Bangladesh inaugurates 3 more mega projects in this year

Shamsul Basunia

Bangladesh government is going to launch three more mega projects including Padma bridge this year. The Padma Bridge is nearly at the end of completion. The government wants to provide the necessary funds to carry out the work of the projects properly.

However, they are being given priority in the Annual Development Program (ADP) of FY 2022-23 so that the projects which are nearing the end of implementation do not fall into financial crisis and also important projects are implemented properly.

Along with these three communication projects, the mega projects of the government are getting big allocation in the next financial year. However, as most of the projects are nearing completion, the allocation pressure on these projects is less than before.

A section of Metrorail to Agargaon in the capital is scheduled to be opened by next December. The Bangabandhu Tunnel, built along the bottom of the Karnafuli River, is scheduled to open in October. And just a month later, the dream Padma Bridge is scheduled to be inaugurated at the end of June.

In the meantime, the Planning Commission has finalized the draft allocation for various projects. The new ADP is coming up for approval in the National Economic Council on Tuesday. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is scheduled to preside over it.

It is learned that transport, health, education, power and housing sectors are getting top priority in the new ADP.

Planning Minister MA Mannan told the media, "If mega projects are launched, the country's economy will go a long way." This is a great achievement of the government. Some of these are nearing the end. So the allocation pressure on them is also decreasing. But every important project will get the necessary allocation. '

Priority projects are Padma Bridge, Metro Rail, Rail Link to Padma Bridge, Rooppur Nuclear Power Station, Matarbari Power Station, Payra Seaport, Karnafuli Tunnel (Bangabandhu Tunnel), Bangabandhu Rail Bridge and ' Track construction 'project.

 

Eid celebrated in Bangladesh amidst miseries

In Bangladesh Muslim community celebrates  Eid-ul-Fitr on Tuesday amidst acute high-priced commodities. The lower class-people almost deprives in getting peace as the commodities are sold at very high-price. They have lost  purchasing capacity to buy commonalities. During the Eid-prayers rainy water pours which wet the devotees. As a result, people including women and children  can't move at will and almost all people remain confined at homes.

What bam fish indicates & what we should to do

Shamsul Basunia

Bam fish in South Asia is known as very nutritious food. It is as delicious as tasteful to Bengalese. Though Bam is usually found mingled within mud in river or lake waters. It is found abundantly countries like Bangladesh, West Bengal of India, Vietnam, Cambodia and Myanmar. Bam is very neat and clean to look at. There is no sign of mud in it though it lives in mud. People in these countries are as like as the bam fish. They commit sins, offense or injustices randomly; but appear in the society as like as bam fish. Nobody can watch them as they are involved into sins & offenses.  Consequently, mass people think they are advanced portion of the humans living in the society. As a result, the most insincere, notorious and dishonest people can get opportunity to flourish themselves. Every sin and offense of them gradually change into as if virtues. Mass people is misguided and miss-led in this way and they become prey of derailment. The honest people like Rabindranath Tagore and Kazi Nazrul Islam always recommended the next generation to follow the footprint of the iconic personalities who earned name and fame with social or state status. We should nurture us on line of honesty and simplicity so that people of all classes can easily define what is right and what is wrong. Actually moral is the key point of every human and he or she should maintain him or her accordingly. Moral always remains seated on driving seat.

 

 

Capital punishment for the rapists demanded everywhere in Bangladesh

Shamsul Hoque Basunia

Bangladesh now becomes the place of demonstration against  rape and violence to women. Everyday people of all classes come down the streets and raise their voice chanting capital punishment to the rapists and torturers. Political parties like Bangladesh Nationalist party, Jamati Islami, Common students council led by former DUCSU vice president Nurul Hoque Nur take the lead each day. Demonstrations continued for four consecutive days in and around the capital Dhaka. Dhaka becomes the paralyzed mega city due to several processions,rallies and demonstrations. Law enforcers become the useless enforcers.Different political and student organisations, socio-cultural, rights groups and students of different educational institutions across the country continued their protests against rape and violence against women for the fourth consecutive day.The demonstrators protested against the government inaction and the failure of the law enforcement agencies to stop violence against women, involvement of leaders and activists of the ruling Awami League and its front organisations in such offences and the culture of impunity for which such incidents are continuing unabated.Protesters at places demanded the resignation of the home minister for his failure to curb violence and demanded amendment to the law to include the provision of death sentence for rape.

