Narsingdi Correspondent
The seven-day long traditional Baul Mela (folk singer congregation) draws huge crowd in Narsingdi. The Baul Mela began at Sunday night on the bank of the Meghna River at Kawria para village under Narsingdi Pourashava area of the district with participation of over one hundred folk singers from home and abroad. The Mela is being organised to promote and popularize traditional and
historical Baul songs. Baul singers from India and Nepal are participating in the Mela, said Jontu Baul, organiser of the Mela.
Sheikh Helal visits mazar of MP Dr Mozammel
Bagerhat Correspondent
Sheikh Helal Uddin, nephew of the Father if the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and MP of Bagerhat Comnstituency-1 visited the mazar of late Dr. Mozammel Hossain, President of Bagerhat District Awami League and a former minister (who breathed his last on January 10 in Bangubandhu Sheikh Mujbur Rahman Medical University Hospital) at the village Kachubunia under Morrelganj Upazila in Bagerhat on Tuesday noon. Then he (Sheikh Helal) offered Fateha at the mazar and prayed for the salvation of the departed soul of the late parliamentarian and popular Awami League leader in presence of thousand of people. At that time freedom fighter Sheikh Kamruzzaman, General Secretary of Bagerhat District Unit of Bangladesh Awami League and Chairman of Bagerhat Zila Parishad, Adv Amirul Alam Milon, a member of the Central Committee of Bangladesh Awami League, H M Badiuzzaman Sohag, former President of Bangladesh Chatra League, Khan Hbibur Rahman, Mayor of Bagerhat Poiurashava and Joint Secretary of Bagerhat district unit of Bangladesh Awami League, Adv. Shah-e- Alam Baschu, Upazila Chairman of Morrelganj, Sardar Nasir Uddin, Upozila Chairman of Bagerhat Sadar and others.
Field Day on high mustard yield held
Jamalpur Correspondent
A Field Day on high yielding mustard BARI-14 was held in Jamalpur Sadar upazila recently. Regional Agriculture Research Station (RARS), Jamalpur, under Bangladesh Oil-seed and pulse crops research and development project arranged the field day at Joyrampur village in Sharifpur union of the upazila. Director of Bangladesh Oil-seed and pulse crops research and development project Dr Md Abdul Latif Akanda was present the programme as chief guest with Chief Scientific Officer, RARS, Jamalpur, Dr Md Tariqul Islam in the chair. The chief guest said BARI-14 is a high yielding and short duration variety and farmers can get extra profit by cultivating BARI-14 between the time of Aman and Barro. A farmer can get 1400 to 1600 kilogram mustard from one hectares of land from 75 to 80 days, he added. Abdul Latif also said the government is implementing various programmes to attain self reliant in oil production. He urged the farmers to cultivate BARI-14 mustard for getting more profit. Principal scientific officer of RARS Dr Md Manjurul Kadir, deputy director of BADC Md Reazul Islam Tutul, training officer of Department of Agricultural Extension Dr Md Hazrat Ali, Jamalpur Sadar upazila agriculture officer Sakhawat Hossain and mustard farmer Mozammel Haque spoke at the meeting.
Earlier, the agriculture experts visited the BARI-14 mustard field in the village.
Teen tortured for plucking betel leaves in Satkhira
Satkhira
A Class-VIII boy has brutally been tortured at Sakhipur village in Debhata upazila for plucking some betel leaves from a garden. The victim – Mustafizur Rahman, 15, son of Shafiqul Islam – is now undergoing treatment at the upazila health complex. The victim said he plucked some betel leaves from the garden of one Samar Sardar while playing in a ground near his home recently .But the garden owner did not take it easily. He along with some others caught Mostafizur and started beating him after tying his hands. Later, they paraded him different spots on a motorcycle and confined him to a tea-stall at Sakhipur intersection. On information, relatives went there and took the boy to the upazila health complex after rescue. Dr Biplab Mondal, resident medical officer of the hospital, said there are injury marks on his body. Officer-in-charge of Debhata Police Station Biplab Kumar Saha said they will take action once a complaint is lodged.
