Today's Top National News (15-11-2019) Friday

Over Tk 2 cr drugs, contraband goods seized in Cumilla in Oct

Narcotics and contraband things value over Tk two.74 large integer were taken over throughout eight,523 drives conducted by numerous agencies within the district throughout the month of Oct.

The information was discovered throughout a gathering of the law and order committee of Cumilla district revently.

In October, 280 folks were in remission and 331 cases filed during this regard.

The district taskforce conducted twenty five drives and taken over product value Tk nineteen.28 lakh. Besides, twenty eight folks were in remission and thirty three cases were filed.

At an equivalent time police taken over product value Tk one.09 large integer conducting half-dozen,889 drives whereas in remission two hundred folks and filed 153 cases against them.

Members of BGB conducted one,425 drives in Oct and taken over product value Tk one.21 crore. Thirty 9 folks were in remission and 108 cases filed.

Crime bar Company two of Rab-11 taken over product value Tk nineteen.01 100000 and filed eight cases against eleven folks.

Department of Narcotics management taken over product value Tk one.72 lkah throughout this era whereas twenty four folks and filed twenty four cases were against them.

The Forest Department filed four cases and taken over product value Tk two.67 100000 throughout thirty three drives whereas Customs, Excise & VAT Commissionerate taken over valuables value Tk thirty,600 and filed one case throughout an equivalent amount.

12 years into Sidr: Bagerhat residents yet to get durable embankment

Twelve years agone, another a lot of stronger cyclone, 'Sidr',  took an identical path to ‘Bulbul’  that ripped through the coastal districts, as well as Bagerhat.

On Nov fifteen, 2007, the super cyclone left a path of destruction within the coastal region, fight villages once villages and destroying embankments on the rivers, as well as the Baleshwar.

However, a sturdy hill is nonetheless to be made on the Baleshwar watercourse to safeguard locals from natural calamities, as well as cyclonic storms and recurrent event surges.

The bloodcurdling recollections of the devastating cyclone still haunt the coastal residents, particularly those in Sharankhola upazila here, World Health Organization lost their beloved ones likewise because the belongings within the cyclone.

The recurrent event surges throughout the storm shattered the hill on the Baleshwar watercourse before inundating villages once villages within the coastal areas.

In 2016, a Tk 696-crore project was taken to construct a 62-km sturdy hill on the watercourse in Sadar, Sharankhola, Morelganj and Rampal upazilas of Bagerhat and Dacope of Khulna district.

During a recent visit to the Bogi portion of dyke in Sharankhola, this correspondent found that job on the hill that began four years agone is nonetheless to finish.

About seventy % work has been done and it'll take another year to finish the work, aforementioned sources.

However, locals worry that the work may not be completed among the extended time.

Over a two-km stretch from Gabtala to Bogi went into the watercourse over of these years whereas some a lot of points square measure at the chance of being eaten up by the watercourse anytime before long.

Shyamol Kumar Dutta, oversight engineer for the hill project, aforementioned the development of the 62-km sturdy hill started on January twenty six, 2016.

The work was alleged to be completed by January 2019 however the time was extended until Gregorian calendar month, 2020.

The 62-km hill was later curtailed to a 52-km one because the rest 10-km road was subtracted that was below the authorities Engineering Department (LGED) in between Sharankhola and Morelganj upazilas.

“The hill are a global normal one,” he claimed.

Md Ashraful Alam, govt engineer of the project, aforementioned work on forty kms of the hill has been completed whereas work on another five-km portion of the dyke goes on which on another seven kilometres in Rayenda and Bogi can begin before long.

He aforementioned they need sent a proposal for effort six acres of land in Bogi space and work can begin there once the land is nonheritable.

The World Bank is finance the Tk 696-crore project, Ashraful aforementioned.

He conjointly aforementioned they're going to reconstruct the broken sluice gates, excavate rivers unde the project.

Nahid-Uz-Zaman, govt engineer of Bagerhat water program Board (WDB), aforementioned they need taken a project to coach the Baleshwar watercourse to form the hill sturdy.

Visiting Bogi space, Bagerhat Deputy Commissioner Md Mamunur Rashid aforementioned the individuals here suffer ofttimes because of varied disasters, as well as cyclone and recurrent event surge.

