04-11-2022

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Joypurhat district Awami League observed Jail Killing Day. Various programs including black flag
hoisting were held on the occasion.
Photo : Masrakul Alam
11 BNP men
remanded over attack
on Justice Manik
DHAKA : A court yesterday
placed 11 leaders and activists of
BNP on two-day remand each
in a case lodged over the alleged
attack on former Supreme
Court judge AHM Shamsuddin
Chowdhury Manik.
The remanded accused are-
Maksudur Rahman Sumit, Md
Sakhawat Hossain Khan, Md
Robin Khan, Md Sagor, Md
Jasim Uddin Bhuiyan, Md
Harun Ur Rashid, Motiur
Rahman, Shamim Rahman,
Jamal Hossain, Ariful Islam
and Abu Taher.
Dhaka Metropolitan
Magistrate Devdas Chandra
Adhikari passed the order as
police produced the accused
before the court and pleaded to
place them on five-day remand
each.
After six years, UN climate
summit returns to Africa
MOMBASA : The U.N. climate summit is back in
Africa after six years and four consecutive
Europe-based conferences, reports UNB.
The 27th annual Conference of the Parties of
the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate
Change - better known as COP27 - will be held in
the resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt and
begins next week. It's been branded as the
"African COP", with officials and activists hoping
the conference's location will mean the
continent's interests are better represented in
climate negotiations.
Hosts Egypt say the meeting represents a
unique opportunity for Africa to align climate
change goals with the continent's other aims, like
improving living standards and making
countries more resilient to weather extremes.
Organizers expect over 40,000 participants, the
highest number ever for a climate summit on the
continent.
Ever since the conference's first iteration in
Berlin in 1995, the U.N. climate summit
continues to rotate annually among the five U.N.
classified regions: Africa, Asia, Latin America
and the Caribbean, central and eastern Europe,
and western Europe. It's the fifth time that an
African nation has held the U.N. climate summit,
with Morocco, South Africa and Kenya all
serving as former hosts.
The first African summit, held in Marrakech in
2001, passed landmark accords on climate
funding and made other key decisions on land
use and forestry. The following three meetings
on the continent had some success on issues like
adapting to climate change, technology and
sowing the seeds for the Paris Agreement in 2015
years earlier. Marrakech is also the last African
city to host the event, having hosted a second
COP in 2016, that aimed to implement some of
the Paris goals.
The Paris Agreement, considered a major
success of the U.N. climate summits, saw nations
agree to limit warming to "well below" 2 degrees
Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit), with an aim of
ICSB council
meets finance
secretary
DHAKA : The newly-elected
council members of the
Institute of Chartered
Secretaries of Bangladesh
(ICSB), led by its President
Mohammad Asad Ullah,
called on Fatima Yasmin,
senior secretary of Ministry
of Finance, at her secretariat
office yesterday
On behalf of the council,
the ICSB President
introduced the newly-elected
office bearers' and council
members to the Secretary
and apprised her of various
activities that ICSB
undertook for professional
development as well as its
future plans, said a press
release here.
The Finance Secretary gave
a patient hearing to various
activities of the Institute and
appreciated the role of ICSB
towards the development as
well as promoting the
chartered secretaries
profession in the country.
She also assured her
continued support to the
ICSB.
The council members
hoped that her continued
support and guidance would
help the institute to move
forward to achieve its
objectives.
Senior Vice-President of
the Council Mohammad
Nurul Alam, its vicepresident
AKM Mushfiqur
Rahman, member Oli Kamal
and Secretary and Chief
Executive Officer of the
Institute Md Zakir Hossain
were present at the meeting.
Pope presses Muslim dialogue
in first papal visit to Bahrain
VATICAN CITY : Pope Francis is bringing his
message of dialogue with the Muslim world to the
kingdom of Bahrain, where the Sunni-led government
is hosting an interfaith conference on East-
West coexistence even as it stands accused of discriminating
against the country's Shiite majority.
Human rights groups and relatives of Shiite
activists on death row have urged Francis to use
his visit, which begins Thursday, to call for an end
to the death penalty and political repression in
Bahrain. But it's not clear if Francis will publicly
embarrass his hosts during his four-day visit, the
first of any pontiff to the island nation in the Persian
Gulf, reports UNB.
Francis has long touted dialogue as an instrument
of peace and believes a show of interfaith
harmony is needed, especially now given Russia's
war in Ukraine and regional conflicts, such as in
Yemen. On the eve of the trip, Francis asked for
prayers so that the trip will promote "the cause of
brotherhood and of peace, of which our times are
in extreme and urgent need."
The visit is Francis' second to a Gulf Arab country,
following his 2019 landmark trip to Abu
Dhabi, where he signed a document promoting
Catholic-Muslim fraternity with a leading Sunni
cleric, Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb. Al-Tayeb is the
grand imam of Al-Azhar, the seat of Sunni learning
in Cairo. Francis followed that with a 2021 visit
to Iraq, where he was received by Grand Ayatollah
Ali al-Sistani, one of the world's pre-eminent
Shiite clerics. Francis will meet again this week in
Bahrain with al-Tayeb, as well as other prominent
figures in the interfaith field who are expected to
attend the conference, which is similar to one hosted
last month by Kazakhstan that Francis and el-
Tayeb also attended. Members of the regional
Muslim Council of Elders, the spiritual leader of
the world's Orthodox Christians, Patriarch
Bartholomew, a representative from the Russian
Orthodox Church and rabbis from the United
States are all expected, according to the Bahrain
program. The trip will also allow Francis to minister
to Bahrain's Catholic community, which numbers
around 80,000 in a country of around 1.5
million. Most are workers hailing from the Philippines
and India, though trip organizers expect pilgrims
from Saudi Arabia.
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