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METRO<br />
SUNDAY, AUGUST <strong>12</strong>, <strong>2018</strong><br />
3<br />
Initiative to promote low-cost<br />
sanitary napkin launched<br />
DGM Conference-<strong>2018</strong> of Bangladesh Rural Electrification Board (BREB) was held at its headquarter<br />
on Saturday. In that Conference, more than 3 hundred Deputy General Managers (DGM) of<br />
80 Rural Electricity Association and field level executive engineers were present. The chairman of<br />
BREB Maj Gen (retd) Moin Uddin gave direction to all DGMs against corruption being present as the<br />
chief guest.<br />
Photo: Courtesy<br />
Rangpur region suitable<br />
for enhancing Aus rice<br />
cultivation: DAE DG<br />
RANGPUR : Director General (DG) of the<br />
Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE)<br />
Agriculturist Mohammad Mohsin has said<br />
the Rangpur region is suitable for enhancing<br />
cultivation of eco-friendly and less irrigation<br />
water consuming Aus rice.<br />
"The farmers have exceeded the fixed Aus<br />
rice cultivation target by 28,000 hectares of<br />
land this season in the country. Of the total,<br />
the farmers managed to exceed the fixed<br />
Aus rice farming target by 15,000 hectares<br />
of land alone in Rangpur region," he said.<br />
The DAE chief disclosed the information<br />
while addressing a view-sharing meeting<br />
with the agriculture officers in the<br />
conference room of the DAE's Additional<br />
Director's office here on Friday as the chief<br />
guest, a press release said.<br />
The event was arranged as part of its DG's<br />
'Inspection of ongoing agricultural activities<br />
and taking necessary steps' programme in<br />
Rangpur agriculture region with its<br />
Regional Additional Director Md Shah<br />
Alam in the chair.<br />
Vice-principals of different Agriculture<br />
Training Institutes (ATI), Deputy Directors,<br />
District Training Officers, Additional<br />
Deputy Directors, Horticulture Specialists<br />
and Upazila Agriculture Officers of the DAE<br />
from all over Rangpur region were present.<br />
Vice-principal of Tazhat ATI Agriculturist<br />
Md Golam Mostafa, Deputy Director of<br />
Burirhat Horticulture Centre Agriculturist<br />
KM Moududul Islam, Deputy Director of<br />
Rangpur DAE Agriculturist Dr Md Sarwarul<br />
Haque and Mithapukur Upazila Agriculture<br />
Officer Agriculturist Md Khorshed Alam<br />
narrated the ongoing field level agricultural<br />
activities, issues, problems and necessary<br />
suggestions.<br />
Regional Farm Broadcasting Officer of the<br />
Agriculture Information Service<br />
Agriculturist Md Abu Sayem moderated the<br />
function.<br />
The DAE Chief said farmers exceeded the<br />
fixed Aus rice farming target in Rangpur<br />
region to achieve a bumper output following<br />
adoption of time-befitting technologies and<br />
distribution of incentives by the present<br />
pro-farmer government.<br />
"There are ample scopes to enhance Aus<br />
rice farming in Rangpur agriculture region,"<br />
he said and suggested the field level<br />
agriculture officials for adopting plans to<br />
inspire the local farmers in enhancing<br />
cultivation of less irrigation water<br />
consuming Aus rice.<br />
He expressed satisfaction over adoption of<br />
the 'Logovo' method of transplantation of<br />
Aman rice seedling in rows by keeping a row<br />
blank after every ten rows in the fields.<br />
To reduce the risk of floods, he directed<br />
his field level officials to strengthen<br />
monitoring of the prepared late variety<br />
Aman rice seedbeds on highlands and<br />
floating seedbeds in low-lying flood-prone<br />
areas so that there was no seedling crisis for<br />
floods.<br />
Case filed over<br />
incident of hitting<br />
Home Minister's car<br />
DHAKA : A case has been<br />
filed in connection with the<br />
incident of hitting the Home<br />
