PM opens country’s first metro rail
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Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has formally inaugurated the country's first metro rail this morning.
She opened a section of the Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) Line-6 by unveiling a plaque at the playground of Uttara sector-
The PM's younger sister Sheikh Rehana waved to the audience after the plaque was unveiled.
Bangladesh enters metro rail era
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Bangladesh’s commuting system entered a new era on Wednesday as prime minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated the first ever metro rail service in the capital.
She inaugurated the operation of the first phase of the project, Uttara to Agargaon, from Uttara sector-15 playground.
Marking the occasion, the prime minister also unveiled a commemorative stamp and a banknote.
Kites, fireworks fill Dhaka sky
City Desk : dhakamirror.com
Poush Sangkranti, also known as Shakrain, was celebrated in Old Dhaka on Saturday evening.Kite flying, partying, and cuisine marked the Bengali month Poush's end. Laser light shows, fireworks, and lanterns illuminated winter twilight.
Shakrain is Old Dhaka's traditional celebration. The streets of Sutrapur, Kaltabazar, Shakharibazar, Lalbagh, Faridabad, Tatibazar, Laxmibazar, Narinda, and Gendaria were busy all day. From morning, excited kids flew kites.
Kites of many colors, forms, and designs were flown on rooftops.Some brought loudspeakers to play music and challenged neighbors on rooftops to a kite fight.
SME fair in Dhaka starts on November 24
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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.
Farmers find hope in solar-powered irrigation
EAM Asaduzzaman
Life is easier now for Abu Taleb, 45, a potato farmer of Saddyo Puskuruni village in Rangpur.
A year ago, high irrigation costs for diesel-run pumps, which he bore out-of-pocket, made it difficult for him to provide for his three children.
Now, after switching to solar-powered irrigation, his livelihood has changed for the better. "I can now afford new clothes and nutritious food for my family," he said.
Shoilmari: A river dead, livelihoods endangered
Dipankar Roy
The once mighty Shoilmari river in Khulna's Batiaghata upazila can now only be called a river on paper. In just three years, it has been filled with silt.
The once 150-metre-wide river has now turned into a 3 to 4-metre narrow channel. Boats cannot sail there in low tide and people can cross its stretch by walking.
Experts say the lack of upstream flow, unplanned dams, and construction of sluice gates are responsible for the river's death. Besides, after piling pillars for Rupsha Rail Bridge, the connecting river Shoilmari was silted within a short period.
Will our universities survive in 25 years?
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Syed Saad Andaleeb
Quality education is the backbone of a wholesome and prosperous society. But finding the "quality" in quality education continues to be elusive in Bangladesh. The "so called" universities (more like community colleges) are rife with social, economic, political and ideological problems that work against building learning organisations. Teachers, the kingpins, don the mantle of educators but have little to show in their academic profiles. For today's new generation of hungry learners, seeking to be actively engaged with illustrious minds, their classroom experience is simply frustrating, backdated, irrelevant, and unpalatable.
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.