07-02-2021

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Major General Md Mahbubur Rahman of Director General, Directorate General of Drug
Administration addressing a seminar organized marking World Cancer Day.
Photo : ISPR
CU Prof Kamrul
Huda passes away
CHATTOGRAM : Former acting
Registrar Dr. Kamrul Huda, also
a professor of Botany
Department under CU passed
away Friday night at Bangladesh
Spine and Orthopaedic Hospital
in Kalyanpur in Dhaka.
He left behind his Mother,
wife, one son, one daughter and a
host of colleagues, students,
relatives and well-wishers to
mourn his death. Professor Sirajud-Dollah,
student advisor of
Chattogram University confirm
his death to BSS.
Earlier, Professor Kamrul
Huda received serious injury in a
road accident on January 27 at
city's CRB area. He was admitted
to Chattogram Medical College
Hospital, later he was shifted to
Bangladesh Spine and
Orthopaedic Hospital in
Kalyanpur, Dhaka according to
the doctor's advice. A former
acting registrar of Chattogram
University, Prof Kamrul served at
different capacities including
General Secretary of Chattogram
University Teachers Association
in his lifetime.
CU Vice Chancellor Prof. Dr.
Shirine Akter in a message of
condolence expressed her deep
shocked and profound sympathy
to bereaved family members.
His first Namaj-e-Janaja was
held at Jamiatul Falah Mosque
premises at 11 am, 2nd Namaj-e-
Janaja held at CU Campus after
Zohour Prayer and he buried at his
native village Katirhat under
Hathazari upazila of the district
after 3rd Namaj-e-Janaja at 5 pm.
DIU celebrates
'Nat’l Library Day'
Bangladesh National Library
Day 2021 was celebrated at
Daffodil Int’l University with
the motto 'Pledge of Mujib Year
is to establish Library in room
to room'. On this occasion, a
colorful rally was brought out at
the permanent campus of
Daffodil Smart City, Ashulia
yesterday. The rally was led by
Prof. Dr. SM Mahabub - Ul
Haque Majumdar, Acting Vice
Chancellor of the University.
Professor Dr. Engineer AKM
Fazlul Hoque, Registrar, Dr.
Milon Khan, Librarian and other
officials and students of the
Deptt of Information Science
and Library Management also
participated the rally.
During the inauguration of the
rally, the speakers briefly
discussed the importance and
necessity of the library in the field
of education. They also expressed
that the various aspects of
Daffodil University's rich and
unobstructed database with
online-offline library facilities.
JCI to work for
underprivileged
people
DHAKA : Junior Chamber International
(JCI), Dhaka South
chapter has decided to work to
improve the life of underprivileged
people and build and develop
entrepreneurship in collaboration
with different organisations,
reports UNB.
In its first general members'
meeting,the yearly plan was
also published along with other
reports, said a media release on
Saturday. Local President
Khondoker Ashik Iqbal inaugurated
the event with the presence
of JCI Bangladesh National
President Niaz Morshed
Elite, National Board Members,
past national Presidents,
Dhaka South Board members
and all general members.
KCC mayor will take first
vaccine in Khulna today
KHULNA : V accination programme will be
inaugurated in Khulna at Khulna Medical
College (KMC) at 10 am today.
Khulna City Corporation Mayor Talukder
Abdul Khaleque will be inaugurated the vaccination
programme by receiving the inoculation
of corona virus.
Describing the various step by the government
to make vaccination programme a total
success, the Mayor urged people to be taken
vaccine after completion of registration
through apps www.surokhha.gov.bd.
He made the remarks in a press briefing held
at the deputy commissioner's conference room
yesterday as the chief guest.
The mayor said everybody should be aware
against who are spreading rumours and propaganda
about covid-19 vaccination, adding,
journalists can play vital role against such type
of vested quarters. He asked authorities of different
government hospitals to provide 24
hours service for whom to be taken vaccine if
he become sick.
