07-10-2021

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2021
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State Minister for ICT Division Zunaid Ahmed Palak addressing a press conference
over holding International Blockchain Olympiad-2021. Photo : PID
Education Minister Dr Dipu Moni addressing a program titled 'Eye Treatment
and Diabetes Treatment' at Dhaka Reporters Unity yesterday. Photo : Courtesy
Indictment hearing
in graft case against
Papia, husband on
Nov 8
DHAKA : A court on
Wednesday set November 8
for holding hearing on
charge framing in a graft case
against expelled Jubo Mohila
League leader Shamima Nur
Papia and her husband
Mofizur Rahman Sumon.
Dhaka Metropolitan
Sessions Judge KM Imrul
Qayesh set the date in
presence of the two accused
after accepting charge-sheet
filed in the case. The court
also transferred the case to
Dhaka Special Judge Court-3
for further proceedings.
ACC Deputy Director
Shaheen Ara Momtaz filed
the case with its Dhaka
district office-1 on August 4,
2020, for amassing illegal
wealth of Taka 6.24 crore.
According to the case
documents, Papia and her
husband from October 12,
2019, to February 22, 2020,
took a total of 25 rooms of a
five-star hotel in Dhaka on
rent and paid more than
Taka 3.23 crore cash as room
rent, bills for bars, spa,
laundry and food service.
Papia spent around Taka
40 lakh in shopping during
her stay at the hotel, but
couldn't show any valid
source of income against this
huge sum.
Earlier on February 22,
2020, the Rapid Action
Battalion (RAB) arrested
Papia and her husband,
along with two of their
accomplices, at Hazrat
Shahjalal International
Airport with counterfeit
banknotes, foreign
currencies and cash.
Concerted efforts
to reduce carbon
emission stressed
RAJSHAHI : Highlighting the
importance of pollution-free
environment speakers at a
post-rally meeting
unequivocally called for
substantial and sustainable
reduction of carbon emission
for ensuring safe habitat for
all, reports BSS.
Present triggering trend of
carbon emission has been
posing a serious threat to the
environment coupled with the
habitat. Concerted effort of all
the government and nongovernment
organizations
concerned has become crucial
to mitigate the problem.
The discussants came up
with the observation while
addressing a community level
meeting at Borokuthipara
area in Rajshahi city on the
occasion of observing the
World Habitat Day- 2021.
Rajshahi City Corporation
(RCC) and Brac Urban
Development Programme
(UDP) jointly organized the
meeting discussing and
devising ways and means on
how to establish a carbon-free
Rajshahi.
The theme of the day this
year is 'Accelerating urban
action for a carbon-free
world'.
RCC Panel Mayor Shariful
Islam Babu, Ward Councilor
Matiur Rahman and Town
Planner Bony Ahsan
addressed the meeting as
resource persons with Brac
Regional Coordinator of UDP
Farzana Parvin Shampa in the
chair.
The meeting was told that
91,000 people from over
24,000 households living in
different slum areas in the city
have got the scope of
improving their lives and
livelihood conditions amid
intervention of the UDP taken
for reducing their multidimensional
poverty and
deprivation.
Forty of the beneficiary
households have got houses
with the initiative.
Brac has been
implementing the project in
association with RCC to
engage multi-sectorial
partners to create
employment opportunities for
the urban poor people, and
improve their overall living
and livelihood conditions and
realize basic rights.
During her welcome
address, Farzana Parvin told
the meeting that 17,500
youths, including around
13,000 females aged from 15
to 29 are getting necessary
knowledge through needbased
promotional activities
under the project.
Slum dwellers are getting
safe drinking water,
sanitation, housing and
education facilities and their
living and livelihood
conditions are ultimately
improving, she informed.
Some 3,000 youths are
being imparted with either
three or six-month needbased
vocational and
technical training, she said.
The Centre of Excellence in Teaching & Learning (CoETL) of Dhaka University
(DU) organized a virtual workshop on "Research methodology & Project
Proposals" for DU teachers on Tuesday.
Photo : Courtesy
edotco introduces spun
prestressed concrete tower
DHAKA : Telecommunications
infrastructure services company,
edotco Bangladesh yesterday installed
its first "Spun Prestressed Concrete
(SPC)" Tower which is an alternative to
steel.
This innovation designed in house by
edotco engineers is a unique
combination of steel and concrete
materials installed at Manikganj Sadar
upazila, said a press release.
edotco said it is the first time this type
of composite structure has been used to
build
telecommunications
infrastructure in the nation.
This 33.3m height SPC Tower
provides higher stability, ensures
improved network connectivity and
requires less production time.
