13-05-2022

friDAY, MAY 13, 2022
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Bangladesh's fate will
never be like Sri
Lanka's: Abed Ali
S M Akash, Chattogram Bureau
Professor Mohammad Abed Ali, Secretary
General of the SAARC Human Rights
Foundation and Chairman of the Election
Monitoring Forum, the largest
international human rights organization
in South Asia, said in a keynote address at
a reception in the Maldives, "Bangladesh
is moving forward in tandem with the
developed world. Bangladesh's current
economy is more prosperous than ever.
As long as millions of remittance earners
are working on foreign soil, Bangladesh
will move forward. Bangladesh condition
will never be like Sri Lanka's."
Professor Abed Ali made the remarks at
a reception hosted by the Expatriate
Social Workers Association Maldives at a
local restaurant on Wednesday, May 11, in
the presence of Zakir Hossain, President
of Expatriate Social Workers Association
Maldives and SAARC human rights
Representative of Maldives.
High Commissioner of Bangladesh in
Maldives Rear Admiral S.M. Abul Kalam
Azad, Special Representative of SAARC
Human Rights Foundation Maldives and
former President of Maldives
Employment Tribunal Amjad Mostafa,
Vice Chairman of Maldives Election
Commission Ismail Habib, Central Co-
President of SAARC Human Rights
Foundation Mizanur Rahman Majumder,
Central Director of SAARC, Distinguished
writer and columnist Dr. Muhammad
Masum Chowdhury.
Mohammad Sohail Rana (CIP),
Chairman, Global Rich Group, Maldives,
Dulal Hossain, Chairman, Maldives View
Construction, Md. Kamrul Islam, esteem
businessman Rabiul Alam, vice-president
of the Expatriate Social Workers
Association, Mahmudul Hasan and
Shahidul Islam, general secretaries,
Mashudul Islam Masud, organizing
secretary, Monir Hossain, finance
secretary and Al Amin, among others,
were present at the event.
Sadhan for
working together
to ensure safe food
DHAKA : Food Minister
Sadhan Chandra
Majumder yesterday called
upon the organizations
engaged in ensuring safe
food to work together to
implement the vision of the
government.
"I urge all the
organizations engaged in
ensuring safe food to work
under the same roof aiming
to implement the vision of
the government," he said.
The minister made the
call while virtually
addressing the 6th meeting
of the Food Management
Advisory Council here, a
press release said.
The food minister said a
prosperous golden Bengal
should be built under the
leadership of Prime
Minister Sheikh Hasina
imbued with the ideology
of Father of Nation
Bangabandhu Sheikh
Mujibur Rahman.
He called upon the
concerned people to turn
the new generation into a
talented one by ensuring
safe food free from
adulteration.
Mayor of Dhaka South
City Corporation (DSCC)
Barrister Sheikh Fazle
Noor Taposh, Dhaka North
City Corporation (DNCC)
Mayor Md Atiqul Islam,
Food Secretary Mosammat
Nazmanara Khanum,
Cabinet Secretary
(Reforms
and
Coordination) Md Samsul
Arefin, Bangladesh Safe
Food Authority (BSFA)
Chairman Md Abdul
Qayum Sarker and Director
General (DG) of
Bangladesh Standard and
Testing Institution (BSTI)
Dr Md Nazrul Anwar also
spoke on the occasion,
among others.
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