e_Paper, Monday, October 17, 2016

News 7
MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2016
DT
Right activists organise a rally in front of Barisal Central Shahid Minar yesterday marking the World Food Day
Three crushed
under train in
two districts
• Tribune Desk
At least three people were killed in
train accident in Brahmanbaria and
Lakshmipur districts yesterday.
In Brahmanbaria, two boys were
killed and another one injured as a
train crushed them in Bhadughar
rail crossing area of the district
town in the morning.
The deceased were Parvej, 15,
and Shuvo, 10. Another boy, named
Ripon. 10, was injured in the incident.
Sources at the Government
Railway Police (GRP) said when
the three children were taking the
video footage of ‘Sonar Bangla Express’
beside the rail track.
The tragic accident took place
when Bhairob-bound ‘Balla Local
Train’ rammed the children while
passing through the crossing, leaving
Parvej and Shuvo dead on the
spot and Ripon seriously injured.
Ripon was rushed to Brahmanbaria
Sadar Hospital from where he was
referred to Dhaka. Housewife crushed
under truck in Laxmipur Laxmipur,
On the otherhand a housewife
was crushed under the wheels of a
speeding truck at Char Jangalia on
Lakshmipur-Ramgati road in Kamalnagar
upazila, reports UNB.
The deceased was Farida Begum,
47, wife of M Hossain, a resident
of Char Jangalia village. •
DHAKA TRIBUNE
World Food Day celebrated
across the country
• Tribune Desk
The World Food Day was celebrated
in different areas of Bangladesh with
a call to boost production of agricrops
including fish and edible animals
to ensure food security for all.
This year’s theme of the day is
‘Climate is Changing and Food and
Agriculture Must too’.
In Gaibandha, Department of
Agriculture Extension (DAE) and office
of the District Controller of Food
chalked out the programmes in cooperation
with district administration.
In the morning, a procession
was brought out from the premises
of district collectorate building and
ended at the same venue after parading
the main roads of the town.
Later, a discussion was held at the
conference room of DC office with
deputy director of DAE AKM Ruhul
Amin in the chair while DC M. Abdus
Samad addressed it as the chief guest
and chief executive officer of Zila
Parishad MAKS Mahbubur Rahman
was present as the special guest.
The meeting was also addressed,
among others, by district
controller of food M. Amzad Hossain,
Gobindaganj upazila agriculture
extension officer Dilruba
Yasmin, and journalist Sarker M.
Shahiduzzaman.
The speakers underscored the
need for boosting production of high
value crops rice, wheat, and maize
at larger scale through using the all
the arable land through adapting to
the changed climatic condition to
achieve country’s food security
The speakers also emphasized on
farming fish culture and rearing cow,
goat and poultry birds to meet the
demand of protein and vegetables
and species crops which are used for
curry cooking side by side with value
crops farming, reports BSS.
DC M. Abdus Samad in his
speeches thanked the agri scientists
of the country for innovating
agri technologies and the officials
of DAE for implementing it in field
level in enhancing the food production
to push forward the country
towards desired development.
Our Barisal correspondent reported
that right activists organised a rally
in front of Barisal Central Shahid
Minar and later brought out a procession
in the city marking the day.
The programme was organised
and participated by activists of different
rights development organisations
including Food safety Network,
Prantojon, BELA, MAP and
Human Rights Alliance.
The programme was addressed
among others by Dr Syed Habibur
Rahman, S M Shazada, Zakir Hossain,
Shuvangkar Chakraborty, Mizanur
Rahman, Lincoln Bayen, B N Khan,
Shawkat Ali Badal, Shahjalal, Aleya
Parvin, Mannan Kiron, Ziaul Hassan,
Ibrahim Hamid Masum, right activists.
Our Magura correspondent said
Rova Foundation organised different
programs in the town to celebrate
the day.
Members of the foundation held
a rally in the morning and arranged
a discussion at Magura sadar upazila
office premises with Rova Foundation
executive director Kazi
Kamruzzaman in the chair.
In Satkhira, a discussion was
held at the auditorium of Satkhira
Press Club marking the day.
Yarab Hossen, president of Tuzulpur
Krishak Club presided over
the function where Abul Kalam
Azad, president of the press club,
Anisur Rahman, president of the
district unit Nagorik Committee,
Prop Ashek Elahi, editor of the local
daily Dakhiner Mashal and Josna
Dutta, secretary of Mahila Parishad
spoke on the occasion.
World Food Day is celebrated
every year around the world on
October 16 in honor of the date of
the founding of the Food and Agriculture
Organization of the United
Nations in 1945. •
4 killed in Savar
• Nadim Hossen, Savar
Four people were killed in separate
incidents including two women in
different areas of Savar yesterday.
At Hemayatpur, a group of miscreants
killed night guard of a CNGrun
auto-rickshaw garage Helal
Uddin, 60, hailed form Narsinghdi
district, by giving him electric
shock at Joynabari and took away a
three-wheeler.
Ppolice recovered the body of
Shirina Akter, 18, from her house
at Birulia village in the morning.
Later, her body was sent to Dhaka
Medical College Hospital (DMCH)
morgue for autopsy. At Bhakurta,
the slaughtered body of an unidentified
young man was recovered in
the early hours on Sunday.
On information, police recovered
the body and sent to DMCH
morgue.
In another incident, a group of
youths took an elderly woman to
Savar Upazila Health Complex with
severe injuries and they then fled.
The unidentified man succumbed
to his injuries hours after admission.
Police suspected the man might
have been beaten to death.
Senior Assistant Superintendent
of Police of Savar Model Police
Station Mahabubur Rahman
said police were investigating the
incidents. •
14 villages in
Satkhira go
under water
• Asaduzzaman, Satkhira
At least 14 villages in Assasuni
upazila of Satkhira district have
been inundated as tidal surge damaged
an embankment at Kola area
in Kholpetua River, leaving more
than thousand people marooned.
Locals said, nearly 250-feet of
Kholpetua River embankment was
damaged due to heavy pressure of
tidal bore at Kola area in the Assasuni
upazila of the district yesterday
early morning.
The gushing water swept
through Kola, Pratapnagar, Hijlia
and Sreeula unions where thousands
acres of paddy fields and fisheries
enclosure were washed away.
Locals blamed Water Development
Board (WDB) for not repairing
the embankment in due time which
was in endanger for several years.
Zakir Hossain, chairman of Pratapnagar
union, said: “Few days
ago, several villages were washed
away as Kola embankment was
damaged due to tidal bore. Yesterday,
nearly 250-feet of the embankment
go in the river which caused
flood in the area.”
Abu Hena Shakil, chairman of
Sreeula union, blamed WDB for
their negligence and said: “WDB
did not repair the embankment in
the due time.” •