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METRO<br />

SUNDAY, AUGUST <strong>12</strong>, <strong>2018</strong><br />

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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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