
on Thursday, reports UNB.
The two have been
identified as Milon Hossain,
28, and his younger brother
Hiron Mian, 25, son of
Shahfiqul Islam of
Munshipur village in
Damurhuda upazila of
Chuadanga.
Lieutenant Colonel
Shahed Minhaj Siddique,
commandant of BGB-49,
said on a tip-off, their team
nabbed the duo from near
Customs House around 9am
and seized the 10 gold bars
weighing around 1.1kg.
A case has been filed
against the brothers at
Benapole Port police station
in this connection, he added.
Chakhar, Banaripara, Barishal at 7 pm
on Wednesday and the inauguration
ceremony of the newly constructed 4-
storey building of Haque Sporting Club
established by him.
Chairman of Chakhar UP and
President of Huque Sporting Club Syed
Mojibul Islam Tuku presided over the
event and Sher-e-Bangla Dowhitra AK
Faiyazul Haque Raju, District
Additional Superintendent of Police
(Finance and Administration) Md.
Shahjahan Hossain PPM, Banaripara
Municipality Mayor Advocate Subhash
Chandra Sheel, Muladi Municipality
Mayor Shafikuzzaman Rubel, Upazila
Awami League President Bir
Muktijoddha Golam Saleh Manju
Molla, General Secretary Advocate
Mawlad Hossain Sana, Journalist and
Columnist Sohel Sani, President and
former UP of ChakharChairman Khizir
Sardar and others gave speeches as
special guests. Kazi Harun-or-Rashid's
live performance was also attended by
Hemayet Uddin Serniabat Sumon,
Barishal Metropolitan Awami League
Office Secretary and District Chhatra
League President, Metropolitan Awami
League Publicity Secretary Ziaur
Rahman Zia, District Chhatra League
Vice President Oliullah Ali and Sajjad
Serniabat, Mahanagar Chatra League
convenor Rais Ahmed Manna,
Banaripara Upazila Vice Chairman
Syeda Taslima Hossain Flora, OC SM
Masud Alam Chowdhury and others.
Apart from this, the General
Secretary of Chakhar Haque Sporting
Club Shamsul Haque Sikder Santu
along with various levels of leaders of
affiliated organizations including
Awami League and Chhatra League
were present
An exchange meeting of journalists was held with the new Muktagacha
Upazila Nirbahi Officer for the 39th anniversary of the Muktagacha
Press Club.
Photo: M Yousuf
The police recovered the body of a teacher of a coaching center in the rice fields
on the roadside adjacent to Bharnia Bazar of Thakurgaon Ranishankoil
Upazila on Thursday. A woman passer-by saw a body lying on the side of the
road while taking a walk in the early hours of Thursday morning. Later they
informed the locals who informed the police.
Photo: Md. Biplob
Two fresh Covid-19 cases diagnosed
in Rangpur
RANGPUR: Two fresh Covid-19 cases were diagnosed after testing 12 new samples at the
positivity rate of 16.67 percent on Wednesday in Rangpur division.
"With the diagnosis of the two fresh cases, the total number of Covid-19 patients rose to
64,938 in the division," Acting Divisional Director (Health) Dr. Md. Habibur Rahman said
today. The number of recovered Covid-19 patients remained steady at 63,579 as no more
patients healed during the last 24 hours ending at 8 am today.
The number of casualties also remained steady at 1,293 as no new death was reported from
the division during the last 24 hours. Meanwhile, more 9,577 doses of Covid-19 jabs were
administered as the first, second and booster doses on Wednesday raising the number of
inoculated jabs to three crore 33 lakh 34 thousand and 947 doses in the division.
Among the administered Covid-19 jabs on Wednesday, 1,173 children aged 5-11 years got
the jabs as the first doses. With this, the total number of children aged 5-11 years inoculated
with the first doses of the jabs rose to 5,09,223 in the division.
One killed,
two injured in
Khulna clash
KHULNA: A 40-year-old
man was killed and two
people were injured in a
clash between two groups
over previous enmity in
Dighalia upazila of Khulna
on Thursday, reports
UNB.
The deceased was
identified as Md Asabur
Sheikh, son of Ikhtiar
Sheikh of the upazila.
Witnesses said Nur
Islam Sheikh's sons Tutul
Sheikh, Kamal Sheikh and
Shahjalal Sheikh stabbed
Asabur with lethal
weapons at their yard
around 8.45am, leaving
him critically injured.
He was rushed to Khulna
Medical College Hospital
where physicians
pronounced him dead, they
said. Kamal Sheikh and
Shahjala Sheikh, who were
injured in the clash, were
undergoing treatment at
the upazila health
complex. Ripon Kumar
Sarkar, inspector of
Dighlia police station, said
they detained six people in
connection with the
murder.Additional law
enforcers were deployed to
fend off any untoward
incident, he said adding
that no case was filed.
Teachers day
observed in
Narail
HUMAUN KABIR, NARAIL
CORReSPONDeNT:
A rally and discussion
meeting was held on the
occasion of Teacher's Day
in Narail. On Thursday
morning, the rally started
from the Kurigram Sultan
Stage square in Narail city
and ended at the district
Shilpakala Academy.
Narail Government
Victoria College Principal
Prof. Rabiul Islam
presided over the program
and District Education
Officer Sayedur Rahman
gave a welcome speech.
