04-11-2022

Friday, Dhaka : November 4, 2022; Kartik 19, 1429 BS; Rabi-us-Sani 8 , 1444 Hijri
Although brinjal is available at local market for twelve months, now is the time to cultivate
brinjal as a winter vegetable. As the environment is favorable, the farmers are very inclined
towards brinjal cultivation. The picture is taken yesterday from Sariakandi Amtali area of
Bogura district.
Photo : Sangit Roy Bappy
BNP is the main mastermind
of politics of killing: Quader
DHAKA : Awami League General
Secretary Obaidul Quader yesterday said
BNP is the main mastermind of the politics
of killing, terrorism and intrigue in the
country but the killing and terrorism must
be stopped forever under the leadership of
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
"The main master of the politics of
killing is the BNP. They are the ones who
killed Bangabandhu, four national leaders
in prison and AL leaders and workers by
throwing grenades on August 21 in 2004,"
he said, reports BSS.
Quader, also the Road Transport and
Bridges Minister, made the remarks while
talking to reporters after paying tributes to
the portrait of Father of the Nation
Bangabandhu Sheikh MujiburRahman at
Dhanmondi-32 here.
"We cherish the values of the Liberation
War in our spirit. For this, democracy
must be institutionalised in politics and
the politics of killing must be stopped forever
under the leadership of Sheikh
Hasina. This fight is going on," he said.
Terming the August 15 carnage of 1975
the most brutal killing in the world history,
the AL general secretary said
Bangabandhu's daughters - Sheikh
Hasina and Sheikh Rehana - escaped the
killing as they were abroad.
The killing of the four national leaders in
prison was continuation of the August 15
carnage, he said, adding that as a result of
continuation of the politics of killing, 23
fresh lives were bled on Bangabandhu
Avenue in an anti-terrorist rally in 2004.
BNP's ill politics
should be stopped:
Hasan
DHAKA : Information and Broadcasting
Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud yesterday
said BNP's ill politics should be stopped to
get rid of confronting politics forever from
Bangladesh, otherwise it won't be possible
to eliminate the politics of collision,
reports BSS.
He said ZiaurRahman was involved in
Bangabandhu killing on August 15 and jail
killing on November 3 in 1975.
Zia and his wife Begum Khaleda Zia had
chosen the path of killings and conflicts to
keep intact their power, he added.
The minister told the newsmen after
paying rich tributes to the graves of August
15 martyrs and the national four leaders at
Banani in the capital this morning marking
the Jail Killing Day.
A miladmahfil and special munazat
were also offered there.
Hasan said the worst killing in history
was orchestrated on this day in 1975. The
four national leaders were brutally killed
in the Dhaka Central Jail, he said, adding
they (the four leaders) didn't betray with
Bangabandhu.
He said it is regrettably true that the
killing literally took place in the hand of
ZiaurRahman as Zia was then in fact in
power. Zia was not only involved in the
killing of Bangabandhu, he was also
involved in the November 3 killing, said
Hasan, also Awami League joint general
secretary. He said Zia had started the politics
of killings and he killed armed forces
officials without any trial. Zia had
extremely violated the human rights in the
country, he added.
Bangladesh, Vietnam eye
$2 billion trade in 2023
DHAKA : Vietnamese Ambassador to
Bangladesh Pham Viet Chien has
expressed optimism that the bilateral
trade between the two countries will reach
$2 billion mark in 2023 when the two
countries will celebrate 50 years of diplomatic
relations, reports UNB.
In the first nine months of 2022 calendar
year, the bilateral trade turnover
between the two countries has reached
$1.1 billion and it is expected to reach $1.5
billion by end of December.
"If this trend keeps continuing, I hope
that trade between the two countries will
reach $2 billion in 2023," Ambassador
Chien told UNB in an interview, terming
the economic relations between the two
countries "robust".
Responding to a question, the
Vietnamese envoy said he has always
encouraged Bangladeshi businesses to
promote more Bangladeshi goods and
services to the Vietnamese people so that
Bangladesh can export more products to
the Vietnam market. "I think there is a lot
of potential to further boost the economic
relations between the two countries - from
manufacturing industry to agriculture," he
said seeking more cooperation with each
other as economic cooperation is one of
the most significant features of the bilateral
relations between the two countries.
The two countries want to maintain a
high economic growth and keep moving
towards realising the targets to be upper
middle-income countries in 2030 and
then developed and high-income countries
in the early 2040s, living up to the
dreams of the two founding fathers:
Bangabandhu Sheikh MujiburRahman
and Vietnamese President Ho Chi Minh.
"One of the significant pieces of evidence
is that complementary cooperation
between the two countries can help each
other to realise and implement the development
strategy of each country," said the
Vietnamese envoy.
The bilateral trade between the two
countries now is in favour of Vietnam, said
the Ambassador.
