Gopalganj correspondent
A day long cake (pitha) festival was held at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Science and Technology University (BSMRSTU) premises at Ghonapara, Gopalganj recently. On the occasion of ”Basonto Boron” (1st Falgun) on Thursday. The fair organized by the students of Bengali Department of BSMRSTU. At least 50 various kinds of cakes displaying this festival where huge customer arrived in the festival. It is mention that this kind of festival of first here in Gopalganj.Earlier Khondoker Nasiruddin Ahmed, Vice-Chancelor (VC) of BSMRSTU inaugurated the fair as the chief guest.
Six JCD men held with arms in Sylhet
Sylhet Bureau
Police arrested six leaders and activists of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal, Bangladesh Nationalist Party-backed student organisation, in Sylhet early Tuesday and seized huge quantity of arms from them. The arrested were identified as JCD Sylhet city unit former assistant organising secretary Nabil Raja Chowdhury, and activists – Fahim Ahmad, Jamil Baksh, Ishtiaque Ahmad, Al Mamun and Khayrul Alam, residents of Jalalabad Residential Area in the Sylhet city. The police said that Nabil was the ring leader of a gang of snatchers in the city and the rest were the gang members. Biman Bandar police officer-in-charge SM Shahadat Hossain told that they arrested the six raiding the Khasdabir area in the city. ‘A foreign made pistol, two machetes, 14 knives and 10 mobile sets were seized from them,’ the police officer said, adding that the arrested were accused in several
Digital traffic signal in Rajshahi city demanded
RAJSHAHI: Youth organizations and members of the civil societies have unanimously called for launching digital traffic signal in all points of the city to discipline the road traffic system. They mentioned that the existing automatic traffic signal system has become almost ineffective in the metropolis posing a serious threat to the public transports movement together with the pedestrian. They made this observation while addressing a human-chain-cum-street-corner meeting at Shaheed AHM Kamaruzzaman Crossing in the city yesterday. Youth Action for Social Change (YASC) and Bangladesh Resource Centre for Indigenous Knowledge (BARCIK) jointly organized the programme putting forward a thirteen-point demand. Chaired by YASC President Shamiul Alim Shaon, the meeting was addressed, among others, by BARCIK Regional Coordinator Shahidul Islam, YASC General Secretary Nazmul Islam and its Women and Children Affairs Secretary Fatema Ali Meghla. Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) had established the signal system at 21 important points out of 30 at a cost of around Tk 1.5 crore in three phases since 1994. Currently, traffic division of Rajshahi Metropolitan Police (RMP) has been managing the city’s traffic manually causing indiscriminate traffic movement and huge congestion at different crossings and intersections frequently. Basically, the traffic police face a great trouble in traffic management due to excessive mechanized and manual transports on the city streets alongside non-functional of automatic system and haphazard parking, reports BSS.
