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NEWS ThURSDAY, OCTOBeR 18, 2018 2 'Showcase Bangladesh' in Malaysia in Feb '19 DHAKA : The Bangladesh- Malaysia Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BMCCI) is going to organise the 4th edition of "Bangladesh Showcase" in Kuala Lumpur for promoting Bangladeshi products in the Malaysian market. "The two-day showcase will begin on February 26, 2019 at the Hotel Istana in Kuala Lumpur for creating brand awareness about the Bangladeshi products and services to the Malaysian entrepreneurs," BMCCI President Syed Moazzam Hossain told BSS. BMCCI is organizing the fair in collaboration with the Bangladesh High Commission in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia South- South Association (MASSA) and Malaysia External Trade Development Corporation (MATRADE), he informed. He said the 'Showcase Bangladesh' is aimed at expanding the bilateral trade between Bangladesh and Malaysia by facilitating business-to-business interaction among interested companies. "Such events would set an effective platform for greater people-to-people connectivity and mutual economic growth," he added. Moazzam Hossain said Bangladesh has lucrative export product lines in terms of quality and sustainability, like readymade oven and knit garments, frozen fish, leather goods, jute and jute products, tea, pharmaceutical products, ceramic tableware, halal products, leather products and ICT. He said BMCCI is not only promoting Bangladeshi products in Malaysia but also offering better investment opportunities for the Malaysian entrepreneurs in Bangladesh. "The showcase targets holding several interactive networking options both for Bangladeshi and Malaysian business people," he added. Agriculture extension department, Narail organized a rally and discussion meeting recently marking National Rat Killing Drive-2018. Photo : Narail Correspondent Parents should be first sexual health educators of children' DHAKA : Parents should be the first and most important sexual health educators of their children, providing them proper knowledge on the matter, still considered taboo in society like ours and save them from any kind of misguidance, reports UNB. "It is important for parents to teach their children about sexual and reproductive health (SRH) because they may receive messages from television, social media and peers which may negatively influence their understanding of normal sexual and reproductive health," Chairperson of Asia and Oceania Federation of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (AOFOG) Prof Rowshan Ara Begum told BSS. Sometimes parents also feel hesitant to share such information to their children, she said. There are a variety of reasons; many parents have never received any sexual health education themselves, either from their own parents or in school. As a result, they don't feel equipped to broach this topic with their children, Prof Rowshan Ara Begum added. Some parents feel their children will get this information in school, so they don't feel the need to talk about this at home. Others are overwhelmed by the vast amount of information available on the Internet, and they just do not know what is credible and what is not, she said. Open discussion on SRH also help children to avoid any mistakes and help stop making wrong decisions," Obstetrical and Gynaecological Society of Bangladesh (OGSB) President Prof Laila Arjumand Banu told BSS. People in our country feel embarrassed to discuss topics related to sexual health. There was a strong belief among guardians that adolescents would become adventurous with such discussion, she said. Conversation between older generation and adolescents regarding sexuality was rare case and to avoid complexities associated with adolescent's physiological development, parents should discuss this issue very cordially with their children, the experts said. Woman crushed under train wheels in Ctg CHATTOGRAM :An unidentified woman was crushed to death under the wheels of a train near Bhatiari Bridge in Sitakunda upazila on Wednesday, reports UNB. Mustafiz Bhuiya, officer-in-charge of Railway Police, said the accident took place around 9:30 am when a train hit the woman while she was walking near the rail tracks, leaving her dead on the spot. On information, police recovered the body and sent it to a local hospital morgue for autopsy. Crew dies in cargo vessel fire in Ctg CHATTOGRAM : A crew member of a cargo vessel was burnt to death while two others sustained injuries as a fire broke out at the anchored vessel at Bijoynagar Ghat in Karnaphuli river in the port city on Tuesday night, reports UNB. The deceased was identified as Saiful Islam, 34, son of Abul Khayer of Fatikchhari upazila. Sub-inspector Alauddin of Chattogram Medical College Hospital police camp, said the vessel 'MV APS-1' caught