CMC golden jubilee celebration begins
Provide health care services to
doorstep of commoners : Ariff |
Staff Correspondent
Advisor for Law, Justice, Parliamentary and Religious Affairs to the caretaker government A F Hasan Ariff urged the physicians to work in a coordinated way to provide desired healthcare services to doorstep of commoners for ensuring a healthy nation.
"It's the responsibility of the physicians to make available of the medical services to the common people. They should play significant role to aware the people of public health," the adviser said.
Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Adviser AF Hasan Arif addressing the Golden Jubilee Celebration of Chittagong Medical College(CMC) at its playground as Chief Guest yesterday. Photo: AUH Dulal
He said that infrastructural development is a must to ensure healthcare for the people and the government is sincere about the infra
structural development of country's health sector.
He was addressing the inaugural ceremony of the three-day golden jubilee celebration of Chittagong Medical College (CMC) on Friday held at Chittagong Medical College playground |
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| Proposal placed to govt
Declare medical colleges
as autonomous instts |
Staff Correspondent
Plenary body of Chittagong Medical College (CMC) on behalf of the authority placed a set of proposal to the government through Adviser for Law, Justice, Parliamentary and Religious Affairs to the caretaker government A F Hasan Ariff yesterday.
The CMC authority in the proposal sought government's intervention and quick response for declaring country's medical colleges as autonomous institutions.
They urged the government to take CMC as pilot project for making the medical colleges autonomous institutions soon.
They also urged the government to establish a medical university in the country in coordination with all public medical colleges.
Describing the poor budget allocation for the healthcare
sector, they recommended for increasing allocation for the health sector so that standard of the healthcare can be improved.
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Jame Mosque, IRC foundation stone laid
Morocco to extend help
in USTC dev : Envoy |
Staff Correspondent
The ambassador of the Kingdom of Morocco Mohamad Houroro is overwhelmed to see the vast infrastructure of University of Science and Technology, Chittagong (USTC) the international standard medical institution and its scenic beauty The envoy assured of extending his government's support for development of the university.
The assurance of the Ambassador came when he was laying the foundation stone of the Central Jam-e-Mosque and Islamic Research Centre at Zia International Institute of Business Administration at the UTSC campus on Friday morning. National Professor
and founder vice chancellor of the USTC Dr Nurul Islam presented the replica of the Mosque and Research Centre, prepared by Prof Dr Jahangir Alam of the CUET to the ambassador.
Later addressing a fresher gathering at Bhasani auditorium the Houroro said Morocco had been playing an important role in world economy due to its geographical and natural locations. |
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| 3rd Karnaphuli
bridge not to
hamper
navigability:
Quader |
Staff Correspondent
Communications Advisor Major Gen (rtd) Golam Quader on Friday said that the third Karnaphuli Bridge being built over the cable stayed will not cause any problem of navigability of the river and has hardly any scope for silt .
" The construction will not affect the navigability and as
the bridge is built over cable stayed typed is profitable from both technical and financial aspects " the advisor observed this while talking to a group of journalists after visiting the construction side .
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National News |
| Inclement weather compels
early end of Biswa Ijtema |
The Biswa Ijtema came to an abrupt close at 8:15pm Friday with a rushed akheri munajaat because of bad weather that claimed lives of two devotees.
Maulana Zubairul Hasan, imam of Delhi Mosque, led the concluding prayers, scheduled for Sunday, that started at 7:55pm at the Tongi Ijtema grounds.
Earlier, Tongi municipality chairman Azmat Ullah told bdnews24.com at 7:40pm that inclement weather had compelled the organisers to call an early end to the second largest annual Muslim gathering after hajj.
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Bangladesh faces twin concerns of
market access, climate change: CA |
P View Desk
Chief Adviser Dr Fakhruddin Ahmed who is attending the World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting has said
Bangladesh is facing two vitally important issues -- access of Bangladeshi products to the markets of developed countries, including the USA, and adapting to the impact of global warming causing changes in the climate.
"We're pointing out to the business and political leaders here formally and informally to address these vital issues," he told an international press conference at Congress Center on the sidelines of the WEF, UNB reports from Davos, Switzerland.
Dr Ahmed said, "We're not asking for favour, we're asking for rewarding good market performance." He said Bangladesh is asking for access to the US market for its garment products as it was given to African LDCs for American and some EU markets.
On the adverse impact on Bangladesh due to climate change, he said one-third of Bangladesh would go under water affecting some 40 million people with one-meter rise at the sea level. "It would be disastrous for the country if more waters flow from the Himalayan system and flow through the Ganges and
Brahmaputra rivers' systems."
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| Kissinger declines to comment on Bangladesh |
P View Desk
Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, whose bitter remarks about independent Bangladesh had
triggered row in politics, diplomacy and press, now prefers making no comment on the future of the country.
Kissinger was against independence of Bangladesh in 1971 and termed the newborn nation a 'case of bottomless basket' during his visit to Dhaka in 1974, UNB reports from Davos, Switzerland.
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| Iftekhar happy with
outcome of Abu
Dhabi dialogue |
P View Desk
Foreign Adviser Dr Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury, who is also in charge of Expatriate Welfare Ministry, has
said he is happy with the outcome of the Abu Dhabi dialogue between Asian labour-sending and labour-receiving countries which agreed on a set of partnerships between the two groups. The dialogue, attended by the Foreign
Adviser, concluded in the UAE capital, resulting in the Abu Dhabi declaration, UNB reports from Davos, Switzerland.
Dr Chowdhury, who is accompanying Chief Adviser Dr Fakhruddin Ahmed to the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, said Bangladeshi workers in the Gulf would be benefited from this outcome which seeks
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Global News |
Sarkozy in India
Attends Republican
Day celebration today |
.jpg) AP/UNB, New Delhi
French President Nicolas Sarkozy began a two-day visit to India on Friday with a group of officials in tow. But his model-singer girlfriend, the other person everyone was looking for, was nowhere to be seen. The trip is aimed at cementing diplomatic and political links and Sarkozy, who will be the guest of honor at India's Republic Day celebrations Saturday, said in an interview published Friday that the two nations were close to reaching a deal on civilian nuclear issues. "We are on the verge of finding an agreement which will enable the development of civilian nuclear cooperation with India," he told the Hindustan Times, one of India's largest English-language newspapers. The agreement, though, rested on India concluding an agreement on nuclear safeguards with the International Atomic Energy Agency. The IAEA agreement, which would give the U.N. watchdog an overview of much of New Delhi's civilian nuclear program, would also have to be approved by the Nuclear Suppliers Group, a group of nations that export nuclear material, Sarkozy said.
Local newspapers, quoting unidentified government officials, have.
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| Govt blasts retired generals
for criticizing Musharraf |
AP/UNB, Islamabad
Pakistan's government reacted angrily Friday to an appeal by a group of retired military commandeers for President Pervez Musharraf to step down in order to promote democracy and help combat religious militancy.
Information Minister Nisar Memon described the appeal as unconstitutional, and said he was "dismayed at such lack of understanding of national issues by people who have held important positions in the past."
On Tuesday, more than 100 retired generals, admirals, air marshals, other senior officers and enlisted ranks belonging to the Pakistan Ex-Servicemen's Society released a statement urging Musharraf to resign immediately "in the supreme national interest." Memon said that rather than issuing "irresponsible press statements," the group should focus on improving the welfare of retired military personnel. The timing of the call appeared aimed at embarrassing Musharraf, who was in Europe on a tour aimed at reassuring Western leaders about his ability to restore democracy and prevail in the escalating combat between government troops and Taliban rebels along Pakistan's mountainous border with Afghanistan.
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