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Eviction drive starts to free Sitakunda hill
Chattogram district administration started a drive on Tuesday to evict people living illegally on the hilly slopes in Sitakunda upazila in the district.
The drive led by Deputy Commissioner Mohammad Mominur Rahman was carried out in remote Alinagar area under Salimpur union of the upazila.
A good number of establishments including dwelling houses and shops were bulldozed during the drive conducted by police, Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) and Ansar members.
Mominur said that the eviction drive was conducted as part of a mega plan taken by the government.
He said Alinagar area will be freed from the clutches of criminals within one month as they turned the area into their den.
The DC also said that those who have been living illegally in the area by setting up establishments will be evicted soon.
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He, however, said those who are actual landless will be enlisted for their rehabilitation and the drive will continue.
Superintendent of Police (SP) of the district SM Rashidul Hoque, Additional DC (Revenue) Mohammad Nazmul Ahsan, Additional DC (LA) Masud Kamal and Sitakunda Upazila Nirbahi Officer Md Shahdat Hossain among others were present during the drive.
2 years ago
217 people undergo free eye cataract surgery
Around 217 underprivileged people underwent free cataract surgery in eye camps in Panchagarh, Thakurgaon, Nilphamari and Dinajpur districts recently.
The Eye Care Program of Manabik Shahajya Sangstha (ECP-MSS) organized these free eye camps with its own resources and donations from the ECP donors. The surgeries were performed at ECP’s partner hospitals.
To eliminate preventable blindness among the underserved, six free eye screening camps were organized in Panchagarh, Thakurgaon, Nilphamari and Dinajpur during January 08- 25, 2022.
At these eye camps, comprehensive eye care services were provided to 1276 underserved people by qualified doctors, technicians using modern eye screening equipment.
Prescriptions were given to the patients with free spectacles. In addition, more than 700 basic eye care awareness flyers and posters were distributed among the patients.
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“Aiming to make eye care services available to all people in rural regions, ECP-MSS with the technical support of its partner hospitals and donors has been providing eye care services,” said MSS President Feroz M. Hassan.
“We have been working for the poor to restore their vision through performing surgeries,” he added.
2 years ago
Top free infographic tools and software
It is said that an image can say a thousand words. Infographic is a special kind of image that represents information through various types of graphs and charts. Many of you may already be familiar with the 'infographic' term, while many of you have just heard it today. Infographics give the opportunity to share information and connect with the world through interesting visuals that represent a piece of detailed information on something. However, creating an eye-catching infographic is time-consuming and pricey. But there are some tools and websites to build beautiful infographics for free, which we will get to know from this article.
What is Infographic? What are the types of infographics?
Infographic is the graphical representation of a subject with information that combines texts too. Using an infographic, a descriptive subject or information can be beautifully presented through just one picture. In other words, an infographic is a picture that presents the words of the mind in a simple way. While a regular image is just an image to look at, the infographic explains a whole lot of stuff through the image.
Although the infographic was mostly used for journalistic presentation in newspapers, it has expanded its uses over the years. Now there are mainly nine types of infographics used, which include statistical, informational, timeline, process, geographic, comparison, list, hierarchical, and resume infographics.
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Statistical infographic mainly visualizes and compares the survey results from multiple sources. If you want to present a specialized concept or new communicating concept or even provide an overview of a topic, the informational infographic will come in handy.
For the historical visualization, a timeline infographic is best that highlights important dates or provides an overview of an event. If you want to present a step-by-step process or guide, the process infographic will help you out.
If anyone wants to visualize demography or location-based data, a geographic infographic is a savior to represent a large quantity of data. Many people face a problem when they need to choose something from multiple options; a comparison infographic will help them to choose the right thing. Nevertheless, for people who want to share some tips or lots of resources, a list infographic will be a perfect choice.
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Finally, the infographic resume is the current trend in the job market. This can help the interview to take a glance at important points with no effort.
Benefits of Infographic
Although infographics are believed to have been introduced around 25,000 years ago but got popular in the 1970s. Since then, it has been providing immense benefits to the journalist and marketing personnel. Nowadays, people like to read infographics while they are reading articles too. People from any profession can give a presentation in a short period of time using the image that has information.
For example, you have to give a presentation about your company or any other topic at a big event, and the time is only 1 (one) minute. What will you do then? Surely you can't make a presentation by making 15 or 20 slides? And to accomplish the task in one minute, you will not be able to say the main points in 1 minute to attract the attention of the audience. But you can present this work beautifully with just one infographic photo. Surely now you understand the benefit of an infographic.
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Furthermore, presentations provided through infographics are remembered for a long time, and the main points can be easily explained.
Top free software to create infographics for research, business or academic purpose
As we have mentioned earlier, infographics are time-consuming and require some premium tools to make. But there is some free software that is even online, which can help to build a decent infographic.
Adobe Spark
It is a design tool that allows creating posters, webpage and videos using computer or iOS devices. It is very simple to use, and any newbie can master it on the first day. They have professional templates to create posters and flyers with no effort at all.
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3 years ago
Sirajganj Sadar police set inspiring example
It is often alleged that people have to face hassle and harassment whenever they go to a police station to lodge any case or general diary. However, Sadar Police Station here has come forward to put an end to this bad name.
It has installed an exceptional signboard at the duty officer’s room at the entrance of the police station which reads no money is needed for filing cases and general diaries with it.
It is also mentioned there that helpless and poor people are assisted in writing their GDs and complaints free of cost.
There is another signboard mentioning that a service desk has been opened for women, children, elderly and people with disabilities.
4 years ago