04-09-2020

FridAY, September 4, 2020
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Speakers for long-term
policy to adopt 4ir
DHAKA : Speakers at a webinar on
Thursday observed that long-term
policy, modernization of education
and curriculum system,
infrastructure development,
industry-academia collaboration
and skilling, re-skilling and upskilling
are priority for adopting the
advantages of Fourth Industrial
Revolution (4IR).
They made the observation at the
Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and
Industry (DCCI) webinar on
"Fourth Industrial Revolution in the
wake of COVID-19", said a press
release.
Posts and Telecommunications
Minister Mustafa Jabbar joined the
webinar as the chief guest while
Additional Secretary of the
Industries Ministry Begum Parag
joined the webinar as guest of
honour.
DCCI President Shams Mahmud
moderated the webinar.
In his speech, Mustafa Jabbar said
that telecommunication sector is
the ocean for Fourth Industrial
Revolution (4IR).
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"In our country 65 percent people
are under the age limit of 35 years
which is an added advantage for us,"
he added.
He said "We should not fear from
4IR as our adoptability is too high.
In 2008, internet users were only 8
lakh used only 8 GBPS bandwidth
whereas now we are using about
2100 GBPS bandwidth. In that case
capacity of Kuwakata submarine
cable needs to be increased."
In terms of technology adaptation,
he said, it should be inclusive with
the people of Bangladesh.
He informed that by the year
2023, 5G will be available mainly in
major cities of Bangladesh.
Education system and curriculum
need to be adjusted to cope with the
advancement of 4IR, he added.
Begum Parag said the SMEs of
Bangladesh are using technology
now and they are producing various
diversified products.
"4IR will open up new avenues
especially in the recycling
industries. New technology,
automation will create new job
opportunities and skill
development," she added.
She said considering every aspect,
the Ministry is drafting National
Industrial Policy. "Covid-19 led
pandemic taught us how to be
digitized. We have no options but to
adopt the 4IR or we may lose
competitiveness in the international
market," he added.
Shams Mahmud in his welcome
address said that the Fourth
Industrial Revolution is evolving
fast and reshaping and global
industrial, trade and economic
landscape.
"Bangladesh still lags behind in
adopting 4IR technologies in
industrial ecosystem and this
adoption will accelerate our growth
momentum," he added.
He said launching 4IR
technologies will unlock new era of
growth and employment across all
sectors of Bangladesh.
Among others, Chairman of the
Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE)
Asif Ibrahimn and DCCI Senior Vice
President also spoke on the
occasion.
regent Group Chairman,
md remanded in money
laundering case
DHAKA : A Dhaka court on
Thursday placed Regent
Group Chairman Md
Shahed alias Shahed Karim
and Managing Director
Masud Pervej on 8-day
remand in a case lodged
under money laundering
prevention act.
Dhaka Metropolitan
Magistrate Ziaur Rahman
passed the order as
investigating agency CID
produced the duo before the
court and pleaded to place
them on 10-day remand in
the case lodged with Uttara
West Police Station.
The court also showed
Shahed arrested in a fraud
case filed with the same
police station.
CID inspector Ibrahim
Hossain filed the case on
August 25 for amassing Taka
11 crore through fraud and
laundering the money
abroad. Shahed was arrested
by RAB from Debhata
upazilla of Shatkhira on the
early hours of July 15 and
was airlifted to the capital in
the morning. On the other
hand, Pervej was arrested
from Gazipur on July 14.
Navy chief
adorned
with admiral
rank badge
DHAKA : Chief of Naval
Staff Vice-Admiral
Mohammad Shaheen Iqbal
was adorned with the rank
badge of Admiral at a
function in the presence of
Prime Minister Sheikh
Hasina at Ganobhaban on
Thursday.
"Chief of Army Staff
General Aziz Ahmed and
Chief of Air Staff Air Chief
Marshal Masihuzzaman
Serniabat adorned the naval
chief with the new rank
badge of Admiral," said PM's
Press Secretary Ihsanul
Karim, reports UNB.
Principal Staff Officer
(PSO) of the Armed Forces
Division Lieutenant General
Md Mahfuzur Rahman and
Prime Minister's Office
(PMO) Secretary Md
Tofazzel Hossain Mian were
present on the occasion.
Mohammad Shaheen
Iqbal took over as the Chief
of Naval Staff on July 25 last.
death toll from
Chattogram
container depot
blast climbs to 4
CHATTOGRAM : The death
toll from the explosion at a
container depot in Patenga
area of Chattogram district
on Wednesday has climbed
to four following death of
another injured worker.
Md Rabiul, a worker,
succumbed to his injuries at
a hospital in the capital
around 10pm on
Wednesday, said
Mohammad Zobair Syed,
officer-in-charge of Patenga
Police Station, reports UNB.
Dr Md S Khaled, assistant
professor of Chattagram
Medical College Hospital
burn unit, said Rabiul
received 95 percent burn
injuries and he was referred
to Dhaka.
Earlier, three workers
Jubayer Sabbir, 26, Amir
Hossain, 32 and Rabiul
Alam, 31, died in the blast
incident.
Cattle farming inside Upazila Health
Complex causes pollution
KERANIGANJ : People who went to the
Keraniganj Upazila Health Complex for
taking medical treatments, may stumble for
a while after seeing cattle grazing in the
premises of the hospital.
It would seem the premium on
maintaining a clean and healthy
environment for the provision of healthcare
services has been sacrificed at the altar of the
UHC junior mechanic's farming habit.
Jashim, the said junior mechanic, has raised
a small cattle farm right beside the mosque
located inside the UHC premises.
Patients, nurses, doctors and other staffers
of Keraniganj Health Complex and people
attending the mosque, which is a separate
structure from the main complex that
includes a hospital, are all said to be suffering
a lot due to the pollution caused by the
animal wastes from the dairy farm. Yet they
can't overrule the whim of the junior
mechanic, who is hand-in-glove with a driver
of the complex in maintaining the farm.
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Besides it also poses a health risk to them
as the decomposition of animal wastes in the
dairy can release methane and ammonia.
The negligence of the authorities
concerned is blamed for this appalling state
of affairs.
The staffs of the hospital including Imam
of the mosque Maulana Mufti Mobin
Hossain and Humayun Kabir, an ambulance
driver, alleged that another driver Bayezid
and junior mechanic Jashim have occupied
four rooms of the hospital for personal gain
and established a dairy farm there.
Two low-level employees getting away
with all this can only be the outcome of
entrenched, endemic corruption.
Driver Humayun said they also occupied
the garage of the hospital, forcing him to
keep the ambulance in other places that he
must rent at his own expense. Rushing
emergency patients from there to other
hospitals on referral, is obviously hampered
as a result.
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