Pabna Cyber Chronicle March-April 2001

Headlines:

A. Introductory words

B.Mango production assumed to be less this year

C.Miscellenious News

D.On going and Coming events

E.Soon comes Pabna town under
Mobile Phone Network

F.Sports

From the achieve:

March 2000 | April 2000

Paan-aala(Paan vendor):He is Atikul.Him you will meet at the shop at corner where the A Hamid road and Rupkatha road meets.

A>>
Introductory words

Fresh and green everywhere and the nature is garneted to welcome a new year. The Bangla new year of 1408 is celebrated with festivity in this region. On the morning of 14th April, the main celebration started at the Banamali Complex. Unfortunately the sorrowful incident at Ramna,Dhaka turned the cheerful event to great dismay and all programme were postponed in order to honor the souls of the expired victims at Ramna and again started on the 15th morning.
However, this year a good number of Baishakhimelas are taking place at different parts of this district-Shahapur Mela and Mathurapur Mela and in Chatmohar,Debottar Mela in Atghoria,Charak Puja at Gopalnagar in Faridpur Thana,Gaznar Biler Mela can be mentioned. These melas are three days to one month long and represent the cultural festivity of Bangali folk.(*mela is a Bangla word meaning country fair).

And at the same time our Pabna Cyber Chronicle is celebrating her one year in publication on the net. We thank our readers for their kind cooperation.

On our 30th anniversary of the Independence day(26th March), we are presenting here from our new collection of the Nepalese stamp with our beloved red-green flag representing Bangladesh as one of the SARC states). Other SAARC member countries have also published stamps with same motif and we will be showing them in future.

Here you will find more about the history of the flag of Bangladesh.

The red-green flag of Bangladesh appears in the stamp of India(1973) and Nepal(1985)

B>>
Mango production assumed to be less this year

On account of minimum rain in the late winter and spring, and attacking insects, massive mango buds have already perished this year and the production supposed to be far less than expected. But for peasants, there is reason to be glad in this season-good harvest of wheat,boro-rice,onion,chili and vegetables. The abundance of these items unfortunately pressing the price reduction.

The seasons and year 2001's first norwester was experienced on the 22nd March late afternoon at around 5pm.A shower of rain was followed, making the air dust free. Also it contributed to reduce the temperature and mosquitoes which is irritating specially for the SSC examination candidates.

C>>
Miscellaneous News in short:

*Secondary School Certificate Examination started on the 15th March. In Ishurdi some candidates were belated to the center due to traffic chaos. They became nervous and started crying. Just think yourself! The exam therefore started one hour later.

*Ataikula Press Club has formed on the 25th March, comprising 11 members and the founder President and secretary are Abdus Salam and Kazi Mahbub Morshed respectively.(Source:Press release)

*A Heart and Kidney Camp was arranged on the 30-31st March in Diabetic Hospital premise.

*Two new digital telephone exchanges are recently opened in Belkuchi
(07522) and Tarash(07528).So people here will now be able to use internet, from ISPs in Bogura and Rajshahi.The area codes are in parenthesis.

D>>
Ongoing and coming events:

*The liberation war monument construction is completed at the Shahidnagar in Santhia and inaugurated on the 19th April by Information minister Prof.Aby Syed.
*Ashura was solemnly celebrated on the 5th April. At the Arifpur graveyard a discussion on Muharram,milad,holy Qura'n recitation took place.

E>>
Soon comes Pabna town under Mobile Network

The construction work of Grameen Phone base station is expected to be finished soon and Pabna town and the area within 20km perimeter will be covered by this network. The base station which is situated on the east of Shalgaria Orphange,is visible from the Pabna bypass road near the bus terminal. Although mobile phone users can now use mobile phone smoothly in Pabna town due to the base stations in Tebunia and Paksey but sometimes the reception is less than 40 percent and high gain antenna is required. However the WAP facility will be soon introduced by GP and people here in Bangladesh will be able to get introduced with mobile internet.

F>>
Sports News

As the current sports news on Pabna is available on the internet,
we will provide other news and features in this section from the next issue-Editors

*Pabna rifle club participated in the national shooting competition in Dhaka. more..

Obituary Notes:

Syeda Iffat Ara(53),Headmistress of Pabna Govt. Krishnapur Girl's High School died of diabetes at Pabna General Hospital on the 12th April,2001.

Educationist Fazlul Huq(58),former Headmaster of Pabna Zilla School expired on the 23rd March,2001 at Dhaka. BIRDEM.He died of heart attack. He was a very popular teacher and physical instructor.

Mrs.Shahidunnesa,wife of Martyr Sheikh Kobad Ali,passed away on the 20th March,2001 at Dhaka BIRDEM hospital. She and her family contributed for the war of liberation greatly. It can be mentioned here that The Balaka Sweets at the A. Hamid road was established in the early 60's by her husband Martyr Sheikh Kobad Ali.

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