The high tensile steel wires used
Journo Kanak
Sarwar's sister
held for spreading
anti-state
propaganda
DHAKA : Rapid Action
Battalion (Rab) members
arrested Nusrat Shahreen
Raka, sister of
controversial expatriate
journalistKanak Sarwar,for
spreading anti-state
propaganda.
Raka, 38, wife of Nasir
Uddin Majumder,was
arrested during a drive of
Rab-1conducted at city's
Uttara area early Tuesday,
said a press release of Rab
Headquarter.
RAB members seized a
mobile phone set with antistate
contents, a passport
and some Ice or Crystal
Meth from her possession
during the arrest.
During primary
interrogation of Rab, Raka
confessed that she is an
active member of a group
which is involved in
spreading a anti-state
propaganda.
Raka used to spread
false, misleading and
defamatory information
about the state and
important personalities of
the state through social
media to disrupt peace and
discipline of the country,
according to Rab.
According to her
statement, several
members of the group are
involved in various
spreadig propaganda
against the state through
social media staying
outside the country.
She also said she used to
assist her brother Kanak
Sarwarand other equalminded
peoplw in this
matter.
Legal action will be taken
against the arrestee,said
ASP (Media) Imran Khan
of Rab headquarter.
Workshop
for DU
teachers held
The Centre of Excellence in
Teaching & Learning (CoETL)
of Dhaka University (DU)
organized a virtual workshop
on "Research methodology &
Project Proposals" for DU
teachers on Tuesday.
Director of the Centre Prof.
Dr. Sabita Rezwana Rahman
presided over the workshop
and delivered the welcome
speech. Additional Director of
the Centre Dr. A.T.M.
Shamsuzzoha conducted the
workshop, a press release
said.
Prof. Dr. Donald James
Gomes of Dept. of
Microbiology and Prof. Dr.
Kazi Matin Uddin Ahmed of
the Dept. of Geology of DU
spoke on "How to write a
Ph.D Proposal" and "How to
write a Scientific Project
Proposal" respectively in the
workshop.
It may be mentioned that
DU, CoETL organizes
workshops regularly for DU
teachers and officers for
achieving Quality Higher
Education.
Information and Boradcasting Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud addressing 'BSRF
dialogue' organized by Bangladesh Secretariat Reporters Forum. Photo : PID
DHAKA : The government will procure some
67.20 lakh MMBtu LNG, 1 lakh metric tons
of wheat and 60,000 metric tons fertilizer to
meet the growing demand in the country.
Proposals for the procurements were
approved at the 34th meeting of the Cabinet
Committee on Government Purchase
(CCGP) in this year held yesterday virtually
with Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal
in the chair.
Briefing reporters virtually after the
meeting, the finance minister said that the
day's CCGP meeting approved a total of
seven proposals. He said the price of LNG in
international market is rising every now and
then for which the government has decided
to procure such a volume of LNG which
would meet the country's demand up to
December this year.
Kamal said since the price of LNG in
international market is witnessing uptrend,
so the government has decided to buy 67.20
lakh MMBtu LNG to meet the required
demand up to December.
Joining the briefing virtually after the
meeting, Cabinet Division Additional
Secretary Md Shamsul Arefin said that
Petrobangla under the Energy and Mineral
Resources Division would procure 33.60
lakh MMBtu LNG from M/S Vitol Asia Pte
Ltd, Singapore at a cost of around Taka
1,205.73 crore where the price for per unit
MMBtu LNG would be $35.8932.
Besides, Arefin said, Petrobangla would
procure another 33.60 lakh MMBtu LNG
from Gunvor Singapore Pte Ltd, Singapore
at a cost of around Taka 1,241.23 crore where
the price for per MMBtu LNG would be
SUST to reopen
dorms in phased
manner from
October 25
Sylhet : After nearly 18 months,
Shahjalal University of Science
and Technology (SUST) will
reopen its residential halls to
students in phases starting
from October 25.
SUST Vice Chancellor Prof
Farid Uddin Ahmed
announced the date after the
167th Academic Council
meeting of the university on
Tuesday afternoon.
According to the decision of
the Academic Council,
postgraduate students will be
able to enter the hall on
October 25.
Final-year undergraduate
students will be let in on
October 26, third-year
students on October 27,
second-year students on
October 28, and first-year
students on October 29.
Physical classes may begin
in some departments from
the first week of November.
However, online classes will
continue, the VC said.
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GD-1462/21 (5x3)
inside the pole ensures proper firmness
and increases the resistivity of the SPC
pole, making it highly resistant to heavy
rains, storms and other natural
disasters while guaranteeing
uninterrupted connectivity.
