30-10-2022

SUNDAy, OCTOBeR 30, 2022
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Call for saving rich Bengali culture
Child Zarin has become the chairman of Upazila Parishad for an hour in Joypurhat. Sadar Upazila
Chairman SM Solaiman Ali spoke as the chief guest at the girls' take over program organized by the National
Children Task Force (NCTF) with the financial support of Plan Bangladesh. Photo : Masrakul Alam
Infusing dynamism into community
policing stressed to combat crimes
RAJSHAHI : Highlighting
multifarious aspects of expanding
community policing, speakers
yesterday unequivocally called for
infusing dynamism into its activities
for combating the crimes related to
communal violence, terrorism, drugaddiction
and militancy.
Community policing can be the vital
means of freeing the society from all
sorts of crimes with joint efforts of
police and the public in general, they
viewed.
The discussants came up with the
observations while addressing a
meeting to mark the Community
Policing Day-2022 held at Rajshahi
College auditorium.
The theme of this year's Community
Policing Day is "Police-e Janata,
Janatai Police (Police is People and
People is Police)".
Rajshahi Metropolitan Police (RMP)
and Community Policing Forum
jointly organized the meeting largely
attended by cross-sections of people.
Convener of the city community
policing coordination committee Prof
Five drug
peddlers held
with 26.5-kg
ganja in Natore
RAJSHAHI : Rapid Action
Battalion (RAB) arrested
five alleged drug peddlers
from Bhagnagarkandi
Amrulpara in Natore
district and recovered 26.5
kilograms (KGs) of
cannabis (Ganja) from
their possessions on
Friday night, reports BSS
The arrested persons
were identified as Ripon
Islam, 26, Rubel Hossain,
25, Munnab Ali, 38, Sagar
Ali, 22, and Jishan Ali, 19..
On a tip-off, a team of
RAB conducted a raid at
Bhagnagarkandi
Amrulpara under Shingra
Upazila around 9:30 pm
and arrested them with the
hemp after searching a
pick-up van, RAB sources
said.
The arrestees with the
seized contraband goods
along with the pick-up
were handed over to
police.
A case was filed with
Shingra police station in
this connection.
Man kills son, ends
life in Bagerhat
BAGERHAT : A man allegedly strangled his three-year-old son
to death before ending his life in Mollhat upazila of Bagerhat
district on Friday night. The deceased man and his son were
identified as Md Haidar Molla, 28, and Jishan Mollah,
respectively. Police recovered the bodies around 8.30pm from
Haidar's house in Baragaola village of the upazila. "We also
found a suicide note near the bodies," said Somen Das, OC of
Mollahat police station.
In the purported note, Haidar wrote, "I have strangled Jishan
to death and commited suicide after that. No one is responsible
for my death. Burry us both at the same place."
According to locals, Haider and his wife Jobaira Khatun
separated some eight months ago over marital feud.
Since then Jishan had been living with his paternal
grandmother at their village home while his father used to work
with a private company in Dhaka.
On Thursday, Haidar returned from Dhaka and on Friday
night, family members found the two bodies in his room.
OC Somen said the bodies have been sent for post-mortem
and two cases of murder and unnatural death, respectively, have
been filed.
Abdul Khaleque addressed the
discussion as chief guest, while RMP
Commissioner Abu Kalam Siddique
was in the chair.
Former state minister Prof
Jinnatunnessa
Talukder,
Commanding Officer of RAB-5 Lt Col
Riaz Shahrier, Rajshahhi College
Principal Prof Abdul Khaleque and city
unit Awami League president
Muhammad Ali Kamal and general
secretary Dablu Sarker also addressed
the meeting.
Prof Abdul Khaleque said the
community people should extend
cooperation to police by providing
specific information about the
criminals. Crimes-free society,
particularity free from communal
violence, terrorism and drug addiction,
must be established to protect people
and the young generation, in
particular, he said.
To attain the cherished goal, the lawenforcing
agencies and the community
people should have to work together as
the law-enforcers alone are not capable
of overcoming the crisis, he added.
RMP Commissioner Abu Kalam
Siddique went on saying that policecitizens'
joint efforts against social
crimes are the main objective of
community based policing and there is
no alternative to activating it to free the
society from the crimes.
He said the community based
policing had been introduced in the
metropolis with a noble view, but the
community people should take the
responsibility of making it effective.
