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Our Correspondent SYLHET, Aug 2: Works on a total of 41 private colleges has been going on in the districts of Sylhet and Sunamganj under a project titled 'Development of selected private colleges for improving the standard of education through information technology'. The total includes 17 in Sunamganj and the rest 24 are in Sylhet district. However, works on some of the colleges were completed recently while some of them will start soon and some others are going on. Most of the institutions are located on the remote areas of different upazilas, said the executive engineer of the Education Engineering Department (EED), Sylhet Zone, Nazrul Hakim this afternoon. Only 5 are located on the Sylhet metropolitan city and neighbouring areas. The project is being implemented by the EED with an estimated cost of Tk 105,53,71,443, informed the official. Vertical extension of the 3rd and 4th floor on the existing 2-storied academic buildings are being done on some of the colleges while the rest are to get new 2-storied buildings. It would meet their long standing demand to ease the pressure of rising number of students. Starting in 2013, the project is set to be completed by June 2019, the official said.     iqbal1527@hotmail.com....

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Our Correspondent BOGRA, Aug 2: Aus farming is playing a vital role to boost adequate rice demand in all twelve upazilas of Bogra district every season adopting newer cropping pattern for food security amid adverse climate. The farmers of Dupchanchia, Kahaloo, Adamdighi, Serpur, Sonatola, Sariakandi, Dhunot, Nandigram, Shibganj, sadar and Gabtoly upazilas of the district have already started harvesting the crops with enthusiasm from the last week of July. They are also getting average 15 maund of fresh paddy yield due to favourable weather condition and timely supply of necessary agri-input. In a recent visit this correspondent found, a total ten per cent of the crops have been harvested across the region till Wednesday. Rest of the paddy will be cut within middle week of August as they will bring the same land under T-Aman cultivation. Each maund of newly harvested raw paddy is being sold from Tk 800 to 850 in the local markets. "After getting repeated bumper productions in the previous years, some new beneficiary farmers have cultivated the eco-friendly Aus rice on 22075 hectares of lands with assistance of authority concern," said Sub-Assistant Agriculture Officer Azizar Rahman of Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) Bogra office. "I have  harvested Aus paddy on one bigha of land on Monday and got around 14 maund of fresh paddy spending Tk 3000 to pay labour and fartiliser cost," said farmer Amirul Islam,34, under Kahaloo upazila. He again said, "I sold all of them by Tk 11,200 in the local market and made Tk 8,200 as profit." Farmers of the district have brought more 475 hectares of land under Aus farming than target by Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) in this season with production 1,09,349 tonnes. They are thinking that the off-seasonal paddy will support them in the hard up time of the year. Deputy Director of Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) Protul Chandra said, farmers cultivate Aus paddy in between late May and mid-August when the fields remain fallow after Boro harvest and before plantation of T-Aman seedlings. Its cultivation helps the poor and marginal farmers to pay T-Aman cultivation's cost, he added.     emdadul2015@gmail.com....

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PABNA, Aug 2 (BSS): Three people were killed and three others injured as a bus hit a locally-made vehicle in Chinkhara area under Sujanagar upazila of the district today. Among the deceased two were identified as Mirajul Islam, 30, son of Harej Mullah of Bhoirobpur village under Sathia upazila and minor girl Ria, daughter of Shipon Hossain, a resident of Chinkhara area. Identity of the other deceased woman could not be known immediately. In-charge of Madhupur Highway Police Camp Sub-Inspector (SI) Anwar Hossain said the accident occurred when a Pabna-bound bus hit the vehicle in the area at about 11 am as its driver lost control over the steering, leaving one dead on the spot and five others injured. The injured were sent to Pabna General Hospital where two others succumbed to their injuries. Another report from Chandpur adds: Two persons were killed and two others injured in a road accident in Debpur Bazar area of Sadar upazila on Chandpur-Comilla road in the district on Tuesday evening. Police and hospital sources said the deceased were identified as Makbul Hossain, 32, a resident of Ramra Borobari village in Hajiganj upazila and Moharram Bepary, 20. The accident occurred around 7pm when a CNG-run auto-rickshaw from Chandpur collided head on with a bus, leaving four persons seriously injured. The injured were admitted to Chandpur Sadar Hospital where Makbul succumbed to his injuries. Later, rest of the injured persons were shifted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) for better treatment where Moharram Bepary died.....