Ricky Steyn, Country Managing
Director of edotco Bangladesh, said,
edotco Bangladesh has played a pivotal
role in developing a sustainable
telecommunications ecosystem in the
country.
Responding to the emerging needs
for connectivity, he said "our talented
pool of engineers design solutions that
are eco-friendly, highly resistant and
cost-efficient aimed towards achieving
seamless network connectivity."
He added "the SPC tower is another
significant outcome of our nationbuilding
commitment to provide
sustainable and shareable
infrastructure across the nation."
Echoing Steyn's statements, Abdul
Yazid Kassim, Director, edotco Group
Engineering and Technology said,
"edotco continues to champion the use
of alternative materials towards
designing sustainable infrastructure,
reducing our dependence on steel and
the impact on the environment.
"Bangladesh has been in the forefront
of these innovations, and the
deployment of this SPC Tower
reinforces the Group's commitment to
our green agenda, innovation and
towards future proofing the
telecommunications industry with next
generation, sustainable technology," he
said.
Govt to procure 67.20 lakh MMBtu
LNG, 1 lakh MT wheat
$36.9506. He said that the Directorate
General of Food under the Ministry of Food
would procure one lakh metric tons of wheat
from Russian Federation on G to G basis at a
cost of around Taka 357.62 crore where the
price for per metric ton wheat would be
$419.
The day's CCGP meeting approved a
proposal from the Ministry of Fisheries and
Livestock for awarding the contract to the
joint venture of Agriculture and Finance
Consultant, Germany and Services and
Solutions International Ltd, Bangladesh as
the consultants with Taka 48.25 crore for the
Agro Business Planning, Technologies and
Marketing Advance and Implementation
Support works under the project for
development of livestock and fisheries.
Besides, the CCGP meeting yesterday gave
nod to two separate proposals from the
Ministry of Industries under which the
Bangladesh Chemical Industries
Corporation (BCIC) would procure 30,000
metric tons of bulk granular urea fertilizer
from Fertiglobe Distribution Limited, UAE
under state level agreement with around
Taka 127.67 crore.
In another proposal, the BCIC would
procure 30,000 metric tons of bagged prield
urea fertilizer from Muntajat, Qatar also
under state-level agreement at a cost of
around Taka 129.85 crore.
Apart from these, the meeting approved a
proposal from the Ministry of Housing and
Public Works for awarding the contract of
Lot No-1(B) to Noorani Construction
Limited for setting up Narsingdi District Jail
with around Taka 69.83 crore.
Mugger
stabs youth
to death in
Dhaka
DHAKA : A 25-year-old
youth was stabbed to death
allegedly by a mugger at
Karwan Bazar in the city's
Tejgaon area on Tuesday
night.
Police have not yet
established the identity of
the deceased.
According to cops, the
mugger tried to snatch the
youth's cell phone in front of
Prince Hotel in Karwan
Bazar. But when the youth
resisted the snatching bid,
the mugger stabbed him,
leaving him seriously
injured.
Locals rushed the youth to
Suhrawardy Medical College
and Hospital. He was
subsequently shifted to
Dhaka Medical College and
Hospital, where doctors
declared him dead on
arrival.
Md Bachchu Mia,
inspector at DMCH police
camp, said that the body has
been kept at the hospital
morgue for an autopsy.
Tejgaon police were also
informed about the crime,
the inspector added.
Govt works to
reduce cost of
doing business in
agriculture: Tipu
DHAKA : Commerce Minister
Tipu Munshi yesterday said as
per the commitment, the
government is working to
reduce the cost of doing
business in agriculture sector
by assisting the entrepreneurs
in their export and import
process, reports BSS.
"It is our commitment to
ensure self sufficiency in food
production, supply safe and
nutritious food as well as
commercialize the agriculture
sector for making it a
profitable venture to poor
farmers... This has been
reflected in our policy
documents and plans," he
said
The minister said this while
inaugurating the "Bangladesh
Trade Facilitation Project" as
the chief guest at a function in
the city, said a press release.
The US Department of
Agriculture's Foreign
Agricultural Service has
funded the project.
The US$27 million project
supports the government of
Bangladesh to implement the
World Trade Organization
(WTO) Trade Facilitation
Agreement in the areas of
simplifying and automating
import and export processes,
strengthening risk-based
clearance processes,
improving notification
provisions, developing the
capacity and testing
procedures of laboratories,
and enhancing the cold chain
system for facilitating trade of
perishable goods.
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