Minister's car in front of<br />
National Institute of<br />
Cardiovascular Diseases<br />
(NICVD) Sher-e-Bangla<br />
Nagar area in the capital on<br />
Friday night, reports UNB.<br />
Traffic Inspector Ekhlasur<br />
Rahman filed the case<br />
against helper Manik and<br />
driver Ibrahim Khalil Emon<br />
with Sher-e Bangla Nagar<br />
Police Station around<br />
11:45pm, said sub-inspector<br />
Yadul, a duty officer at the<br />
police station.<br />
A bus of New Vision<br />
Paribahan hit Home<br />
Minister Asaduzzaman<br />
Khan's car in front of NICVD<br />
around 8:45pm when he was<br />
coming out of the institute<br />
after visiting a patient, said<br />
the SI.<br />
The minister was unhurt<br />
but the rear side of the<br />
vehicle got damaged.<br />
Police later detained the<br />
driver and helper of the bus.<br />
The incident took place at a<br />
time when the Traffic Week,<br />
an annual programme of the<br />
Dhaka Metropolitan Police<br />
aiming to raise awareness<br />
and bring discipline in road<br />
transport, is underway. It<br />
was inaugurated by the<br />
minister on August 4.<br />
Meanwhile, police have<br />
taken legal actions against<br />
113,423 vehicles, realised<br />
fines amounting to around<br />
Tk 3.77 crore and seized<br />
3,544 vehicles in separate<br />
drives against traffic rules<br />
violators across the country<br />
in three days since the<br />
Traffic Week began on<br />
Sunday.<br />
UGC chairman<br />
seeks locals' help<br />
to set up RMSTU's<br />
permanent<br />
campus<br />
RANGAMATI : Chairman of<br />
University Grants<br />
Commission (UGC),<br />
Bangladesh Prof. Abdul<br />
Mannan sought local<br />
people's help in establishing<br />
a permanent campus for<br />
Rangamati Science and<br />
Technology University<br />
(RMSTU), reports UNB.<br />
He came up with the urge<br />
while inaugurating a<br />
workshop after signing an<br />
agreement between UGC<br />
and RMSTU at a<br />
programme arranged at<br />
Rangamati Parjatan Holiday<br />
Complex.<br />
Mentioning that 64 acres<br />
land have been acquired for<br />
the project, he said the<br />
permanent campus will be<br />
built under a master plan of<br />
Tk 227crore this year.<br />
Already digital survey has<br />
been completed, said the<br />
UGC chairman.<br />
BSMMU cardiology<br />
dept's reunion on<br />
Sept 29<br />
DHAKA : Bangabandhu<br />
Sheikh Mujib Medical<br />
University (BSMMU)<br />
Alumni Association of<br />
Cardiology Department will<br />
hold a reunion at the<br />
BSMMU on September 29.<br />
BSMMU Vice Chancellor<br />
Professor Kanak Kanti<br />
Barua is expected to join the<br />
function as chief guest while<br />
Chairman of the Cardiology<br />
Department Professor Syed<br />
Ali Ahsan will preside the<br />
meeting.<br />
Cardiology Department<br />
Professor Dr Mustafa<br />
Zaman and Associate<br />
Professor Dr Jahanara Arzu<br />
are the conveners of the<br />
programme.<br />
Associate Professor Dr<br />
Jahanara Arzu said<br />
registration is going on to<br />
held the function.<br />
She urged the interested<br />
alumni to communicate<br />
with the Cardiology<br />
Department (Room 418) for<br />
registration.<br />
Writers-Students-Teachers-Cultural activists jointly formed a human chain in front of National<br />
Press Club yesterday demanding release of Shahidul Alam.<br />
Photo : TBT<br />
DHAKA : Speakers at a programme<br />
on Thursday urged for promoting<br />
affordable and sustainable sanitary<br />
napkin products for marginalized<br />
women to protect them from<br />
infectious diseases, reports UNB.<br />
The speakers came up with the urge<br />
while Ella, a non-profit organisation<br />
working for menstrual hygiene of<br />
female industry workers, launched a<br />
partnership with several others<br />
organisations at British Council<br />
Auditorium in the city.<br />
The partners include Beximco,<br />