Chaired by Khulna deputy commissioner Md
Helal Hossain, Khulna Civil Surgeon Dr Newaz
Mahmud, Director of Khulna Medical College
Hospital Dr Manjur Morshed, Khulna Medical
College vice Principal Dr Mehedi Newaz, KCC
Health Officer Dr Abdullah, Superintendant of
Khulna Police Md Shafiullah, among others,
addressed the occasion.
While addressing the inaugural speech,
Khulna Civil Surgeon Dr Newaz Mahmud said,
a total of thirteen inoculation centers have
been set up in Khulna City Corporation while
nine inoculation centers in each upazila health
complex for the implementation of covid-19
vaccination activities.
Khulna Medical College Hospital, Khulna
General Hospital, Office of the Civil Surgeon,
Shaheed Sheikh Abu Naser Specialised Hospital,
Khalishpur Lal Hospital, Khalishpur Nagar
Matrisadan, Tutpara Taltola Matrisadan
Hospital, Amira Banu Nagar Matrisadan,
Baitipara Nagar Matrisadan, Phulbarigate Chest
Disease Hospital, Bangladesh Navy Upashom
Hospital and Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB)
Hospital are the vaccination point of Khulna City
Corporation.
A total of 56 team including 29 in the KCC
will get first doze vaccine to 84 thousand people
in next two week and second doze will get
by next 12 week.
The Civil Surgeon said at least 13,000 people
so far completion registration in Khulna,
adding that 6000 people will get vaccine every
day. He also added a total of 1,68,000 vaccinations
have reached in Khulna. Inoculation will
continue in all Khulna centers from 8.00 am to
4.00 pm every day.
With the motto 'Pledge of Mujib Year is to establish Library in room to room'
Daffodil International University brought out a colorful rally at the permanent
campus of Daffodil Smart City at Ashulia.
Hasan unveils memorial
plaque in Kolkata for
2 Indian journalists
DHAKA : Information Minister Dr
Hasan Mahmud yesterday unveiled a
memorial plaque in Kolkata for journalists
Dipak Bandopadhyay and Surajit
Ghoshal of West Bengal, India, who sacrificed
their lives in the Liberation War
of Bangladesh.
The minister, now visiting Kolkata,
unveiled the plaque on the premises of
Kolkata Press Club before going to
Brigade Parade Ground associated with
the memories of Bangabandhu, said a
release here.
Speaking on the occasion, Hasan said
though the countries are divided, the
minds of the people of Bangladesh and
India could not be divided.
He said Bangladesh is now moving forward
maintaining the deep relations
between the two nations. The country
(Bangladesh) is now on the way of building
'Sonar Bangla' dreamt by Father of the
Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur
Rahman under the dynamic leadership of
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina astonishing
the whole world, said Hasan, also
Awami League joint general secretary.
Parliamentary Standing Committee on
Information Ministry Chairman Saimum
Sarwar Kamal, Bangladesh High
Commissioner to India Mohammad Imran,
Kolkata Deputy High Commissioner Towfiq
Hasan, Kolkata Press Club President
Snehashish Sur and secretary Kingshuk
Pramanik, AL Deputy Publicity Secretary
Aminul Islam, officials of the information
ministry and actors, among others, joined
the function.
Snehashish said India, without the
then journalists, would not have been
able to know how Bangladeshis had
spent their days at that time.
He said not only the duo, a total of 13
journalists sacrificed their lives in the
War of Liberation of Bangladesh and
the Press Club published a book on
this issue marking the hundred years
of the foundation of the club.
Later the minister joined a lunch and discussion
organised by banglaworld.com.
Hasan exchanged views with former chief
justice of Kolkata and Mumbai High Courts
Chithatosh Mukharjee and other members
of the organization.
Screening of Daughter's Tale
connects Kolkata audience
DHAKA : As the dawn broke on August 15,
1975, her phone rang ominously when she
and her sister were at the house of a
diplomat in Belgium, oceans away from
her homeland.
