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Catching of different kinds of spawning fish and fry goes on unabated in the water bodies of the district in defiance of the Prime Minister’s warning against causing harm to fish resources even during the Fisheries Week.
   As the Padma and other rivers and canals remain filled with water these spawning fishes come to these water bodies to lay eggs in the rainy season.
   A lot of enclosures made of net, bamboos and sacks have been erected in the water bodies in Shibchar and Rajoir upazilas.
   The unscrupulous fishermen are catching mother fishes and fry indiscriminately for the last one and a half months.
   According to the district fisheries office, during June-July period, different kinds of fishes come to the water bodies for spawning.
   During a recent visit, local people informed this correspondent that indiscriminate netting of fishes and fry goes unhindered at Kathalbari, Magurkhanda, Charjanajat, Mirali Sarderkandi, Baraikandi, Chandbeparikandi, Madborerchar, Bandar-khola, Padma river point near Kawrakandi ferry ghat, Sipaikandi waterlogged area, Sirueail, Moinakata canal, Arial Khan river at Utrail, Shekhpur Bill Padma, Vandarikandi Bill Padma under Shibchar upazila and river of Palardhi, Arial Khan under Kalkini upazila of Madaripur district. On the other hand, fishes are
   also being caught by setting traps in the water
   bodies beside shrimp enclosures.
   Md Monirul Mamun, fishery officer, Shibchar told this correspondent that they needed
   fund allocation for removing the structures. ‘We need about Tk 2 lakh for the purpose,’ he said.
   ‘We wrote frequently to the higher authorities but they didn’t allocate any fund for this purpose,’ he added.
   Plundering of fishes by the callous fishermen will cause the country’s fishery sector an estimated Tk 2 crore loss this season, sources said.
   While talking to this correspondent, Dr AKM Aminul Islam, district fishery officer, said, ‘This practice is fully illegal but we can’t go into action against the fishermen as they are backed by some influential people.’
   ‘We are also helpless because we have no budget to remove these illegal structures,’ he added.

Speakers at a day-long workshop stressed the need for establishing a sound and friendly atmosphere for the people with disabilities to ensure dignified position for them in society.
   The speakers said that the people with disabilities were components of the society and all should give them an opportunity to enjoy basic rights like other privileged sections in the country.
   They should not be kept aloof in any way from the country’s mainstream development to ensure their welfare, the speakers opined.
   The workshop titled Disability Inclusive Disaster Management was held at the auditorium of Information Resource Centre in Barguna on Sunday.
   Three local NOGs- Centre for Disability in Development, Khalifa Foundation and SSDP organised the workshop.
   Director of the CDD Md Nazmul Bari delivered welcome speech while executive director of the SSDP Md Habibur Rahman read out the keynote paper.
   Md Abdul Alim, additional deputy commissioner (general) of Barguna, was present at the programme as chief guest.
   Persons with disabilities — Likon Khan, Shahin, Salma, Halima, Golapi, Md Selim, Md Monirulm Islam, Abu Zafar expressed their views at the workshop.
   Barguna sadar upazila chairman Abdul Khaleque, advocate Abul Kalam Azad, public prosecutor of Barguna Judge court Md Ashrafuzzaman, sadar upazila nirbahi officer Md Abu Bakar and district relief and rehabilitation officer Mozammel Haque took part in the programme.
   They said people with disabilities must be given equal opportunity in every spheres of life like the privileged ones so that they could grow as worthy citizens and contribute their best to the country’s further development.
   The disadvantaged people need cooperation, not mercy, they added.
   The speakers urged the government and non-government organisations to come forward for helping them.

Seven alleged collaborators of the Pakistani occupation forces have been sued for their involvement in the killing of a man in Satkhira during the Independence War, 1971.
   Md Abdur Rashid, son of slain Abdul Hakim Sardar, of village Srikalosh in Assasuni upazila of the district, filed the petition with the Senior Judicial Magistrate Court, Satkhira accusing the six of killing his father during the war.
   The accused are —Elahi Bux of village Kakboshia, Golam Mustafa of village Srikalosh, Ansaruddin of village Tuardanga, Shajuddin of village Kapshanda, Abdul Hakim Dhali of village Noapara, Abdus Samad of village Hazipur and Arshad Ali of village Bamondanga in Assasuni upazila of the district.
   In the petition, the plaintiff alleged that the accused had picked up his father Abdul Hakim Sadar from their house on September 14, 1971 and shot him to death at Assasuni Lonch Ghat.
   The senior judicial magistrate, MA Sayed, accepted the petition and ordered
   the Assasuni thana officer-in-charge to record it as first information report and take legal action against the accused.

A young man who received stab injuries in an attack by unidentified assailants
   Saturday night died at Jessore General Hospital Sunday morning.
   The deceased is Younus Ali, 30, a driver of Nitol Tata Group and resident of Bhekutia on the outskirts of the town.
   The police and hospital sources said some unidentified assailants hacked Younus on his way home in the Airport Road area of the district town at about 10:30pm on Saturday and took away Tk 28,000 from him.
   Being informed by locals, the police rescued him Sunday morning in critical condition and took him to Jessore General Hospital where he later died.
   A case was filed with the police in this connection.

A man and his two-year-old son were killed in a road accident at Mahipur on the Bogra-Sherpur Highway in Bogra on Saturday.
   The deceased are Mashiul Alam, 40, territory manager of Square Pharmaceutical Ltd and his son Dipta.
   Quoting witnesses the police said Mashiul and his son died on the spot and his wife critically injured when a truck hit their bike at about 10:30pm on their way home.
   Mashiul’s wife, Naznin Parvin, was first admitted to Shaheed Zia Medical College Hospital and later shifted to Square Hospital in Dhaka as her condition deteriorated.
   Meanwhile, 14 people were injured in another accident when a Rangpur-bound bus hit a roadside tree as its driver lost control over the steering at Uttarhara at about 10:00am.
   The injured were taken to Shaheed Zia Medical College Hospital.

The Border Security Force of India returned a Bangladeshi national on Sunday after two days of his abduction from the Jhenaidah frontier.
   Bangladesh Rifles sources said the BSF personnel of the Ramnagar camp had abducted a Bangladeshi young man Alamgir Hossain when he was spraying pesticides in his vegetable field in Baghadanga frontier area at Moheshpur upazila of the district on Friday.
   BSF had returned Alamgir following a flag meeting with BDR on the Moheshpur frontier.

A woman was strangled allegedly by her husband for dowry at Gunaighar of Debidwar in Comilla early Sunday.
   The deceased is Selina Akhter, 25, of Shibnagar of the upazila.
   Local residents and the police said Selina was married to Enamul Haq three years ago. Enamul and his family members used to torture her for dowry.
   Enamul received Tk 1 lakh earlier and on Sunday, he again demanded money from Selina’s parents.
   At her refusal, Enamul and his parents became furious and started beating her. At one point, they got away locking her up in the house.
   The Debidwar police suspected Enamul had strangled Selina as the body had a black mark in the throat.
   The body was sent to the Comilla Medical College Hospital morgue for a post-mortem examination.
   Selina’s father Md Shah Alam filed a case.

A college student drowned in the Madhabkunda waterfall's ditch at Baralekha in Moulvibazar while he was swimming Saturday afternoon.
   The deceased was Khandker Real, 19, son of Khandker Shafique of Samajpur of Khuksha in Kushthia, also student of Uttara Model Anwara Degree College in Dhaka.
   According to the police, Real along with 11 other students from Dhaka came to visit Madhabkunda waterfall on Saturday. In the afternoon, a few students started swimming in the ditch while Real drowned after sometime.