Patients hostage to pvt hospitals

in Dhaka

SHAMSUL BASUNIA

High Court in Bangladesh observed that private hospitals, clinics and diagnostic centres were acting arbitrarily in absence of any guideline to regulate them. The bench of Justice JBM Hassan and Justice Md Khairul Alam also gave the Directorate General of Health Services director general fresh time until October 7 to prepare the guidelines for operation of private hospitals, clinics and diagnostic centres as well as private practice beyond their offices. The health services directorate also gave fresh time to revise all fees for different health services including medical tests and surgery at private hospitals, clinics and diagnostic centres. The bench extended the deadline to implement the High Court’s directives to frame the guideline and revise the price chart of health services, as the directorate failed to comply with its directives and prayed for more time, stating that the designated officer working with an expert committee on the issue was suffering from COVID-19.    

Earlier on September 1, the High Court asked the directorate to submit the progress report to the court on September 23.   

ONE LAKH INFECTED IN

COVIDA VIRUS

 IN SPAIN

SHAMSUL BASUNIA

Spain topped 100,000 corona virus infections and registered its highest daily death toll on Wednesday as health authorities raced to deploy hospital beds to deal with the pressure of the pandemic.  The latest figures place Spain third in the grisly global rankings of corona virus cases, behind Italy and the United States, and second in terms of fatalities, behind Italy. The total number of cases soared to 102,136, with an increase of 7,719 in the past 24 hours, María José Sierra, spokesperson of the Coordination Centre for Health Alerts and Emergencies, told a press conference. Of those infections, 22,646 have recovered and 9,053 have died. There are 5,872 people in intensive care, the expert added, and in the last 24 hours, there were 864 deaths in Spain, the highest death toll in the country to date.

Police detained 38 Imams In Karachi for violating Restriction on congregation

SHAMSUL BASUNIA

Karchi police detained 38 Imams on Friday for violating the Sindh government’s restriction on congregational prayers. Earlier, the government banned the gathering bringing all the Islamic scholars at a table for seeking the opinion.

Netanyahu quarantined after aide contracts Covid-19

SHAMSUL BASUNIA

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been placed under quarantine after an aide tested positive for Covid-19, his office said on Monday.The premier met with Paluch on Thursday, during negotiations over the formation of a new unity government with rival Benny Gantz. Israel on March 9 closed its airport to most foreign arrivals, with exceptions for those who could meet strict quarantine requirements. The country and its nearly 9 million people are currently under strict lockdown, with only essential movements permitted.
Israeli-occupied West Bank is under a similar lockdown, though confirmed cases remain lower at 106. Gaza Strip has seen nine cases so far, but even those are cause for local panic, as the territory has one of the highest population densities in the world and a healthcare system hollowed out after years of conflict and blockades.
The UN envoy for the Middle East Peace Process on Thursday acknowledged that Israel has been allowing healthcare workers involved in the virus response to move in and out of the West Bank and Gaza, and for critical medical supplies to enter the Strip.

COVID-19 situation deteriorating, what Dhaka’s initiatives

SHAMSUL BASUNIA

Spanish Princess Maria Teresa died on Friday after testing positive for Covid-19. Charles, 71, become the second royal in the world to test positive for the disease after Prince Albert of Monaco, 62, was confirmed to be the first head of state to have tested positive for the virus. Charles had met Prince Albert just two weeks ago at a Water Aid event in London, although the pair were always stood far apart and sat on other sides of the table. The Queen is currently staying at Windsor Castle with her husband Prince Philip amid the UK lockdown and is said to be in good health. However, the corona virus toll in Italy shot past 10,000 on Saturday and showed little sign of slowing despite a 16-day lockdown. In Bangladesh, one more dies of corona virus, 6 new cases confirmed, says IEDCR. One more corona virus (COVID-19) patient, aged over 70, died in the country and six new cases were confirmed in the last 24 hours, said the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) here today. IEDCR Director Professor Dr Meerjady Sabrina Flora said while briefing the media through videoconference from IEDCR office. Now death toll from the corona virus stands at four while the number of total corona virus infected patients rises to 39 with the new six cases. To tackle the menace, the government has initiated a process to draw a digital map to track corona virus cases and find out areas susceptible to contamination by using mobile users’ information.