fire around 11 pm, leaving three crewmembers of the ship injured. Later, they were taken to Chittagong Medical College Hospital where Saiful succumbed to his injuries. The two other injured Nahid, 18 and Mizan, 25 were admitted to the burn unit of the hospital. Youth's body recovered from Surma SYLHET : Police recovered the body of a young man from Surma River in Pirpur village of Sadar upazila on Tuesday, reports UNB. The deceased was identified as Sumon Ahmed, 27, son of Abdul Malik of the village. Enamul Hossain, a member of Tuker Bazar Union Parishad, said Sumon locked into a quarrel with his elder brother Abdul Karim over a trifling matter in the afternoon. At one stage of altercation, Sumon jumped into the Surma River and went missing after being chased by his brother. On information, a team of divers from local firefighting unit went to the spot and recovered the body, said Shafiqul Islam, officer-in-charge of Jalalabad Police Station. Youth held with Yaba pills in Khagrachhari KHAGRACHHARI : Police arrested a young man along with 22 pieces of Yaba tablets from Taidong Colony in Dighinala upazila on Tuesday night, reports UNB. The arrestee was identified as Shohagh Hossain, 18, son of Abul Kalam. Tipped off, a team of police conducted a drive in the area and arrested him along with the Yaba tablets, said Uttam Chandra Deb, officer-in-charge of Dighinala Police Station. Kumari Puja marks Maha Ashtami celebrations DHAKA : The Hindu devotees are celebrating Maha Ashtami, the most auspicious of the five-day Durga puja festival, at different Puja mandaps across the country, reports UNB. The main attraction of Maha Ashtami is Kumari Puja in which a pre-pubescent girl is worshipped as "Mother Goddess". The rituals began around 11:00 am where girls were worshipped as the goddess at Puja mandaps, including capital's Ramkrishna Mission Temple. The worshipped girl symbolises the power that regulates creation, stability and destruction on earth. The celebrations mark the triumph of good over evil. The goddess is bathed symbolically and dressed for the final battle. It is believed that on this day, Durga killed the demon. In old days, a buffalo was offered as sacrifice to the goddess. These days, bananas, pumpkins and cucumbers replaced the animal. Also known as Maha Ashtami, the day holds special significance in the social and religious calendar of the Hindus. Devotees of all ages are flocking to Puja mandaps to offer flowers at the feet of the girl Goddess Durga. SUST admission results published SHAHJALAL UNIVERSITY (SYLHET) : The results of the admission tests for the first year honours course at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) for 2018-19 session was published early Wednesday, reports UNB. Details of the results are available at the university's website admission.sust.edu. Besides, a notice in this regard will be available at the academic building of the university. A total of 76,180 students appeared in the admission tests for 'A' and 'B' units held on Saturday. For getting results through SMS, candidates will have to type "SUST Exam Roll number" and send it to 16242 from any mobile operator. Satkhira villagers find fortune in 'Vasaka' farming SATKHIRA : Many poor rural people of the district have found the cultivation of herbal plant 'Vasaka' highly profitable as different pharmaceutical companies are collecting its leaves from villagers at good prices because of its huge medical values, reports UNB. Vasaka or Adhatoda vasica or Malabar nut is an important Ayurvedic medicinal herb. All parts of the plant-from root to leaves-are used to treat many ailments. The plant is said to be effective in treating asthma, bronchitis, tuberculosis and other raspatory disorders. Hafizur Rahman, a resident of Fingri village in Sadar upazila, said once they planted Vasaka tree as a fence of their house and considered its leaves as garbage. Now, they are making money by selling those in the market. Amirun Begum, another resident of the village, said she normally buys per kilogram fresh leaves at Tk 5 and then she sells it at Tk 35 per kg. She said various pharmaceutical companies purchase Vasaka leaves from villages of the district for making medicines. Beauty Begum, a leader of Vasaka leaves collection group, said, "Once there was no financial importance of these leaves to us.We used the tree as fence of our house. Now, we collect leaves and sell those in the market." GD-1299/18 (6 x 3) GD-1297/18 (8 x 3) Sabina Khatun, Bina Das, Johora Khatun, Oporna Das, Rohela Khatun, Anwara Begum, Rebeka Sultana, Nasima Khatun, Nazma Begum, Hafizul Islam, Amina Khatun are among those who are making money selling Vasak leaves. There are huge Vasaka plants on both sides of a 6-km road in Fingri union of sadar upazila. Besides, there are around 10,000 Vasak trees at the homesteads of many