PRESS INF ORMAl'ION DL,PARl'MENT GOVI]RNMENI' OF BANGLADL,S I I DHAKA PIO, Dhrka NIost tJucnl Frorrr: PID. Iur: Ban'!lr(loot. AII Missions Fax:9540553/9540026 F-rlail urddhrkrOurnail.conr l\,{SG: I 92/2020-21 Date: Sunday, l4 iUarch 202 I tl,eb"fi -mssrTt-onriuorbd News Brief Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina presided over a joint meeting of Awami League's Parliamentary Board and Local Government Nomination Board at Ganabhaban yesterday. In the meeting, Laxmipur district unit AL General Secretary Nuruddin Chowdhury Nayan got nominated to contest the Laxmipur- 2 constituency by election. Speaker Dr. Shirin'sharmin Chaudhury called for joint efforts of all to address the adverse effects oi climate change. In this case, innovative thinking of the youth can bring dynamism, she said. The Speaker was speaking virtually at the closing and award distribution ceremony of the Global Youth Climate Summit-2021 organized by the Bangladesh Youth Leadership Center on Friday' Mentioning that Bangladesh is ranked 7th among the risky countries due to climate change according to Global Climate Rirk Ird.*-2019 she said, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has adopted 'Delta Plan-2100' to address the risk. The anti-independence forces are spreading rumors through editing a video that showed the Liberation War Affairs Minister A K M Mozammel Haque did not take the coronavirus vaccine. This is completely fake news, said a press release of the Liberation War Affairs ministry yesterday. The fact ."-uim that the Minister received the corona-vaccine on February 17, 2021 at the Secretariat Clinic building, the release added. The governmbnt has undertaken a project involving Taka 438 crore to cultivate fallow land across the country as per the directives of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to tackle food crisis amid the coronavirus pandemic, Agriculture Minister Dr. Md. Abdur Ptazzaqrte said this while speaking at the inaugural function of the annual general meeting of the Bangladesh Agricultural Development Corporation Krishibid Samiti at Bangabandhu International Conference Center in the capital yesterday. There is no alternative to practicing science in facing the challenges of the fourth industrial revolution, Information Minister Dr. Hasan Mahmud said this while addressing an international conference on science and technology, marking the birth centenary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. He said, "When we mentioned about the concept of digital Bangladesh in our election manifesto in 2008, many people made fun with it. Now it is not a dream, but a reality." While addressing the opening ceremony of cycle lane on City Outer Ring Road, otganized by Chattogram Development Authority-CDA at Patenga Sea Beach point in the Chattogram city yesterday, the Minister pointing to BNP said, those who distort history are a kind of miscreants. BNP has not been able to come iut of lts decades-old habit of distorting history, even after celebrating March 7. He expressed the optimism that all the parties, including BNP would accept the history during the birth centenary of Bangabandhu. A 10 day special program will kick off in the city's national parade square ground on March 17, marking Bangabandhu's birth centenary and the Golden Jubilee of Independence. Many foreign leaders are expected to arrive in Dhaka marking the celebrations. Many agreements and memoranda of undersianding (MoUs) will be signed with a number of countries during their visits, Foreign Minister Dr. A K Abdul Momen made the remarks while talking to reporters at his ministry yesterday. Local Government Minister Md. Tazul Islam inaugurated and visited different development projects in Rajshahi City Corporation yesterday including the 6.793-kilometer east-west four-lane connecting roai construcied at a cost of Taka 189.34 crore, a202.5-meter flyover along with a 120- meter ramp constructed at Budhpara Railway crossing with an estimated cost of Taka29.28 crore. Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Safari Park at Dulahazara in Cox's Baz?r,-will be upgraded to an international standard, Environmint Forests and Climate Change Minister M Shahab Uddin said this while inspecting the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Safari Park development project (Phase II) yesterday. The present government has been working relentlessly to attain satisfaction of the railway passengers through ensuring all sorts of requisite amenities including water, sanitation and hygiene to the railrvay passengers. Railways Minister Nurul Islam Sujan said this while inaugurating a daylong workshop at Nanking Darbar Hall in Rajshahi city yesterday. Dhaka South City Corporation Mayor Barrister Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh said that they could bring the mosquito *"nu"" und*. complete control within a week. The Mayor came up with the remarks after-paying homage at the grave of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at Tungipara in Gopalganj yesterday. State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid said, Bangladesh's distribution system is being upgraded like the distribution system of the developed nations, as he was speaking at a webina. o.gunir"a by Forum for Energy Reporters, Bangladesh yesterday. He further said, *.io6-rt"ps like Supe.rirory Control and Data Acquisition, Enterprise Resource Planning, smart grid, smart metei, Geografhical Iniormation System mapping, underground cabling, underground substations, through the net prepaid metering system, mobile phone and internet, new connection _online .and -.i"ring guideline, are being implemented to bring the entire power sector under digitization to ensure better service to the customers. International solidarity is needed to make a world free from terrorism, Bangladesh's Permanent Representative to the United Nations Ambassador Rabab Fatima made the remarks while addressing a high-level plenary session of the LIN Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy at the General Assembly at IIN Headquarters yesterday. Ambassador Fatima also called for paying special attention to the new epidemics of terrorism, such as infodemic, hate speech and racial hatred caused by COVID-19. A project Document of Knowledge for Development Management Phase-II was signed on Thursday between the government of Bangladesh and the United Nations Development Program at the Economic Relations Division in the city's Sher-e-Bangla Nagar area. The main objectives of this US$3.14 million project are to accelerate the capacity of the ERD, especially in relation to its abilityto undertake evidence-based decision-making and engage effectively at the international arena for promoting national development interests' With the death of 12 more people yesterday, the number of deaths from Covid-19 in Bangladesh roseto g,52T.Atthesametimerecoverycountroseto5,l0,3l0,DGHSdisclosedthisinformationina press release yesterday. With the detection of 1,014 new cases, the total number of Covid-19 cases rose io 5,56,236. A total of 86,132 people were administered COVID-9 vaccines across the country yesterday, giving rise to the total number of vaccine receivers to 43,04,259. As many as 55,74,638 people got iegistered till 2.30pm yesterday to receive the vaccine, DGHS said. Newly-appointed Bangladesh Ambassador to Albania Asud Ahmed presented his credentials on Friday to Albania President Ilir Meta at the Presidential Palace in Tirana. The National Moon Sighting Committee meets today at Islamic Foundation conference room in Baitul Mukarram National Mosque at 6.00 pm with State Minister for Religious Affairs Md. Faridul Haque Khan in the chair to fix the date of holy Shab-e-Barat of Hijri 1442 afterrreviewing reports on the upplutu"" of the moon of Shaban month' *r.&##." ?,) Principal Information Offi cer Phone- 9546091.