He stressed the need for boosting the
relationship between the police and
common people and for exploring the
opportunities of community policing
for lasting peace everywhere in the
society.
"If you give us authentic information
about the criminals and other antisocial
elements, we will put in our best
efforts to bring those to book as early as
possible," Siddique reminded the
community people.
Earlier, they brought out a colourful
rally from Alupatty crossing and
paraded some of the city streets before
ending at the meeting venue.
Youths bodies call for
biodiversity conservation
in Barind tract
RAJSHAHI : Many of the youth
organisations at a meeting on Saturday
unequivocally called for time-befitting and
effective measures for protecting biodiversity
and cultural diversity in the region, including
its vast Barind tract.
They also unanimously viewed that both
biodiversity and cultural diversity are
gradually declining due to various reasons
posing a serious threat to public life along
with the whole ecosystem.
Bangladesh Resource Centre for
Indigenous Knowledge (BARCIK) hosted the
meeting at its office here yesterday to mark
the formation of the executive committee of
Barind Tract Youth Organisation Forum
(BTYOF).
Leaders and members of 45 youth
organisations who are working for
improving living and livelihood conditions of
the marginalized and ethnic minority people
for more than four years joined the meeting
and constituted an 11-member BTYOF
committee.
BARCIK Regional Coordinator Sahidul
Islam, BTYOF President Shaykh Tasnim
Jamal, its Vice-president Sabitry Hembrom,
Convener Rubel Hossain and members
Jubayer Hossain, Russel Sarker and Zahid
Hassan addressed the meeting.
In his remarks, Shahidul Islam said school,
college and university-level students need
proper knowledge about the importance of
biodiversity, natural resource conservation
and climate change issues so that they can
contribute to this field.
To this end, there should be time-befitting
measures and institutional learning for them
as there is no way but to conserve natural
resource conservation in the region to face
the adverse impact of climate change for the
greater interests of new and future
generations.
In the wake of abnormal declining natural
resources like native crop seeds, fish and
birds species and other wildlife, conservation
of natural resources has become
indispensable for facing the adverse impacts
of climate change.
Islam opined that many native crops and
vegetable varieties are gradually declining.
Many of the native fish species, particularly
the small indigenous ones, are on the verge
of extinction due to various reasons.
Importance should be given to capacity
building to address climate change in the
region with special reference to conservation
of drought tolerant species.
BGB seizes 4,510 yaba
tablets in C'nawabganj
CHAPAINAWABGANJ : Members of
Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in
two separate drives seized 4,510
pieces of yaba tablets on Friday
evening and yesterday morning,
reports BSS.
Acting on a tip-off, a patrol team of
the BGB from Chowka Border Out
Post (BOP) conducted a raid in
Lalkuria field area under Shibganj
upazila of the district around 6.55 pm
on Friday last and found 990 yaba
tablets, BGB sources said.
"On a tip-off, another team of the
BGB from Sonamasjid BOP raided
Swashanghat area in Shibganj
upazila around 5.30 am on Saturday
and found 3,520 yaba tablets in an
abandoned condition," the sources
said, adding that none was arrested
in the drives.
RANGPUR : Cultural
personalities at a memorial
meeting have stressed
saving rich Bengali culture
from aggression of alien
culture to revive the lost
social values, glory and
humanism.
They viewed this at the
discussion followed by a
'Bhaoyaiya' evening
organized by 'Bhaoyaiya
Angon' at its office here
marking the 141st birthday
of 'Bhaoyaiya' artist Abbas
Uddin Ahmed, widely
known as unsurpassed
'Bhaoyaiya' Prince, on
Friday night.
'Bhaoyaiya Angon' is a
cultural organization
working for collecting and
Community
Policing Day
observed in
Bogura
BOGURA : The
Community Policing Day-
2022 was observed in the
district as elsewhere in the
country yesterday with a
call for gearing up the
community policing
activity to make the society
free from drug abuse,
terrorism and militancy.
This year's theme of the
day was "Community
policing mul montro,
shanti sringkhola
sarbatra".
On the occasion, a rally
was brought out from the
Bogura Police Lines which
paraded important streets
in the city and ended at the
Bogura Police Lines
School and College
yesterday morning.
Marking the day, a
discussion meeting was
organized by District
Community Policing
Coordination Committee
(DCPCC) at the Bogura
Police Lines School and
College of the town.
Superintendent of Police
Sudep Kumar Chakraborty
addressed the function as
the chief guest with
additional superintendent
of police (administration)
Ali Haider Chowdhury in
the chair.