people in the upazila. Some 100 tons of fresh leaves and around 26 tons dry leaves are collected here every year. Md Shamim Alam, an official at Satkhira Water Development Board, said around 285 women of the union are collecting leaves under 'Blue Gold Project' of the board. Different pharmaceutical companies buy their leaves. Md Anwarul Islam, a representative of Square Pharmaceuticals Limited, said the demand of Vasaka leaves is growing as it is widely used to make cough syrup. Prof Dr Nasrin Akhter, the head of Botany department of Satkhira Government College, said Vasaka plants are commercially grown here and elsewhere in the country as its leaves have huge medicinal values. Besides, he said, the soil of the district is suitable for Vasaka cultivation.
METRO THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2018 3 WASH activities tackle challenge in coastal belt and haors Climate change is increasingly making it difficult to implement sustainable water sanitation and hygiene programmes in the coastal and haor regions. Increasing water salinity along the coast, increase in arsenic level, rising bacterial contamination and lack of land suitable for digging pits to install sanitary latrines are the main problems in this regard. The added problems in the hilly terrains and hard-to-reach localities are intense water shortage and unavailability of cost-effective and sustainable WASH technologies. Effective solutions to these problems must be put in place through strengthening mass awareness and integrated initiatives to reach the SDG-6 of ensuring universal access to safe water, improved sanitation and hygiene practices. Speakers revealed this alarming scenario at a workshop titled "Sustainable WASH: Grassroots experience and way forward" organised on Wednesday at BRAC Centre in the capital. BRAC organised this event to forward recommendations to strengthen the WASH programmes focusing on these regions. Peter De Vries, first secretary to the Dutch Embassy, Dr Khairul Islam, country representative of Water Aid, SMA Rashid, Executive Director, NGO Forum for Public Health, Md Shofiqul Alam, specialist of WASH at the UNICEF, Bangladesh, Mohammad Golam Muktadir, executive engineer of Department Public Health Engineering, and Dr Md Akramul Islam, director of BRAC's Communicable Disease and WASH Programme, were present at the workshop as guests of honour and panel speakers. Dr Muhammad Musa, executive director of BRAC, gave the welcome speech at the programme. Dr Muktadir Kabir, programme head of BRAC's WASH and malaria programmes, gave the keynote presentation. Adequate number of cleaning staff is essential for the places and establishments where there are public gatherings to keep environment hygienic, Dr Khairul Islam observed, saying that, "But cleaning staff in Bangladesh has a high rate of dropping out. We have to give more effort and increase spending to retain cleaning staff." Peter De Vries said, "We understand that this sector is in need of an investment boost. My government's investments will continue in this sector. But we are more interested in investing in innovative solutions, capacity building and effective management." Dr Muhammad Musa in his speech thanked the Dutch government for its financial support to BRAC's WASH programme. Stressing priorities for Bangladesh to achieve SDG-6, he said, "Introducing sustainably effective solutions to the WASH sector in the hilly and remote areas is a high priority. Strengthening collaborations between the government and NGOs, reinforcing WASH activities at both primary and secondary schools and stepping up advocacy campaign both at the grassroots and policymakers must also be in the high priority list." The speakers put forth a number of recommendations which include: Strengthening collaboration among stakeholders to speed up the tackling of SDG- 6 challenges, involving local civil society to strengthen public awareness campaigns, creation and promotion of more private entrepreneurs to boost sanitation facilities, increasing national budget allocation to improve hygiene and faecal sludge management, intensifying WASH activities in schools and healthcare facilities across the country. BRAC began its water, sanitation and hygiene programme in 2006. At present this programme has expanded to 289 upazilas in 54 districts. So far, under this programme BRAC has provided access to safe drinking water for 20 lakh and 46 thousand (2.46 million) people and sanitary latrines for 4 crore 27 lakh and 60 thousand (42.76m) people. Besides it, BRAC has also installed 1,619 tube-wells till September this year in Cox's Bazar for the forcibly displaced Rohingyas of Myanmar. 