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Awami League (AL) general secretary Obaidul Quader has called for stopping abuse of Section 57 of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Act instead of repealing the provision, report agencies. He came up with the remarks after inaugurating the construction work of the much-talked about metro rail track and its elevated station at Agargaon in the city on Wednesday. Referring to arrest of a journalist ,Abdul Latif, following a case filed against him under Section 57 of the ICT Act, the minister said, "It is the clear abuse of Section 57 as the case was lodged over a trifling matter. The abuse of this section should be stopped instead of repealing the section." "The section has been included in the ICT Act aimed at controlling cyber crimes. But, nowadays the section is being used over trifling matters. An intense scrutiny is necessary to stop such abuses," he also said. He called upon the Information Minister to intervene to this end, saying, "I will not speak for cancelling the law (section 57) but for stopping its abuse." Quader, also road transport and bridges minister, said a case over such issues should be only filed upon consulting with the higher authorities. “It's not appropriate at all to sue someone over trivial matters." he added.....

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Our Correspondent CHITTAGONG, Aug 02: A crucial meeting of the Chittagong Port Authority (CPA), off-dock owners and cargo handling operators of the port decided today to expedite handling and delivery of containerised cargo with procurement of sufficient equipment by the off-docks owners alongside the port authority. The CPA will provide an export yard of at least 1000 TEUs (twenty foot equivalent units) at the CCT (Chittagong Container Terminal) and NCT (New Mooring Container Terminal) within a short time and will transfer 4200 TEUs of containers meant for auction to the newly-built Silo Yard. The meeting was told that neither CCT nor NCT has any export yard at present for export containers to facilitate the ICDs to go directly to the vessels' hook point to load export containers onto vessels. Chaired by the CPA chairman Rear Admiral M Khaled Iqbal, the meeting was addressed, among others, by Bangladesh Inland Container Depot Association (BICDA) chairman Nurul Qayyum Khan, heads of different ICDs, managing director of Saif Powertec Tarafdar Ruhul Amin, president of Berth Operators and Ship Handling Operators Fazle Ikram, members of the CPA Board and senior officials of the CPA. The meeting was held at the CPA Board Room in the city today following allegations from the port users that export and import through the port suffered a lot in the last few months due to congestion of containers and vessels, even leading to cancellation of export orders by the international buyers of readymade garments. The Rear Admiral asked the off-docks operators to install scanners at their yards to prevent contraband items moving through the port. BICDA chairman Nurul Qayyum Khan said the import containers should be scanned immediately after arrival at the port. "If the off-docks-bound import containers are allowed to exit the port without scanning, in-transit security would be at stake. There would then be a likelihood that the miss-declared, contraband or terror-related items could get into the country," he said. As for the ICD Policy 2016 the BICDA chairman said that during the drafting of the ICD Policy 2016, BICDA raised 13 reservations about the concerned sections citing that these sections were neither practical nor implementable under the present circumstances and they need to be amended. But those reservations of BICDA were not accommodated, he said. The meeting decided that the off-docks operators will procure sufficient number of equipment as per ICD Policy 2016. They will also try to expand their operational areas. The meeting further resolved that the ICDs will impose container freight station (CFS) cut-off time for exporters, mostly members of the BGMEA for sending export cargo to the ICDs so that the ICDs can maintain cut-off time for sending export laden containers to the Chittagong port. The ICDs will send export laden containers to the port between berthing of vessel and six hours before their sailing. The ICDs will also try to take out import laden containers of their designated 37 items at the shortest possible time. The ICDs must also send authentic 24-hour Stuffing Report to the CPA. Meanwhile, the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) today emphasised on the scanning of every container in the Chittagong port to check infiltration of contraband items including arms and ammunition. Chairman of the ACC Iqbal Mahmud alleged Wednesday that many containers were getting out of the Chittagong port without being properly scanned. He said that he had received a number of allegations regarding delivery of containers without scanning, which is highly risky. He urged the port authorities to get every container scanned before delivery. He was addressing the field officers on "The Nature of Allegations of Corruption" at Chittagong Circuit House in the city. Presided over by Divisional Commissioner Md Ruhul Amin the meeting was also attended by Additional Divisional Commissioner Shankar Ranjan Saha, DG of the ACC Dr Shamsul Arefin, Deputy Commissioner of Chittagong Md Zillur Rahman Chowdhury and Police Commissioner Iqbal Bahar.     pankajdastider@gmail.com....

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