TueSDAY, JulY 27, 20212Trading Corporation of Bangladesh TCB selling goods at reasonable price to the mass people atMogbazar yesterday.Photo : PIDBNP leader RuhulKabir Rizvi takescorona vaccineTBT ReportBNP senior joint secretarygeneral Ruhul Kabir Rizvi hasbeen vaccinated againstcorona virus. He arrived atBSMMU at 12:45 pm onMonday (July 26) and wasvaccinated. BNP HealthSecretary Dr. Rafiqul Islamwas present at the time. Hesaid BNP senior jointsecretary general Ruhul KabirRizvi had taken the modernvaccine.It may be mentioned thatBNP senior joint secretarygeneral Ruhul Kabir Rizviwas first attacked on March16. Then he was admitted toSquare Hospital in the capitalon March 17 for advancedtreatment. While undergoingtreatment there, Rizvi'sphysical condition suddenlydeteriorated on April 1. Laterhe was transferred to theIncentive Care Unit (ICU)even when his oxygen leveldropped.Rizvi was released from thehospital after a long hiatus ashis condition improved. Atpresent he is much healthierthan before. He is Takingmedicine from home on theadvice of a doctor. RuhulKabir Rizvi urges to all hiswell-wishers to pray toalmighty Allah for hiscomplete recovery.PM sends mangoesto IndonesianpresidentDHAKA : Prime MinisterSheikh Hasina has sent1,000kg of mangoes forIndonesian President JokoWidodo, reports UNB.The Bangladesh Embassy inJakarta received 1,000kg ofmangoes from the Ministry ofForeign Affairs as a gift forIndonesia.The embassy incoordination with the Ministryof Foreign Affairs of Indonesiahanded over 1,000kg ofBangladeshi mangoes for thepresident at MerdekaPresidential Palace in Jakartarecently.Presidential palace protocolof the president secretariat,personal officer staff of thepresident and protocol officersof the Ministry of ForeignAffairs of Indonesia receivedthe gift.GD-1144/21 (3x3)Sajeeb Wazed Joyturns 51 todayDHAKA : The 51st birthday of Bangabandhu'sgrandson Sajeeb Wazed Joy will be celebratedtoday amid increasing public expectationsabout his future role in political arena as by nowhe played the pivotal role in setting thecountry's crucial course being the beacon of'Digital Bangladesh'.Despite being a leading political figure, Joy sofar preferred a distinct course of action unlikeany conventional politician, to materialize theelectoral pledge of the party he belongs to andhis mother Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina leadsto build a Digital Bangladesh.Contemporary political history suggests thatJoy, also Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's ICTAffairs Adviser, was a key figure in formulatingthe Awami League's Vision 2021 manifesto,based-on what the party was reelected thrice topower since 2008. Being a member ofBangladesh's most illustrious political family,Joy's character largely reflects the qualities ofhis grandfather Bangabandhu Sheikh MujiburRahman, who founded the country to remainas the Father of the Nation.A graduate in computer engineering from theUniversity of Texas at Arlington in the UnitedStates, Joy was born in 1971, coinciding withthe emergence of Bangladesh as anindependent nation. His father Dr MA WazedMiah was an internationally reputed nuclearscientist.Joy attended the Kennedy School ofGovernment at one of world's most famousHarvard University, which taught him thegovernance issues and earned him the Mastersdegree in Public Administration.According to observers, Joy successfullycould combine his academic learning on thesetwo disciplines to be applied in leading theDigital Bangladesh campaign.His excellence earned him the honour ofbeing selected as one of the "250 Young GlobalLeaders of the World" in 2007 Davos summitof World Economic Forum, which is said tolargely set the global affairs. On February 25 in2009, Sajeeb Wazed officially joined the AwamiLeague as a primary member of the Rangpurdistrict unit of the party within days, and as anIT policy analyst, unveiled the concept paperand action plan for the government's ambitious"Digital Bangladesh" campaign.Financial support to vulnerable countriesmust for effective climate adaptation: ShahabDHAKA : Long-term and adequate financialsupport is a prerequisite for achieving theGlobal Goal on Adaptation (GGA), part of theParis Agreement, Environment, Forest andClimate Change Minister Md Shahab Uddinsaid Sunday, reports UNB.Bothtechnical and financial support