Special Superintendent
of Police (CID)
Mohammad Kawser
Sikder, Commandant of
In-Service Training Center
Md. Belal Hossain,
Superintendent of Police
of PBI Kazi Ehsanul
Karim, Principal of Bogura
Police Lines School and
College Shahadat Alam
Jhunu, among others,
spoke on the occasion.
The chief guest in his
speech said community
policing have no option to
maintain peace and law
and order in the society.
The speakers said
Bangladesh is a densely
populated country so there
is no alternative to
community policing to
maintain peaceful law and
order situation in the
country.
9 held for torturing
woman in Natore
NATORE : Police have arrested nine people on
charges of torturing a 75-year-old woman after
tying her to a tree in Gurudaspur upazila of
Natore.
The arrestees have been identified as Alam, 45,
Nurnabi, 35, Ujjal, 34, Babu, 40, Liton, 35,
Azadul, 40, Kamed Ali, 42,Chan Mia, 39, and
Azadul Fakir, 37, said Abdul Matin, officer-incharge
of Gurudaspur police station.
The accused were arrested from Moukhra area
of Baraigram upazila on Friday night, he said.
On October 25, the accused tied the woman,
Kulsum Begum, to a tree and beat her up on
allegations of having an affair with her son-inlaw.
The victim, however, told the cops that it was
a lie to evict her from her house.
However, police lodged an FIR against the
woman that day only and produced her before a
court that granted her bail.
On September, 27, the woman lodged a
complaint with police over the incident and later
the cops arrested the accused.
preserving 'Bhaoyaiya'
songs and conducting
training, research and
academic activities for
'Bhaoyaiya' artists to
flourish the traditional
songs, reports BSS.
Veteran 'Bhaoyaiya' artist
Harun-Ar-Rashid presided
over the discussion.
Chairman-elect of
Rangpur District Council
and former President of the
district unit Command of
Bangladesh Muktijoddha
Sangsad heroic freedom
fighter Mosaddek Hossain
Bablu attended the
discussion as chief guest.
Former Head of the
Department of Bengali of
Rangpur Begum Rokeya
Government College
Professor Mohammad
Shah Alam, veteran
'Bhaoyaiya' artist Parimal
Chandra Barman,
Chairman of 'Bhaoyaiya
Angon' Salma Mostafiz, its
Founder and Executive
Director AKM Mostafizur
Rahman addressed as
special guests.
Professor Mohammad
Shah Alam and AKM
Mostafizur Rahman
discussed the life and works
of Abbas Uddin Ahmed.
Paying rich tribute to
Abbas Uddin Ahmed, the
speakers said 'Bhaoyaiya'
songs with its heartthrobbing
musical tunes
have fundamentally
contributed to developing
civilization, culture, social
customs and lifestyle on the
Brahmaputra basin over
the centuries.
The chief guest said the
'Bhaoyaiya' song attracts
people of all ages and
stressed conducting more
research on 'Bhaoyaiya'
songs and nurturing and
properly preserving the
folk-songs as those are still
playing an important role in
entertaining millions of
people.
"The heart-throbbing
melody of 'Bhaoyaiya' song
always represents healthy
Bengali culture to entertain
common people for
centuries," he said.
On the occasion of Community Policing Day-2022, a colorful rally and
discussion meeting was organized under the initiative of Longadu
Police Station of Rangamati. On Saturday, the rally was taken out from
Longadu Police Station area and it paraded he main road. Later a discussion
meeting was held at the public library auditorium of the upazila.
Photo : Omor Faruk Musa
On Saturday, a rally and discussion meeting were held at Dighinala Upazila
Parishad premises of Khagrachari on the occasion of 'Community Policing
Day-2022', The programs were organized by Dighinala Police Station.
Photo : Md Sohanur Rahaman.
Community Policing Day 2022 was observed by Saltha Thana Police of
Faridpur. On this occasion, a colorful rally was taken out on Saturday morning.
A discussion meeting was held at the police station. Awami League nominated
candidate Syeda Sajeda Chowdhury's younger son Shahdab Akbar
Chowdhury Labu, spoke as the chief guest. Photo : Md. Shofiqul Islam
Sunamganj District Police, with the support of the Sunamganj District
Community Policing Forum organized a discussion meeting yesterday on the
occasion of Community Policing Day.
Photo : AK Milon