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Prices of vegetables have registered a sharp rise in Jhenaidah causing concern among the commoners.
   Prices of different kinds of winter vegetables have gone up in the district in the last one week to the sufferings of the common people.
   Short supply of vegetables is mainly responsible for the situation, said the vegetable traders.
   Visiting different markets on Friday, this correspondent found that potato was sold at Tk 22 to 23 per kilogram as against Tk 16, aubergine at Tk 24 as against Tk 12, beans at Tk 20 as against Tk 8, cauliflower at Tk 20 as against Tk 10, cabbage at Tk 14 as against Tk 8, reddish at Tk 12 as against Tk 5, tomato at Tk 40 as against Tk 18, sweet pumpkin at Tk 20 as against Tk 12 and spinach at Tk 24 as against Tk 12.
   Pumpkins were selling at between Tk 20 and Tk 30 depending on sizes as against TK 12 to 15.
   Onion was selling for Tk 40 per kg as against Tk 24.
   Jhantu Miah, 42, and Ananda Mandal, 45, at Sailkupa vegetable market, said that supply of winter vegetables was inadequate in the market for the last one and a half weeks.
   Vegetable growers of the area are bringing least quantity of their produces in the markets.
   Farmers Abdul Hamid, 39, of village Kalikapur, and Doyal Chandra, 43, of village Hamdah in sadar upazila, said that production of winter vegetables was not satisfactory in the current season due to abnormal price hike of chemical fertilisers and their short supply.
   Even the well to do farmers could not apply adequate quantity of fertiliser in their fields.
   Beside s, there has been no rainfall in the last couple of months in the area that has reduced yield of winter vegetables.
   The deputy director of the Department Of Agricultural Extension, Jhenaidah, Abdul Kader Sarker, echoing the speeches of the vendors and farmers said they could not meet the demand of the vegetables due to their inadequate supply and market manipulation by a few fertiliser traders.
   The recent cut in fertiliser prices by the government will encourage the farmers to produce more vegetables as there is enough time to control the market in the current season, the DAE deputy director said.

Forty-nine per cent candidates for the upazila polls are businessmen and they are followed by 12 per cent of lawyers.
   Only 22 per cent of them have submitted their income tax information, revealed a survey conducted by the Citizens for Good Governance.
   The governance watchdog, Sujon, at a news briefing on Monday announced its report on the academic qualifications of the candidates. According to the report, 48 per cent of the candidates have educational qualifications up to the graduation-level or above, 35 per cent have higher secondary certificates, and 16 per cent studied up to the secondary level.
   Sixteen per cent of the candidates were sued for criminal offences and 14 per cent are still facing such charges. Charges of murder were also brought against a few candidates.
   The briefing was organized by Shujon at the Dhaka Reporters Unity to disclose the information about the candidates participating in the forthcoming upazila elections.
   ‘We hope that people will get a profile of the chairman and vice chairman candidates from the statistics’, Badiul Alam Majumder, the secretary of Shujon said at the briefing.

A total of 24 candidates are contesting for the posts of chairman, 17 for vice-chairman and 14 for female vice-chairman posts in Narail for the upazila elections.
   In sadar upazila, eight candidates are contesting for chairman posts, six for vice-chairman and three for female vice-chairman posts.
   Chairman candidates are Harichand Mollik, Abdul Kader Sikder, Sharif Humayun Kabir, advocate Siddique Ahmed, advocate Nazrul Islam, advocate Golam Nobi, advocate Omar Faruque and Asraful Haque Asraf.
   Vice-chairman candidates are Paritosh Bagchi, Amit Saha, Babul Saha, Istiak Hossain Manju, Ashok Kundu, Belal Ahmed.
   Female vice-chairman candidates are Salma Rahman, Khondokar Soheli Sultana and Ismot Ara.
   In Lohagara upazila, nine are in the race for chairman posts, six for vice-chairman and six for female vice-chairman posts.
   Chairman candidates are advocate Shaikh Hafizur Rahman, SM Abdul Hannan Runu, Syed Mafizur Rahman, Shaikh Wahiduzzaman, Syed Foyzul Amir Litu, Syed Ayub Ali, Syed Mashiur Rahman and advocate Shaikh Abdus Sabur.
   Vice-chairman candidates are Bishonath Ganguli, Abu Hayat Sabu, Md Badrul Islam, Kamrul Islam, Syed Akram Ali Akhidul and Mostafizur Rahman.
   Female vice-chairman candidates are Rehena Begum, Fatema Begum, Latifa Parvin Lebi, Sahanara Shamim, Sabha Begum and Sahana Mollik.
   In Kalia upazila, seven candidates are contesting for chairman posts, five for vice-chairman posts and five for female vice-chairman posts.
   Chairman candidates are Abu Syid, Shamim Ahmed, Munshi Lal Mia, Emdadul Haque, Ekramul Haque, Nowabul Alam and Nasir Uddin.

An inter-district cultural competition for prisoners of Rajshahi division was held at Rajshahi Central Jail on Saturday.
   According to the jail sources, a total of 39 prisoners of 16 jails in the division took part in the competitions.
   Major Hafizur Rahman Mollah, deputy jail inspector, handed over prizes among the winners as chief guest.

A woman and her son were killed and four others injured on the Jhenaidah-Jessore Highway in Jhenaidah on Sunday.
   The deceased are Sokhina Khatun, 40, and her son Abu Sayeed of village Babra-Monoharpur in Kaliganj upazila of the district.
   The police said they died on the spot and four others injured after a Jessore-bound pick-up van collided head-on with a human hauler, locally called Nasimon, at Khoyertala under sadar upazila at about 2:00pm.
   The injured were taken to Kaliganj Upazila Health Complex in critical conditions.
   The police recovered the bodies and sent those to hospital morgue.

The police rescued a man from a residential hotel nine days after his abduction at Pashchim Nolma in Madhupur of Tangail on Sunday.
   Acting on a tip off, a police team led by sub-inspector of Valuka police station Azizul Haque raided the hotel of the area and rescued the man, ANM Golam Mostofa of Valuka municipal areas in Mymensingh, from the spot.
   The lawmen also arrested eight persons in this connection.
   They were Md Awal, Bakul, 50, Khorshed, 27, Tofajjol, 30, Jorna, 18, Karim Miah, Zakir Hosen, 25, Khorsed Ali, 45. Awal is the resident of Mymensingh while the others are from Tangail.
   The police said the eight had abducted Golam Mostofa from his house at Valuka upazila in Mymensingh on January 9.
   Later, the gang demanded Tk 20 lakh in exchange of his freedom.