Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Tunnel under the Karnaphuli River in Chattogram is getting ready for opening to traffic as its 98 percent construction works have been so far completed. “Now the workers are bustling to give final touch as Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is expected to the tunnel in September,” Project Director (PD) Md Harunur Rashid Chowdhury told BSS. He said workers and engineers concerned are working round the clock for opening the mega project to traffic in September. “Already 98 percent of the tunnel work has been completed. The remaining two percent works will be completed soon. However, the project tenure will end on December 30,” he said. The project director said there is no major work in the tunnel, while both tubes are ready, adding, “If everything goes well, then we can finish the work by August. However, the ministry will decide when it will be inaugurated.” Earlier, Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader at a function said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will open the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Tunnel.
Health officials and experts have stressed coordinated efforts and a national plan to battle the current onslaught of dengue. Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) adviser and infectious disease expert Dr Mostaq Hossain said it is not possible to control dengue without concerted efforts. To eliminate the breeding ground of Aedes mosquitoes in Dhaka and across the country, a coordinated initiative has to be undertaken, he told UNB. We have a directive from the inter-ministerial task force. There are many initiatives that can be handled individually and many that have to be done in coordination. To clean your flat, you need the coordination of experienced city corporation workers, flat owners association volunteers and local public representatives, he added.
The procedure of giving promotions of the assistant teachers to the post of head teacher in primary schools has started recently.
As the complications over giving promotion of government primary school teachers have been resolved, the Ministry of Primary and Mass Education on Thursday issued an office order for the promotion of 201 assistant teachers of Lakshmipur Sadar, Kamalnagar and Raipur upazilas of Lakshmipur district to the post of head teacher (grade-11, pay scale-12500-30230 taka) in view of the recommendations of the Bangladesh Public Service Commission.
With the issuance of this office order, the long-standing desire of the assistant teachers has been over, a press release said here on Thursday.
The recent recommendations made by India
Parliamentary Standing Committee to initiate a meaningful dialogue with
Bangladesh regarding Teesta water sharing agreement has generated hope in
Dhaka.
"It is surely encouraging and meaningful, specially MPs from all political
parties of India are there in this committee. That is why such a
recommendation generated hope among us," spokesperson at the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs Seheli Sabrin told reporters at the weekly media briefing at
foreign ministry here on Thursday.
She said the committee recommendations to reaching consensus on Teesta
water sharing through meaningful dialogue with Dhaka to strengthen the
further relations between the two countries has drawn attention to the
Bangladesh foreign ministry.
Bangladesh has described the recent recommendations, made by India
Parliamentary Standing Committee, as "encouraging and significant" regarding
the Teesta water-sharing agreement.
"We have also informed regarding the matter from our mission in New Delhi. It
is surely encouraging and significant," she said.