United States now has the most corona virus cases in the world

|| Shamsul Basunia ||

United States now has the most corona virus cases in the world

It registers nearly 86,000 cases including fewer than 800 recoveries; 1,300 people have died so far in the country.United States corona virus cases in the world, surpassing China and Italy, with the three countries accounting for almost half of the world's infections.US has registered nearly 86,000 cases, including fewer than 800 recoveries, while China counted about 81,000 cases, more than 74,000 of which had already recovered, according to data collected by the Johns Hopkins University in US. For its part, Italy has logged more than 80,000 cases, with 10,360 recoveries and some 8,200 deaths. On the other hand UK Premier Boris Jonson falls into the attack of corona virus. And he is under treatment.

Be ware  of  Corona virus that may cause immense harms to the humanity.

Trump urges Security Council to take strong and swift action stopping the Rohingya crisis

US President Donald Trump urges UN Security Council to take “strong and swift action” to bring Myanmar’s Rohingya crisis to an end, US vice president Mike Pence said on Wednesday, calling the

violence there a threat to the region and beyond.

Pence, speaking at a Security Council meeting on peacekeeping reform, accused the Myanmar military of responding to militant attacks on government outposts “with terrible savagery, burning villages, driving the Rohingya from their homes.”

Pence repeated a US call for the Myanmar military to end the violence immediately and support diplomatic efforts for a long-term solution.

President Trump and I also call on the Security Council of the United Nations to take strong and swift action to bring this crisis to an end and bring hope and help to the Rohingya people in their hour of need, Pence said.

His remarks were the strongest yet from the US government in response to the violence in Myanmar’s western state of Rakhine that began last month and has forced 422,000 Rohingya Muslims into Bangladesh, fleeing a military offensive the United Nations has branded ethnic cleansing.

Pence called the violence and the “historic exodus” of Rohingya, including tens of thousands of children, a “great tragedy.”

Hundreds of thousands of Rohingyas had fled in fear of their lives

Bangladesh has extended all possible assistance to the Rohingyas, given the violence and persecution unleashed on the community in Myanmar. Hundreds of thousands of Rohingyas had fled in fear of their lives from their homeland into Bangladesh. However, the international community has not reacted as it should have to the ethnic cleansing and the genocide being carried out in Myanmar. At the UN Security Council meet on Wednesday, the oppression of the Rohingyas was condemned and a call was made to halt the atrocities. The situation has reached such proportions, that it is not enough to merely condemn and issue statements.

It is clear that the Myanmar government has adopted a policy of ethnic cleansing against the Rohingyas. The Rohingyas are being driven from the country in a planned manner. This is an international crime, according to the UN Charter and other such charters. Already 400,000 Rohingyas had been sheltering in Bangladesh and now another 370,000 or more have been added. It is unfortunate that Bangladesh for no reason at all, it having to bear the burden of this burgeoning number of refugees. And yet here is no effective initiative being taken against Myanmar for this international crime.

As Myanmar has failed to provide its citizens with security and a certain ethnic community is victims of genocide, the international community including the UN must take responsibility to protect them. The Bangladesh government has highlighted the situation to the ambassadors of various countries and heads of international agencies. The international community is well aware of what is taking place there. The UN secretary general Antonio Guterres himself has termed this ‘ethnic cleansing’.

The Myanmar government itself had formed an international commission to look into the problems of the Arakan state. If the recommendations of that commission, headed by former UN secretary general Kofi Annan, were followed, then the Rohingya problems would be resolved to a great degree. The international community now must force Myanmar into implementing those recommendations. Bangladesh’s prime minister has proposed a separate safe zone for the Rohingyas. With astute and proper diplomatic handling of the situation, it will not be too difficult to resolve the crisis.

