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DIG of Barishal Range Md Shafiqul Islam BPM (Bar) as the chief guest addressed a bit policing rally
against rape and torture of women in Banaripara on Saturday. Banaripara Police officer In-charge
Md Helal Uddin chaired the occasion while among others, Banaripara Upazila Nirbahi Officer
Sheikh Abdullah Sadid, Municipality Mayor Advocate Subhash Chandra Sheel, Upazila Awami
League President Golam Saleh Monju Mollah, Upazila Vice Chairman Nurul Huda and Banaripara
Degree College Principal Afroza Khanam were also present at the occasion. Photo: S Mizanul Islam
Pandemic, politics lead to closure
of storied Hong Kong bar
HONG KONG : Nearly 15 years ago,
Grace Ma decided to name her bar Club
71, in commemoration of a July 1, 2003
rally where hundreds of thousands of
Hong Kongers protested a proposed
national security law for the semiautonomous
Chinese city, reports
UNB.
"I took the name Club 71, because
somehow it is more hopeful, with half a
million Hong Kong people having a
demonstration, a rally, to stand for
themselves, not to ignore what's going
on in Hong Kong," said Ma.
For years, the storied bar has served
as a watering hole for the city's prodemocracy
activists and intellectuals,
who could freely engage in discussions
over a round of beer or two.
Then the coronavirus pandemic hit
and, in a blow to the city's Westernstyle
freedoms, the central
government in Beijing in June
imposed sweeping national security
legislation targeting political
expression in response to massive
anti-government protests last year.
For Ma, the troubles meant it was
time to shutter the business for good.
Months of government-mandated
bar closures as part of coronavirus
restrictions had pushed Club 71's
finances deeper into the red, and
operating the bar no longer made
financial sense, she said. The bar will
close at the end of October.
Germany's COVID-19
cases soar by 5,587 to
361,974
BERLIN : Germany's
COVID-19 cases rose by
5,587 to 361,974 over the
past 24 hours, the Robert
Koch Institute (RKI) for
infectious diseases said on
Sunday, reports UNB.
The death toll from the
disease went up by 10 to
9,777, the RKI added.
Germany recorded on
Saturday 7,830 new
infections of COVID-19 in
the last 24 hours, the highest
daily spike since the
pandemic began.
Armenia,
Azerbaijan
agree on new
"humanitarian
ceasefire"
YEREVAN : Armenia and
Azerbaijan have agreed on a
new "humanitarian
ceasefire" in the Nagorno-
Karabakh region starting
midnight (2000 GMT)
Saturday, the two countries'
foreign ministries
announced on Saturday
evening via identical
statements, reports UNB.
It is the second ceasefire
both sides have agreed on in
weeks. The first came on
Oct. 10, following lengthy
negotiations in Moscow on
Oct. 9. Armenia and
Azerbaijan have been at
loggerheads over the
Nagorno-Karabakh region
since 1988. Peace talks have
been held since 1994 when a
ceasefire was reached, but
there still have been
sporadic minor clashes.
Organizers exhort women to
vote for change at US rallies
Thousands of mostly young women in masks
rallied Saturday in the nation's capital and
other U.S. cities, exhorting voters to oppose
President Donald Trump and his fellow
Republican candidates in the Nov. 3
elections, reports UNB.
The latest of rallies that began with a
massive women's march the day after
Trump's January 2017 inauguration was
playing out during the coronavirus
pandemic, and demonstrators were asked to
wear face coverings and practice social
distancing. Rachel O'Leary Carmona,
executive director of the Women's March,
opened the event by asking people to keep
their distance from one another, saying that
the only superspreader event would be the
recent one at the White House.
She talked about the power of women to
end Trump's presidency. "His presidency
began with women marching and now it's
going to end with woman voting. Period,"
she said. "Vote for your daughter's future,"
read one message in the sea of signs carried
by demonstrators. "Fight like a girl," said
another.
BSCIC Chairman NDC, (Additional Secretary) Md. Mushtaq Hasan as the
chief guest addressed a view exchange meeting with industrial entrepreneurs
after inspecting industrial plots in Joypurhat BSCIC industrial city
On Saturday. BSCIC Deputy Director General Abu Hashem presided over
the occasion while among others, BSCIC Director Industrial Development
and Extension (Joint Secretary) Md. Khalilur Rahman, Joypurhat Deputy
Commissioner Md. Shariful Islam, BSCIC Rajshahi Regional Director
(Deputy Secretary) Md. Mamunur Rashid and Joypurhat Chamber of
Commerce and Industry President Anwarul Haq Anu were also present at
the occasion.
Photo: Masrakul Alom
As fishing, buying and selling and stocking of hilsa are prohibited in the river for 22 days
during the main breeding season, 4,700 registered card holders fishermen of Rajbari have been
given 20 kg of VGF rice as food aid. Rajbari Deputy Commissioner Dilsad Begum inaugurated
the food aid program by distributing 20 kg of rice to 506 fishermen at Chandani union in
Rajbari Sadar Upazila on Saturday. Chandani Union Parishad Chairman AKM Sirajul Alam
Chowdhury presided over the inaugural meeting while among others, District Fisheries Officer
Joydev Pal, Sadar Upazila Parishad Chairman Adv. Imdadul Haque Biswas, Acting Upazila
Nirbahi Officer Md. Arifur Rahman and Upazila Senior Fisheries Officer Md. Roknuzzaman
were also present at the occasion.
Photo: Md Moniruzzaman
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