Deputy Commissioner
Mohammad Habibur
Rahman gave a welcome
speech.
Among others, Prof.
Shahnara Parveen,
Principal of Narail
Government Women's
College, Anwar Hussain,
Principal of Shahabad
Majidiya Kamil Madrasa,
Maniruzzaman Mallick,
Principal of Abdul High
City College, Takibur
Rahman, Principal of
Dakshin Narail Shimulia
University, Swapan
Kumar Biswas, Acting
Principal of Mirzapur
United Degree College,
Sheikh Akidul Islam,
Senior Lecturer, Ajit
Biswas, Principal Pundrik
Biswas, Super KM Afchar
Hossain spoke during the
program.
Measures taken to boost oilseed,
pulse production in Rajshahi
RAJSHAHI: Vigorous measures for
boosting production of oilseed and pulse
have been taken as the demands of the crops
have been gradually increasing in the region
for the last couple of years, reports BSS.
"We are putting in the best efforts to meet
up the local demand enhancing local
production," said Mozdar Hossain, Deputy
Director of Department of Agriculture
Extension (DAE), while addressing a
seminar here today.
He said each the local fertilizer dealer is
requested to deliver quality and high yielding
mustard seeds among 20 farmers in their
respective areas for the upcoming rabi
season with their own initiatives.
Regional Office of Agriculture Information
Services (AIS) organized the seminar titled
"Boosting Production of Rabi Crops,
including Oilseed and Pulses, without
intervention of Paddy Yield in Rajshahi
region" at its conference hall.
DAE Additional Director Shamsul Wadud,
Regional Seed Certification Officer Shamim
Ashraf, DAE Deputy Directors Dr Abdul
Motaleb, Abdul Wadud and Polash Sarker,
Principal Scientific Officer of Fruit Research
Station Dr Shafiqul Islam and AIS Regional
Officer Dr Abdullah-Hil-Kafi also addressed
the seminar disseminating their expertise on
the issue.
Dr Sayeedur Rahman, Principal Scientific
Officer of Bangladesh Agriculture Research
Institute, gave an illustration on the
enormous aspects of boosting oilseed and
pulse production in the region during his
keynote presentation.
In his remarks, Shamsul Wadud said the
farmer-level crop production can easily be
enhanced to 15 to 20 percent on an average if
they can use quality seed on their farming
fields.
The field level agricultural officials and
other staff concerned should take the
responsibility of making the farmers
competent for enhancing production of
oilseed and pulses to meet mounting
demands of those in the region.
He told the meeting that there are
enormous prospects of boosting pulse and
oilseed production in the region including its
vast Barind tract and there is a need for
concerted efforts to materialize the
potentialities.
A rally and discussion meeting was held on the occasion of Teacher's Day
in Narail.
Photo: Humaun Kabir
Rural women changing fortune thru
govt-aided IGAs in Rangpur region
RANGPUR: Despite global crises caused
by the Covid-19 pandemic and Russia-
Ukraine War, many rural women are
earning well to change their fortunes
through income generating activities (IGAs)
in Rangpur region. With government
support and own initiatives, hundreds of
rural women have enhanced their capacities
in running IGAs creating jobs for
unemployed female youths and attained selfreliance.
Talking to BSS, Chairman of
Rangpur-based research organization
Northbengal Institute of Development
Studies Dr. Syed Samsuzzaman said
government supports extended to rural
women enabled them to get engaged in
various IGAs in the last 13 years. Many of
them have launched small-scale enterprises,
trade and businesses creating jobs for female
youths after getting assistance and training
from government departments and some
NGOs in Rangpur region. "Besides,
rehabilitation of homeless women under the
Asrayan project, providing training and
microcredits for IGAs, allowances and other
supports assisted them to improve
livelihoods and change fortunes," he added.
District Relief and Rehabilitation Officer of
Rangpur Md. Motahar Hossain said
successful implementation of massive social
safety-net programmes effectively helped
many rural women to improve livelihoods.
Deputy Director of the Department of
Women Affairs of Rangpur Kawser Pervin
said over 4,500 unemployed female youths
are earning well after getting training on
sewing, embroidering and other trades and
assistance from the government in the past
13 years.
Deputy Director of the Department of
Youth Development Md. Abdul Faruk
said more than 3,500 unemployed
youths, mostly women, have so far got
training and interest-free loans to
become self-reliant in Rangpur district
alone through IGAs.
Rangpur District Coordinator of 'Amar
Bari- Amar Khamar Project (ABAK) and
Palli Sanchoy Bank (PSB) Jahadul Islam said
over one lakh poor families have improved
living standards with ABAK and PSB
assistance in Rangpur district.
This is the first time Teacher's Day has been celebrated in Sirajganj's Ullapara. On the occasion of
the day, a discussion meeting and a public rally were organized. Ullapara 4 Constituency MP Tanveer
Imam gave a brief speech and inaugurated the rally. At this time, Upazila Awami League President,
General Secretary, and Organizing Secretary Mir Arifur Rahman Ujjwal, Teachers Association
President, General Secretary, officials of various departments of the upazila and teachers of various
educational institutions participated in the rally.
Photo: Badrul Alom Dulal