Dulal Brothers Ltd, Persona,<br />
Momitex Expo Ltd and Support.<br />
According to the organizers, Ella<br />
Alliance is working for producing<br />
environment friendly sanitary<br />
napkins called Ella pads and other<br />
hygiene products from garment<br />
scraps fabrics those are left after<br />
producing tons of garments in the<br />
textile factories in Bangladesh.<br />
Ella alliance works with a view to<br />
ensure health and wellbeing of<br />
marginal women with a mission of<br />
zero waste from textile and to create<br />
new entrepreneurs, said the<br />
organizers.<br />
Mamunur Rahman, founder of Ella<br />
Pad said, in this project, garments<br />
scraps will be reused to make lowcost<br />
feminine hygiene product.<br />
Claiming sanitary napkin as a<br />
luxurious product for the garment<br />
workers because of being<br />
expensive for them, he said,<br />
Bangladesh is losing<br />
approximately 200 million<br />
workdays every year as the female<br />
workers are absent in heavy flow<br />
days losing their salaries as well.<br />
"Female workers of those textile<br />
garment factories make Ella for<br />
themselves so that they don't have to<br />
spend a lot on expensive branded<br />
sanitary pads and still can maintain<br />
hygiene during their menstruation"<br />
added the founder saying the target is<br />
also to create new entrepreneurs<br />
from the poor working women.<br />
Dr Nowsheen Sharmeen Purabi, a<br />
gynecologist said, due to lack of<br />
hygiene maintenance women of the<br />
country face different serious health<br />
issues.<br />
Due to the high cost of commercial<br />
sanitary napkins, the marginalized<br />
women cannot afford the hygiene<br />
which affects their health, she added.<br />
Low cost production of the pads<br />
using garment scraps would help<br />
these women to afford their hygiene<br />
maintenance, said the gynecologist.<br />
Mirza Nurul Ghani Shovon,<br />
President of National Association of<br />
Small and Cottage Industries of<br />
Bangldesh (NASCIB), said, if the<br />
underprivileged women and female<br />
RMG workers are given proper<br />
support they can emerge as new<br />
entrepreneurs producing these low<br />
cost hygiene products.<br />
Ahmed Abdul Kabir Chowdhury,<br />
CSR and Compliance Manager of<br />
Beximco, said, the Ella Pad comes in<br />
two sanitary product variants-regular<br />
biodegradable napkins and low-cost<br />
reusable underwear.<br />
If the factories allow the female<br />
workers to use the necessary facilities<br />
such as machinery, scraps, leftovers<br />
and space they can produce the<br />
products for using themselves and<br />
distribute the surplus to fellow<br />
workers, he said.<br />
He further added that most<br />
importantly, these female workers<br />
are getting these sanitary products<br />
free of cost. The whole process is<br />
managed by the female workers<br />
themselves.<br />
Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists (BFUJ) formed a human chain in front of National Press Club<br />
yesterday demanding arrest of miscreants who attack on photo journalists recently. Photo : TBT<br />
'Terrorist' killed<br />
in Chattogram<br />
gunfight<br />
CHATTOGRAM : A<br />
suspected terrorist was killed<br />
in a 'gunfight' with police at<br />
Dudhkumra in Anwara<br />
upazila early Saturday,<br />
reports UNB.<br />
The deceased was<br />
identified as Mohammad<br />
Nasir alias Mamun, 35, son of<br />
Haju Kalamiah of Boalia and<br />
accused in 18 cases including<br />
murder and gang-rape.<br />
Dulal Mahmud, officer-incharge<br />
of Anwara Police<br />
Station, said police arrested<br />
Mamun on Friday<br />
afternoon.Later, a team of<br />
police conducted a drive in<br />
the area along with Mamun to<br />
recover arms.When the team<br />
reached the area around 1am,<br />
a gang of terrorists opened<br />
fire on them, prompting the<br />