BNP rally in Barishal
Commuters suffer as launch,
speedboat services suspended
BARISHAL : Launch and speedboat services
have been suspended in Barisahl district,
causing suffering to commuter.
Speedboat movement was halted on
Wednesday evening while launch on
Thursday morning amid BNP's allegation
that launch owners went on the sudden
strike as per the government's directive
ahead of the Bangladesh Nationalist
Party's (BNP) divisional rally slated for
November 5.
KabirHossain, inspector of river security
and traffic management department of
Bangladesh Inland Water Transport
Authority (BIWTA), said local people carried
out an attack on a launch named
'Awlad' and the launch owners enforced
the strike protesting the incident, reports
UNB.
The launch and speedboat services will
remain halted till November 5, he said.
However, the launch services on
Mehendiganj and MajuChowdhuryrhaat
routes remained undisrupted, he said.
No launches on Barishal-Bhola route
have left Barishal River Port and DC ghat
since morning.
However, the launch and speedboat
owners did not disclose any reason behind
the strike.
SaifulMridha, a launch passenger said "I
have come to the launch ghat to go to
Bhola in the morning but I did not find any
launche and speedboat operating since
morning."
The UNB correspondent found a number
of passengers waiting at Bheduriaghat
in Bhola for speedboat.
Earlier, three-wheeler drivers in
Barishal called a strike on November 4
and 5 demanding the authorities concerned
allow three-wheelers to operate on
the highway. The strike has coincided
with the upcoming rally of the BNP while
bus owners in the district have announced
a similar strike on the same dates.
The rally in Barishal will be the 5th one
by the BNP at the divisional level as four
others were held in Chattogram,
Mymensingh, Khulna, and Rangpur.
Fortified rice to be made available
DHAKA : Food Minister Sadhan Chandra
Majumder yesterday said fortified rice will
be made available through launching massive
campaign to address malnutrition
problem of the people.
"Fortified rice is one of the most effective
means to address micronutrient deficiencies
and improve nutritional status of the
people in the country," he told the inaugural
function of launching fortified rice as a
commercially product in Bangladesh at a
city hotel, reports BSS. Chairman of
Parliamentary Standing Committee on
the Food ministry DipankarTalukdar, MP,
Secretary of Coordination and Reforms of
Cabinet Division MdAtiurRahmanAtik
and Resident Representative and Country
Director of the World Food Programme
(WEP) Dom Scalpelli, senior officials and
leading nutritionists, among others
addressed the function.The minister said
mill owners across the country are polishing
rice, which is eventually destroying
food values of rice.
RCC election on
December 27
DHAKA : Rangpur City Corporation election
will be held on December 27. The
election schedule was finalised at a meeting
of the Election Commission (EC) with
Chief Election Commissioner
KaziHabibulAwal in the chair at the
Election Commission Secretariat on
Thursday, reports BSS.
EC Secretary Md Jahangir Alam
announced the schedule after the meeting.
He said the Commission has also decided
to use electronic voting machines
(EVMs) and CCTV cameras in the election.
The balloting will start at 8.30 am and
continue till 4.30 pm without any break.
The election to the city corporation was
held on December 21, 2017. The first
meeting was held on February 19, 2017.
The tenure will end after five years of the
first meeting.
The meeting also held an elaborate discussion
on different local government
elections and by-elections in vacant posts.
It also decided to hold elections to five
municipalities and a number of union
parishads on December 29.
The five municipalities are-Bagha,
Rajshahi, Birol, Dinajpur, Boda,
Panchagarh, Alfadanga, Faridpur and
Banpara, Natore.
Increase supervision in
case investigation: Police
HQ to field officers
DHAKA : Police headquarters has given
instruction to field level police officers to
bring criminals under the law, through
increased supervision in case investigation.
The instruction was given from the
monthly crime review meeting held at the
police headquarters on Thursday, reports
UNB.
Additional IGP (Crime and Operations)
Md. Atiqul Islam, who presided over the
meeting, gave the instruction.
All metropolitan police commissioners,
tange DIGs and district superintendents
of police (SPs) participated virtually in the
meeting. DIG (Crime Management) YM
BelalurRahman, DIG (Operations)
MdHaider Ali Khan and related officers
were present at the police headquarters.
AIG (Crime Analysis) Sunanda Roy presented
statistics regarding the overall
crime situation of the country in the
month of September 2022 such as robbery,
murder, rape, gender violence,
recovery of drugs and weapons, unnatural
deaths etc.
HSC Exam
Police ban public movement
within 200 yards of Centers
DHAKA : Dhaka Metropolitan Police
(DMP) has imposed a ban on the movement
of anyone except Higher Secondary
School Certificate (HSC) students and
exam officials, within 200 yards of test
centres in the capital.
