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Minister of State for Water Resources Zahid Farooq MP, Deputy Minister for Water Resources AKM
Enamul Hoque Shameem, Senior Secretary of the Ministry of Water Resources Kabir Bin Anwar and
all other senior officials of the Ministry took part in a doa mahfil program jointly organized by the
Ministry of Water Resources and Bangladesh Water Development Board on the occasion of Sheikh
Russel's birthday.
Photo : Courtesy
Freedom Party
cadre arrested
in city
DHAKA : Rapid Action
Battalion (RAB) arrested a
fugitive accused in
Mymensingh arms case and
Freedom Party cadre from
city's Shahjahanpur area on
Monday night.
The arrested is Shamsul
Islam, son of late Monirul
Islam of Rupganj thana of
Narayanganj district.
RAB-2 Senior Assistant
Superintendent of Police
(ASP) Md Fazlul Haque
confirmed the matter to BSS,
saying that being informed,
an elite team of RAB-2 raided
the area in the city and
nabbed Shamsul around
10.30pm on Monday.
According to RAB sources,
a person named Haroon-or
Rashid was shot dead and
several others were injured in
the firing which took place in
front of the office of the
Freedom Party near Puravi
Cinema Hall on Dhaka-
Mymensingh Road under
Kotwali Police Station of
Mymensingh District on
February 11 in 1990.
Elderly couple's
decomposed bodies
found in Laxmipur
LAXMIPUR : Police on
Monday night recovered the
decomposed bodies of an
elderly couple from their house
in the Shakchar area of
Laxmipur Sadar upazila.
The deceased were identified
as Amin Ullah, 75, and
Aktarunnessa, 65.
According to neighbours, the
deceased's nephew, Kamal, and
a local resident, named Bhuttu
Chowdhury, were the first to
spot the bodies when they
peeped through the window
after getting no response despite
repeated knocks on the door.
Speakers for changing negative
mindset towards disabled people
DHAKA : Speakers at a workshop yesterday
laid emphasis on changing negative
mindset towards differently-abled people
to ensure accessibility to all spheres of
society.
People with different abilities should be
treated in the society as well as in their
families like other normal ones, they told at
the national media workshop on
"Preventing violence against women and
girls with disabilities" at Dhaka Reporters
Unity (DRU) here.
The DRU and ARROW (Asian-Pacific
Resource and Research Centre for Women)
organized the workshop. Journalists from
different media outlets attended the
workshop.
Lawmaker Barrister Shameem Haider
Patwary, Executive Director of Women
with Disability Development Foundation
(WDDF), Bangladesh Ashrafun Nahar
Misti, and Project Coordinator Analyst,
End Violence Against Women, UN Women
Bangladesh Tosiba Kashem, among others,
addressed the workshop.
DRU General Secretary Nurul Islam
Hasib made the presentation on
"Responsible, ethical, rights-based
reporting on disability right and gender
justice" at the workshop.
Misti said, "People with different abilities
are facing various obstacles in every sphere
of society... we need to ensure adequate
facilities for smooth movement of
differently abled people in every sector of
development."
She observed that people with different
abilities are not treated equally in their
families as well as in the society due to
negative mindset.Tosiba Kashem said,
"Women and girls with disabilities are
vulnerable segment of population of the
society as they are experiencing different
forms of violence in the society."
She urged all levels of people to extend
their necessary cooperation with positive
mindset for stopping violence against them.
Other speakers said there is no specific
figure on people with different abilities in
the country, which is the major barrier for
not preparing a proper planning.
The country needs to ensure congenial
atmosphere through developing
infrastructure, effective policies and
adequate facilities for people with different
abilities, which will help them to contribute
to different sectors of development, they
added.
In the National birth and death registration 2022 at the divisional level in Chittagong
Division, Sonagazi Municipality and Mayor Adv. Rafiqul Islam Khokon has been selected
as the best. On this occasion, an honor program was organized at the Bangabandhu
International Conference Center in Dhaka on Sunday. The chief guest of the program
was Local Minister of Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives Minister Tajul
Islam MP handed over the crest and certificate to Advocate Rafiqul Islam Khokon,
Mayor of Sonagazi Municipality of Feni.
Photo: Jabed Mamun
AGC obtains first
environmental product
declaration for
architectural glass products
in Asia-Pacific region
TOKYO : AGC Inc.
(hereinafter "AGC"),
headquartered in Tokyo,
has announced th
acquisition of its first
Environmental Product
Declaration (EPD) for
float glass manufactured
at its two Asian plants,
PT Asahimas Flat Glass
Tbk (headquartered in
Indonesia) and AGC Flat
Glass (Thailand) Plc.
(headquartered in
Thailand).
This is the first EPD
attained by the AGC
Group for the
architectural glass
manufactured in the
Asia-Pacific region,
reports UNB.
The EPD obtained by
AGC discloses the
environmental impact of
the production stage for
architectural glass, and
it benefits owners,
architects, specifiers,
and
building
professionals by
enabling to evaluate the
environmental impacts
associated with building
materials.
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Ex-PM Khan says Pakistan by-election
'a referendum' on his popularity
ISLAMABAD : Former Pakistan prime
minister Imran Khan is a candidate for
seven of eight national assembly seats up for
grabs in a key by-election Sunday, a vote he
says is "a referendum" on his popularity.
The by-election is the latest twist in
political wrangling that began after Khan's
April 10 ouster via a parliamentary noconfidence
vote.
It comes as the nation grapples with the
aftermath of devasting monsoon floods that
affected more than 30 million people and
left a third of the country under water.
Candidates can stand for multiple seats in
Pakistan elections. If they win more than
one they choose which to keep, and a
separate vote must later be held for those
forfeited.
It is rare, however, for a candidate to
stand for as many seats as Khan is doing
Sunday, and his disruptive move is clearly to
gauge his popularity.
"This is not just a simple election, it's a
referendum," he told a rally late Friday in
Karachi, the bustling port city in the south
of the nation of 220 million.
Khan has held dozens of rallies since
being ousted-drawing crowds of tens of
thousands-and has vowed soon to announce
the date of a "long march" of his supporters
on the capital, Islamabad.
He is demanding the coalition
government of Prime Minister Shehbaz
Sharif calls an immediate general election
rather than wait until October next year.
"If he wins most of the seats, he will press
the government more," political analyst
Hassan Askari Rizvi told AFP.
"But the government will reject the
election call, claiming it doesn't reflect the
national will."
Khan has already scored a string of recent
by-election victories, with his Pakistan
Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party seizing control
in July of the state assembly in Punjab, the
country's most populous province.
He has, so far, also emerged largely
unscathed from a series of court cases
against him and his party.
Pakistan's courts are often used to tie up
lawmakers in tedious and long-winding
proceedings that rights monitors have
criticised for stifling political opposition.
Khan blames the current government for
soaring inflation, although most analysts
agree Sharif inherited the country's
economic woes.
Catastrophic flooding this summer put
one-third of Pakistan under water, displaced
eight million people, and caused at least an
estimated $28 billion in damage.
The United Nations has warned of a
"second wave" of catastrophe, with the risk
that deaths from water-borne disease and
malnutrition will outstrip the 1,700 drowned
and electrocuted in the initial cascade.
Khan rode to power in 2018 on a populist
platform promising social reforms, religious
conservatism and fighting corruption,
overturning decades of rule by two feuding
political dynasties interspersed with military
takeovers.
But, under his tenure, the economy
stagnated and he lost the support of the
army, which was accused of helping to get
him elected.
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