law enforcers to fire back in<br />
self-defence, triggering the<br />
gunfight.Mamun received<br />
bullet while trying to flee and<br />
died on the spot. Police<br />
recovered one LG, several<br />
rounds of bullet from the<br />
spot.Two policemen were<br />
also injured.<br />
Pregnant woman's<br />
body recovered in<br />
Savar<br />
SAVAR : Police recovered the<br />
hanging body of a pregnant<br />
woman from Solai Market<br />
area in Bhakuta union here<br />
early Saturday, reports UNB.<br />
The deceased was identified<br />
as Ratna, 30, wife of Khairul<br />
Islam, a lineman of Palli<br />
Bidyut Samity.<br />
Locals said that family<br />
members found the body of 9-<br />
month pregnant Ratna<br />
hanging from a ceiling fan at<br />
her room and informed<br />
police.Later, police recovered<br />
the body and detained<br />
Khairul.Sujan Biswas, subinspector<br />
of Bhakurta Police<br />
Camp, said as autopsy would<br />
be done to determine whether<br />
the incident was murder or a<br />
suicide.<br />
Photojournalists are eyes<br />
of the society: Discussants<br />
RANGPUR : Discussants at a launching function<br />
yesterday termed the photojournalists as the eyes of the<br />
society while the other journalists as the conscience of<br />
the society.<br />
"The photojournalists take professional risks in<br />
bringing out all types of events happening in the society<br />
through their cameras to present the real situation<br />
before the whole nation," said Member of Bangladesh<br />
Cricket Board (BCB) Anwarul Islam.<br />
Anwarul, also Organising Secretary of district Awami<br />
League (AL), said this in the function arranged by<br />
Rangpur Photo Journalists' Association (RPJA) at its<br />
new office at City Park Market as the chief guest.<br />
Earlier, Anwarul formally inaugurated the new office of<br />
RPJA by cutting ribbon in the function.<br />
Later, special munajats were offered seeking eternal<br />
peace of the departed soul of the Architect of<br />
Independence and Father of the Nation Bangabandhu<br />
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and continuous success of<br />
RPJA.<br />
With RPJA President Aftabuzzaman Hiru in the chair,<br />
Office Secretary of district AL Tauhidur Rahman Tutul<br />
addressed the function as special guest.<br />
General Secretary of RPJA Shahidur Rahman Shahid<br />
delivered welcome speech in the function moderated by<br />
its Office Secretary Rezaul Karim Jiban.<br />
President of Mahiganj Press Club Bablu Nag, former<br />
General Secretary of RPJA Shakil Ahmed, its incumbent<br />
Vice-president Golzar Hossain Ador, journalists<br />
Humayun Kabir Manik, Uday Chandra Barman, among<br />
others, addressed.<br />
The chief guest called upon the photojournalists and<br />
other journalists to play their responsible role in<br />
accelerating national development through their<br />
professional activities by sincerely following the ethics of<br />
journalism in conducting responsibilities.<br />
Businessman<br />
stabbed dead<br />
in Jhenidah<br />
JHENIDAH : A businessman<br />
was stabbed to death allegedly<br />
by a medicine shop owner at his<br />
shop in the district town on<br />
Friday night, reports UNB.<br />
The deceased was identified<br />
as Mizanur Rahman, son of late<br />
Monwar Hossain of Dhigol<br />
village in Shailakupa upazila.<br />
Quoting witnesses, Milu<br />
Miah Biswas, additional<br />
superintendent of Jhenidah<br />
police, said Mizan was talking<br />
to pharmacy owner Amirul<br />
Islam at his drugstore in front<br />
of Shishu Hospital around<br />
9pm.Hearing screams of Mizan<br />
at one stage, locals rushed in<br />
and found him dead in front of<br />
the medicine shop.Kanak<br />
Kumar Das, additional<br />
superintendent of Sadar circle<br />
police, said Mizan might have<br />
been killed over internal issues<br />
between the two.<br />
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