The Week That Was
Models perform in the super round of the contest titled 'Mr and Miss Chittagong' organised by Portrait, a cultural organisation, at Theatre Institute Chittagong (TIC) on Monday. Photo: STAR
'Local body elections were fair'Speakers at a workshop said the recent local government elections were held in a free and fair manner but the people were deprived of the honest and the efficient representatives. They said this at a workshop on 'Parliament and Citizen Certificate on Parliament Members' at a local hotel on Saturday. Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) and Sachetan Nagarik Committee jointly organised the workshop. Nagarik Committee Chittagong unit convenor writer Begum Mushtari Shafi presided over the workshop. Representatives from different professions like teachers, doctors, journalists, political activists and students took part in the discussion. They discussed on different topics like efficiency of candidates, their wealth, responsibilities and their presence at parliament session. They said they want honest and efficient people be elected in the local bodies to make pressure on the government for the welfare of the mass people.” TIB Executive Director Dr Iftekharuzzaman, economist Dr Muhammad Sikander Khan and Prof Dr AQM Sirajul Islam spoke among others. Contribution of Idris recalled
Speakers said late journalist Muhammad Idris always worked for the welfare and development of grassroots level people and with the non-government organisations that focused on pro-people activities. They were addressing a citizens' meeting to condole the death of Idris at the Engineer Abdul Khalek auditorium of Chittagong Press Club (CPC) on Saturday. They said late Idris was an activist for achieving the rights of the suppressed people of the society. He always fought for democracy, human rights, women's rights, child rights and environment, they said. Noted social scientist Prof Dr Anupam Sen, writer Begum Mushtari Shafi, poet Abul Momen, Prof Sikandar Khan, Dr AQM Sirajul Islam Chowdhury, Engineer Ali Ashraf, advocate Rana Das Gupta, Prof Hossain Kabir, Jesmin Sultana Paru, freedom fighter Afsar Khan, Kamal Sen Gupta and Shyamali Mazumder spoke at the meeting. CU urged to reduce session jam
Speakers at a seminar urged the Chittagong University (CU) authorities to take measures to reduce session jam and help the students complete their study in time. They were addressing a seminar on 'Academic Institution for Education' organised by the Chittagong University Journalists' Association at the auditorium of Dr Md Yunus Building on Sunday. Vice Chancellor Prof Dr M Badiul Alam said none should support politics that creates anarchy in the educational institutions and spoil the atmosphere of education as the institutions are the heart of a nation. Speakers urged the students to achieve moral qualities and values side by side acquiring knowledge during study in the university. With eminent scientist Prof Dr Jamal Nazrul Islam in the chair, the seminar was addressed by Dainik Azadi Editor MA Malek, Peoples' View Editor Osman Gani Mansur, CU syndicate member Dr Siddique Ahmad Chowdhury, Dean of Law Faculty Md Zakir Hossain, Syndicate member Dr Md Kamal Hossain, BGMEA former President SM Fazlul Hoque, Chittagong Press Club General Secretary Ejaz Yusoofi, Chittagong Women Chamber of Commerce and Industries (CWCCI) President Monwara Hakim Ali and Dr Mainul Islam Mahmud. Sonali Bank staffs urged to change mindset
Chittagong Divisional Business Review Meeting and Chittagong City Branch Managers Conference-2008 of Sonali Bank were held at Chamber House on Friday. The bank Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Managing Director SA Chowdhury was the chief guest in the programme chaired by Chittagong General Manager Mushtaq Ahmed. SA Chowdhury called upon the officials and employees of the bank to change their mindset in the changed circumstances. He urged the bank staffs to work hard for ensuring better services to its customers, collecting deposits, recovering loans, sanctioning new loans, increasing remittance and business activities including export and import, and an end to fraudulences. 'Plant tree to save environment'
Speakers here on Thursday emphasised the need for planting trees in all fellow lands to save the environment and living beings on the earth. They were addressing the inaugural ceremony of a tree distribution programme on the Baralia Government Primary School premises under Patiya upazila. Chittagong Deputy Commissioner Mohammad Ashraf Shamim was the chief guest at the function with the Chittagong District Primary Education Officer Dr Mohammad Nurul Amin Chowdhury in the chair. They urged the students to be sincere enough from the very beginning of their student life about the tree plantation. Chittagong Press Club President Ali Abbas and Patiya Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) Mohammad Shahidul Alam were the special guests while the Upazila Education Officer Nabir Uddin, Headmaster Gopa Dutta, School Managing Committee President Shahid Ul Alam, Patiya Journalists' Association General Secretary Harunur Rashid Siddiqui and Patiya Press Club General Secretary Abdul Hakim Rana were present. Later, the guests distributed saplings of fruits, tree and medicinal plants among the students. British American Tobacco Bangladesh provided the saplings for distributing among the students. Seminar on info technology held
Speakers at a seminar underscored the need for increasing strength through efficiency in the information and technology sectors to compete the world. “The expenditure of the information-technology sector can be reduced by using the local technologies,” they said. Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) department of the Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology (Cuet) organised the seminar on “Information Technology” at the department on Thursday. The department also arranged a farewell reception for the third batch and reception for the seventh batch of the department. Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Shyamal Kanti Biswas inaugurated the programmes as the chief guest where Cuet Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Dean Prof Dr Paritosh Kumar Sadhu Khan and Engineering Faculty Dean Prof Dr Saiful Islam were present as the special guests. Six technical papers on the information and technology were presented by teachers and experts of different universities and organisations at the seminar.
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