It foreshadowed the ordeals about to
dawn on her life as her father, also the
Father of the Nation, Bangabandhu Sheikh
Mujibur Rahman, was killed in a military
coup in her homeland Bangladesh.
With the fall of the status of a president's
daughter, her host in Belgium took no time
to change his mind, refusing even to offer
his car to lift her to the airport. All her life
stories, the turns and twists, from that year
onwards, spanning over four decades,
came alive through the docufiction 2018-
Hasina: A Daughter's Tale.
As it was rescreened at Nandan-I during
the inauguration of the Third Bangladesh
Film Festival in Kolkata on Friday, some
viewers could not hold back tears since
they could relate to the story of a lady and
also the land she belongs to, with which
they share cultural and linguistic
similarities.
This film festival was part of an array of
programmes that the country's
Information Ministry and the deputy
high commission in Kolkata are hosting
in the city to commemorate the birth
anniversary of Bangladesh's Father of
the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh
Mujibur Rahman and the 50thyear of
the independence of Bangladesh.
Nat’l Library
Day observed
at IU
ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY :
The National Library Day
was observed at Islamic
University (IU) in Kushtia
yesterday with a befitting
manner. Marking the day,
the university authorities
brought out a colourful
procession around 11.00
am from Khademul
Haramain Badsha Fahad
Bin Abdul Aziz Central
Library on the campus
maintaining social
distance in the pandemic
situation. The procession
ended at the same place
after parading the main
streets of the university.
Later, a discussion
programme was also held
in front of the library
building to mark the day
chaired by library incharge
S M Abdul Latif.
IU acting registrar M
Ataur Rahman addressed
the event as the chief
guest while over 50
officials and staff of the
library attended the
programme conducted by
deputy librarian Abdul
Aziz.
While addressing the
meeting, the speakers
said the library plays an
important role to make
the people enlightened.
To make a civilized
society every person
should make a good
relationship with the
library.
One held
with huge
yaba tablets
in Ctg
CHATTOGRAM : Police in
a drive arrested an alleged
drug peddler with one lakh
pieces of contraband yaba
tablets from Dohazari area
under Chandanaish
upazila of the district
yesterday.
The arrested drug
peddler was identified as
Rabiul Islam Tutul, 34,
son of Shamsul Hoque,
hailed from Satiya upazila
in Pabna district. Police
also seized a pickup van
and a private car.
On a tip-off, a team of
police conducted a drive in
the area at about 5 am and
arrested Rabiul with the
yaba tablets from a pickup
van, said SM Rashidul
Haque, Superintendent of
Chattogram district police.
A case was filed with
Chandanaish police
station in this connection.
Though the docudrama continued to
impress the global audience, it touched the
viewers of Kolkata more since part of
Sheikh Hasina's life was spent in India and
that was well portrayed in the film.
Besides, its background score was
composed and the theme song sung by
Debojyoti Mishra, an Indian music
composer.
Bengal minister Bratya Basu and
Indian foreign secretary Harsh Vardhan
Shringla were present at the
inauguration of the film festival.
The film - directed by Piplu Khan and
produced by the Centre for Research and
Information and Applebox Films - on
Hasina has won international acclaim
because it reflected on the untold stories of
her life as the daughter of Bangabandhu
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, not as her life as
the prime minister of the country. In an
attempt to get a peek into her life, the
camera has followed her inside her kitchen
and library.
"Sheikh Hasina's life with all the twists
and turns and her journey as the daughter
of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
has come alive on screen and we think all
of you will like it," said Information
Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud, who
inaugurated the film festival.
Thirty-two Bangladeshi films would be
screened at the festival. On account of
popular demand, the film on Hasina would
be screened again at Nandan-II on Sunday
Covid vaccine doses
reach Chattogram
CHATTOGRAM : As Bangladesh plans to
begin it's mass inoculation drive from
Sunday, Covid-19 vaccine doses have
arrived in 14 upazilas of Chattogram.
