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The photo shows a Durga idol at a mandap in Barishal.
Photo: TBT
'Durgotshob' being celebrated in
various mandaps in Barishal
Zihad Rana, Barishal Correspondent
The five-day Durga Puja began in
Barishal on Monday with the Maha
Sasthi Puja. Although the
celebrations were reduced during
Covid-19 period, the organizing
committee did not reduce the
decoration of the puja mandaps like
the previous year.
This time 590 mandaps have been
staged in Barishal district. Of these,
Durga Puja is being performed in 45
mandaps in Barishal city. Grants
have already been given to the
temples by the government and the
city mayor. The organizers said that
they are trying their best to complete
the puja smoothly like every other
Low Covid-19
positivity rate
continue in Ctg
CHATTOGRAM: Low
Covid-19 positivity rate
continued in Chattogram
district, reports BSS.
The Covid-19 situation is
improving consistently
during the recent months
in the district, Civil Surgeon
Dr Ilias Hossain told BSS.
He said that Chattogram
district recorded ever
lowest Covid-19 positivity
rate of 0.69 percent while 11
fresh cases were reported
after testing 1,719 samples
during the last 24 hours till
Monday morning.
Earlier, the district also
recorded lowest 1.16
percent Covid-19 positivity
rate on Saturday.
With the newly infected
cases, the number of
coronavirus (COVID-19)
patients stands at 102,025
in the district.
Advocacy meeting marking
National Agriculture Week
held in Jhalokati
Manik Roy, Jhalokati
Correspondent
An advocacy meeting has
been held on the occasion of
health examination of
students by little doctors and
celebration of National
Agriculture Week in the
meeting room of Jhalokati
Civil Surgeon's Office on
Monday.
Deputy Commissioner Md
Johar Ali was the chief guest
at the advocacy meeting
chaired by Civil Surgeon Dr
Ratan Kumar Dhali. Among
others, District Education
Officer Md. Siddiqur
Rahman Khan and District
Primary Education Officer
Aminul Islam, Dr. Abul
Khair Mahmud and Senior
Self Education Officer
Gautam Kumar Das were
among others also present at
the occasion.
From October 30 to
November 5, 1 lakh 8
thousand children aged 5-16
years in the district will be
given deworming tablets in
schools. Prior to this,
students will be tested in
their own schools from
October 23 to 29. The advocacy
meeting has sought the
cooperation of all to celebrate
this Agriculture Week.
time. Some have brought lighting
and sound systems from the capital.
The five-day festival will end on
Friday through Dashami.
Durga Puja has been performed in
the 150-year-old Barisal metropolis
at the temple of Falpatti Kalimata
Thakurani for 26 years. Kalimata
Thakurani's temple has won the
award for the best Durga Puja
temple 24 times in Durgotshob for
exceptional idols and eye-catching
decorations. This year also
Durgotsab is being organized in their
temple.
Tamal Malakar, president of the
Barishal Metropolitan Puja
Udjyapan Parishad, said there would
be no competitions or fairs in the
city's puja mandaps because of the
corona. There will be no lighting on
the road. The 45 puja mandaps
committee of the city has been asked
to abide by the health rules properly.
Meanwhile, Barishal Metropolitan
Police Commissioner Md
Shahabuddin Khan held a meeting
with the leaders of the City Puja
Committee on Thursday and
directed to install closed circuit
cameras in all the mandaps.
On Saturday, Deputy Commissioner
Jasim Uddin distributed t-shirts to
volunteers at 590 temples in the
district and 45 temples in the
metropolis.
Developed nations must lead global
climate efforts: Shahab Uddin
DHAKA : Environment, Forests and Climate
Change Minister Md Shahab Uddin on
Monday said Bangladesh calls upon the
countries having greater responsibilities and
significant capabilities, particularly G20
nations, to lead the global efforts to achieve
climate goals.
"The world leaders should also put
emphasis on the progress of putting forward
long term low emission development
strategy," he told the LDC Ministerial Meeting
at Thimphu of Bhutan, joining virtually from
his official residence in Dhaka.
Ministers and delegates of different LDC
countries and representatives of international
organisations delivered speeches in the
occasion, a ministry press release said.
Shahab Uddin said the countries also must
keep enhancing their 2030 Nationally
Determined Contributions (NDCs) and put
them forward in line with progression and
raising ambition to put the world on track
towards achieving 1.5oC global goal through
attaining 45 percent global emission
reduction by 2030 and net zero by 2050.
He said Bangladesh has enhanced both
unconditional and conditional contributions
amounting to 89.47 million tons CO2
equivalent, which is 21.85 percent emission
reductions from Business as Usual by 2030 in
its updated NDCs submitted in August 26th
this year.
The minister said Bangladesh is in the
process of finalising its NAPs, while it
supports to set up a formal process by COP26
in order to come up with concrete
recommendations on global adaptation goal
for consideration by COP27.
Under long-term finance, tracking the
progress on delivering US$100 billion from
2020 and providing clarity on how the
US$100 billion each year through to 2024 will
be delivered is an important agenda at
COP26, he said.
"Guidance needs to be given to the GCF and
GEF, resolving the critical challenges that
vulnerable countries particularly LDCs face
with regards to accessing the GCF and GEF
need to be duly reflected," he added.
Shahab Uddin said completing the
discussions under Article 6 and adopt
necessary rules are very critical for the
implementation of the Paris Agreement.
"We strongly feel that all provisions of
Article 6 must be realised in the context of
Article 6.1, which states that the purpose of
such mechanisms is to allow for higher
ambition and promote environmental
integrity," he said.