22 vie for each seat in KU admission test KHULNA : At least 22 aspirants will vie for a seat in the first year honours courses in Khulna University (KU) under 2018-19 academic year. A total of 27,630 candidates applied against 1,229 seats in 29 Disciplines under six schools and two Institute, said a press release, issued by Atiar Rahman, Acting Director of Public Relation and Publication of KU. The online admission process for the first year honours courses in Khulna University under 2018-19 academic years ended on October 15 this year. Atiar Rahman said the final list of eligible admission seekers was published yesterday, adding that the entry test will be held on November 17, 2018 at KU campus. On November 17, admission test for Science Engineering and Technology School and Live Science School will be held from 8.30am to 10.00am under 'A' unit, while Arts and Humanity School, Law School, Social Science School and Education and Research Institute will be held from 12.00pm to 1.30pm and Fine Arts Institute will be held from 12.00pm to 2:00pm under 'B' unit and Management and Business Administration School will be held from 3.00pm to 4.30pm under 'C' unit. Candidates for written examinations have been warned not to carry any mobile phone or any electronic devices during the exam. BRAC organised an event titled "Sustainable WASH: Grassroots experience and way forward" on Wednesday at BRAC Centre in the capital. Photo : Courtesy To mark the World Food Day 2018, Department of Nutrition and Food Engineering (NFE) of Daffodil International University (DIU) in collaboration with Northern Consumers Products Ltd. brought out a Rally lead by Professor Dr. Yousuf Mahbubul Islam, Vice Chancellor of Daffodil International University. Photo : Courtesy Hasan Mahmud for resisting Oikya Front's anarchy DHAKA : Awami League (AL) Publicity and Publication Secretary Dr Hasan Mahmud yesterday said if the newly formed Jatiya Oikya Front tries to create anarchy in the country in the name of holding rallies, it will be resisted with the help of the people. "Jatiya Oikya Front has announced holding rallies in the divisional cities, including Sylhet. They will try to create anarchy through these rallies. But it will be resisted with the people's help, if they want to make such ill attempts," he said, addressing a human chain in front of the Jatiya Press Club here. Bangladesh Swadhinata Parishad organized the human chain, protesting the conspiracies of BNP- Jamaat and Dr Kamal Hossain and others against the country, with its advisor Rafiqul Islam Masud presiding. General Secretary of Dhaka City South unit of Awami League Shahe Alam Murad and Deputy Office secretary Miraj Hossain, President of Swadhinata Parishad Jinnat Ali Khan Jinnah and General Secretary Shahadat Hossain Toyel spoke in the protest programme, among others. Referring to the Jatiya Oikya Front leaders, former environment and forest minister Mahmud said, "Actually they are conspirators. BNP leader Begum Khaleda Zia has hired them. And they are hatching conspiracies against the country". Pointing out that Bangladesh National Awami Party (NAP) and National Democratic Party (NDP) quit BNP-led 20- party alliance yesterday, he said some more political parties would leave the alliance in the future. Puja festivity gets momentum in Ctg amidst worshipping Kumari CHATTOGRAM : The Hindu community on Wednesday observed Maha Ashtami through performing the day's main attraction Kumari Puja in the port city as elsewhere in the district. The Kumari Puja started at Shantoneshori Matri Mondir of Patharghata under city's Kotwali thana at 12 noon. The Goddess Durga is worshipped in various forms during the five-day Sharodiya Durgotsab and one of those is worshiping Kumari as an epitome of virginity. Several thousand of Hindu devotees assembled at the city's lone Kumari Puja venue to welcome and worship goddess Kumari at the podium. Seven-year-old Serioe Biswas Tathoi, a class one student of city's St Joseph School, was worshipped as Kumari. Devotees of all ages offered flowers at the feet of the Kumari, adored the girl with gold, silver and clothes, as part of their rites seeking blessings from the Goddess. The organisers also arranged cultural programmes on the occasion and later, Mohaprasad (sweets) along with anjali (flowers) was distributed among the devotees present there. All puja mandaps have been given decorative looks with colourful designs and lights while additional law enforcers have been deployed in all the temples in the city to maintain law and order situation during the festival. Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP)source said a five to seven-member team of law enforcers has been deployed at each Puja Mandaps and adequate numbers of law enforcer including, Armed Police Battalions members have already been deployed at all necessary points particularly at Hindhu community residing area to maintain law and order. GD-1295/18 (7 x 4) GD-1294/18 (6 x 4)
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