The WB will revive Dhaka’s rivers
$20b project plan
News Desk : dhakamirror.com
The World Bank will lead a $20 billion project to restore Dhaka's five rivers.
"We see the World Bank's imprint in countries where it has large-scale operations. Bangladesh lacks World Bank signage. It's hard to spot the World Bank here," Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal recalled his conversation with Hartwig Schafer, the WB's former vice-president for South Asia. He asked Schafer to lead a landmark project in Bangladesh.
Kamal told a press briefing Sunday after meeting Schafer's successor Martin Raiser, "Do something here so people remember the World Bank for ages."
Bangladesh lifts ban on visiting tourists
World Tourism Day today
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The government is set to withdraw embargo on the visit of foreign tourists to Bangladesh as the National Technical Advisory Committee on Covid-19 on Monday recommended doing so if the tourists can show their ‘full vaccine certificates’ on arrival.
Civil aviation and tourism state minister Md Mahbub Ali said this at a press conference organised by the ministry at Bangladesh Parjatan Corporation in Agargaon of the capital ahead of the World Tourism Day today.
SME fair in Dhaka starts on November 24
City Desk : dhakamirror.com
The 10th National SME Fair-2022 will be held from November 24 to December 3 to promote SME enterprises and diversify their markets.
350 stalls will be accessible at the Bangabandhu International Conference Center (BICC) in Dhaka for SMEs to demonstrate their products and collect orders.
130 of the 325 participants are fashion-related. Participating industries include food and agro-processing, handicraft, leather, jute, ICT, light engineering, and plastics.
Dhaka’s “digital smart parking” system set to be introduced by the DNCC
The pilot project will begin in late November or early December on nine streets in Gulshan.
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The Dhaka North City Corporation, with police help, plans to set up an app-based parking system in Gulshan to prevent people from parking randomly.
The app will show users empty parking spots and hourly charges that can be paid through the app. Authorities are coordinating with Gulshan, Banani, Baridhara, and Niketan societies.
The Gulshan pilot project will launch at the end of November or the beginning of December.
Countrywide heavy rains until 13 Sep
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The current heavy rains brought on by the depression at the Bay of Bengal are predicted to last until Tuesday, according to the weather forecast service.
The low will weaken in next 24 hours and move towards the plain land through Odisha and towards Chhatishgarh through West Bengal afterwards.
Mostafa Kamal Palash, a weather and climate researcher at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada, gave this information after reviewing various models of weather forecasting.
120 hills disappeared from Chattogram in 4 decades
An environmental group called Bangladesh Environment Forum alleged Sunday that 120 hills had vanished from Chattogram city in the past forty years.
The port city's hills decreased from 32.37 square kilometers in 1976 to 14.02 square kilometers in 2008, according to a written statement from the forum's general secretary, Aliur Rahman. He was addressing during a press conference held at the Chattogram Press Club.
Can teachers be the pivot of change in education?
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Manzoor Ahmed
"No system of education can be better than its teachers" is an aphorism that remains meaningful. The nostalgic and idealised image of the teacher as a scholar, dispensing knowledge and wisdom to the young selflessly, who lives a simple life with little concern for material rewards and who is looked upon by the young as a friend, philosopher and guide, is surely overdrawn. But a teacher is still the custodian of the young – manush gorar karigor. To ignore the special role of a teacher in society is to place the future of the nation at peril.
Climate loss and damage are clearly visible in southwest Bangladesh
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Ashish Barua, Sawkat Chowdhury
The Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) by Working Group I of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) shows that the sea level, over the last 120 years, has increased by 0.20 metres, and continues rising fast, caused by thermal expansion, glacier ice loss, ice sheet loss, etc. The sea level rise in Bangladesh estimated using gauge data shows varying in different parts of the coastal zone, while the coastal areas along the Sundarbans are highly vulnerable.