A different Eid festivity celebration

 // Shamsul Basunia //

A very different Eid-ul-Fitr has been celebrated at Rangamati – the area that experienced one of the worst series of landslides in a decade just couple of days earlier leaving 120 people dead in Bangladesh. The district officials have scrapped all their official programs to spend time with the landslide victims who have taken refuge in the local shelter homes. In Sunamganj and Netrokona flush flood damaged the standing corns that are the principal food stuff in those areas. In this way the fervor of Eid festivity on Monday with much enthusiasm and religious fervor has been vaporized this year.
Meanwhile, law enforcement agencies, including police and Rapid Action Battalion RAB, have taken additional security measures across the country on the occasion to avert any untoward incident. Volatile atmosphere remains in other areas of the globe like Palestine, Mosul of Iraq, many places of Syria, Kashmir, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Tens of thousands people became homeless. War-mongers pushed the millions to the peril. The largest Muslim festivity failed to bring happiness and peace to them. Month long fasting visited them but they in most of the cases didn’t enable to achieve piety and heavenly attributes. Hunger, uncertainty, fear of battle and imposed war make them unhappy.

In non-predominant Muslim countries like Britain and France are also spending the days in fear and panic. Militancy engulfs mental peace there.

War on militancy is not running in right direction. US administration has already divided the power of unity in Muslim world that imbued several Middle East countries to take preparation to wage war against Qatar. It is mention-able that the Korean peninsula has become hotbed of war where battle might visit at any time in future.  America always instigates for war there.

জলবায়ু পরিবর্তন || যুক্তরাষ্ট্রের নেতৃত্ব আর কার্যকর থাকছে না

// শামসুল বসুনিয়া //
জি সিভেনের বৈঠকে জলবায়ু পরিবর্তন রোধে প্যারিস চুক্তি কার্যকরের বিষয়ে জোটভুক্ত
 ছয়টি দেশ একমত হলেও, তাদের সঙ্গে ঐক্য জানাতে অস্বীকার করনে যুক্তরাষ্ট্রের
প্রেসিডেন্ট ডোনাল্ড ট্রাম্প।ফলে স্বাভাবিকভাবেই এ নিয়ে যুক্তরাষ্ট্রের এতদিনকার
নেতৃত্ব আর কার্যকর থাকছে না।
এই ইস্যুতে এখন নেতৃত্ব দেবার জন্য প্রস্তুত হচ্ছে চীন এবং ইউরোপীয় ইউনিয়ন।
শুক্রবার ব্রাসেলস সম্মেলনে চীন ও ইইউ এ নিয়ে একটি যৌথ বিবৃতি দিতে যাচ্ছে ।
প্যারিস চুক্তি বাস্তবায়নে সর্বোচ্চ রাজনৈতিক প্রতিশ্রুতির উপর জোর দেয়া হয়েছে
বিবৃতিতে। ধারণা করা হচ্ছে চীন এবং ইইউ এর এই অবস্থান আন্তর্জাতিক
রাজনীতিতে যুক্তরাষ্ট্রকে কিছুটা চাপের মধ্যে ফেলবে।

Suspected Maoist rebels kill 24 troops in Chhattisgarh

// Shamsul Basunia//

Suspected Maoist rebels have killed at least 24 paramilitary soldiers on Monday in a remote part of central India, a police official said, the latest attack in a simmering internal conflict.

The soldiers were guarding road workers in the Sukma district of Chhattisgarh state when they came under fire. The rebels fired from hilltops at the group of soldiers, police officer Jitendra Shukla said.

Local media reported that at least six commandos had been critically injured and were being airlifted to safety.

The attack is the latest in a long-running conflict between insurgents and Indian authorities in the forests and rural areas of mainly central and eastern India.

"We have recovered 23 bodies from the spot and one jawan (soldier) died in Raipur during treatment," Anand Chhabra, a senior police officer in restive Chhattisgarh told AFP news agency, referring to the state capital.

Bhagwati Singh, a police spokesman said: "Our teams have been deployed there. We will receive more information about the situation soon."

Prime Minister Narendra Modi sent his condolences to the families of the soldiers and expressed his anger in a series of tweets following the raid.

