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Photography exhibition on tourism begins

BSS, Dhaka

The two-day first photography exhibition on tourism began at Jatiya Chitrashala of Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy here on Friday.

Bangladesh Parjatan Corporation (BPC) in cooperation with Shilpakala Academy is organizing the exhibition with a view to projecting eternal beauty of Bangladesh to foreigners.

Mobile phone operator Banglalink, private Ekushey Television (ETV) and daily Samakal are assisting the BPC in this connection.

Inaugurating the exhibition, Civil Aviation and Tourism Secretary Syed Mohammad Jobaer said it would help encourage the people to attract tourism.

He called upon all to come forward to flourish the country's tourism industry.

BPC Chairman Shafique Alam Mehedi, Director General of Shilpakala Academy Bhuiyan Shafiqul Islam, Public Relations and Communication Executive (Marketing) of Banglalink Shamoon Muheb Chowdhury were present on the occasion.

Two hundred photographs, selected from 3000 photographs, have been put on display at the exhibition. A three-member panel comprising eminent lensmen of the country selected the photographs.

Three persons will be awarded for their best photographs, and the award carries a crest, a certificate and Taka 10,000.

Besides, the BPC will buy some selected photographs for their album, the BPC chairman said.

The awards will be handed over to three best photographers at the concluding ceremony of the exhibition at 7 pm tomorrow where Special Assistant to the Chief Adviser for Civil Aviation and Tourism Mahbub Jamil will be present as the chief guest.

A huge number of photograph-lovers visited the exhibition on the opening day. The exhibition will remain open to all from 9 am to 7 pm.

OSW to accord reception to meritorious students today

BSS, Dhaka

Organisations of Students Welfare (OSW), a forum of former students of Gosairhat upazila in Shariatpur, will accord a reception to meritorious students of the upazila, who got GPA-5 in this year's SSC examinations and the primary and junior scholarships in 2007, today.

Eminent industrialist Alhaj Mohammad Shamsur Rahman will attend the function as the chief guest, while Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) Mohammad Abdullah Al Mamun will be present as special guest, a press release said here on Friday.

President of the organization Khitish Chandra Paul will chair the function to be held at Idilpur Secondary (Pilot) School in the upazila.

All concerned have been requested to attend the function.

Dr. G C Dev's birth centenary celebrated

BSS, Dhaka

The birth centenary of world renowned philosopher and humanist Dr Gobinda Chandra Dev, popularly known as Dr G C Dev, was celebrated in a befitting manner on the Dhaka University campus on Friday.

The DU Philosophy Department Alumni Association and the Department of Philosophy of DU jointly organized a daylong programme to celebrate the 100th birth anniversary of martyred intellectual Dr. G C Dev.

A Professor of the Department of Philosophy of DU, Dr. G C Dev was brutally killed along with other Bangali intellectuals by the Pakistani forces during the War of Liberation.

Acting Vice-chancellor of DU Professor A F M Yusuf Haider inaugurated the day's programme with National Professor Kabir Chowdhury attending it as the chief guest. Professor Abdullah Abu Sayeed was in the chair.

Emeritus Professors Dr. Sirajul Islam Chowdhury and Dr.

Anisuzzaman, Chairman of University Grants Commission (UGC) Professor Nazrul Islam, Former Chairman of the Philosophy Department Professor Dr Aminul Islam and Dr Jyotiprokash Dutta, son of Dr G C Dev, among others, discussed the life and career of this great academic.

Dr G C Dev was born in a respectable family on February 1, 1907, in Bianibazar upazila under Sylhet district. He joined the DU Philosophy Department as a Professor in 1953. Before joining Dhaka University, he was the Principal of Surendhranath College in Dinajpur since 1945.

Dr. Dev got the Ekushey Padak (posthumous) in 1985 and Swadhinata Puraskar (posthumous) in 2008 for his glorious contributions in the field of education.