The nationwide inoculation programme
will be inaugurated by the Health
Minister.
District Civil Surgeon Sheikh Fazle
Rabbi said consignments of the
Covishield vaccine were sent to the upazila
offices from EPI store on Friday. "They
have been kept at the cold storage facilities
of the Upazila Health Complexes."
According to the District Civil Surgeon's
office, a list has already been prepared for
distributing the vaccine of which,
1,54,905 doses have been kept across 15
booths in Chattogram city only, while the
remaining 3,01,095 doses will be available
in the 14 upazilas of the district.
Some 31.5 thousand doses have been
sent to Patiya upazila, 15,524 doses to
Anwara, 25,841 to Bashkhali, 13,372 to
Boalkhali, 13,965 to Chandanish, 31,525
to Fatikchhari, 25,876 to Hathazari,
LGRD Minister Tajul Islam speaking after inaugurating a water treatment
plant in Narayangaj on Saturday.
Photo : Courtesy
Bangladesh Embassy in
Washington introduces
passport-tracking system
DHAKA : The Bangladesh Embassy in
Washington, D.C. has introduced a tracking
system to enable applicants to know the status
of their passport, visa, No Visa Required
(NVR) seal and dual nationality certificate,
reports UNB.
This is being done as part of improving
consular service coinciding the celebration of
the "Mujib Borsho", the birth centenary of
Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh
Mujibur Rahman, said the Embassy on
Saturday.
The system was inaugurated by
evening, said the organisers.
It took around five years to make the
one-hour-ten-minute film, which captures
through Hasina's eyes the heyday of
freedom struggle in Bangladesh, the
capturing of her father by the Pakistani
forces, and finally, the assassination of
Bangabandhu and his entire family.
Several commentators have called the film,
narrated in her voice, a brief history of
Bangladesh as Bangabandhu is at the
center of the neighboring country's history.
"Bangabandhu is an asset of both the
Bengal on two sides of the border as well as
that of the world... People involved in the
world of art and culture on two sides of the
border should come forward and
collaborate in making films on
Bangabandhu and the Liberation War and
that would be a befitting tribute to this
great man," said Bratya Basu, science,
technology, and biotechnology minister in
the Mamata Banerjee cabinet.
Earlier, the film was rescreened at the
51stInternational Film Festival of India
organised in Goa.
Reached out for comments about the
film's international tour, its director Piplu
Khan said, "People had prior thought that
it would be a typical narrative on the prime
minister.
But, it is less-explored aspects of her life
that intrigued them. They were asking how
we made this, why my first moviemaking
venture chose this topic."
16,776 to Lohagarah, 23,896 to Mirsarai,
20,317 to Rangunia, 19,349 to Raozan,
16,697 to Sandwip, 23,062 to Satkania
and 23,244 to Sitakunda.
Dr Mohammad Jabed, Patiya Upazila
Health officer, said, "If everything goes as
planned, people who have registered for
taking the jab will receive the shot after
the inauguration of the mass vaccination
programme. People who have to carry a
copy of the registration document."
Already a team of healthcare workers
from the upazila hospital has been trained
for administering the vaccine to people,
he said.
On January 27, Prime Minister Sheikh
virtually launched the Covid-19 vaccination
programme at Kurmitola General
Hospital.
At the inaugural event, five people were
vaccinated in the virtual presence of the
Prime Minister. Runu Veronica Costa, a
senior staff nurse at Kurmitola General
Hospital, was the first to get the shot in
the country.
Bangladesh Ambassador to the USA M
Shahidul Islam.
"We hope that the tracking system will
reduce the anxiety of our consular service
seekers," said the Ambassador.
The tracking system will allow applicants
to know the dates their applications are
received as well as their documents dispatched.
It will inform the applicants at all
stages of processing of their applications.
The system will also generate email messages
keeping the applicant informed of the
status of the service requested.