willhave to beprovided to the most vulnerabledeveloping countries for the effectiveimplementation ofprioritised adaptationactions, he said while addressing the plenarysession of "The July Ministerial" of the COP26Presidency in London.Bangladesh is in the process of formulatingtheNational Adaptation Plan(NAP)to reducevulnerability to the impacts of climatechangeby enhancing adaptive capacity andresilience, the minister said."However, we are aware of the lack ofresources for the NAP implementation. Wemust consider the adequacy and effectivenessof support for adaptation," he added.Members of Bangladesh Navy are assisting civil administration to implementthe government order at coastal areas of the country to prevent coronavirus.Photo : ISPRMan held with currenciesof 8 countries atDhaka airportDHAKA : Airport Armed PoliceBattalion (AAP) members onMonday morning detained aman along with currencies ofeight countries worth Tk 2.5crore from the Hazrat ShahjalalInternational Airport.The detainee was identified asJahangir Gazi, 36, reports UNB.Additional Superintendent(media) of AAP Md Jiaul Haquesaid tipped off, they detainedGazi right after he completed hisboarding pass and initiallyrecovered 50,000 Saudi Riyalfrom his possession.SwechchhasebakLeague's 27th foundinganniversary todayDHAKA: Bangladesh AwamiSwechchhasebak League(BASL), the volunteers' wingof Bangladesh AwamiLeague (AL), will celebrateits 27th foundinganniversary today throughvarious programmes.The BASL was founded onJuly 26 in 1994 as an AL'sassociate body as per thedirectives of Father of theNation BangabandhuSheikh Mujibur Rahman'sable daughter PrimeMinister Sheikh Hasina.Marking the anniversary,the BASL has drawn updifferent programmesthroughout the country on alimited scale by maintaininghealth guidelines and socialdistancing.As part of theprogrammes, the nationaland party flags will behoisted in front of BASL'scentral office in the capitalalong with its all offices atdistrict, city, upazila andward levels at 6 am today.The leaders and workers ofthe organisation will paytributes to the Father of theNation by placing wreaths athis portrait in front ofhistorical BangabandhuBhaban at Dhanmondi RoadNo. 32 at 9am.GD-1141/21 (12x4)Prof Yunus gets highest viewership in TokyoOlympics opening ceremony, says Yunus CentreDHAKA : The highest number of TVviewers during the opening ceremony ofthe Tokyo Olympics 2020 was recordedwhen Nobel Laureate Prof. MuhammadYunus delivered his "Three Zeros"speech, following his acceptance of theOlympic Laurel, reports UNB.Yunus Centre in Dhaka shared theinformation on Monday quoting aToshiba report published on Yahoo NewsJapan.According to the report, Japanese TVviewers were listening to his speech on 47per cent of all TV sets in Japan.Toshiba's viewer monitoring was basedon the sample size of 340,000 TV sets inJapan.This programme calculates theaudience rating every second. Accordingto it, the audience rating rose to 10 percent of TV sets in the first 10 minutes ofthe opening ceremony broadcast.The number of viewers continued torise until it reached the peak during Prof.Yunus's speech.At the time Japanese audience werewatching the ceremony on 47 per cent ofall TV sets in Japan.AL's webinar on advancementof digital technology todayDHAKA : The ruling Awami League (AL)will hold a webinar titled "AdvancingDigital Technology under the Leadership ofJananetri Sheikh Hasina: from PioneerMujib to Sajeeb" at 11am today.AL Science and Technology AffairsSubcommittee will organize the webinarwhile AL General Secretary and RoadTransport and Bridges Minister ObaidulQuader will address it as the chief guest,said a press release.Bangladesh University of Engineeringand Technology (BUET) Vice Chancellor(VC) Professor Dr Md Habibur Rahmanand Pro-VC Professor Dr Abdul JabbarKhan, and Bangabandhu Sheikh MujiburRahman Digital University (BDU) VCProfessor Dr Munaz Ahmed Noor will jointhe webinar as discussants.Canadian University of Bangladesh(CUB) VC Professor Dr MohammadMahfuzul Islam will present a keynotepaper in the webinar with AL Science andTechnology Affairs SubcommitteeChairman Professor Dr Hossain Mansur inthe chair.AL Science and Technology AffairsSecretary Engineer Md Abdus Sabur willdeliver the welcome address in the virtualdiscussion.
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