Pabna Cyber Chronicle August- September 2000

	Both in Bengali(now Bangla) culture and religion Autumn plays a very vital role from the time immemorial. It is a season of blue and white colors.Blue sky becomes more visible after monsoon clou
River water starts receding from this time. Countrymen start fishing by using big net mounted on long bamboo poles fixed on the river bed.

Kashphool
(Saccharun spontaneum)
Flowers of different types are bloomed.
Countryside green landscape has got another color-white Kash phool(Saccharun spontaneum)

However probably Shefali phool( Nyctanthes arbor tristis,family:Oleaceae) matches the autumn best for her pure,quiet beauty and divine scent and lovely litle streak of orange color.

Daytime length becomes smaller in this part of the globe announcing the advent of short tropical winter.
Countryside fields are now filled with green rice plants called IRRI and newly sown Aman crop.Peasents have harvested Aus crops recently.

Foreign Exchange Agency in Pabna
A government approved Foreign Currency Exchange agency has opened it's office in Pabna.
Procurement/encashment of USD,GBP,DM etc.,Dollar Endorsement in Passport,Endorsement and
encashment certificate and Indian Visa entry are performed here.
For more information please visit
http://www.pabna.net/tinfo.htm

Pabna the 20th August,2000
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The total renovation of Champa Masjid(near the Govt. Bulbul College) is going on.After completion it will be able to accomodate more devoted Namajees(Arabic/Bangla word for the muslim who performs prayer).

Janmastomi on the 22nd Aug.The birth anniversary of Lord Krishna was celebrated by the Hindu comminity.
It was an official holiday.Probably Bangladesh is one of the very few countries in the world where the Muslims,Christians,Hindus,Buddhists can enjoy their own religious holidays.

More about thie festivals of Bangladesh pls. click to
http://www.pabna.net/festiv.htm

Pabna the 23th August,2000
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Very hot and humid daytime.And less rain made it uncomfortable to do outdoor activities.

The Higher Secondary Certificate result was published on the 27th August.In the Rajshahi Board,among the participants 43.01% of the female 33.16% of the male examinees passed.And the average result of the female examinees are higher than the male.
In the humanities group Pabna Cadet College student Mr.Golam Moshed Rusel achived the first place.
From Pabna district 11 places were achived in the merit list.

The nationally famous Aquanaut Mr.Naosher Ali spent 72 hours under the water of Jubilee Tank.
Attracting a big number of visitors, Mr.Naosher took his meals under water,smoke cigarettes and even read books there.
The whole programme was arranged by the Prodipta Pabna(Governmental literacy project)and of course free entrance for everyone.

The Lost World of Steven Spellberg was shown in a local cinema hall in the last week of August.

Private school and college classes were hampered due to the 45 days long strike of the teachers and the young people got a psudo summer vacation.The government has now accepted that all the private School and college teachers will get ninety percent of their salary will be paid by the Govt.

Pabna the 30th August,2000
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The last days of August and first 2/3 days of September were rainy due to the formation of depression in the Bay of Bengal. This cointributed people to feel comfortable to some extent.
Peasants are now harvesting sugar-cane.And the preperation of molases has started also.
It will take around a week when the newly prepared molases will be available in the market.

Thakur Sree Anukul Chandra in Indian stamp

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113th birth anniversary of Thakur Ankul Chandra
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The 113 th birthday of Thakur Sree Sree Anukul Chandra was celebrated and a religious conference took place on the premise of Anukul Asram in Hemayetpur .In a three day long celebration which started on the 6th Sept.prayer in the temple,Vazan, kirtan etc. were among the programmes and a Mela Not only the Hindus,thousands of Muslims including three ministers attended this ceremony.

Probably the Mela(bangla word for Tivoli) attracted the largest number of visitors.Different small stalls-some for food items likeKodma,Batosha,Rashakadam etc,some for country made toys of clay,cork etc. and some for books on hindu religion were among the central part of attraction for the young visitors.
For the related pictures pls. browse to
http://www.pabna.net/adayinpabna.htm
http://www.pabna.net/pcelebraties.htm

Pabna the 8th Sept.,2000
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Arsenic Test
All the tube wells in the Pabna Municipal area are examined if they contain arsenic contaminated water.Fortunately no contamination is yet found.Neither in the water-supply system.

On the 12th September,like the other part of the country,Pabna town was out of electricity for several hours due to the failure in the power generatins stations.Still today,15th Sept.,the situation is not developed.Thanks to the discrete rainfall,otherwise it would be very uncomfortable to do work in such a hot and humid weather.

The constructin work of proposed Pabna Teacher's Training Institute is going on.It is situated near (former)Calico Cotton Mills.

Pabna the 15th Sept.,2000
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Sports News:

The first National Summer Speed Skating competition started here in Pabna on the 7th September.

The inaugaration ceremony took place in the A Hamid Road and in the firsdt day a skating-hockey competition took place in the District Sports Authority Gymnasium beside the Stadium complex in the evening.A total of 62(57 boysand 5 girls) participants are taking part in the competition from the whole country.

On the Friday morning the outdoor comptetition took place around the Police parade groung where the newly built round around the ground was a perfect place for skaters to show their performance.But torrential rain in the Friday morning hampered the competition. And some events had to be abandoned.

Drama:Pabna Drama Circle staged a bangla play named "Final Biye" in the Banamali Auditorium on the 7th Sept. evening.It will continue till 9th.

Recent Book:A book named "dak diye jai" about drama written by Pabnite Mr.Nayeem Choudhury is published recently.

Coming Event:
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On the 26th September at 11am,
Pabna Digital Telephone Exchange will be inaugarated.
Actually on the 18th Sept. the Exchange will start functioning on the test basis.
For more information please ring to Pabna Telephone Exchange : 00880-731-17
Initial capacity will be 5000,among them 3000 old analogue telephones will be converted.And 750 of them will be wireless telephone(WLL)

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More news on Pabna in last few days in different national Dailies and Weeklies can be found at:

http://www.start4all.com/newspapers/bangla.htm

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Obituary:
The former Chairman of Pabna Municipality Mr. Biresh Maitra(60) expired on the 2nd September.
He was an active politician and a social worker.
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We will be back in October

Until then

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Pabna, September 22, 2000 12:45:25 PM
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