BOGRA, Bangladesh, 21 March, 2021, (TON): A total of 11,200 tons of potato will be exported this year from the Bogura district like in previous years. District agriculture officials said agents of the country’s exporters will buy high-quality potato worth about Taka 22,000 crore from the Bogura various market.

Additional deputy director of the district department of agricultural extension (DAE) Shahaduzzaman said bumper potato has been produced in the district during the current season due to favorable weather, high-quality potato, and rains or lack of disease.

The target for potato cultivation in the district was 55,455 hectares. From which potato production has been about 13 lakh tons.  The potato was exported from Shibganj Upazila of the district every year. The potato of this region is very famous. About 20/22 varieties of potatoes are being produced in the district. The most common of these are the local varieties of potato Pakhari, Hagrai, and Romana.

Potato is being exported from Bogra to several countries including Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Singapore, Malaysia, and Sri Lanka, said Dulal Hossain, Deputy Director, District Agriculture Extension Department. So far, 5,600 tons of potato have been exported from Bogura, district agriculture officials said.

DHAKA, 21 March, 2021, (TON): In any event, eight individuals, including a lady and a kid, were killed and 10 others harmed in isolated street mishaps in Madhukhali and Bhanga Upazilas of Faridpur locale on Sunday.

In Madhukhali Upazila, six individuals, including a lady and a kid, were killed when a truck hit a microbus on Dhaka-Khulna interstate at Majhkandi in Madhukhali Upazila of Faridpur region on Sunday.

The mishap happened around 9 am the point at which the truck hit the Dhaka-bound microbus from Magura, leaving two individuals executed on the spot and 14 others harmed, said Mohammad Russell, aide sub-reviewer of Kanaipur Highway police camp.

The harmed were taken to a neighborhood clinic where specialists announced four of them dead. Police held onto the truck yet the driver figured out how to run away from the area.

Besides, two students were killed when a private car hit a motorbike at Biswaroad in Bhanga Upazila headquarters early Sunday.

COLOMBO, 21 March, 2021, (TON): JVP Leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake said today they would hold up an objection with the CID this evening against a phony Facebook account called "JVP Parisarawediyo" which was referred to by the President as distributing counterfeit news.

He told in a news gathering that the President blamed the JVP for getting out the bogus word on climate annihilation refering to a FB account called "JVP Parisarawediyo" during the "Gama Samaga Pilisandara" program yesterday.

Mr. Dissanayake said they knew about this phony record which was distributing photographs of climate obliteration in different nations and added that it was a transition to stifle the climate annihilation in Sri Lanka.

He said the JVP would request the CID in its complaint to investigate and reveal who created the so called Facebook account, when it was created and who had funded it. 

DHAKA, 21 March, 2021, (TON):  N.A. Bangladesh effectively settled Host-to-Host (H2H) availability with M&J Group to empower them to robotize their homegrown installment arrangements. With plans of action getting more perplexing, and worldwide purchasers looking for additional efficiencies in provider's center operational interaction, M&J Group chose to coordinate their ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) framework (Oracle) with Citi. The web-based financial stage will guarantee quicker and more got installments for the gathering's industry.

H2H will empower secure electronic information move between Citibank, N.A. also, M&J Group's ERP framework. This availability will permit M&J Group to trade data in their favored record designs, network conventions, and security norms further hardening Citi's capacity for computerized customization. Citi stays the go to accomplice for customers' digitization activities.

M&J Group is a pioneer in advanced installments in Bangladesh. It is at present paying their full work power through versatile wallet. Larger part of the gathering's providers and other partners are getting installments through Bangladesh Electronic Funds Transfer Network (BEFTN), Real-Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) and National Payment Switch Bangladesh (NPSB) with Cheque and cash use at nearly nil levels.

Mr. Moin ul Huq, Head of Treasury and Trade Solutions, Citibank, N. A. Bangladesh said, “This is an important milestone for Citi; yet again we have shown our commitment to partner with our clients. This timely initiative by M&J Group has made them one of the pioneers in the local readymade garments industry to go for payment integrations in such a large scale.”

Mr. Salah Uddin Ahmed, Managing Director, M&J Group said, “I am very happy with the system as it is very easy to use, and it makes the admin side of payments much easier. We look forward to many more such partnerships with Citibank N.A."

RAIPUR, India, 21 March, 2021, (TON): In the virtual presence of Lok Sabha MP Rahul Gandhi, Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel will move 1,000 104 crores 27 lakh rupees in the records of 18 lakh 43 thousand farmers of the State, as the fourth portion of Rajiv Gandhi Kisan Nyay Yojana and a sum of Rs. 7 crores 55 lakhs as the fifteenth and sixteenth portions of the Gordhan Nyay Yojana, in the records of dairy cattle reapers, on March 21. Every one of the individuals from the bureau will be available in this program booked to be held in the Chief Minister's home office at 11 am.

Under the Rajiv Gandhi Kisan Nyay Yojana, farmers have been paid 4500 crore rupees in three portions. Likewise, 23 crores 62 lakh rupees have been paid in three portions to 4777 farmers of confirmed seed makers, and Rs 74 crore 24 lakh have been paid to sugarcane producer 34 thousand 292 ranchers as extra motivators and information sources. Up until this point, Rs 4597 crore 86 lakh has been paid to the ranchers under the Rajiv Gandhi Kisan Nyay Yojana. Boss Minister Mr. Baghel will move Rs. 3 crore 75 lakh as the fifteenth portion of the Gordhan Nyaya Yojana and Rs. 3 crore 80 lakh as the sixteenth portion in the records of the cow's reapers, in this program to be hung on March 21.

