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DCC opens special offices to improve waste management

BSS, Dhaka

Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) has opened solid waste management offices in some targeted wards in the city to improve its waste collection system.

As solid waste management requires close cooperation of the citizens, they can make recommendations, comments or lodge complaints to the ward waste management offices so that the DCC can respond promptly, DCC sources told BSS on Wednesday.

It is expected that with the construction of the waste management offices, waste management problems would be solved more quickly in the city's ward level, the sources said.

So far, four new ward offices have been built by the DCC with the assistance of Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and in near future two other offices will be opened.

The initiative of building special ward offices for waste management was taken under the ongoing project 'Strengthening solid waste management in Dhaka city', which started last year and will end by 2011.

As part of the project, a new waste management office was inaugurated today in Ward No 75 beside the Rajdhani Market.

The commissioner of the ward, concerned officials of the DCC and the JICA and community representatives attended the inaugural ceremony.

President urges NRBs to invest in Bangladesh

BSS, Dhaka

President Professor Dr Iajuddin Ahmed on Wednesday urged non-resident Bangladeshi (NRB) of the United Kingdom (UK) to invest in the country's potential sectors as presently an investment friendly atmosphere are prevailing here.

"The NRB of UK's could take more initiatives for intensifying trade relations between Bangladesh and Britain", he said while a delegation of Bangladesh British Chamber of Commerce (BBCC) comprising of by NRBs residing in UK called on him at Bangabhaban.

The delegation was led by BBCC's chairman Shahagir Bakth Faruk while British High Commissioner to Bangladesh Stephens Evans was also present in the meeting.

Welcoming the delegation, the President said Bangladesh enjoys excellent bilateral relations with UK rooted on historical ties. Bangladeshi expatriates can contribute to strengthen this relation further, he said.

President Iajuddin also urged the BBCC delegation to explore possibilities of importing non-traditional Bangladeshi products including ceramics, pharmaceuticals and computer software for UK and other European markets along with existing traditional products.

The President drew their attention to the country's growing ship building industry saying that some European countries are importing ships from Bangladesh.

The BBCC delegation informed the President that the young generation of British Bangladeshi entrepreneurs are highly educated and doing very well in UK's business arena.

"They are very much interested to invest in Bangladesh," they said.

BBCC chairman Faruk informed the Professor Iajuddin that they had opened three new chapters of their chamber in Greece, France and the Netherlands for making the Bangladeshi products more popular in those markets.

Secretary of the President's Office Md Sirajul Islam, Military Secretary to the President Major General Mohammad Ruhul Amin and the President's Press Secretary Abdul Awal Howlader were also present.

NORAD team visits BUET

BSS, Dhaka

A three-member team of Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD) visited the Department of Petroleum and Mineral Resources Engineering (PMRE) of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) here on Tuesday, a BUET press release said on Wednesday.

The team was led by Senior Advisor for Education and Research Department of NORAD Tove Kvil and accompanied with Stin Thomassen of Quality Assurance Department of NORAD and first secretary of Royal Norwegian Embassy in Dhaka Ingrid T Haug.

The purpose of the visit was to evaluate the progress of NOMA scholarship programme in the PMRE department and informed the department about launching a new programme under NORAD, the press release said.

Motahar Hossain Memorial Speech held

DU Correspondent

'Kazi Motahar Hossain Memorial Speech' was held at the auditorium of Statistics Department of Dhaka University on Tuesday.

Kazi Motahar Hossain Foundation organised the speech on "Kazi Motahar Hossain: Science Practice and its Spirit" where Vice-Chancellor of the University Prof Dr SMA Faiz spoke as chief guest.

Professor of Bangla Department of Islami University Abul Ahsan Chowdhury gave memorial speech in the function with Dr AR Khan of Statistics Department in the chair.

Chairman of Statistics Department of the university Dr M Mazharul Islam, Prof Dr Sanzida Khatun and the family members of Motahar Hossain, among others, were present on the occasion.

After ending the programme, three students of the Statistics Department were given Motahar Hossain Award for their outstanding performance.

The awardees students are Anupam Datta (2004), late Nayan Chandra Pal (2005) and Nahid Sultana Sumi (2006).