Flying lantern or
risk of fire?
In name of the celebration of New Year, many people around the country got involved in a nasty practice of doing fireworks and flying lantern without having any regard to their consequences. People may celebrate in many occasions but any act of celebration cannot be the source of miseries of other people’s lives or properties. It is even more heartbreaking that a child has died because of heart attack. The reported reason of death was the noise pollution caused by severe fireworks display in Dhaka. How tragic could it be for the parents of that deceased kid? What is even alarming that despite a ban on flying lantern and fireworks by Dhaka metropolitan police back in 2018, nobody is paying any heed to such ban. So, strict legal measures need to be taken against the people transgressing the law.
Khondoker Rezwan Tanvir
Madaripur
Hat’s off to Bangladesh
Anything can happen in sports, Amazing result is no surprising, as we watched in the first cricket test match between the visiting Bangladesh and the hosts New Zealand at Mount Maunganui in the first week of this month. There is no doubt that Bangladesh outplayed their opponents in every department of the match, but none of the players was over exultant. They rejoiced, exchanged greetings and vowed to continue the performance.
I shall request our players to be restraint and not to be flooded by booty at home and abroad. We have seen some great players of the West Indies, England and Australia to make cricket lively. Today I remember the great Tie test between the West Indies and Australia in December 1960. Each side scored 734 runs in two innings, took 20 wickets and earned the hearts of the cricket world.
Bangladesh likewise won the hearts of the cricket world by outclassing the hosts by eight wickets and issued a warning to the cricket world that their players began to strike back.
Abdullah Akber
Dhaka
