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A small initiative can be of great help to many

A small initiative sometimes can be of great help to many deprived people. With the setting up of a primary school at Char Parbatipur village under Sadar upazila of the district, children of the village now have the opportunity to receive elementary education. Over 1,000 people now live on the land that emerged from the Brahmaputra River in Jatrapur union in 2002. But their children have been deprived of education for want of a school. Funded by Caring and Sharing LSI Fu-Tien Foundation, a non governmental organisation (NGO) of Thailand, the school has been built on a 30 decimals of land on February 12 and formally inaugurated by lawmaker Md Zafar Ali on February 22.

Initially, 100 children have been enrolled at the school. Three of the four teachers, recruited for the school, will get Tk 6,000 per month while the other, religious teacher, will receive a monthly salary of Tk 2,500. Kurigram district information office will coordinate the activities of the school. The NGO will provide books, school bags, pencils and other materials for the students. Chaired by District Information Officer Md Nurunnabi Khandoker, the inaugural function was addressed, among others, by Lawmaker Md Zafar Ali, Sadar upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) Md Mostafizur Rahman, Kurigram Press Club President Shafi Khan, and Jatrapur Union Parishad Chairman Abdul Gafur. At least 500 people of Char Parbatipur village were present at the function held on the school premises.

UP Chairman Abdul Gafur said as there is no school in seven other char areas of the union, Char Parbatipur Primary School will help the children of the areas receive primary education. District Information Officer Md Nurunnabi Khandoker said a 24-metre-long tin-shade house of the school is being constructed and the NGO has given Tk 1.25 lakh for this poupose. It will also give the school Tk 500 per moth as maintenance cost, he added. Lawmaker Md Zafar Ali in his speech said one more primary school will be set up in another char village as soon as possible. A secondary school-cum-cyclone shelter will also be built in the union, he added.

Source: The Daily Star

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Bahrain to recruit more Bangladeshis - Up to 20,000 to get jobs every year

After Malaysia, Bahrain is now interested to recruit people from Bangladesh under state arrangements, said Expatriates Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Khandker Mosharraf Hossain yesterday. If the discussion with the Bahrain government is successful, he added, it will be possible to “reduce the cost of migration” to the country and ensure transparency in recruitment.

Around 15,000 to 20,000 Bangladeshi workers will be able to go to Bahrain legally every year, Mosharraf said while speaking to reporters at his office in the capital. The minister will sit with a three-member delegation from the island country to discuss the process in detail today. Earlier, the Bangladesh government signed an agreement with the Malaysian government to send workers under a government-to-government process in November last year. Accordingly, the government selected 10,000 workers, who will be sent to Malaysia to work in the plantation sector. The move was taken to stop the intervention of middlemen and thus boost transparency.

The minister yesterday suggested the possibility of following the same procedure with Bahrain after a meeting with Nikolas Dendias, public order and citizen protection minister of Greece. He urged the Greek minister to assist Bangladeshi people working in Greece in visa-related problems in the country. Around 5,000 Bangladeshis are now working in Greece, said Mosharraf. Of the United Arab Emirates' restriction on the recruitment of Bangladeshis, he said, “We do not have any specific information about its plan to recruit our workers.” In September last year, the UAE government imposed unofficial restrictions on the recruitment of Bangladeshi workers and the renewal of their visas. The country later declared for the fourth time a general amnesty for illegal residents there, which ended on February 4.

Source: The Daily Star

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Stocks down at opening

The prices of the most shares on the country's premier bourse dipped in early trading on Sunday after a three-day break. 21st February (Thursday) was a government holiday for International Mother Language day while Friday and Saturday were weekends.

DGEN, the benchmark General Index of Dhaka Stock Exchange, shed 44 points to reach 4,210 points at 10:45am when this report was filed. Of the issues traded, 83 declined, 26 advanced and 16 remained unchanged.

A total of 6,172 trades were executed with Tk 22.59 crore changing hands.

On Wednesday, trading at the country's premier bourse ended at 4,254 points decreasing 46 points.

Source: The Daily Star

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International Mother Language Day

"আমার ভাইয়ের রক্তে রাঙানো একুশে ফেব্রুয়ারি,

আমি কি ভুলিতে পারি।

ছেলে হারা শত মায়ের অশ্রু ঝরা এ ফেব্রুয়ারি,

আমি কি ভুলিতে পারি।"

- Hello everybody, International Mother Language Day is an observance held annually on 21 February worldwide to promote awareness of linguistic and cultural diversity and multilingualism. In the day of 21st February of 1952, when a group of students sought to storm in the area of Dhaka University defending the Bangla language for ourselves and for future generation, police opened fire and killed a number of students, including Abdus Salam, Rafiq Uddin Ahmed, Abul Barkat and Abdul Jabbar.

We remember our martyrs from the very deep of our heart. We are proud that we had our golden boys who sacrificed their life for our mother language and that's why people around the world could know about the nation and they respectfully remember our boys, our language, our people and our nation in this day of 21st February.

- Maksuda

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চার দশকের বেশি সময় ধরে বুকের ভেতর জমতে থাকা অনুভূতিগুলো গোটা গোটা হরফে ঠাঁই পেল কাগজের চিঠিতে। ডাকপিয়ন বেলুনে চড়ে সেই চিঠি যাবে আকাশের ঠিকানায়, মুক্তিযুদ্ধের ৩০ লাখ শহীদের কাছে। ঘড়িতে বিকেল চারটা ১৩ বাজতেই হাজার হাজার চিঠি উড়েছে আকাশে।
১৯৭১ সালের মানবতাবিরোধীদের ফাঁসির দাবিতে শাহবাগের প্রজন্ম চত্বর থেকে আজ বুধবার বিকেলে শহীদদের উদ্দেশে লেখা চিঠি বেলুনে ওড়ানো হয়।
শহীদদের কাছে চিঠি পাঠানোর এই অভিনব উদ্যোগের সঙ্গে জড়িয়ে রয়েছে বাংলাদেশ, মুক্তিযুদ্ধ আর অকৃত্রিম দেশপ্রেম। ২০১৩ সালে এসেও নতুন প্রজন্ম শ্রদ্ধার সঙ্গে স্মরণ করল ১৯৭১ সালের ১৬ ডিসেম্বরের বিকেল চারটা ১৩ মিনিটকে। ওই দিন ঠিক এ সময় পাকিস্তানি হানাদার বাহিনী এই শাহবাগের পাশের রেসকোর্স ময়দানে (বর্তমান সোহরাওয়ার্দী উদ্যান) যৌথ বাহিনীর কাছে আত্মসমর্পণ করেছিল। সোহরাওয়ার্দী উদ্যানের কাছেই আজকের প্রজন্ম চত্বরের গণজাগরণ মঞ্চ।

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