The DMP announced the new step in a
statement Thursday. The HSC and equivalent
exams are scheduled to begin on
November 6. More than 12.03 lakh students
are expected to sit for the exams at
2,649 centres, from 9,181 institutions
under 11 educational boards.
The public will be completely barred
from travelling within 200 yards of test
centres to ensure "proper and lawful"
exams, according to DMP Commissioner
KhandkerGulamFaruq.
Action will be taken if
any vandalism or public
sufferings seen: Kamal
DHAKA : Law enforcing agencies will perform
their duties if anyone causes public
sufferings in the name of protests by
blocking roads and vandalism, said Home
Minister Asaduzzaman Khan on
Thursday.
The Home Minister referred to a recent
statement by Prime Minister Sheikh
Hasina that any party can hold their activities
peacefully and there is no objection
from the government, reports UNB.
But, the minister said, action will be
taken if there is any vandalism or public
sufferings.
"The Prime Minister believes that if the
political activities are conducted normally,
parties will hold meetings and talk about
their demands. Our government does not
intend to obstruct and are not obstructing
such activities," the minister said.
The minister made the remarks as he
talked to journalists in a dialogue organised
by Bangladesh Secretariat Reporters
Forum (BSRF) at the secretariat on
Thursday.
He said that in case of any violent act,
cases will be filed as a normal procedure.
"Yesterday, a former justice's car was
vandalised and he filed a case following
the normal procedure. There is no need to
find the smell of politics here," said the
minister.
When asked if old political cases are
being reopened against the opposition
leaders, he said, "There is a backlog of
cases that need to be disposed of. We cannot
keep old cases pending for decades, so
nothing is being done here."
He said Awami League has always
believed a party has to come to power
through the people's mandate, and if any
kind of untoward incident occurs or there
are attempts to do so, the security forces
will act.
Int'l community must act with
fund and solutions to help most
vulnerable nations
DHAKA : Climate expert Prof Dr
SaleemulHuq says that the international
community must act and support the
worst affected and least responsible
nations with "funding and solutions" to
deal with climate change impacts, reports
UNB.
Climate change unequally impacts vulnerable
nations and indiscriminately creates
global crises causing chaos, new
poverty and violation of human rights.
"COP27 must make good on this agenda,"
said Prof Saleemul, Chair of the
Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF) expert
advisory group, speaking at a report
launching event on Wednesday.
The flagship report entitled "Climate
Vulnerability Monitor, 3rd edition: A
Planet on Fire", commissioned by the CVF
and the Vulnerable Twenty (V20) Group
of Ministers of Finance of the CVF presented
stark proof that climate change
impacts generate loss and damage, globally
creating crises for society, human health
and development.
Prof Saleemul said the Climate
Vulnerability Monitor provides them with
the anatomy of the loss and damage the
world now lives with because of decades of
insufficient climate inaction by rich, powerful
and responsible countries.
He said the detailed impact data and
evidence presented by the CVM3 provides
sobering reading on just how bad the situation
already is, and how much worse it
will become with fast rising global health
risks, extreme heat events, and economic
shocks, to name a few.
"Loss and damage have become the
biggest risk to global prosperity in the
present age," Prof Saleemul quoted as saying
in a message received from Accra,
Ghana.
Disclosing comprehensive new data on
the impact of climate change, the report
also highlighted the asymmetric consequences
for society which deepen global
inequalities with poorer and more vulnerable
nations the hardest hit.
Ban Ki-moon, Chairman of the Board of
Global Center on Adaptation and 8th UN
secretary-general, said with this third edition
"CVM" they see clearly just how much
humanity finds itself at the crossroads.
Sadly, we have become a "Planet on Fire",
as the report's title highlights.
"If we do not act now, by the end of
the century, millions of lives would be
lost every single year because of
scorching heat," said the former UN
secretary general.
Suspended DIG
Mizanur terminated
over graft case
DHAKA : Suspended Deputy
Inspector General (DIG) of police
MizanurRahman, who is now in jail
over a corruption case, has been
fired from the service on Thursday.
The home ministry on Thursday
issued a notification, signed by its
Senior Secretary MdAminul Islam
Khan, saying that his termination
will be counted from February 23,
2022 when the High Court sentenced
Mizan to three-year in
prison, reports BSS.
According to the notification, a
charge sheet was filed on June 6,
2019 against MizanurRahman
(Additional Commissioner of Police
DMP, suspended and attached to
the Directorate of Police) on multiple
charges including the
Prevention of Money Laundering
Act -2012.
This order has been issued in public
interest, added the notification.
Pakistan kept their slim Twenty20 World Cup hopes alive with a 33-run win over South Africa in a rain-affected
Group 2 clash at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Thursday.In the picture, Babar Azam's reaction after his side beat
the proteas by 33 runs at the SCG.
Photo : ICC