KOCHI, India, 21 March, 2021, (TON): The Pinarayi Vijayan-drove Kerala Government is on the run from the hands of law, as indicated by Anurag Thakur, Union Minister of State for Finance and Corporate issues. He said the Kerala Government's activity of documenting a criminal body of evidence against the authorities of the Enforcement Directorate for purportedly undermining and recording a bogus assertion of Swapna Suresh, the gold carrying blamed, is an until now unheard charge from a State Government against the Central Government's office.

The Crime Branch of the Kerala Government had recorded an FIR against the ED authorities examining the gold sneaking case that the last constrained and pressured Swapna Suresh that Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan was engaged with the wrongdoing. The FIR depended on articulation by ladies police cops who were guarding Swapna while she was the authority of the ED in the last's office at Kochi.

But the FIR is silent about the ED officials who were involved in the case.

“This kind of allegation is unheard of in the history of India. The FIR against the ED is that they forced to extract a confession from the accused and make her name Pinarayi Vijayan as an accomplice in the case,” Thakur told in the sidelines of an election campaign in Perumbavoor on Saturday.                

KABUL, 21 March, 2021, (TON): Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has made two key Cabinet changes, a move denounced on Saturday as "unacceptable" by his amazing administering accomplice, Abdullah, when the US is tightening up the strain to agree with the Taliban.

In May 2020, Ghani and political rival Abdullah signed a power-sharing agreement, two months after both declared themselves the winner of the September 2019 presidential election.

Under the arrangement, Ghani remained leader of the conflict-torn country while Abdullah was named top of the country's National Reconciliation Council, which has the position to deal with and affirm all undertakings identified with Afghanistan's tranquility interaction.

ISTANBUL, 21 March 2021, (TON): Turkey withdrew early Saturday from a landmark European treaty protecting women from violence that it was the first country to sign 10 years ago.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s 20^th March announcement annulling Turkey’s ratification of the Istanbul Convention is seen by many Westerners as a blow to women’s rights. Advocates of women rights says, the agreement is crucial to combating domestic violence. Hundreds of women gathered in Istanbul to protests against the move on Saturday and are assembling on the streets today.

The Council of Europe’s Secretary General, Marija Pejcinovic Buric, called the decision “devastating.” She said, “This move is a huge setback to these efforts and all the more deplorable because it compromises the protection of women in Turkey, across Europe and beyond.”

The Istanbul Convention states that men and women have equal rights and obliges state authorities to take steps to prevent gender-based violence against women, protect victims and prosecute perpetrators.

Some officials from Turkey and other Islamic nations had advocated for a review of the agreement, arguing it is inconsistent with Turkey’s Islamic values by encouraging divorce and undermining the traditional family unit. The treaty also promotes homosexuality through the use of categories like gender, sexual orientation and gender identity. 

They see that as a threat to Turkish families. Hate speech has been on the rise in Turkey, including the interior minister who described LGBT people as “perverts” in a tweet. Erdogan has rejected their existence altogether. 

Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) Chairperson Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu released a video Twitter, saying that the rights of 42 million Turkish women cannot be stripped from them through a decree released at midnight. Gökçe Gökçen, deputy chairwoman of the CHP earlier wrote on Twitter that the withdrawal by a decree is "illegal and ignores the will of the parliament."

BEIJING, 20 March, 2021 (TON) As the world celebrates Nowruz, the International Nowruz Day a symbol of peace, friendship and mutual understanding, was also marked at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Secretariat within the framework of celebrations of the 20th anniversary of the SCO.

The heads of the SCO family countries’ diplomatic missions, Chinese guests, representatives of international and regional organizations, partners of the SCO Secretariat and members of the press attended the event.

National cuisines, exhibitions, arts and crafts were presented by the SCO countries’ diplomatic missions.

The program also included folklore elements such as traditional spring games and ancient customs and rituals, concert of children’s dance groups, folk instrumental music and folk songs.
An opening ceremony of the SCO Friendship Pavilion was held at the SCO Secretariat designed to celebrate the unity and friendship of the SCO countries.

UNESCO added the event in the List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2009, however, on 23 February, 2010, the celebration of the International Day of Nowruz on 20 March was declared as the 64th session of the UN General Assembly adopted Resolution 64/253.

NEW DELHI, 20 March, 2021 (TON): The Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) supplied 100 such custom-designed "Mujeeb Jackets" to the Indian High Commission (IHC) in Dhaka.

To commemorate the birth anniversary of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and Bangladesh’s golden jubilee independence, the dignitaries at the Indian High Commission will wear the signature garment honoring Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Bangladesh's Father of the Nation as the garment will be the key attire of dignitaries during Prime Minister Modi's diplomatic visit to the nation on March 26-27.

KVIC Chairman, Vinai Kumar Saxena said, "As Bangladesh celebrates 'Mujib Borsho', the birth centenary of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Cultural Centre of the Indian High Commission in Dhaka, had placed an order for 100 Mujeeb Jackets, ahead of the Prime Minister's visit."

"The Prime Minister always accorded top priority to Khadi during his diplomatic visits. This is to carry forward the legacy of Mahatma Gandhi who always carried Khadi products specially a Khadi handkerchief with him and presented it to dignitaries during his foreign visits," he added.

However, it is likely to say that Modi has always been particular about Khadi and its heritage and cultural value to strengthen diplomatic ties with foreign countries.