China finances Padma Rail Bridge

// Shamsul Basunia //

China has consented to finance in constructing desired Padma Rail Bridge which pushed the government to rethink in constructing Dhaka-Maowa 4 lane project newly.  It is learnt that the rail bridge would be installed on the multipurpose Padma Bridge but the feasibility was uncertain for many days. However higher officials of the Economic Relations Department ERD recently visited China and received the consent of financing from China government on constructing rail bridge over the dreamt Padma Bridge. The team returned home and informed the consent to Rail Ministry. To start the construction the bridge, the authority already has built three service areas at three districts like Munshiganj, Shariatpur and Madaripur. An amended credit proposal on this already has sent to ERD. Dewan Mohammad Abdul Quader, executive engineer to main bridge project told officials would work main bridge, river governing work under one and two service areas while the army officials would take responsibility of number three service area. On the contrary, Bridges Department already has consented to acquire land for the rail bridge work. Railway Ministry would bear the expense for this, he added. The dreamt Padma Bridge would be opened on 2019 if everything goes on right direction, the concerned officials told. And on the very opening day, the train plying would be started simultaneously. The officials informed Transport and Bridges minister Obaidul Quader that the advancement of bridge constructing work has been completed by 39 percent while the rest of the work would complete within the stipulated time schedule. Brig Gen Hamidul Hoque PSC, Super in-ten dent engineering core of Bangladesh Army and project director to Padma Multipurpose Bridge was present on the occasion. If the bridge built nicely, the people of 21 southern districts of the country would be directly benefitted by financially, socially and politically that would be a tremendous achievement to all people to the country as a whole.

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Daughter of beauty ‘Shimul’ disappearing

//Shamsul Basunia//

‘Shimul’ is disappearing day by day for not nurturing and nourishing it carefully. People know it is the only tree which produces cotton to humans and people could able to use it in mattress, cushion where we usually sleep and sit on. It is so important to civilization and day to day life that it always goes on beyond imagination. It beautifies the nature while it blooms and people call it “daughter of beauty”. Reddish and pink color attracts people and it enchants them. Actually the scene informs people that spring comes. People even the agriculture department don’t do anything to preserve the valuable trees. Locals in Sadarpur upazila under Faridpur district alleged a section of political leaders came forward to cut the trees and the beauty of the nature is now nearing to zero. Agriculture department even cotton development board is silent to flourish the product. The elite opined if governments comes forward to protect and preserve the valuable cotton trees the demand of cotton in our country could be met and the balance of ecology could be survived.  ‘And cotton industry could be saved from threat of destruction’, they added.

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Wild Chicken at Garo hill goes on extinction

// Shamsul Basunia //

Wild chicken is going to enlist its name to extinction beings in Bangladesh what might cause imbalance to the ecology, environment and species diversity to the country. Frequent hunting from the indigenous people along with the mainland people the special species is being killed every day at reserved forestry. The department of forestry never ever has shown its curiosity and activity to preserve and protect the wild chicken. It looks like chicken what we usually add for eating at our everyday list of dish.  However it is not bird though it could fly when require need to fly. For saving the existence it always proves it as brave and cunning beings amidst the wild beings living in the forest. People concerned told wild chicken is usually seen in Bangladesh, India, China, Myanmar, Indonesia, Malaysia, Maldives, Nepal and Bhutan. In Bangladesh the wild chickens are usually found at hilly areas like Garo hill of Mymensingh and other hilly areas like Chittagong Hill Tracts and Sylhet regions. People have its flesh and eggs to meeting the demand of nutrition. However without discipline and regulation the beings are running the endangered life and the aspirant people every day visit the areas and kill them and pick up the eggs randomly that push the being to extinction, the locals apprehended. The environment specialists opine the special species could be saved if the government comes forward to take rapid action to preserve the wild chicken.

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৫৯ জন কোবরা কমান্ডো পালিয়ে গেছে

ভারত অধিকৃত কাশ্মীর থেকে প্রশিক্ষণ শেষে বিহারে কর্মস্থলে যাওয়ার পথে ৫৯ জন কোবরা কমান্ডো পালিয়ে গেছে।
নকশাল প্রতিরোধ স্কোয়াড কোবরা কমান্ডো। সপ্তাহ পাঁচেকের প্রশিক্ষণ শেষে কাশ্মীর থেকে বিহারের গয়ায় কর্মস্থলে আসছিল তারা। কিন্তু ফেরার পথেই পালিয়ে যাওয়ার সিদ্ধান্ত নেয়।
শিয়ালদহ-জম্মু এক্সপ্রেসে করে কমান্ডোরা বিহারে আসছিল। কিন্তু সোমবার রাতে ট্রেনটি মুঘলসরাই স্টেশনে ঢোকার পর, ওই ৫৯ জন জওয়ান পালিয়ে যায়।