Babul Hawlader, 45, of Bogi village aforementioned he sent his better half and youngsters to a shelter centre and stayed back home alone on the night once cyclone ‘Bulbul’ hit the coastal districts within the early hours of Nov ten. “My house was flooded following ebb tide and that i survived holding a tree on the hill.”

He conjointly aforementioned the Baleshwar watercourse Greek deity method his 2 bighas of his land.

Babul aforementioned he's annoyed because the hill is being made feat his house liable to the watercourse erosion.

President of Gabtala Ashar Alo musjid-cum-cyclone centre Abdul Barek Hawlader aforementioned the Baleshwar watercourse is currently approaching the mosque to devour it. “If a sturdy hill isn't designed as before long as doable, the cyclone shelter also will visit the watercourse,” he added.

Md Mozammel Hossain, Southkhali union parishad chairman, aforementioned residents of his union are losing their homesteads and land to the watercourse ofttimes.

He urged the authorities to coach the watercourse 1st and later construct the hill.

Some 908 individuals were killed and seventy six others went missing within the district throughout cyclonic storm Sidr that lashed the coastal districts on Nov fifteen, 2007. Some 1,627 sq. kilometres of areas were destroyed whereas sixty five,000 homes were broken by the cyclone.

Bangladesh-Russia signs protocol to boost ties

Bangladesh signed a protocol with the land on Th to market bilateral relations on trade, economy, science and technology.   

The protocol was signed at the ordinal meeting of Bangladesh-Russia Inter-Governmental Commission on Trade, Economic, Scientific and Technical Cooperation.

The meeting was control from twelve to fourteen Nov at the Economic Relations Division (ERD) in Dhaka.

ERD Secretary Monowar Ahmed, conjointly co-chair of the commission, light-emitting diode the East Pakistan facet whereas Russian Deputy Agriculture Minister Ilya V Shestakov the Russian delegation.

“Russia has been extending its support to East Pakistan since independence. Following the Liberation War, it helped U.S.A. take away mines and created serious industries,” Monowar told a joint making known.

“Russia could be a friendly nation for U.S.A.. And there's still associate ample scope to advance bilateral cooperation,” he added.

The protocol was signed when holding a protracted discussion between the 2 governments.

Both sides mentioned potential cooperation in areas of trade and economy, power and energy, energy, civil aviation, fisheries and farm animal, sleek banking settlement, geologic analysis, ICT, industry, area and satellite, education and culture.

Bangladesh wanted Russian facilitate in commerce native shrimp, medicine, animal skin attire, ceramic and plastic merchandise to Commonwealth of freelance States (CIS) countries, ERD officers advised.

The East Pakistan government conjointly invited investment from Russia within the one hundred economic zones that it's attempting to line up across the country as a part of entreaty native and foreign investments.

Besides, it's wanted Russian support for modernising Siddhirganj and Gorashal thermal power plants that had conjointly been created with the assistance of Russian government.

Both sides reached a accord to quickly implement the development work of the continued Rooppur atomic power plant at intervals the stipulated timeframe.

They in agreement to more advance cooperation between native Petrobangla and Russian state-owned company Gazprom in gas exploration and putting in distribution lines.

The Russian government, on the opposite hand, showed interest in operating for the ability and energy sector, particularly LNG export to East Pakistan, strengthening Petrobangla, and cooperation within the civil aviation business.

Regarding the LNG import proposal, East Pakistan told the Russian delegation that the proposal can be thought-about within the future, ERD officers aforesaid.

Ilya V Shestakov told reporters that every one the action plans undertaken for the event of East Pakistan are going to be enforced as regular.

He conjointly assured that the work of the Rooppur nuke power station are going to be completed in line with its point in time.

Ilya aforesaid Russia because the leading atomic power technology supplier is constructing such a plant in several countries, which can be completed still on their stipulated timeframe.

He invited Bangladeshi students to pursue higher studies on nuclear technology and alternative scientific fields in Russian establishments.

The accord on removing bottlenecks in banking settlement was a significant accomplishment of the meeting because the drawback was holding bank bilateral trade, ERD officers advised.