The minister said Bangladesh underscores
the need for enhancing the capacity of LDCs
for the effective participation of Article 6
mechanisms and it feels that the world leaders
must determine a common time frame for
NDCs, which is consistent and compatible to
five-year unique cycle of NDC communication
and global stocktake under the Paris
Agreement.
Princes Charles urges action, not
words at UN climate summit
LONDON : Prince Charles, a lifelong
environmentalist who has championed
organic gardening and runs one of his cars
on white wine and cheese, has urged world
leaders to turn talk into action at the
upcoming UN climate summit.
Queen Elizabeth II's eldest son and heir,
72, is due to attend events at the two-week
COP26 summit in Glasgow starting on
October 31, along with his 95-year-old
mother. But in an interview with the BBC
broadcast on Monday, he said he worried
that world leaders would "just talk", adding:
"The problem is to get action on the ground."
The UN summit will try to persuade major
developing economies to do more to cut
their carbon emissions, and get the rich
world to cough up billions more dollars to
help poorer countries adapt to climate
change.
An advocacy meeting marking the National Agriculture Week was held in
the Jhalokati on Monday.
Photo: Manik Roy
Obituary
Abu Taher Howladar, uncle
of Engineer Abu Noman
Howladar, Chairman, BBS
Group and Nahee Group,
passed away at his
residence at Lalmohan,
Bhola on Sunday, August
10, 2021 at 12:45 pm due to
old age complications. He
was 65 years old at the time
of his death.
Flood, river erosion
victims to get assistance
in Gaibandha
GAIBANDHA: A total of 450
families affected by recent flood
and river erosion are going to
get cash money and hygiene
materials in the district, reports
BSS.
SKS Foundation, a local
reputed non-government
organization, will distribute
cash TK 3000 and hygiene kits
among the each victim families
of the three Kamarjani,
Mollarchar and Gidari unions
in Sadar upazila. The health
protective equipment includes
soaps, face masks, plastic mug,
detergent powder, a plastic
bucket and water purification
tablets. The aid will be given
under BGD Emergency Flood
Response-2021 programme in
cooperation with Save the
Children.
On Sunday, the inaugural
function on hygiene kits
distribution was held on the
premises of Kamarjani Union
Parishad at the arrangement of
SKS Foundation. Sadar
Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO)
Md. Rafiul Alam formally
opened the distribution as the
chief guest while Onno Van
Manen, country director of
Save the Children spoke at the
function as the special guest.
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Online review workshop on "Credit
Operations of Banks" held
DHAKA : A half day long online review
workshop was held yesterday at the
Bangladesh Institute of Bank Management
(BIBM) in the city.
Ahmed Jamal, Chairman of BIBM
Executive Committee and Deputy Governor
of Bangladesh Bank, was present in the
review workshop as the chief guest, said a
press release.
Mohammed Sohail Mustafa, Associate
Professor and Director (Training and
Certification Program) of BIBM delivered
welcome address while Dr Md
Akhtaruzzaman, Director General of BIBM
chaired the program.
A paper titled "Credit Operations of Banks"
was presented in the workshop by Dr
Prashanta Kumar Banerjee, Professor
(Selection Grade) of BIBM.
Other members of the research team are
Mohammed Sohail Mustafa, Associate
Professor and Director (Training and
Certification Program) of BIBM, Atul
Chandra Pandit, Associate Professor of
BIBM, Dr. Mosharref Hossain, Associate
Professor of BIBM, Tahmina Rahman,
Assistant Professor of BIBM and Md.
Murshedul Kabir, Deputy Managing
Director of Sonali Bank Limited.
Dr Barkat-e-Khuda, Dr Muzzafer Ahmed
Chair Professor of BIBM and Former
Professor of Dhaka University, Ali Hossain
Prodhania, Former Managing Director and
CEO of Bangladesh Krishi Bank, Obayed
Ullah Al Masud, Managing Director and
CEO of Rupali Bank Limited, Mosleh Uddin
Ahmed, Managing Director & CEO of SBAC
Bank Limited, Emranul Huq, Managing
Director & CEO of Dhaka Bank Limited
made comments as designated discussants.
The Deputy Governor said that overall
domestic credit consisting Government and
Private Sector credit increased steadily from
FY 10 to FY20. This growth is driven by
increasing growth of Government Sector
credit in FY20 and private sector credit
slowed down during 2020 reflecting impact
of COVID-19 pandemic on the banking
sector as a whole, he added.
Director General of BIBM said, findings of
the study along with opinions and
observations made today will help BB to take
future actions. A good number of
participants including senior bank
executives, academicians, media
representatives, faculty members of BIBM
took part in the online review workshop.
Lebanon firefighters
quell huge fuel tank fire
ZAHRANI : Firefighters in Lebanon put out
a huge blaze that raged at a key fuel storage
depot Monday to the relief of many in the
country gripped by desperate energy
shortages.
There was no immediate report of
casualties from the fire that sent large
plumes of dark smoke billow into the sky.
The fire broke out around 8:00am (0500
GMT) in a large petrol tank belonging to the
army at the Zahrani facilities some 50
kilometres (30 miles) south of Beirut, the
National News Agency and local media said.
An AFP photographer said firefighters put
out the flames at around noon (0900 GMT),
and civil defence chief Raymond Khattar told
the press the blaze was "under control".
Ziyad al-Zein, head of facilities at Zahrani,
said the fire broke out as the tank was being
emptied.
A daylong community dialogue on "Good Governance" was held in Sitakunda,
Chattogram.
Photo : Courtesy